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Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Chicago, IL

Illinois US

Email:

jkarmin@yahoo.com

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.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

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.

Born in:

Brooklyn, NY

New York

Raised in:

Buffalo, NY

New York

Website:

https://linktr.ee/poet.ephemera [2]

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).

Prefers to work with:

Any