Biographical Note
Jennifer Moxley was born in San Diego, California in 1964. At 18 she worked as an au pair in France for a year, after which she returned to California and studied for three years at UC San Diego. In 1989 she moved with scholar and critic Steve Evans to Providence, Rhode Island, where she eventually completely her B.A. at the University of Rhode Island and then went on to earn an M.F.A. from Brown University in 1994. From 1992-1995 Moxley edited The Impercipient, a stapled and photocopied magazine dedicated to publishing the work of her contemporaries. Following this venture she co-edited, with Evans, the Impercipient Lecture Series, a monthly poetics pamphlet. She and Evans left Providence in February 1998 for Paris. In the summer of 1999, they returned to the States and settled with their very old cat Circe in Maine. Sadly, Circe (at left) passed away at in November 2007.
Moxley is the author of Clampdown (Flood, 2009), The Middle Room (Subpress, 2008), The Line (Post-Apollo, 2007), Often Capital (Flood, 2005), The Sense Record and other poems (Edge, 2002; rpt. Salt, 2003), and Imagination Verses (Tender Buttons, 1996; rpt. Salt, 2003).
Her chapbooks include Fragments of a Broken Poetics (Impercipient Editions 2006); Enlightenment Evidence (Cambridge, UK: Rem•press, 1996), which was translated into French as Evidence des Lumières at the Fondation Royaumont in 1998; and Wrong Life (Cambridge, UK: Equipage, 1999).
She has translated two books by the French poet and scholar Jacqueline Risset: a book of essays titled Sleep’s Powers (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008), and a book of poems, The Translation Begins (Burning Deck, 1996). Her poem “Behind the Orbits” was chosen by Robert Creeley for inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2002. She has been the poetry editor for The Baffler magazine since 1997 and a contributing editor of The Poker magazine since 2003.
Moxley teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Maine.
Selected Works
Books
| Chapbooks | Translations
| Editing | Essays & Personal
Narratives | Anthologies | Online
Poems | Reviews of Moxley's work | Readings
Books
Clampdown | Chicago: Flood, forthcoming
The Middle Room | Berkeley: Subpress, 2007
The Line | Sausolito: Post-Apollo, 2007
Often
Capital | Chicago: Flood Editions, 2005
The Sense Record
| Washington, DC: Edge Books, 2002 | Rpt. Cambridge, UK & Australia: Salt Publishing, 2003
Imagination
Verses | New York: Tender Buttons, 1996 | Rpt. Cambridge, UK & Australia:
Salt Publishing 2003
Evidence des Lumières
| Trans. of Enlightenment Evidence (see below) | Grâne, France:
Editions Créaphis, 1998
Chapbooks
Fragments of a Broken Poetics | Orono: Impercipient Editions, 2006
The Occasion
| New York City, NY: Belladonna, 2002
Wrong Life | Cambridge,
England: Equipage, 1999
Enlightenment Evidence | Cambridge, England: Rem•press, 1996
Ten Still Petals | Providence: private, 1996
The First Division of Labour | Boston: Rosetta Chapbook, 1995
Translation
Sleep's Powers | Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling, 2008 | Trans. of Puissances du Sommeil by Jacqueline Risset | Paris: Seuil, 1997
The
Translation Begins | Providence: Burning Deck, 1996 | Trans. of La
Traduction Commence by Jacqueline Risset | Paris: Christian Bourgeois,
1971
Editing
On-line archive
of The Impercipient at
Arras (with introductory note)
Coeditor
of The Impercipient Lecture Series | 10 issues in 1997
Contributing
editor of The Poker since
2003
Poetry editor
of The Baffler since 1997
Essays & personal narrative
A
Personal Reminiscence Chronicling the First Documented Case of the Waldrop
Effect | Composed for the fortieth-anniversary of Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop's
Burning Deck Press
After Language
Poetry | Originally published in the Swedish magazine OEI | 2002
Pillow
Talk: A Short History of a Small Magazine | on The Impercipient | 2002
To
Whom It May Concern: A Letter about Content | Originally published in
Open Letter | 2001
Invective
Verse | Originally published in Writing from the New Coast: Technique
| 1993
On Editing The Impercipient
| Originally published in a forum on "Gender and Editing" in Chain
1 | 1993
Anthologies
American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry | New York: Norton, 2009
Vanishing
Points | New Modernist Poems | Edited by Rod Mengham and John Kinsella
| Salt, 2004
Isn’t
It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets | Edited by Brett
Fletcher Lauer and Aimee Kelley | Verse, 2004
The
Best American Poetry 2002 | Edited by Robert Creeley
The Mechanics
of the Mirage: Postwar American Poetry | Edited by Michel Delville and
Christine Pagnoulle | Université de Liège: 2000 | Click here
for a review
An Anthology
of New (American) Poets | Edited by Lisa Jarnot, Christopher Stroffolino,
and Leonard Schwartz | Talisman House, 1998
Poems Online
Three poems | Coconut 5
Aeolian
Harp | Jacket 2
Fear
of an Empty Life | Jacket 6
Four poems | Jacket
27
Three poems
| Octopus 5
Reading Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth on the Romantic Circles: Poets on Poets website
Reviews and Essays on Moxley's work (partial)
Kathleen Ossip on The Middle Room
Simone dos Anjos on The Middle Room
Brian Kim Stefans on The Sense Record
Chris
Glomski on The Sense Record
Tony
Frazer on The Sense Record
Stephanie Cleveland on The
Sense Record
Cole Swensen on
The Sense Record
Arielle
Greenberg on The Sense Record
Dale Smith on The
Sense Record
Jane
Griffiths on Imagination Verses & The Sense Record
Chris
Stroffolino & Katy Lederer
on Wrong Life
Pete
Smith on Wrong Life and other work
John
Yau on Imagination Verses
Chris
Stroffolino on Imagination Verses
Lucy
Sheerman on Imagination Verses
Poetry Readings (since 1999, partial list with links to event publicity or coverage)
Georgetown
University | Mills College | Kelly
Holt's house in San Francisco | UC Davis | University
of Denver | The Poetry Project in New York City | POG collective Tucson,
Arizona | University
of Pennsylvania | USC | Northwest Bookfest in Seattle | UC Berkeley |
Johns Hopkins University | The Poetry Center in San Francisco | UC
San Diego | U of Illinois at Chicago | Brown University
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