Larry Sawyer curates the Myopic Poetry Series and is co-director of The Chicago School of Poetics. Poetry and critical reviews have appeared in journals including Court Green, Emergency Index, Esque, Exquisite Corpse, Forklift Ohio, Ploughshares, Vanitas, Van Gogh's Ear (France), Verse Daily, and elsewhere. His chapbook Tyrannosaurus Ant was included in the Yale Collection of American Literature. Anthologies include Shamanic Warriors Now Poets (Scotland, JN Reilly, editor), The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for a New Century (Cracked Slab Books), A Writers' Congress: Chicago Poets on Barack Obama's Inauguration (DePaul University), and Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion (Academy of American Poets). He has read his work at venues such as the BONK! Reading and Performance Series in Racine, Wisconsin; the Chicago Printers Row Lit Fest; Columbia College Chicago; The Hideout in Chicago; Myopic Books; The Poetry Center of Chicago; Quimby's Bookstore; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. "I love the clear style, unforced music. It is not so much a strange poetry as the poetry of a stranger, the way Bishop was a Brazilian in Boston and a Bostonian in Brazil. I fell in love with your 'blue fruit' and 'inescapable tomorrow', also what seems like renunciation not of sentimentality but of cliché ...I like even the quasi-Romantic dislocations here: 'There is a beauty to ice / only a statue understands.' I m not a statue, so I only partially understand, but that should be more than enough for Larry Sawyer's uncanny picnic on no grass ... seemed as real as the Bronx, and I couldn't stop thinking: I am so lucky that this poetry is so good." --David Shapiro"Larry's poetry gives me the best kind of vertigo: the kind where you're afraid of falling, but when you do you fall into a soft, meaty, sensual, smart ravine that shakes you pretty good, but instead of killing you it turns you into a Thinking Cocktail. What a scary and fine artist Mr. Sawyer is!"--Andrei Codrescu"Surrealist poetry is alive and well and living in America today, thanks in no small part to Larry Sawyer, and his first book, Unable to Fully California gives cause for rejoicing ... Sawyer has a comic genius."--David Madgalene, Big Bridge magazine "[Larry Sawyer] combines mundane imagist language into a rich new mofungo."--Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth"Sawyer's exuberant sensibility has led him to confident lyric expression whose finest moments are beyond context."--Tony Towle