Bill Shute

Working out of San Antonio, Texas, Bill Shute (born 1958) has published fourteen books and over one hundred chapbooks of open-field poetry, assemblages of particulars from an increasingly beaten-down and militarized American South and Southwest. He has recorded poetry-and-music collaborations with a number of experimental and free-jazz artists, including Alfred 23 Harth, and since 2006 he has operated the South Texas-based small label and press Kendra Steiner Editions. Shute has also written extensively about music since the 1970s and has been a contributor for Ugly Things magazine for 38 years. In 2012 he assembled the band for and produced an acclaimed Austin concert by legendary outsider musician Jandek. Recently he issued the book-length poem Two Self Portraits (after Murillo) and provided the critical introduction for a new collection of filmmaker Edward D. Wood Jr.’s early 1970s non-fiction writings, When The Topic Is Sex (Bear Manor Media). Moloko Print in Germany published in 2021 a collection of shorter works from long out of print chapbooks, Junk Sculpture From The New Gilded Age: Selected Poems, 2005-2017. His new book-length poem for 2023 is Neutral. He can be found at kendrasteinereditions.wordpress.com