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22-676: Outriders was founded in 1968 by Max Wickert (then Assistant Professor of English in the University at Buffalo ), Dan Murray (a Buffalo M.A. candidate in Creative Writing) and Doug Eichhorn (then studying under Donald Justice at Syracuse University ). Max Wickert has been its director since 1969. In the 1970s, Outriders, with support from the New York State Council on the Arts and Poets & Writers , Inc., ran

44-531: A Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, studying under Cleanth Brooks , E. Talbot Donaldson, Davis P. Harding, Frederick W. Hilles, John C. Pope , Eugene Waith, W.K. Wimsatt , and Alexander Witherspoon. He completed a dissertation on William Morris under the direction of William Clyde DeVane and received his Ph.D. in 1965. At Yale, while working as a reader for Penny Poems under Al Shavzin and Don Mull, he began writing poetry and briefly met Gregory Corso and Amiri Baraka (then Leroi Jones). His first teaching appointment

66-479: A scholar, Max Wickert produced a handful of articles and conference papers on Spenser , Shakespeare and early opera , but was principally known as a teacher of a lower-division course on Dante’s Divine Comedy and of an Intensive Survey of English Literature , a seminar of his own design for specially motivated majors. Among his students were Neil Baldwin , Michael Basinski , Charles Baxter , and Patricia Gill. In 1985, he received an NEH Summer Fellowship to

88-1138: A series of publications and chapbooks. Aside from a few ephemeral broadsides, only one of these appeared, Max Wickert ’s All the Weight of the Still Midnight (1972; 2nd, expanded edition 2013). The weekly readings ceased in 1980 and Outriders suspended its activities for a number of years. In 2009, Wickert revived it as a small press which has since issued Ann Goldsmith’s The Spaces Between Us and Martin Pops’s Minoxidyl and Other Stories (2010); Judith Slater's The Wind Turning Pages (2011), Max Wickert's No Cartoons (2011), Gail Fischer's Red Ball Jets (2011), Jeremiah Rush Bowen's Consolations (2012) and Jerry McGuire's Venus Transit as well as An Outriders Anthology: Poetry in Buffalo 1969-1979 and After (2013),Jacob Schepers' A Bundle of Careful Compromises and Linda Stern Zisquit 's Return from Elsewhere (2014); Edric Mesmer's of monody and homophonies (2015);

110-401: A series of weekly poetry readings in Buffalo bars, typically involving a reading by a featured writer, followed by an open reading, in which celebrities visiting Buffalo often also participated. From 1978 to 1980, Outriders formed part of N.E.W. (Niagara-Erie Writers), a local writers’ collective. Max Wickert served as an officer in both organizations. Among distinguished poets who appeared in

132-562: A year), and Carlene Polite ; and critics Albert Spaulding Cook , Leslie Fiedler , Lionel Abel , and Dwight Macdonald . For the English department, he has served as director of undergraduate studies and as chair of the Charles D. Abbott Poetry Readings Committee. He also helped to establish and frequently judged the university's annual Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Prize Competition. With Dan Murray and Doug Eichhorn, he founded

154-789: Is Associate Professor and Poetry Coordinator for the Shaindy Rudoff MA in Creative Writing Program. She has published five collections of original poetry, most recently Return from Elsewhere (co-winner of the Outriders Poetry Project , Buffalo, NY, 2014) and Havoc: New & Selected Poems (2013) as well as several volumes of English translations of Hebrew poetry, including among them the poems of Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (1997) for which she won an NEA Translation Grant and These Mountains: Selected Poems of Rivka Miriam (2009),

176-463: Is a German-American teacher, poet, translator and publisher. He is Professor of English Emeritus at the University at Buffalo . Max Wickert was born Maxalbrecht Wickert in Augsburg, Germany , the oldest child of Stephan Phillip Wickert, an artist and art teacher (later industrial designer), and Thilde (Kellner) Wickert. Four younger children, all sisters, were born between 1940 and 1946. In 1943, he

198-696: The Nuyorican school) and the late Nigerian poet, Pol Ndu . In 1978 and 1979, Outriders, through its director, co-sponsored Summer Poetry Festivals with Artpark (Lewiston, NY) and the University at Buffalo , featuring, among others, Marvin Bell , Irving Feldman , Canada’s Four Horsemen ( bpNichol , Paul Dutton , Steve McCaffery and Rafael Barreto-Rivera ), Anselm Hollo , David Ignatow , J.F. Nims, Carlene Polite , Mark Rudman, Louis Simpson , William Stafford , Gerald Stern , Virginia Terris, and Harriett Zinnes. During its first years, Outriders also planned

220-469: The Outriders Poetry Project in 1968 and has been its director ever since. (Outriders, originally a sponsor of poetry readings in Buffalo bistros, became a small press in 2009.) Between 1968 and 1972, he published verse translations from the Austrian expressionist Georg Trakl , and from various German poets. In collaboration with Hubert Kulterer, he also translated 1001 Ways to Live Without Working , by

242-778: The American Beat poet Tuli Kupferberg , into German. During the early 1970s, he wrote essays on early opera and briefly worked as a radio station host for WBFO 's "The World of Opera." His short story, The Scythe of Saturn was a prize-winner in the 1983 Stand Magazine (Newcastle upon Tyne) Fiction Competition. Over the years, over 100 of Max Wickert’s poems and translation have appeared in journals, including American Poetry Review , Chicago Review , Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and Photography , The Lyric , Malahat Review , Michigan Review , Pequod , Poetry (magazine) , Chicago Review , Sewanee Review , Shenandoah (magazine) and Xanadu , as well as in several anthologies. As

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264-799: The Buffalo area by cooperation between three agencies: Outriders, which was the recipient of the initial grant; the Department of English at the University at Buffalo; and the University's Office of Cultural Affairs, then directed by Esther Harriott, who coordinated the entire venture. During its opening years, Outriders and Poetry-in-the-Schools frequently overlapped and a number of poets appeared in both programs. (In later seasons, Poetry-in-the-Schools operated independently.) In its 1970–71 season, Outriders also ran two "Third World Poetry Festivals" that showcased Latino poets Felipe Luciano, Jose-Angel Figueroa and Pedro Pietri (later well known as members of

286-691: The Buffalo-Niagara Falls area. The winners of this competition were Jeremiah Rush Bowen (2011); Jerry McGuire (2012), Jacob Schepers and Linda Zisquit (co-winners 2014); and Edric Mesmer, Of Monodies and Homophony (2015). Recently Outriders, in collaboration with Carole Southwell's Niagara River Salon, established the series of occasional on-line Niagara River Salon Chapbooks, downloadable free (for personal use only) from its web site. The first of these, "A Farewell Fast Shrift for John Marvin" will be available in late 2023. Max Wickert Max Wickert (born May 26, 1938, Augsburg, Germany )

308-734: The Dartmouth Dante Institute, and for several summers thereafter pursued intensive study of Italian at the Università per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy . He has since turned increasingly to translation from Italian. He published The Liberation of Jerusalem , a verse translation of Torquato Tasso ’s epic, Gerusalemme liberata , in 2008, and a year later completed translations of a medieval prose romance, Andrea da Barberino ’s Reali di Francia ( The Royal House of France ) and of Università per Stranieri (University for Aliens) by

330-523: The United States 1995–97, National Book Award 2007, Pulitzer Prize 2008), and Rosmarie Waldrop ( International PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, 2008). During its opening seasons, Outriders worked closely with the Buffalo area Poets-in-the-Schools Program. This program had been conceived state-wide by the New York State Council for the Arts 's Galen Williams. It was established in

352-418: The anthology Four Buffalo Poets: Ansie Baird, Ann Goldsmith, David Landrey, Sam Magavern (2016); Carole Southwood's Listen and See: Twenty-Two Poems and a Story ; and most recently, Carole Southwood's non-fiction novel Abdoo: The Biography of a Piece of White Trash . For five years, ending in 2015, the press conducted an annual competition open to poets and fiction writers with some significant connection to

374-502: The contemporary Italian poet, Daniela Margheriti. His edition and verse translation of Tasso's early love poems ( Love Poems for Lucrezia Bendidio ) appeared in 2011, followed in 2017 by his version of Tasso’s first epic, Rinaldo , both published by Italica Press. As a professor at Nazareth College , Wickert married one of his students. The marriage ended in divorce in 1969. A daughter, now a psychologist working in Massachusetts,

396-481: The series were Robert Bly , Albert S. Cook, Robert Creeley , Raymond Federman , Allen Ginsberg , Lee Harwood , David Ignatow , Milton Kessler , John Logan , A. Poulin, and John Wieners , as well poets relatively unknown at the time who eventually went on to high honors, such as Charles Baxter ( National Book Award finalist, 2000), Carl Dennis ( Ruth Lilly Prize 2000, Pulitzer Prize 2002), Cornelius Eady (Lamont Prize, 1985), Robert Hass ( Poet Laureate of

418-500: Was at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York (1962–1965). Upon arrival in Buffalo, Max Wickert formed close friendships with a number of writers who were then students or fellow teachers, including Dan Murray, Shreela Ray, Robert Hass and John Logan . Other significant colleagues at Buffalo were poets Robert Creeley , Irving Feldman , Mac Hammond and Bill Sylvester; novelists John Barth , J. M. Coetzee (his office mate for

440-672: Was born in Buffalo, NY . She studied at Tufts University and, later, at Harvard University and SUNY Buffalo . In 1978, she moved to Israel and settled in Jerusalem . She is married to the lawyer Donald Zisquit, and is the mother of five children. She also runs the ArtSpace Gallery at her home in Jerusalem's German Colony . Zisquit teaches poetry, Hebrew literature and poetry translation at Bar Ilan University where she

462-507: Was born in 1965. He remarried in 2006, and lives with his wife Katka Hammond in downtown Buffalo. His youngest sister, Gabriele Wickert, a college professor of German literature, taught at Manhattanville College until her retirement in 2019. http://outriderspoetryproject.com Linda Stern Zisquit Linda Stern Zisquit is an American-born Israeli poet and translator. She teaches poetry, Hebrew literature and poetry translation at Bar-Ilan University . Linda Stern (later Zisquit)

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484-553: Was evacuated to Langenneufnach , a small farming village after the Augsburg raid . He received his early education in Langenneufnach , Passau , and Augsburg . In 1952, his family immigrated to Rochester, New York , where he completed high school at the Aquinas Institute . After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Bonaventure University and completed graduate work in English at Yale University on

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