 photo: Joan Beard Photography, 2012
Lisa Jarnot was born in Buffalo, New York in 1967 and studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Brown University. Since the mid-1990s she has been a resident of New York City.
She has edited two small magazines (No Trees, 1987-1990, and Troubled Surfer, 1991-1992) as well as The Poetry Project Newsletterand An Anthology of New (American) Poetry (Talisman House Publishers, 1997).
She is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: Some Other Kind of Mission (Burning Deck Press, 1996), Ring of Fire (Zoland Books, 2001 and Salt Publishers, 2003), Black Dog Songs (Flood Editions, 2003) and Night Scenes (Flood Editions, 2008). Her biography of the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan was published by the University of California Press in 2012 and a Selected Poems will be published by City Lights in May of 2013.
She currently lives in Jackson Heights, New York with her husband and daughter. She works as a teacher, writer, and freelance gardener and is a member of the Central Park Forest Nursery Free School Cooperative.
Upcoming Readings, Lectures, and Classes:
May 5, 7 pm, McNally Jackson Bookstore, Prince Street, Manhattan; A Book Launch reading for Joie De Vivre, Selected Poems.
A Summer Poetry Workshop in Jackson Heights, Queens
This summer I'll be continuing the theme of The Poet's Notebook with an emphasis on The Five Senses. The class will run for ten weeks, with a sequence of two week segments exploring the fields of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.
We'll experiment with braille and sign language and synesthesia, and we will think about our habits as writers (what sensory information do we favor? what sensory information do we ignore?).
The class is open to creative people of all kinds, and the dates of meetings are Mondays (6 pm to 8:30 pm):
June 3, 10, 17, 24,
Fee for the class is $300 ($275 for returning students) and the class will be held in Jackson Heights, Queens.
Contact me at ljarnot@gmail.com to register.
Bibliography:
The Fall of Orpheus, Shuffaloff Press, 1993.
Lisa Jarnot's books can be ordered through Small Press Distribution: SPD Further information about her work is also available at Flood Editions and Salt Web
Lisa Jarnot can be contacted directly at ljarnot@gmail.com.
Links:
Syllabi Sites: The Matrix a general resource site for poetry links and information. A Recap of the Online Naropa Class One's Own Language, Fall 2005 One's Own Language: Poetry Poetry Workshop, Autumn 2005 Bard College Summer Poetry Workshop Wesleyan University Summer 2005 Poetry Workshop
Wesleyan University Summer 2006 Nonfiction Narrative Seminar
Bernadette Mayer Retrospective Workshop Autumn 2008
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