Kristin Prevallet is a poet, essayist, performer, educator, and mindbody coach (info on her practice can be found at www.mindbodystudies.com). Recent poems appear in The New Republic and The Boston Review. Recent interviews appear on Brooklyn Poets, The Examiner and the Best Blog. Recordings are available on PennSound. A nice nod by David King appears on The Kenyon Review.

Kristin is the author of five books and nine chapbooks, including most recently her re-envision of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, Everywhere Here and in Brooklyn, published by the Belladonna Collaborative, designed by H.R. Hegnauer, and set to music by Colette Alexander. Other books include I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time, an experimental elegy designed by poet Jeff Clarke and published by Essay Press in 2007; Shadow Evidence Intelligence, a book of conceptual confrontations with the form/content rift that occurred during the Bush II years, published by Factory School in 2008; Scratch Sides: Poetry, Documentation and Image-Text Projects, a book of form/content experiments written and designed in Quark and published by Skanky Possum in 1998. She is the editor of A Reader (National Poetry Foundation).

Recent poetic documents that blend conceptual and collaborative forms have appeared in VLAK: Poetics and the Arts; Rhythm of Structure: Mathematics, Art, and Poetic Reflections and the anthology I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. A short story based on horror writer Robert Chambers’ The King In Yellow appears in the anthology A Season in Carcosa edited by Joseph Pulver.

An associate of Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking, she has taught poetry, poetics, and creative/critical writing at and Pratt Institute. She has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Mellon Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the PEN translation fund. Her essay “Blood on the Illusion” was a 2013 notable essay selected by the editors of The Best American Essay anthology, and is now available on kindle. Online Writings recently published I Live in a Borrowed and Often Tender Multiplicity (Boston Review, April 2015) Ballad of a Broken String: Poetry and the Teaching of Discognitive Communication TrancePoetics folio: edited for The Drunken Boat His Majesty: The Stomach by Sony Labou Tansi (Words Without Borders) selected online poems I Live in a Borrowed and Often Tender Multiplicity (Boston Review) Tales of Caw (Jacket) Orphee (Sidebrow) The Web (Not Enough Night) Cruelty and Conquest (Oil Oil Oil) The Brooklyn Rail Two Poems (Marsh Hawk Review) Considering Options for Controlling the BP Blowout in the Gulf of Mexico (Poets for Living Waters) videos and audio the rime of the ancient mariner, 1996 (dear navigator, fall 2010) sequen[i]ce: featuring dubravka djuric fade to black: audio collaboration featuring esfand pourmand récipient de métal vert: audio collaboration featuring sandra moussempes interviews Talking Poetry, Trance, and the Body (Best American Poetry Blog, June 2011) a conversation with Cara Benson A conversation with Geoffrey Watterman (Tinge Magazine) The Poetic Gift Gestural Economy HOW2 (Vol. 3, No.2) a conversation with Elizabeth-Jane Burnett In Mourning (pdf) FactSimile (Spring 2009) a conversation with Jen Davis Interview with Kenward Elmslie Jacket #16 (March 2002) Gathering vs. Collecting (Correspondence with Jackson MacLow) (.pdf) Slought Foundation The Primordial Cry (BombBlog August 2009) a conversation with Caraballo-Farman selected essays Writing Is Never By Itself Alone: Six Mini Essays on Relational Investigative Poetics (.pdf) Fence (Spring/Summer 2003) Navigating the New Chaos: ’s Collaborations with Visual Artists (Jacket #27) previously published in mark(s) quarterly of the arts. The artful wordiness of materials: Joe Brainard & Poetry Jacket # 16 (March 2002) From Godzilla to the NASDEQ Tower: The Collages of Holli Schorno The Transcendental Friend #14. Helen Adam’s Sweet Company: The Collages Riding the Meridian v2 n2 Jack Spicer’s Hell in Homage to Creeley Jacket #7