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José Felipe
Alvergue
Victoria
Brockmeier
Jon Cotner
Kristina
Marie Darling
Robert
Dewhurst
Stephanie
Farrar
Soma Feldmar
Zack Finch
Jordan
Green
David Hadbawnik
Adam Katz
Morani
Kornberg-Weiss
Margaret Konkol
Shiv Kotecha
Warren Lloyd
Holly Melgard
Justin Parks
Courtney Pfahl
Sean
Reynolds
Andrew Rippeon
Siobhán Scarry
Andrea Strudensky
Divya Victor
Joseph
Yearous-Algozin
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STUDENTS
josé felipe alvergue has an MFA from the Cal Arts
School of Critical
Studies, and is currently a
doctoral candidate writing on Cecilia
Vicuña, Theresa Cha, and Myung Mi Kim. He has given
papers on Vicuña,
the Japanese architect Toyo
Ito, and the TIjuana based art collective,
Torolab.
josé works on poetics where the term intersects
architecture,
performance,
media study, and philosophy. This intersdisciplinary
approach to research carries
over into his performance based work,
most recently the completion
of a three part work, _cor-_, performed
at the ACA Galleries in
Chelsea, NY, the &NOW Conference on
Experimental Writing, in
Buffalo, NY, and for the St. Mark's Poetry
Project, in the Bowery. His
book, _us look up/ there red dwells_ was
published
by Queue Books, 2008. josé teaches poetry to
children for
Just Buffalo, and wants to
teach undergraduates a course on Walking.
josé
is also an amateur cyclist, and won a gold medal as a member of
2010's Western New York team
at the Empire State Games.
Victoria Brockmeier is primarily interested in
modernism. Ongoing projects include tracing out the relationship between
poetry and the language of psychosis, or perhaps more properly that of
“unreason”; Frankfurt school aesthetics; masculinity, history-making,
inheritance & education in Joyce; the possibilities for formal
innovation in criticism; and, the eventual topic of my dissertation,
20th-century mythopoesis.
Focus of project: For
millennia, devotional and divinely-inspired poetry was the norm;
suddenly, early in the 20th century mystic experience and poetry become
unloosed from each other, or at least their workings together become
obscured. I’m curious to formulate an explanation of why, and of how
mythic poetry does go on, in various ways. There’s a direct throughline of interest from Pound through HD, Robert
Duncan and Nate Mackey; I’m also interested in Yeats, Eliot, Hart Crane,
Jack Spicer, Anne Carson, and others. Poetry has appeared in New Letters,
LIT, Chelsea, Inkwell, Natural Bridge, and other magazines and is
forthcoming in Pleiades: a journal of new writing. In 2006 I started a
reading series and an associated small press project called dove|tail which has so far featured Laura Mullen,
Matthew Cooperman, and Tim Donnelly. “I bake a phenomenal cheesecake,
love NFL football, and enjoy knitting complicated cable and lace
patterns.”
Jon Cotner focuses
on the practice of dialogue in poetry, philosophy, and anthropology. He
is the author, with Andy Fitch, of Ten
Walks/Two Talks (Ugly Duckling Presse,
2010). Cotner and Fitch recently completed another manuscript called
Conversations over Stolen Food. Cotner has performed
his dialogic improvisations across the country and internationally.
Kristina Marie Darling is a second-year Ph.D.
student in the Poetics Program, where her research interests include
Modernist poetry, experimental women's writing, and feminist literary
theory. She is the author of eight books of poetry: Night
Songs (Gold Wake Press, 2010), Compendium (Cow Heavy Books,
2011), The Body is a Little Gilded Cage: A Story in Letters &
Fragments (Gold Wake Press, 2012), Melancholia (An Essay) (Ravenna
Press, 2012), Palimpsest (Patasola
Press, forthcoming in 2012), The Moon & Other Inventions:
Poems After Joseph Cornell (BlazeVOX
Books, forthcoming in 2012), Correspondence (Scrambler Books,
forthcoming in 2013), and Petrarchan (BlazeVOX
Books, forthcoming in 2013). Kristina is also the editor of a forthcoming
anthology, narrative (dis)continuities: prose experiments by younger american writers (Moria
Books, 2012). She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the
Vermont Studio Center, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Ragdale Foundation, as well as grants from the
Kittredge Fund and the Elizabeth George Foundation. Visit her
online at http://kristinamariedarling.com/
Robert Dewhurst is studying
contemporary lyric, New American, and New Narrative poetics. He is
interested in the theory and history of the lyric, affect and
emotionality, queer theory, textual criticism/editorial theory, and print
culture. He is an associate editor for Semiotext(e), edits
the small magazine Satellite Telephone, and co-edits Wild Orchids (with
Sean Reynolds). He is planning a dissertation on the poet John Wieners.
Publications
Journals
edited:
WILD ORCHIDS 1-2 (2009, 2010).
Graduate student scholarly publication, University at Buffalo. Festschrifts
dedicated to unexpected authors (Melville, Hannah Weiner), include contributions from poets, visual artists,
scholars, and literary theorists. Vol. 3 (William Blake) forthcoming in
May 2011. See: <http://wildorchids.endingthealphabet.org>.
Satellite Telephone 1-3 (2007,
2008, 2010). Self-published small literary magazine assembled in
the DIY spirit of mimeo; contributors have included Eileen Myles, Fanny
Howe, and Tracey Emin. See:
<http://nolongdistance.endingthealphabet.org>.
Articles:
"Gay Sunshine,
Pornopoetic Collage, and Queer Archive." Porn
Archives. Tim Dean, ed. Forthcoming, SUNY Press, 2011.
"Dorothea Lasky,
It's Unbelievable." ON Contemporary Practice
2 (Mar. 2010): 51-4.
"A
Philosophy of Surrender: David Rattray in
Puerto Angel." Semiotext(e) Online. September 2006.
<http://www.semiotexte.com/documentPage/philosOfSurrender.html>.
Talks:
"In Public: John Wieners's Audio-Video Archive." Small Press
in the Archive lecture series, hosted by the Poetry Collection at
the University at Buffalo (curator, Margaret Konkel),
3 December 2010.
"On Hannah Weiner's Country Girl."
Roundtable on Hannah Weiner hosted by the University at Buffalo Poetics
Program (Dir., Myung Mi
Kim), 29 October 2010. With Patrick Durgin (Art
Institute of Chicago), Kaplan Harris (St. Bonaventure University), and
Marta Werner (D'Youville College).
Reviews:
Rev. of Boone, Bruce. Century
of Clouds. Callicoon, NY: Nightboat Books, 2010. Poetry Project
Newsletter 223 (Apr/May 2010): 30.
Stephanie
Farrar's dissertation is concerned with the ways that
modes of poetic address engage with contemporary political discourses and
in reassessing the formal and historical constitution of literary
modernism in America poetry from the mid-nineteenth-century through the
1930’s. The dissertation committee is chaired by Professor Cristanne
Miller, with Professors Myung Mi Kim and Ewa Ziarek. Stephanie earned her B.A. in English with
Honors at the University of California at Davis and her M.A. in
Literature at the University of California at San Diego where her thesis
was directed by Professor Michael Davidson. She a member of the Poetics
graduate Group and has participated in a Poet’s Theatre rendition of
Kevin Killian’s “Celebrity Hospital,” in a (co)lludere
performance project with Margaret Konkol
curated by Divya Victor, in the collaborative
printing press project “Scrap-Paper,” among other poetry events and
projects. She has given papers at The Louisville Twentieth Century
Conference and NEMLA where she proposed and chaired a panel. She is
serving on a hiring committee this year, and is a member of professional
organizations including NEMLA, MLA, and The Nineteenth-Century Women
Writers Group. In addition to teaching literature and composition classes
at UB, Stephanie is currently teaching a graduate seminar on the cultural
work of American poetry in the nineteenth-century at St. Bonaventure
University.
Soma Feldmar:
English PhD in Poetics
Bio: Born in Vancouver, BC, Soma Feldmar grew up
there and on the surrounding islands. She has, at different times in her
life, been a dancer, model, actor, stage hand, theater
lighting designer, production manager for a performance space, office
assistant, administrative assistant, teacher’s assistant, teacher,
scholar, student, and poet. Her first book of poems, Other, was
published in November 09 by CUE books, out of North Vancouver, BC. She
has been a member of the Kootenay School of Writing since 2002. Her MFA
in Writing & Poetics is from Naropa
University, and she is currently a PhD candidate in the Poetics Program
of the English Department at SUNY Buffalo.
Research Interests: Located primarily in 20th and
21st century poetry and poetics, with the occasional and precise limb
probing history for lineage and community, I am interested in the
intersections of language and ethics, including poethics,
temporality, the relationships between experience, language, body, and
time, as well as how these play out in the polis; what their, its,
politics is, in relation to power and lack of power.
Current Orals
Committee:
Ming Qian Ma, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, Krzysztof Ziarek
Departmental/Service:
·
Graduate Poetics Group – Treasurer
·
English Composition Program – Comp. Instructor
·
English Graduate Students Union – Voting
Member
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English Department – Admissions Committee
Background:
·
MFA in Writing and Poetics, received from Naropa University: 2005
- Steven Taylor, Anselm Hollo
Publications:
Poems:
“Literal Eros(ion)” in Bombay
Gin 26: 2000
“Eros” in Transgendered
Tapestry: 2001
“Depth Perception” in For
Immediate Release: Sept 2002
“Painting Words” in Front
Magazine: March 2003
“Well I never” in Front
Magazine: Sept 2003
“Facial Fragments” in Front
Magazine: Nov 2003
“First 3 pages of Moving
Target” in Front Magazine: June 2004
“Let Explore Forms,”
“Facial Fragments,”
“This is not a poem either,”
“Well I never” all in W7:
Fall 2003
“Fear” in West Coast Line:
Spring 2004
“Unperformable
Text of Performance of ‘Stone’” in Nerve Lantern: Summer 2004
Selection from “If Language”
in Bombay Gin 32: Summer 06
Selection from “If Language”
on Made up Movement: Fall 06
Selection from “Fortune
Poems” on LemonPuppy.com: Spring 06
Book:
Other. CUE Books: Nov 2009
Essay:
“Language is Love: A Blaserian
Poethics” on LemonPuppy.com Spring 06
Review:
Of “Wanders” by Robin Blaser and Meredith Quartermain
in The Rain (Vancouver Review of
Books): Oct 2003
Zack Finch
is interested in Poetry & Poetics, Philosophy, Music, Art. Poems have
appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Poetry, Radical Society,
Forklift, Ohio, Tin House,, 88, Gulf Coast, Shankpainter, Green Mtns
Review… Book Reviews in Boston Review. Essays in P-Queue and I Have Imagined
a Center (essays on Susan Howe)
Jordan Green
works on romantic poetry; aesthetics of violence and catastrophe
 David Hadbawnik
is a poet and performer currently living with his wife in Buffalo, NY.
Recent publications include the books Translations From Creeley (Sardines, 2008), Ovid in Exile
(Interbirth, 2007), and SF Spleen
(Skanky Possum, 2006); essays in Jacket and Chicago Review;
and poems in Damn the Caesars, Little Red Leaves, and Exquisite
Corpse. He is the editor and publisher of Habenicht
Press and the journal kadar koli. He began studying towards his PhD in
poetics at SUNY Buffalo in fall 2008, where he directs the Buffalo Poets
Theater. He also hosts a house reading series that typically features one
poet from the UB poetics program and one poet from the Buffalo community.
kadar koli (Slovene: “Whenever”) is an occasional
journal that publishes innovative poetry, translation, visual art, and
criticism. The most recent issue includes work from Brenda Iijima, Nathaniel Mackey, Clifton Riley, Susan Briante, Kim Gek Lin Short,
Ammiel Alcalay,
Richard Owens, Eileen Myles, and others.
At the University at Buffalo, David is involved in the Poetics Program
and the Graduate Poetics Group, and he also founded with other students
the Medieval Early Modern Student Association, which recently
collaborated with other organizations to bring guest speaker Jeffrey
Jerome Cohen to UB. Other interests include psychoanalysis, philosophy,
and language study (Latin and Old English). He is currently working with
Profs. Randy Schiff, Joan Copjec, Steve McCaffery, and Graham Hammill,
and his field is medieval literature with a
focus on poetics. Specifically, he is considering questions of authorship
and loss in poetry through the lens of language and translation.
He has served as an officer in the GPG, MEMSA, and in various
capacities in the English Graduate Student Association, including
senator, union rep, admissions committee, etc.
His imprint habenicht press
(habenichtpress.com) has published the following titles:
Sarah Peters, Curses
and Other Love Poems, 2002;
Diane di Prima, The Ones
I Used to Laugh With, 2003;
Mytili
Jagannathan, Acts, 2003;
Dale Smith, Notes No
Answer, 2005;
kadar
koli 1, Spring 2007
kadar
koli 2, Fall 2007
kadar
koli 3, Spring 2008
kadar
koli 4, Spring 2009
kadar
koli 5, Spring 2010
Micah Robbins, Crass Songs of Sand &
Brine, 2010
Buffalo Poets Theater, in collaboration with graduate poetics students
at UB and Buffalo community poets, has produced the following events:
Robert Duncan, The Origins of Old Son; Barbara Guest, The
Office; excerpts from Hannah Weiner’s Clairvoyant Journal:
March 5, 2009, Burchfield Penney Art Museum.
Kevin Killian and Karla Milosevich, Celebrity
Hospital, April 2, 2009, Burchfield Penney Art Museum.
Excerpts from Eileen Myles’ libretto Hell, October 24, 2009,
Just Buffalo’s “Big Night” series at WNYBAC.
Excerpts from Jack Spicer’s Troilus, February 27, 2010, Just
Buffalo’s “Big Night” series at WNYBAC.
“The Cinema Cabaret”: an evening of live film narration, with Konrad Steiner, Morani Kornberg-Weiss, Jen Hofer,
Holly Melgard, Joey Yearous-Algozin,
Robin Brox, and Todd Mattina,
March 17, 2010, at Hallwalls Cinema.
Carla Harryman, Memory Play, October 30, 2010, at
Just Buffalo’s “Big Night” series at WNYBAC.
 Adam Katz is a first year
Ph.D. candidate in the Poetics Program. Currently interested in the
possibility that certain kinds of poetry could cause an experience of
time that’s different from how time is normally experienced, and in how
this different temporal experience could cause different kinds of
behavior. Interested in the Objectivists, Berkeley Renaissance,
Language writing, and how these movements and/or their readings of each
other are addressed in contemporary (anti-)lyric practice such as A Tonalist etc. Also interested in how ideas of
poetry, writing, time, and being are situated in texts of continental
philosophy / critical theory, and how poets respond to these
philosophical/critical situations.
His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in BlazeVOX,
EOAGH, POOL, Otoliths, Reconfigurations, Sous Rature, and elsewhere; his essay "Meditation and
Methodology" (on poetic craft pedagogy/politics, Derrida, vipassana, Robert Hass, Heidegger, and George Oppen) is forthcoming in the anthology Imaginary
Syllabi (ed. Jane Sprague) from Palm Press; and he presented the chapbook
White, Blue, Red, & Charcoal-Grey, a collaboration with the visual
artist and architect Jackie Stluka, at the 2009
&Now conference.
Morani Kornberg-Weiss moved from Tel Aviv to Buffalo in
order to pursue a Ph.D. in English at SUNY Buffalo's Poetics Program. Her
main interests revolve around 19th and 20th century poetry and poetics,
the lyric tradition, theories of the body, Marxism, Feminist Theory, and
the intersection between poetry and the visual arts. She is interested in
the way voice and body intersect
within lyrical practice and the cultural and social conditions of lyrical
individuation, collectivity, and history. She presented a paper on Jack
Kerouac’s Mexico City Blues at the University of Birmingham, UK
and will deliver a paper on Sylvia Plath’s ekphrastic
works at the upcoming NeMLA conference held at
Rutgers University. Her administrative services include: Graduate Poetics
Group treasury, Composition Committee, and Admissions Committee. Her
poems have been published in Voices Israel Anthology 2009, Re-Vision:
A Collection of Poetry and Prose, Papilio:
A Collection of Poetry, and Genius Floored, and she has
also translated English poetry into Hebrew. Currently, she is at work on
a series of poems that examine the art of origami, the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and pornography.
 Margaret Konkol
Dissertation
Margaret Konkol’s dissertation Modernizing
Nature traces the parallel emergence of environmental thinking in
popular and avant-garde discourse in trans-local contexts between the
years 1914 and 1964. Toward the completion of this dissertation Margaret
has been awarded the Mark Diamond Dissertation Research Grant, the
Humanities Institute Grant to attend the Digital Humanities Summer
Institute and, from the Modernist Studies Association, a travel grant
enabling her to present at the annual conference. The dissertation is chaired
by Professor Cristanne Miller, with Professors Stacy Hubbard and Myung Mi Kim.
Background
She received her B.A. from Reed College and her
M.A. from the University of Virginia where she wrote her thesis on radio performance and community formation in the
poetry of Jamaican poet Louise Bennett. Her primary interests include twentieth
and twenty-first century poetry and poetics. Her secondary research
interests are environmentalism, cultural studies, textual criticism, and
digital humanities.
Teaching and
Residencies
In addition to environmental literature and
composition courses at UB, Margaret has, for the past three years, served
as a writer-in-residence for Writing with Light, the joint education
program of CEPA Gallery and Just Buffalo Literary Center.
Recent Conferences,
Publications, Performances
Margaret attended the 2010 Modernist
Studies Association in Victoria, British Columbia where she organized a
session titled "Networks and Ecologies of Female Modernisms” for
which she gave a paper on gender and nature in Mina Loy’s “Songs to Joannes.” As an invited speaker to the Black
Mountain North Symposium (October 8-10, 2010) Margaret delivered
“Conversion to Her: Robert Creeley’s
Transgender Poetics.” Her article “Creeley in
Age: Negative Poetics in Robert Creeley’s Late
Work” appears in Jacket 31.
Her poems have been published in Shampoo, Little Red Leaves, Ekleksographia, and Damn The Caesars. For
Buffalo Poet’s Theater Margaret directed Barbara Guest’s play “The Office,”
and for (co)ludere collaborated on a
performance project with Stephanie Farrar.
Curation
Margaret curates the Mildred Lockwood
Lacey Small Press in the Archive Lecture Series which she founded in
2007. The series draws on materials in The Poetry Collection at SUNY
Buffalo in order to explore community/discourse formations, the status of
ephemera and the making of genre, the conditions of literary production,
transatlantic cross-pollinations in and between specific magazines, the
careers of poets, the role of book art, and how the little magazine
functions in the making of the avant-garde.
 Shiv Kotecha
studies 20th-century poetry and poetics. His interests lie in
poetic translation and erasure, epistolary exchange as lyric practice,
and the serial poem in its many mid-20th century incarnations. His piece
LRYIC is forthcoming in the journal Becoming Poetics.
Warren Lloyd
came to UB with an MFA in ‘New Forms’ which is a multi-media approach to
fine art, taking shape, primarily, in the form of installations,
performances, video and textual explorations. His work has focused on the
way language and images work together to create meaning. Within the last
two years the focus of his work has been involved with engaging
assumptions about fine-art, while taking issue with surveillance culture,
the medical gaze, and identity (production). Focus of project: I’m
interested in the social and historical potentialities of language based
writing, its possible engagement with the body,
trauma studies, working-class narratives and early modernism. Creating
forms of creative scholarship and fusing poetics with historical and
contemporary criticism are among my central projects. I’m also working on
a project called Moving, which deals with how the moving of household furniture
relates to writing and naming. The project focuses on parallels between
the two, which intersect at areas of possession, private property,
objects (furniture), labor, and homes. Work has appeared in Homonumos Magazine ( Beijing),
There Journal, Vibrant gray, and a review of Maria Damon and mIEKAL aND’s book: pleasure
TEXT possession is forthcoming at Moria Poetry.
 Holly Melgard
is an incoming co-editor of P-Queue (p-queue.org)
along with Joseph Yearous-Algozin, which is a
journal of contemporary aesthetics and poetics, where writings appear
beside enactments of such critical or theoretical positions: unruly forms
(2007), responsibility (2008), spatiality (2009), polemic (2010);
planning to continue this in 2011 with an issue on “document.” She is the
out-going president of the Graduate Poetics Group, ongoing editor of Con-Verse
(constraint-based trans-crip/lat-ion series), former editor of Slightly West (TESC
Evergreen-based lit-journal), and forthcoming author of the poetry
chapbook Narcsolicitation (TROLL
THREAD). Sections of her manuscript Echochambermusic
have been published or are forthcoming in Boog
City, Scrap Paper, PRESS, Wheelhouse Magazine,
and TROLL THREAD.
Richard Owens
is interested in 20th and 21st Century Anglophone poetry, Marxist and
post Marxist theory. Focus of project: The thrust of my project, although
not yet clearly defined, involves an investigation of the (re)mapping of
space and those strategically constructed oppositional identities which
emerge in the longer autobiographical poems of Basil Bunting, Hugh
MacDiarmid, David Jones, Lynette Roberts, Mina Loy and others.
Publications: Editor. Damn the Caesars is a
journal of contemporary poetry and poetics committed to fostering a
transnational, transoceanic dialogue among poets, artists, and critics.
The journal has enjoyed generous support from the David Gray Chair of
Poetry and Letters (Steve McCaffery), the James
H. McNulty Chair (Dennis Tedlock), and the
Samuel P. Capen Chair of Poetry and the
Humanities (Susan Howe). Editor/ Publisher: Punch Press is a small press
imprint which has brought out letterpress chapbooks and broadsides.
Recent titles include Brian Mornar’s Repatterning and Dale Smith’s Susquehanna. My writing
has appeared in the following journals: Jacket, Skanky Possum, Rain Taxi,
Aufgabe, Big Bridge, Cipher Journal, BlazeVOX, O Poss, Kadar Koli, Origin (6th Series in memory of Cid Corman), House Organ, and Maximum Rock-n-Roll.
Website: http://damnthecaesars.org
Justin Parks
is interested in Modernist poetry, Black Mountain poets, post-structuralist theory. Focus of project: I am
currently thinking about the idea of the local in poetry, and
particularly in the work of Charles Olson and Edward Dorn.
 Courtney Pfahl is
a fourth year Ph.D. candidate, and participates in the Poetics Program
and recently founded Modernisms graduate group. Her research
interests include theory, the avant-garde,
visual poetry, visual art, experimental books, and film. Under the
advisement of Krzysztof Ziarek, Steve McCaffery, and William Solomon, Courtney is working
on her dissertation, with the working title Un-Reading Authority: On
the Possibility of a Machtlose Text.
This project is responding to Jacques Rancière’s
explicit discussion of the “emancipated spectator” in his recent book by
the same name, and Martin Heidegger’s implicit, though arguably
necessary, assumption in his later writings of a power-free text.
It will explore whether it is possible to have a text free of power
relationships, and what that text would be. This dissertation will
be mainly focused on mid- to later twentieth-century, North American
poetry, and will be concerned specifically with texts that complicate or
seek to destroy the subject-object distinction inherent in the
author-reader relationship.
Courtney creates artist’s books and paintings, and she has also recently
published single poems in Wild Orchids (“Transposition of ‘A
Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight’”) and Scrap Paper
(“with evoweling N”). She also designed
the 18+ foot accordion-fold book-form out of used inter-office envelopes
to collect the broadsides from various poets for Scrap Paper,
which was produced to coincide with Poet-Publishers: A Contemporary
Small Press Symposium (2009).
Conferences:
“Innocence Unleashed!:
Monstrous Children in Eraserhead and The
Brood.” PCA/ACA Conference. St. Louis, Spring 2010.
“Benjaminian Aura in Bill Viola’s Filmic
Art.” Spectres and Spectators Graduate
Student Conference. University of Rochester, Spring 2009.
“Painting Eve in Six Steps” (poem). Women in Philosophy Annual
Symposium. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Fall 2009.
Sean Reynolds studies 20th-century
poetry, the history of the English language, and Greek tragedy. He is
particularly interested in translation theory and the cultural and poetic
role of the “dead language.” His language studies have included Ancient
Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon, among others. He is planning a
dissertation on translations by American poets since the mid-20th
century. With Robert Dewhurst, he co-edits the critical journal Wild
Orchids (wildorchids.endingthealphabet.org). He has presented (or is
scheduled to present) conference papers on David Melnick’s
Men in Aida, the Anglo-Saxon Metrical Charms, and Jack Spicer’s Beowulf.
Orals Committee: Kalliopi
Nikolopoulou, Myung Mi Kim, Krzysztof Ziarek
 Andrew Rippeon,
editor of the journal P-Queue (2007 – 2010) and of QUEUE
Books (2007 – present), received the 2010 Gray Chair Dissertation
Fellowship for his dissertation-in-progress, tentatively titled Lyric
Resource. The project considers the critical and
social-political value of poetic sound, and includes a historical survey
of lyric theory as well as investigations of recent and contemporary
poets, with chapters on Larry Eigner, Jayne
Cortez, and Kamau Brathwaite.
Under the advisement of Myung Mi Kim and Cristanne Miller in English, and Krzysztof
Ziarek in Comparative Literature, work on Lyric
Resource, is expected to conclude in the summer of 2011, for defense
the following fall.
This year, Rippeon brings his four-year
editorship of P-Queue (www.p-queue.org) to a conclusion as he
hands off the editorship to current students Holly Melgard
and Joey Yearous-Algozin. Having received
the position from founding editor Sarah Campbell, Rippeon
has made the longevity of the journal a priority under his tenure, and P-Queue
remains the only Poetics publication currently in operation after the
tenure of its founding editor(s) . After
Campbell’s three issues (1: “From Poetry to Prose,” 2: “Anomalies”, and
3: “Hybrids”), Rippeon has curated issues on
“Disobedient/s” (4), “Care” (5), “Space” (6), and “Polemic” (7).
Working to expand the journal’s print- as well as web-presence, Rippeon also established a chapbook series parallel
to the journal, and through it has published more than half-a-dozen
chapbooks by more than 10 writers and artists often working in collaboration.
Several titles are forthcoming, and the catalog to-date includes The
Plans Caution (architect Richard Taransky
and poet Michelle Taransky, herself winner of
the 2008 OmniDawn Poetry Prize, selected by
Marjorie Welish), Mobius Crowns (Srikanth Reddy and Dan Beachy-Quick),
us look up / there red dwells (José Felipe Alvergue),
the precipice of jupiter (poet erica lewis and visual
artist mark stephen finein),
Eyechart Poems (Geof Huth), Pre-Chewed
Tapas (visual artist Jimbo Blachly and poet Lytle Shaw), and with Michael Cross
the festschrift Building is a Process / Light is an Element: Essays
and Excursions for Myung Mi
Kim. Throughout, both P-Queue and QUEUE have
sought to engage with the long tradition of small- and fine-press work at
the University at Buffalo and in the greater western New York region.
Over the course of his graduate term in Buffalo, Rippeon
has co-organized a number of conferences and symposia of various sizes,
including “George Oppen: A Centenary
Conversation” (Spring 2008, with Zack Finch, Siobhan Scarry, and Andrea Strudensky), “A Symposium on DURA” (Fall
2008, with Justin Parks), and “Poet-Publishers: A Small Press Symposium”
(Spring 2009, with Rich Owens). In 2008, he co-founded with Siobhan
Scarry the Graduate Poetics Group, and served that year as the group’s
Vice-President. The Group has continued to operate as a strong
force within the Poetics community in a number of ways: as a source of
funding for students in the English Department as well as other departments
affiliated with Poetics, as a repository for student input to Poetics
programming and curricula, and in offering service opportunities to
graduate students in Poetics.
Recent essays and reviews are also available or forthcoming in Attention
Span, Jacket2 and The Poetic Front. PRIEST,
a chapbook of poems, was commissioned by the Vigilance Society in 2009,
and represents the first installment in an ongoing series under the same
title. Rippeon will appear this month in
the Segue Reading Series at the Bowery Poetry Club, discussing P-Queue
as well as performing his own work. He lives in Buffalo with his
partner and their hound dog, Mabel.
 Siobhán Scarry's dissertation
project explores the ways in which poetries from Whitman and Dickinson up
through the mid 20th century have engaged with
and re-envisioned notions of community; points of critical inquiry/entry
include lyric structures of address, intersubjectivity,
the politics of friendship, and the intertextual.
Articles based on this project are forthcoming in Jacket2, Sagetrieb, and with the collection Reading
Duncan Reading: Essays on the Poetics of Derivation (University of
Iowa Press). During her time in Buffalo, Siobhán
co-founded (with Andrew Rippeon) the Graduate
Poetics Group and served as its first president, as well as organized
(with Zach Finch, Andrew Rippeon, and Andrea Strudensky) the spring 2008 conference "George Oppen: A Centenary Conversation." Through the
Just Buffalo organization, she taught for years as a visiting poet in the
public schools.
Siobhán's creative work (both poetry and
fiction) has appeared in jubilat, Greensboro
Review, Mid-American Review, Sentence: A
Journal of Prose Poetics, Five Fingers Review, P-Queue,
and other journals; recently named 1st runner-up in the 2010 New
Letters Poetry Prize, her poems are slated to appear soon with New
Letters. Siobhán's first book of poems, Levering
Light, was named finalist in the 2008 May Swenson 1st Book Award;
she is at work on her second collection.
Currently writing her dissertation in Victoria, British Columbia, Siobhán is teaching Modernist Literature and
Contemporary American Fiction at the University of Victoria.
Advisors: Cristanne Miller, Tim Dean, Steve McCaffery
Fields of study: Poetics, 20th and 21st century American literature
(poetry and fiction), Modernism, Gender and Sexuality
Andrea Strudensky is interested in 20th
Century poetry and poetics. Andrea is currently editor of Broke; a lit
mag that publishes poetry and fiction. Her dissertation is on the
“apostrophe” in 20th Century poetry.
 Divya Victor
is a 4th year Phd. candidate at SUNY Buffalo,
where she participates in the Poetics Program in the English Department
and reads contemporary American and Transnational poetries, continental
philosophy, and psychoanalysis in the feminist vein under the guidance of
her committee members Myung Mi
Kim, Ewa Ziarek, and
Steve McCaffery. She is currently working on a dissertation titled The Poetics of the Alibi,
which is a study of cultural and affective vocalities
that are distinct from “vocality” as a figure
for identitarian constructs, and which takes an
antagonistic position towards conventional understandings of “historical”
trauma as a kernel of community formation. She received her B.S from
Towson University and her M.A from Temple University.
Service:
Her service to the English Graduate Student
body has involved her in Graduate Admissions Committee 2009, Graduate
Recruitment Committee 2010, the Poetics Digital Archive Project, and she has served as the Co-President of the
Graduate Poetics Group.
Publications:
Her article
on memory, testimony, and subjectivity and non-feminist
writing is forthcoming in the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial
Studies, Special Issue: Postcolonial Pakistani Literature.
She has two new chapbooks: SUTURES from Little Red Leaves and Hellocasts By Charles Reznikoff by Divya Victor
by Vanessa Place from Ood Press. The
latter chapbook is part of the Factory Series by Vanessa Place in the
model and anti-model of Andy Warhol's Factory and community of
production.
Her installation HELLOCASTS
which deals with trauma, historical transcription, and branding of the
"Holocaust Industry" was recently curated by Les Figues Press at L.A.C.E Gallery in Los Angeles.
Her poetry has recently
appeared in XConnect, ixnay reader 3, dusie,
President’s Choice, P-QUEUE, and Drunken Boat.
Her book LYRICAL BLALADS is
forthcoming from Troll Thread Press
Conferences:
“Mapping Resistance with Renee Gladman’s The Activist”. Advancing Feminist Poetics
and Activism. City University of New York (CUNY), New York City. Fall
2009.
Joseph Yearous-Algozin studies
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, with a current focus on exhaustion, unreadability, and documentation divorced from
readership. He is the author of the chapbook, The Lazarus
Project: Alien Vs. Predator (TROLL THREAD). His essay, “No One
Asked You,” on the street performances of Hannah Weiner, appeared in Wild
Orchids. He is the incoming co-editor, with Holly Melgard, of P-Queue (p-queue.org), a journal
of contemporary aesthetics and poetics, where writings on or about
aesthetics/poetics appear beside enactments of such critical or
theoretical positions. In the past, editions have been constellated
around a single theme: Unruly Forms (2007), Responsibility (2008),
Spatiality (2009), Polemic (2010); we plan to
continue this in 2011 with a call for an issue on “Document.”
Formally the Vice-President of the Graduate Poetics Group, he currently
curates the reading series, BYOB. He received his BA in English
Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MA in Poetry
from Temple University.
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