William Fuller will read from his work on 2/10 at 4:10pm in the Cheever Room of Finn House at Kenyon College, as part of the 2011 KR Spring Reading Series. (Directions to campus after the jump.)
“The Secrecy Officer of American Poetry.” J.H. Prynne
“One of William Fuller’s modes is what I’d call the high
capitalist pastoral.”–John Wilkinson
William Fuller lives in Winnetka, Illinois, and works in Chicago, where he is a Senior Vice President and Chief Fiduciary Officer in the Trust Department of Northern Trust Company. His books include The Coal Jealousies (Coincidence Press, Oakland, 1987), byt (O Books, Oakland, 1989), The Sugar Borders (O Books, Oakland, 1993), The Central Reader (paradigm press, Providence, 1998) Aether (Gaz, Summit, NJ, 1998), Roll (Equipage, Cambridge, UK, 2000), Three Poems (Barque Press, Cambridge,UK, 2000), Sadly (Flood Editions, Chicago, 2003), Avoid Activity (Rubba Ducky, Buffalo, 2003), Watchword (Flood Editions, 2006), Dry Land (Equipage, 2007), Three Replies (Barque Press, London, 2008), Hallucination (Flood Editions, 2011) Quorum, (forthcoming, Seagull Press, Calcutta); his work has appeared in Oblek, Avec, Aerial, Big Allis, Chain, Object, New American Writing, Writing, Raddle Moon, Crayon, Edinburgh Review, Chicago Review, Crowd, The Canary, LVNG, The Nation, Dear Navigator, WIG, and other journals. He has been anthologized in The Art of Practice: 45 Contemporary Poets (Potes & Poets, Hartford, 1994), The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry, 1993-1994 (Sun and Moon Press, Los Angeles, 1995), w. Tom Raworth in Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull Press, Berkeley, 2007), City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab, Chicago, 2007).