David R. Memmott

Background

David Memmott was born on December 10, 1948 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, into the family of Arthur L. and Mary Martha (Chinn) Memmott.

Education

In 1977 David received Bachelor of Arts in English and Bachelor of Arts in General studies, both at the Eastern Oregon State University.

Career

David started his career as an office specialist with Services to Children and Families in La Grande, and then as an editor and publisher of Jazz Police Books in Wordcraft of Oregon. During the pariod of 1986 - 1990 he worked as a managing editor of Ice River: Magazine of Speculative Writing, and also worked as typesetter and book designer.

Moreover, he served as a member of board of directors at Blue Mountain Designers and Craftsmen Inc. and at Grande Ronde Resource Council, and he even served as a chairperson of Land Use Planning Committee. During the last period of his career he was an organizer of local literary activities such as arts festivals, poetry readings, film series, and performing arts programs.

Achievements

• David Memmott is highly famous for his poetry books "The Larger Earth: Descending Notes of a Grounded Astronaut", "Watermark/Singing the Blues", and "House on Fire: Poetry and Collage."

Works

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  • Phantom Drift 5: Navigating the Slipstream 2015
  • Phantom Drift 3: Rewiring the Weird 2013
  • Phantom Drift 6: The Impression of Irreducible Strangeness 2016
  • Phantom Drift 1: A Journal of New Fabulism 2011
  • Canned Tuna 2017
  • Lost Transmissions 2012
  • Giving It Away 2009
  • Phantom Drift 2: Valuable Estrangements 2012
  • The Larger Earth: Descending Notes of a Grounded Astronaut 1996
  • House on Fire 1997
  • Primetime (Dreamers' Round) 2007
  • HOUSE ON FIRE: THE POETRY AND COLLAGE OF DAVID MEMMOTT 1992
  • The Larger Earth: Descending Notes of a Grounded Astronaut 1996

Views

David is a proponent of integral culture.

Membership

• Institute for Noetic Sciences

• Council for a Literature of the Fantastic

Interests

• noetic sciences, study of exceptional human abilities, quantum physics, mysticism, shamanism, computers, photography, computer art, publishing, gardening, alternative lifestyles and medicine, futurology

• Writers

  T. S. Eliot, Theodore Roethke, Walt Whitman, William Stafford, George Venn, Philip K. Dick

• Music & Bands

  Roy Orbison

Connections

On September 14, 1974 David married an office manager Susan A. Memmott, with whom hr gave birth to a daughter Elesle A. Memmott-Larson.

Father:

Arthur L. Memmott

Mother:

Mary Martha (Chinn) Memmott

Spouse:

Susan A. Memmott

Daughter:

Elesle A. Memmott-Larson