Chris Stroffolino
| Chris Stroffolino | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 20, 1963 Reading, Pennsylvania, US |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Albany |
| Occupation | Poet, musician, writer |
| Website | pianovan |
Chris Stroffolino is an American poet, writer, musician, critic, performer, author of 12 books of poetry and prose, and probably best known to the general populace for working alongside Steve Malkmus and David Berman on The Silver Jews "American Water" album (1998 Drag City). Stroffolino, (born in Reading, Pennsylvania March 20, 1963) attended Albright College, Temple University and Bard College, The University of Massachusetts Amherst, before receiving a PhD at Suny-Albany with a dissertation on William Shakespeare in 1998.
After moving to Philadelphia in 1986, Stroffolino auditioned for Lamont Steptoe of the Painted Bride Art Center, and soon became one of the young stars of Philly's burgeoning spoken word scene, alongside writers such as C.A. Conrad, Linh Dinh, Candace Kaucher and Jerome Robinson. Stroffolino's first book of poems, "Incidents", published by David Roskos's Vendatta Books (Iniquity Press) in 1990, collected the more popular of these performance poems. Stroffolino co-edited The Painted Bride Quarterly from 1988–1990, worked on the Philly anarchist 'zine, Talk Is Cheap, and co-founded the underground punk warehouse, KillTime Place in 1989 while organizing reading series at The Schmidt-Dean Gallery and Borders Books.
Stroffolino's next book, "Oops" (published by Boulder Colorado's backyard press in 1991, republished by Pavement Saw Press in 1994), while sharing many of the themes and personae of his first book, consisted of poems published in magazines but seldom performed at readings. Often considered Stroffolino's homage to protracted adolescence, the poems in Oops got Stroffolino's page-based poetry to a national audience and set the tone for the subsequent books of the 1990s.
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