Jackson Mac Low: Short Bio, March 2003

Jackson Mac Low, b. Chicago, 12 September 1922, makes poems, essays, and musical, performance, visual, and radio works. Author of about 30 books and published in over 90 collections, his works have been published, exhibited, and performed (often by his wife, the poet, visual artist, and composer Anne Tardos and himself) in many countries. Awards: Guggenheim, NEA, NYFA, and CAPS fellowships and the 1999 Wallace Stevens Award of the Academy of American Poets. Recent books: 42 Merzgedichte in Memoriam Kurt Schwitters (Barrytown, NY, 1994), 20 Forties (Canary Islands, 1999), Struggle Through (Canada, 2001), Les Quarantains (Extraits) (France, 2001), and Doings: An Assortment of Performance Pieces 1955–2002 (Granary Books, New York, 2003).