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.
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