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Joseph Gastiger

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Connection to Illinois: Gastiger has lived in DeKalb, Illinois since 1980.

Biography: Joseph Gastiger grew up in Westbury, a working class town on Long Island, attended SUNY Stony Brook and the University of Iowa, and did graduate work at Colorado State University where he was part of a cohort that included poets Yusef Komunyakaa, William Michael Ryan, Jay P. White and John Bradley. He received a PhD from Northern Illinois University, where he subsequently taught writing and literature for a number of years, and was coordinator of its Honors Program. His poems have been printed in many journals and anthologies, including Princeton Arts Review, Sycamore Review, TriQuarterly, New Voices: Poetry and Fiction from Colorado State University, Benchmark: Anthology of Contemporary Illinois Poetry. After earning his PhD and working for NIU’s Honors Program, he entered the Chicago Theological Seminary in 1998, graduating in 2000. He has been a pastor at First Congregational United Church of Christ in DeKalb, Illinois since 2001.Gastiger has been interviewed by Dan Klefstad, Morning Edition Host & Book Series Editor of Northern Public Radio (WNIU/WNIJ/NIRIS) twice. The first time for the Summer 2014 Book Series. To access the June 13, 2014 interview, [http://northernpublicradio.org/post/dekalb-author-waxes-poetic-prose click here] And again, on December 21, 2015 for the [https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/wnijreadwithme?source=feed_text&story_id=10208055647572719 #WNIJReadWithME] Winter Book Series. To access that interview, [http://northernpublicradio.org/post/poet-explores-his-desires-and-others click here].


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Website: http://beta.losthorsepress.org/catalog/loose-talk
Joseph Gastiger on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=joseph+gastiger


Selected Titles

If you so desire :
ISBN: 0991146581 OCLC: 884500474

Loose talk :
ISBN: 9780983997535 OCLC: 769141432

Lost Horse Press, Sandpoint, Idaho : ©2012.

 

 

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