Hank Lazer's guest appearances

Hank Lazer

Houston Zen Center Dharma Talks

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Norman Fischer

Toni Morrison

George Saunders

Koshin Paley Ellison

Jon Meacham

Natasha Tretheway

Walter Mosley

Buddha Dharma

Helen Macdonald

Margaret Atwood

Rick Mitchell

Teijo Munnich

Rae Armantrout

Rohatsu Sesshin

Rick Bragg

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Hank Lazer has published nineteen books of poetry, including N24 (2014) and N18 (2012), Portions (2009), The New Spirit (2005), Elegies &amp; Vacations (2004), and Days (2002). Pages from Lazer’s shape-writing handwritten notebooks have been performed with soprano saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar, most recently at the University of Georgia and in two concerts in Havana, Cuba. Lazer’s Selected Poems in translation will be appearing in books in the coming year in China, Cuba, and Italy. Over the past fifteen years, Lazer has collaborated with various jazz musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, and visual artists in seeking new ways to present poetry. In 2015, Lazer was selected to receive Alabama’s most prestigious literary prize, the Harper Lee Award, for lifetime achievement in literature, joining past recipients of the award such as Winston Groom, Fanny Flagg, and Rick Bragg. Lazer retired in January 2014 from his positions as Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Executive Director of Creative Campus, and Professor of English. He is now able to teach more frequently, and to spend more time reading, writing, taking his dogs for walks, playing golf, and traveling on his poetry passport. He continues to serve as a Senior Fellow with the Blount Undergraduate Initiative.

Hank Lazer has published nineteen books of poetry, including N24 (2014) and N18 (2012), Portions (2009), The New Spirit (2005), Elegies &amp; Vacations (2004), and Days (2002). Pages from Lazer’s shape-writing handwritten notebooks have been performed with soprano saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar, most recently at the University of Georgia and in two concerts in Havana, Cuba. Lazer’s Selected Poems in translation will be appearing in books in the coming year in China, Cuba, and Italy. Over the past fifteen years, Lazer has collaborated with various jazz musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, and visual artists in seeking new ways to present poetry. In 2015, Lazer was selected to receive Alabama’s most prestigious literary prize, the Harper Lee Award, for lifetime achievement in literature, joining past recipients of the award such as Winston Groom, Fanny Flagg, and Rick Bragg. Lazer retired in January 2014 from his positions as Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Executive Director of Creative Campus, and Professor of English. He is now able to teach more frequently, and to spend more time reading, writing, taking his dogs for walks, playing golf, and traveling on his poetry passport. He continues to serve as a Senior Fellow with the Blount Undergraduate Initiative.

Bookmark with Don Noble: Hank Lazer (2021)

Dharma Talk by Hank Lazer, a poet.This Sunday, Hank Lazer, a longtime Zen practitioner and poet, will give a cloud dharma talk. Hank is a well-known poet.He has been a Zen practitioner for approximately 20 years, principally with instruction from his long-time friend Norman Fischer. Lazer has taken part in sesshins at the Upaya Zen Center, Mar de Jade (in Chacala, Nayarit, Mexico – where he went through the jukai ceremony), and the Rohatsu Sesshin this past December at the Houston Zen Center. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where for the past four years he has convened a weekly meditation for the Quiet Tide Sangha. In his retirement, he teaches a seminar Zen Buddhism &amp; Radical Approaches to the Arts at the University of Alabama where he was an administrator and professor for nearly 40 years. He has published thirty-one books of poetry, including the recently released Slowly Becoming Awake (N32) (2019, Dos Madres Press) and Poems That Look Just Like Poems (2019, PURH – one volume in English, one in French). In 2015, Lazer received Alabama’s most prestigious literary prize, the Harper Lee Award, for lifetime achievement in literature.

Dharma Talk by Hank Lazer, a poet.This Sunday, Hank Lazer, a longtime Zen practitioner and poet, will give a cloud dharma talk. Hank is a well-known poet.He has been a Zen practitioner for approximately 20 years, principally with instruction from his long-time friend Norman Fischer. Lazer has taken part in sesshins at the Upaya Zen Center, Mar de Jade (in Chacala, Nayarit, Mexico – where he went through the jukai ceremony), and the Rohatsu Sesshin this past December at the Houston Zen Center. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where for the past four years he has convened a weekly meditation for the Quiet Tide Sangha. In his retirement, he teaches a seminar Zen Buddhism &amp; Radical Approaches to the Arts at the University of Alabama where he was an administrator and professor for nearly 40 years. He has published thirty-one books of poetry, including the recently released Slowly Becoming Awake (N32) (2019, Dos Madres Press) and Poems That Look Just Like Poems (2019, PURH – one volume in English, one in French). In 2015, Lazer received Alabama’s most prestigious literary prize, the Harper Lee Award, for lifetime achievement in literature.

Hank Lazer: Poetry and Zen

Close Listening: Hank Lazer, 2009

Close Listening: In Conversation with Hank Lazer, 2009