Harry Polkinhorn, PhD

Harry Polkinhorn is an experimental poet/artist, translator, and editor whose works have been exhibited and published worldwide. He has published over thirty books of poetry, fiction, translation, and edited collections. His areas of scholarly interest focus on the international avant-garde and the culture of the U.S.-Mexico border region, as well as psychoanalytic theory. He is a training candidate in adult analysis at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and has a private practice. He has translated works from Italian, Portuguese, German, and Spanish. Blue Shift (a book-length poem) was published by Ex Nihilo Press, San Francisco (1999). He co-edited a bilingual English/Spanish anthology of poetry by Baja California poets published by Junction Press (2002). Educated at the University of California, SDSU, New York University, the Kunstgewerbeschule of the City of Zurich, and Pacifica Graduate Institute, he is a permanent visiting professor in the PhD program in Semiotics and Communication of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is Director of San Diego State University Press.