Seanan Forbes

Poet

New York, NY

New York US

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Author's Bio

Currently, Seanan Forbes is working on a queer young-adult novel, a backstory to one of Shakespeare's plays, in which two extraordinary minor characters get full lives and a tale of their own.

Now a member of the New York Public Library's Center for Research and Humanities, Seanan is using all of the library's extensive resources, from rare books to period maps to works on Renaissance and Early Modern gender, sexuality, adolescence, racism, normative expectations --- and resistance against them -- and Shakespearean studies, giving the book deep roots in early seventeenth-century culture.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Contemporary Haibun (Soffietto Editions/Red Moon Press, 2014)

Contemporary Haibun , Volume 15 (Red Moon Press, 2014)

fear of dancing: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2013 (Red Moon Press, 2014)

A New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, Volume 8 (Red Moon Press, 2013)

String to Bow (Leaf Press, 2005)

Journals:

A Hundred Gourds

Acorn

Atlas Poetica

Contemporary Haibun Online

Fiddlehead

Frogpond

Haibun Today

Mid-American Poetry Review

Modern Haiku

Notes from the Gean

Shamrock Haiku Journal

Sketchbook: A Journal for Eastern & Western Short Forms

Skylark Magazine

The Heron's Nest

The New Review

The Prose-Poem Project

Theodate

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

James Baldwin (who won my then-young heart with "Sonny's Blues"), Maya Angelou, Jericho Brown, Jane Hirshfield, William Shakespeare, Kit Marlowe, Matsuo Basho, Kobayashi Issa, Matthew Edney… It’s a long list. When I’m writing fiction, I read non-. When I’m at rest, I read fiction. In the quilt of my life, poetry is a constant thread.

What I'm reading now:

Commedia (1596, Venice), in Rare Books at the NYPL by Dante Alighieri , Shakespeare and the Folktale by Charlotte Artese, Five Hundred Years of Book Design by Alan Bartram, Everyday Renaissances by Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Ledger by Jane Hirshfield, Violent Masculinities: Male Aggression in Early Modern Texts and Cultures by Jennifer Feather and Catherine E. Thomas, editors, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps by Chet Van Duzer

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

New York

Raised in:

New York, NY

New York

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Last update: Oct 03, 2022