Jennifer Karmin

Poet

Chicago, IL
Illinois US
Email: 
jkarmin@yahoo.com
Website: 
linktr.ee/poet.ephemera

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)
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The Canary Islands Connection: 60 Contemporary American Poets (Zasterle Press, 2016)
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Please Add To This List: Teaching Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets & Experiments (Tender Buttons Press, 2014)
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I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press, 2012)
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The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing (&NOW Books -- Lake Forest College Press, 2012)
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Emergency Index (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011)
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Not a Muse (Haven Books, 2009)
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A Sing Economy (Flim Forum Press, 2008)
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Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press, 2008)
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The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books, 2007)
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Sixty Seconds to Shine (Smith & Kraus, 2006)
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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)
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The Sexual Organs of the IRS / a collaboration with Bernadette Mayer (Convulsive Editions, 2016)
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4000 Words 4000 Dead + Revolutionary Optimism: An American Elegy (Sona Press, 2012)
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Evacuated: Disembodying Katrina (Dusie Press, 2009)
Journals:
Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
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Anomaly
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Anomalous Press
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Bird Dog
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Blue Beat Jacket
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Brooklyn Rail
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Cannot Exist
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Columbia Poetry Review
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Court Green
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Delirious Hem
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Drunken Boat
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Dusie
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Elderly
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Esque
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Everyday Genius
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Fact-Simile
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Fence
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How 2
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Jacket2
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Lungfull!
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MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine
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Matter
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Milk
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MoonLit
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NOÖ Journal
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Notre Dame Review
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Otoliths
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Out Of Nothing
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Plath Profiles
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Poetry Project Newsletter
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Poets for Living Waters
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Requited
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Seven Corners
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Seventeen
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Specs
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Summer Stock
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We Are So Happy To Know Something
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Western Humanities Review
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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).

Personal Favorites

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