Jennifer Karmin | Poets & Writers

2652 W.Evergreen, 2R

Chicago, IL 60622

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Author's Bio

Jennifer Karmin has published, performed, exhibited, taught, and experimented with language across the U.S., Cuba, Japan, Kenya, and Europe. Her multidisciplinary work has been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on city streets. Venues for these pieces include: the Poetry Project, the Walker Art Center, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and Woodland Pattern Book Center. She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and has been a Visiting Writer at Naropa University, Oberlin College, California Institute of the Arts, plus a myriad of sites. Since 2005, she has curated the Red Rover Series in Chicago, IL.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

Aaaaaaaaaaalice

(Flim Forum Press, 2010)

Anthologies:

A Sing Economy

(Flim Forum Press, 2008)

, Come Together: Imagine Peace

(Bottom Dog Press, 2008)

, Emergency Index

(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011)

, Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces

(GirlChild Press, 2006)

, I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women

(Les Figues Press, 2012)

, Not a Muse

(Haven Books, 2009)

, Please Add This To The List: Teaching Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets & Experiments

(Tender Buttons Press, 2014)

, The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing

(&NOW Books -- Lake Forest College Press, 2012)

, The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century

(Cracked Slab Books, 2007)

Journals:

Bird Dog, Brooklyn Rail, Cannot Exist, Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Delirious Hem, Drunken Boat, Esque, Everyday Genius, Fact-Simile, Fence, How 2, Lungfull!, Matter, Milk, MoonLit, NOÖ Journal , Otoliths, Out Of Nothing, Plath Profiles, Requited, Seven Corners, Specs, Summer Stock, We Are So Happy To Know Something, Western Humanities Review, Womb

Chapbook:

4000 Words 4000 Dead + Revolutionary Optimism: An American Elegy

(Sona Press, 2012)

, Evacuated: Disembodying Katrina

(Dusie Press, 2009)

, The Sexual Organs of the IRS & Other Poems: a collaboration with Bernadette Mayer

(Convulsive Editions, 2016)

Prizes Won:

Past grants and residencies were funded by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Illinois Arts Council, the Joseph Kellman Family Foundation, the Poetry Center of Chicago, Rochester Community Savings Bank, Summer Literary Seminars, and the Synapses Foundation.