a hearth for Jewish poetry

erica kaufman

Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking

Birth Year
b. 1979
Current City
Rhinebeck, New York, USA
Birth City
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Genre(s)
Poetry, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism
Author’s Website

Biography

erica kaufman is the author of POST CLASSIC (Roof Books, 2019), INSTANT CLASSIC (Roof Books, 2013) and censory impulse (Factory School, 2009). she is also the co-editor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life and Work of kari edwards (Venn Diagram, 2009), and of Adrienne Rich: Teaching at CUNY, 1968-1974 (Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, 2014). prose and critical work can be found in: The Color of Vowels: New York School Collaborations (ed. Mark Silverberg, Palgrave MacMillan, 2013), The Supposium: Thought Experiments and Poethical Play in Difficult Times (ed. Joan Retallack, Litmus Press, 2018),  Approaches to Teaching the Works of Gertrude Stein (eds. L’ Esdale and D. Mix, MLA, 2018), and Reading Experimental Writing (ed. G. Colby, Edinburgh University Press, 2020). poems can be found in e-flux, A Perfect Vacuum, The Brooklyn RailP-Queue, and elsewhere. kaufman is the Director of the Institute for Writing & Thinking at Bard College where she is also a Writer in Residence.

Published Works

POST CLASSIC (Roof Books, 2019)
INSTANT CLASSIC (Roof Books, 2013)
censory impulse (Factory School, 2009)

Links to Sample Works

Subject Matter

Antisemitism, Art & Ekphrasis, Cultural Identity, Diaspora, Eastern Europe, Family, Gender, History, Intergenerational Trauma, Israel/Palestine, Jewishness, Labor, Misogyny, Mythology, Narrative, Politics, Shoah, Genocide, Torah, War, Whiteness, Feminism, LGBTQ+, Translation.