Quick Links ------------------------- Apply Admissions BC in the Media BC News Campus Bookstore Campus Cafeteria Campus Security Calendar Continuing Education Fast Facts Financing Your Education Graduate Programs Maps and Directions Request Information Student Services Undergraduate Programs

Home: Our Faculty: Brooklyn College Faculty:

Louis Asekoff

Professor   Department: English   Location: 2231 Boylan Hall   Phone: 718-951-5847   Fax: 718-951-4612   Email:

poet, professor of English books: Dreams of a Work (1993); North Star (1997) Orchises Press; poems published in American Poetry Review, Poetry, The New Yorker, etc.; Awards: Jerome Shestack Prize, American Poetry Review; NYFA Fewllowship, 1998; NEA Fellowship, 1998 Education: DOCTOR DEGREE WAIVER - 1994 M.A., Brandeis University - 1965 (English & American Literature) B.A. Honors, Bowdoin College - 1961 (English/Philosophy) Areas of Expertise: poet, specializing in modernist, postmodernist poetry, poetics Books and Publications "Widows of Gravesend" included in anthology Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2007 Creative Work "The Gate of Horn," accepted for The New Yorker; published "Aubade," 32 Poems; reading: AWP, New York City. 2008 Poetry: "The Conquerors", published on Slate.com. 2007 Poetry: "Two Diacrostics", "China Doll", "Child's Song", They Are Flying Planes; "The Last Toast", "Petroglyph", Other Rooms; "Degas", "Chekhov", "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite", Lungfull; "Freedom Hill", published in American Poetry Review. 2007 Readings: Perch Cafe, Brooklyn; Freddy's Place, Brooklyn; Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown. 2007 Awards, Honors and Fellowships Nominated for the Pushcart Prize (Awards and Honors) 2007