LONG BEACH, CA, August 25, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to name Gerald Locklin a Lifetime Achiever. An accomplished listee, Mr. Locklin celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
As a writer, poet and language educator, Mr. Locklin holds the esteemed position of professor emeritus at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) as well as the coveted title of longstanding contemporary with the celebrated Los Angeles poet and writer Charles Bukowski. Mr. Locklin wrote about their friendship during the '70s in the memoir "Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet" in 1995. In addition to memoir and fiction, Mr. Locklin is a prolific poet, having produced a plethora of poetry collections, and is a frequent contributor to the poetry publication Chiron Review.
Mr. Locklin was born in Rochester, New York in 1941 to Ivan and Esther Locklin. In a 2010 interview, Mr. Locklin recalls composing poetry at four years of age by the request of one of his aunts. His family inspired him to take writing seriously in school while his mother worked as a schoolteacher and his father served in World War II.
Mr. Locklin attended St. John Fisher College to earn a BA in 1961 and later completed a MA and PhD at the University of Arizona in 1964. He started teaching at the California State University in LA, moving on to the Long Beach campus in 1965. Mr. Locklin would go on to teach at the institution, stating as a reason his love of academia. He went on to establish an endowment at CSULB for an annual student writing competition, inspiring generations of new poets. Mr. Locklin is also a sponsor of Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Huntington Library & Museum.
Travel was one of the things that very much inspired Mr. Locklin's writing, and he was first published in the Wormwood Review which also brought Mr. Bukowski to the public at the time. Mr. Locklin's poetry collection "POOP and Other Poems" was reputedly an underground classic, and he has authored over 155 books, chapbooks, and broadsides of poetry, fiction, and criticism, with over 3,000 poems, stories, articles, reviews, and interviews published in periodicals. His writings are archived by the special collections of the CSULB library and in the University at Buffalo Poetry Collection. Mr. Locklin has notably been published with 13E Note Editions, Ambit Magazine, Beggars & Cheeseburgers, BlazeVox Books, Bottle of Smoke Press, Burning Shore Press, Chuckwagon Press, Coagula, Connotation Press, Iconoclast Literary Magazine, Kamini Press, Leconte Editore, Lummox Press, Narrative Magazine, Outlaw Poetry Network, Pearl Magazine, Presa Press, Rattle, Ravenna Press, Slipstream Press, Spout Hill Press, Tears in the Fence, The Spot Lit Magazine , Verdant Press, Water Row Books, and Yossarian Universal News Service. He is a member of the Western Literary Association, the Associate Writing Programs, the Hemmingway Society, the E. E. Cummings Society, and PEN USA/West.
Mr. Locklin's life has been documented by other writers in numerous biographies, including "Locklin Biblio" and "Locklin Biblio 2," by Mark Weber, "Gerald Locklin: A Critical Introduction," by Michael Basinski, and "Gerald Locklin: An Index to His Work, 1960-2003," by Joy Thomas. For his place among the great writers of the 20th century Mr. Locklin was selected for inclusion in two volumes of Who's Who in America in 2007 and 2006, two volumes of Who's Who in American Education from 2004 to 2008, and the 2000 to 2001 volume of Who's Who in the West. He enjoys swimming, jazz, and travel, and supports both the Yankees and the Lakers sports teams. To find out more about Mr. Locklin, please visit www.geraldlocklin.org or his Facebook fan page at https://www.facebook.com/geraldlocklin. To this day, he continues to publish regularly.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Mr. Locklin has been featured on the Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievers website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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