Jason Sommer

Jason Sommer is an American poet and academic.

Life

He graduated from Brandeis University, Stanford University (where he held the Mirrielees Fellowship in Poetry), and St. Louis University. He taught at St. Louis University, Webster University, and University College, Dublin.

His work appeared in AGNI,[1] The New Republic, Ploughshares,[2] TriQuarterly.[3]

He taught at Fontbonne University[4] from 1985 to 2015, where he also held the distinction of Poet in Residence.[5]

"The Ballad of Fighting With My Father". Ploughshares. Spring 1984. Archived from the original on March 29, 2005.
Lifting the Stone. Forest Books. January 1, 1991. ISBN 978-0-948259-94-4.
Other People's Troubles. University of Chicago Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-226-76816-8.
The Man Who Sleeps in My Office. University of Chicago Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-226-76805-2.
The Laughter of Adam and Eve. Southern Illinois University Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0809332786.

Wang Xiabobo (2007). Wang in love and bondage: three novellas. Translators Jason Sommer, Hongling Zhang. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-7065-7.

Michael Collier, ed. (2000). The New American Poets. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-964-8.

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