Suzi Winson
Suzi Winson does lots of things. She lives in Paris and NY. Fish Drum is her 20-year-old small press which produces perfect-bound books of modern poetry and an eponymous literary magazine. She has a clown act on demand. She teaches workshops which combine flying trapeze and personal transformation. She is an equal opportunity antagonizer and has flown and shaken up everyone from Tibetan monks to a few very frightened CEOs on her rig. (names available upon request) After professionally balancing on her toes for a couple of decades, she now sits on a few boards. She is really happy to sit. She is a director and/or trustee of the following non-profit boards: Poets in Need which provides emergency assistance for established poets, The William Forsythe Foundation (think modern ballet on steroids, awesome!), and FACE which supports and develops contemporary art projects in the context of French-American cultural exchange. She's run a few small companies, cosmetics for women of color (green women), a widget company the name of which she is too embarrassed to disclose, and keeps trying to mix art and money, or Zen and capitalism, mostly succeeding at one and failing miserably at the other. You know how that gets. With Dr. Julie Barnes, she co-wrote the "Disaster Preparedness Project" for NY for the Public Advocate's Office in response to 9/11 which was distributed to millions of New Yorkers and then panned by the press (it must have been really good!). Then the project was re-made into incomprehensible and misleading drivel by NY Mayor Bloomberg's office. Dommage. She writes other stuff too that hasn't been panned. Yet. That'll do for now.
Posts by Suzi Winson:
Life Taken by the Throat
“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat” said Robert Frost. In Sharp Teeth, a novel written in the freest of free verse by Toby Barlow, poetry is evidently taking a vicious bite down to the esophagus, ripping apart bloody limbs, gnawing on bone and sinew and discarding the refuse in the trash can of a gas station bathroom.
Read on →