Editing Michael Boughn

''by [[George J. Dance]]''
[[File:Michael-Boughn-01.jpg|thumb|307px|Michael Boughn.''Courtesy [http://www.kswnet.org/fire/authorresults.cfm?first=Michael&last=Boughn Kootenay School of Writing]''.]]
Michael Boughn (born 1946) is an [[American poetry|American]]-[[Canadian poetry|Canadian poet]], [[essayist]], story writer, and [[Children's books|children's author.]]

==Life==
Boughn was born and raised in Riverside, [[California]].<ref name=mboughnpip/> 

He left the [[United States]] to come to [[Canada]] in 1966, as a draft evader, because of his opposition to the Vietnam War.<ref name=mboughnpip/> He enrolled in [[Simon Fraser University]] and studied under [[Robin Blaser]], who introduced him to the poetry of [[William Blake]], [[Ezra Pound]], [[H.D.]], [[William Carlos Williams]], [[Charles Olson]], and others.<ref name=mbhome>[http://individual.utoronto.ca/amlit/MB_photo.htm Michael Boughn home page], UToronto.ca, Web, Nov. 13, 2011.</ref>

The U.S. government dropped all charges against him in 1978. He returned to California in 1980, working in a metal stamping factory and then enrolling at the [[University of California]] Santa Cruz, where he earned a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in 1983.<ref name=mboughnpip>[http://pippoetry.blogspot.ca/2008/12/michael-boughn.html Michael Boughn], The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Blog, December 14, 2008. Web, Mar. 29, 2017.</ref>  

He moved to Buffalo, [[New York]], in 1983, and enrolled as a graduate student at the [[State University of New York at Buffalo]], where he studied under poets [[John Clarke]] and [[Robert Creeley]].<ref name=mboughnpip/> After earning his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in 1986, he edited the [[literary magazine]] ''intent'' with Clarke.<ref name=mbhome/> He produced the 1st descriptive bibliography of poet [[H.D.]], published in 1993.<ref name=mboughnpip/>

He married Elizabeth Brown in 1991, and moved back to Canada in 1992. He became a Canadian citizen in 2001.<ref name=mbhome/> His debut collection of poetry was published in 1995.<ref name=mboughnpip/>

He lives in Toronto with his wife and their 2 children, Amelia and Sam, and teaches at the [[University of Toronto]].<ref name=mboughnpip/>

==Writing==
The [[Project for Innovative Poetry]] calls his poetry "cosmological and agitational, seeking in the dislocations of syntactical delirium unlimited possibilities for further experiences of meaning."<ref name=mboughnpip/>

==Recognition==
* PIP Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry: 2005
* Friggin Prize: 2009
* Short list, Governor-General's Award for Poetry: 2011.<ref name=mbrpo>[http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/boughn-michael Selected Poetry of Michael Boughn (1946-)], [[Representative Poetry Online]], University of Toronto, UToronto.ca, Web, Nov. 13, 2011.</ref>

== Publications ==
===Poetry===
*''Iterations of the Diagonal''. Buffalo, N.Y.: Shuffaloff, 1995.
*''A Little Post-apocalyptic Suite for RC; with Thanks for the Rhino''. Toronto: fiftyuhthees edition, 1996.
*''Nine Blue Moments for Robin.'' Buffalo, NY: BlazeVox, 2011.
*''Dislocation Flutter''. Amman, Jordan: Oasii Press, 1998.
*''One's own Mind''. Canton, NY: Glover Publishing, 1999.
*''Dislocations in Crystal''. Toronto: [[Coach House Press|Coach House Books]], 2003.
*''22 Skidoo / SubTractions''. Toronto: Book Thug, 2009.
*''Cosmographia: A post-lucretian faux micro-epic''. Toronto: Book Thug, 2010.
*''Nine Blue Moments for Robin''. Buffalo, NY: BlazeVox, 2011.
*''City, Book One: Singular Assumptions''. Toronto: Book Thug, 2014.
*''City: A poem at the end of the world''. New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2016.

===Novel===
*''Business as Usual: A mystery''. Edmonton, AB: NeWest Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-897126-91-2 

===Short fiction===
*''Narthex, and other stories''. Toronto: Book Thug, 2011.

===Non-fiction===
*''H.D.: A bibliography, 1905-1990''. Charlottesville, VA: [[University Press of Virginia]], for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1993.
*''Three Lectures and a Postscript''. Toronto: Shuffaloff/Eternal Network Joint, 2010.

===Juvenile===
*''Into the World of the Dead''. Annick Press, 2006.<ref name=mboughnut>>[http://individual.utoronto.ca/amlit/MB_photo.htm Michael Boughton], University of Toronto. Web, Jan. 27, 2013.</ref>

===Edited===
*Harvey Brown, ''In the Branches of the Upper World: Selections from the journals''. Austin, TX: Skanky Possum, 2002.<ref name=mboughnut/>
*''Great Canadian Poems for the Aged: Volume I''. Toronto: Book Thug, 2010.
*[[Robert Duncan (poet)|Robert Duncan]], ''The H.D. Book'' (edited with Victor Coleman). Berkeley, CA: [[University of California Press]], 2011; Berkeley, CA, & London: University of California Press, 2012.
*''Resist Much, Obey Little: Inaugural poems to the resistance''. Dispatches Editions, 2017.


<small>''Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy [[WorldCat]]''</small>.<ref name=mboughnwc>[https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AMichael+Boughn&qt=advanced&dblist=638 Search results = au:Michael Boughn], WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Center Inc.  Web, Mar. 28, 2017.</ref>
[[File:Michael Boughn BSPBF iPad Poetry Reading|thumb|right|335 px]]

==Audio / video==
*''Michael Boughn Reads from Cosmographia'' (CD). Magdalena: Michael Boughn / Vox Audio, 2009.<ref name=mboughnwc/>

==See also==
* [[List of Canadian poets]]

==References==
===Notes===
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==External links==
;Poems
*[http://pippoetry.blogspot.ca/2008/12/michael-boughn.html Michael Boughn] at The PIP ([[Project for Innovative Poetry]]) Blog: profile & poem, "Golly"
*"[http://buffalonews.com/2014/11/02/poem-of-the-week-by-michael-boughn/ City, Book One: Singular assumptions]"
* [http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/boughn-michael Selected Poetry of Michael Boughn (1946- )] (2 poems) at [[Representative Poetry Online]].
;Audio / video
*[https://www.google.ca/#q=Michael+Boughn+poems+youtube&* Michael Boughn] at [[YouTube]]
*[https://vimeo.com/user21156919/videos/page:1/sort:date Michael Boughn's videos] on Vimeo
;Books
*[https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Boughn/e/B001K8O4E4 Michael Boughn] at Amazon.com
;About
*[http://www.english.utoronto.ca/facultystaff/facultyprofiles/boughn.htm Michael Boughn] at University of Toronto Department of English
* [http://individual.utoronto.ca/amlit/MB_photo.htm Michael Boughn] Official website.
* [http://robmclennan.blogspot.ca/2012/11/12-or-20-second-series-questions-with.html 12 or 20 (second) questions with Michael Boughn] at Rob McLennan's Blog
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