CHRISTIAN HAWKEY is an American poet, educator, and activist living in Brooklyn and Berlin. He has written two full-length poetry collections, numerous chapbooks, and the cross-genre book Ventrakl (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). A new book, Sonne from Ort, a bi-lingual collaborative erasure made with the German poet Uljana Wolf, has just been published (kookbooks Verlag, Berlin, 2013). He translates contemporary German poetry, and with the German poet Uljana Wolf he translates the Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger. With Rachel Levitsky he founded and runs the Office of Recuperative Strategies, a research-oriented collective dedicated to exploring new tactics to promote the reuse, perversification, reanimation, and reparation of precarious, outmoded, and correctable cultural phenomena.

Office of Recuperative Strategies

Christian Hawkey's wikipedia page

Ventrakl (Ugly Duckling Presse)

Recordings:

Poetry Project, 1/10/2011

Poetry International