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Thursdays Are For Poetry:Featured Poet: John J. Trause
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Featured Poet
JOHN J. TRAUSE, born in Teaneck, NJ, and said to be the secret
love child of Henri Langlois and Mary Meerson (Or is it Marie Menken and
Willard Maas?), is the Director of Oradell Public Library and the author of Eye
Candy for Andy (13 Most
Beautiful… Poems for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, Finishing Line Press,
2013); Inside Out, Upside Down, and Round and Round (Nirala
Publications, 2012); the chapbook Seriously Serial (Poets Wear Prada,
2007, rev. ed. 2014); and Latter-Day Litany (Éditions élastiques, 1996), the latter staged Off-Off
Broadway. His translations, poetry, and
visual work appear internationally in many journals and anthologies, including
the artists' periodical Crossings,
the Dada journal Maintenant,
the journal Offerta Speciale,
the Uphook Press anthologies Hell
Strung and Crooked and –gape-seed-,
and the Great Weather for Media anthology It’s Animal but Merciful.
He has shared the stage with Steven Van Zandt,
Anne Waldman, Karen
Finley, and Jerome
Rothenberg, the
page with Lita Hornick, William Carlos Williams,
Woody Allen, Ted Kooser, and Pope John Paul II, and the cage with the Cumaean
Sibyl, Ezra Pound, Hannibal Lector, Andrei Chikatilo, and George “The Animal”
Steele. He is a founder of the
William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford, N. J., and the former
host and curator of its monthly reading series.
He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2009 – 2011, 2013). For the sake of art Mr. Trause hung naked for
one whole month in the summer of 2007 on the Art Wall of the Bowery Poetry
Club. He now hangs around Teaneck and
other places with his clothes on.