Bennett, John M.

John M. Bennett is an author born in Chicago, Illinois, who moved to Columbus, Ohio. He has written more than 200 books, chapbooks, and audio recordings, including: Found Objects (collage poems, 1973), Works (1973), and Image Standards (1975). He is also an author of screenplays with John McClintock, including E Z Sleep (1978), Time's T-Bone (1979), Mail Art Romance (1982), and Be Blank (1988). He is a contributor to numerous anthologies, including The Sensuous President, edited by C.W. Truesdale. He collaborated on the book Saw Leaking Trees with Sheila E. Murphy using the joint pseudonym J.S. Murnet. He collaborated on the Luna Bisonte Productions Snozama edition with Vittore Baroni.

Bennett received awards from the San Francisco Poetry Film Festival and Ann Arbor Film Festival (1979) for the film Time's T-Bone and grants from Ohio Arts Council (1979, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1988, and 1989). He also received the Ohio Governor's Award, in 1984, for his volunteer service as poetry therapist at Central Ohio Psychiatric Hospital.

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