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Poetry. "Almost 20 years ago, when I was a critic by profession, a wise theater friend took me to my first Mac Wellman play--she'd grown tired of hearing me rant against a dumb, conventional 'avant-garde' of images. I wanted language, ideas, great but non-narrative passions. I saw Mac's work, and there they were. Still are. Mac Wellman's poetry, on and off stage, is ever-inventive, witty, angry, playful and exactly as contrarian in form and spirit as our culture deserves"--Erika Munk.
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Mac Wellman's recent work includes
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (with composer David Lang) at Montclair State University in the fall of 2006, and
1965 UU, for performer Paul Lazar, directed by Stephen Mellor at the Chocolate Factory in the fall of 2008. He is also working on two plays for chorus:
The Invention of Tragedy (Classic Stage Company) and
Nine Days Falling (commissioned by the Stuck Pigs Company of Melbourne, Australia). He has received numerous honors, including both NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships. In 2003 he received his third Obie, for Lifetime Achievement. In 2006 his third novel, Q'S Q, was published by Green Integer, and in 2008, a volume of stories entitled A CHRONICLE OF THE MADNESS OF SMALL WORLDS was published by Trip Street Press, as well as a new collection of plays,
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field, by Minnesota Press. His recent books of poetry are MINIATURE (2002) and STRANGE ELEGIES (2006), both from Roof Books. His play LEFT GLOVE was published by Solid Objects in 2011. He is the Donald I. Fine Professor of Playwriting at Brooklyn College.
