Carla Harryman

Carla Harryman in Speaking Portraits

Carla Harryman (born January 11, 1952) is an American poet, essayist, and playwright often associated with the Language poets. She teaches Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University and serves on the MFA faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.

Life and work

Born in Orange, California, Harryman studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara and San Francisco State University. In 1979, she co-founded the San Francisco Poets Theater, which staged experimental plays, including her Third Man and other plays.[1]

Harryman co-edited a book devoted to the work of Kathy Acker.[2][3]

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, (Brooklyn, NY)
  • Lust for Life: On the Writing of Kathy Acker, 2006, Verso (New York, NY and London, England): co-edited with Amy Scholder and Avital Ronell.
  • 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.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Interview with Michael McGee and Jacques Dubrot", Combo issue 9 (2001)
  2. ^ a b "An Interview with Carla Harryman", by Megan Simpson, Contemporary Literature issue 37, vol. 4 (Winter 1996)
  3. ^ "Interview (with Manuel Brito)", A Suite of Poetic Voices (Santa Brigada, Spain: Kadle Books, 1994)