Description
John Surowiecki was born and grew up in Meriden,
Connecticut, He received his B.A. and M.A. in English
from the University of Connecticut. While there, he
won the annual Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize on two
occasions.
John works as a freelance writer in the Hartford area.
His work has appeared in journals of all kinds,
including: Briar Cliff Review, RHINO, North American
Review, Prairie Schooner, Columbia and Nimrod Review.
His poems have won prizes in contests sponsored by the
Georgia State University Review, Common Ground Review,
Portland Pen, Kimera, The Mississippi Review and Two
Rivers Review. He has published two chapbooks: Caliban
Poems and Five-hundred Widowers in a Field of
Chamomile.
Reviews
"John Suroweicki's Watching Cartoons before Attending
a Funeral enacts an intimate and familial accord
between personal and communal perceptions -'the
etiquette failure teaches, the quiet an owl inspires'-
the sweet sting of living. He 'lowers a lens' and we
see what has been there all along, so self-evident
yet willfully avoided. The poet endows our thousand
and one indiscretions with a human face and the words
to admit them. Watching Cartoons before a Funeral is a
risk and a beckoning."
-C.D. Wright
Accolades
Winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize Number 8