Gabriel Gudding


Gabriel Gudding is an American poet, essayist, and translator.

Life

Gudding attended The Evergreen State College, an experimental school in Olympia, Washington, Purdue University and Cornell University. He is Professor of English in the English Studies Department at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois where he was hired to teach experimental poetry writing and poetics. His work has been translated into French, Danish, Portuguese, Vietnamese and Spanish.
Gudding is the author of the books, ', ', and , which won the 2001 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize.
He has given hundreds of poetry readings and lectures in Europe, the Caribbean, and America. He has published poems and essays in periodicals such as Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, and The Journal of the History of Ideas. His poetry appears dozens of anthologies, including Best American Experimental Writing, &Now: Best Innovative Writing, Best American Poetry and Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present.
His translations from Spanish appear in anthologies such as The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry, Poems for the Millennium, and The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry
Gudding has a daughter named Clio. Gudding practices vipassana meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin.

Books

A recipient of The Nation Discovery Award, Gudding received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Pitt Poetry Series for his first book A Defense of Poetry.
Gudding's second book of poetry, Rhode Island Notebook, was published in November 2007 by Dalkey Archive Press. Rhode Island Notebook is a 436-page poem interlarded with essays. It was written in Gudding's car on the highways between Normal, Illinois, and Providence, Rhode Island, during 26 roundtrip journeys, and has been called by the polymathic writer and artist Alan Sondheim, "the first 21st Century classic."
Ahsahta Press published Gudding's third book, Literature for Nonhumans, in 2015.
Friends with Everybody, Gudding's translation of Venn med alle by Norwegian poet Gunnar Wærness, was published in 2024 by Action Books.

Selected online publications

  • , Harper's, August 2008
  • , Matter: A Journal of Political Poetry and Commentary, May 2013
  • , Myopies, #1, translated by Guillaume Fayard, January 2009Journal of the History of Ideas. July 1996.
  • , Wild Honey Press,
  • , Maximum Post-Avant
  • , St. Louis Magazine
  • , Seven Corners, 5 April 2006Action Yes.
  • , Eoagh. Issue 5.
  • , Octopus Magazine, Issue 9Jacket #7The American Poetry Review, March/April 2001, Vol. 30, No. 2
  • , ''GutCult''

Online interviews

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  • Here Comes Everybody,
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Audio files

  • Gabriel Gudding:
  • Series A Reading with Tony Barnstone and Tony Trigilio,

Selected online reviews

  • Peter O'Leary. "On Gabriel Gudding's Rhode Island Notebook."
  • Jasper Bernes. "Revulsion as Revolt." Review of Lara Glenum and Gabriel Gudding's first books.
  • Levi Stahl. "The Five Minute Muse: George Oppen, Gabriel Gudding, and Campbell McGrath - The Off-The-Cuff Art of the Poet's Notebook."
  • Dorothy Barresi. "Playing in the Dark: Black Humor in Poetry."
  • Stephen Burt. "New Poets on the Block: Gabriel Gudding."
  • Giles Goodland, "Short Reviews of Recent Titles: Gabriel Gudding, Rhode Island Notebook":
  • Ray McDaniel. "A Defense of Poetry. Gabriel Gudding. U Pitt Press, 2002."
  • Fred Muratori. "Gabriel Gudding. Rhode Island Notebook",
  • Rob Telfer, "Gabriel Gudding. Rhode Island Notebook. Dalkey Archive, 2007",
  • Josh Corey. "Gudding, Bolaño, and the Limits of Literature."
  • Erin McNellis, "A Sea Sewn to a Spine: Gabriel Gudding's Rhode Island Notebook",
  • Ray Bianchi, "Why The Rhode Island Notebook by Gabriel Gudding Matters",
  • Sean F. Munro. "Hyperpersonality in the Antipoem" .