MR. BILL LAVENDER

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Director of the Low Residency Creative Writing Program, and Managing Editor of UNO Press.

MFA, University of New Orleans, 1994

Bill Lavender (on the left in the photo) has a BA in English from the University of Arkansas and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans. He is the director of the Low Residency Creative Writing program and Managing Editor of UNO Press. He is adjunct Assistant Professor of English.

Mr. Lavender's most recent book of poetry is transfixion, published in 2009 by Trembling Pillow and Garret County Presses. Poems from this book have been published online in E*Ratio and Fieralingua, and in print in YAWP, Fell Swoop, and Prairie Schooner. Books also include I of the Storm (Trembling Pillow 2006), While Sleeping (Chax Press 2004), look the universe is dreaming (Potes and Poets 2002), and Guest Chain (Lavender Ink 1999). He is currently editing a volume of creative responses to Arakawa and Gins, has been a guest editor at Exquisite Corpse and Big Bridge, and has edited an anthology, Another South: Experimental Writing in the South, from University of Alabama Press (2003). His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous print magazines including Praire Schooner, Jubilat, New Orleans Review, Gulf Coast Review, Skanky Possum, YAWP, and Fell Swoop, and web publications including Exquisite Corpse, E•ratio , CanWeHaveOurBallBack, Moria, Big Bridge, and Nolafugees. He has published scholarship in Poetics Today and Contemporary Literature.

Click here to read about transfixion, including comments and excerpts.
Click here to read a review of While Sleeping by John Lowther.

Course Documents:
Literary Criticism: Syllabus
Literature in Cyberspace: Syllabus
Online Poetry Workshop:Syllabus

Phone Number: (504) 280-7457

Email Mr. Lavender here

Address: ED 210

COURSES FOR Spring 2010:

ENGL6173,
Online Poetry Workshop