The Place of the Solitaires, my fourteenth book of poetry (where has the time gone?), is now available from Wolfson Press and at Amazon. The book is unofficially being launched Continue Reading →
Author Archives: John Surowiecki
The Place of the Solitaires: Poems from Titles by Wallace Stevens
The Place of the Solitaires is John Surowiecki’s fourteenth book of poetry. He is the recipient of the Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award for Verse Drama, the Pablo Neruda Prize, the Washington Continue Reading →
New Collection! Burger King of the Dead
Praise for Burger King of the Dead: Early in John Surowiecki’s Burger King of the Dead, the narrator of “I am a Comic Book” describes growing up as a boy of Continue Reading →
Green Poetry Café
The Cafe is a video production that parallels the publication of the Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate anthology. In the video I read Continue Reading →
Brainwave Videos
I did a video reading with Bob Greenbreg for The Brainwaves Video Anthology The Brainwaves Video Anthology is a collection of over 1,000 videos with 2 million views in 234 Continue Reading →
Cellar Series reading from February 2013
Ugly Duckling Presse is making public a reading I gave in Brooklyn (Cellar Series) for my book Flies, published by Ugly Duckling. Charles Bernstein & Al Filreis, co-directors of Continue Reading →
CT Poets’ Corner: The poems of John Surowiecki focus on those ‘ignored by everyone else’
Here’s a video of me reading “Adventures in Long Island: Albert’s House.” It is from the Hartford Courant’s CT Poet’s Corner for March 14 with a nice article by Ginny Continue Reading →
Connecticut in the Poems of Wallace Stevens
Noon Institute – Manchester Community College We know that Stevens walked to work through the streets of Hartford but there is a lot of Hartford—and Connecticut—in his poems, too. We’ll look Continue Reading →
MCC Noon Institute
A lecture on three Polish poets, two Nobel laureates and one who should have been.
The Charter Oak Readings
Join me on Sunday June 3, 3PM with Joan Hofmann at Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford. Reading starts with an Open Mike. Joan Hofmann is Professor Emerita at the University of Continue Reading →