
Stephanie Strickland. Photo by Star Black. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Stephanie Strickland (born February 22, 1942) is an American poet.
Life[]
Strickland was born in Detroit. She lived for 5 years in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. She attended Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York.
She earned an A.B. at Harvard University in 1963, an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1979, and an M.S. from the Pratt Institute in 1984.[1]
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[2] and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award[3]), V: WaveSon.nets / Losing L’una (Penguin Poets, Penguin Books, 2002, awarded the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award[4]), and Zone: Zero (Ahsahta Press, Boise State University, 2008).
Strickland's poems have appeared in the Paris Review, New American Writing, Ploughshares, jubilat, Chicago Review, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, LIT, Chain, Harvard Review, 1913 a journal of forms, Iowa Review, Colorado Review, American Letters & Commentary, Black Clock, Bird Dog, Notre Dame Review, Dandelion Magazine (Canada), Volt, Vlak, Kenyon Review, Zoland Poetry, Court Green, Prairie Schooner, DoubleTake, Grand Street, 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.[5]
Online, Strickland's poems have appeared at 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.[6]
Strickland held the 2002 McEver chair in writing at the Georgia Institute of Technology.[7]. She spoke at the &NOW Festival in 2004.[8]
She is on the Board of the Electronic Literature Organization.[9] She lives in New York City.
Writing[]
Stephanie Strickland Presentation - e-poetry 2009
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."[10]
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."[11]
Strickland's notable born-digital works include the hypertext True North (Eastgate Systems, 1997), The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot] (Word Circuits, 1999), (with Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo and Paul Ryan, 2007), Sea and Spar Between (with Nick Montfort, in Dear Navigator i 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.
Other 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 2 are related to V: WaveSon.nets / Losing L'una.
Recognition[]
Of Strickland's born-digital works, the hypertext True North, (1997) was awarded the Salt Hill Hypertext Prize,[12] and The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot (1999) was awarded a Boston Review Poetry Prize.[13]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Beyond This Silence. State Street Press. 1986. http://www.stephaniestrickland.com/beyond.html.
- Give the Body Back. University of Missouri Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8262-0809-5.
- The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil. University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-299-13994-0
- True North. University of Notre Dame Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-268-01899-3.
- True North (hypertext). Eastgate Systems. 1997. ISBN 1-884511-36-8. http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/TrueNorth.html.
- To Be Here as Stone Is. 1999. http://califia.us/SI/stone1.htm. (with M.D. Coverley[14]). Included in Riding the Meridian volume 1 no. 2, 1999.
- The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot. Word Circuits. 1999. http://www.wordcircuits.com/gallery/sandsoot/.
- Errand Upon Which We Came. 2000. http://califia.us/Errand/title1a.htm. (with M.D. Coverley[15]). Included in Cauldron & Net 3, 2000-2001.
- V: WaveSon.nets/Losing L’una. Penguin Poets. 2002. ISBN 978-0-14-200245-2.
- slippingglimpse. 2007. http://slippingglimpse.org/. Included in hyperrhiz: new media cultures no. 4 (2008) and The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 2 (2011).
- V : Vniverse. 2002. http://vniverse.com/. With Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo[16]. Included in The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 2 (2011).
- Zone: Zero. Ahsahta Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-934103-01-2.
- Sea and Spar Between. 2010. http://blogs.saic.edu/dearnavigator/winter2010/nick-montfort-stephanie-strickland-sea-and-spar-between/. In Dear Navigator issue 1:3, Winter 2010.
Essays[]
- "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.
- "Poetry in the Electronic Environment", electronic book review, 07-26-2005
- "Born Digital", Poetry Foundation, 2.13.09
Anthologized[]
- "Shadow" in Atomic Ghost: Poets respond to the nuclear age (edited by John Bradley). Coffee House Press, 1995. ISBN 978-1-56689-027-4
- "True North 1; Who Counts, Counts" in Strange Attractors: Poems of love and mathematics (edited by Sarah Glaz). A.K. Peters, Ltd., 2008. ISBN 978-1-56881-341-7
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/strickland/strickland-bio.htm
- ↑ http://english.nd.edu/creative-writing/publications/sandeen-sullivan-prizes/
- ↑ http://www.wordcircuits.com/gallery/sandsoot/strickland.html
- ↑ http://www.stephaniestrickland.com/V.html
- ↑ http://www.stephaniestrickland.com/
- ↑ http://www.stephaniestrickland.com/
- ↑ http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall01/survey/strickland.html
- ↑ "&Now Program Schedule". &Now 2004. University of Notre Dame. http://www.nd.edu/~andnow/schedule.html. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
- ↑ http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=3&si=12&s=94
- ↑ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/182942
- ↑ http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/strickland/strickland-author.htm
- ↑ http://www.stephaniestrickland.com/TNH.html
- ↑ http://www.stephaniestrickland.com/harrysoot.html
- ↑ http://www.stephaniestrickland.com/stone.html
- ↑ http://www.stephaniestrickland.com/errand.html
- ↑ http://www.cynthialawson.com/
External links[]
- Books
- Stephanie Strickland at Amazon.com
- About
- "Stephanie Strickland", Ahsahta Press
- "Webliography: Stephanie Strickland", Sara Herbert, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Poet's website
- "An Interview with Stephanie Strickland", Bookslut, October 2008
- "The Patchwork Girl’s Daughters: Cyberfemininity, hybridity, and excess in the poetry of Stephanie Strickland and Mez Breeze" (abstract)