Stephanie Young (poet)

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Stephanie Young is an American poet, activist, and scholar. She lives in Oakland, California. [1]

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Career

Young teaches at Mills College, where she is also the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Programs. [2] At Mills College, Young participated as labor organizer in a successful adjunct unionization campaign. [3] Institutional politics in the university have been a theme in her work.

Her collections of poetry include Telling the Future Off (2005), [4] Picture Palace (2008), [5] and Ursula or University (2013). [6] She edited the anthology Bay Poetics (2006) [7] and co-edited, along with poet Juliana Spahr, the book A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism (2012), [8] a collection of “enactments” investigating politics, feminism, and collaborative poetry practice that the pair performed between 2005 and 2007. Young's poetry and prose have been published in a variety of sites, including: The Poetry Foundation, The Chronicle of Higher Education , and Los Angeles Review of Books . Young was a founding editor of the online anthology/“museum” of Oakland, Deep Oakland . She was a board member at Small Press Traffic, where she curated the Poets Theater festival from 2005 to 2008.

Young's work is noted for being cross-genre and hybrid, integrating text, performance, new media, archival research, and activism. According to T.C. Marshall, Young's poetry “works with feeling, fact, and militant action and reflection.”

Young belonged to the KRUPSKAYA/Krupskaya Books editorial collective [9] serving as an editor between 2013 and 2015. [10]

Bibliography

Poetry

Editor

Selected essays

References

  1. "Stephanie Young". Poetry Foundation. 2018-03-30. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  2. "MFA in Creative Writing". Mills College. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  3. "Poetry from the Picket Line". Hyperallergic. 2018-04-21. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  4. Young, Stephanie (2005). Telling the future off (1st ed.). San Diego: Tougher Disguises. ISBN   9780974016740. OCLC   62111120.
  5. Young, Stephanie (2008). Picture palace. In Girum Imus Nocte. ISBN   9781934639061. OCLC   244767473.
  6. Young, Stephanie (2013). Ursula or University. San Francisco, CA: Krupskaya. ISBN   9781928650355. OCLC   859447162.
  7. Young, Stephanie, ed. (2006). Bay poetics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Faux Press. ISBN   9780976521136. OCLC   70110282.
  8. Spahr, Juliana; Young, Stephanie, eds. (2011). A megaphone : some enactments, some numbers, and some essays about the continued usefulness of crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun feminism. Oakland: ChainLinks. ISBN   978-1930068483. OCLC   712256701.
  9. ""Pet Sounds": An Interview with Stephanie Young". 26 April 2019.
  10. "About Krupskaya".
  11. Young, Stephanie (2005). Telling the future off (1st ed.). San Diego: Tougher Disguises. ISBN   9780974016740. OCLC   62111120.
  12. Young, Stephanie (2008). Picture palace. In Girum Imus Nocte. ISBN   9781934639061. OCLC   244767473.
  13. Young, Stephanie (2013). Ursula or University. San Francisco, CA: Krupskaya. ISBN   9781928650355. OCLC   859447162.
  14. "Pet Sounds".
  15. Young, Stephanie, ed. (2006). Bay poetics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Faux Press. ISBN   9780976521136. OCLC   70110282.
  16. "The Program Era and the Mainly White Room - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  17. "Business Feminism - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  18. "The Paradox of Protecting Students". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2018-01-09. Retrieved 2018-03-30.