Reading at ZIGZAG reading room, Brussels, Sat 17 January 2026!

 I am thrilled to be participating in the "GARDENS OF THE POSSIBLE" reading: Jennifer K Dick with the amazing MIA YOU and the astounding JULIE CARR this saturday in Brussels. The event will be held at (and is organized by) the Zigzag Reading room. They have announced that the doors open at 19h30, reading is at 20H! 

 

 

                   ZigZag Reading Room is at: Rue Blaes 52, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgique

Zig Zag is delighted to welcome the poets Julie Carr, Mia You, and Jennifer K. Dick for an evening of nocturnal winter gardening. The work of these three poets moves through layers of time, speaking to how human histories—events, cultures, economies, and power structures—superimpose themselves onto the natural and built environment, shaping and being shaped by slow sedimentation and a manifold / unfolding other.

Besides the readings, their books will be on sale, and several kinds of winter-y drinks will be served. After the reading there will be ample space to exchange. 

~ Doors open at 19:30, start at 20:00

~ Open and free for all, no rsvp needed

 

Biographies:

Julie Carr’s recent books are Underscore; Mud, Blood, & Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, & Spiritualism in the American West; & Real Life: An Installation. Her co-translations of Leslie Kaplan’s Excess-The Factory and The Book of Skies, were published by Commune Editions & Pamenar Press. Overflow, a trilogy, will be published sequentially over the next few years. She lives in Denver where she co-runs Counterpath, teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder, & hosts the podcast “Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone.”

Mia You is the author of the poetry collections Festival (Belladonna, 2025; Uitgeverij Chaos, 2024) and I, Too, Dislike It (1913 Press, 2016), and the chapbooks Rouse the Ruse and the Rush (Nion Editions, 2023) and Objective Practice (Achiote Press, 2007). She currently lives in the Netherlands and teaches English literature at the Universiteit Utrecht and in the Critical Studies program at the Sandberg Instituut.

Jennifer K Dick is an author, translator, events organizer and academic with 4 books and 7 art/chapbooks most recently That Which I Touch Has No Name (BlackSpring Press Group, London, 2022), Meridian  (artist book, Estepa Editions, Paris, 2022) & Lilith: A Novel in Fragments (Corrupt Books, Luxembourg, 2019). Her 5^th collection of poems, Shelf Break, is forthcoming from BlazeVox in NYC 2026. She co-curates Ivy Writers Paris and co-directs the Ecrire l’Art residency for French authors with La Kunsthalle Mulhouse Centre d’Art Contemporain.

 

 

4 New Poems by Jennifer K Dick featured today as Artfuse's Weekly Poetry Feature

I am so thrilled to have discovered Artsfuse this year and have been enjoying reading so many posts on art, film and of course posts of poetry. I finally sent in some of my own work from a brand new manuscript in process--and voilà, what excitement, to have it accepted and now featured, today, October 9, 2025, as Artsfuse's weekly poetry feature. CLICK HERE to read the work

The 4 poems which went "live" on Artsfuse are from an ekphrastic series. 

You will perhaps recognize poem 1 referring to parts of Takesada Matsutani's massive "Stream-Venice" 2017 Venice Biennale piece from the Pavillion of Colors & Mystical Joy (click HERE to see on contemporaryartlibrary's site some of that graphite work which is part of the installation).

Poem 2 is referring to the smashed glass flag by Allison Koehler for la soirée inquietante 2024 USA election Ivy Writers Paris reading event at Delaville last November.

Poem 3 refers to Kate Van Houten's seascape/horizon watercolors experienced in her studio.

Poem 4 is referring to a combination of Kate Van Houten works including boxes of collected items she had combined into a sort of installation/sculpture, and it also refers to conversations I had about the image (an etching) used on my first book, Fluoresence, years ago. 

But of course all these buried references are running off on their own adventures, too. The art is echo in this dreamer persona's troubled universe. Hope you enjoy!  

New Poems by Jennifer K Dick from CERN 200 in Quasar Review online

 

I want to thank Quasar Review for publishing 3 of my poems from the CERN 200 project in their 3rd issue. Quasar (a name that of course drew me right to them) is just getting underway, putting out mini-journal issues online each month. Click the name here to go to the QUASAR REVIEW home page

Here is a link to the page where you can see all of their issues thus far since July https://2084literary.wixsite.com/the-quasar-review/editions 

 
And here is the link to the flip-book in which my poems appear, on page 5. HERE Hope you will enjoy! This is a screen shot of the page on which they appear. I was, yes, surprised by the blue palm trees--a little extra dimensional visit?  :) Quite fun. And again, thanks Quasar Review! 

 

 

Art-Text by Jennifer K Dick now showing in Australia

 I am thrilled, and humbled, by the invitation to partake in this group art show "WHEN YOU CALL MY NAME" curated by Mayu Kanamori (click HERE for her participant's page, then on names to see her works) which opened on 11 Sept 2025 and will be going until 22 Sept 2025 in Canbera, Australia at: Australian National University: Coombs Building Coombs Tea Room Foyer, 9 Fellows Rd Acton, ACT. Here is the image of the window I made a text-paint collage across for Tomashi Inouye:

I was supplied with a name, and some background information, then went out and did more research and reflected on the position of someone in my time, and from my background, trying to address a hidden/lost history of the person I was asked to dedicate a work to: Tomashi Inouye. As I wrote in my artist statement, available at the show's website and in the catalogue: 

(online at: https://mayu.com.au/WhenYouCallMyName-arts/?internee=inouye-tomoshi)
 

As for the text, I have continued to revise it and sharpen it, but I have also thought through time of this person I do not, will not, ever know, and hope others will also think of him and the other names that Mayu selected to be part of this wonderful project. As she declared: 

"There is a saying that we die twice:

The first time being our physical death.  

The second being when our name is mentioned for the last time." --Maya Kanamori 
"When You Call My Name" exhibition statement

 

 

Announcing Two New Critical Publications with chapters by Jennifer K Dick

It is with great pleasure that I get to announce the publication, containing chapters by me, of 2 collective critical books that have gone through an astoundingly rigorous re-editing process over the past 2 years (in both cases) and are both now in the world and available. For anyone working at a University, please consider asking your libraries to carry these.

The Borders Between and Within: Writing America with No Bounds, 
Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, Pin-chia Feng (Eds.) 
available at LitVerlag: https://lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-91576-4/ 

in which my chapter: Under Flag: Language and (Unattainable) Homogenization in the Era of Postnational Citizenship appears. I focus on the legacy of the work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha as it dialogues with the practices and reflections in the works of Myung Mi Kim and Craig Santos Perez.

You can order copies directly from the press. Reviewers are definitely welcome to contact the press for copies and certainly Nicoleta and Pin-Chia would be happy, as would any of us in the volume, to participate in any interviews. 

 

The second book which is NOW OUT is  

Vulnérabilité et radicalité: Écritures de soi britanniques et américaines contemporaines
  edited by Nelly Monk et Aude Haffen. 
Les Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, France. 

 https://www.pub-editions.fr/fr/empreintes-anglophones/5367-vulnerabilite-et-radicalite  

In which my chapter: “The Nonsingular Self: A study of Bhanu Kapil and Eleni Sikelianos’ Poetic Autobiographical Writing” (pp97-116) appears.  This chapter explores indirect notions of autobiographical and poetic documentary writing, from the positions of fluid selves, avatars and alter egos, to selves that overlap others' histories and linguistic practice. These poets do not practice an "I" focused writing of the self but overlap with that multiplicity which makes up all of us, which I try to study also in terms of what that means to socio-political structures. Although I cite from numerous works in both cases, I primarily focus on Kapil's Incubation and on Sikelianos' The Book of Jon, citing other poet-critics' works, such as those of Lyn Hejinian, Laynie Browne, Lisa Samuels, Lisa Robertson and Susan Howe, or theorists such as Donna Haraway, Tiziana Terranoa and Michel de Pracontal. 

It is always such an amazing pleasure to see critical work appear in volumes that have been curated so carefully and intensely edited. My work and reflections were bettered, and deepened, thanks to Nelly Monk, Aude Haffen, Pin-Chia Feng and Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni's intense readings, comments and queries, as well as the feedback and the demands made on me by the anonymous scientific panel readers of this work. 

I am grateful to get to be part of such wonderful books, and hope that you will consider reading, teaching and writing back to us about your experiences with these books!