ZacharyKluckman's Profile

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11/2/2008

Pen Name: ZacharyKluckman

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  Zachary Kluckman lives in a state of animated suspension in Albuquerque, where he publishes and produces poetry for television, page and stage. He is the founder of the world’s premier poetry advocacy agency, NM Poetry Tangents. In 2008 Kluckman founded the world’s first and only Slam Poet Laureate program with the city of Albuquerque, set to appoint the first new laureate in 2009. Kluckman, one of the state’s top ranked performance poets, works in the schools, community centers and outreach programs using poetry as a tool for literacy and self-establishment. He also can be seen in several television and film roles. Kluckman is an active member of the Albuquerque Slam Council and is a contributing editor to Sotto Voce magazine and the editor of Earthships: A New Mecca Poetry Collection. Past publications include the Dos Passos Review, Cutthroat and Plain Spoke among others. Kluckman has published and performed broadly, including features in New York and Chicago, and was invited by the Canadian Arts Council to perform in 2007. His intense and direct-from-the-heart delivery of often startling topics have earned him a reputation as someone who holds nothing back. Kluckman is currently hard at work on his new book, The Bone-Fly Files.

• My claim to fame: Editor of Earthships: A New Mecca Poetry Collection, also one of New Mexico's top ranked spoken word artists, Executive Director of the world's first Slam Poet Laureate Program.....and my kids think I'm famous, so it must be true!