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PATRICK DURGIN is a poet-critic; author of Color Music (2002), Imitation Poems (2006), and The Route (with Jen Hofer, 2007-8); a poets theater script, PQRS (2009-2012); talks on Jackson Mac Low, Nathaniel Mackey, Robert Duncan, Lorine Niedecker, Mark Nowak, William Carlos Williams, Fanny Howe, Leslie Scalapino, and others; much magazine verse and many articles in scholarly and small press journals; editor of Hannah Weiner’s Open House and The Early and Clairvoyant Journals of Hannah Weiner; editor and publisher of Kenning Editions; teaches critical theory, literature, and writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Writing

New Life Writing from Jacket2
Psychosocial Disability and Post-Ableist Poetics: The "Case" of Hannah Weiner's Clairvoyant Journals from Contemporary Women's Writing (PDF)
Post-Language Poetries and Post-Ableist Poetics from Journal of Modern Literature, see also Two Articles via Nonsite Collective
Two Open Letters on Disability Theory with Thom Donovan
Review of David Ray Vance's Vitreous from Disability Studies Quarterly
Jackson Mac Low and the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E of Intermedia from National Poetry Foundation
Review of Carla Harryman from Postmodern Culture
Review of Rachel Blau DuPlessis from Jacket
Review of Dominique Fourcade from Double Change
Triptych: A Noir from Jacket, A Tonalist Feature
Two Imitation Poems from Atticus/Finch
Six Imitation Poems from Dusie
To My Imitators at Duration Press
Craft Ballads (audio in two parts, 1 and 2)
Tangelo (a chapbook given to audiences at readings from The Route)
The Poetics of Negation

Sound and Video

Patrick Durgin at PennSound
Into the Field Podcast at Jacket 2
Untitled (Fiat Currency) at Rabbit Light Movies