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

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

Electronic literature

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

• 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

• 32 Poems, Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Driftwood, MacGuffin, Salt Hill

Translations

• 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

• Abbie M. Kopps Poetry Prize; Honorable Mention, Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. ^[3]

References

1. "SFE: Kerman, Judith". sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
2. "Judith Kerman | Yetzirah". yetzirahpoets.org. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
3. "Definitions". www.fomitepress.com. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
4. "Judith Kerman". Woodstock Housing Alliance. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
5. "Judy Kerman". www.eastgate.com. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
6. "Stephanie Mathson interviews poet and author Judith Kerman". d.lib.msu.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
7. "Judith Kerman | ELMCIP". elmcip.net. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
8. "Judith Kerman". Poets & Writers. 1981-05-28. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
9. "Mayapple Press – Publishing challenging and accessible literary books since 1978". 2025-02-20. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
10. 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.
11. "Judith Kerman". www2.iath.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
12. "Colloquy". www2.iath.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
13. "Migrations". www2.iath.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
14. "Aleph, broken: poems from my diaspora - by Judith Kerman". Broadstone Books. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
15. "Poet and author Judith Kerman reads her selected works at the Michigan Writers Series". d.lib.msu.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-15.