Benjamin_Cartwright

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Benjamin D. Cartwright

Personal Website

http://www.hypergraphicneedling.blogspot.com/

About Me

 

Benjamin Cartwright is a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Kansas.  His poems and prose poems have appeared in several journals, including Organization and Environment and Fract/ons.  He also recently had a prose poem accepted for publication in Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics.  He periodically interviews poets and writers in the Lawrence, KS area for his Kansas Blotter interview series.  Recently, he interviewed Kansas poet Kenneth Irby, along with Kyle Waugh and Cyrus Console, the editors of Ken's newly collected poems The Intent On.  Ken's interview, and other recordings of Ben's have been sent to the PennSound archive.  Ben was once paid to dedicate a building with a poem.  He also once sold a 1978 Chevy Beauville 8-passenger van for a painting and a bottle of scotch.  When Ben's father learned of the sale, he was quoted as saying "That guy got screwed!"

 

 

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