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J. P. Dancing Bear lives in Northern
California. His poems have appeared or is forthcoming in hundreds of publications
including Shenandoah, Mississippi Review, Cimarron Review, Poetry East, North American
Review, Atlanta Review,
Verse Daily, The National Poetry Review, Poetry International, Marlboro Review, Hotel Amerika, Interim, Seattle Review, Permafrost, Puerto Del Sol, Controlled Burn, Cranky, Rattle, Americas Review, and Slipstream. He is a founding editor of
Disquieting Muses and was the Editor-in-Chief of Disquieting
Muses/DMQ Review for five years. He is now the editor of The American Poetry Journal. Bear
is the owner of Dream Horse Press,
publisher of the first animal rights poetry anthology And We The Creatures, Ryan
G. Van Cleave's The Florida Letters, C. J. Sage's Let's Not Sleep and
Michael McNeilley's Situational Reality. He is the author of several chapbooks.
Dancing Bear's poems have been nominated eight times for Pushcart Prizes. He is the host
of "Out of Our Minds" a weekly radio show for public radio station KKUP
featuring some of today's best contemporary poets. His chapbook, What Language,
won the 2002 Slipstream Press Poetry Prize. His latest chapbook is Blue Hand (Pudding House
Press, 2002). In 2003, he was a finalist for the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the
Poetry Society of America for his manuscript Gacela, for which JPDB is currently
seeking a publisher. In 2004, his first book, Billy
Last Crow, was published by Turning
Point Books as a finalist in the 2003 Tales: A Poetry Series competition. His second
collection, Conflicted Light, will be published by SalmonPublishing in February,
2008. Three of his poems were included in the recently released In A Fine Frenzy: poets respond to
Shakespeare (University of Iowa Press, 2005); and his poem "Making
Fire" appeared in the recently Red, White and Blues: poets on the
promise of America (Univesity of Iowa Press, 2004). For two years running JPDB's
poems have been runner ups in the Mississippi Review Prize and published in their
MR Prize issue: "Auricle" in 2005 and "Belief About a Barn and
Silo" in 2006. His manuscript, Gacela of Narcissus City,
is listed as finalist in the Main Street Rag chapbook competition in 2006. And his
poem "Gacela of Crow Magic" has been nominated for a Best of the Web award in
2006. Bear has been working with Nicaraguan poet Blanca Castellon on translating of
her poetry into English, the first will appear in Redactions,
Marlboro Review, International Poetry Review,
and the iconoclast. He has also been working with Mexican poet Oscar Wong
to translate his work into English. |
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