Lawrence Carradini, Poet

Lawrence Carradini, Poet

Site Updated 8/2/09

By way of introduction, let me provide you with some of my publication credits.

A sampling of in print and on line publications where my poems have appeared include, Bare Bone, The Café Review (including the tenth year anniversary issue), Cokefishing [in Alpha Beat Soup], Evergreen Review, Kettle of Fish, The Muddy River Poetry Review, Long Island Quarterly, Mobius (including the 20th anniversary issue), Reflect, Salt Hill (Syracuse University), Stirring, PoetryBay, PoLARITY, PULSE, and Walt's Corner (The Long Islander, founded by Walt Whitman in 1838).

Along with international work recently included in Dialogue Through Poetry - 2001 Anthology, Rattapallax Press, my work has been translated into Chinese for publication and has appeared in the journal, Contemporary Foreign Literature (Nanjing University, Nanjing, China).

A manuscript of my work from the early '90's received honors in 1994 when submitted to the Richard A. Sefron Memorial Poetry Award competition.

This later appeared as the chapbook collection titled, BURNING HEADS, published by VB Documentation Enterprises, Natick, Massachusetts, which is available on line two ways. From Barnes and Noble, by clicking

or you can order directly from me. Information on direct ordering can be accessed by selecting "On Line Store" in the page bar left of screen, located near the top of this page.

A resident of Lowell, Massachusetts, I am the past President (six years), and former Chairperson of the Board of Directors of "Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!." A more extensive bio is available for viewing at "Bio," in the page bar left of screen, located near the top of this page.

Two of my poems were included in U Mass Lowell's "Offering" this spring/summer and I was recently included in an antholgy of poets that have read at the JazzMouth Festival in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I have had some other work accepted for upcoming publication in the Long Island Quarterly and Walt's Corner. Other pieces are currently under consideration by various publications.

Some news of interest concerns another east coast reading venue operating in New Jersey. I have been asked to feature, and will look at my schedule. The date, if a suitable date is agreed upon, will be posted here in the future. The "River Reads" series happens at 2:00 in the afternoon every second Sunday of the month at the Dublin House, located at 30 Manmouth Street, Red Bank, New Jersey (732) 747-6699. They have a reader friendly space located on the second floor. No cover. Food and drinks affordably available. Contact John Petrolino at jpetrolinoiii@yahoo.com for details.

News Soon To Be Archived

I was honoured to read from Kerouac's On The Road with the New England Orchestra featuring Boston Symphony's flutest, Fenwick Smith in a program of innovative works by David Amram.

I also was honoured to be included on the billing as one of three readers, in part, sponsored by the Consulate General of Mexico, at Harvard's Peabody Museum for their Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration.

The Boston Poet published a collection in which I was included and the anthology of post-Beat poets that I had mentioned, some time back, finally unravelled itself from production snags and is for sale in China. It is currently in Chinese only, but is a presence in their bookstores and may be available on line soon in English.

A healthy selection of poems from 23 poets whose names may ring a bell, such as Bob Holman, Mikhail Horowitz, Vernon Frazer, Meg Smith, Cheryl A. Townsend, Anne Waldman, Janine Pommy Vega, Steve Dalachinsky, and Michael Rothenberg, to name a few, were chosen as representative of extant work being produced by, or by poets significantly influenced by, those in the extended Beat school (i.e., Beat, San Francisco, New York, Black Mountain, etc.) of poetic writing.

Best wishes,
L