Craig Dworkin

Craig Dworkin is an American poet and Professor of English at the University of Utah.[1]

Craig Dworkin
Born (1969-01-18) January 18, 1969
Bloomington, Indiana
OccupationPoet, professor
Website
eclipsearchive.org

Biography

Dworkin earned his B.A. from Stanford University and his PhD from University of California, Berkeley. He is a poet, critic, editor, and currently a professor at the University of Utah.

Dworkin has written a number of books of poetry, including The Pine-Woods Notebook (Kenning Editions, 2019), Def (Information As Material, 2018), Twelve Erroneous Displacements and a Fact (Information As Material, 2016), and Alkali (Counterpath Press, 2015). Dworkin is the author of four scholarly monographs: Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality (University of Chicago Press, 2020); Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography (Fordham University Press, 2020); No Medium (MIT Press, 2013), in which he discusses works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent; and Reading the Illegible (Northwestern University Press, 2003). Edited collections include Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, co-edited with Kenneth Goldsmith (Northwestern University Press, 2011), The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound, co-edited with Marjorie Perloff (University of Chicago Press, 2009), and The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics (Roof Books, 2008). He has published articles in such diverse journals as October, Grey Room, Contemporary Literature, PMLA, and Critical Inquiry.[2]

Dworkin runs Eclipse,[3] an online archive focusing on digital facsimiles of radical small-press writing from the last quarter of the 20th century.

Scholarly monographs
  • Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality. University of Chicago Press. 2020.
  • Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography. Fordham University Press. 2020.
  • No Medium. MIT Press. 2013.
  • Reading the Illegible. Northwestern University Press. 2003.

Edited collections

Poetry books and pamphlets

References
  1. University of Utah Faculty Profile
  2. "Poetry in the Age of Consumer-Generated Content," Critical Inquiry
  3. Eclipse Archive
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