Tom Mandel grew up in Chicago and was educated in its jazz and blues clubs and at the University of Chicago where he studied on the Committee on Social Thought with Hannah Arendt, Saul Bellow, Harold Rosenberg and David Grene. He has lived in New York, Paris, San Francisco and Washington DC, and now resides in a small town on the Atlantic coast.   Tom has taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois and San Francisco State University (where he was Director of the Poetry Center). He has also been a consultant, marketing executive and entrepreneur in the technology industry.   Tom has published in dozens of newspapers, literary journals and anthologies, including the influential In the American Tree and The Norton Anthology of Post-Modern Verse. His most recent book, To the Cognoscenti, was published January 2007. He is co-author of the ongoing series The Grand Piano, an experiment in collective autobiography by ten poets associated with the rise of Language Poetry in San Francisco. Some of Tom’s more recent books include: Three Strange Books, The Prospect of Release, Absence of Sensorium (in collaboration with Daniel Davidson), and Ancestral Cave. Season Six | Home