K. Silem Mohammad

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Kasey Silem Mohammad is an American poet and professor at Southern Oregon University. [1] He is one of the Flarf poets.

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K. Silem Mohammad
Born
Kasey Silem Mohammad Hicks
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford, UC Santa Cruz
Notable work
Dear Head Nation, A Thousand Devils, Breathalyzer, The Front
MovementFlarf
Spouse(s)Brooke Michelle Robison

Life

Mohammad was born in Modesto, California, in 1962. He graduated with a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1991, and from Stanford University with a PhD in 1998. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poetry, [2] The Nation, [3] Fence, [4] Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, and Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing. He edits the literary journals West Wind Review and Abraham Lincoln: A Magazine of Poetry. He currently teaches creative writing at Southern Oregon University.

Works

Non-fiction

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References

  1. "K. Silem Mohammad | Faculty | English and Writing". Archived from the original on 2013-03-10. Retrieved 2013-03-18.
  2. Poems About Trees by K. Silem Mohammad : Poetry Magazine
  3. http://www.thenation.com The Nation
  4. http://www.fenceportal.org Fence
  5. McHugh, Heather (September 5, 2012). "Three Sonnagrams". The Stranger. Retrieved 18 March 2013. Kasey's not only the best anagrammarian I've ever run across, he's also found an inspired expedient: He fashions the poems to his taste, and then uses leftover letters for the title—the part of a poem that is most conventionally free to bear a floating or flirting relation to its meaning. The result? These amazing, salty, hilarious pieces, as precise as they are surprising.
  6. Case, Sarah (September 9, 2012). "Songs and sonnets". Jacket. Retrieved 18 March 2013. Instead of writing sonnets in the twenty-first century, Mohammad writes the twenty-first century into the sonnet.