Jennifer Firestone

Jennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry: Story (Ugly Duckling Presse); TEN (BlazeVOX [books]); Gates & Fields (Belladonna* Collaborative); Flashes, Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog’s “Poetry Pick” for 2013 (Shearsman Books); and Holiday (Shearsman Books). She is the author of five chapbooks: Swimming Pool (DoubleCross Press), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books) and Fanimaly (Dusie Kollektiv). Firestone co-edited with Marcella Durand Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminst Avant-garde Poetry and  with Dana Teen Lomax Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books) and co-authored LITtle by LITtle with photographer and urban geographer, Laura Y. Liu. Firestone has work anthologized in Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Songs, & Stories for Children and Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim. Firestone won the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press’ Robert Creeley Memorial Prize. She is an Associate Professor of Literary Studies and Chair of Writing at the New School’s Eugene Lang College. 

2019 Events
Catastrophe to Courage: Poets Push the Essay
2025 Events
Feminist Avant-garde Influences: A Dialogue