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 (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

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 (message), letter, a term paper, paper, an article (publishing), article, a pamphlet, and a s ...

, and

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Readin ...

often associated with the

Language poets The Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E (magazine), ''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: Berna ...

. She teaches

Creative Writing Creative writing is any writing that goes beyond the boundaries of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on craft and technique, such as narrative structure, character ...

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

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 art, modern painter. Born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City. He wa ...

School of the Arts at

Bard College Bard College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains within the Hudson River Historic District ...

Life and work

Born in

Orange, California Orange is a city located in northern Orange County, California, United States. 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 ...

, 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, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an ...

and

San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a Public university, public research university in San Francisco, California, United States. It was established in 1899 as the San Francisco State Normal School and is ...

. In 1979, she co-founded the San Francisco Poets Theater, which staged experimental plays, including her ''Third Man'' and other plays. Harryman 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, poet, playwright, essayist, critic, performance artist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that deal ...

."An Interview with Carla Harryman", by Megan Simpson, ''Contemporary Literature'' issue 37, vol. 4 (Winter 1996)"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 Martin Richet * ''Open Box (Improvisations)'', 2007,

Belladonna Books Belladonna* Collaborative (or Belladonna Series, Inc.) is a small press non-profit publisher and collaborative organization based in Brooklyn, New York City. It was founded in 1999 by Rachel Levitsky as a reading series at Bluestockings in New Y ...

, (Brooklyn, NY) * ''Lust for Life: On the Writing of

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

. * ''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)

Personal life

Harryman is married to the poet

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

References

External links

Book RagsCarla Harryman at EPC
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