EILEEN R. TABIOS

About the Poet:

Eileen R. Tabios (resident of Saint Helena) loves books, and has released more than 20 print, five electronic and one CD poetry collections; an art essay collection; a “collected novels” book; a poetry essay/interview anthology; a short story collection; and two experimental biographies. Her most recent books is THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2016); she also has released two "Selected Poems" projects focused on form: THE THORN ROSARY focuses on the prose poem and INVENT(ST)ORY focuses on the list or catalog poem.  She has also exhibited visual art and visual poetry in the United States and Asia. She has crafted an award-winning body of work that is unique for melding ekphrasis with transcolonialism. Her poems have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Tagalog, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, computer-generated hybrid languages, Paintings, Video, Drawings, Visual Poetry, Mixed Media Collages, Kali Martial Arts, Music, Modern Dance and Sculpture.  She also has edited, co-edited or conceptualized ten anthologies of poetry, fiction and essays in addition to serving as editor or guest editor for various literary journals.  She maintains a biblioliphic blog, “Eileen Verbs Books“; edits Galatea Resurrects, a popular poetry review; steers the literary and arts publisher Meritage Press; and frequently curates thematic online poetry projects including LinkedIn Poetry Recommendations (a recommended list of contemporary poetry books).  

Website: http://eileenrtabios.com

(Eileen with puppy Athena)

About Her Poetry:
Eileen feels "the best person is the best poet"--a concept discussed in an interview about her poetry by John Bloomberg-Rissman published in ARDUITY.


Poetry Forms and/or Tendencies in Eileen's Work:
Lyric
Prose Poem
Free Verse
Couplets
Ekphrasis
Hay(na)ku
Haybun
Experimental
Conceptual Poetry
Poetry Generator
Visual Poetry
Asemics
Collaborations
Multi-Genre


A Sample Poem
To Come



Books and Other Publications

INVENT(ST)ORY: Selected Catalog Poems & New 1996-2015 (Dos Madres Press, Loveland, OH, 2015)
I FORGOT LIGHT BURNS (Moria Books, Chicago, 2015)
SUN STIGMATA (Sculpture Poems) (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2014)

A List of Her Other Poetry Books is available HERE.



Links to Some Poems Online
A convenient summary of her poems published online is available at http://eileenrtabios.com/with-the-community/selected-poems-online/

Some Electronic Chapbooks are also available as follows:
DUENDE IN THE ALLEYS

44 RESURRECTIONS

THE SINGER And Others: Flamenco Hay(na)ku

There, Where the Pages Would End

Enheduanna in the 21st Century




Social Media
Facebook: As "Eileen Tabios" (and not "Eileen R. Tabios" which was set up by FB robots)

Blog: Eileen Verbs Books