Education
Ballard attended the Poetics Program at New College of California in San Francisco’s mission district where he worked with David Meltzer, Joanne Kyger, and Tom Clark.
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In the Kindness of Night
(Deep and dark musings from the Louisana/San Francisco poet.)
Deep and dark musings from the Louisana/San Francisco poet.
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Waifs and Strays (City Lights Spotlight)
( In the sixth publication in the City Lights Spotlight P...)
In the sixth publication in the City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series, Cajun poet Micah Ballard's Waifs and Strays recombines the allure, fixations, and diction of the metaphysical poets with the alert and streetwise urban fracturing and amazements instantaneous in contemporary San Francisco. With the haunted elegance of Charles Baudelaire and the handmade warmth of Semina, Waifs and Strays is a rejection of a slick and disposable culture. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Micah Ballard studied at New College of California, working with David Meltzer, Joanne Kyger, and Tom Clark. He currently co-directs the MFA in writing program at University of San Francisco. He co-edits Auguste Press.
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Bettina Coffin
(Poetry in an edition of 300 copies.)
Poetry in an edition of 300 copies.
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Evangeline Downs
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Micah Ballard
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Under the imprints Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions they have printed over 30 books by various poets and artists. From 2000-2007 he directed the Humanities Program there. In 2007 Ballard started the short-lived Lew Gallery with Portland artist Jeff Butler and curated such notable shows as "Artworks" by David Meltzer and "Some of the Worlds Diamonds: Pieces from Living Rooms," a collaboration with painters and poets from San Francisco to New New York
Ballard has given poetry readings at a variety of venues, including the San Francisco State Poetry Center, City Lights Bookstore, SOMArts, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Poetry Project at Saint Mark"s Church.
His poems have appeared in 6x6, Blue Book, Boog City, Damn the Caesars, Drunken Boat, Joe Brainard"s Magazine, Le Palais de Nuit, LIT, Mirage #4 Period(ical), The Recluse, Try!, Vanitas, and the anthologies Bay Poetics and Evidence of the Paranormal, among others Currently, he is on the editorial board for the Contemporary Poetry Series at University of New Orleans Press.
Ballard co-directs the Masters of Fine Arts in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco. Ballard"s second full-length collection of poetry, Waifs and Strays, was nominated for a California Book Award.
Works
book
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Waifs and Strays (City Lights Spotlight)
( In the sixth publication in the City Lights Spotlight P...)
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In the Kindness of Night
(Deep and dark musings from the Louisana/San Francisco poet.)
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Bettina Coffin
(Poetry in an edition of 300 copies.)
- Evangeline Downs
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Waifs and Strays (City Lights Spotlight)
