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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| Born | Kasey Silem Mohammad Hicks |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Stanford, UC Santa Cruz |
| Notable work | Dear Head Nation, A Thousand Devils, Breathalyzer, The Front |
| Movement | Flarf |
| Spouse | Brooke Michelle Robison |
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.
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.
Instead of writing sonnets in the twenty-first century, Mohammad writes the twenty-first century into the sonnet.
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