Frank Gaik
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Frank Gaik is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California, where he has taught since 1989. Born in Chicago and schooled in southern Wisconsin, Gaik received his MFA in Poetry at the University of Arkansas and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He has taught writing at UCLA, advertising at Loyola Marymount University, and consumer economics at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. At Cerritos College, he co-directs the certificate program in creative writing/screenwriting. He has been honored as an Outstanding Faculty member and served as Vice President of the faculty union. He lives in Long Beach with his wife, Linda Palumbo, and two cats.
His poetry has been published in The Southern Review, The Hollins Critic, Cream City Review, Madison Review, Poetry Now, Sport Literate, and the Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry. He has published articles on John Berryman, William Butler Yeats, and adult literacy. His article, "Radio-Talk Show Therapy as Language Game," originally published by Cambridge University Press, is required reading in several anthropology programs and graduate programs in linguistics.
This summer, he initiated the Listening to Iraq Veterans Project at Cerritos College, bringing students together with veterans who share their experiences of the Gulf Wars.
Winning Entry: Kid Bowdler Sings Phaecia, Played by Homey
Contest Won: War Poetry Contest 2009, Honorable Mention
