Anthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is the author of Moongarden (Wave Books, 2006) and Father of Noise (Fence Books, 2003). In addition to these two collections, he is one of the authors of Gentle Reader! (2007), a book of erasures of the English Romantics, along with Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. He has taught English as a Second Language in the former Czechoslovakia, South Korea and Nicaragua, as well as in New York City. Currently he lives in Los Angeles and teaches poetry at CalArts and ESL to immigrants. He is also the ceremonial and acting poet laureate of Machine Project, an art-performance-gallery-instructional space in the Echo Park section of LA.
Read Anthony's poems at
H_NGM_N
Verse Daily
Poets.org
KGBBarLit
Machine Project
Read a review of Moongarden on LIT Review.
Listen to a podcast interview from April 9, 2006 at LA-Lit.
Read Jeremy Schmall's recent interview with Anthony on Econo Culture.
Anthony McCann Reading on the Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour
reviews of Anthony McCann's work:
Evan J. Peterson The Southeast Review — 04/17/2007
Steven R. Karl — 01/23/2007
Tom Dvorske, H_NGM_N — 01/01/2007
John Deming — 05/15/2006