Linda Russo
Biography
Linda Russo earned her Ph.D. in English from the Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and her M.F.A. from Emerson College. She is a contributing editor of HOW2, a journal of experimental writing by women, &, until recently, the director of Sounds Out, a poetry reading series at the University of Oklahoma. A recipient of fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and the Millay Colony for the Arts, she has given poetry readings in the U.S. & locations abroad, including Toronto, Portugal & Cuba.
Publications
Poetry
MIRTH. Chax Press (Tuscon, AZ), 2007.
o going out. Potes & Poets Press (Elmwood, CT), 1999.
Recent Essays
“Aural Spaces: Teaching Writing Listening,” p-queue, vol. 5 (Fall 2008)
“Writing Within: Notes on Ecopoetics as Spatial Practice” (2008)
“ ‘Precious, Rare and Mundane’: On the Work of Joanne Kyger” Introduction to About Now: Collected Poems by Joanne Kyger (Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation, 2007).
“Poetics of Adjacency: 0-9 and the Conceptual Writing of Bernadette Mayer & Hannah Weiner.” Don’t Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing Beyond the ‘New York School’, ed. Daniel Kane. (Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2006).
“Dealing in Parts and Particulars: Joanne Kyger’s Early Epic Poetics.” Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation, ed. Nancy Grace and Rhonna Johnson (NJ: Rutgers, 2002).[Reprinted in The Beat Generation: A Gale Critical Companion, ed. Lynn M. Zott (MI: Gale, 2003).]
“The ‘F’ Word in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: An Account of Women-Edited Small Presses and Journals.” The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry In Our Time, ed. Edward Foster. Talisman, A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics #23-26 (2002).
Research Interests
In literary studies, critical essays & creative writing: poetic experiment and innovation; New American poetries (Beat, Black Mountain, etc.); masculinist & feminist poetics; cross-genre writing; ecopoetics & environmental literature; materials, spaces, places & processes; economics & globalization; aural culture & soundscape studies; poetry & performance; embodiment & sexual difference; social, material, & political contexts of poetic production.
Contact
- Avery Hall 319
- 335-7496
- lrusso@wsu.edu
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