Standard SchaeferPoet, essayist, and fiction writer, Standard Schafer's first book of poetry NOVA was selected for the 1999 National Poetry Series and published by Sun & Moon Books. His second book, WATER & POWER, was published by Agincourt in 2005. Desert Notebok was published in Italy and the US in 2008 in limited editions. His poetry has been translated into Italian and anthologized internationally, most recently in Nuova Poesia Americana (Mondadori, 2005) as well as in Vol. 5 of The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century (Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2005). He has co-edited several literary and arts journals including Ribot, New Review of Literature, Rhizome, The Feralist and Or. His work has appeared in journals such as Carolina Quarterly, New American Poetry, Aufgabe, Counter Punch and Slope. He has taught writing and literature at Otis College of Art (Los Angeles)and California College of the Arts (San Francisco). He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and daughter. Read More Read Less