Larry Sawyer (poet)

Larry Sawyer is an American poet and editor. He edited Nexus magazine (Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio) and currently edits the online poetry magazine, milk. Sawyer is the co-director of The Chicago School of Poetics. His blog is called Me Tronome.

Nexus was awarded the Gold Crown Award for Collegiate Publications (Columbia Scholastic Press Association at Columbia University, New York). Poets and artists published in Nexus include Paul Violi, Mohammed Mrabet, Paul Bowles, Michael Castro, Charles Henri Ford, Gerard Malanga, Ira Cohen, Tuli Kupferberg, John Solt, Yamamoto Kansuke, John Brandi, Jack Hirschman, Jud Yalkut, Mark Owens, Tom Walker, Judith Malina, Nina Zivancevic, Hanon Reznikov, Hakim Bey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allan Graubard, Paul Grillo, Angus MacLise, Lionel Ziprin, Tetsuya Taguchi, A. D. Winans, Harold Norse, Edward Field, Timothy Baum, Daniel Abd Al- Hayy Moore, Indra Tamang, Sparrow, Ken Haponek, and Ron Loewinsohn. Featured art includes Max Ernst, Valentine Hugo, Victor Brauner, Raoul Ubac, Marcel Jean, Yves Tanguy, André Breton, Brion Gysin, Andy Warhol, Jack Micheline, Ronnie Burk, and Robert LaVigne among others.

Volume 32, No. 3 of Nexus, an Allen Ginsberg memorial issue, was reviewed in The American Book Review. Volume 33, No. 3 was placed in The Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur, California, and the “Moroccan issue” (Vol. 33, No. 2) was included in an exhibit of North African writing at the L’Institut du Monde Arabe, in Paris, France and then placed in their permanent collection.

milk magazine has featured poets such as Chris Glomski, Michael McClure, Robert Creeley, Ron Padgett, Cid Corman, Frank Lima, Bill Berkson, Janine Pommy Vega, Clayton Eshleman, Tom Clark, Sheila E. Murphy, Tony Towle, Jerome Rothenberg, Frank Kuenstler, Spencer Selby, Mike Topp, Linh Dinh, Thurston Moore, Hoa Nguyen, Todd Colby, Anselm Berrigan, Louis Armand, George Wallace (poet), kari edwards, Brenda Iijima, Yana Payusova, Gene Tanta, Mirela Ramona Ciupag, and Ron Silliman.