Geoffrey Gatza

Geoffrey C. Gatza (born 1970) is an award-winning American poet and editor and the publisher of BlazeVOX [books], an independent press based in Buffalo, New York.[1]

Early life and education

Gatza grew up in Kenmore in Erie County, New York and attended three schools in the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda School District: Jane Addams Elementary School, Lindbergh Elementary School, Kenmore Middle School, and Kenmore West High School.[2]

He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York and Daemen College in Amherst, New York.[3]

Personal life

Gatza resides in Kenmore, New York with his girlfriend Donna.[4][5]

Books

The last of these books uses the periodic table of elements as the structure for a love story. As the story progresses, another "electron" of memory is added to the lives of the book's primary "elements."

References

  1. ↑ Shivani, Anis (April 12, 2012). "National Poetry Month Feature: Geoffrey Gatza of BlazeVOX Talks About the NEA Ban on His Small Press". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
  2. ↑ Ed Adamczyk (February 24, 2008). "PUBLISHING: Kenmore native is a poet and entrepreneur". Tonawanda news.com. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Geoffrey C Gatza". US Search.com. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
  4. ↑ Jane Kwiatkowski (March 28, 2010). "A conversation with poet Geoffrey Gatza". Buffalo News. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
  5. ↑ Geoffrey Gatza
  6. ↑ House of Forgetting by Geoffrey Gatza
  7. ↑ Secrets of My Prison House
  8. ↑ SOL: English Writing in Mexico Geoffrey Gatza: Two Poems
  9. ↑ Housecat Kung Fu: Strange Poems For Wild Children
  10. ↑ Fink, Thomas (December 21, 2009). "HOUSECAT KUNG FU by GEOFFREY GATZA". galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
  11. ↑ Jeffrey Cyphers Wright (May 2010). "RAPID TRANSIT". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
  12. ↑ Geoffrey Gatza
  13. ↑ A Lisping Ignatius / The Sincere, The Flarf, and The Voice of Place: A reading of Geoffrey Gatza’s Not So Fast Robespierre

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