MR . BILL LAVENDER

Adjunct Assistant Professor and Director of the Low Residency Creative Writing Program

MFA, University of New Orleans, 1994

Bill Lavender (on the left in the photo) has a BA in English from the University of Arkansas and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans. He works for the Division of International Education in the Metropolitan College as the director of the Low Residency Creative Writing program and coordinator of the Madrid Summer Seminars . He is adjunct Assistant Professor of English.

Mr. Lavender's most recent books of poetry include I of the Storm (Trembling Pillow 2006), While Sleeping ( Chax Press 2004), look the universe is dreaming (Potes and Poets 2002), and Guest Chain ( Lavender Ink 1999). He is the editor of Another South: Experimental Writing in the South , an anthology from University of Alabama Press (2003). His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous print magazines including Jubilat, New Orleans Review, Gulf Coast Review, Skanky Possum, YAWP , and Fell Swoop , and web publications including Exquisite Corpse , E•ratio , CanWeHaveOurBallBack , Moria , Baddog , Poets Against the War , and, more recently, Big Bridge , and Nolafugees . He has published scholarship in Poetics Today and Contemporary Literature .

Click here to read a review of While Sleeping by John Lowther.

Course Documents:

Literature in Cyberspace: Course Description | Selected Student Papers

Online Poetry Workshop: Student work. | Syllabus

Phone Number:
(504) 280-7457

Email Mr. Lavender@
wlavende@uno.edu

Address: Bicentennial Education Building 117

Courses for Fall 2007:

Engl 6191-476:
Remote Poetry Workshop
(Online)