Standard Schaefer
Encyclopedia
Life
Standard grew up in Houston, TexasHouston, Texas
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. He graduated from the Kinkaid School of Houston in 1990, and after high school he attended Occidental College
Occidental College
Occidental College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887, Occidental College, or "Oxy" as it is called by students and alumni, is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast...
graduating with a Bachelors of Arts in 1994, and continued his studies at the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
obtaining a Master’s in Professional Writing in 1998.
He is an independent journalist, a free-lance writer, and a contributor to CounterPunch
Counterpunch
Counterpunch can refer to:* Counterpunch , a punch in boxing* CounterPunch, a bi-weekly political newsletter* Counterpunch , a type of punch used in traditional typography* Punch-Counterpunch, a Transformers character...
. His first book, Nova, was selected for the National Poetry Series in 1999 and published by Sun and Moon Books. His second book, Water & Power, has just been published by Agincourt Books. His poetry and criticism has appeared in several U.S. anthologies, and two international ones.
He taught at Otis College
Otis College of Art and Design
Otis College of Art and Design is an art and design college in Los Angeles, California.The school's programs, accredited by WASC and National Association of Schools of Art and Design, include four-year BFA degrees in illustration, fine arts, graphic design, architecture, landscape design, interior...
. And after living in San Francisco, California, Standard and his wife moved to Portland, Oregon.
His work appears in Boston Review, The New Review of Literature, The Washington Review, Aufgabe, Interim, Fence, Rain Taxi, New American Writing, Fence, Non, Ribot, X-Connect, Epoch, and Rosebud. He co-edited the literary journals Rhizome with Evan Calbi, Ribot with Paul Vangelisti. His currently the non-fiction editor of The New Review of Literature.
He and his wife live in Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
where he is working on a Master’s in Media Studies.
Works
- "Regression to Mean: An Elegy for New Orleans", Slope #22, Fall/Winter 2005
- "GALVESTON"; "RED HEADED STRANGER"; "AUGUST 21, 1971"; "PINE"; "OCCIDENTAL", Fence, Volume 2
- "REAGAN IS DEAD"; "MY STINT IN THE ACLU", Octopus Magazine
- "from nova suite, iv, part 6", Cross Connect
- http://www.gutcult.com/Site/litjourn5/html/SS1.html"The Birds Sing to Plato"; "Socrates (A Hasty Reply)"; "Upon Entering"; "Aristotle in the Thinkery"; "The Boy in the Back of the Room or The Young Paremenides"; "At the Registrar"; "The Birds Sing to the Boy"; "The Boy at the Back of the Room Sings to the Birds"; "Aristophanes to Aristotle: Concerning First Books Or How I Think We Met "; "Aristophanes"; "A Few Words from Parmenides", Gut Cult, Issue 6]
Criticism
Essays
- "Biofuels and the Green Resistance", Counter Punch, March 15, 2007
- "An Interview with Michael Hudson: An Insider Spills the Beans on Offshore Banking Centers", Counter Punch, March 25, 2004