Jocelyn Saidenberg earned her doctoral degree in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on ancient Greek, Latin, and contemporary Anglophone poetry and is informed by her interests in linguistics, social anthropology, and psychoanalysis. Her dissertation, Echo Otherwise, an elaboration of Lucretius’s atomic poetics, explores the relationship between didactic poetry’s transformational capacity and sonic and linguistic patterning. She also writes on contemporary poetry and art and has several published collections of poetry.
Selected Publications
Interview with Bruce Boone for “New Narrative as Social Practice,” special issue of ON Poetics, Fall 2018
“The Shell of the Flown Bird,” Oberon 3, Winter 2017
“Notebooks on Notebooks,” SFMOMA, Open Space, Fall 2016
Poetry Collections:
kith & kin, The Elephants, Vancouver (2018)
Dead Letter, Roof Books, New York (2015)
Shipwreck, commissioned by Second Floor Projects, San Francisco, CA (2013)
Negativity, commissioned by Lyn Hejinian, Atelos Press, Berkeley, CA (2009)
Dispossessed, Belladonna Collective, New York, NY (2007)
Dusky, Belladonna Collective, New York, NY (2002)
Cusp, winner of the Frances Jaffer Award, and the American Academy of Poets
Greenwald Prize, Kelsey Street Press, Berkeley, CA (2001)
Mortal City, Parentheses Writing Series, San Diego, (1998)
