Hank Lazer

{{short description|American poet and critic}} '''Hank Lazer''' (b. San Jose, California) is an American poet and critic who teaches at the University of Alabama.

==Biography== Lazer received an A.B. in English from Stanford University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees the University of Virginia. He has been a professor of English at the University of Alabama since 1977. From 1991 to 1997, he was Assistant Dean for Humanities and Fine Arts; from 1997 to 2006 he was Assistant Vice President for Undergraduate Programs and Services; and since 2006 he serves as Associate Provost for Academic Affairs.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cw.ua.edu/2010/02/18/%E2%80%98rockstar-of-weird%E2%80%99-comes-to-bama/|title='Rockstar of weird' comes to Bama: Neil Gaiman brings his literature to the Bama Theatre|last=Nalley|first=Steven|date=18 February 2010|publisher=Crimson White|access-date=19 February 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612172127/http://www.cw.ua.edu/2010/02/18/%E2%80%98rockstar-of-weird%E2%80%99-comes-to-bama/|archive-date=12 June 2010}}</ref>

He is also the director of Creative Campus, a university-wide program designed to "expand arts experiences for the community."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20100124/NEWS/100129799/1007|title='The idea machine': UA students energize Creative Campus, an initiative that seeks to expand arts experiences for the community|last=Cobb|first=Mark Hughes|date=24 January 2010|publisher=Tuscaloosa News|access-date=19 February 2010}}</ref> A noted poet in his own right, he is responsible for bringing renowned writers to the Tuscaloosa campus, including Robert Creeley<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=TL&Date=20030220&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=302200303&Ref=AR&Profile=1005|title='Greatest living poet' reads tonight|last=Cobb|first=Mark Hughes|date=20 February 2003|publisher=Tuscaloosa News|access-date=19 February 2010}}</ref> and Neil Gaiman.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20100219/NEWS/100219488/1007|title=Writer's quirky style wins over packed crowd|last=Cobb|first=Mark Hughes|author2=Michelle Lepianka Carter|date=19 February 2010|publisher=Tuscaloosa News|access-date=19 February 2010}}</ref>

==Literary work== Lazer has published fourteen books of poetry since 1992. In addition, he published two volumes of criticism, ''Opposing Poetries: Volume One—Issues and Institutions'' and ''Opposing Poetries: Volume Two—Readings'' with Northwestern University Press (2006),<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=y3o0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=o6cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4394,3987465&dq=hank-lazer&hl=en|title=UA's Lazer publishes work on contemporary poetry|date=22 September 1996|publisher=Tuscaloosa News|pages=3D|access-date=19 February 2010}}</ref> and edited a collection of essays by various writers and critics (including Helen Vendler), ''What is a Poet?'', for the University of Alabama Press (1987).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/29/books/noted-with-pleasure.html?pagewanted=1|title=Noted With Pleasure|date=29 November 1987|work=The New York Times|access-date=19 February 2010}}</ref> Religious studies scholar William G. Doty called his "apocalyptic" work "prophetic and creative."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Doty|first=William G.|date=November 2005|title=Gathering, Thinking, Spirit: A Review Essay on Hank Lazer's ''The New Spirit''|journal=Literature and Theology|volume=19|issue=4|pages=402–407|doi=10.1093/litthe/fri046|issn=0269-1205}}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://www.hanklazer.com/ Official Website] *[http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/lazer/ Hank Lazer] at SUNY Buffalo's Electronic Poetry Center *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060905160840/http://english.ua.edu/04_faculty_staff/faculty/lazer_h.htm Biography] on University of Alabama, English site *[https://www.lavenderink.org/site/books/hank-lazer/ Hank Lazer] author page at Lavender Ink.

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