Jennifer K Dick

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Born1970 (age 5556)
Notable works
Jennifer K Dick
Born1970 (age 5556)
OccupationPoet, Essayist, Translator, Researcher
GenrePoetry, Essay
Notable works

Jennifer K Dick, (born 1970) is an American poet, translator and educator/scholar born in Minnesota, raised in Iowa and currently living in Mulhouse, France. She has been classified as a post-L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E school poet and, by Amy Catanzano, as a U+F+O+L+A+N+G+U+A+G+E[1] poet with a strong background in lyric and narrative tradition.

She has taught American Literature, British Romantic Poetry, Creative Writing, American Civilization, and English. Since 2009, she has been a Maître de Conférences at the Université de Haute Alsace in Mulhouse, France. Her doctoral research for her PhD was completed under the direction of Jean Bessière at the Université de Paris III: La Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2009 and her critical writings on contemporary cross-genre poets and prose authors are in the field of Comparative Literature with an accent on Visual studies, Modernism, Postmodernism and the Avant-garde, including work on Susan Howe, Myung Mi Kim, Anne-Marie Albiach, Claude Royet-Journoud, Lisa Jarnot, and Maurice Roche. Dick also holds a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Colorado State University where she worked with Laura Mullen[2] and a BA in English Literature from Mount Holyoke College where she spent three years in Lyric Poetry and Russian Poetry courses with Nobel Laureat Joseph Brodsky.

Works

Books

Chapbooks and Art Collaborative Books

  • Retina/Rétine (Estepa Editions, Paris, France, with artwork by Kate Van Houten and translations by Rémi Bouthonnier, 2005)
  • Poetry: Tracery (Dusie Kollectif, chapbook, 20912)
  • Betwixt (Corrupt Books, 2012)
  • Conversion (Estepa Editions, with artwork by Kate Van Houten 2013)
  • No Title (Estepa Editions, Paris, 2015) after artwork by Rabih Mroué
  • Comme Un no 9, (AREA gallery and publisher, with artwork by Matsutani Takesada, Akira Inumaru, Takeshi Sumi et Akira Takaishi, design par Alin Avila, Paris, France, 2017)
  • Afterlife (Angel House Press,[6] Ottawa, Canada, 2017) after art show "Dessins d'ombre"[7] by Véronique Arnold[8] and for dancer Olivier Gabrys performance Traces de son amant qui s'en va (Museum of Fine Arts, Mulhouse, France, 2016)

Criticism: Books

In anthologies and collaborations

  • Poem: Ondulations (Aeneis Editions, Paris, 2009) artbook with 4 original paintings by Giorgio Fidone & texts by Jennifer K Dick (English) Jacques de Longeville (French), & Susana Sulic (Argentinian Spanish).
  • Poems: “A Dark Continent”, “The Price of an Idea” in Moosehead Anthology X: Future Welcome, an anthology of science-based poems edited by Todd Swift, DC Books, Canada, 2005.
  • Poems: “The Memory Machine”, “Mucking Around in the Wetware” in Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets, a VCP Anthology, ed Elizabeth Ianacci, Los Angeles, CA 2004.
  • Poem: “Theater” in In the Criminal's Cabinet: An Anthology of Poetry and Fiction, ed Val Stevenson and Todd Swift, nth position press, London, 2004.
  • Poem: “Where” in SHORT FUSE: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, ed. Todd Swift and Paul Norton, Rattapallax Press, NYC, USA, 2002, and “After” in the e-book anthology extension, 2002.
  • Poem: “Election Day” in 100 Poets Against the War, ed. Todd Swift, Salt Press, UK, 2003.

Critical articles in journals and collective books

  • Criticism: “Craig Santos Perez and Myung Mi Kim Voicing the Integral Divide: Reshaping American History through Multi-lingualism” in the book American Multiculturalism in Context: Views from at Home and Abroad (ed. by Samuel Ludwig), ISBN 978-1-4438-1691-5, Cambridge Scholars, UK, January 2017.
  • Criticism in French: « ‘Le corps toujours autre’ dans les sonorités visuelles de Jacques Sivan »  in the book L’écriture mo(t)léculaire de Jacques Sivan. Choix de textes de 1983-2016 avec des interventions de Vannina Maestri, Jennifer K. Dick, Jean-Michel Espitallier, Emmanuèle Jawad, Luigi Magno et Gaëlle Théval, edited by Laurent Cauwet, ISBN 978-2847617153, les éditions Al Dante/preses du réel, France, 2017 (453 p.), pp. 29-50.
  • Criticism: « Circles and Lines  / Limits and Extensions : The Kinetic Conflicts Inherent in Anne Carson’s The Life of Towns and Wassily Kandinsky’s Point and Line to Plane », dir. Pascale Tollance, Cambridge Scholars, UK, 2016 (199 p.), pp. 48–68.
  • Criticism: « Invisible Collisions: Considering Susan Howe’s Reform of the Poetic, Critical & Autobiographical Essay », Seventeen Seconds[12]: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, issue 7,[13] Canada, June 2013.
  • Criticism in French: « La revue de Pierre Albert-Birot. SIC prend l’extrême pointe de l’avant-garde pendant la Première Guerre mondiale » in the book Poétiques scientifiques dans les revues européennes de la modernité (1900-1940), co-edited by Noëlle Cuny and Tania Collani, ISBN 978-2-8124-0866-3 (livre broché) ; ISBN 978-2-8124-1097-0 (livre relié). Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2013, (461p.), pp. 287–303.

In journals

Other works have appeared in over 50 journals such as Colorado Review, Gargoyle Magazine, American Letters & Commentary, Tears in the Fence, Denver Quarterly, Cutbank, Barrow Street and Aufgabe. Recent poems from her 2014-16 project on the CERN appear on Dusie,[14] Molly Bloom,[15] Spoon Bending from Cordite Poetry Review,[16] and Undertow Magazine and have been translated into Czech and French. Dick has conducted interviews with many contemporary poets who have had an influence on her work, such as Alice Notley,[17] Cole Swensen,[18] Marilyn Hacker,[19] and Mary Jo Bang (who was the previous poetry editor of Boston Review).

Her critical writings[20][21] and book reviews have appeared in Drunken Boat, Jacket 2 and Tears in The Fence. She also writes a regular poetics column for Tears in the Fence UK called "Of Tradition and Experiment". « Le Spectre des langues possibles : création et politiques n°7 »[22] an interview of her on the issues of poetic practice and politics by Emmanuèle Jawad, appeared in French on Diacritik, 17 Oct 2016

Paris scene and Ivy writers

Residency for French authors "Écrire L'Art"

References

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