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Lewis Warsh
Academic History
I was born in the Bronx, 1944, attended the Bronx High School
of Science, and then City College of New York, where I received
a BA in English in 1966 and MA in English in 1975. I studied
fiction with Donald Barthleme, poety with Kenneth Koch (at
the New School), and wrote my thesis with Francine du Plessix
Gray. In 1966 I co-founded Angel Hair magazine and
Angel Hair Books, and my first book of poems, The Suicide
Rates, appeared in 1967. Since then I have published over
twenty books, titleernating between fiction, poetry and memoir,
while editing and publishing United Artists Books. I have
taught at New England College, Queens College, SUNY Albany,
Pace University, The New School, Naropa University and The
Poetry Project.
Classes taught at Long Island University:
English 524 (graduate fiction workshop)
English 523 (graduate poetry workshop)
English 168 (senior seminar in creative writing)
English 166 (advanced undergraduate fiction writing)
English 165 (advanced undergraduate poetry writing)
English 104 (introduction to creative writing)
English 61, 62, 63 (literature)
English 16 (composition).
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