Steven Schroeder
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[edit] General Information
Born: 1954 in Wichita Falls, Texas
Website: stevenschroeder.org/
Email: steven_schroeder@earthlink.net
[edit] Illinois Connection
Schroeder has lived in Chicago for more than twenty years. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago (Ph.D. 1982, M.A. 1976) and teaches at the University of Chicago Graham School in Asian Classics and the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults.
[edit] Biographical and Professional Information
Steven Schroeder received his Ph.D. in Ethics and Society from the University of Chicago in 1982. He is the co-founder, with composer Clarice Assad, of the Virtual Artists Collective (a "virtual" gathering of musicians, poets, and visual artists), which has published five full-length poetry collections each year since it began in 2004. He teaches at the University of Chicago in Asian Classics and the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults and at Shenzhen University in China.
He has published extensively in philosophy and religious studies and has lectured and written on the relationship of poetry with philosophy -- and of both with religion. He has teamed with Chinese colleagues Liang Huichun, Wang Hao, and Zhang Xiaohong to translate work of contemporary Chinese poets including Jimu Langge, Li Nan, Li Sen, Tang Danhong, and Zhai Yongming. With Russian colleague Vassily Pivoev, he has written a book on Henri Bergson published in 2008 in Petrozavodsk. His current academic research includes work on the ethics of translation and response as well as investigation of poetry as politics and performance.
He has been a featured reader and guest professor at Yunnan University in China and has lectured at the University of Macao, Zhongshan University in China, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Petrozavodsk State University in Russia, and Vilnius University in Lithuania. He has been an invited reader at festivals in Ohio; Oklahoma; Texas; Vilnius and Druskininkai (Lithuania); Shenzhen, Macao, Kunming, and Hong Kong (China); and Chicago.
With Kunming poets Li Sen and Hai Nan and Shenzhen colleague Zhang Xiaohong, he began the Chicago-Kunming poetry group, which publishes New Poetry Appreciation (with the work of Kunming poets and Chicago poets in Chinese translation). With Li Sen, Long Xiaoying, Wang Hao, and Zhang Xiaohong, he co-edited a bilingual collection of the work of twenty-seven poets from the southwest of China and the southwestern United States called Two Southwests that appeared in October 2008. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in After Hours, AmarilloBay, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Concho River Review, the Christian Science Monitor, the Cresset, Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2005, Georgetown Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Karamu, Macao Closer, Mid-America Poetry Review, Poetry East, Poetry Macao, Rambunctious Review, Rhino, Shichao, Sichuan Literature, Texas Review, TriQuarterly and other literary journals. He has published two chapbooks, Theory of Cats and Revolutionary Patience, and four full-length collections, Fallen Prose, The Imperfection of the Eye, Six Stops South, and A Dim Sum of the Day Before.
[edit] Published Works
- a dim sum of the day before (poems). Temple, TX: Ink Brush Press, 2010.
- On Not Founding Rome: The Virtue of Hesitation. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2010.
- on the no road way to tomorrow (poems), Edited with Li Sen, Liang Huichun, Long Xiaoying, and Charlie Newman. Virtual Artists Collective, 2009.
- Six Stops South (poems). Cincinnati, OH: Cherry Grove Collections, 2009.
- А. Бергсон и проблемы методологии гуманитарного знания. (с В.М. Пивоев) Петрозаводск: Издательство ПетрГУ, 2008.
- Two Southwests (poems), Edited with Li Sen, Long Xiaoying, Wang Hao, and Zhang Xiaohong. Virtual Artists Collective, 2008.
- The Imperfection of the Eye (poems). Virtual Artists Collective, 2007.
- Fallen Prose (poems). Virtual Artists Collective, 2006.
- Revolutionary Patience (poems). Virtual Artists Collective, 2004.
- Theory of Cats (poems). Johnstown, OH: Pudding House Press, 2003.
- Touching Philosophy, Sounding Religion, Placing Education. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2002.
- Between Freedom and Necessity: An Essay on the Place of Value. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2000.
- The Metaphysics of Cooperation: A Study of F.D. Maurice. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1999.
- Virginia Woolf's Subject and the Subject of Ethics: Notes Toward a Poetics of Persons. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996.
- A Community and a Perspective: Lutheran Peace Fellowship and the Edge of the Church, 1941-1991. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993.
[edit] Titles for Purchase and at Your Library
 | On Not Founding Rome: The Virtue of HesitationISBN: 1606086103 Release Date: 2010-01 |
 | a dim sum of the day beforeISBN: 0982440561 Release Date: 2010-01-15 |
 | on the no road way to tomorrowISBN: 0981989837 Release Date: 2009-08-28 |
 | Six Stops SouthISBN: 1934999431 Release Date: 2009-01-06 |
 | Two SouthwestsISBN: 0979882567 Release Date: 2008-10-15 |
 | The Imperfection of the EyeISBN: 0979882508 Release Date: 2007-08-27 |
 | Fallen ProseISBN: 0977297411 Release Date: 2006-01-09 |
Theory of CatsISBN: 1589981855 Release Date: 2003 |
Touching Philosophy, Sounding Religion, Placing Education (Value Inquiry Book)ISBN: 9042011637 Release Date: 2002-12-01 |
BETWEEN FREEDOM AND NECESSITY. An Essay on the Place of Value. (Value Inquiry Book Series 99)ISBN: 9042013028 Release Date: 2000-01 |
The Metaphysics of CooperationA Case Study of F.D. Maurice(Value Inquiry Book Series 84)ISBN: 9042007761 Release Date: 1999-01 |
Virginia Woolf's Subject and the Subject of Ethics: Notes Toward a Poetics of PersonsISBN: 0773489231 Release Date: 1996-04 |
 | A Community and a PerspectiveISBN: 0819191094 Release Date: 1993-08-24 |
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Steven Schroeder on Poets & Writers
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