Life

Gudding was born in a Norwegian-American part of northwestern Minnesota.

Gudding attended The Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College is an accredited public liberal arts college and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. It is located in Olympia, Washington, USA. Founded in 1967, Evergreen was formed to be an experimental and non-traditional college...

, an experimental school in Olympia, Washington

Olympia, Washington

Olympia is the capital city of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was 46,478 at the 2010 census...

, Purdue University

Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

 and Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

. He is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Illinois State University

Illinois State University

Illinois State University , founded in 1857, is the oldest public university in Illinois; it is located in the town of Normal. ISU is considered a "national university" that grants a variety of doctoral degrees and strongly emphasizes research; it is also recognized as one of the top ten largest...

 in Normal, Illinois

Normal, Illinois

Normal is an incorporated town in McLean County, Illinois, United States. It had a population of 52,497 as of the 2010 census. Normal is the smaller of two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area...

 where he was hired to teach poetry writing and poetics. His work has been translated into French, Danish, Vietnamese and Spanish.

Gudding has given over 80 poetry readings and lectures in Europe, the Caribbean, and America. He has published over a hundred poems and essays in periodicals such as Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, and The Journal of the History of Ideas. He is the author of two books, A Defense of Poetry (University of Pittsburgh Press), which won the 2001 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and, Rhode Island Notebook (Dalkey Archive Press), a 436 page poem he wrote in his car. His poetry appears in twenty anthologies, including &Now: Best Innovative Writing (2010), Best American Poetry (Scribner 2010) and Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner).

His translations from Spanish appear in anthologies such as The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry (Oxford UP), Poems for the Millennium (University of California Press), and The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University of California Press)

Gudding has a daughter named Clio. Gudding practices vipassana

Vipassana

Vipassanā or vipaśyanā in the Buddhist tradition means insight into the true nature of reality. A regular practitioner of Vipassana is known as a Vipassi . Vipassana is one of the world's most ancient techniques of meditation, the inception of which is attributed to Gautama Buddha...

 meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin (as taught by S. N. Goenka

S. N. Goenka

Satya Narayan Goenka is a leading lay teacher of Vipassanā meditation and a student of U Ba Khin. He has trained more than 800 assistant teachers and each year more than 100,000 people attend Goenka sponsored Vipassana courses....

).

Books

A recipient of The Nation Discovery Award, Gudding received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language.This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA was initiated by Ed Ochester and developed by Frederick A. Hetzel. The prize is...

 from the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...

 Pitt Poetry Series for his first book A Defense of Poetry.

Gudding's second book of poetry, Rhode Island Notebook, was published in November 2007 by Dalkey Archive Press

Dalkey Archive Press

Dalkey Archive Press is a publisher of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism in Illinois in the United States, specializing in the publication or republication of lesser known, often avant-garde works...

. Rhode Island Notebook is a four hundred thirty-six page poem interlarded with essays. It was written in Gudding's car on the highways between Normal, Illinois, and Providence, Rhode Island, during twenty-six roundtrip journeys, and has been called by the polymathic writer and artist Alan Sondheim, "the first 21st Century classic."

Random Online Publications

• "Praise to the Swiss Federation", Harper's, August 2008
• "Et qu'est-ce, amis, qu'on appelle une route?", Myopies, #1, translated by Guillaume Fayard, January 2009
• "The Genotype/Phenotype Distinction and the Disappearance of the Body." Journal of the History of Ideas. July 1996.
• "A Defense of Poetry", Wild Honey Press,
• "My Buttocks" and "To Roosevelt" (a translation of Rubén Darío's "A Roosevelt"), Maximum Post-Avant
• "The Tuning Fork of St. Louis", St. Louis Magazine
• "Minnesota," "No, Popsickle," "An Ditch," "Dear Eagles" and "Literary Narcissism and the Manufacture of Scandal" Seven Corners, 5 April 2006
• "And What, Friends, is Called a Road" Action Yes.
• "Congratulations on Being Here" Eoagh. Issue 5.
• "On Kindness and Hipness as They Relate to Cultural Production", Octopus Magazine, Issue 9
• "[The Parenthesis Inserts Itself into the Transcripts of the Committee on Un-American Activities]" Jacket #7
• "How I Caught My Cold" The American Poetry Review (APR), Mar/Apr 2001 Vol. 30 No. 2
• "Praise to the Swiss Federation," and "To the Sun at Anchor" GutCult

Online Interviews

• Jacket (33 - July 2007). ""The Dangerfield Conundrum: A Roundtable on Humor in Poetry" - George Bowering, Maxine Chernoff, Katie Degentesh, Gabriel Gudding, Rachel Loden, Ange Mlinko, K. Silem Mohammad, D. A. Powell, Ron Silliman, Gary Sullivan http://jacketmagazine.com/33/humpo-discussion.shtml
• "Prison Education" (radio interview with Danny Hajek on teaching in prisons). http://dannyhajek.com/2010/03/21/5-prison-education/
• MiPOesias: Interview on Creative Writing Pedagogy, http://gabrielgudding.blogspot.com/2009/08/mipoesias-interview-on-creative-writing.html
• P. F. S. Post—Maximum Post Avant (Waxing Hot), Gabriel Gudding and Adam Fieled. http://artrecess.blogspot.com/2009/02/gabriel-gudding-illinois-usa-and-adam.html
• Here Comes Everybody, Lance Phillips, 18 June 2005: http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2005/06/gabriel-gudding-is-assistant-professor.html
• Chicagopostmodernpoetry.com, Ray Bianchi: http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/ggudding.htm
• The Ball State Daily News Online, Andy Zeigert, 7 Feb 05, "Face to Face: Gabriel Gudding": http://media.www.bsudailynews.com/media/storage/paper849/news/2005/02/07/Features/Face-To.Face.Gabriel.Gudding-1306014.shtml

Audio Files

• PennSound, Gabriel Gudding: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Gudding.html
• Series A Reading with Tony Barnstone and Tony Trigilio, March 25, 2008: http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=19952

Some Online Reviews of Gudding's Work

• The Cultural Society. Peter O'Leary. "On Gabriel Gudding's Rhode Island Notebook."http://culturalsociety.org/gudding.html
• Jacket. Jasper Bernes. "Revulsion as Revolt." Review of Lara Glenum and Gabriel Gudding's first books. http://jacketmagazine.com/29/bernes-review.html
• Poetry Foundation. Levi Stahl. "The Five Minute Muse: George Oppen, Gabriel Gudding, and Campbell McGrath - The Off-The-Cuff Art of the Poet's Notebook." http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=181655
• Poetry Daily. Dorothy Barresi. "Playing in the Dark: Black Humor in Poetry." http://www.cstone.net/~poems/essabarr.htm
• Boston Review. Stephen Burt. "New Poets on the Block: Gabriel Gudding." http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.2/burt.html
• Stride Magazine. Giles Goodland, "Short Reviews of Recent Titles: Gabriel Gudding, Rhode Island Notebook": http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/Stride%20mag%202007/Nov%202007/mix%20revs.htm
• The Constant Critic. Ray McDaniel. "A Defense of Poetry. Gabriel Gudding. U Pitt Press, 2002." http://www.constantcritic.com/ray_mcdaniel/a_defense_of_poetry/
• Library Journal. Fred Muratori. "Gabriel Gudding. Rhode Island Notebook." http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-33935932_ITM
• Octopus Magazine. Rob Telfer, "Gabriel Gudding. Rhode Island Notebook. Dalkey Archive, 2007." http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue10/reviews/gudding.htm
• Cahiers de Corey. Josh Corey. "Gudding, Bolaño, and the Limits of Literature." http://joshcorey.blogspot.com/2008/12/gudding-bolao-and-limits-of-literature.html
• uncomplicatedly. Erin McNellis, "A Sea Sewn to a Spine: Gabriel Gudding's Rhode Island Notebook": http://uncomplicatedly.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/a-sea-sewn-to-a-spine-gabriel-guddings-rhode-island-notebook/
• The Irascible Poet, Ray Bianchi, "Why The Rhode Island Notebook by Gabriel Gudding Matters":http://irasciblepoet.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-rhode-island-notebook-by-gabriel.html

External links

• Dalkey Archive Press
• University of Pittsburgh Pitt Poetry Series
• Earth & Pragmatism (Gabriel Gudding's blog)
• Rhode Island Notebook Blog (a collection of reviews, interview, blurbs and excerpts)