Spencer Selby
P.O.Box 590095
San Francisco CA 94159
phone: 415-752-6378
fax: 415-752-5139
e-mail: selby@slip.net

Background:

I was born and educated in the middle west, studied Political Science, Psychology and Film History, began writing after college and published my first book on American Film Noir. I moved to San Francisco in 1979, where I currently live with my wife Sara O'Meara. In the middle 80's I started SINK Press, and I coordinated The Canessa Park Reading Series from 1987-93. In 1993 I created The List of Experimental Poetry/Art Magazines. This list is a noncopyrighted, freely circulating document that tracks over 250 publications around the world.

Performance:

In addition to the Bay Area, I've performed in New York City (Ear Inn, St. Mark's, The Knitting Factory), Boston (Word of Mouth), Phoenix (Scottsdale Art Center), Minneapolis (Center For Book Arts), Seattle (Bumbershoot, Subtext), Portland, Cleveland, Washington D.C., London and elsewhere.

Poetry Books:

Instar (SINK Press, 1989)

Barricade (Paradigm Press, 1990)

House of Before (Potes and Poets, 1991)

Sound Off (Detour, 1993)

No Island (Drogue Press, 1995)

Anthologies: The Art of Practice: Forty-Five Contemporary Poets (Potes and Poets, 1994), Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Talisman House, 1995), and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry: 1994- 95(Sun and Moon Press, forthcoming).

Visual Poetry: I have two books of visual poetry: Stigma (Score, 1990) and Malleable Cast (Generator, 1995). My visual work has appeared in a number of group shows. And I am co-editor of the visual poetry magazine Score.

Magazines: My work has appeared in many magazines around the world, including Abacus, And, AEC Atelier, B City, The Black Warrior Review, Caliban, Celacanto, Central Park, Croton Bug, Denver Quarterly, Dimensao, fragmente, First Intensity, First Offense, House Organ, Indefinite Space, Interruptions, Intimacy, Juxta, Lift, Long News, Lost and Found Times, Magyar Muhely, Mirage #4 Period(ical), MOHS, New American Writing, O.ARS, Oasis, Object Permanence, O.blek, Offerta Speciale, Ramraid Extraordinaire, Ribot, Shearsman, Situation, Stride, Sulfur, Talisman, Teraz Mowie, Texture, To, UNI/vers(;), The Washington Review, Writing and Yefief.