Deborah Meadows Explained

Deborah Meadows
Birth Date:1956
Nationality:American
Occupation:Poet
Professor
Playwright
Essayist

Deborah Meadows (born 1956) is an American poet and playwright and essayist.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Life

Meadows has published more than ten books of poetry, as well as essays,[5] plays, and lithographs. She was nominated for Los Angeles Poet Laureate in 2014.[6] From a working-class family, Meadows was born and raised in Buffalo, New York where she graduated from St. Martin's elementary school, then Nardin Academy. Meadows has described Buffalo as “rich in modernist art such as the Albright-Knox art collection .. with works of artists such as Clyfford Still, Jasper Johns, Rothko, etc. … Art Park on reclaimed land in the Niagara River gorge opened to include site-installed works, early conceptual and performance art, offered opera, and theatre...” as significant to her thought.

She graduated from SUNY, Buffalo (Magna Cum Laude with a BA in English and Philosophy) where she studied literature with the postmodern critic and novelist Raymond Federman, literature professor Myles Slatin, and with Eastern philosophy scholar Kenneth Inada. She went on to complete an MA in English from CSULA and MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles.

Active with readings,[7] her work has been widely anthologized.[8] Meadows has been active in international cultural affairs, traveling a few times to Cuba where she met with Cuban writers such as Reina María Rodríguez and Antonio José Ponte, and she has traveled to and worked with poets in Buenos Aires such as Romina Freschi and Jorge Santiago Perednik. She has also been active with her faculty union and various issues involving access and equity in public higher education.[6] She lives with her husband in downtown Los Angeles’ Arts District, and is an Emerita faculty member at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, is dedicated to critical pedagogy and interdisciplinary practices and “whose poetry is distinguished by its experimental [literature] aesthetics, marked by philosophic and politically engaged matter”.[9] [10] [11] Meadows is a juror on the panel for The America Awards for outstanding contribution to world literature.[12] She served on the board of the Los Angeles River Artists & Business Association from January 2013 to December 2016, and served as the 2014 president.[13] [14] [15]

Bibliography

Poetry

Plays

Anthologies

Awards

Reviews

Meadows's Translation, the bass accompaniment: Selected Poems is the sounding of consciousness, but not singular, not just her own: these poems are patterns pulled from texts in order to make a new accompaniment, to expose “the syntax of exploratory thought”... This capstone book looks back on Meadows's prolific writing life, and I believe that Meadows's poetry stands out among contemporary experimental poetry in two ways: in her treatment of matter, including political and economic realities, and in her use of and trust in sound. ... Simultaneously lyrical and conceptual, Meadows's work is exemplary among contemporary poetry. In fact, it challenges the clunky, western-world, Cartesian construct that would differentiate between somatic experience and conceptual practice.[16]

[On ''Growing Still'']

One thinks of Ponge, in that this is a kind of exploration which doesn't depend on the ‘surreal’, as so much ‘prose’ ‘poetry’ does. This is that which tends to BE thinking rather than mimic it.[17]

Poetry capable of elevating the reader into new ways of thinking about language often runs the risk of isolating and ostracizing the reader through challenge and difficulty in the breakage of paradigms. ... In Deborah Meadows's latest collection of writing, The Demotion of Pluto: Poems and Plays, these fine lines are approached and often transcended through the poet's consistent use of external influences and forces.[18]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Translation, the Bass Accompaniment: Selected Poems. 9781848612808. 7 July 2015. Meadows. Deborah. 2013. Shearsman Books .
  2. Web site: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. 12 May 2015.
  3. Web site: Review of Deborah Meadows. Verse Mag. 11 February 2005 . Verse Magazine . 7 July 2015.
  4. Representing Absence by Deborah Meadows Reviewed by Anthony Hawley. Verse Magazine. February 11, 2005.
  5. Murphy. Sheila. article by Sheila Murphy in American Book Review on Deborah Meadows' publication. American Book Review. July 2006. 27. 25.
  6. Web site: Electronic Poetry Center author page. Electronic Poetry Center. 12 May 2015.
  7. on Deborah Meadows' reading at NYC's Bowery Poetry Club in ColdFront Magazine. Cold Front Magazine. March 24, 2011. 7 July 2015. 9 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160309024600/http://coldfrontmag.com/nyc-shearsman-books-celebrates-30-years/. dead.
  8. Web site: Staff. Harriet. article written by Harriet Staff at Poetry Foundation about an anthology in which Deborah Meadows' work appears. 7 October 2022 .
  9. Web site: Minutes of Academic Senate meeting on May 30, 2012 at Cal. Poly., Pomona that records Meadows' Emeritus Status . CalState. 12 May 2015., Scroll to pages 21-22
  10. Donovan. Thom. "Three Contemporary Activist Presses" by Thom Donovan - 1 includes Deborah Meadows' poetry as significant for its political approach. American Book Review. March 2010. 31. 3. 7 July 2015.
  11. Web site: Corey. Joshua. Review by Joshua Corey of Meadows' poetry. gutcult.com. 7 July 2015.
  12. Web site: Article announcing America Awards that include Deborah Meadows as one of the jurors entitled "Rangos amerikai díjat kapott Krasznahorkai László". mno.hu. 7 July 2015.
  13. Web site: Jao. Carren. a typo|mai|ntainance}}-yard-out.html President of LARABA, "Arts District Fights to Keep Metro [sic] Yard Out"]. Kcet.org. KCET. 7 July 2015.
  14. Phillips. Lance. A Map (on one's own palm) of Growing Still: Lance Phillips reviews Growing Still, by Deborah Meadows. Jacket Magazine. October 2005. Jacket 28. 7 July 2015.
  15. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona faculty web page http://www.cpp.edu/~dameadows/
  16. Web site: MAGI. JILL. Sound matters. Jacket2. 2 July 2015.
  17. Web site: A Map (on one's own palm) of Growing Still: Lance Phillips reviews Growing Still, by Deborah Meadows. Jacket Magazine. 12 May 2015.
  18. Bem, Greg.Web site: Yellow Rabbits Review #12: The Demotion of Pluto: Poems and Plays by Deborah Meadows. Yellow Rabbits. 2 May 2018.

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