BIOGRAPHY Rob Wilson has published poems in various journals from Tinfish, Taxi, Bamboo Ridge, Manoa, and Central Park to New Republic, Ploughshares, Partisan Review, and Poetry . He is a western Connecticut native who was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a doctorate in English in 1976 and was founding editor of the Berkeley Poetry Review. Since that time he has taught in the English Department at the University of Hawai^(1)i at Manoa and Korea University in Seoul, and was recently a visiting professor of literature at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Advisory editor for the journals boundary 2 and Movements: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, his works of poetry and cultural criticism include Waking In Seoul; American Sublime; Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production; Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary; and Reimagining the American Pacific: From 'South Pacific' to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond. He is presently at work on two collections of poetry: Ananda Air: American Pacific Lines of Flight; and Automat: Un/American Poetics.
Mongrel Links
Academic Journals
- Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies gives a long overdue voice, throughout the global intellectual community, to those concerned with inter-Asia processes. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies includes discussion, reports and analysis from global critical circles, and especially from marginalised sites, with the aim of enhancing the communication and exchange between inter-Asia and other regions of the cultural studies world.
- Boundary 2: Extending beyond the postmodern, boundary 2 approaches problems of literature and culture from a number of politically, historically, and theoretically informed perspectives. boundary 2 remains committed to understanding the present and approaching the study of culture and politics (national and international) through literature, philosophy, and the human sciences.
- European Journal of American Culture: A journal of American literary and cultural studies with a European perspective.
Poetry Journals and Linkages
- TINFISH: A journal of experimental poetry with an emphasis on work from the Pacific region.
- James Houston: Famous local Santa Cruz writer, who is now author of seven novels, including The Last Paradise which won a 1999 American Book Award.
- Jacket Magazine: A free Internet-only quarterly review of new writing, with poetry, creative prose, interviews, reviews, and informative feature articles.
- Poetry Santa Cruz: Poetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. We run the "second Tuesday" poetry readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz, as well as coordinating poetry-related events around the county.
Academic Resources
- Creative Writing Program at UCSC: Creative writing offers a sequence of workshops from beginning through advanced levels in both poetry and fiction. Other activities available to interested students include participation in the creation of literary journals and publications on campus (see the print section), the Living Writers Reading Series, membership in the Raymond Carver Club for Student Writers, and the use of a creative writing lounge and reading room.
- Literature of Pacific Islands: A great site that collects almost all the literatures on the Pacific studies one can imagine. It includes links to Pacific films, conferences, literature by author, and many more.
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