Rate My Professor John Bennett

Bennett's scholarly and creative pursuits center on twentieth-century Latin American literature, Chicano writings, experimental text, visual, sound, and performance poetry, mail art, and poetry therapy. He founded Luna Bisonte Prods, a small press that produced chapbooks, broadsides, audiocassettes, and ephemera, and edited the international literary journal Lost and Found Times from 1975 to 2005. Among his key publications are Found Objects (1973), White Screen (1976), Meat Watch (1977), Time Release (1978), No Boy (1985), and over 500 books and chapbooks. He edited the Latin American Studies Newsletter from 1981 to 1995, compiled extensive bibliographies on Latin American history, literature, statistics, and culture, and curated exhibitions including An American Avant Garde: First Wave (2001) and Second Wave (2002) at OSU Libraries. Bennett led poetry therapy workshops, such as at the Midwest Writers’ Conference in 1985 and Central Ohio Psychiatric Hospital, and organized the National Poetry Therapy Convention in 1983. He received Faculty/Staff Service Recognition for 25 years of service in 1994 and was recognized by Richard Kostelanetz as a seminal figure in experimental poetry. His global collaborations and performances have significantly impacted avant-garde and underground art communities.