Joe Bonomois an American essayist and music writer.
Life
editBonomo was born and raised inWheaton, Maryland.He graduated fromUniversity of Maryland(BA) andOhio University(MA and PhD).[1][2]
His books includeNo Place I Would Rather Be: Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing,Field Recordings from the Inside(essays),This Must Be Where My Obsession with Infinity Began(essays),AC/DC's Highway to Hell(331⁄3Series),Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found,Installations(National Poetry Series),Sweat: The Story of The Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band,and the interviews collectionConversations with Greil Marcus(Literary Conversations Series).Lost and FoundandSweathave been translated into French and published in France, the latter asThe Fleshtones: Histoire d'un Groupe de Garage Américain.
He has published personal essays widely since the mid-1990s inCreative Nonfiction,The Normal School,Fourth Genre,Brevity,Defunct,Hotel Amerika,Diagram,[3]Free Verse,[4]Georgia Review,Gulf Coast,Laurel Review,[5]Quarter After Eight,River Teeth,[6]Seneca Review,[7]Sentence,and elsewhere, and in the anthologiesBrief Encounters: An Anthology of Short Nonfiction,How to Write About Music: Excerpts from the 33 1/3 Series, Magazines, Books and Blogs with Advice from Industry-Leading Writers,andThe Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice.
In 2012 Bonomo was named the music columnist forThe Normal Schoolliterary magazine, for which he writes two essays annually.
Since 1995 he has taught writing creative nonfiction and literature atNorthern Illinois University.[8]He lives with his wife,Amy Newman,a professor, translator, and poet, inDeKalb, Illinois.[9]
Books
edit- Sweat: The Story of the Fleshtones, America's Garage Band(Bloomsbury, 2007)
- Installations(National Poetry Series, Penguin Books, 2008)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found(Bloomsbury, 2009)
- AC/DC's Highway to Hell(331⁄3Series, Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2010)
- Conversations with Greil Marcus(Literary Conversations Series, University Press of Mississippi, 2012)
- This Must Be Where My Obsession with Infinity Began,essays (Orphan Press, 2013)
- Field Recordings from the Inside,essays (Soft Skull Press, 2017)
- No Place I Would Rather Be: Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing(University of Nebraska Press, 2019)
Awards
edit- Illinois Arts Council Fellowships
- Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction (Northern Illinois University)
- National Poetry Series
- Orphan Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award
References
edit- ^"Joe Bonomo • Ohio University English Alumni".English.ohiou.edu.Retrieved2013-10-20.
- ^"Published Titles • Ohio University English Department".English.ohiou.edu.Retrieved2013-10-20.
- ^"Our Contributors".Diagram.Retrieved2013-10-20.
- ^"Free Verse 16 - Jacket Notes".2009-08-04.Retrieved2013-10-20.
- ^"The Laurel Review 40.1".Catpages.nwmissouri.edu. Archived fromthe originalon 2013-10-20.Retrieved2013-10-20.
- ^"Project MUSE - Login"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2016-03-03.Retrieved2022-02-07.
- ^"The Seneca Review - Google Boeken".1998.Retrieved2013-10-20.
- ^"Art imitates art in Joe Bonomo's new book of prose poems".Niu.edu. 2008-06-30. Archived fromthe originalon 2012-03-02.Retrieved2013-10-20.
- ^"Joe Bonomo | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers".Pw.org. 2012-02-05.Retrieved2013-10-20.
External links
edit- No Such Thing As Was(Substack)
- Joe Bonomo on X
- Joe Bonomo's essay"Live Nude Essay!" inGulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts(24.1).