Geoffrey Gatza
Gatza (born 1970) is an American poet and editor and the publisher of [[BlazeVOX Books|BlazeVOX [books]]], an independent press based in Buffalo, New York.
Geoffrey Gatza
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- 1970
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- poet
- Education
- The Culinary Institute of America at Hyde Park · Kenmore West Senior High School · Daemen University
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Gatza (born 1970) is an American poet and editor and the publisher of [[BlazeVOX Books|BlazeVOX [books]]], an independent press based in Buffalo, New York.
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Early life and education
Early life and education
Gatza grew up in Kenmore in Erie County, New York and attended four schools in the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda School District: Jane Addams Elementary School, Lindbergh Elementary School, Kenmore Middle School, and Kenmore West High School. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York and Daemen College in Amherst, New York.
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Personal life
Gatza resides in Kenmore, New York with his girlfriend Donna.
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1970
Geoffrey Gatza born.
Books
• House of Forgetting (2012) • Secrets of My Prison House (2010) • La Santa Muerte, the Saint of Death (2010) • Housecat Kung Fu: Strange Poems For Wild Children (2009) • Not So Fast Robespierre (2008) • E: Electron (with Deena Larsen) (2001) The last of these books uses the periodic table of elements as the structure for a love story. As the story progresses, another "electron" of memory is added to the lives of the book's primary "elements."
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- 1.Shivani, Anis. National Poetry Month Feature: Geoffrey Gatza of BlazeVOX Talks About the NEA Ban on His Small Press. Huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.
- 2.Ed Adamczyk. PUBLISHING: Kenmore native is a poet and entrepreneur. Tonawanda news.com. February 24, 2008.
- 3.US Search.com. Geoffrey C Gatza. August 2025.
- 4.Jane Kwiatkowski. A conversation with poet Geoffrey Gatza. Buffalo News. March 28, 2010.
- 5.Geoffrey Gatza.
- 6.House of Forgetting by Geoffrey Gatza
- 7.Secrets of My Prison House
- 8.SOL: English Writing in Mexico Geoffrey Gatza: Two Poems.
- 9.Housecat Kung Fu: Strange Poems For Wild Children
- 10.Fink, Thomas. HOUSECAT KUNG FU by GEOFFREY GATZA. galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com. December 21, 2009.
- 11.Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. RAPID TRANSIT. The Brooklyn Rail. May 2010.
- 12.Geoffrey Gatza.
- 13.A Lisping Ignatius / The Sincere, The Flarf, and The Voice of Place: A reading of Geoffrey Gatza’s Not So Fast Robespierre
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Formation and teaching. Gatza studied at The Culinary Institute of America at Hyde Park, Kenmore West Senior High School and Daemen University. Recorded as having studied at The Culinary Institute of America at Hyde Park, Kenmore West Senior High School and Daemen University.
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