Jason Schneiderman
Jason Schneiderman (born 1976) is an American poet. Life Jason Schneiderman has BA degrees in English and Russian from the University of Maryland, an MFA in poetry from NYU, and a Ph.D. in English Literature with a focus on Queer Theory from the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is an associate professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College., and has taught in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He was a featured faculty member at the 201Conference on Poetryat The Frost Place. He lives in Brooklyn. '' He is one of the hosts of Painted Bride Quarterly Slush Pile, a podcast that puts an editorial meeting on the air. He is one of the hosts of Monday Night Poetry at KGB Bar, a longstanding reading series in New York City. Schneiderman's essays on teaching formal poetry have appeared in Teachers and Writers. His essays on poetry have frequently appeared in American Poetry Review. The anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers was the first Freshman composition reader fo ...
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Poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or written), or they may also perform their art to an audience. The work of a poet is essentially one of communication, expressing ideas either in a literal sense (such as communicating about a specific event or place) or metaphorically. Poets have existed since prehistory, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and periods. Throughout each civilization and language, poets have used various styles that have changed over time, resulting in countless poets as diverse as the literature that (since the advent of writing systems) they have produced. History In Ancient Rome, professional poets were generally sponsored by patrons, wealthy supporters including nobility and military officials. F ...