Geoffrey Gatza

Geoffrey C. Gatza (born 1970) is an American poet and editor and the publisher of BlazeVOX [books], an independent press based in Buffalo, New York.[1]

Early life and education

Gatza grew up in Kenmore in Erie County, New York and attended four schools in the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda School District: Jane Addams Elementary School, Lindbergh Elementary School, Kenmore Middle School, and Kenmore West High School.[2]

He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York and Daemen College in Amherst, New York.[3]

Personal life

Gatza resides in Kenmore, New York with his girlfriend Donna.[4][5]

Books
  • House of Forgetting (2012)[6]
  • Secrets of My Prison House (2010)[7]
  • La Santa Muerte, the Saint of Death (2010)[8]
  • Housecat Kung Fu: Strange Poems For Wild Children (2009)[9][10][11]
  • Not So Fast Robespierre (2008)[12][13]
  • E: Electron (with Deena Larsen) (2001)

The last of these books uses the periodic table of elements as the structure for a love story. As the story progresses, another "electron" of memory is added to the lives of the book's primary "elements."

References
  1. Shivani, Anis (April 12, 2012). "National Poetry Month Feature: Geoffrey Gatza of BlazeVOX Talks About the NEA Ban on His Small Press". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
  2. Ed Adamczyk (February 24, 2008). "PUBLISHING: Kenmore native is a poet and entrepreneur". Tonawanda news.com. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
  3. "Geoffrey C Gatza". US Search.com. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
  4. Jane Kwiatkowski (March 28, 2010). "A conversation with poet Geoffrey Gatza". Buffalo News. Archived from the original on July 21, 2012. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
  5. "Geoffrey Gatza". Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
  6. House of Forgetting by Geoffrey Gatza
  7. Secrets of My Prison House
  8. "SOL: English Writing in Mexico Geoffrey Gatza: Two Poems". Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
  9. Housecat Kung Fu: Strange Poems For Wild Children
  10. Fink, Thomas (December 21, 2009). "HOUSECAT KUNG FU by GEOFFREY GATZA". galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
  11. Jeffrey Cyphers Wright (May 2010). "RAPID TRANSIT". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
  12. "Geoffrey Gatza". Archived from the original on 2010-12-22. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
  13. A Lisping Ignatius / The Sincere, The Flarf, and The Voice of Place: A reading of Geoffrey Gatza’s Not So Fast Robespierre
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