Publications

Books

I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time. Athens, Ohio: Essay Press, 2007.

(Translation of I, Afterlife: D’un Devenir Fantôme: Formespoétiques en temps de deuil. Translated by Emmanuel Hocquard, Juliette Valéry, Sarah Riggs, Omar Berrada, and David Lespiau, Pascal Poyet. Marseilles, France: Un bureau sur l’Atlantique at cipM, 2006.)

Shadow, Evidence, Intelligence. Chicago, IL: Factory School, 2006.

Scratch Sides: Poetry, Documentation, and Image-Text Projects. Austin, TX: Possum Press, 2002.

Perturbation, My Sister. Lawrence, KS: First Intensity Press, 1997.
             
A Helen Adam Reader, ed. Orono, ME: The National Poetry Foundation, October 2007.

Third Mind: Creative Writing Through Visual Art, ed., with Tonya Foster. New York, NY: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 2002.

A Poetics of Criticism: Poetry and Form, ed., with Juliana Spahr, Pam Rehm, and Mark Wallace. Buffalo, NY: Leave Books, 1995.

Poetry Published in Anthologies

“Ruins.” The Best of Fence: The First Nine Years. Fence Books, forthcoming 2009.

“Spool Speech.” Vertov from Z to A. Edited by Keith Sanborn and Peggy Ahwesh. Ediciones la calavera, 2007.

“Apostrophe” in Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts & Affections. Edited by Arielle Greenberg & Rachel Zucker. University of Iowa Press, 2008.

“The Mother Maker” in Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv, edited by Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, Lesley Wheeler. Red Hen Press, 2008.

“Asteroid” in Poets on Painters, edited by Katie Geha and Travis Nichols. Wichita, KS: Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, 2007.

“Cruelty and Conquest” in Bowery Women, edited by Bob Holman and Marjorie Tesser. New York, NY: Bowery Arts and Science Editions, 2006.

“Apostrophe” in Whitman Hom(m)age 2005/1855, edited by Olivier Brossard and Éric Athenot. Nantes, France: joca seria press, 2005.

“Traces of Hallucinogens Found in Prayers,” Evidence of the Paranormal, edited by Albert Flynn DeSilver. Woodacre, CA: The Owl Press, 2003.

“Always I,” The Portable Boog Reader, edited by David Kirschenbaum. New York, NY: Boog Literature, 2000.

“No Safe City,” Blood & Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard edited by Scott Gibson. New York City, NY: Painted Leaf Press, 1999.

“From: The Parasite Poems,” Object #9 - Inventory: Special Anthology Issue, edited by Rob Fitterman. New York, NY: Object, 1999.

“Two Monologues,” Writing from the New Coast, edited by Peter Gizzi and Connell McGrath. Stockbridge, MA: o-blek editions, 1993.

Critical Essays Published in Anthologies

“Kristin Prevallet on Anne Waldman.” Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts & Affections. Edited by Arielle Greenberg & Rachel Zucker. University of Iowa Press, 2008.

“One Among Rubble: George Oppen and World War II” accepted for publication in a anthology of critical work on George Oppen, edited by Steven Shoemaker, University of Alabama Press, forthcoming Spring 2009.

“The Worm Queen Emerges: Helen Adam and the Forgotten Ballad Tradition” in Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation, edited by Ronna Johnson and Nancy Grace. Rutgers, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

“Investigating the Procedure: Poetry and the Source” in Telling It Slant: Avant-garde Poetics of the 1990s, edited by Mark Wallace and Steven Marks. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2001.

“Writing Through War: Using History to Teach Imaginative Writing” in Using American Literature to Teach Writing, edited by Ron Padgett and Christopher Edgar. New York, NY: Teachers & Writers Collaborative and The Library of America, 2001.

“The Reluctant Pixy-Pool: A Recovery of Helen Adam” in The Recovery of the Public World: Essays on Poetics in Honour of Robin Blaser, edited by Charles Watts and Edward Byrne. Vancouver, B.C.: Talon Books, 1999.

Reviews

“James Broughton Selected Poems, edited by Jack Kimball.” Contemporary Poetry Review, forthcoming December 2008.
“The Age of Huts (Compleat) by Ron Silliman.” Chicago, IL: The Chicago Review, Summer 2008.

Intimate Enemy by Robert Lyons. Bomb: A Quarterly Arts & Culture Magazine, Spring 2008.

“Talk Shows by Monica de la Torre.” New York, NY: Bomb: A Quarterly Arts & Culture Magazine, Spring 2007.

“Chinese Sun by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, translated by Evheny Pavlov,” Bomb: A Quarterly Arts & Culture Magazine, Winter 2006.
“Skincerity by Laura Elrick,” The Poetry Project Newlsetter, June 2006.

“Pierce-Arrow by Susan Howe,” New York, NY: The Poetry Project Newsletter, June 2000.

“Science & Steepleflower by Forrest Gander,” Lawrence, KS: First Intensity: A Magazine of New Writing, Spring 2000.

“The Letters of Mina Harker by Dodie Bellamy,” New York, NY: The Poetry Project Newsletter, June/July 1998.

“IOVIS II by Anne Waldman,” New York, NY: The Poetry Project Newsletter, Dec./Jan 1997-98.

“Valparaíso by Duncan McNaughton,” Chicago, IL: Chicago Review, Fall 1996

Essays on Poetics

“Navigating the New Chaos: Anne Waldman’s Collaborations with Visual Artists,” Jacket #27, (http://www.jacketmagazine.com/27/w-prev.html) April 2005.

Writing is Never by Itself Alone: Six Mini Essays on Investigative Poetics,” New York, NY: Fence, Spring 2003.

“Moving through the Apparatus: Brakhage’s Angels,” Chicago, IL: The Chicago Review, Fall 2002.

“Questions of Engagement: Politics, Sartre, and Action Poétique,” Double Change #2 (www.doublechange.com) Spring 2002.

“From Godzilla to the NASDEQ Tower: The Collages of Holli Schorno,” The Transcendental Friend #14 (www.morningred.com/friend/2001/01/notabene.html) Spring 2001.

“Sing on Grey-Brown Bird: Notes on Elegy,” New York, NY: LIT: The Journal of the New School Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program, Fall 2001.

“The Artful Presence of Materials: Joe Brainard at PS1,” New York, NY: The Poetry Project Newsletter, November/December 2001.

“The Exquisite Extremes of Poetry: Watten and Baraka on the Brink,” Jacket #12 (www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket12) Summer 2000.

“The Real Steve Brower; Only More So!" P.S.1 Museum, Greater New York Show Writer’s Project, (www.ps1.org/cut/java/writers.html) Fall 2000. This essay also appeared in a Greater New York Show exhibition CD-ROM.

“Helen Adam’s Sweet Company: The Collages,” Riding the Meridian v2 n2 (www.heelstone.com/meridian/adam4.html) 1999-00.

“Jack Spicer’s Hell in Homage to Creeley,” Jacket #7
(www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket07) April 1999.

“Memoirs of an Archive,” New South Wales, AU: Boxkite, An International Journal of Art, Poetry and Poetics, Fall 1998.

“Sampling Out of this World,” San Francisco, CA: Tripwire: A Journal of Poetics, Fall 1998.

“An Extraordinary Enchantment: Helen Adam, Robert Duncan, and The San Francisco Renaissance,” Edinburgh, Scotland: The Edinburgh Review, Fall 1997.

“Sketch for a Biography of Helen Adam,” Lawrence, KS: First Intensity Magazine, Spring 1997.

Articles on Composition, Teaching

“Using Informal Writing to Teach Abstract Thinking,” Queens, NY: St. John’s Core Curriculum and DNY Newsletter, Winter 2007.

“The Processes of Student Writing,” Queens, NY: St. John’s Core Curriculum and DNY Newsletter, Winter 2006.

“Risking It: Poetry, Teaching, Translation.” Vancouver, B.C.: The Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Spring 2004.

“Poetry and the Importance of Fourth Grade,” New York, NY: Poets and Writers Magazine, May/June 2001.

“The Orono Writer’s Conference,” Poets and Writers Magazine, March/April 2001.