About Carter Ratcliff:

Carter Ratcliff’s books of poetry include “Fever Coast”, “Give Me Tomorrow”, and “Arrivederci, Modernismo”. He published his first novel, “Tequila Mockingbird”, in 2015. Ratcliff received the Project for Innovative Poetry’s Gertrude Stein Award in 2005 and the first Annual T-Space Poetry Award in 2013. An art critic as well as a poet, he has published his art writing in many journals, including Art in America, Artforum, Modern Painting, Tate, Art Presse, and Artstudio. Among his books on art are “The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art” and “The Reinvention of Art: 1965-1975” and monographs on Andy Warhol, John Singer Sargent, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gilbert & George, and others. Writing of the interaction between Ratcliff’s poetry and his art criticism, Terance Diggory observes in The Encyclopdia of New York School Poets that his “language is activated by the act of poetic imagination, an act as essential to engagement with a work of art as with the ordinary world. In turn, the worlds he has encountered in art inform his poetry.” Ratcliff has taught at New York University; Hunter College, New York; and the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture. In 1969 he received a Poets Foundation grant. His other awards include an Art Critics grant, NEA, 1972 and 1976; a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976; and the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism, College Art Association, 1987.