3 Forthcoming Publications of poetry and critical prose by Jennifer K Dick

So excited to have poetry and a critical chapter appearing in the following publications: 

Please keep your eyes peeled, or pre-order: Gutter 33, Arcturus Magazine or the critical book Anne Carson and the Unknown from University of Michigan Press to support my, Jennifer K Dick's, writing and that of so many others. 

GUTTER Magazine (Scotland) has kindly accepted for publication in its February issue, N° 33, the poem "Siren" (pp 16-18) from my forthcoming BlazeVox book Shelf Break. The Gutter Mag issue is full of some spectacular writing that I am thrilled to be published alongside, including authors I wish I had already known but now am thrilled to have discovered thanks to them, such as the amazing Ayaka Florence Nguyen, with their unexpected cultural fusion Noh play they explain is inspired by Scottish folklore and is titled "An t-Each Fon Uisge" or Christian Wards' spectacular and hilarious "Polar Bear" prose poem as well as the poem that makes me want to tuck myself under a duvet with a good scotch and give it another and another reread: Ben Blyth's "Peat Smoke". There is also a really rich, moving at times, and thoroughly thought-provoking interview by Zain Rishi of Rebecca Ferrier. The issue also features fabulous reviews, short stories as well as some translations of Chinese poetry, too. So, thank you to the Gutter editors for including my poem, and for readers and art supporters everywhere for picking up a copy or subscribing. 

 

Arcturus: A Magazine of New Perspectives--has also kindly accepted poetry which is forthcoming this spring online. In this case, 2 of my more recent CERN prose poems--CERN 68 and CERN 70. The adventure continues! I am thrilled to have work selected for inclusion in this dynamic online magazine, which is explained in their about section as Chicago Magazine editor"an online literary magazine of new perspectives in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid genres". The work already published on the site is really a treat to read and worth checking out, such as the rhythmic "Mysterioso" poem after Thelonious Monk by Chris Ritter, or the wonderful nonfiction piece by Yoko Lida Frost "The Citizenship Test"--this is a strong prose piece fitting to reflect on (especially its optimism) in our current context. As she is being sworn in, observes and asks of another person, a Cambodian being naturalized with her, "How could she move on as a citizen of the country that had bombed and killed hundreds of thousands of her fellow countrymen, which, most believed, led to the rise of Pol Pot? Would her stories ever be heard, and become part of American history? Who writes it? We’d better write it. That would be the only way to make our oath worthwhile, and to prevent the next genocide." Yes, absolutely. Thank you for that, Yoko Lida Frost, and thank you to the readers and editors of Arcturus--poetry director Chrissy Martin, and current poetry editors Belee Jones-Pierce and and Sara Verstynen who have accepted my work. 

 

Lastly, I am very excited to have gone through the laborious but extremely enriching editing process with the amazing Helena Van Praet and Christine Wiesenthal in whose hands my chapter “De-Stabilizing the Known / Restoring the Unknown: Reading Anne Carson through the Lens of Quantum Physics”, has matured and soon appears in the already ready-for-pre-order critical edition on Anne Carson:  ANNE CARSON AND THE UNKNOWN, ed.s Helena Van Praet and Christine Wiesenthal (Univ of Michigan Press, 2026—available at: https://press.umich.edu/Books/A/Anne-Carson-and-the-Unknown) I hope that those of you who study, teach and read Carson will get a copy of this book and also encourage your university libraries and students to also pick one up.

 

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!  

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

 

 

Recent academic Talks:

 Recently participated in these wonderful conferences this fall: 

28-30 novembre: PHILIPPE BECK: UNE AUTRE CLARTE organized by Paris-Cité and Virginia Tech. I gave the talk: Création et didactique : la place de la pensée dans l’œuvre récente de Philippe Beck by Jennifer K Dick

Cette intervention poserait des questions et des réflexions sur l'usage de trois styles de pensée "didactique" dans la poésie du livre Ryrkaïpii (Flammarion, 2023) de Philippe Beck. Style 1: l’énonciation dans un ordre énuméré (a, b, c).  Style 2: l’emploi du signe « égale » en contraste avec son usage des deux points. Style 3 : Phrases du type « axiome » (qui vont en paire avec des questions, souvent rhétoriques). Pour cette troisième "style didactique", j'ai aussi proposé des sous-catégories des axiomes : Catégorie 1 : axiome directe, Catégorie 2: axiome-observation, Catégorie 3:  axiome d’insistance : emphatique, Catégorie 4:  axiome de l’ordre taxonomique et Catégorie 5: axiome avec une logique par connexions. Pour conclure: je montrerai comment l'usage des styles didactiques contribuent, dans cet œuvre, à établir l'énigme et à établir un espace de transformation.

24 November 2023: Participated in the Round Table at the close of the MICROSCOPIC IMAGINARIES IN 20th and 21st CENTURY LITERATURE Journée d'étude at la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.  

Round Table with: Sarah Bouttier (Ecole Polytechnique), Jennifer K. Dick (Université de Haute Alsace), Catherine Larose (Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement) and Dorothy Lehane (Litmus Publishing). We discussed poems by the following authors: Jen Bervin, Pattiann Rogers, Les Murray, Adam Dickinson, and Simon Smith--adding some remarks on Christian Bök. 

9 and 10 October 2023: Gave a talk on the 10th of October for the International and quite interdisciplinary conference "BORDERS IN THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD: MAPPING AND COUNTER-MAPPING" at la MISHA, Université de Strasbourg.  My talk was:  De-or re-routing California in Fugitive Assemblage by Jennifer Calkins

Mapping loss, ancestral history and the self onto the backbones of California: the roadways, no-tell motels, tourist sites and natural landscapes that surround and are embedded in the body and history of the speaker, Fugitive Assemblage (the 3rd Thing, Washington, 2020) is a work both deconstructing and reconstructing self and geographic (s)place. What makes us whole? What tears and rends us? Calkins' fragmented, collaged (including specific geographical maps) road-trip, which intended to go straight up the 105, takes a detour and thus maps, accidentally, the state onto the event haunting this story. Or rather, it is the map of place that makes this story about a rending from a whole. It asks what is native/who is native of a place? What is place over time? What borders are we allowed to traverse in what directions (north-south into and out of Mexico, south-north as a questionable return)? This talk will explore the intimate lineage of self and place as it is mapped and as the map is followed and detoured from in Calkins' unusual “assemblage”. Is the author scrambling the maps of California, or rather, in her own search for clarity, straightening the lines and the lineages of space and place back into place? Can we map our way home? Are maps redrawn by personal trips and the order we follow the lines of a place? Where do navigation and mapping collide? This literary work provides a form of counter-mapping demanding exploration in the context of a conference on mapping and counter-mapping like this one in Strasbourg. 

Keep an eye out for publication announcements following these events!

 

Jennifer K Dick's talks, readings and hosting in the coming weeks

 Jennifer K Dick, yep, me, is running around giving talks, reading, hosting. 

So where can you find me?

25 May 2023: 11am session: I will be speaking on Anne Carson--as the program says, Jennifer K Dick talk: “De-Stabilizing the Known / Restauring the Unknown: Reading Anne Carson through the Lens of Quantum Physics (and Dark Matter)” at the Anne Carson and the Unknown: Explorations in 21st Century Experimental Poetry Conference. For the entire programme, links to watch online, go to:
https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/incal/ecr/evenements/anne-carson-and-the-unknown-explorations-in-21st-century-experimental-poetry.html ABSTRACT: Perhaps it is not the unknown in Carson, but rather that one “knows” only in an instant before something changes the outcome: the uncertain, the flux returns—i.e. Schrodinger’s paradox. In this manner, Carson inhabits the transformatory space of scientific theoretical practice, ever striving for deeper knowledge where any response to a question is immediately undermined by another query. As Carson’s own admiration for Jacques Lacan’s declaration reveals: “The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom” (Carson/Aitkins interview). I propose to borrow from Kathryn Schaffer and Gabriela Barreto Lemos’s assessment of how quantum physics can provide ideological and theoretical tools for the arts and humanities. I will study select passages from Carson’s books where the vacillating waves of plots intersect with a potential development in consciousness for a character, consciousness related to their being part of, though often felt as outside or left of center, or of events, societies, communities, relationships and most of all a secured, fixed sense of self-understanding (self knowledge).... [truncated abstract here--full version on the conf website]

27th May 2023: starting from 15h30: I will read a text as part of the

open-forum event organized by the amazing and dynamic author Bénédicte Heim. The theme is about aging, and overall the event will be in French.: Dans le cadre de l'exposition " Faire son âge " qui se tiendra à partir du 24 mai jusqu'à la fin du mois de juin dans la galerie de la Reine Christine, au 12 rue des Patriarches 75005 (métro Censier-Daubenton), paroles, art, etc autour du vieillissement le samedi 27 mai à partir de 15h30. 

30 May 2023: 19h30 I am hosting the next IVY WRITERS PARIS evening with Susan Schultz and Françoise de LaRoque at Delaville Café, 34 bvd bonne nouvelle. Full info on the Ivy blog at: https://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/2023/05/ivy-le-30-mai-avec-s-schultz-et-f.html

 

3 juin 2023: 9h30 I am giving another conference presentation: Jennifer K. DICK (Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse) : "Resisting Transmission: Against a poetry of communication?" at the 62nd annual SAES Congrès in RENNES on Transmission(s) in Atelier 14: Poets and Poetry. https://congres2023.saesfrance.org/programme-scientifique/programme-par-atelier/ ABSTRACT:

As the globalized world leans—as if in a kind of anglicized linguistic immigration—towards Twitter and Insta-poetry, to the directive statement and easy access in a kind of all-for-one English as dominant language, a second poetry and poetics has been slowly emerging and growing in force: that of the multilingual author. These writers’ works might be published as “English” or “American” but their pages are dotted by a wide array of other languages, languages that often absorb, cover, and bury the English. The books I am addressing here are by authors that refuse to self-translate. For some, this poses no real barrier to being interpreted as their second and third languages share roots with English. But for others, writing in radically different alphabets or where non-bilingual readers will not be able to grasp the semantic meaning of the words, the “transmission” (in a habitual sense of reading poetry) finds itself at the end of a dead end street. In this case, the foreign language(s) often acts as extra-lingual expression, pushing these works into boundary zones between poetry and visual art or performance, or poetry and music (zaum-like sound poetry practices).

These works are a reckoning and recognition of linguistic and cultural otherness within perceived unified nations and literary traditions. As such, exploration and study of these authors provide essential tools for deeper reflections on notions of transmission of meaning in poetry and literature. They also demand perhaps that we rethink our old definitions of the verb “to read”.

6 June 2023: 19h30 Back in Paris it is already time for me to host another Ivy night. This one is the final of our spring 2023 season, and will feature visiting American author and translator Cynthia Hogue alongside Paris local authors and translators Vincent Broqua and Virginie Poitrasson. at Delaville Café, 34 bvd bonne nouvelle. A pre-announcement for this is already up on the Ivy blog at https://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/2023/05/ivy-le-30-mai-avec-s-schultz-et-f.html