Zachary W. Bos

Zachary W. Bos grew up in homes in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and has lived in Massachusetts since 1999. He did undergraduate coursework at Boston University, and is an alumnus of the graduate poetry workshops at BU's Creative Writing Program. His primary literary activity is as a publisher and editor; he is former Deputy Editor of News from the Republic of Letters, edited by Saul Bellow and Keith Botsford, and has had editorial, production advisory roles with more than dozen other publications, including Fulcrum, Clarion and The Battersea Review. He has operated Pen & Anvil Press for more than a decade, publishing books, journals, broadsides, and chapbooks, and sponsoring educational and literary events throughout Massachusetts. He has been an invited reader at venues including the KGB Bar, the Dire Reader series, U35 in Boston, and Stone Soup. He is an annual presenter at the Pleasures of Poetry reading group sponsored by MIT's Literature Section. He has taught workshops on poetry appreciation and poetry writing for groups as an educator with PEN New England's Prison Education program and as a poet-in-the-classroom for Mass Poetry's Student Day of Poetry program. In 2020 he launched Bonfire Bookshop in Central Massachusetts, operating a bricks-and-mortar bookstore and a publishing services agency. As coordinator of student publications at the BU BookLab, he is primary sponsor of the Bonfire Collegiate Publishing mailing list, and the annual Northeast Student Publishing Conference. He is the present editor of the website New England Review of Books.

Early Life
Zachary Willem Bos is from Paterson, NJ; Newburgh, NY.

Goals
"'I'd like my translation work to be a way for increasing the diversity of the US literary market. I'd like my poems to articulate an eloquent and fully-featured way of being naturalistic, compassionate, and efficacious in the world. And I'd like my fiction to be a place where readers, especially young readers, can find characters or concerns they identify with, and are motivated by.'"

Inspirations
"'I'm primarily provoked to write by the hope of being helpful.'"

Philosophy
"'Creative writing is a way of repudiating the metaphysical indifference of the universe. We are veritably here, even if the cosmos doesn't care that we are; our writing is a technology of resistance against entropy and mortality.'"

Publications
In Iowa Review online, https://iowareview.org/blog/remediation (4/20); in Noble Gas Quarterly, http://noblegas.org/issue-205-3/zachary-bos/fallen-fruit (9/18); in Dappled Things, https://dappledthings.org/15273/pentecost-2019/ (12/19); in Bosphorus Review of Books, https://bosphorusreview.com/underground (5/18); in Unbroken Journal, http://unbrokenjournal.com/2016/01/whose-hope-lies-in-the-ocean/ (1/16); in Lotus-Eater, https://lotuseatermagazine.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/lotus-eater-mag-issue-3.pdf (11/15); in Found Poetry Review, http://www.foundpoetryreview.com/volumes/six/ (2014); and in Tower Journal, http://towerjournal.com/spring_2012/Zachary_Bos.htm (2012).