John
M. Bennett has published over 400 books and chapbooks
of poetry and other materials. He has published, exhibited and performed his
word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND
TIMES (1975-2005), and is Founding Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at
The Ohio State University Libraries.
Richard Kostelanetz has called him “the seminal American poet of my
generation”. His work, publications, and
papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington
University (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of
Modern Art, and other major libraries.
His PhD (UCLA 1970) is in Latin American Literature. His latest books are Select Poems,
Poetry Hotel Press/Luna Bisonte Prods, 2016; The World of Burning, Luna
Bisonte Prods, 2017; Poemas visuales, con movimientos con ruidos con
combinaciones (with Osvaldo Cibils), Deep White Sound, 2017; The
Sweating Lake, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2017; Olas Cursis, Luna Bisonte
Prods, 2018, Sesos Extremos, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2018; Dropped in the
Dark Box, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2019; Leg Mist, Luna Bisonte Prods,
2019; and OJIJETE, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2020. He is co-editor, with Geoffrey D. Smith, of
two works by William S. Burroughs: Everything Lost: The Latin American
Notebook of William S. Burroughs; and William S. Burroughs' “The Revised
Boy Scout Manual”: An Electronic Revolution; both published by The Ohio
State University Press.
