Simone White is a poet and critic. She has a PhD from the CUNY Graduate center and is the author of the poetry collections Of... Read More
Simone White is a poet and critic. She has a PhD from the CUNY Graduate center and is the author of the poetry collections Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem), Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse/Dossier Series) and House Envy of All the World (Factory School). A book of unusual critical prose, Dear Angel of Death, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling in 2017. She has taught American literature and writing at Hunter College, CUNY and Bard College.
She also serves as Program Director of The Poetry Project where she runs the historic Wednesday Night Reading Series, among other things.
Dr White will be teaching Transatlantic Modernism in the fall semester.
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.
November 8, 2016
“Often when we think of the kinds of landscapes that poets physically traverse and turn their minds to, we think not of the city but of the countryside. The conception of walking as a pastoral pastime to stimulate one’s creativity comes in large part from the legendary rural rambling of the Romantic poets: William Wordsworth wandering lonely as a cloud and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s week-long solo walking tour of the Cumbrian mountains. […]
Simone White is a poet and critic. She has a PhD from the CUNY Graduate center and is the author of the poetry collections Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem), Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse/Dossier Series) and House Envy of All the World (Factory School). A book of unusual critical prose, Dear Angel of Death, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling in 2017. She has taught American literature and writing at Hunter College, CUNY and Bard College.
She also serves as Program Director of The Poetry Project where she runs the historic Wednesday Night Reading Series, among other things.
Dr White will be teaching Transatlantic Modernism in the fall semester.
