John M. Fitzgerald

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John FitzGerald
Nationality Irish-American
Occupation Poet, writer, attorney
Spouse(s) Hélène Cardona
Website
http://www.pw.org/content/john_m_fitzgerald

John Fitzgerald is a poet,[1] writer, editor and attorney in Los Angeles. He is a dual citizen of the United States and Ireland.

Education

He received scholarships to the University of West Los Angeles School of Law, where he won several awards and was editor of the Law Review.

Publications

His newest collection of poetry, The Mind, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2011.[2] His fourth poetry collection, Favorite Bedtime Stories, forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in 2014.

His first book, Spring Water, was a Turning Point Books prize selection in 2005.[3] Telling Time by the Shadows was released in April 2008 by Turning Point Books.[4]

He has contributed to the anthologies Poetry: Reading it, Writing it, Publishing it (Salmon Poetry, 2009),[5] Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (Salmon Poetry, 2011)[6] and From the Four-Chambered Heart: In Tribute to Anais Nin.[7] His first poetry publication was in 1991 in the now defunct UCLA literary journal WESTWORD.

He is widely published in many literary magazines, notably The Warwick Review, The Toronto Quarterly,[8] Barnwood Mag,[9] Askew Poetry Journal, Spillway, The American Center for Artists, Mediterranean Poetry,[10] Saint Julian Press,[11] Tiferet Journal, From the Fishouse, The Passionate Transitory,[12] Levure Littéraire and Lit Bridge.

He edited The Book on Social Security Disability.

Primate, a novel and screenplay, and the non-fiction Everything I Know, are yet unpublished works.

John has worked as the associate book editor for Cider Press Review. He has been featured poetry reader at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the West Hollywood Book Fair, on national radio, and at many literary venues throughout the country and in Ireland.

He has lived in England and Italy and now lives with his wife, poet and actress Hélène Cardona, in Santa Monica, California.

Awards

  • Turning Point Books prize selection for Spring Water in 2005
  • The Gittelson Award for the best Law Review article written by a student in 1995-1996
  • The American Jurisprudence and the Corpus Juris Secundum Awards for contracts in 1993-1994
  • Three legal writing Essay Scholarships in 1993-94, 1995–96, 1996–97

Works

Anthologies

Reviews

"This collection of poems reflects on the events in our lives that take place even while we are reaching for light in a dark world. Always out of reach, like listening to the wind, but missing the point, we stumble on. Thoughtful and leaving readers thinking, "The Mind" is an excellent collection and very highly recommended." - Midwest Book Review

"John FitzGerald's new collection, The Mind (copyright 2011 Salmon Poetry), is one poet's journey through his internal cosmos. In The Mind, the poet wanders through the realms of life, beauty, truth, death, The Self, and possibility (or, prophecy), but... to what end? FitzGerald's, The Mind is a 21 Century companion to Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, but one endowed with an immediate, vibrant accessibility; a Hero's Journey not soon to be forgotten." - Marie Lecrivain for Al-Khemia Poetica[13]

"Wonderfully presented in its thought and pattern, on the edge avant-garde writing that transforms your own perceptions of the self and how life is constantly changing and challenging the self to evolve, to imagine your life." - Ron Starbuck

"Spring Water by John M. FitzGerald is a book unlike any other in contemporary poetry: a novel-in-verse about an ordinary man who, quietly and without notice, lives the life of a serial killer. This haunting, and disturbingly plausible, collection establishes FitzGerald as an important new voice in narrative poetry. John FitzGerald's debut volume, Spring Water, is to poetry what The Silence of the Lambs is to filmdom: a harrowing, narrative trip that makes for an absolutely compelling read...brilliantly delivered by one of America's most promising new poets. We were delighted to introduce this author to the reading public." - Robert Nazarene, Founding Editor Margie/The American Journal of Poetry

"John FitzGerald's Telling Time by the Shadows is an unusually frank confrontation with God. FitzGerald's poems challenge the emptiness of the universe, questioning how we can intuit God's presence in the shadows."

Interviews

John FitzGerald Q&A with advice to young writers: http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/john_fitzgerald/john_fitzgerald_qa_with_advice_to_young_writers.shtml

John FitzGerald Q&A on form:
http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/john_fitzgerald/john_fitzgerald_qa_on_form.shtml

John FitzGerald Q&A on his writing time: http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/john_fitzgerald/john_fitzgerald_qa_on_his_writing_time.shtml

John FitzGerald Q&A on some favorite poets: http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/john_fitzgerald/john_fitzgerald_qa_on_some_favorite_poets.shtml

References

  1. ↑ "John FitzGerald". 
  2. ↑ "The Mind". The Mind. 
  3. ↑ "Spring Water". Spring Water. Turningpointbooks.com. Retrieved 2013-04-25. 
  4. ↑ "Telling Time by the Shadows". Turningpointbooks.com. 
  5. ↑ "Poetry: Reading it, Writing it, Publishing it". Salmon Poetry, 2009. 
  6. ↑ "Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology". Salmon Poetry, 2011. 
  7. ↑ "From the Four-Chambered Heart: In Tribute to Anais Nin". Sybaritic Press, 2013. 
  8. ↑ "The Becoming". The Toronto Quarterly. 
  9. ↑ "Fear and The Evening Out". Barnwood Mag. 
  10. ↑ "Mythborne". Mediterranean Poetry. 
  11. ↑ "Twenty-five". Saint Julian Press. 
  12. ↑ "The Passionate Transitory". 
  13. ↑ http://alkhemiapoetica.blogspot.com/2012/09/john-fitzgeralds-mind.html

External links

Poetry.LA features John Fitzgerald reading "Joe Smith's Diary, No. 1" and "Shopping List" at the Redondo Poets at Coffee Cartel.

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