John Stigall
John Stigall (November 4, 1951 - November 12, 2009) was an American
Chattanooga State Technical Community College
.
Life and Academic Career
John Stigall received a
Chattanooga State Technical Community College. He founded and became editor of the campus literary magazine The Phoenix. The 2001 edition of The Phoenix was dedicated to him by Bill Stifler.[1] He also received the Outstanding Young Educator Award [1] and other honors while he taught. Towards the end of his professorship, he was asked to read from Broken Mirrors Reflect the World at Pennsylvania State University and SUNY; his book, Subject for Other Conversations, was subsequently taught at Pennsylvania State University for a brief period.[2]
Master's Thesis
- The Morale of Consciousness Wails (1980). Call Numbers: Oversize PS3569.T4775 M6 ; Thesis 339
Books
- In Avant Gardens (1983) Damballah Press ISBN 0-913649-01-5
- Broken Mirrors Reflect the World (1990) Damballah Press ISBN 0-913649-05-8
- Schizofrenzy (1993) Mammoth Books
- Subjects for Other Conversations (2001) Mammoth Books ISBN 0-9666028-6-2
- Smiling From the Ancestral Face (Incomplete)
Poetry and other publications
John Stigall's
existentialist philosophy and plays of Jean-Paul Sartre, struggles with Christian spirituality, and notably racism and prejudice
.
academic settings in the Peabody Journal of Education:[2]
The contemporary poet, John Stigall (1990) has expressed the issue succinctly: Racism is stupid. Hatred is a bitch. Yeah, prejudice is like a house dog hunching on your leg. But you got to shake it off or it'll really screwwwwwww your head up.[3]
In 2002, Angus Woodward published a positive review[4] of John Stigall's book Subjects for Other Conversations in Xavier Review Journal.[3]
His poem "Another Version of As Told in the Tombs" appears in the fourth volume[5] of North Carolina State University's literary journal Obsidian III[4]
The 2006 edition of the Volunteer State Community College literary journal Number One[5] includes John Stigall's poem "Worship."[6]
Spoken Word Recordings
John Stigall also recorded two
CDs with the progressive rock
group Losfer Words as well as a two disc compilation of his works.
He was signed to Losfer Words Records & Deep Blue Wonders Music Publishing ASCAP in 1993. Stigall and label founder, David Flower, appeared on CD on the track Midnight. Outside Pleasures was produced and hosted by Shaking Ray Levis, a well known improvisational group that has collaborated with John Zorn, David Greenberger, Fred Frith, Min Tanaka, Amy Denio, and Derek Bailey, as well as with many other critically acclaimed artists, including John Stigall. His CDs feature poetry readings backed by original musical compositions ranging from Blues to New Age
performed by Losfer Words.
CDs
- Into the Life of this World (1996) - contains poems from Broken Mirrors Reflect the World and early versions of poems that would later appear in Subjects for Other Conversations
- Another Conversation With the Bard (1998) - based on poems from Subjects for Other Conversations
- Into the Life of this World (1999) - reissue with new music not on the original
External links
- The Phoenix
- History of the Phoenix
- John Stigall's poem "Worship" is available in the 2006 edition of Number One
- List of Outstanding American Award recipients
- List of SUNY at Brockport's Master's Theses
- The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers includes John Stigall's work with Losfer Words
- Shaking Ray Levi's Outside Pleasures
- Hear tracks from John Stigall's CDs at Soundclick.com
References
- ^ See "History of the Phoenix" webpage.
- ^ Pennsylvania State University catalog of course offerings (2001-2002)
- ^ "As Tensions Spread..." Charles M. Achilles, Julie E. Williams Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 66, No. 4, The Relationship of the School Organization to Minority Students (Summer, 1989), pp. 5-16
- ^ "Angus Woodward on John Stigall's Subjects for Other Conversations" Xavier Review Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, (Spring 2002)
- ^ Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora, Volume 4, Number 2, (Fall/Winter, 2002-2003)
- ^ Number One, 2006, pg. 2
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