John Olson is the author of two books from Black Square
Editions, Echo Regime, a collection of poetry, and Free 
Stream Velocity, a collection of prose poems. He is also 
the author of Eggs & Mirrors, from Woodworks Press, Logo 
Lagoon from Paper Brain Press, & Swarm of Edges from 
bcc press. His literary criticism & essays have appeared in 
First Intensity, Sulfur, American Book Review, Seattle 
Weekly, The Stranger, Talisman, Rain Taxi, Denver Quarterly, 
Exquisite Corpse, Golden Handcuff Review, The Raven 
Chronicles,Encyclopedia of American Poetry (the Twentieth 
Century), and Writing On Air, an anthology of writing devoted 
to air from M.I.T. Press in conjunction with the Terra Nova 
series at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His poetry 
and fiction have appeared in numerous journals & magazines, 
including New American Writing, Talisman, Sulfur, Lingo, 
Volt, TinFish, First Intensity, 3rd Bed, 5 Trope, The Germ, 
Bird Dog, Opoponax, Facture, Stolen Island Review, Monkey 
Puzzle, and Mantis. He was a participant this year (2004) in 
the Jackstraw Writer's Program, which included a presentation 
on KUOW FM, and has twice received the Fund For Poetry 
Award as well as The Stranger's Genius Award for 2004. 
He is currently working on a novel about Arthur Rimbaud 
and Billy the Kid. 




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