Criticism, Prose, Teaching, Awards
After co-editing, with Lisa Jarnot and Leonard Schwartz, An Anthology of New (American) Poets for Talisman House in 1998, Stroffolino published a critical edition of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night with David Rosenthal (2000); the next year saw his collection of literary criticism (Spin Cycle). Critic Charles Altieri admired the populism of Spin Cycle’s “Radical Dogberry” essay, while “The American Book Review” lauded this collection for holding out an olive branch between the various warring factions in the literary world, especially in its “Against Lineage” essay, adding “but sometimes that branch seems to be on fire.” More recently, Stroffolino has published music and culture criticism in The Bigtakeover, Kitchen Sink, Viz, and Caught In the Carousel. In 2011, Self Portrait As Silver Jew is slated for release as an e-book (45RPM).
A recipient of a 2001 NYFA Grant, and a 2008 grant from The Fund For Poetry, Stroffolino was Visiting Distinguished Poet at St Mary’s College in Moraga, California from 2001 to 2005. He is the subject of a Contemporary Authors monograph. Although Stroffolino has curtailed activities after a bike accident left him permanently disabled in 2004, he has done stints at Mills College, San Francisco Art Institute, University of California, Berkeley and Laney College.
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