Jennifer Firestone is a poet and critic whose research and teaching interests include 20th and 21st century experimental poetry and poetics, with emphasis on The Feminist Avant-garde, Cross-cultural Poetics, The Language School, The Objectivists, The New York School of Poets, Black Arts, Documentary and Investigative Poetics, Cross-Genre Texpress publishing.
Jennifer Firestone is a poet and critic whose research and teaching interests include 20th and 21st century experimental poetry and poetics, with emphasis on The Feminist Avant-garde, Cross-cultural Poetics, The Language School, The Objectivists, The New York School of Poets, Black Arts, Documentary and Investigative Poetics, Cross-Genre Texpress publishing.
Firestone uses the classroom as an experimental lab, challenging her students to implode their definitions of “poetry” by considering poems as critical and investigative lenses. Her students are exposed to innovative activities such as the walking sonnet (walking fourteen NYC blocks while writing a sonnet line per block) or participating in semester-long epistolary correspondences with a classmate about one’s developing poetics.
Firestone received her MFA from San Francisco State University. Her books include Flashes(Shearsman Books), which was Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog’s “Poetry Pick” for 2013, Holiday (Shearsman Books), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books) and Fanimaly (Dusie Kollektiv). Firestone co-edited (with Dana Teen Lomax) Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books), a year-long experiment documenting letter exchanges between fourteen poet-pairs. Firestone co-authored LITtle by LITtle with photographer and urban geographer, Laura Y. Liu. Firestone’s work has been published in many journals including: Volta, Drunken Boat, How2 and Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics. She has work anthologized in Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Songs, & Stories for Children and Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim. Firestone won the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press’ Robert Creeley Memorial Prize. Firestone is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist poetry collective and event series..
Ann Snitow May 9, 1943-August 10, 2019 Ann Snitow, a founding faculty member of Lang College and the creator of the Gender Studies Program at the New School, passed away on August 10, 2019. She was a beloved member of the Literary Studies faculty. While indeed her books and essays are crucial texts in feminist studies and in the life of the mind, as Literary Studies colleagues our remembrances here are more personal, testaments not just to her work but to the power of her being.
February 19, 2021
Remembering Akilah Oliver Akilah Oliver (1961-2011) was a prominent poet/performer in the avant-garde literary scene. Her first book of poetry was published by the feminist avant-garde press, Belladonna* Collaborative. Oliver’s work is experiential, a scoring of ideas on the page.
October 10, 2019
Ann Snitow May 9, 1943-August 10, 2019 Ann Snitow, a founding faculty member of Lang College and the creator of the Gender Studies Program at the New School, passed away on August 10, 2019. She was a beloved member of the Literary Studies faculty. While indeed her books and essays are crucial texts in feminist studies and in the life of the mind, as Literary Studies colleagues our remembrances here are more personal, testaments not just to her work but to the power of her being.
July 20, 2016
I’ve been pretty much in denial about the death of my friend Robin ten days ago. But the reality keeps leaking into my heart and bones with a terrible chill. (Roland Barthes captures this weird temporality of grief very well in his Mourning Diary. […]
Jennifer Firestone is a poet and critic whose research and teaching interests include 20th and 21st century experimental poetry and poetics, with emphasis on The Feminist Avant-garde, Cross-cultural Poetics, The Language School, The Objectivists, The New York School of Poets, Black Arts, Documentary and Investigative Poetics, Cross-Genre Texpress publishing.
Jennifer Firestone is a poet and critic whose research and teaching interests include 20th and 21st century experimental poetry and poetics, with emphasis on The Feminist Avant-garde, Cross-cultural Poetics, The Language School, The Objectivists, The New York School of Poets, Black Arts, Documentary and Investigative Poetics, Cross-Genre Texpress publishing.
Firestone uses the classroom as an experimental lab, challenging her students to implode their definitions of “poetry” by considering poems as critical and investigative lenses. Her students are exposed to innovative activities such as the walking sonnet (walking fourteen NYC blocks while writing a sonnet line per block) or participating in semester-long epistolary correspondences with a classmate about one’s developing poetics.
Firestone received her MFA from San Francisco State University. Her books include Flashes(Shearsman Books), which was Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog’s “Poetry Pick” for 2013, Holiday (Shearsman Books), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books) and Fanimaly (Dusie Kollektiv). Firestone co-edited (with Dana Teen Lomax) Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books), a year-long experiment documenting letter exchanges between fourteen poet-pairs. Firestone co-authored LITtle by LITtle with photographer and urban geographer, Laura Y. Liu. Firestone’s work has been published in many journals including: Volta, Drunken Boat, How2 and Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics. She has work anthologized in Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Songs, & Stories for Children and Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim. Firestone won the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press’ Robert Creeley Memorial Prize. Firestone is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist poetry collective and event series..
