Keith Tuma
Profile
Keith Tuma is the author of Fishing by Obstinate Isles: Modern and Postmodern British Poetry and American Readers (Northwestern, 1998). He is the editor of Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (Oxford, 2001) and co-editor of Mina Loy: Woman and Poet (NPF, 1998) and Additional Apparitions: Poetry, Performance & Site-Specifity (The Cherry-on-Top Press, 2002).
His essays on British, Irish, American, and Anglophone poetry have appeared in journals including Chicago Review, Contemporary Literature, ELH, Sagetrieb, Criticism, Modernism/Modernity, The Journal, Quid, Jacket, The Gig, American Book Review, Paideuma, Sulfur, River City, Bullan, and in a number of books edited by others, including Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally and The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature.
His poems and performance texts have appeared in journals including Chicago Review, Notre Dame Review, Open Letter, Poetry Salzburg, The Gig, nth position, Flights, Famous Reporter, and in the anthologies 100 Days and Onsets. His chapbook of poetic squibs and epigrams Topical Ointment appeared from Slack Buddha Press in 2004. Critical Path: Into the Bush, the first volume of an ongoing multi-media project in collaboration with cris cheek and Wiiliam R. Howe, appeared in 2003.
He is currently Acting Editor of Miami University Press and completing work on an anthology of poems and essays following upon the recent Marjorie Cook Festival and Conference on Diversity in African American Poetry at Miami University while trying to find time to work on essays and poems and a book of anecdotes. He is Professor and Chair of the English Department.