User:Tryingnot2panic/Xachary Jarboe Kirsh

Xachary Jarboe Kirsh Xachary Jarboe Kirsh (born May 8, 1972) is an American writer, poet and visual artist. Most notably he won the short story prize by Louisville Magazine in 2005 for his submission Without Resistance (2005). A portion of his selected poetry was published in the anthology ‘In Other Words’ in 1998 (citation needed).

Early life The only son of Walter and Katie Turner (ne Price), he was born in Newport Beach, California and raised Orange County California, Hollywood Florida, Baton Rouge Louisiana and Louisville Kentucky. His family traveled extensively in his early years but finally settled in Kentucky in his teens so he could attend school and be close to the other members of his extended family. He began writing poetry in Elementary School and was an avid reader and writer at an early age. Education Enrolling in the University of Louisville in 1990, he started taking courses in Paralegal Studies but quickly changed to English to develop his creative writing skills. His writing caught the attention of Sena Jeter Naslund while he was an undergraduate and she eventually directed his Masters thesis and wrote letters of recommendation for him for a low residency program at Goddard College in Plainfield Vermont in 1994. After completing his Bachelors degree from University of Louisville in 1994 he immediately began a Masters degree there as well completing it in 1996.

Following a recommendation from Naslund, Kirsh was admitted to the low residency MFA program at Goddard College in 1997 and spent one semester in the fiction writing program before dropping out to pursue poetry writing exclusively.

Without Resistance

Louisville Poetry Scene and Literary Accomplishments

Kirsh was asked by local photographer, fellow writer and poet, Bil Brown to join a local weekly poetry slam called 'The Speakeasy' at Sparks in 1995. Kirsh was interviewed by (citation needed) for a literary project while working at Humana in 2005. The article highlighted the creative lives and projects of employees of the technical writing department where he worked. The article was published and distributed to the companies 5,000 employees and received favorable reviews. Kirsh was also profiled by local Louisville Magazine Velocity in 2005 in their 'What I'm Into' column. The article was published the same week his first public visual art show, ????, opened in a Frankfort Ave. gallery. The show featured 15 visual art poems and over half sold during the 30 day public viewing in summer 2005. A second show was held in summer 2006 with 12 pieces of visual work on display.

Visual Art and Aglow

Current Work and Life

Creative Influences Kirsh cites writers Jessica Hagedorn, Nicole Blackman, Arthur Rimbaud, Kathy Acker and the suicide poets Anne Sexton and Syvlia Plath as influences on his work.

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