Geoffrey Gatza

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

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Early life and education

Gatza grew up in Kenmore in Erie County, New York and attended four 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. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. 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. Archived from the original on July 21, 2012. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Geoffrey Gatza". Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
  6. ↑ House of Forgetting by Geoffrey Gatza
  7. ↑ Secrets of My Prison House
  8. ↑ "SOL: English Writing in Mexico Geoffrey Gatza: Two Poems". Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
  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". Archived from the original on 2010-12-22. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
  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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