Doing Drive-Bys On How To Find Love In The Midwest - Crisler, Curtis L
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Curtis L. Crisler's Doing Drive-bys on How to Find Love in the Midwest is a lyrical poetic topography embodying his "urban Midwestern sensibility" (uMs). Through his uMs lens, his poems transfigure and chronicle the humanity of the past, present, and future of Black Midwesterners (and all globe-stompers)-transforming our dead and living into one sacrosanct body that traverses this earth with our surreal and haggard breaths.

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Curtis L. Crisler's Doing Drive-bys on How to Find Love in the Midwest is a lyrical poetic topography embodying his "urban Midwestern sensibility" (uMs). Through his uMs lens, his poems transfigure and chronicle the humanity of the past, present, and future of Black Midwesterners (and all globe-stompers)-transforming our dead and living into one sacrosanct body that traverses this earth with our surreal and haggard breaths.
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Curtis L. Crisler was born and raised in Gary, Indiana. He received a BA in English, with a minor in Theatre, from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW, now PFW), and he received his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. An award-winning poet/author, Crisler's Doing Drive-Bys on How to Love in the Midwest won the C&R Press Award for poetry. His other books are (with Kevin McKelvey's) Indiana Nocturnes: Our Rural and Urban Patchwork; THe GReY aLBuM [PoeMS], a Steel Toe Books open reading period selection; Don't Moan So Much (Stevie): A Poetry Musiquarium;"This" Ameri-can-ah; Pulling Scabs, nominated for Pushcart. His YA books are Tough Boy Sonatas and Dreamist: a mixed-genre novel. His poetry chapbooks are Black Achilles; Wonderkind, nominated for a Pushcart; Soundtrack to Latchkey Boy; Spill, won a Keyhole Chapbook Award; and Burnt Offering of a City, won the Kathy Young Chapbook Award. Crisler's awarded fellowships and residencies are from the City of Asylum/ Pittsburgh (COA/P), a Cave Canem (Fellow), the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Soul Mountain, a guest resident at Hamline University, a guest resident at Words on the Go, and Writer-in-Residence (Writers @ The Carr Program) sponsored by Poets & Writers, INC. Crisler's awarded grants and awards are a Library Scholars Grant Award, a RHINO Founder's Award, Indiana Arts Commission Grants, Eric Hoffer Awards, the Sterling Plumpp First Voices Poetry Award, and he was nominated for the Eliot Rosewater Award and a Jessie Redmon Fauset Book Award. He's been a Contributing Poetry Editor for Aquarius Press and a Poetry Editor for Human Equity through Art (HEArt). Crisler is Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Contact him for readings, workshops, presentations, panels, etc., at poetcrisler.com.