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'''Neeli Cherkovski''' (born '''Nelson Cherry'''; 1945 – March |
'''Neeli Cherkovski''' (born '''Nelson Cherry'''; 1945 – March 19, 2024) was an American poet and memoirist, who resided from 1975 onwards in San Francisco. |
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Cherkovski was a writer-in-residence at the [[New College of California]] in San Francisco.{{citation needed|date=September 2011}} He taught literature and philosophy there until the school closed in 2008. His body of poetry includes ''Animal'', ''Elegy for Bob Kaufman'' and ''Leaning Against Time'', for which he was awarded the 15th Annual [[PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award]] in 2005. In 2017 he was awarded the Jack Mueller Poetry Prize by Lithic Press. Cherkovski's papers are housed at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. |
Cherkovski was a writer-in-residence at the [[New College of California]] in San Francisco.{{citation needed|date=September 2011}} He taught literature and philosophy there until the school closed in 2008. His body of poetry includes ''Animal'', ''Elegy for Bob Kaufman'' and ''Leaning Against Time'', for which he was awarded the 15th Annual [[PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award]] in 2005. In 2017 he was awarded the Jack Mueller Poetry Prize by Lithic Press. Cherkovski's papers are housed at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. |
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Neeli Cherkovski died on March |
Neeli Cherkovski died on March 19, 2024.<ref>[https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/longtime-san-francisco-poet-beatnik-dies-19283714.php Longtime San Francisco poet and beatnik dies]</ref> |
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==Bibliography== |
==Bibliography== |
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Revision as of 06:21, 20 March 2024
Neeli Cherkovski | |
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| Born | Nelson Innis Cherry 1945 |
| Died | March 19, 2024 (aged 78–79) |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, poet |
Neeli Cherkovski (born Nelson Cherry; 1945 – March 19, 2024) was an American poet and memoirist, who resided from 1975 onwards in San Francisco.
Biography
Born in Santa Monica, California, Cherkovski grew up in San Bernardino, California. In the 1970s he was a political consultant in the Riverside area, who came to San Francisco to work on the staff of then-State Senator George Moscone. Cherkovski wrote biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Charles Bukowski,[1] with whom he co-edited the Los Angeles magazine Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns..[2] Cherkovski produced the first San Francisco Poetry Festival, and in the early 1990s helped to found Café Arts Month, a yearly event celebrating San Francisco's café culture.
Poetry critic Gerald Nicosia said of Cherkovski: "...in the end, what stamps Cherkovski’s poetry as unique is its unbounded lyricism, a lyrical gift easily greater than that of any other poet of his generation."[3]
Cherkovski was the author of Whitman's Wild Children, a collection of essays about twelve poets he had known: Michael McClure, Charles Bukowski, John Wieners, James Broughton, Philip Lamantia, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, William Everson, Gregory Corso, Harold Norse, Jack Micheline, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. This book combines biography, personal stories, and poetry analyses.
Cherkovski was a writer-in-residence at the New College of California in San Francisco.[citation needed] He taught literature and philosophy there until the school closed in 2008. His body of poetry includes Animal, Elegy for Bob Kaufman and Leaning Against Time, for which he was awarded the 15th Annual PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award in 2005. In 2017 he was awarded the Jack Mueller Poetry Prize by Lithic Press. Cherkovski's papers are housed at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Neeli Cherkovski died on March 19, 2024.[4]
Bibliography
- Don't Make a Move (Tecumseh Press, 1974)
- The Waters Reborn (Red Hill Press, 1975)
- Public Notice (Beatitude, 1975)
- Ferlinghetti, a biography (DoubleDay, 1979)
- Love Proof (Green Light Press, 1980)
- Juggler Within (Harwood Alley Monographs, 1983)
- Clear Wind (Avant Books, 1984)
- Whitman's Wild Children (Lapis Press, 1989)
- Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski (Random House, 1991)
- Animal (Pantograph Press, 1996)
- Elegy for Bob Kaufman (Sun Dog Press, 1996)
- Leaning Against Time (R.L. Crow Publications, 2004)
- Naming the Nameless (Sore Dove Press, 2004)
- From the Canyon Outward (R.L. Crow Publications, 2009)]
- From the Middle Woods (New Native Press, 2011)
- Manila Poems (Bottle of Smoke Press, 2013)
- Elegy for My Beat Generation (Lithic Press, 2018)
- In the Odes (Magra Books, 2018)
- Coolidge & Cherkovski: In Conversation (Lithic Press, 2020)
References
- ^ Los Angeles Times.
- ^ R.L. Crow Publications.
- ^ Nicosia, Gerald (May 8, 2005) "Fear not, Ferlinghetti." San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Longtime San Francisco poet and beatnik dies
External links
- www.neelicherkovski.net own website
- Neeli Cherkovski at IMDb
- A Prison Poem, a 2004 poem by Cherkovski
- A few selected poems
- Interview with Cherkovski.
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