joncorelis:writings

Kent State Reconsidered as Nightmare

A Note on Surrealism and Modern Greek Poetry

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Anny Ballardini

Janet Jackson

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Jon Corelis (general page)

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Jon Corelis was born in California and grew up in and around Chicago, where he earned a degree in   Classical Languages and Literatures at the College of the University of Chicago. He later took a doctorate in Classics at Stanford, and taught Classics and Humanities at Stanford, the University of California, and the University of Minnesota.   After a subsequent career as a software specialist in Silicon Valley, he moved to Northeastern Wisconsin.

His poetry, criticism, and reviews have been published in Poetry Greece (Corfu), Tundra (Foster City, California), Chapman (Edinburgh), The Dark Horse (Ayrshire, Scotland and Hastings on Hudson, New York), Acumen (Brixham, England), The Poet's Voice (Bath), The International Journal of Erotica (Wilmslow, UK), Clark Street Review   (San Luis Obispo, California), Equinox (Herne Bay, England), Grey Matter (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), and The Phoenix (Chicago), and in the online literary magazines The Green Door (Belgium), Isibongo (University of Capetown), Lynx (Bath), The Poetry Kit (New Malden, England), Fieralingue (Bolzano, Italy), and Ekleksographia, as well as appearing in the book length collections A Glass of New Made Wine (Salzburg, Poetry Salzburg, 1999); Poetry Now: Contemporary British and Irish Poetry in the Making (Tuebingen, Stauffenburg Verlag, 1999), and Summoning the sea: an anthology of contemporary poetry and prose (Salzburg , University of Salzburg, 1996). He has given poetry readings and lectures by invitation at conferences in Salzburg, Austria; Cromford, England; Ames, Iowa; and Appleton, Wisconsin. He has been the recipient of a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support his translations from ancient Roman poetry. His Roman Erotic Elegy, a book length anthology of verse translations from the Latin, was published in 1995 by The University of Salzburg Press and is now available in an online edition.

In addition to his literary work, he has published pieces on San Francisco history in The San Francisco Examiner, travel in Great Expeditions, and social psychology in The Journal of Psychohistory.

This web site includes a selection of his poetry. More of his poems, both original and translations, can be found on the Italian cultural web site Fieralingue, and the Poemhunter web site also includes a number of his poems and translations.

He has also written a performance version of Euripides' Hippolytos, and has recently been composing songs (including famous poems set to music) and instrumental arrangements of Celtic folk songs.

Also available online are his essays "From Scotland to Suburbia: A Landscape of Current British Poetry," "A Note on Surrealism and Modern Greek Poetry," "The One Great Poem: The Poetries of The Oxford Books of English Verse," his review of the Library of America's anthology American Poetry: the Twentieth Century, and his essay "Kent State Reconsidered as Nightmare."

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Note: a few entries on these pages may include adult language.