Judith Kerman
Judith Kerman (New York 1945)[1] is a poet, publisher, academic, and translator in the U.S. and active from the 1970s.[1]
Life, education, and career
[edit]Kerman earned her BA with Honors from the University of Rochester in 1967 and her M.A, (1973) and PhD. (1977) both from the University of Buffalo.[2] In 2002, she was a Fullbright Senior Scholar to the Dominican Republic.[3][4][5][6]
She was a university professor and Dean of Arts and Behavioral Sciences[7] and is now a professor emerita of English at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan.[8][2]
She founded Earth’s Daughters magazine in Buffalo, New York (1971 to present) and founded and runs Mayapple Press (1978 to present)[9] in Woodstock, New York.[10]
She is Vice Chair of the Woodstock, New York, Planning Board.[2]
Works
[edit]Electronic literature
[edit]An electronic literature (Hypertext poem) version of Mothering was published in the Eastgate Systems quarterly review in 1995, and was issued as a paper book, Mothering and Dreams of Rain (Ridgeway Press, 1996).[11]
She wrote the content for a poem authoring system Colloquy, (implemented by Robert Chiles). This was an early generative poem that produced 17-line standzs and were "hypertexts where every word is an anchor and every path limited in length and non-retraceable."[12]
Kerman's graphic poem series, Migrations, (1987) are short poems presented for a computer screen.[13]
Poetry
[edit]- Obsessions (Intrepid Press, Beau Fleuve Series, 1974)
- The Jakoba Poems (White Pine Press, 1976)
- Mothering (Uroboros/Allegheny Mtn Press, 1978)
- Driving for Yellow Cab (Tout Press, 1985)
- Three Marbles (Cranberry Tree Press, 1999) Mothering & Dream of Rain (Ridgeway Press, 1997)
- Plane Surfaces/Plano de Incidencia (Mayapple Press, 2002)
- A Woman in Her Garden: Selected Poems of Dulce Maria Loynaz (White Pine Press, 2002)
- Galvanic Response (March Street Press, 2005) Postcards from America (Post Traumatic Press, 2015)
- Aleph, broken: Poems from My Diaspora (Broadstone Books, 2016)[14]
- definitions (Fomite Press, 2021)[2][3]
Journals
[edit]- 32 Poems, Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Driftwood, MacGuffin, Salt Hill
Translations
[edit]- Book: Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic by Aida Cartagena Portalatin, Angela Hernandez Núñez, Ylonka Nacidit Perdomo, translated from the Spanish (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2009, published as a Lannan Selection).[15]
- Entre Dos Silencios/Between Two Silences: Short Fiction by Hilma Contreras (Mayapple Press, 2013)[3]
Awards and honors
[edit]- Abbie M. Kopps Poetry Prize; Honorable Mention, Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "SFE: Kerman, Judith". sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ^ a b c d "Judith Kerman | Yetzirah". yetzirahpoets.org. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ^ a b c d "Definitions". www.fomitepress.com. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ^ "Judith Kerman". Woodstock Housing Alliance. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ^ "Judy Kerman". www.eastgate.com. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ^ "Stephanie Mathson interviews poet and author Judith Kerman". d.lib.msu.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ^ "Judith Kerman | ELMCIP". elmcip.net. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ^ "Judith Kerman". Poets & Writers. 1981-05-28. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ^ "Mayapple Press – Publishing challenging and accessible literary books since 1978". 2025-02-20. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ^ Poets, Albany (2019-09-04). "Judith Kerman, Marilyn McCabe, and Open Mic at C.R.E.A.T.E." Hudson Valley Writers Guild. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ^ "Judith Kerman". www2.iath.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ^ "Colloquy". www2.iath.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ^ "Migrations". www2.iath.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ^ "Aleph, broken: poems from my diaspora - by Judith Kerman". Broadstone Books. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ^ "Poet and author Judith Kerman reads her selected works at the Michigan Writers Series". d.lib.msu.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- 1945 births
- American electronic literature writers
- American poets
- American women poets
- American translators
- Spanish–English translators
- Jewish poets
- Jewish American writers
- American literary critics
- Science fiction critics
- American publishers (people)
- American academics
- University at Buffalo alumni
- Saginaw Valley State University faculty
- Living people
- Women literary critics
- American women academics
- American women editors
- American editors