forthcoming
THE BEAUTIFUL: an anthology of what's right with America
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
"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
Dana Teen Lomax shows her ass and makes you want to kiss it.
Bear with me and I’ll explain... --Eileen Tabios
"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
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 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
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