Joe Sherman writes mainly about environmental issues, blending journalism, history, and personal experience. He read from the manuscript of GASP: The Book of Air, which he is presently finishing. It will be published in late 2004.
His other books include In the Rings of Saturn, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, and Fast Lane on a Dirt Road, a contemporary history of Vermont now considered a modern classic. Sherman has written for G.Q., Smithsonian, Audubon, and other magazines.
His backturner projects include "The Great Ride," an around-the-world story in progress in which he and his son retrace the routes taken by a forebear, the first guy to drive around the world in a car (check out web site, www.thegreatride.com), and In Pursuit of Dracula Land, a collaboration with Dorel Teseru, to make weird sense out of a Disney-like theme park being built in Romania.
Environmentalist Sherman pleads guilty for polluting the skies regularly flying from Vermont, where he has cabin, to Prague, where he has a wife, the poet Jeri Theriault (featured at Alchemy in 2002).
November 17, 2003
November 3, 2003
Barry Wallenstein

His poetry has appeared in over 100 journals in the U.S. and abroad, in such places as Transatlantic Review, The Nation, Centennial Review, and American Poetry Review.
A group of new poems has recently been translated into Chinese by Professor Wan Ning, for the magazine Contemporary Foreign Literature, 2001, an anthology of post-beat poetry.He is a Professor of literature and creative writing at the City University of New York and is also an editor of the journal, American Book Review. A special interest is his involvement in the performance of jazz and poetry together. He has made four recordings of his poetry with jazz collaboration, the most recent being Tony's Blues, on Cadence Jazz Records [CJR 1124, 2001].


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