Education
He graduated with a Bachelor in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990, where he lived in Barrington Hall, and from Stanford University with a Doctor of Philosophy in History and Humanities in 1997.
(Poetry. Flarf. Rodney Koeneke was born in Omaha in 1968 a...)
Poetry. Flarf. Rodney Koeneke was born in Omaha in 1968 and grew up in Tucson and Los Angeles, and has lived in or about San Francisco since 1986. His book of history, Empires of the Mind, which tells the story of the British literary critic I.A. Richards, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. ROUGE STATE is his first full-length poetry collection. "In ROUGE STATE, Rodney Koeneke puts the blush back on the demotic. His idiomatic montage is a careening screed dictated from a state of alert, all puns intended to turn the hose back on a culture run literally amuck, and whose marquee reads: Raw, Red, Rouge, Incarnadine. Welcome to these states!"-- Michael Gizzi.
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He graduated with a Bachelor in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990, where he lived in Barrington Hall, and from Stanford University with a Doctor of Philosophy in History and Humanities in 1997.
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Koeneke was raised in Tucson, Arizona and Hacienda Heights, California. Koeneke is the author of several books and chapbooks of poetry, including Etruria (2014), Musee Mechanique (2006), and Rouge State (2003). His work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Granta, Gulf Coast Harriet, The Nation New American Writing, and Zyzzyva.
He lives in Portland, Oregon.
(Poetry. Flarf. Rodney Koeneke was born in Omaha in 1968 a...)