Stephanie Strickland

Stephanie Strickland (born February 22, 1942) is an American poet.

Life
Strickland was born in Detroit, lived for five years in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and attended Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York. She studied at Harvard University (A.B. 1963), Sarah Lawrence College (M.F.A. 1979), and Pratt Institute (M.S. 1984). She lives in New York City.

Strickland describes some of her work as born-digital: "E-poetry relies on code for its creation, preservation, and display: there is no way to experience a work of e-literature unless a computer is running it—reading it and perhaps also generating it. ... What is meant by e-literature, by works called born-digital, is that computation is required at every stage of their life. If it could possibly be printed out, it isn’t e-lit."

Printed collections of Strickland's work include Beyond This Silence (State Street Press, 1986), Give the Body Back (University of Missouri Press, 1991), The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil (University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, awarded that year's Brittingham Prize in Poetry), True North (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997, awarded the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award ), V: WaveSon.nets / Losing L’una (Penguin Poets, Penguin Books, 2002, awarded the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award ), and Zone : Zero (Ahsahta Press, Boise State University, 2008).

Strickland's poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Grand Street, New American Writing, Ploughshares, jubilat, Chicago Review, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, LIT, Chain, Harvard Review, 1913 a journal of forms, The Iowa Review, Colorado Review, American Letters & Commentary, Black Clock, Bird Dog, Notre Dame Review, Dandelion Magazine (Canada), Volt, Vlak, The Kenyon Review, Zoland Poetry, Court Green, Prairie Schooner, DoubleTake, Pequod, Western Humanities Review, Barrow Street, Salt Hill, Women’ s Studies Quarterly, P-Queue, Connecticut Review, Chelsea, Seneca Review, Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Agni, Gulf Coast, big allis, America, Poet Lore, Meridian, Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, Isotope, Poetry New York, The American Voice, 5 AM, Columbia Poetry Review, The Little Magazine, Many Mountains Moving, Samizdat, Calyx, Ironwood, Bellingham Review, West Branch, Tinfish, Pig Iron, Southern Poetry Review, Calapooya Collage, Ekphrasis, Tendril, Conditions, State Street Reader, Lumina, Controlled Burn, New Virginia Review, Synaesthetic, Black Buzzard Review, Dark Horse, Porch, Poets On:, Iris, VIA, Soundings East, Slant, Poetry Now, Croton Review, Small Moon, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and The Chowder Review.

Online, Strickland's poems have appeared in The Poetry Foundation, The Iowa Review Web, MiPOesias, Octopus, Drunken Boat, Poetry Daily, Sous Rature, Mad Hatters’ Review, Saint Elizabeth Street, Electronic Poetry Review, Critiphoria, La Fovea, Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, Riding the Meridian, Cauldron & Net, Web Del Sol Editor’ s Picks, electronic book review, Word Circuits Gallery, Blue Moon, New River, Furtherfield, Poets for Living Waters, Codex: A Journal of Critical and Creative Writing for your Mobile Device, and Big Other. Strickland's notable born-digital works include the hypertext True North (Eastgate Systems, 1997, awarded the Salt Hill Hypertext Prize ), The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot (Word Circuits, 1999, awarded a Boston Review Poetry Prize ), slippingglimpse (with Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo and Paul Ryan, 2007), Sea and Spar Between (with Nick Montfort, in Dear Navigator issue 1:3, Winter 2010), and born-digital versions of the poems in Zone : Zero (Ahsahta Press, Boise State University, 2008) included on a CD-ROM.

Strickland held the 2002 McEver Chair in Writing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. . She spoke at the &NOW Festival in 2004.

She is on the Board of the Electronic Literature Organization.

Projects in multiple media
Strickland has written, "The same poetic material can be treated as electronic literature and as print literature. I have made six such poems, either alone or with collaborators... The resulting poems are very different, and just how they are different is a matter of great interest to me."

In addition to works in Zone : Zero, born-digital works linked with Strickland's printed poetry include To Be Here as Stone Is (with M.D. Coverley), Errand Upon Which We Came (with M.D. Coverley), and V : Vniverse (with Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo). The first of these works relates to portions of True North and the latter two are related to V: WaveSon.nets / Losing L'una.

Works

 * In Dear Navigator issue 1:3, Winter 2010.
 * With Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo . Included in The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 2 (2011).
 * Included in hyperrhiz: new media cultures no. 4 (2008) and The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 2 (2011).
 * (with M.D. Coverley ). Included in Cauldron & Net 3, 2000-2001.
 * (with M.D. Coverley ). Included in Riding the Meridian volume 1 no. 2, 1999.
 * (with M.D. Coverley ). Included in Cauldron & Net 3, 2000-2001.
 * (with M.D. Coverley ). Included in Riding the Meridian volume 1 no. 2, 1999.
 * (with M.D. Coverley ). Included in Riding the Meridian volume 1 no. 2, 1999.

Essays

 * "Born Digital", Poetry Foundation, 2.13.09
 * "Poetry in the Electronic Environment", electronic book review, 07-26-2005
 * "Moving Through Me as I Move: A Paradigm for Interaction", First Person:  New Media as Story, Performance and Game. Wardrip-Fruin, N. and Harrigan, P., editors. MIT Press. 2004.