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Education
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
Interdisciplinary Education: The History of Consciousness program promotes advanced interdisciplinary work in the humanities and social sciences. My work focused on literary, cultural, and feminist theoretical approaches to modernist literature.
Publications
Scholarly
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. http://www.jacket.zip.com.au
“Into Ellipse: Geographic and Grammatic Disappearance in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage,” Feminist Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol 26, (essay), 1997
"Documentary," (essay), 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
Literary, Books
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: http://littleredleaves.com/ebooks/, 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
Journals and Anthologies
Places Journal, Brooks and Gevirtz, “Writing Through Prison Storms,” https://placesjournal.org/author/susan-gevirtz/?cn-reloaded=1, 2020
Periodicity Journal, “We will disrupt nothing with the fullness of nothingness,” a conversation between Susan Gevirtz & Julia Drescher, https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2020/07/we-will-disrupt-nothing-with-fullness.html, 2020
Elderly 31 https://elderlymag.tumblr.com/, 2020
Second Stutter, Volume Four, 2019
#MeToo: A Poetry Collective: http://chicagoreview.org/metoo/, 2019
Entropy, http://entropymag.org, 2019
GUEST 2 [a journal of guest editors] edited by Brenda Iijima, 2019 guestpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/
Solidarity Texts, edited by Laynie Brown, https://jacket2.org/feature/solidarity-texts, 2018
Textsound, an online audio publication, http://textsound.org/index.php?ISSUE=23, 2018
Best Experimental Writing, Weselyan University Press, anthology, 2018
Almost Island, New Delhi, 2013 https://almostisland.com/monsoon_2013/poetry/notes_from_pre.html
Outer Event, Jacket, 2013, https://jacket2.org/article/outer-event
Hambone, 2012
Mandorla, Mexico City, 2011
Poeticanet.com, (poetry), Starry Messenger, in English and Greek, translated by Vassilis Manousakkis, Athens, Greece, 2008
Academy of American Poets.org, “Poem A Day,” May 7, 2008
Kadar Koli, issue1, Vol II, (poetry), Texas/ Buffalo, New York, 2008
How2 www.asu.edu/pipercwcent, “Uneven Uneventfulness: Kathleen Fraser’s Discrete Categories Forced Into Coupling, Vol. 2, Issue 4
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, (poetry), Santa Cruz, CA, 2002
untitled, A Journal of Prose Poetry, Santa Cruz, CA, 2002
Aufgabe, (poetry / essay), "Belief's Afterimage: The Recent Work of Barbara Guest," New York, 2001
hemorragingimaging, Vol 1, No 1, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2001
Narrativity, Vol 1, No 2, (poetry), www.SFSU.edu/~newlit/Narrativity.com, 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, www.poetryproject.com, 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, (poetry), New York, 1997
raddle moon, (translation), Canada, 1997
Tinfish 5, (poetry), Hawaii, 1997
Proliferation, (poetry), San Francisco, 1997
RIBOT, (poetry), Los Angeles, CA, 1997
Volt, (poetry), San Anselmo, CA, 1997
OASii, (poetry, broadside series), Ra’anana, Israel, 1996
Purge, (poetry), London, England, 1994
Rooms, No. 1, (poetry), San Leandro, CA, 1994
AVEC, Nos. 7 & 8, (poetry), 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, (poetry), Other Wind Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1993
Black Bread, (poetry), Rhode Island, 1993
Situation, (poetry), Buffalo, New York, 1993
LYRIC&, (poetry), 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, (poetry), Penngrove, CA, 1993
Five Fingers Review, No. 10, (poetry), San Francisco, 1991
Cathay, No. 1, (poetry), Chicago, Illinois, 1991
AVEC, No. 4, (poetry), Penngrove, CA, 1990
Spectacles, No. 1, (poetry), San Francisco, 1990
Mirage, (poetry), San Francisco, Fall, 1988
Tyuonyi, No. 4, (poetry), 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, (poetry), Ivanhoe, Australia, 1981
William Stafford Award Competition, First Honorable Mention and publication, Washington State Poets Association, 1981
Puerto Del Sol, (poetry), Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1981
Au Verso, (poetry), Santa Fe, New Mexico, Spring and Fall, 1980
Grants, Residencies, Awards
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
Teaching
Mentor/Writing Teacher, Prison Renaissance: https://www.prisonrenaissance.org/philosophy, 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, 1984–1986
As 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, 1985
Teacher/artist in the Aegean College’s Artist-in-Residence workshop series ‘Classic Myth in Modern Culture.’
Presentations, Projects, Interviews
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. https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/single-kind-discourse-will-believable-talking-susan-gevirtz/
Interview, San Francisco Weekly, 2014. The Write Stuff: Susan Gevirtz on Making Something from What’s at Hand that Wasn’t Evident Before
http://www.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2014/08/21/the-write-stuff-susan-gevirtz-on-making-something-from-whats-at-hand-that-wasnt-evident-before
Conversation between Benjamin Hollander and Susan Gevirtz, The Conversant / Volta, October, 2013
Interview, Poet As Radio, 2014. http://traffic.libsyn.com/poetasradio/susan_gevirtz.mp3
PENN SOUND center for programs in contemporary writing: audio recordings, 1993–2013 http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Gevirtz.php
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. https://parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu/?page_id=269
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
"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: Writer’s 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
Editor
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: http://Jacketmagazine.com/; featured poet, David Bromige
Editorial Advisory Board, HOW 2, www. departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/how2, 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
Selected Poetry Readings, 1980–present
Naropa University, Summer Faculty Reading, 2024
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
References
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. Ardath Lee, Professor Emeritus, English
Hutchins School of Liberal Studies
Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
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
Bio
Susan Gevirtz's books of poetry include The Guides, Antiphony, 2025; Doctor Shaman, above/ground, 2023; Sun Worship, Yoyo Labs, 2023; BURNS, Pamenar, 2022; Hotel abc, Nightboat, 2016; Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger, Kelsey Street, 2010; BROADCAST, Trafficker, 2009; Thrall, Post-Apollo Press, 2007; Hourglass Transcripts, Burning Deck, 2001; Spelt, collaboration with Myung Mi Kim, a+bend, 1999; Black Box Cutaway, Kelsey Street, 1999; PROSTHESIS :: CAESAREA, Potes and Poets, 1994, reissued by Little Red Leaves, 2009; Taken Place, Reality Street, 1993; Linen minus, Avenue B, 1992; and Domino: point of entry, Leave Books, 1992. Her critical books include Coming Events (Collected Writings), Nightboat, 2013; and Narrative's Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson, Peter Lang, 1996. Essays and poetry have appeared in literary magazines and scholarly journals.
Assistant Professor for ten years at Sonoma State University, California, Gevirtz has also taught in the MA in Visual and Critical Studies and the MFA programs at California College of the Arts, in undergrad Writing and Visual Studies, and in the MFA in Writing programs at Mills College, The University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and The Hellenic International School of the Arts, Paros, Greece.
She was an associate editor of HOW(ever), a journal of modernist/innovative directions in women’s poetry and scholarship, and on the editorial advisory board for its successor, the online journal HOW2, and advisory boards for the journal Avec and for Small Press Traffic. Gevirtz received the New Langton Arts Bay Area Award in Literature in 2000. She has collaborated on multiple works with interdisciplinary artist Margaret Tedesco; and with Tedesco and sound artist Andrew Klobucar in performance at The LAB, 2001. Her play Motion Picture Home was performed by San Francisco Poets Theatre in the winter of 2002. A collaboration with sound artist/musician Scanner [aka] Robin Rimbaud resulted in the audio piece and performance “Aerodrome Orion” in 2006. In 2010, BROADCAST was included in a series of 35-megaphone open-air performances by Ensemble Zwischentöne, Berlin.In 2004 she and Siarita Kouka, Greek poet/restorer of maritime antiquities, founded the Paros Symposium, an annual translation and conversation meeting of Greek and Anglophone poets.
Gevirtz works with Prison Renaissance, Empowerment Avenue and Operation Restoration as a writing mentor to incarcerated people. She is based in San Francisco.