Kenneth Sherwood

A professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Sherwood became interested in Ethnopoetics as an undergraduate when he was exposed to Jerome Rothenberg's work through recordings, anthologies, and his essays which exhorted academics to teach courses with a raddle and a drum. He subsequently studied with Dennis Tedlock at SUNY Buffalo, where he also had the opportunity to hear performances by http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/rift/rift04/vicu0401.html, Ray Young Bear, Simon Ortiz, Amiri Baraka, and many other poets drawing on oral and performance traditions. Highlights of his graduate years included being asked to introduce Rothenberg before a performance at Hallwalls and working with Vicuna to publish a transcription of one of her performances.