John Yau engages visual art, social theory, and syntactical dexterity to push the limits of language toward an expansive counter-poetics

John Yau: Poet, critic, and curator John Yau was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1950. Since publishing his first collection of poetry in 1976, he has penned over fifty books of poetry, fiction, and criticism. He has received many accolades and teaches at Mason Gross School of the Arts and Rutgers University.