Paul Violi
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Paul Randolph Violi was an American poet born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Splurge, Fracas, The Curious Builder, Likewise, and most recently Overnight. Violi was managing editor of The Architectural Forum from 1972—1974, worked on free-lance projects at Universal Limited Art Editions and as chairman of the Associate Council Poetry Committee, he organized a series of readings at the Museum of Modern Art from 1974 to 1983. He also co-founded Swollen Magpie Press, which produced poetry chapbooks, anthologies, and a magazine called New York Times. His art book collaborations with Dale Devereux Barker, most recently Envoy; Life is Completely Interesting, have been acquired by major collections. The expanded text of their first collaboration, Selected Accidents, Pointless Anecdotes, a collection of non-fiction prose, was published by Hanging Loose Press in 2002.
Awarded two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Violi also received The John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, and grants from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Poetry, The Fund for Poetry, The New York Foundation for the Arts
, The Ingram Merrill poetry Foundation, and New York Creative Artists Public Service Fund. Violi died in Cortlandt Manor, New York
in 2011 from cancer.
At the time of his death, he was teaching in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and in the graduate writing program at the New School University.
Awarded two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Violi also received The John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, and grants from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Foundation for Contemporary Arts , originally known as Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, is a nonprofit based foundation in New York City founded by artists Jasper Johns , John Cage, Elaine de Kooning and others in 1963. FCA offers financial support and recognition to contemporary...
Poetry, The Fund for Poetry, The New York Foundation for the Arts
New York Foundation for the Arts
The New York Foundation for the Arts was created in conjunction the in 1971. The organization gives grants to individual artists and writers and developing arts organizations with a mission to '.'-NYFA's Programs:...
, The Ingram Merrill poetry Foundation, and New York Creative Artists Public Service Fund. Violi died in Cortlandt Manor, New York
Cortlandt Manor, New York
Cortlandt Manor is an area located in the Town of Cortlandt in Northern Westchester County, New York. Cortlandt Manor is situated directly east, north and south of Peekskill, and east of three sections of the Town of Cortlandt, Croton-on-Hudson, Crugers, and Montrose...
in 2011 from cancer.
At the time of his death, he was teaching in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and in the graduate writing program at the New School University.
Selected bibliography
- Overnight, Hanging Loose Press, N.Y., N.Y. 2007.
- Breakers: Selected Longer Poems, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, MN . 2000.
- Fracas, Hanging Loose Press, N.Y., N.Y. 1998.
- The Curious Builder, Hanging Loose Press, N.Y. , N.Y. 1993.
- Likewise, Hanging Loose Press, N.Y., N.Y. 1988.
- Splurge, Sun Press, N.Y., N.Y. 1982.
- In Baltic Circles, Kulchur Foundation Press, N.Y., N.Y. 1973.