Jennifer Karmin

Poet

Chicago, IL

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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 transpired at festivals, in artist-run spaces, and on city streets. Performance venues 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 and often led ensembles of poets improvising together.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

The End of the World Project (Moria Books, 2019)

The Canary Islands Connection: 60 Contemporary American Poets (Zasterle Press, 2016)

Please Add To This List: Teaching Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets & Experiments (Tender Buttons Press, 2014)

I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press, 2012)

The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing (&NOW Books -- Lake Forest College Press, 2012)

Emergency Index (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011)

Not a Muse (Haven Books, 2009)

A Sing Economy (Flim Forum Press, 2008)

Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press, 2008)

The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books, 2007)

Sixty Seconds to Shine (Smith & Kraus, 2006)

Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces (GirlChild Press, 2006)

Book:

Aaaaaaaaaaalice (Flim Forum Press, 2010)

Chapbooks:

art is a concept art is a process / Present Tense Pamphlets (Northwestern University Press, 2016)

The Sexual Organs of the IRS / a collaboration with Bernadette Mayer (Convulsive Editions, 2016)

4000 Words 4000 Dead + Revolutionary Optimism: An American Elegy (Sona Press, 2012)

Evacuated: Disembodying Katrina (Dusie Press, 2009)

Journals:

Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day

Anomalous Press

Anomaly

Bird Dog

Blue Beat Jacket

Brooklyn Rail

Cannot Exist

Columbia Poetry Review

Court Green

Delirious Hem

Drunken Boat

Dusie

Elderly

Esque

Everyday Genius

Fact-Simile

Fence

How 2

Jacket2

Lungfull!

MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine

Matter

Milk

MoonLit

NOÖ Journal

Notre Dame Review

Otoliths

Out Of Nothing

Plath Profiles

Poetry Project Newsletter

Poets for Living Waters

Requited

Seven Corners

Seventeen

Specs

Summer Stock

We Are So Happy To Know Something

Western Humanities Review

Womb

Prizes won:

Past grants and residencies were sponsored by the Alfonso Gatto Foundation, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the Chicago Poetry Center, Columbia College, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Illinois Arts Council, the Joseph Kellman Family Foundation, Kisii University, Links Hall, Rochester Community Savings Bank, the Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission, Summer Literary Seminars, and the Synapses Foundation. Poems are published internationally in An Anthology of Post-1970 American Experimental Poetry (OKF Cetinje, 2023 - Montenegro), I Can't Breathe: A Poetic Anthology Of Social Justice (Kistrech, 2021 - Kenya), and Musings During A Time of Pandemic: A World Anthology of Poems on COVID-19 (Kistrech, 2020 - Kenya).

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Favorite authors:

Educated at SUNY Buffalo (BA in Poetics) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA in Writing), her teachers and mentors range from: Barbara Barg, Charles Bernstein, Robert Creeley, Alexis De Veaux, Raymond Federman, Susan Howe, Joan Retallack, and Goat Island performance group. Frequent collaborators have included: Amina Cain, Laaura Goldstein, J’Sun Howard, Bernadette Mayer, Kenyatta Rogers, and members of the Dusie Kollektiv.

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Born in:

Brooklyn, NY

New York

Raised in:

Buffalo, NY

New York

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Last update: Mar 20, 2023