Norman Fischer

Norman Fischer is founder of Everyday Zen Foundation and a former co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. He teaches in communities located in the United States, Canada and Mexico and is active in many inter-faith dialog organizations. He has published many collections of poetry, the most recent being I Was Blown Back (2005) and Questions/Voices/Places/Seasons (2009). His recent book on adolescent education, Taking Our Places, The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up, is now available in German as Unseren Platz einnehmen.

resources on the web

Norman Fischer Poetry site
A website devoted to Norman Fischer's writing.
http://www.normanfischerzenpoetry.com

Everyday Zen Foundation
The website of the Zen community lead by Norman Fischer. The site contains numerous transcripts and recordings of talks, as well as Fischer's poetry.
http://www.everydayzen.org

Penn Sound
Poetry reading at the Kelly Writers House
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Fischer.html

Audio Dharma, Insight Meditation Center
Audio recordings of talks
http://www.audiodharma.org/talks/NormanFischer.html

"Driving A Truck Through A Sway Among A Swarm" a review of Fischer's I Was Blown Back by Paul Kahn
Jacket Magazine #32
http://jacketmagazine.com/33/kahn-fischer.shtml

Norman Fischer reviews Philip Whalen's Overtime
Jacket Magazine #11
http://jacketmagazine.com/11/whalen-rev-fischer.html

Monastic Interreligious Dialogue
transcription from interfaith conference, 2002
http://monasticdialog.com/au.php?id=121

Language and emptiness: An interview with Norman Fischer
Chicago Review 1993
http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ADM/joh.htm