Carla Harryman

Carla Harryman

Carla Harryman (born 1952) is an American poet, essayist, and playwright often associated with the Language poets. She teaches Women's Studies and Creative Writing at Wayne State University and serves on the MFA faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College. She is married to the poet Barrett Watten.

Born in Orange, California, Harryman studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara and San Francisco State University. In 1979, she co-founded the San Francisco Poets Theater, which staged numerous experimental plays, including her "Third Man" and other plays.

Harryman has received grants and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Fund for Poetry, Opera America Next Stage Grant (with composer Erling Wold), Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and the NEA Consortium Playwrights Commission, among others.

Harryman's work is known for genre-disrupting poetry, performance and prose. In addition to her work and her interdisciplinary collaborations, she has written numerous experimental essays and writings about contemporary innovative women’s writing and experimental language-centered performance and co-edited a book devoted to the work of Kathy Acker.

Publications

* "Percentage", 1979, Tuumba (Berkeley, CA)
* "Under the Bridge", 1980, This Press (Berkeley, CA)
* "Property", 1982, Tuumba (Berkeley, CA)
* "The Middle", 1983, Gaz Press (San Francisco, CA)
* "Vice", 1986, Potes and Poets (Hartford, CT)
* "Animal Instincts: Prose, Plays, Essays", 1989, This Press (Berkeley, CA)
* "In the Mode of", 1992, Zasterle (Tenerife, Spain)
* "Memory Play", 1994, O Books (Oakland, CA)
* "There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn", 1995, City Lights (San Francisco, CA)
* "The Words: After Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre", 1994, O Books (Oakland, CA)
* "Gardener of Stars", 2001, Atelos (Berkeley, CA)
* "Baby", 2005, Adventures in Poetry (New York, NY)
*" Tourjours L’epine Est Sous La Rose", 2006, Ikko (Paris, France) Translation of "There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn". Translated by Martin Richet
* "Open Box (Improvisations)", 2007, Belladonna Books, (Brooklyn, NY)
* "Lust for Life: On the Writing of Kathy Acker", 2006, Verso (New York, NY and London, England): co-edited with Amy Scholder and Avital Ronell.

References

* "Interview with Laura Hinton", [http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/current.issue/16.1contents.html "Postmodern Culture", Issue 16, Vol. 1]
* "Interview with Michael McGee and Jacques Dubrot", "Combo" issue 9 (2001)
* "Interview with Chris Tysh", "Poetics Journal: Knowledge" issue 10 (1998)
* "An Interview with Carla Harryman", by Megan Simpson, "Contemporary Literature" issue 37, vol. 4 (Winter 1996)
* "Interview (with Manuel Brito)", "A Suite of Poetic Voices" (Santa Brigada, Spain: Kadle Books, 1994)

External links

* [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/harryman/ Carla Harryman at EPC]
* [http://jacketmagazine.com/14/harryman.html From "Gardener of Stars" - a novel]


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