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Joe Wenderoth
- Associate Professor of English
Rm. 208 Voorhies
Office Hours: No office hours
Office Hours: No office hours
Email:
jlwenderoth@ucdavis.edu
Phone:
(530) 752-1696
Biography:
Joe Wenderoth, Associate Professor of English, grew up near Baltimore, and teaches mainly Creative Writing. His poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies. His interests include Celan, Stevens, Dickinson, Whitman, Berryman, Marquez, Morrison, Kafka, Beckett, Artaud’s Theater Of Cruelty, Greek tragedy, Hank Williams, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Jimmie Rodgers, Ray Charles, Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Coltrane, Monk, Basie, James Brown, Will Oldham, Jesus And Mary Chain, Harmony Korine, Frederick Wiseman, Aztec culture (especially the Cantares Mexicanos), American television, American football, boxing, mma, sleep/dream research, the difference between a song and a poem, and poetry as performance. He is available to do poetry readings, which are performance-oriented, though not in the slam fashion. He reads in a darkened, silent room; between poems, he incorporates singing (his own) and short silent film clips (his own).
Publication Spotlight
It Is If I Speak
by Joe Wenderoth
Publications
- Disfortune (poems); Wesleyan University Press (1995)
- It Is If I Speak (poems); Wesleyan University Press (2000)
- Letters To Wendy's (fiction); Verse Press (2000).
- The Holy Spirit of Life: Essays Written For John Ashcroft's Secret Self (essays); Wave Books (2005)
- No Real Light (poems); Wave Books (2007)
Email: jlwenderoth@ucdavis.edu
Education & Interests:
- MFA (Warren Wilson College); Creative writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essay), Wallace Stevens, Paul Celan, Toni Morrison