West, Poems of a Place (ePub)

Jim LaVilla-Havelin is a poet, educator, and arts administrator. He is author of four books of poems – Rites of Passage (Charon Press 1968), What the Diamond Does Is Hold It All In (White Pine Press 1978), Simon's Masterpiece (White Pine Press 1983), and most recently, Counting (Pecan Grove Press, 2010). LaVilla-Havelin's poems have appeared in the Texas Observer and other journals; in the anthologies Is This Forever, Or What? and Between Heaven & Texas; and in the Texas Poetry Calendar (and in Big Land, Big Sky Big Hair, the Dos Gatos Press' anthology from the Texas Poetry Calendar). He was the Director of the Young Artist Programs at the Southwest School of Art for seventeen years, retiring in May 2013 to teach, write and consult. LaVilla-Havelin's essays and criticism have appeared in Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics: Art & Perception, and Surface Design Journal, and exhibition catalogues of Danville Chadbourne and Rex Hausmann. He is editing a collection of poetry and visual art about sport, entitled Levelling the Playing Field, and is working on a book-length poem about jazz, Playlist. LaVilla-Havelin is the Coordinator of National Poetry Month events in San Antonio, and the Poetry Editor for the San Antonio Express-News. He has taught, read, offered workshops, presentations, and teacher trainings throughout the Northeast, Ohio, and Texas. An twenty-two year Texan, LaVilla-Havelin, lives with his wife, the artist Lucia LaVilla-Havelin, in Lytle, Texas.

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