Education:
DOCTOR DEGREE WAIVER - 1994
M.A., Brandeis University - 1965 (English and American Literature)
B.A. (with honors), Bowdoin College - 1961 (English/Philosophy)
Areas of Expertise:
Professor Asekoff specializes in modernist and postmodernist poetry, and poetics.
Books and Publications
"Widows of Gravesend." Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2007
Creative Work
"The Gate of Horn," accepted for The New Yorker. "Aubade," 32 Poems. 2008
Reading: AWP, New York. 2008
"The Conquerors." Slate.com. 2007
"Two Diacrostics," "China Doll," "Child's Song," They Are Flying Planes; "The Last Toast," "Petroglyph," Other Rooms; "Degas," "Chekhov," "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite," Lungfull; "Freedom Hill," published in American Poetry Review. 2007
Reading: Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Mass. 2007
Reading: Freddy's Place, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2007
Reading: Perch Cafe, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2007
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize. (Awards and Honors) 2007