George Tysh
B. 1942
Born in Passaic, New Jersey, poet George Tysh was educated in Detroit. Tysh’s numerous volumes of poetry, including The Imperfect (2010) and Dream Sites: A Visual Essay (1998), have been praised for combining “rigor, artifice, and intuition,” in the words of Brooklyn Rail reviewer Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. Tysh has also collaborated with the conceptual artists Sarkis and Christian Boltanski. He co-edited the project In Camera with his wife, Chris, and Blue Pig with David Ball, and has served as arts editor for Detroit’s Metro Times newspaper.
His honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1980 to 1991 he directed LINES: New Writing Program at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
His honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1980 to 1991 he directed LINES: New Writing Program at the Detroit Institute of Arts.