Susan M. Schultz is an American poet, critic, publisher and English

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 professor

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 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa

University of Hawaii at Manoa

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. She specializes in modern

Modern poetry

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 and contemporary poetry

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, American literature

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, and creative writing

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. She moved from Virginia

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 to Honolulu in 1990.

She was born in Belleville, Illinois

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, and lives in Kāne'ohe, Hawaii

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. She is author of three collections of poems, Aleatory Allegories (Salt, 2000), Memory Cards & Adoption Papers (Potes & Poets, 2001) And then something happened (Salt, 2004), a critical book, A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (University of Alabama Press, 2005), and editor of The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry (University of Alabama Press, 1995). Her poetry chapbooks include Another Child, Earthquake Dreams, Voice-overs (with John Kinsella), and Addenda.

In 1995, Susan M. Schultz founded Tinfish Press, a paper and electronic journal and publisher of experimental poetry from the Pacific region (including Hawai`i, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Australia, California and western Canada), and of a series of Tinfish Network chapbooks. Authors published include Barbara Jane Reyes

Barbara Jane Reyes

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, Yunte Huang and Linh Dinh

Linh Dinh

Linh Dinh is a Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer, translator, and photographer. He was a 1993 Pew Fellow.-Biography:...

. Ron Silliman

Ron Silliman

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 has written about her:

Schultz is somebody who really gets it as to how parables work & what their potential might be for writing. First, her poems have the precision of the best analytic philosophy. Second, she understands that the dynamics of the parable must play out in the referential world. Typically, poets who focus on the latter forget the importance of the former & a few of those who get the former tend to neglect the gears of causality in the latter. Schultz gets all of it & does so with a wit & tenderness that made me stop just to wonder at it all.

Schultz has also published critical articles and review essays on Hart Crane

Hart Crane

-Career:Throughout the early 1920s, small but well-respected literary magazines published some of Crane’s lyrics, gaining him, among the avant-garde, a respect that White Buildings , his first volume, ratified and strengthened...

, Laura Riding

Laura Riding

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, Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

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, John Ashbery

John Ashbery

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, Charles Bernstein

Charles Bernstein

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, Ann Lauterbach

Ann Lauterbach

Ann Lauterbach is an American poet, essayist, and professor. Her most recent poetry collection is Or to Begin Again , a 2009 National Book Award finalist. Her other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur...

, Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Lois-Ann Yamanaka

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, and others.

In 1992 she was made president of Hawai'i Literary Arts Council.

External links

• Tinfish Press
• http://poemtalkatkwh.blogspot.com/2011/01/schultz.html Discussion of Dementia Blog on PoemTalk
• Fauxpress: Susan Schultz
• Department of Dislocated Memory
• The Lost Country
• UHM English: Faculty Page
• Susan M. Schultz's page at the Electronic Poetry Center
• a profile on Here Comes Everybody
• an interview on Honolulu Weekly
  Honolulu Weekly
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• a selection of poems on Fieralingue
• poem Gameday on Jacket Magazine
• Hank Lazer reviewing Memory Cards & Adoption Papers on Rain Taxi
  Rain Taxi
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• Postmodern Promos, a review of Charles Bernstein
  Charles Bernstein
  Charles Bernstein is an American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein holds the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets . In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American...
  
   and Marjorie Perloff
  Marjorie Perloff
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   on Exquisite Corpse
• Linh Dinh’s Poetics of Disgust, a critical essay about Linh Dinh
  Linh Dinh
  Linh Dinh is a Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer, translator, and photographer. He was a 1993 Pew Fellow.-Biography:...