Zurawski’s essay makes a case for playfulness and purposelessness-“a logic foreign to the machinations of neoliberalism”-in US higher education, i.e. I didn’t know what the essay would be about, just that it would be good. I’d been looking forward to it because of its title and because it is among a series of commissioned writings organized and distributed by the brilliant Ugly Duckling Presse. She keeps a blog you can see HERE.When Magdalena Zurawski’s pamphlet Being Human Is an Occult Practice arrived in the mail last October, I read it immediately, twice. She is the associate editor of Jacket magazine. Her next collection, Authentic Local, is forthcoming from Papertiger Media in 2009. Her most recent book, True Thoughts, was published by Sal Publishing in September 2008. She collaborated with Seattle-based Egyptian poet Maged Zaher on a collection of poems called farout library software (Tinfish Press, 2007). She has published many books and chapbooks including Text thing (Little Esther Books, 2002) and Dear Deliria (Salt Publishing, 2003) which was awarded the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2004. Pam Brown lives in Australia and is co-editor of JACKET Magazine. The Bruise is her first novel and won the Ronald Sukenik Innovative Fiction Prize. She lives in North Carolina where she is working on her PhD at Duke University. Her work has been published in American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Rattapallax, Talisman, and other magazines.
Magdalena Zurawski was born in Newark, NJ in 1972 to Polish immigrants. His widely read Silliman's Blog, a daily journal devoted to contemporary poetry and poetics, has become a major force in online literary criticism.
He edited the landmark poetry anthology In the American Tree, and he has received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, two Fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, and three arts commission grants from the state arts councils of California and Pennsylvania.
He is the author or editor of twenty-six books of poetry or criticism, among them The Age of Huts (compleat), Tjanting, ABC, Demo to Ink, Paradise, ®, What, Woundwood, and the memoir Under Albany. Ron Silliman's long awaited collection THE ALPHABET will be available for sale and for signing.
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