About

Craig Svonkin is Professor of English at Metropolitan State University of Denver and Executive Director of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA). He has published essays including “Manishevitz and Sake, the Kaddish and Sutras: Allen Ginsberg’s Spiritual Self-Othering,” “From Robert Lowell to Frank Bidart: Becoming the Other; Suiciding the White Male ‘Self’,” and “A

Southern California Boyhood in the Simu-Southland Shadows of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room.” Svonkin coauthored three essays on children’s poetry: “A New Parliament of Fouls: The 2015 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry,” “Old Guard → Avant-Garde → Kindergarde: The 2014 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry,” and “Outside the Inside the Box: The 2013 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry.” He also coedited the special “Metafamily” issue of Pacific Coast Philology and the symposium “Why Comics Are and Are Not Picture Books” for Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. He has co-edited with Steven Gould Axelrod the forthcoming Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry (2023).