Judith Kerman
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Life, education, and career
Kerman earned her B.A. with honors from the University of Rochester in 1967 and her M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1977) both from the University of Buffalo.[2] In 2002, she was a Fulbright senior scholar to the Dominican Republic.[3][4][5][6]
She was a university professor and dean of Arts and Behavioral Sciences[7] and is now a professor emerita of English at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan.[8][2]
She founded Earth's Daughters magazine in Buffalo, New York (1971 to present) and founded and runs Mayapple Press (1978 to present)[9] in Woodstock, New York.[10]
She is vice chair of the Woodstock, New York, Planning Board.[2]
Works
Electronic literature
An electronic literature (hypertext poem) version of Mothering was published in the Eastgate Systems quarterly review in 1995, and was issued as a paper book, Mothering and Dreams of Rain (Ridgeway Press, 1996).[11]
She wrote the content for a poem authoring system Colloquy, (implemented by Robert Chiles). This was an early generative poem that produced 17-line standzs and were "hypertexts where every word is an anchor and every path limited in length and non-retraceable."[12]
Kerman's graphic poem series, Migrations, (1987) are short poems presented for a computer screen.[13]
Poetry
- Obsessions (Intrepid Press, Beau Fleuve Series, 1974)
- The Jakoba Poems (White Pine Press, 1976)
- Mothering (Uroboros/Allegheny Mtn Press, 1978)
- Driving for Yellow Cab (Tout Press, 1985)
- Three Marbles (Cranberry Tree Press, 1999) Mothering & Dream of Rain (Ridgeway Press, 1997)
- Plane Surfaces/Plano de Incidencia (Mayapple Press, 2002)
- A Woman in Her Garden: Selected Poems of Dulce Maria Loynaz (White Pine Press, 2002)
- Galvanic Response (March Street Press, 2005) Postcards from America (Post Traumatic Press, 2015)
- Aleph, broken: Poems from My Diaspora (Broadstone Books, 2016)[14]
- definitions (Fomite Press, 2021)[2][3]
Journals
- 32 Poems, Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Driftwood, MacGuffin, Salt Hill
Translations
- Book: Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic by Aida Cartagena Portalatin, Angela Hernandez Núñez, Ylonka Nacidit Perdomo, translated from the Spanish (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2009, published as a Lannan Selection).[15]
- Entre Dos Silencios/Between Two Silences: Short Fiction by Hilma Contreras (Mayapple Press, 2013)[3]
Awards and honors
- Abbie M. Kopps Poetry Prize; Honorable Mention, Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award.[3]