Patrick F. Durgin | Short CV | Summer, 2008
Education
State University of New York at Buffalo, Ph.D, English (Poetics Program), 2004
State University of New York at Buffalo, M.A., English, 2003
University of Iowa, B.A. with Distinction, Honors English, 2000
Invited Talks/Conferences
Voicing Class in Lorine Niedecker and Mark Nowak Dec. 2007. Modern Language Association, Chicago
William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Burke and Louis Zukofsky Setting Company to Music Dec. 2007. Modern Language Association, Chicago
Dependency, Dismodernism, and Psycho-Social Disability May 2007. Society for Disability Studies 2007 Conference, Seattle
Post-Language Poetics as Post-Ableist Poetics April 2007. Popular Culture/American Culture Association 2007 Conference, Boston
Phenomenal Bodies: Fanny Howe and Leslie Scalapino’s Imitative Poetics Feb. 2007. Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville
Psycho-Social Disability and Post-Ableist Poetics: The ‘Case’ of Hannah Weiner’s Clairvoyant Journals Oct. 2006. Modernist Studies Association Conference (MSA 8), University of Tulsa
Official respondent, chair, or moderator: Poetry and Being (Louisville Conference 2007); Dismodernist Poetics/Post-Ableist Poetics (MSA 2006); The Poetic Line in the Age of New Media (MLA 2005); The Web as Medium (E-Poetry 2001)
Other: Hannah Weiner’s Open House Event (Poetry Project 2007, NYC); Roundtable, Kootenay School of Writing (2007, Vancouver); Roundtable, Carl Rakosi 100th Birthday Celebration (Beyond Baroque 2003, Los Angeles)
Publications
Select Critical Articles and Poetics Statements
Psycho-Social Disability and Post-Ableist Poetics: The ‘Case’ of Hannah Weiner’s Clairvoyant Journals Contemporary Women’s Writing (forthcoming)
Post-Language Poetries as Post-Ableist Poetics Journal of Modern Literature (forthcoming)
Toward a Post-Ableist Poetics XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics 20, 2008 (forthcoming)
Lyn Hejinian: Intention, Selection, and Fantastic Philosophy Aerial 11: Contemporary Poetics as Critical Theory, 2008 (forthcoming)
Avant-Garde Journalism: Hannah Weiner’s Early and Clairvoyant Journals San Diego: Archive for New Poetry / UCSD Special Collections (2004): Rpt: Arizona Quarterly, 2007.
Hannah Weiner Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, Ed. Jeffrey Grey; Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007.
John Cage Companion to Twentieth Century American Poetry Ed. Burt Kimmelman; New York: Facts on File Inc., 2007.
Eileen Myles Dictionary of Literary Biography, American Poets Since World War II, sixth series Ed. Joseph Conte; New York: Gale Research, 1998. 203-212.
Book reviews are published in the following periodicals: 26, Disability Studies Quarterly, Electronic Poetry Review, Jacket, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and The St. Mark’s Poetry Project Newsletter.
Select Poetry Publications: Books & Features
six poems Denver Quarterly (forthcoming)
The Route with Jen Hofer, Berkeley: Atelos, 2008)
six poems Prairie Schooner (forthcoming)
Imitation Poems Buffalo, NY: Atticus / Finch, 2007
two poemsNew Review of Literature v.5 n.2 (2008)
from Relay Bay Poetics Newton, MA: Faux Press, 2006: 122-126
Hypnotizing Chickens Chicago Review 50: 2/3/4 (2005): 292-293
two poems Rattapallax 9/Editoria 34 (2003): 40-41
Color Music Illustrations by Eric Troolin, Buffalo: Cuneiform Press, 2002
Mesmerizing Measures Fence v.5 n.1 (spring-summer 2002): 45
three poems Aufgabe 1 (2001): 141-143
Sorter Providence: Duration Press, 2001
Pundits Scribes Pupils Elmwood, Connecticut: Potes & Poets Press, 1998
Select Readings
Myopic Books (Chicago, 2008)
Woodland Pattern (Milwaukee, WI, 2008)
Hannah Weiner’s Open House Event (Poetry Project, New York, 2007)
The Route/Imitation Poems readings at Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver, The Spare Room in Portland, Emergent Forms series in Ashland, OR, the San Francisco Poetry Center, UC Santa Cruz, and “The Smell” in Los Angeles.
MLA Off-Site Reading (Arts Alliance, Philadelphia, 2006; D.C. Four Seasons, 2005; Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, 2004)
Discrete Series (Chicago, 2005)
Carl Rakosi 100th Birthday Celebration at Beyond Baroque (Los Angeles, 2003)
Geary Street series (San Francisco, 2003)
New Brutalism series (Oakland, 2003)
In Your Ear series (Washington DC, 2002)
Rust Talks series (Buffalo, 2002)
Canessa Park series (San Francisco, 2000)
Words of Light series (Chicago/Iowa City, 1999)
Teaching
SUNY-Buffalo, 2003
College of St. Catherine, 2004-2005
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2005-2007
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007-