Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry

Contributors

contributors Charles Bernstein is the author of over 40 books, most recently Recalculating, All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems, and Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions. regan professor of english and Comparative Literature at the University of pennsylvania, Bernstein is the co-founder and co-editor, with al Filreis, of pennsound (writing.unpenn.edu/pennsound) and editor and co-founder, with Loss pequeño Glazier, of the electronic poetry Center (epc.buffalo.edu). He has been host and co-producer of LINEbreak and Close Listening, two radio poetry series. With Bruce andrews, he edited L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, which was anthologized as The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book. Bernstein has served as editor of such volumes as Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems and Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word. Carrie Conners is an assistant professor of english at CUny-LaGuardia. Her chapter “‘But he aint never been seen!’: The protean Howard Hughes and overlapping Capitalist narratives in ed dorn’s Gunslinger” appeared in Merchants, Barons, Sellers and Suits: The Changing Images of the Businessman Through Literature. Her poetry has been featured in RHINO, Tar Wolf Review, DMQ Review, and California Quarterly. Thomas Fink is the author of “A Different Sense of Power”: Problems of Community in Late–Twentieth–Century U.S. Poetry, a book on david shapiro’s poetry, and eight books of poetry, including Joyride and Autopsy Turvy, co-authored with Maya diablo Mason. He co-edited “Burning Interiors”: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics. His work appeared in Best American Poetry 2007. Fink’s paintings hang in various collections. He is a professor of english at CUny-LaGuardia. Kristen Gallagher was a first-generation member of the Kelly Writers House at the University of pennsylvania and went on to receive a phd from the sUny Buffalo poetics program in 2005. she is now an associate professor of english at CUnyLaGuardia Community College. she is the co-editor (with Chris alexander) for truck Books and is a co-curator for the segue series at the Bowery poetry Club. Her book We Are Here was published in 2011. other critical work by Gallagher on tan Lin has appeared in Criticism and Jacket2. Judith Halden-Sullivan, a professor of english at Millersville University of penn- 216 Contributors sylvania, authored The Topology of Being: The Poetics of Charles Olson and critical works on contemporary american poetry, including “architect / House of Being” in “Burning Interiors”: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics. “The experiential Ethos of advanced Composition” appears in Principles and Practice: New Discourses for the Vertical Curriculum. she is currently drafting another book-length study, Inviting Innovative Writing: A Meditation and Class Plan, which is a Gadamerian interpretation of experimental movements in contemporary rhetoric, along with both a rationale and strategy for asking college students to compose innovative texts of all kinds. she also serves as a reviewer and book review editor for the Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning. Halden-sullivan’s own verse has been published in several innovative poetry journals. Paolo Javier is the author of five chapbooks and three full-length books of poetry , including The Feeling Is Actual, 60 lv bo(e)mbs, and the time at the end of this writing. The poet Laureate of Queens County from 2010–2013, he is the recipient of grants from the new york state Council on the arts and Queens Council on the arts. He publishes the online journal 2nd Ave Poetry and lives with his wife in Queens. Burt Kimmelman’s seven collections of poetry are The Way We Live, As If Free, There Are Words, Somehow, The Pond at Cape May Point, a collaboration with painter Fred Caruso, First Life, and Musaics. His poem “taking dinner to My Mother” was featured on npr’s The Writer’s Almanac. He was senior editor of the now defunct Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation. professor of english at new Jersey institute of technology, Kimmelman is the author of The “Winter Mind”: William Bronk and American Letters and The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona. He edited The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry and co-edited The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry. He has published scores of essays on medieval, modern, and contemporary poetry. recent interviews of Kimmelman are available in Jacket 40 (text) and at Poetry Thin...