Jason Schneiderman

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Jason Schneiderman
Born1976 (age 4748)
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
Education University of Maryland, College Park (BA)
New York University (MFA)
CUNY Graduate Center (PhD)
Notable awards Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award (2004)
Website
jasonschneiderman.net

Jason Schneiderman (born 1976) is an American poet.

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Life

Jason Schneiderman has BA degrees in English and Russian from the University of Maryland, an MFA in poetry from NYU, and a Ph.D. in English Literature with a focus on Queer Theory from the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is a tenured professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College., [1] and has taught in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He was a featured faculty member at the 2018 Conference on Poetry at The Frost Place.

He is one of the hosts of Painted Bride Quarterly Slush Pile, a podcast that puts an editorial meeting on the air.

He is one of the hosts of Monday Night Poetry at KGB Bar, a longstanding reading series in New York City.

Schneiderman's essays on teaching formal poetry have appeared in Teachers and Writers. His essays on poetry have frequently appeared in American Poetry Review. The anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers was the first Freshman composition reader focused on LGBTIAQ topics.

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  2. Schneiderman, Jason (2014). "Four Poems". The American Poetry Review . 43 (1): 14–15. ISSN   0360-3709. JSTOR   24592298.