Contributors
- Contributors
Dimitri Anastasopoulos teaches Contemporary Fiction at the University at Buffalo. His fiction and essays have appeared most recently in Notre Dame Review and Callaloo. His novel, A Larger Sense of Harvey, was published by Mammoth Books.
Joshua Clover is currently a Fellow at Cornell's Society for the Humanities; he is regularly a Professor of English Literature at University of California Davis. His books include The Totality for Kids (University of California, 2006) and 1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About (University of California, 2009). This essay is part of a larger project on modern and contemporary poetry and political economy.
Rob Halpern is the author of two books of poems, Rumored Place and Disaster Suites, and the co-author, together with Taylor Brady, of the book length poem Snow Sensitive Skin. His essay on Baudelaire recently appeared in Modernist Cultures, and another article on the work of Georges Perec can be found in the Review of Contemporary Fiction, together with his translation of Perec's early essay, "Commitment or the Crisis of Language." He is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University and an active member of the Nonsite Collective.
Carla Harryman's recent books include Adorno's Noise (Essay Press, 2008) and the novella The Wide Road, a collaboration with Lyn Hejinian (Belladonna, 2011). She is co-contributor to The Grand Piano (Mode D, 2010), a project that focuses on the emergence of Language writing, art, politics, and culture of the San Francisco Bay area between 1975-1980, and co-editor of Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker (Verso, [End Page 162] 2006). She serves on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University.
Ruth Jennison is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her current book project, "The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins and the Avant-Garde," draws on methods in critical geography to read the formal practices of revolutionary modernism. Objectivism and its satellites lie at the center of this alternative genealogy of American poetry.
Barrett Watten is the author of The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics (Wesleyan UP, 2003), which received the René Wellek Prize in 2004. His creative publications include Progress/Under Erasure (2004); Bad History (1998); and Frame (1971-1990) (1997). Wesleyan will publish a combined print/digital Guide to Poetics Journal and Poetics Journal Digital Archive in 2011. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Universität Tübingen, Germany, in 2005, and is a Professor of English at Wayne State University. [End Page 163]
