Jason Schneiderman (born 1976) is an American

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 wr ...

Life

Jason Schneiderman has BA degrees in English and Russian from the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the Flagship un ...

, an MFA in poetry from NYU, and a Ph.D. in English Literature with a focus on Queer Theory from the

Graduate Center, CUNY The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) is a public research institution and post-graduate university in New York City. Serving as the principal doctorate-granting institution of the C ...

. He is an associate professor at

Borough of Manhattan Community College The Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) is a public community college in New York City. Founded in 1963 as part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, BMCC grants associate degrees in a wide variety of vocational, business, ...

., and has taught in the MFA Program for Writers at

Warren Wilson College Warren Wilson College (WWC) is a private liberal arts college in Swannanoa, North Carolina. It is known for its curriculum that combines academics, work, and service as every student must complete a requisite course of study, work an on-campus ...

. He was a featured faculty member at the 201
Conference on Poetry
at

The Frost Place The Frost Place is a museum and nonprofit educational center for poetry located at Robert Frost's former home on Ridge Road in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. ...

. He lives in Brooklyn. '' He is one of the hosts of

Painted Bride Quarterly The ''Painted Bride Quarterly'', also known informally as ''PBQ'', is a Philadelphia-based literary magazine. It was established in 1973 by Louise Simons and R. Daniel Evans in connection with the Painted Bride Art Center, an art gallery founded ...

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 American Poetry Review'' (''APR'') is an American poetry magazine printed every other month on tabloid-sized newsprint. It was founded in 1972 by Stephen Berg and Stephen Parker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The magazine's editor is Eliza ...

. The anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers was the first Freshman composition reader focused on LGBTIAQ topics.

Books

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Awards

* Fulbright Fellow, Spring 2022 (postponed for the Pandemic) * The Shestack Award from American Poetry Review, 2015 * The Benjamin Saltman Prize from Red Hen Press, 2015 * The

Fine Arts Work Center The Fine Arts Work Center is a non-profit enterprise devoted to encouraging the growth and development of emerging visual artists and writers through residency programs, to the propagation of aesthetic values and experience, and to the restoratio ...

Fellowships * Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowships * Yaddo Fellowships * 2004 Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award

Works

"Nothingism: A Manifesto"
* ttp://100dayspoems.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-91-jason-schneiderman.html "Oracular", ''Starting Today: Poems for the First 100 Days''br>"Fertile: Sterile:: My Father: Me", ''American Poetry Review''"Jokes About Nuns", ''American Poetry Review''"Elegy for Lee", ''42 Opus''
*"Four Poems", ''American Poetry Review'' **
The Sadness of Antonio
', ''If you died'', ''My Maiden Aunt Is Smoking Again'', ''White Boy''

Anthologies

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References

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"Author's website"
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