Randall Mann

Randall Mann is an American poet. He was born in Provo, Utah in 1972, the only son to Olympic Track and Field medalist, Ralph Mann. He is the author of Breakfast with Thom Gunn (University of Chicago, 2009), Complaint in the Garden (Zoo Press, 2004), winner of the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry, and co-author of the textbook Writing Poems (7th ed. Pearson Longman, 2007). His poetry often describes Florida, San Francisco and contemporary gay life. Mann currently lives in San Francisco, California.

Education

• Mann received Masters Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Florida in 1997.^[1]

References

Work Online

Poetry

• Rain / Complaint in the Garden / The Lady Wishfort / Social Life
• Blind Date at the Blue Plate / The After Party /A Sick Day
• Ganymede on Polk Street / Orpheus at cafe Flore / Short Short / Abandoned Landscapes / Elipsis / Postcard from California
• A View / American (Bathroom) Graffiti
• Aubade
• Old Haunts
• The Future Tense
• Song
• Fetish
• N
• Last Call
• Poem Beginning with a Line by John Ashbery
• Cockroach
• The Sunset
• Night: A Fragment
• The End of Landscape
• Ian Hamilton in Florida
• Monday (with history of composition)

Non-Fiction

• Thom Gunn: A memoir of reading
• The Illusion of Intimacy: Discovering John Ashbery
• A Poem I Love

Interviews

• The Kenyon Review Interview
• an interview by J. Michael Wahlgreen
• First Book Interviews