Guy Bennett is a poet/translator and author. He has a Ph.D. in French Literature from UCLA. His collections of poetry include Drive to Cluster (Piacenza, Italy: ML & NLF, 2003), and, with Béatrice Mousli, of Poésies des deux mondes: un dialogue franco-américain à travers les revues, 1850-2004 (Paris: Ent'revues, 2004). His poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies in Brazil, Canada, France, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, and the USA. Recent translations include works by Nicole Brossard, Jean-Michel Espitallier, Mostafa Nissabouri, Valère Novarina, Jacques Roubaud, and Giovanna Sandri. Guy Bennett is the publisher of Mindmade Books, co-editor of Seismicity Editions, and is a contributing editor to the New Review of Literature (USA) and Électron Libre (Morocco). He lives in Los Angeles and is Associate Professor at Otis College of Art and Design.
Issue 1. Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Carpenter, eds. Arsonism (2008).
Nuova poesia americana. Los Angeles. Luigi Ballerini and Paul Vangelisti, eds. Milan: Mondadori, 2005.
Walt Whitman: Hom(m)age, 2005/1855. Eric Athenot and Olivier Brossard, eds. New York and Nantes: Turtle Point Press/éditions joca seria, 2005.
Intersections: Innovative Poetry in Southern California. Douglas Messerli, ed. Los Angeles: Green Integer Books, 2005.
Place as Purpose: Poetry from the Western States. Martha Ronk and Paul Vangelisti, eds. Los Angeles: Autry Museum of Western Heritage / Sun & Moon Press, 2002.
Poesia in azione: in una reta de voci. Adam Vaccaro and Giacomo Guidetti, eds. Milan, Italy: Milancosa, 2002.
L’Anthologie 2000. Henri Deluy, ed. Paris: Fourbis, 2001.
Duetos: 4 poetas norte-americanos contemporâneos. Régis Bonvicino, ed. Florianópolis, Brazil: Museu/Arquivo da Poesia Manuscrita, 1997.
The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry 1994—1995. Douglas Messerli, ed. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1996.
"LA-Lit Interviews Guy Bennett," by Stephanie Rioux and Mathew Timmons. (February 2006)
"Entrevue avec le poète américain Guy Bennett réalisée par Hassan El Ouazzani." art Le Sabord 70 (2005): 44—51.
"Paris / Morocco / L.A.: Poet, translator, and publisher Guy Bennett talks (with Leonard Schwartz) about his poetry, his publishing venture Seeing Eye Books, and his translations of Valère Novarina and Mostafa Nissabouri."
"Difficult Fruits and Paraphrase: Guy Bennett talks to Andrew Maxwell about translation and constraint." Double Change II (2002).