Jennifer K Dick, American

United States

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 poet

Poet

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, translator and educator/scholar born in Minnesota, raised in Iowa and currently living in Mulhouse, France. Jennifer K Dick has been classified as a post-L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E school poet with a strong background in lyric and narrative tradition.

She has taught American Literature

American literature

American literature is the written or literary work produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies. For more specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States. During its early history, America was a series of British...

, Creative Writing

Creative writing

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, and English. Her doctoral research and critical writings on contemporary cross-genre poets and prose authors are in the field of Comparative Literature

Comparative literature

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 with an accent on Visual studies, Modernism

Modernism

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, Postmodernism

Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a philosophical movement evolved in reaction to modernism, the tendency in contemporary culture to accept only objective truth and to be inherently suspicious towards a global cultural narrative or meta-narrative. Postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from the...

 and the Avant-garde

Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

, including work on Susan Howe

Susan Howe

Susan Howe is a American poet, scholar, essayist and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among others poetry movements. Her work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional notions of genre...

, Myung Mi Kim, Anne-Marie Albiach

Anne-Marie Albiach

Anne-Marie Albiach is a contemporary French poet and translator.-Overview:Anne-Marie Albiach's poetry is characterized by, among other things, an inventive use of spacing on the printed page...

, Claude Royet-Journoud

Claude Royet-Journoud

Claude Royet-Journoud is a contemporary French poet and artist living in Paris .-Overview:Royet-Journoud's publications in French include his tetralogy, published between 1972 and 1997: Le Renversement, La Notion d'Obstacle, Les Objets contiennent l'infini, and Les Natures indivisibles...

, Lisa Jarnot

Lisa Jarnot

Lisa Jarnot is an American poet and translator. She has published several volumes of poetry. She is an anti-war activist, works as a horticulturalist and lives in Sunnyside, Queens.-Bibliography :*The Fall of Orpheus, Shuffaloff Press, 1993....

, and Maurice Roche. Dick also holds a Master of Fine Arts

Master of Fine Arts

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 in poetry

Poetry

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 from Colorado State University where she worked with Laura Mullenhttp://www.english.lsu.edu/dept/programs/creative_writing/mullen.htm.

Works

BOOKS:

• Fluorescence (University of Georgia Press, 2004, Contemporary Poetry Series) http://www.ugapress.org/FMPro?-DB=Testdbwebsite.fp5&-Lay=Layout_1&-Format=books_details.html&-Token.1=Poetry&-Token.2=&-Token.3=&-Token.4=&-RecID=43408&-Find
• Retina/Rétine (Estepa Editions, Paris, France 2005) with artwork by Kate Van Houten and translations by Rémi Bouthonnier (an excerpt of whose own work may be seen in English translation athttp://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/rbouthonnier.htm).
• ENCLOSURES (BlazeVox, New York, NY, 2007)

IN ANTHOLOGIES and GROUP WORKS:

• Criticism: Chapter 1, on Myung Mi Kim (in French) in L’Ecriture emprisonnée http://pourinfos.org/?art=35046 edited by Judit Maar and Jean Bessière (L'Harmattan, France, 2007).
• Poems: “A Dark Continent”, “The Price of an Idea” in Moosehead Anthology X: Future Welcome, an anthology of science-based poems edited by Todd Swift, DC Books, Canada, 2005.
• Poems: “The Memory Machine”, “Mucking Around in the Wetware” in Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets, a VCP Anthology, ed Elizabeth Ianacci, Los Angeles, CA 2004.
• Poem: “Theater” in In the Criminal's Cabinet: An Nthology of Poetry and Fiction, ed Val Stevenson and Todd Swift, nthposition press, London, 2004.
• Poem: “Where” in SHORT FUSE: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, ed. Todd Swift and Paul Norton, Rattapallax Press, NYC, USA, 2002, and “After” in the e-book anthology extension, 2002.
• Poem: “Election Day” in 100 Poets Against the War, ed. Todd Swift, Salt Press, UK, 2003.

IN JOURNALS & INTERVIEWS of OTHER AUTHORS:
Other works have appeared in over 50 journals such as The Colorado Review

Colorado Review

Colorado Review is a major American literary journal published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.The journal presents the annual Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction...

, Gargoyle Magazine

Gargoyle Magazine

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, American Letters & Commentary, Tears in the Fence

Tears in the Fence

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, Denver Quarterly, Cutbank, Barrow Street

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 or Aufgabe. Dick has conducted interviews with many contemporary poets who have had an influence on her work, such as Alice Notley

Alice Notley

Alice Notley is an American poet. She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. She received a B.A. from Barnard College in 1967 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. She married poet Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she was active in...

 http://www.doublechange.com/issue3/notleyint-eng.htm, Cole Swensen http://www.thecontinentalreview.com/, Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English at the City College of New York....

 http://www.webdelsol.com/Perihelion/p-verbatim11.htm, and Mary Jo Bang (--who is the previous poetry editor of Boston Review

Boston Review

Boston Review is a bimonthly American political and literary magazine. The magazine covers, specifically, political debates, literature, and poetry...

).

Paris scene and Ivy writers

In 1993, Jennifer K Dick moved to France for the first time, but it was only after returning to Paris following her MFA in 1999 that Dick became involved with a young North American writing scene.

In 1999, Dick became editor-in-chief for the Paris-based international literature and arts review Upstairs at Duroc (issues 2-6). At this time, Dick met American poet and translator Michelle Noteboom (author of Edging, Cracked Slab Books, 2005 http://crackedslabbooks.com/). Vance, Noteboom, Beck and Dick formed a four-voice poetry performance group called "Quadriphonics" which drew a full house at each of its events.

In 2005, Dick and Noteboom co-founded IVY Writersseries in Paris Ivy Writers promotes exchange between authors from France and primarily the USA with monthly readings for the public. These performances bring together prominent poets from various countries who work primarily in an experimental vein of writing.