KAREN MAC
CORMACK
Karen Mac Cormack Home Page http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/maccormack
(Electronic
Date of birth
Citizenship Canadian/British
EDUCATION
1961–73
1974–75 Instituto Nacional de Belles Artes,
San
Miguel de Allende,
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2003 Implexures, Chax
Press/West House Books, Tucson/Sheffield, USA/UK.
2003 Vanity Release, Zasterle
Press, La Laguna,
2001 At Issue, Coach House Books,
1998 Fit To Print (with Alan Halsey), Coach
House Books/West House Books, Toronto/Sheffield, Canada/UK.
1997 The Tongue Moves Talk, Chax Press/West House Books,
1995 Marine Snow, ECW Press,
1991 Quirks & Quillets,
Chax Press,
1989 Quill Driver, Nightwood
Editions,
1987 Straw Cupid, Nightwood
Editions,
Chap-books
2003 Nothing By Mouth
(reprint), Book Thug,
2002 From a Middle (with Steve McCaffery), housepress,
2001 from Implexures,
housepress,
1998 Multiplex (with Ron Silliman),
Wild Honey Press,
1984 Nothing by Mouth, Underwhich
Editions,
Anthologies
2001 Vectors: New Poetics, Robert Archambeau, ed, Samizdat Editions,
2001 Poesia Do Mondo/3, Edições
Afrontamento,
1999 POGONE, POG and Chax
Press,
1998 Moving Borders (Three Decades of Innovative
Writing by Women), Mary Margaret Sloan ed., Talisman House,
1996 Carnival: a Scream in
1996 Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative
Poetry by Women in North America & the UK, Maggie O’Sullivan ed.,
Reality Street Editions, London, England.
1995 The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative
North American
Poetry: 1993–1994, Douglas Messerli
ed., Sun & Moon Press,
1995 The Last Word, Michael Holmes ed.,
Insomniac Press,
1994 The Art of Practice: Forty-five Contemporary
Poets, Peter
Gannick, Dennis Barone
eds., Potes & Poets Press, Elmwood.
1986 Into the Nightlife,.
David Lee, Maureen Cochrane ed., Nightwood Editions,
Journals
1977–2004 Writing
published in journals and magazines in
RECORDINGS/DVDS
2004 Nothing By Mouth film (1984, director
Annette Mangaard) based on three poems in Nothing By Mouth converted to DVD with
new Mac Cormack voice-over and new music composed and
recorded by Keir Brownstone.
1996 LINEbreak
(Interviews and performance from the literary edge), (audio cassette), 30 min,WBFO 88.7 NPR News & Jazz, Charles Bernstein
(Interviewer/Co-producer), Martin Spinelli
(Producer/Director).
1989 Quill Driver (audio
cassette), 40 min, Nightwood Editions,
PUBLISHED INTERVIEWS, DIALOGUES & RADIO &
TELEVISION INTERVIEWS
2003 Up for Air, 104.4 with Rob Holloway,
Resonance Radio,
2001 Daytime,
2001 phillytalk 19 (with Allen Fisher), (17 Oct) http://phillytalks.org
Sources (no 8, printemps
2000),
Frames of Mind, CHRW 94.7, with Andreas Gripp,
4 December.
1987 In Other Words, CKLN 91.1, with Richard Truhlar, 2 January.
CD ROMS
Coach
House Books Y2OK (1998), anthology, Coach House Books,
GRANTS & AWARDS
2004
2003 Outreach
2001 Toronto
Arts Council Writer’s Grant.
2001 Canadian
Embassy Grant (
2000 Canadian
High Commission (
2000
2000
1999
1997
1997 Toronto
Arts Council Writer’s Grant.
1992 Toronto
Arts Council Writer’s Grant.
1991
1990
1986–96 Writers’
Reserve,
1985 V Beyond the Ideo, Honourable Mention, Video Culture
International
Competition, Performance Category,
RESIDENCIES
2002 Visiting
Writer-in-Residence,
2000-2001 Writer-in-Residence,
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
2002 L’application poétique, Université de Liège,
2002 Postmodernism in Practice Colloquium,
2001 Poésie et Musique au XXe siècle, Université de Liège,
2000 Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of
Renewal in American Poetry, Universidad de Salamanca,
2000 Language/Poetry/Performance,
1999 Make it New (Again) Alternative Poetries 99,
1998 III Encontro Internacional de Poetas,
1997
1996 Assembling Alternatives (International
Poetry Conference),
1995 Recovery of the Public World (Robin Blaser Conference), Institute of the Humanities,
1994 The New Poetry in Canada and Elsewhere,
International Poetry Conference, Institute of Canadian Studies, Universidad de La Laguna,
Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain).
2005
2004 New
Works Studio,
2003
Small
Publishers Fair,
Camden
People’s Theatre,
2002 Poetic
Research Series,
Lexiconjury
Series,
Ryerson
Polytechnical University,
2001
Kelly
Writers’ House,
October
Gallery,
Institut
d’Anglais (Paris VII),
Université d’Orléans,
2000
Universidad de
Salamanca,
1999 Teachers
and Writers Foundation,
Ryerson
Polytechnical University,
Institut
d’Anglais (Paris VII),
1998
Cornershop,
The
Red Head Gallery,
Small
Press Traffic, New College,
Polytechnical
University,
One
in the Other Gallery,
1997
Dinnerware
Artists’ Cooperative Gallery,
Sub-Voicive,
Sault Writers Group,
Fireball Café, Sault Ste. Marie.
Algoma
Writers Workshop,
1996 Sub-Voicive,
The
Torpor Vigil Reading Series,
1995 Kootenay School of Writing,
Institute of the
Humanities, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Cabaret Vert, A Space,
The Rivoli, Toronto.
Hallwall’s
Guest
lecturer,
1994 Scream
in
1993 New
York State Writers Institute, SUNY
1992
Writers’
Forum Workshop,
Sub-Voicive,
National
Book Festival (Cabaret Vert),
1991 State
Kootenay
Short
Term Residency, Chax Press,
1990 Ryerson
Polytechnical Institute,
SAW
Gallery,
The
Ear Inn,
Guest
lecturer,
1989 Sub-Voicive,
Archeus,
Central
Arts Collective,
Kootenay
Installation
Gallery,
UCSD,
1988 Intersection Gallery,
Ryerson Polytechnical,
1987 d’Aboukir Reading Series,
Cobourg Gallery,
Food for Thought
Bookstore,
1985 The
Dream Class Poetry Workshop, Central Collegiate,
On
the Fringe (International Authors Festival),
Art Culture Resource
Centre,
The Cameron Public
House,
1984 The
Music Gallery,
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PUBLISHING
Advisor (as of 2001) North American Centre for
Interdisciplinary Poetics,
Advisory Editor (as
of 2000) Centre
Interdisciplinaire de Poétique
Appliquée,
Contributing Editor (
1989–1995 AVEC,
Juror 2002
1994
Member/Juror 1991
Consultant 1992
University,
publishing business plan.
EDITING (selected)
Books Artists Talk 1969–1977, ed. Peggy Gale, The Press of the
Timely
Death (Considering Our Last Rights), Anne Mullens,
Alfred A. Knopf
Videotexts, Peggy Gale, The Power
Plant/Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
Toronto/Waterloo, 1995.
Wire Wars (Get Me Long-Distance),
Hall
Music/Sound 1948–1993 (The Michael Snow Project), Art
Gallery of
Dan
Graham’s Kammerspiel, Jeff Wall, Art Metropole,
North
of Intention (Critical Writings
1973-86), Steve McCaffery,
Roof Books/Nightwood Editions, New York/Toronto, 1986.
Catalogues /Monographs Every Time/Tout le temps, Peggy Gale,
Montréal Biennale, CIAC Montréal, 2000.
Rise and Fall, Jan Allen, Wayne Baerwaldt,
Nancy Campbell, Agnes Etherington Art Centre/Plug In Inc./Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Kingston/Winnipeg/Guelph, 1996.
Perspective 95, Christina Ritchie,
Kiki Smith, Jessica Bradley, The Power Plant,
Naked State — A Selected View of
Dompierre,
The Power Plant,
Around
Wavelength (The Michael Snow Project), Philip
Monk,
Art Gallery of Ontario/The Power
Plant,
Robin Collyer:
Idioms of Resistance, Philip Monk,
Robert Fones, Robin Collyer CARAMBOLAGE
Biennale der
Partnerregionen
1, Staatliche Kunsthalle,
Philip Monk,
Urban Inscriptions, Michèle
Thériault,
VIDEO
Consultant LIVING DUSTS (multidisciplinary),
Steve McCaffery, Western
Front Media
Production, Vancouver, 1991, 3/4 in, colour, 40 min.
Producer V Beyond the Ideo (performance), Steve McCaffery, Underwhich,
Producer The Audio Corridor (documentary),
Ian Lazarus, (with the
support
and assistance of Panasonic
30 min.
ARTS / PUBLISHING
ADMINISTRATION
Acting Managing Editor 1988 The Coach House Press,
Executive
responsibilities: innovative policy-making in fiscal areas
and
effective implementation of same. Operative liason
with Board
of
Directors by way of reports and providing information on which
to
base budgeting decisions. Ensuring smooth operating procedures
in
every area, especially in the field of Editorial Board/Board of
Directors interface,
the former concerned with editorial decisions,
the
latter with financial ones having direct bearing on type of
books
(i.e. fiction, poetry, drama, translation, etc.) and number of
books
published and reprinted in any given fiscal year. Preparation
of
all grant applications for the Press (Canada Council Book Pub-
lishers’ Block Grant, Promotion Grant, Ontario Arts
Council
Grants,
etc.).
Supervisory responsibilities: supervision of activities of sales manager, shipper, publicist, distribution/sales
representatives Coordinating all stages of
production from manuscript to finished book, with particular emphasis on publisher/author relations, including contracts,
translation rights, copy editing, proof reading, determining runs and reprint
runs based on national and international sales.
Technical skills:
Editing, copy editing and proof reading.
Unix
computer system, basic accounting.
Assistant to Publisher 1984–87 Moos Publishing,
coordinating
production (all stages) and editing, proof reading and
design.
Administrative
Coordinator 1984–87 Gallery Moos,
included
organization, mounting of exhibitions, writing of press
releases,
design work on invitations and catalogues, sales,
preparation
of evaluations, financial records, shipping, inventory,
library,
etc. Emphasis on innovation, reorganization and efficient
maintenance
of systems pertaining to art gallery operations as
outlined.
Self-employed
Partnership 1976–84 Silkscreen print business. All aspects
— printing,
production
(including watercolouring of prints), managerial,
organizational
emphasis, (
1981-82
PUBLISHED REVIEWS & CRITICAL ARTICLES
West Coast Line, Number
Five (25/2) Fall 1991, review of Jeff Derksen’s Downtime,
135–137.
“Innovation’s Inventory
(some starting points along the way),” hardPressed
Poetry the journal, (
“Effet
de cygnificants: le pli et la pratique interdisciplinaire,”
Le Rossignol
Instrumental (Poésie, Musique,
Modernité), eds. Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Michel Delville, Christine Pagnoulle, (
“Mutual Labyrinth: a proposal of
exchange,” Architectures of Poetry,
eds. Maria Eugenia Diaz Sanchez, Craig Douglas Dworkin
(
REVIEWS / ARTICLES / CRITICISM ON MY WORK/ MEDIA COVERAGE
High Performance (
Ottawa Citizen,
Small Press Review (
Poetry
Canadian
Book Review Annual, 1988, Ellen Pilon (Straw Cupid).
American
New Writing (
Innovations (
Generation),”
David Detrich (Quill
Driver).
Fragmente (
Linear
A (UK), Number A, December 1992, Johan de Wit (Quirks & Quillets).
Witz (
Open Letter, Eighth
Series, No. 8: Winter 1994, “Q’s, Queues and Cues: Quibbling with Sentences in Quirks & Quillets by Karen Mac Cormack,”
Christian Bök (Quirks
& Quillets).
Open Letter, Eighth
Series, No. 9: Summer 1994, “An Eglected: Writing
Open Letter, Eighth
Series, No. 9: Summer 1994, “Qued Up: Karen Mac Cormack’s Quirks
& Quillets,” Jeff Derksen.
Verb,
Volume 1, Number 4, December/January 1995/6, Clint Burnham (Marine Snow).
Small Press Traffic
Newsletter(USA), # 17 Spring 1996,“Quirkes & Quilits,”
Loss Pequeño Glazier (Quirks & Quillets).
American Book Review (
Boughn (Marine
Snow).
Sulfur (
Canadian Book Review
Annual, 1996-1997, Bert Almon, (Marine Snow).
Word, July 1997, “Never
tongue tied,” Christian Bök, (The Tongue Moves Talk).
Poetry Quarterly Review
(
Box Kite (
Common Knowledge (
Word, January 1999,
“Your Daily Cubism,” Christian Bök, (Fit to Print).
Broken Pencil, Spring 1999, HN, (Fit
to Print).
Quill & Quire,
March 1999, “Headliners,” Devin Crawley, (Fit
to Print).
Books in
David Jones Journal (
Poetry Quarterly Review
(
Terrible Work (
Point (
textellaneous, http://w3.tvi.cc.nm.us~mrhigns/textellaneous.htm, Mary
Rising Higgins (Fit to Print)
Scene magazine, “Karen
Mac Cormack: the writer is definitely in,”
http://www.uct.ac.za/general/monpaper/2002no07/canpoets.htm Univeristy of Cape
Town News, 8–15 April 2002.
Mike Basinski, review of Implexures, January 2004, http://www.the-hold.com/basinski.html
PN Review (
Stride magazine (
BOOK CHAPTERS & ARTICLES ON MY WORK
Bruns, Gerald, “Karen Mac Cormack
Among the Pagans,”
Lecercle, Jean-Jacques, “La Narration a fait beaucoup de
mal: le poetique Deleuzienne
de Karen Mac Cormack et
Steve McCaffery,”
Perloff, Marjorie, “After Free Verse,” Poetry on and off the Page: Essays for
Emergent Occasions (Northwestern
University Press, 1998)
_____. in Close Listening:
Poetry and the Performed Word, Charles Bernstein ed. (Oxford University
Press, 1998)
––––– in 21st-Century Modernism: The “New” Poetics,
(Blackwell Publishers, 2002)
Nichols, Miriam,
“Tensing the Difference: Daphne Marlatt, Karen Mac Cormack, and Susan Howe,” Tessera, Volume 27, Winter 1999, 39–54.
Ma, Ming-Qian, “‘Aim Without a Target’: Karen Mac Cormack and the Poetics of the ‘Objectless Subject’,” to be
presented at the 2000 MLA Convention, 27–30 December, 2000, Washington, D.C.,
USA
Mc Caffery,
Steve, “Temporality and the New Sentence: Phrase Propulsion in the Writing of
Karen Mac Cormack,” Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics (Northwestern University Press, 2001)
Quance, Roberta, “Stein-Ways: Karen Mac Cormack’s Marine Snow,”
presented at 1 Simposio Internacional
de Estudios Canadienses,
12–14 November, 1997, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid,
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS (VIDEO)
V Beyond the Ideo Special
Collections,
Video
Library,
The Audio Corridor Institute of Contemporary Art,