Miriam Atkin is a poet and critic based in the Catskills whose work has been largely concerned with the possibilities of poetry as a medium in conversation with avant-garde film, music, and dance. 

EDUCATION

2011—2021
City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY
PhD in English Literature, May 2021

2008—2010
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
MFA in Art Criticism & Writing, May 2010

2003—2007
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
BA in English and Comparative Literature, May 2007

PUBLICATIONS

2023
Inclination Drawing, poetry chapbook forthcoming from Beautiful Days Press
“Indisposed to Write: Teaching a Visceral Poetics,” forthcoming from the Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

2022
Lineaments, poetry chaplet published by Belladonna*Collaborative
“‘to be a boundless reflection’: On Critical Composition in Hejinian and Scalapino’s Sight and Hearing“, essay at Jacket2

2021
Interview with Max Wolf Valerio in Caesura

2017
I Teach Myself in Outline: The Notes, Journals & Syllabi of Audre Lorde
in Lost & Found Series VII
Fours, a poetry chapbook published by Wendy’s Subway and the Kaf Collective

2016
“What Does the Boss Want?: Jimmie Durham in the Haus Wittgenstein” in Arthandler
Two poems in Dispatches

2015
“The Art of Labor” in ARC Journal
“Notes on Art and Transcendence” in Haunt Journal of Art
Three poems in The Recluse (Saint Mark’s Poetry Project journal of poetry)
Review of Robert Kocik’s Supple Science in The Saint Mark’s Poetry Project Newsletter

2014
Various exhibition reviews in Art in America magazine and ArtCritical

2013
Various exhibition reviews in Art in America magazine and ArtCritical
“Today I Mist the Day Drills” in This Image: Poetry in Conversation with Photography, text/image journal edited by Aimee Walleston

2012
Rediscovering German Futurism: 1920-1929, book project collaboration with video artist Kurt Ralske (self-published)

CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS

2019
“Language is My Second Language: Nonsense, Noise & Idiolects in the Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common,” workshop co-facilitated with Öykü Tekten, Tara Homasi and Olivia Divecchia at St. Mark’s Poetry Project

2018
“The Life and Death of Hélène Rytman,” lecture at Triangle Arts

2017
“Choreoprosodic Research: Undisciplining the Writing Classroom,” presentation at Critical Theories of Education conference, West Chester University
“Poetics and Higher Ed Justice: The Role of Writers in the Struggle for a Freer University,” roundtable at Wendy’s Subway Library and Community Space
“Uncertainty in Practice: A Healing Workshop for Overdisciplined Educators,” workshop at Wendy’s Subway Library and Community Space co-facilitated with Melanie Maar and Robert Kocik

2016
“Settling into Wildness : Itinerant Study and Aesthetic Practice in Henry James,” presentation at Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA) conference Workshops on teaching English 1010 and English 1012 presented to the Brooklyn College English department
“Glimmer of The Glibbest Jabber,” presentation at Bureau of Imaginative Proposals Conference on Poetry and Political Theory, The New School

2015
“The Concept Hurts” at Trance, CUNY Graduate Center English department conference

2013
“So Few Have the Polis in Their Eye”: Embodied Responsibility in James, Whitman, and Olson,” at Poetry and Social Life, Princeton University Comparative Literature Conference

TEACHING & RELATED WORK

09/2022-present
CUNY John Jay Prison-to-College-Pipeline Program; instructor

08/2021-present
Bard College, Language & Thinking Program; instructor

08/2018-present
Litmus Press; editor, grant-writer

01/2018-01/2019
Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC); editor, grant-writer

02/2017-present
Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS); curator, fundraiser

09/2016-12/2016
New York City College of Technology, CUNY; writing instructor

08/2015-08/2016
Brooklyn College, CUNY; Writing Across the Curriculum fellow

08/2012-05/2015
Lehman College, CUNY: writing instructor, Department of English

01/2009-12/2009
School of Visual Arts: teaching assistant, Visual and Critical Studies Program