J. P. Dancing Bear is the author of five full-length books of poems, six chapbook, several essays, and more than 1000 individual poems in such magazines and anthologies as Shenandoah, Mississippi Review, Natural Bridge, DIAGRAM, No Tell Motel, Third Coast, Copper Nickel, Cimarron Review, Poetry East, North American Review, Atlanta Review, Verse Daily, Poetry International, Marlboro Review, Hotel Amerika, Seattle Review, Permafrost, Puerto Del Sol, Controlled Burn, Cranky, Rattle, Americas Review, Slipstream and many others. His work has recently been translated into Chinese.
Honors include the 2002 Slipstream Chapbook Prize, the 2010 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Award, Highly Commended in The Forward Prize 2010 (UK), and 14 Pushcart nominations.
He is the editor of The American Poetry Journal, owner of Dream Horse Press, publisher of the Orphic Prize and APJ Book Prize series, as well as the first animal rights poetry anthology And We The Creatures.
J.P. Dancing Bear has been invited to give poetry readings around the US.
For nearly 15 years he was the host of “Out of Our Minds” a weekly radio show for public radio station KKUP featuring some of today’s best contemporary poets. Bear works with Nicaraguan poet Blanca Castellon on translating of her poetry into English, the first will appear in Redactions, Marlboro Review, International Poetry Review, iconoclast, Pirene’s Fountain, Numéro Cinq and The Bitter Oleander. He has also worked with Mexican poet Oscar Wong to translate his work into English. He also is currently working with Yu Xuan to translate contemporary Chinese poet, Sheng Tong (aka Holy Child), into English.
Visit J.P. Dancing Bear’s Website
Buy J.P.’s Books
Fish Singing Foxes: Forthcoming Dec 2017 & Available for Pre-Order
Love Is a Burning Building
Cephalopodic
The Abandoned Eye
Family of Marsupial Centaurs
Conflicted Light
Inner Cities of Gulls
Billy Last Crow
Read More from J.P. Dancing Bear Online
https://hyperallergic.com/206837/two-poems-by-j-p-dancing-bear/
http://www.americanliteraryreview.com/jp-dancing-bear—within.html
https://peonymoon.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/j-p-dancing-bear-five-poems/
http://diodepoetry.com/v3n1/content/bear_jpd.html
https://www.valpo.edu/vpr/bearchiroptera.html
Interview with Lit Pub
Hear Him Read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AaGL78jXsM
Happy Reading, y’all!
xo
Mary
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Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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