Carla Harryman (born January 11, 1952) is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

essayist An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal a ...

, and

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

often associated with the

Language poets The Language poets (or ''L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E'' poets, after the magazine of that name) are an avant-garde group or tendency in United States poetry that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The poets included: Bernadette Mayer, Leslie Scalapi ...

. She teaches

Creative Writing Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary ...

Eastern Michigan University Eastern Michigan University (EMU, Eastern Michigan or simply Eastern), is a public research university in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School, the school was the fourth normal school established in the United Sta ...

and serves on the MFA faculty of the

Milton Avery Milton Clark Avery (March 7, 1885 – January 3, 1965Haskell, B. (2003). "Avery, Milton". Grove Art Online.) was an American modern painter. Born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City. He was the husband ...

School of the Arts at

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. She is married to the poet

Barrett Watten Barrett Watten (born October 3, 1948) is an American poet, editor, and educator often associated with the Language poets. He is a professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan where he has taught modernism and cultural studies ...

Life and work

Born in

Orange, California Orange is a city located in North Orange County, California. It is approximately north of the county seat, Santa Ana, California, Santa Ana. Orange is unusual in this region because many of the homes in its Old Town District were built before ...

, Harryman studied at the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...

and

San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different b ...

. In 1979, she co-founded the San Francisco Poets Theater, which staged numerous experimental plays, including her ''Third Man'' and other plays. Harryman has received the

Foundation for Contemporary Arts The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA), is a nonprofit based foundation in New York City that offers financial support and recognition to contemporary performing and visual artists through awards for artistic innovation and potential. It was ...

Grants to Artists award (2004) and other grants and awards from Fund for Poetry,

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Next Stage Grant (with composer

Erling Wold Erling Wold (born January 30, 1958 in Burbank, California) is a San Francisco based composer of opera and contemporary classical music. He is best known for his later chamber operas, and his early experiments as a microtonalist. Life Wold was ...

), Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and the NEA Consortium Playwrights Commission, among others. Harryman's work is known for genre-disrupting poetry, performance and prose. In addition to her work and her interdisciplinary collaborations, she has written numerous experimental essays and writings about contemporary innovative women’s writing and experimental language-centered performance and co-edited a book devoted to the work of

Kathy Acker Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 isputed– November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trau ...

."Interview (with Manuel Brito)", ''A Suite of Poetic Voices'' (Santa Brigada, Spain: Kadle Books, 1994)

Publications

* ''Percentage'', 1979, Tuumba (Berkeley, CA) * ''Under the Bridge'', 1980, This Press (Berkeley, CA) * ''Property'', 1982, Tuumba (Berkeley, CA) * ''The Middle'', 1983, Gaz Press (San Francisco, CA) * ''Vice'', 1986, Potes and Poets (Hartford, CT) * ''Animal Instincts: Prose, Plays, Essays'', 1989, This Press (Berkeley, CA) * ''In the Mode of'', 1992, Zasterle (Tenerife, Spain) * ''Memory Play'', 1994, O Books (Oakland, CA) * ''There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn'', 1995, City Lights (San Francisco, CA) * ''The Words: After Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre'', 1994, O Books (Oakland, CA) * ''Gardener of Stars'', 2001, Atelos (Berkeley, CA) * ''Baby'', 2005, Adventures in Poetry (New York, NY) *'' Tourjours L’epine Est Sous La Rose'', 2006, Ikko (Paris, France) Translation of ''There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn''. Translated by

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* ''Open Box (Improvisations)'', 2007, Belladonna Books, (Brooklyn, NY) * ''Lust for Life: On the Writing of

'', 2006, Verso (New York, NY and London, England): co-edited with

Amy Scholder Amy Scholder is an American literary editor and documentary filmmaker known for amplifying the stories of marginalized writers, artists, musicians, and activists. Biography Early years Born in San Francisco, Scholder grew up in the San Fernando ...

and

Avital Ronell Avital Ronell ( ; born 15 April 1952) is an American academic who writes about continental philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the humanities and in the departments of Germanic l ...

. * ''Adorno's Noise'', 2008, Essay Press (Ithaca, NY) * The Wide Road (with Lyn Hejinian), 2011, Belladonna Books (New York, NY) * W--/M--, 2013, SplitLevel Texts (Ann Arbor, MI) * Artifact of Hope, 2017, Ordinance Series, Kenning Editions (Chicago, IL) * L'impromptue de Hannah/Hannah Cut In, 2018. Translated by Abigail Lange, Joca Seria (Paris, France) * Sue in Berlin, 2018, "To" Series, PURH (Rouen, France) * Sue á Berlin, 2018. Translated by Sabine Huynh, "To" Series, PURH (Rouen, France) * A Voice to Perform, 2020, SplitLevel Texts (Alexandria, VA)

References

External links

Book RagsCarla Harryman at EPC
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