Kasey Silem Mohammad is an American poet and professor at

Southern Oregon University Southern Oregon University (SOU) is a public university in Ashland, Oregon. It was founded in 1872 as the Ashland Academy, has been in its current location since 1926, and was known by nine other names before assuming its current name in 1997.Kre ...

. He is one of the

Flarf Flarf poetry was an ''avant-garde'' poetry movement of the early 21st century. The term ''flarf'' was coined by the poet Gary Sullivan, who also wrote and published the earliest Flarf poems. Its first practitioners, working in loose collaboration o ...

poets.

Life

Mohammad was born in Modesto, California, in 1962. He graduated with a BA from the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of C ...

in 1991, and from

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with a PhD in 1998. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including ''Poetry'', ''The Nation'', ''Fence'', ''Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology'', and ''Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing''. He edits the literary journals ''West Wind Review'' and ''Abraham Lincoln: A Magazine of Poetry''. He currently teaches creative writing at Southern Oregon University.

Works

* ''Sonnagrams 1-20,'' Slack Buddha Press, 2009 * ''The Front'', Roof Books, 2009, * ''Breathalyzer'', Edge Books, 2008, * ''A Thousand Devils,'' Combo Books, 2004, * ''Deer Head Nation'', Tougher Disguises, 2003, ;Non-fiction * *

References

External links

Author's website"K. Silem Mohammad"
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