Bloomfield Township, MI
Born 1952, Orange, California
My writings are staged between creative genres and theory, the domestic and history, abstractions and androgyny, the rational and the non-rational, the creator and her artifact. They are organized against normative ideas while using whatever tools of poetry, performance, philosophic, or autobiographical discourses present themselves to advance their tellings. Concepts such as narrative, character, and binary thinking are manipulated and scrutinized but not adhered to methodically. The writing is also a response to literature and the things of the world: it does not separate one off from the other. In the world of the writing, words themselves may become characters and instincts are regarded as if they were books.
1975 B.A. College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara 1978 M.A. Creative Arts Interdisciplinary, San Francisco State University
1997 Faculty, Department of English, Wayne State University, Detroit 2005 Winter Semester, Visiting Professor, American Studies, Universitat Tubingen
2005 Baby. New York and Boston: Adventures in Poetry.
2001 Gardener of Stars, a Novel San Francisco and Berkeley: Atelos.
1999 The Words: after Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre Oakland, California: O Books.
1995 There Never Was a Rose without a Thorn. San Francisco: City Lights.
2004-2005 Mirror Play, a polyvocal work for speaking voice and jaws harps, with music by John Raskin. New Langton Arts and The San Francisco Historical Society.
2001-2003 Performing Objects Stationed in the Sub World, poets theater, directed by Carla Harryman, Oxford, England; directed by John Jakary, Detroit, Michigan, developed by Carla Harryman in collaboration with director Jim Cave and artist Amy Trachtenberg, The LAB, San Francisco.
1998 Chairs of Words, installation based on museum collection, typographic design by Peter Hill, Cranbrook Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
1992, 1994, 1999 Fund for Poetry
1996-2000 Opera America Next Stage, libretto adaptation and dramaturgy for A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil (with composer Erling Wold).
1993 Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, grant in poetry. New Langton Arts/ NEA Regranting Playwright Commission for There Is Nothing Better Than a Theory.
