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Picture forthcoming THE BEAUTIFUL: an anthology of what's right with America





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A collection of original prose and poetry that ranges from thoughtful to provocative and from experimental to really far-out. Adventurous writings for literary risk-takers and thrill-seekers. –Kirkus Reviews
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"This courageous and visionary book enacts and embodies a concrete "relational aesthetics" that gives poetic voices an epistolary space -- for linguistic intimacy and soul-sharing. Don't miss it!" -- Cornel West
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Dana Teen Lomax shows her ass and makes you want to kiss it. Bear with me and I’ll explain... --Eileen Tabios
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"Dana Teen Lomax's work navigates the vexed relations of life behind the bars of the $$, where gender, race, and class are not merely 'discourses' but lived vectors of experience, and where the logic of exchange value mediates that experience to the point where 'the $u$pen$e i$ in the death toll$.'" -- David Buuck

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Anthologized Work


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"Vivitocracy" Wesleyan University Press ©2018
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from "Disclosure" Northwestern University Press ©2011
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from "Disclosure" Palm Press ©2010
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"Lullaby" PM Press ©2007
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"Lullaby" and "Lullaby" O Books ©2007
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from "/We" Faux Press ©2006

Chapbooks


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Discrete Pieces


PERFORMANCES AND PANELS
2019
Featured Reader, LOBA Reading Series, Ukiah Library, THE BEAUTIFUL
Affordable Housing Happening, Downtown San Rafael, California, Keening and Mourning for Marin
Conference Panelist, NOLA Poetry Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana Black Radish Books, 
Poets on the Essay
Conference Panelist, AWP Off-site Reading, Daedalus Books, Portland, Oregon, Ekphrasis and the Poet
2018
Conference Panelist, NOLA Poetry Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana Black Radish Books, THE BEAUTIFUL
Conference Panelist, &Now Poetry Festival, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame Indiana,  Counter-Desecration: Critical Making for Catastrophic Times
Conference Panelist, &Now Poetry Festival, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame Indiana,  From Condensary to Essay: A Reading
Conference Panelist, &Now Poetry Festival, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame Indiana,  Anger, Grief, Empathy, and Hope: Remembering Marthe Reed as an Activist and Social Justice Poet

2016
Performer, Small Press Traffic: Poets’ Theater Inside  The Earthquake Palace
2014
Conference Panelist, AWP Conference, Seattle, WA  The Myth of the Inaccessible: Teaching Experimental Poetry in the Community
Guest Lecturer, Columbia University Preparatory School  Avant-garde Poetry in the Classroom
Performer and Curator, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA  Femshi: Feminist NeoBenshi 
2012
Conference Panelist, AWP Conference, Chicago, IL  Experiments for the Future: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children
2011
& Now Conference Panelist, UC San Diego  Toward An Aberrant Future
Featured Reader, San Francisco Beat Museum, Ping Pong! Celebration  Shhh! Poems for a Tired Nation
Conference Panelist, AWP Conference, Washington D.C. Unite!: Acts of Radical Poetic Collaboration
Mentor Poet, Mills College, Oakland  The Writer’s Life
2010
Guest Lecturer, Santa Clara University  Creative Writing & Social Justice
Guest Lecturer, University of San Francisco  Collaboration in Creative Writing
Guest Lecturer, San Francisco School of the Arts  Creative Writing in Response to Crisis
Guest Panelist, San Francisco State University  The Business of Creative Writing
Guest Lecturer, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California  Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
Guest Panelist, Performing Arts Workshop’s Professional Development Day, San Francisco, California  Gertrude Stein in Juvenile Hall
Conference Panelist, California Poets in the Schools Annual Conference, Petaluma, California  Poetics and Experiment in the Classroom Environment
Featured Reader, Bay Area Video Coalition/San Francisco Poetry  Shhh! Poems for a Tired Nation
Featured Reader, Kokoro Gallery/Flat Earth Collective Reading  Shhh! Poems for a Tired Nation
Featured Reader, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin County  3 Performance Pieces: Famous, Tired, and Desert
2009
Guest Lecturer, CalArts, Valencia California  Political Poetry & Mentorship
Guest Lecturer, San Francisco Poetry Center  Poetics, Politics, & Community
Guest Lecturer, The New School, New York, New York  Poetics, Politics, & Community
Guest Lecturer, Santa Clara University  Creative Writing & Social Justice
Guest Lecturer, San Francisco School of the Arts  Literature & Experiment
Guest Panelist, San Francisco State University  The Business of Creative Writing
Featured Reader, Canessa Gallery Series, San Francisco, California  Disclosure
Featured Reader, The Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles, California  Disclosure
2008
Conference Panelist, AWP Conference, New York, New York  Letters To Poets: Conversations in Poetics, Politics, & Community
Featured Reader, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California  Curren¢y
2007
Guest Panelist, San Francisco State University  The Business of Creative Writing
Featured Reader, City Lights Books, San Francisco, California  Curren¢y
Featured Reader, San Francisco Poetry Marathon, The  Lab Curren¢y
2006
Featured Reader, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, New York, New York  Curren¢y
2004
Featured Reader, Expression College of New Media, Emeryville, California  The Work of Creative Writing
2003 Featured Reader, Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, California  Poets Against the War
Guest Lecturer, Santa Clara University  Poetry & Performance
2002
Featured Reader, Tower Books, Sacramento, California  All the Words on Money
2000
Featured Poet, City Search: Local Howlers, San Francisco, California  Room
1998
Featured Artist, ODC Gallery, San Francisco, California Text for  “Picture Book”
1997
Conference Panelist, Chaparral Valley Poets’ Conference, Empire, California Poets in the Schools 
1995
Featured Reader, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco California  Bachelor Party Poems 


POETRY
Full Length Collections
2020

     THE BEAUTIFUL, Dana Teen Lomax Editor
2014
     Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children, Black Radish Books, Dana Teen Lomax Editor
2011
     Disclosure, Black Radish Books
2008
     Curren¢y, Palm Press
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Discrete Poems
2020
   "the-in-between," The Elderly, Anti-Capitalism Issue 
2011

     “Lullaby 17” Eleven Eleven (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
     “Lullaby 16” “Lullaby 20” Ping Pong!
     “Lullaby 19” “Lullaby 18” “All Made Up” Delirious Hem
2010
     “Lullaby 12” Poets for Living Waters 
     “Lullaby 11” bone bouquet 
     “Lullaby 15” “Lullaby 7” Dusie Kollektiv #4 
2009 
     “In This Life” Concise Delight 
     “Lullaby & Goodnight” Delirious Hem 
     from “Disclosure” Work Magazine 
     from “Disclosure” Try
2008 

     “Lullaby 8” textsound, Issue #2 
2007 
     “Lullaby 1” 580 Split, Mills College Review 
     “Lullaby 3” 
2005 
     “Lullaby 10” Dusie 
     “In God” sonaweb 
     “We” “Trust” “Legal Tender” mem 
2003 
     “Federal Reserve” Moria, Volume 6, Issue 2 
     “The Great Seal” Shampoo 
     “Of The United States” “Treasury” from “Note” 26 
2000 
     “Meritocracy” 14 Hills 
1999 
     “Public & Private” vert 
1998 
     from “Room” Inscape, Volume iv 
     “Dialogue in Translation” Tripwire 
     “Endemic Lawrence” Outlet 
     “Circuitry” Transfer 76 
1997 
     “Ode to Uncle Doug” Coracle, Volume 3 
     "Autograph #2” Crack 
     “Divided Skin” Convolvulus 
1994 
     “Repositioning” Sonoma Mandala, Volume 20, 1993 
     “Lorena” “Why I Can’t Wait…” “Sleeping With Dean 2:54” Blueline 
     “Sleeping With Dean 3:36” Cape Rock 
     “Untitled” Rock Falls Review “First Aging Poem” Verve 
     “Entitled” 
1993 
     “Race Line” El Andar 
​     “Trust” La Gazette
     “Edgewater” Graffiti #5
     “Ad Lib” Sacred River


ESSAYS
2019
     
Marthe Reed, an unlikely revolutionary, Jacket2, ed. Linda Russo
2012
     Tribute to Daniel Norman Lomax, The Disinhibitor, ed. Michael Cross
2010
     “‘the difficulty’ (the necessity),” Delirious Hem, eds Cara Benson. Elizabeth Bryant, and Cathy Wagner “Childcare from the Avant-garde,” Otoliths, ed.
       Mark Young
2009
     “The Present Moment,” Building is a Process/Light is an Element, eds. Michael Cross and Andrew Rippeon
2007
     “In This Effort,” Every Other Day, ed. Kate Greenstreet
2006
     “A-Reading, Spicer & Eighteen Sonnets,” Traffic, ed. Elizabeth Treadwell

PLAYS
2007
On Wallace Steven’s Bowl, Cat, and Broomstick, Small Press Traffic’s Poets’ Theater Jubilee California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
2005
Fence/less, 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, California
2002
Pas de Deux, co-written with Danna Lomax, Small Press Traffic’s Poets’ Theater Jubilee, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
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