Jennifer K Dick

Jennifer K Dick, (born 1970- ) American poet, translator and educator/scholar born in Minnesota, raised in Iowa and currently living in Paris, 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, Creative Writing, and English. Her doctoral research and critical writings on contemporary cross-genre poets and prose authors are in the field of Comparative Literature with an accent on Visual studies, Modernism, Postmodernism and the Avant-garde, including work on Susan Howe, Myung Mi Kim, Anne-Marie Albiach, Claude Royet-Journoud, Lisa Jarnot, and Maurice Roche. Dick also holds a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Colorado State University where she worked with Laura Mullen [http://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 at [http://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, Gargoyle Magazine, American Letters & Commentary, Tears in the Fence, Denver Quarterly, Cutbank,Barrow Street or Aufgabe. Dick has conducted interviews with many contemporary poets who have had an influence on her work, such as Alice Notley [http://www.doublechange.com/issue3/notleyint-eng.htm] , Cole Swensen [http://www.thecontinentalreview.com/] , Marilyn Hacker [http://www.webdelsol.com/Perihelion/p-verbatim11.htm] , and Mary Jo Bang (--who is the previous poetry editor of Boston Review).

PARIS SCENE & 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 burgeoning young North American writing scene including Joe Ross, Lisa Pasold (Canadian), Barbara Beck, and George Vance. These young American authors also benefitted from the support and advice of established poets living in Paris such as Marilyn Hacker, Alice Notley, Ellen Hinsey, Denis Hirson, or Cole Swensen. (Recent young authors emerging from these continuing ties or making themselves temporary or permanent members of this community over the past decade have included Nicholas Manning (Australia), Claire Potter (Australia), Rufo Quintavalle (UK:USA), Laura Solomon (USA), Ethan Gilsdorf (USA), Andrew Zawacki(USA), Shrikanth Reddy (USA), Sandy Florian (USA) and others.)

In 1999, Dick also became editor in chief for the international literature and arts review "Upstairs at Duroc" (issues 2-6) [http://www.wice-paris.org/courses/creative/upstairs-duroc.html] in Paris and thus 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 their events.

In 2005, Dick and Noteboom co-founded IVY Writers [http://www.ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/] series 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.

At IVY, authors read in their native language accompanied by a short selection of translations. On occasion, readings have been accompanied by performances or video and photo projections, such as by Argentinian author and visual artist Susana Sulic [http://www.indigo-cf.com/~pf302183/f/auteur.php?auteur_id=72] who writes in a trilingual mix of French, Spanish and English.

Many IVY authors are considered members of a contemporary, cross-continental, cross-language avant-garde, such as Cole Swensen (awarded a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, on faculty at Iowa Writers' Workshop, published with Burning Deck Press, [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/704] , Alice James Books, Univ of IA Press, etc.), Jean Fremon [http://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?-Jean-Fremon-Island-of-the-Dead-&BookID=105] [http://www.cipmarseille.com/auteur_fiche.php?id=630] , French poet and photographer Suzanne Doppelt, Laynie Browne (winner of the National Poetry Series in 2006, and who has previous books with Chax Press), Andrew Joron, Jean-Michel Espitallier (French poet translated into English by Guy Bennett, Espitallier co-ran JAVA magazine with Éditions Al Dante, his work is often discussed when speaking about trends in Contemporary French Literature, [http://www.cipmarseille.com/auteur_fiche.php?id=701] ), Lyn Hejinian, Frédéric Forte (a member of OULIPO [http://www.cipmarseille.com/auteur_fiche.php?id=1822] ), Vannina Maestri [http://www.cipmarseille.com/auteur_fiche.php?id=1330] , Canadian poet Lisa Pasold [http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/pasold.htm] , Joe Ross [http://www.greeninteger.com/pipbios_detail.cfm?PIPAuthorID=1544] , Ryoko Sekiguchi [http://www.cipmarseille.com/auteur_fiche.php?id=1212] , Carla Harryman [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/harryman/harryman.pub.html] , Virginie Poitrasson (poet, translator and performer [http://virginiepoitrasson.blogspot.com/] ), Barrett Watten, Eric Suchère [http://www.cipmarseille.com/auteur_fiche.php?id=370] , Alice Notley, Steve Dalachinsky, Jacques Sivan [http://www.cipmarseille.com/auteur_fiche.php?id=599] , Jerôme Game [http://www.cipmarseille.com/auteur_fiche.php?id=731] , and Jerôme Mauche (curator of reading series at the "Musée Zadkine"--see museums in Paris--, [http://www.cipmarseille.com/auteur_fiche.php?id=1683] and publisher of "Les Petits Matins" books [http://perso.orange.fr/lespetitsmatins/] ).