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Ph.D. History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Areas of specialty: Literary Theory, Poetics, Gender Studies, and Cultural Theory. Admitted, September 1983. Oral Examinations, May 1987. Completion, June 1990

M.A., St. John’s Graduate Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1980. Classical Literature and Philosophy

B.A., Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, 1977. Literature, Cultural Theory, Poetics

Coming Events (collected writing), cross-genre, essays & criticism, Nightboat Books, New York, 2013

Narrative’s Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson, (criticism), Peter Lang Publishing, New York, 1995

"Belief's Afterimage," Jacket, online magazine (essay), #10, 2000

“Into Ellipse: Geographic and Grammatic Disappearance in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage,” Feminist Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol 26, (essay), 1997

"Documentary," (essay) Chain, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1995

“Figment of Appointment,” (essay) Chain, Vol 1, No. 3, (on poly-genre/multimedia work), 1996

“A Place Ajar,” (essay), Apocalypse and Contemporary Poetics, a collection, 1995

“Preface: Methods and Intent," (preface to Narrative’s Journey), Mirage/(Period)ical, San Francisco, 1994

“Doctor Editor,” Chain, Vol. 1, No. 1, (essay on Gender and Editing), Buffalo, New York, 1994

“Without Event: The Reign of Commotion,” A Poetics of Criticism, (essay) LEAVE Books, Buffalo, New York, 1994

“Poetics,” Writing from the New Coast: Technique, (essay) o.blék, Buffalo, New York, Spring/Fall, 1993

“Recreative Delights and Spiritual Exercise: Pantheism as Aesthetic Practice in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage,” West Coast Line, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, 1992

“Dorothy Richardson Taken Place,” (essay), raddle moon, Vancouver, Canada, 1992

“Wanderyahre: The Poetics and Politics of Travel in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage,” PRAXIS, Spring/Summer, 1987, Rutgers University, New Jersey, 1987

“Generic Protocols: Poetic Readings of Feminist Science Fiction; Science Fictive Readings of Feminist Poetry,” Proceedings of the Barnard Conference, Barnard College, New York, 1987

“Dorothy Richardson’s Writing on Film: Reading and Viewing Practices,” HOW(ever) Journal, Volume III, Number 2, 1986

Guide School, Lavender Ink, forthcoming

The Guides, Antiphony Press, 2025, chapbook

Doctor Shaman, above/ground press, 2024, chapbook

Sun Worship, Yoyo Labs, Brooklyn, NY, 2023, chapbook

BURNS, Pamenar Press, London, 2022

Hotel abc, Nightboat Books, New York, 2016

Aerodrome Orion and Starry Messenger, Kelsey Street Press, Berkeley, CA, 2010

Broadcast, Trafficker Press, San Francisco, 2009

Prosthesis : : Caesarea, Little Red Leaves, 2009

Thrall, Post Apollo Press, Sausalito, CA, 2007

OMATIC & after ST JOHN, dPress, Sebastopol, 2006, chapbook

Hourglass Transcripts, Burning Deck Press, Providence, Rhode Island, 2001

Spelt, (chapbook) by Susan Gevirtz and Myung Mi Kim, a+bend press, 1999

Black Box Cutaway, Kelsey Street Press, Berkeley, CA, 1999

Prosthesis : : Caesarea, (limited edition /30), Potes and Poets Press, Elmwood, CT, 1994

Taken Place, Reality Street Editions, Cambridge, England, 1993

Linen minus, Avenue B Press, Bolinas, CA, 1992

Domino: point of entry, LEAVE Books, Buffalo, New York, 1992, chapbook

Korean and Milkhouse, ABACUS, Potes and Poets Press, Elmwood, Connecticut, 1991, chapbook

exact text: The La Brea Tar Pits [from Movies & Food], 2025

“Phosphorus,” Errant Elements, 2025

“Phosphorus,” Tuesday poem #637, 2025

“Writing Through Prison Storms,” Brooks and Gevirtz, Places Journal, 2020

“We will disrupt nothing with the fullness of nothingness,” a conversation between Susan Gevirtz & Julia Drescher,Periodicity Journal, 2020

Elderly 31, 2020

Second Stutter, Volume Four, 2019

#MeToo: A Poetry Collective, Entropy, 2019

GUEST 2 [a journal of guest editors] edited by Brenda Iijima, 2019

Solidarity Texts, edited by Laynie Brown, 2018

Textsound, an online audio publication, 2018

Best Experimental Writing, Weselyan University Press, anthology, 2018

Almost Island, New Delhi, 2013

“Outer Event,” Jacket, 2013

Hambone, 2012

Mandorla, Mexico City, 2011

Starry Messenger, in English and Greek, translated by Vassilis Manousakkis, Athens, Greece, 2008

“Poem A Day,” Academy of American Poets, May 7, 2008

Kadar Koli, issue1, Vol II, (poetry), Texas/ Buffalo, New York, 2008

“Uneven Uneventfulness: Kathleen Fraser’s Discrete Categories Forced Into Coupling,” How2 Vol. 2, Issue 4 (republished in Gevirtz, Coming Events)

Bay Poetics, (poetry anthology), Stephanie Young, editor, Faux Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006

Poetry Salzburg Review, University of Salzburg, Austria

The Grand Permission: New Writings On Motherhood, Patricia Dientsfrey and Brenda Hillman, editors, Wesleyan University Press

Hambone, No.16, Santa Cruz, CA, 2002

untitled, A Journal of Prose Poetry, Santa Cruz, CA, 2002

"Belief's Afterimage: The Recent Work of Barbara Guest," Aufgabe, New York, 2001

hemorragingimaging, Vol 1, No 1, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2001

Narrativity, Vol 1, No 2, San Francisco, 2001

Primary Writing, (poetry postcard series), Washington, D.C., 2000

Ernst Jandl in Translation, Rosemary Waldrop, editor, "Dichten =" series; Burning Deck, Rhode Island, 2000

Outlet, No.6, poetry, Berkeley, CA, 2000

Poets & Poems, St. Mark's Poetry Project, 2000

Prosodia No. 8, New College of California Poetics Journal, San Francisco, 1999

Chain, No. 6, Honolulu, New York, Philadelphia, 1999

Rooms, Vol 6, San Francisco, 1999

Crayon, Vol. 1, No. 2, New York, 1998

Proliferation, San Francisco, 1998

Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, (anthology of poetry and poetics), Talisman House Press, 1997

Ankle Press, (poetry booklets, one for each featured poet), English text translated into French on facing pages, Cambridge, England, 1997

Conjunctions 28, New York, 1997

raddle moon, (translation), Canada, 1997

Tinfish 5, Hawaii, 1997

Proliferation, San Francisco, 1997

RIBOT, Los Angeles, CA, 1997

Volt, San Anselmo, CA, 1997

OASii, (poetry, broadside series), Ra’anana, Israel, 1996

Purge, London, England, 1994

Rooms, No. 1, San Leandro, CA, 1994

AVEC, Nos. 7 & 8, Penngrove, CA, 1994

“Rooted,” A conversation between Susan Gevirtz and Elaine Equi on poetics of place, Village Voice Literary Supplement: Contemporary American Poetry issue, April, 1994

The Art of Practice, (anthology), Potes & Poets Press, Elmwood, Connecticut, 1994

Notus 12, Other Wind Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1993

Black Bread, Rhode Island, 1993

Situation, Buffalo, New York, 1993

LYRIC&, San Francisco, 1993

Writing from the New Coast: Presentation, collection of poetry from “First Festival of New Poetry,” State University of New York at Buffalo, April, 1993; published by o.blek, Spring/Fall, 1993

AVEC, No. 6, Penngrove, CA, 1993

Five Fingers Review, No. 10, San Francisco, 1991

Cathay, No. 1, Chicago, Illinois, 1991

AVEC, No. 4, Penngrove, CA, 1990

Spectacles, No. 1, San Francisco, 1990

Mirage, San Francisco, Fall, 1988

Tyuonyi, No. 4, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Fall, 1987

How(ever) Journal, Volume III, No. 4, San Francisco, 1987

Artweek, Oakland, CA, Book Reviews, 1981

Pegasus Poetry Anthology, National Poetry Press, Agoura, CA, 1981

Helix International Magazine, Ivanhoe, Australia, 1981

William Stafford Award Competition, First Honorable Mention and publication, Washington State Poets Association, 1981

Puerto Del Sol, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1981

Au Verso, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Spring and Fall, 1980

Affiliate, year-long residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 2016–2017

Residency, House of Literature, Paros, Greece, 2015

Residency, Foundation Marc de Montalembert, Rhodes, Greece: On alternative economies, 2015

Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays & Stories for Children: Creative Work Fund, grant for a group of artists to individually write an "experimental" play, poem, or story to be performed in Poets Theater productions around the Bay Area and published in a children's anthology, 2009; one of the first innovative/experimental literary anthologies for young children in the U.S.
Bay Area Award in Literature, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 2000

Innovative Programs Grant, Sonoma State University, 1996; the design and implementation of a “Reading Film” component in the Hutchins Humanities School curriculum

Who’s Who in Poetry and Poets Encyclopedia, 8th edition, Oxford University Press, 1996

Affirmative Action Faculty Development Grant, Sonoma State University, 1993

Graduate Student Research Award, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1989

Feminist Studies Organized Research Association Award, 1987

Patent Fund Award: Research at The Bienecke Library, Yale University / The New York Public Library, 1986

University of California Regents Graduate Fellowship, 1983

Return the Key podcast, 2025

Seven Questions, 2025

Panel discussion: Feminist Publishing and Editorial Practices, with Didem Yacizi, curator and Sarah Shin, publisher, at the HOW(ever) — Portikus Art Book Festival, Portikus Museum, Frankfurt, Germany, 2022

Presentation: Relay: The History and Present of HOW(ever) journal, Portikus Art Book Festival, Portikus Museum, Frankfurt, Germany, 2022

&Now Conference, Panel Chair: Beyond Return: Translation, Diaspora, and the Poetics and Politics of Origin, my presentation, “Guide School”, 2019

Interview, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2017, conducted by Andy Fitch, for Poetries of the Present about Nightboat Books authors, 2014

The Write Stuff: Susan Gevirtz on Making Something from What’s at Hand that Wasn’t Evident Before, 2013

Coming Events: The Making and Unmaking of book writing, 2013

Conversation between Benjamin Hollander and Susan Gevirtz, The Conversant / Volta, October, 2013

Interview, Poet As Radio, 2014.

PENN SOUND center for programs in contemporary writing: audio recordings, 1993–2013

Paros Symposium Annual meeting of Greek and Anglophone poets to discuss the respective cultural contexts of our work, translate and discuss one another’s work, poetics, give poetry readings and talks. Organized by myself and Greek poet Siarita Kouka, subsequently co-organized by Greek-American poets Helen Dimos and Eleni Stecopoulos. Held at “The House of Literature,” a center for writers, editors, and translators run by the Greek government on Paros island.(2004–2006). From 2005–2007 presented by EKEMEL a European organization for the book. Ongoing… The Center For Hellenic Studies of Harvard, Nafplion, Greece.

Talk on Poetics, SUNY Buffalo, 2006

“Aerodrome Orion” sound work produced in collaboration with British sound artist Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud) using sound and poetry to produce an audio environment. Poetry, text, and visuals performed as part of “Poetry in Performance” series, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 2006

Small Press Traffic (literary arts organization, board member), 2001–2004, San Francisco

Hourglass Transcripts, Boston Review, 2002

"Motion Picture Home" (play), written and performed for Poets Theatre Jubilee Festival, Small Press Traffic & New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 2002

Collaboration with writer and sound artist Andrew Klobucar, (poetry / sound collage), presented at Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, 2001

"Strange Models and Unusual Uses of Form in Poetry," panel, Oakland, CA, 2001

"there there sensation and interruption," Installation and durational performance by Margaret Tedesco, with voice recording reading my poetry (40 min., loop); in collaboration with Andrew Klobucar sound/poetry; The LAB, San Francisco, 2000

Interview and reading on my work and the history of my writing practice, with poet Kathleen Fraser; Mills College, Oakland, CA, 1999

"Subtitled," a collaboration between four performance artists, myself and my poetry from Black Box Cutaway accompanying the silent film "Warning Shadows," Germany, 1923 as part of the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery exhibition “Fear”; performed at San Francisco Cinématheque & Small Press Traffic, 1999

“Between Screen and Page: the motion of the written seen,” an event I curated and designed: one filmmaker, one film collective, and one poet/videomaker, screened and discussed their work, presented by Small Press Distribution & San Francisco Cinématheque, 1996

“Mapping: Writers on Writing,” a series of readings and discussions by poets about their writing processes, Mills College, Oakland CA, 1994

“Collision: The Constraints of Place in Time,” or “Reading the Context that Writes Back,” a poetry reading and writing workshop presented by Poets and Writers Inc. and by invitation, to poet Terry Ehret’s class at Sonoma State University, California, Spring, 1994

Presentation/Consultation to Montgomery High School faculty on interdisciplinary curriculum design and seminar methods, Spring, 1994

“Women in Art,” panel presented by Women’s Resource Center, Sonoma State University, 1994

“Through the House: Notes on Coming to Writing,” delivered at the conference, “Modernism: Politics and Influence,” Kings College, Cambridge, England, 1993

“Writing from the New Coast: First Festival of New Poetry,” (panel discussions & poetry readings). Department of English, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, April, 1993

“‘Skyey Apparition, White Searchlight’: In the Interstices—Dorothy Richardson’s Writings on the Early Silent Film,” (panel), “Feminists/Modernists/Writers /Cineastes,” Modern Language Association Conference, December, 1992

“Into Ellipse: Geographic and Grammatic Disappearance in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage,” paper delivered for panel: “The Politics of Location: Women,Travel and Narrative,” Modern Language Association Conference, 1991

“Recreative Delights and Spiritual Exercise” Paper delivered at the conference “The Shadow of Spirit, Contemporary Western Thought and Its Religious Subtexts,” King’s College, Cambridge, England, 1990

“Experimental Writing by Women and the Diagnostics of Editing,” paper delivered at the Rutgers University Conference, “Feminism in Thought and Action,” 1988   

“Writing The Margin: editing/publishing/theory: magazines-at-large.” Forum of editor/writers discussing editorial and publishing practices, readings of their own work, and panel discussion. Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, 1987  

“Relocating the Unit of Sense: Hysteric Poetics in the Modernist Tradition of Women’s Writing,” delivered at The Barnard Conference, “The Scholar and The Feminist XIV—WOMEN IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Looking Forward and Looking Back,” March, 1987

“The Poetics and Politics of Women’s Writing,” conference, Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. By invitation, April, 1986

“Generic Protocols: Poetic Readings of Feminist Science Fiction; Science Fictive Readings of Feminist Poetry,” delivered at the Barnard Conference, “The Scholar and The Feminist XIII: Women’s Images and Politics,” March, 1986; and also delivered at the Feminist Studies Organized Research Association Conference, University of California at Santa Cruz, February, 1986

“Freedom  and Responsibility in Poetry,” Colloquium, by invitation, presented by St. John’s College and The Liberty Fund, held at St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland, March, 1986

“Poetry, Writing and Myth,”(two lectures), Artist-in-Residence Series, The Aegean College, Paros, Greece, September, 1985

Mentor/Writing, Prison Renaissance / Empowerment Avenue, 2019

Professor, Masters in Visual and Critical Studies & Masters in Fine Arts Programs—Undergraduate Writing and Visual Studies, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Fall 2009–2017

Professor, MFA in Creative Writing: Poetry, Mills College, Oakland, CA, Spring 2008–2012

Professor, Hellenic International School of the Arts, Paros, Greece. Summer 2003–2005

Professor, Masters in Visual Criticism Program, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, Fall 2002–Spring 2005

Professor, Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, Spring Fall 1999–2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2003, Spring 2009

Assistant Professor, Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, 1989–1998; and Fall 2000.An interdisciplinary program focusing on Humanities, Literature, Philosophy, Science, the Arts, and Gender Studies. All classes are taught in seminar format with emphasis on critical discussion, reading, and writing. I taught across disciplines with the opportunity to invent and implement courses that reflect my own fields of specialty.

Professor, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, Fall 1989–Spring 1991.Introductory “Literature and Writing” classes and advanced elective seminar “Literature of The Avant-Garde.”

Professor, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, Fall 1988–Spring 1989.Courses focused on both literature and writing in one of the most internationally diverse student populations in California.

Lecturer, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1986.Intensive: “Introductory Poetry Reading and Writing” workshop.

Teaching Assistant, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1983–1987.I have assisted in the teaching of a wide variety of courses, among them: a writing workshop focusing on the rewriting of classic myths from a contemporary viewpoint, which accompanied the lectures in: “Classic Myth and Modern Meaning,” with Professor Norman O. Brown; “Religion and Myth,” Professor Gary Lease; and, “The Literature and Politics of Political Theory,” Professor Peter Euben.

Teacher/Poet, California Poets in the Schools, San Francisco, 1984–1986As a Teacher/Poet in high school to kindergarten classrooms, I augmented the formal curriculum. I offered basic skills in the writing and reading of poetry, provided writing exercises, introduced vocabulary for the discussion of poetry and literature, and introduced tools with which student and other poetry could be critiqued. New ways of using language became methods of exploring and articulating thoughts related to studies in math, science, the humanities and life outside of school. Workshops granted permission and provided an occasion for students to connect the formal curriculum, their daily experiences and imaginations.Visiting Faculty, The Aegean College of Fine Arts, Paros, Greece, 1985Teacher/artist in the Aegean College’s Artist-in-Residence workshop series ‘Classic Myth in Modern Culture.’

Dear Kathleen, On the Occasion of Kathleen Fraser’s 80th Birthday:Co-edited by Susan Gevirtz and Stephen Motika, Nightboat Books, 2017

TANAIS / ΤΑΝΑΙΣ, Iossif Ventura, co-translated by Susan Gevirtz, Red Heifer Press, CA, 2012

Guest editor, Jacket online poetry journal: featured poet, David Bromige, 2010

Editorial Advisory Board, HOW 2, 1998–2000

Editorial Consultant, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1994

Editorial Advisory Board, AVEC/Syntax Projects for the Arts, Penngrove, CA, 1992–present

Associate editor, HOW(ever), journal of modernist/innovative directions in women’s poetry and scholarship, San Francisco, 1985–1990

Associate editor, with Kathleen Fraser, editor, Second Edition, Feminist Poetics, A Consideration of the “Female” Construction of Language, San Francisco State University Press, 1984

Editor, METRO Magazine, Bay Area arts and culture, San Francisco, 1981-1982

Assistant editor, ARTWEEK, West Coast Arts, 1981

Ingota Full Moon Offerings, 2024
Naropa University, Summer Faculty Reading, 2024
Works on Paper, Passages Bookstore, Portland, Oregon, 2023
Yapi Kredi, Istanbul, Turkey, 2023
Green Arcade Books, San Francisco, 2023
City Lights Books, San Francisco, 2020
Alley Cat Books, San Francisco, 2019
Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, 2019
Berkeley Art Museum, 2018
Poet’s House, Reading / Panel, New York City, 2015- 2017
Various Bookstores, New York City and Brooklyn, NY, 2014 -2018
The Poetics Program, State University of New York, Buffalo, 2006
Artifact Reading Series, San Francisco, 2006
Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, 2005
The LAB, San Francisco, 2004
The Poetics Program, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, 2002
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, 2002
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, 2001
40th Anniversary Celebration for Burning Deck Press, Rhode Island, 2001
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 2000
The Poetry Project at St. Mark's, New York City, 2000
Mills College, Oakland, CA, 2000
Cody's Books, Berkeley, 1999
The Blue Bar, San Francisco, 1999
The Attic Club, San Francisco, 1999
New College of California, San Francisco, 1999
Mills College, Oakland, CA, 1999
Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, 1997
A Clean Well-Lighted Place For Books, Larkspur, CA, 1997
Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, 1997
New College of California, San Francisco, 1996
Canessa Park, San Francisco, 1996
111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, 1996
North Light Books, Santa Rosa, CA, 1996
111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, 1995
The Johnny Otis Club, Sebastapol, CA, 1994
Oliver’s Books, San Anselmo, CA, 1994
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, 1994
St. Marks, The Poetry Project, New York City, 1994
Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, 1993
The Johnny Otis Club, Sebastopol, CA, 1993
Cody’s Books, Berkeley, CA, 1993
Teradon Gallery, Cambridge, England, 1993
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, 1993
Mills College, Oakland, CA, 1993
Women’s Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, 1992
Reading/book release for Linen minus, Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, 1992
Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, 1992
The Ear Inn, New York City, 1991
St. Joseph College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1991
Aegean College, Paros, Greece, 1991
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, 1990
San Francisco Book Fair, San Francisco, 1990
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, 1989
Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, 1987
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, 1986
Artist-in-Residence Series, The Aegean College, Paros, Greece, 1985
San Mateo Community College, San Mateo, CA, 1982
St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1980

Myung Mi Kim, Professor Emeritus of Poetics
State University of New York
Buffalo, New York
MMKim@buffalo.edu

Dr. Tirza True Latimer, Professor Visual and Critical Studies
California College of the Arts
1111 8th Street, San Francisco
tlatimer@cca.edu

Dr. Stephen Heath, Professor of Cultural Theory
King's College
Cambridge, England CB3 9EU
sch1000@cam.ac.uk

in memoriam references

Barbara Guest

Kathleen Fraser, Professor Emeritus, Creative Writing
San Francisco State University

Dr. Ardath Lee, Professor Emeritus, English
Hutchins School of Liberal Studies
Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, CA 94928