About
Scott Minar is Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio University—essayist, poet, songwriter, and performing musician. He has won a few teaching awards, taught internationally at Memorial University (St. John’s, Newfoundland), and collaborated with scholars and writers in the U.S., Sweden, Syria, Israel, England, Norway, and elsewhere. His essays, books, and poems have been published in English, Arabic, Swedish, and Hebrew. His books include Arctic Accordion: Selected Poems, Gilgamesh and Other Poems, Cymbalism, and The Palace of Reasons (all by Mammoth Books/Dubois, PA). Cymbalism and Gilgamesh and Other Poems were translated into Arabic by Dr. Saleh Razzouk of the University of Aleppo and published by Linda Books (Al Sweida, Syria). His textbooks/exercise books include Exercises for Poets: Double Bloom (with Edward Dougherty), published by Pearson; The Working Poet, by Autumn House Press (Pittsburgh); and The Working Poet II, by Mammoth Books, and his writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry International, and many other journals, books, anthologies, and online journals globally.
A few writers have offered kind remarks about Minar’s writing. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Strand said of Minar’s essay about his book Man and Camel, “This is one of the best things written about me.” When nominating him for a Pushcart Prize, Joyce Carol Oates wrote of Minar’s poetry, “His work is a remarkable find.”