Born on July 1, 1953, in Berkeley, California, Mark Terrill grew up in the unincorporated mountain community of Sky Londa in San Mateo County, south of San Francisco. After failing to complete high school, he traveled widely in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, working as a dishwasher, woodcutter, gardener, bartender, taxi driver, gravedigger, sawmill worker, deckhand, and welder before finally obtaining his seaman’s papers and shipping out of San Francisco to the Far East and beyond. In 1982, he attended the School of Visual Arts Writing Workshop conducted by Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco, and after extensive travels throughout Morocco and Europe, finally settled in Hamburg, Germany in 1984. Simultaneously with pursuing his literary activities, he has been employed as a shipyard welder, road manager for various rock bands (American Music Club, Mekons, etc.), cook, and postal worker. He currently lives on the grounds of a former boatyard near Hamburg with his wife, Uta, and several cats.
Writing
Terrill began writing in the early 1970s. His first poems appeared in Vagabond, a small-press magazine published by John Bennett that featured the work of Charles Bukowski, Jack Micheline, D.A. Levy, Al Masarik, and many others. Since then, Terrill’s writings and translations have appeared in over one thousand journals and anthologies worldwide, including City Lights Review, Denver Quarterly, Bombay Gin, Skanky Possum, Zen Monster, Talisman, Partisan Review, Gargoyle, Rattle and others. He has published several full-length collections, chapbooks, and broadsides of his poetry, prose, and translations with numerous small-press publishers in the USA and Europe. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, his work has been translated into Portuguese, French, and German. For over ten years, he was a regular contributor to Rain Taxi Review of Books, and in 2009 he was invited to guest-edit a special German Poetry issue of the Atlanta Review, which also featured his own translations of Peter Handke, Günter Grass, Nicolas Born, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and many others. In addition, his translations of the poetry of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann have been assembled in two full-length book collections, along with appearing elsewhere.
Terrill has read/performed his work in Paris at Shakespeare & Co., The Live Poets Society, Upstairs at Duroc and the American Library; in Berlin at the Poetry Hearings (2006 and 2010) and the International Slam Revue; in Prague at Shakespeare & Sons and The Globe; in Amsterdam at the Sugar Factory, Boekie Woekie and the Fiery Tongues Literary Festival. Together with the poet Cralan Kelder, he co-edits the poetry journal Full Metal Poem, which has published work by Ron Padgett, John Wieners, Joanne Kyger, Cid Corman, Bob Arnold, F.A. Nettelbeck, Louise Landes Levi and others.
Last Call: The Bukowski Legacy Continues, edited by RD Armstrong (Lummox Press, 2011) ISBN978-1-929878-86-4
From a Terrace in Prague, edited by Stephan Delbos (Literaria Pragensia, 2011) ISBN978-80-7308-349-6
Haiku 21, edited by Lee Gurga & Scott Metz (Modern Haiku Press, 2011) ISBN978-0974189451
Bukowski: An Anthology of Poetry & Prose About Charles Bukowski, edited by Melanie Villines (Silver Birch Press, 2013) ISBN978-0615845494
NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems, edited by Philip Rowland (Isobar Press, 2019) ISBN978-4-907359-26-3
The Best Small Fictions 2020, series editor; Nathan Leslie (Sonder Press, 2020) ISBN978-0-9997501-9-3
As Editor:
Atlanta Review: Germany (Vol. XV, No. 2, 2009)
Full Metal Poem (#1, 2010, together with co-editor Cralan Kelder)
Quotes on Terrill
“Mark Terrill, the true poet and ‘forlorn observer’ of the world he sees as essentially forlorn, if not absurd, if not entirely hopeless, and nothing on the end of his fork to really wax ecstatic about… But his poetry is far from hopeless. It is a hard light to alleviate the situation of the world as he sees it.” - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“I’ve always liked your poetry; it has a steady, stripped-down rhythm to it. Little pings of microscopic truth.” - John Bennett
References
Stephanie Baker's review of Bread & Fish in Jacket magazine (#21, February 2003).
Noah Eli Gordon’s review of The Salvador-Dalai-Lama Express in Rain Taxi Review of Books (Vol. 14, No. 2, Summer 2009).
Stephan Delbos’ review of The Salvador-Dalai-Lama Express in Alehouse (No. 4, 2010).
in The Prague Post (November 2010).
of Laughing Butcher Berlin Blues in The Prague Post (January 9, 2011).
External links
Five prose poems in Exquisite Corpse (Cyber issue 11, Spring/Summer 2002).
Two prose poems in The Brooklyn Rail (April 2004).
Video clip. Jay Corsilles’ “motion representation” (2006) of the Mark Terrill prose poem.
A suite of five prose poems in Stride magazine (2006).
“A Poem for Patriots” in Diagram (#6.4).
in Nth Position (May 2007).
“A Poem for Uncertainties” in magazine (#27, Summer 2007).
“Not About Now But Right After” in Wood Coin magazine (Feb 2009).
“A Poem for the Here & Now" in Wood Coin (Dec 2009).
Translations of two Rolf Dieter Brinkmann poems in Jacket magazine (#40, late 2010).
Review of Great Balls of Doubt in B O D Y (Winter Issue, 2021).
January 23, 2023
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Mark Terrill is a well traveled American poet translator and prose writer who has resided in Northern Germany since the mid 1980s Mark Terrill at the Berlin Poetry Hearings 2006 Photo by Stephen MooneyContents 1 Biography 2 Writing 3 Bibliography 4 Quotes on Terrill 5 References 6 External linksBiography EditBorn on July 1 1953 in Berkeley California Mark Terrill grew up in the unincorporated mountain community of Sky Londa in San Mateo County south of San Francisco After failing to complete high school he traveled widely in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska working as a dishwasher woodcutter gardener bartender taxi driver gravedigger sawmill worker deckhand and welder before finally obtaining his seaman s papers and shipping out of San Francisco to the Far East and beyond In 1982 he attended the School of Visual Arts Writing Workshop conducted by Paul Bowles in Tangier Morocco and after extensive travels throughout Morocco and Europe finally settled in Hamburg Germany in 1984 Simultaneously with pursuing his literary activities he has been employed as a shipyard welder road manager for various rock bands American Music Club Mekons etc cook and postal worker He currently lives on the grounds of a former boatyard near Hamburg with his wife Uta and several cats Writing EditTerrill began writing in the early 1970s His first poems appeared in Vagabond a small press magazine published by John Bennett that featured the work of Charles Bukowski Jack Micheline D A Levy Al Masarik and many others Since then Terrill s writings and translations have appeared in over one thousand journals and anthologies worldwide including City Lights Review Denver Quarterly Bombay Gin Skanky Possum Zen Monster Talisman Partisan Review Gargoyle Rattle and others He has published several full length collections chapbooks and broadsides of his poetry prose and translations with numerous small press publishers in the USA and Europe A four time Pushcart Prize nominee his work has been translated into Portuguese French and German For over ten years he was a regular contributor to Rain Taxi Review of Books and in 2009 he was invited to guest edit a special German Poetry issue of the Atlanta Review which also featured his own translations of Peter Handke Gunter Grass Nicolas Born Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and many others In addition his translations of the poetry of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann have been assembled in two full length book collections along with appearing elsewhere Terrill has read performed his work in Paris at Shakespeare amp Co The Live Poets Society Upstairs at Duroc and the American Library in Berlin at the Poetry Hearings 2006 and 2010 and the International Slam Revue in Prague at Shakespeare amp Sons and The Globe in Amsterdam at the Sugar Factory Boekie Woekie and the Fiery Tongues Literary Festival Together with the poet Cralan Kelder he co edits the poetry journal Full Metal Poem which has published work by Ron Padgett John Wieners Joanne Kyger Cid Corman Bob Arnold F A Nettelbeck Louise Landes Levi and others Bibliography EditCollections of poetry and prose Subliminal Madness Triton Press 1978 Sorry Try Again Red Dancefloor Press 1998 Love Hate Continuum Green Bean Press 2001 ISBN 1 891408 18 6 Kid with Gray Eyes Cedar Hill Publications 2001 ISBN 1 891812 28 9 Bread amp Fish The Figures 2002 ISBN 1 930589 14 X The United Colors of Death Pathwise Press 2003 Postcard from Mount Sumeru Bottle of Smoke Press 2006 Sending Off the Godhead in the City of Light Hydrogen Jukebox Press 2006 17 Poems for the Poetry Hearings Hydrogen Jukebox Press 2006 Something Red Plan B Press 2007 Superabundance Longhouse 2008 The Salvador Dalai Lama Express Main Street Rag 2009 ISBN 978 1 59948 157 9 Laughing Butcher Berlin Blues Poetry Salzburg 2010 ISBN 978 3 901993 33 6 The Spleen of Madrid collaborative poems with Francis Poole Feral Press 2012 A Pair of Darts collaboration with Francis Poole Feral Press 2012 Change Remains Suspended Feral Press 2013 Down at the Gate Feral Press 2013 The Travelers Feral Press 2014 Any Number at All Feral Press 2016 Diamonds amp Sapience Dark Style 2017 Competitive Decadence New Feral Press 2017 Great Balls of Doubt Verse Chorus Press 2020 ISBN 978 1 891241 66 6 Disrupting Dystopia New Feral Press 2020 Reframing Oblivion New Feral Press 2021 Broadsides Interzone Bottle of Smoke Press 2006 Out the Window Poems Bottle of Smoke Press 2006 The Wheel Kater Murr s Press 2010 Up All Night Longhouse 2011 A Poem for Radios Fact Simile Editions 2012 The Other Side Longhouse 2012 Masking Up Cold Turkey Press 2022 Fiction Ultrazone A Tangier Ghost Story collaboration with Francis Poole The Visible Spectrum 2022 ISBN 978 1 953835 10 9Nonfiction Here to Learn Remembering Paul Bowles Green Bean Press 2002 ISBN 1 891408 29 1Translations Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Like a Pilot Selected Poems 1963 1970 Sulphur River Literary Review Press 2001 ISBN 0 9657687 7 5 Whispering Villages Seven German Poets Longhouse 2006 Nicolas Born The Bill for Room 11 Longhouse 2008 Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Some Very Popular Songs Toad Press 2009 Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Under Glass Longhouse 2010 Jorg Fauser An Evening in Europe Toad Press 2011 Rolf Dieter Brinkmann An Unchanging Blue Selected Poems 1962 1975 Parlor Press Free Verse Editions 2011 ISBN 978 1 60235 198 1 Thomas Brasch The Murdered Poet Cold Turkey Press 2022 Thomas Brasch Kottbusser Tor Cold Turkey Press 2022 Gregory Corso The Muse Moloko Print Cold Turkey Press 2022 ISBN 978 3 948750 88 6Anthology appearances Ends amp Beginnings City Lights Review 6 edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti City Lights Books 1994 ISBN 0 87286 292 5 Beers Bars and Breakdowns edited by Scott Gordon Staplegun Press 2000 Fake City Syndrome edited by Kate Gale amp Charles Rammelkamp Red Hen Press 2002 ISBN 1 888996 60 9 Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction edited by Kate Wheeler Wisdom Publications 2004 ISBN 978 0 86171 354 7 Babylon Burning 9 11 Five Years On edited by Todd Swift nthposition press 2006 Babel Tour Universite Paris Sorbonne Paris IV 2008 ISBN 978 2 9512407 8 0 Last Call The Bukowski Legacy Continues edited by RD Armstrong Lummox Press 2011 ISBN 978 1 929878 86 4 From a Terrace in Prague edited by Stephan Delbos Literaria Pragensia 2011 ISBN 978 80 7308 349 6 Haiku 21 edited by Lee Gurga amp Scott Metz Modern Haiku Press 2011 ISBN 978 0974189451 Bukowski An Anthology of Poetry amp Prose About Charles Bukowski edited by Melanie Villines Silver Birch Press 2013 ISBN 978 0615845494 NOON An Anthology of Short Poems edited by Philip Rowland Isobar Press 2019 ISBN 978 4 907359 26 3 The Best Small Fictions 2020 series editor Nathan Leslie Sonder Press 2020 ISBN 978 0 9997501 9 3As Editor Atlanta Review Germany Vol XV No 2 2009 Full Metal Poem 1 2010 together with co editor Cralan Kelder Quotes on Terrill Edit Mark Terrill the true poet and forlorn observer of the world he sees as essentially forlorn if not absurd if not entirely hopeless and nothing on the end of his fork to really wax ecstatic about But his poetry is far from hopeless It is a hard light to alleviate the situation of the world as he sees it Lawrence Ferlinghetti I ve always liked your poetry it has a steady stripped down rhythm to it Little pings of microscopic truth John BennettReferences EditStephanie Baker s review of Bread amp Fish in Jacket magazine 21 February 2003 Noah Eli Gordon s review of The Salvador Dalai Lama Express in Rain Taxi Review of Books Vol 14 No 2 Summer 2009 Stephan Delbos review of The Salvador Dalai Lama Express in Alehouse No 4 2010 Review of Full Metal Poem in The Prague Post November 2010 Stephan Delbos review of Laughing Butcher Berlin Blues in The Prague Post January 9 2011 External links EditFive prose poems in Exquisite Corpse Cyber issue 11 Spring Summer 2002 Two prose poems in The Brooklyn Rail April 2004 The Stream Video clip Jay Corsilles motion representation 2006 of the Mark Terrill prose poem A suite of five prose poems in Stride magazine 2006 A Poem for Patriots in Diagram 6 4 Two poems in Nth Position May 2007 A Poem for Uncertainties in Rattle magazine 27 Summer 2007 Not About Now But Right After in Wood Coin magazine Feb 2009 A Poem for the Here amp Now in Wood Coin Dec 2009 Translations of two Rolf Dieter Brinkmann poems in Jacket magazine 40 late 2010 Seven poems in Turntable amp Blue Light May 2010 A Poem for Uncertainties Audio clip Experimental spoken word track SoundCloud 2012 Review of Great Balls of Doubt in B O D Y Winter Issue 2021 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Mark Terrill amp oldid 1107338227, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
