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Chris Hosea

クリス・ホセア

Kurisu Hosea

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1973-01-01
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
Brooklyn, New York

Career

Occupations
poet, artist, writer
Active Years
1998-2024
Influenced By
James Tate, Peter Gizzi, Dara Barrois/Dixon, John Ashbery

Education

Harvard College
English
Degree: AB
Year of Graduation: 1998
Country: United States
University of Massachusetts Amherst
MFA Program for Poets & Writers
Degree: MFA
Year of Graduation: 2006
Country: United States
Studied with James Tate, Peter Gizzi, and Dara Barrois/Dixon

Awards

Walt Whitman Award
2013
Work: Put Your Hands In
Organization: Academy of American Poets
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Put Your Hands In

2014 poetry

A poetry collection emphasizing contradiction, the absurd, and sound, compared to Language poets. Features references to hyper-contemporary technology, sexualized imagery, pop cultural references, and provocative language.

contradictionabsurdsoundcontemporary culture

Double Zero

2016 poetry

A melancholy, fragmented collection mapping the experience of the contemporary subject. Captures the unlimited economy of text and experience in 2016 through excess of language and sensation.

melancholyfragmentationcontemporaneity

Bibliography

  • Put Your Hands In (LSU Press, 2014)
  • Double Zero (Prelude, 2016)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
horizontally distributed linguistic planesglittering splinters of the quotidianinventive and provocative approach to language
Recurring Motifs
hyper-contemporary technologypop cultural referencessexualized imagery

Legacy

Significant contributor to contemporary American poetry. Winner of the Walt Whitman Award. Active in visual art, curation, and residencies.

Trivia

  • Harvard College alumnus
  • UMass Amherst MFA
  • Curator of Blue Letter Reading Series