Leanne Averbach
- Leanne Averbach is a text and performance poet. Her first volume
of poetry, f e v e r, will be
released in Spring, 2005 (Mansfield Press). Erotic and strange, f e v e r docu-rides a life
examined through multifarious roles and experiences. Life as a former
left-wing activist and trade union organizer takes shape through
Averbach’s iconoclastic lens, including some indelible moments spent in
factories or incarcerated in jail cells. Visual art often incites her
work, as do her family encounters, her lovers, and the “mad poetry” of
harsh international realities. Averbach has performed her work with
jazz musicians in Italy, Canada and New York City and has just released
a CD, also entitled “fever” (Ekstasis Editions) as well as “Carwash”,
the first of several video-poems.
Her work has been published in many literary magazines : The Fiddlehead, Descant, Antigonish
Review, Dalhousie Review, Sub-Terrain, Poetry New Zealand, The New
Quarterly, Canadian Women's Studies, In Performance, Wayne County
Review, Washington Square, Grain, and Big City Lit, as well as
the anthologies Love in the Media Age,
2001 and Poesia d'Amore in
translation in Italy.
Awards
Big City Lit
Int'l
Chapbook Contest, 3rd place, New York City 2003.
Poets
&Writers'
Grant (nominated by Knitting Factory Reading Series) New York City,
2002.
Poets and
Writers'
Grant (nominated by New York Arts &Dance Innovation) 2004.
- Selected Publications
f e v e r (Mansfield
Press, 2005).
f e v e r (CD) (Ekstasis
Editions, 2004).
- Books in Print
Averbach, Leanne
- f e v e r (Mansfield Press,
2005).
f e v e r (CD) (Ekstasis Editions, 2004).
- Leanne Averbach, Vancouver: (604) 222-3327;
Vancouver Cell: (604) 817-2911;
New York Cell: (917)-697-7528
leannea49@hotmail.com
