A n n a M o s c h o v a k i s 3112 Betty Brook Road South Kortright, NY 13842 745 Eastern Parkway #3, Brooklyn, NY 11213 C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E [email protected]

Research and Teaching Interests , poetics, translation theory and practice, avant-garde traditions, experimental fiction, narrative theory, publishing history and culture, underground publishing traditions, arts, text-image and hybrid works, feminist and queer theory, philosophy and literature, film and literature, experimental film

Employment

2014 Pratt Institute MFA in Writing Core Faculty

2009-present Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College Faculty in Writing

2009, 2013 Naropa University Summer Writing Program Visiting Faculty

2006-present Writing Program, Pratt Institute Visiting Assistant Professor Internship Coordinator

2002-2006 Department of Comparative Literature, Queens College Adjunct Professor

1999-2000 Department of English, Baltimore City Community College Adjunct Professor

Education

2010 M.A., Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate Center of the City University of New York Thesis: “Swing High, Swing Low: Literary Slummers of the Twentieth Century” Adviser: Vincent Crapanzano

1998 M.F.A., Writing, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College Thesis: “The Noise of the Rain.” Masters Review Board: Ann Lauterbach, Lynne Tillman, Nayland Blake, Cecilia Dougherty

1993 B.A., Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley Thesis: “Heidegger, Levinas, and the Concept of the Background” Honors Thesis Adviser: Hubert Dreyfus

Publications

Poetry

2011 You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, Coffee House Press James Laughlin Award, Academy of American Poets

2006 I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone, Turtle Point Press Runner-up, Norma Farber First Book Award, Poetry Society of America

Translated Books

2014 Nazis in the Metro (Nazis dans le métro, Didier Daeninckx) Melville House Books A N N A M O S C H O V A K I S |

2013 Commentary (Commentaire, Marcelle Sauvageot), Ugly Duckling Presse co-translated with Christine Schwartz Hartley Longlist, Best Translated Book Award

2010 The Jokers (La violence et la dérision, Albert Cossery), New York Review Books Classics Shortlist, Best Translated Book Award Finalist, French-American Foundation Florence Gould Award

2008 The Possession (L'occupation, Annie Ernaux), Seven Stories Press

2007 The Engagement (Les fiançailles de monsieur Hire, Georges Simenon), New York Review Books Classics

2004 Moravagine (Moravagine, Blaise Cendrars), New York Review Books Classics (contributing translator)

2002 Miserable Miracle (Misérable Miracle, Henri Michaux), New York Review Books Classics (contributing translator)

1998 Horoscope, (“Personalism” by Leon-Paul Fargue), Turtle Point Press (contributing translator)

Anthologized Poetry

2014 The Voltta Book of Poets. Sidebrow Books, San Fransisco

2012 Figuring Color. Hatje Cantz, Germany

2011 Dan kada je umrla Lejdi Gaga (The Day Lady Gaga Died), Peti talas/The Fifth Wave, Serbia

2010 La Familia Americana (American Family), Carlos Pardo, Madrid

2009 The I.E. Reader, Narrow House

2002 New York Writes After September 11, NYU Press, New York

Chapbooks

2013 Anna's Half / Anselm's Half, Say Hello to Your Last Chapbook

2013 She Got Up, The Physiocrats

2011 7.7.11 / 1,400,000, Dusie

2010 Film Two, Dusie

2009 The Human Machine, Knock-off Books and Dusie

2008 No Medea, Big Game Books

2007 The Tragedy of Waste, Belladonna Books

2005 The Blue Book, Phylum Press

2005 Dependence Day , Sisyphus Press

Selected Periodicals (Poetry)

2013 Vanitas “(from) What It Means to Be Avant-Garde”

2012 The Review Selects [audio series] “Poem Beginning with a Line by Dana Ward” “(from) What It Means to Be Avant-Garde” A N N A M O S C H O V A K I S |

2010 Fence “In Search of Wealth”

2010 A Public Space “Film Two”

2009 Denver Quarterly “The Tragedy of Waste”

2008 The Brooklyn Rail “The Human Machine: 30 Chances”

2008 Jubilat “After Ritsos”

2001 BOMB “Thought Experiment: The Chinese Room” “Thought Experiment: Mary in the Black-and-White Room”

Selected Periodicals and Essays (Translation)

2014 The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border, ed. Marjorie Vecchio. I.B. Tauris () “The Intruder According to Claire Denis,” Jean-Luc Nancy

2013 The Collected Poems of . Penguin “For the Album of Melancholy” “Addresses” “Echo” “[More so than for this dreamer...]” “To Paul Morand”

2012 Nancy Shaver. Catalog essay for Feature, Inc. “Social Value and Visual Glory: Nancy Shaver's Ordinary Objects,” Jean-Phillipe Antoine

2008 Verse: French Poetry and Poetics “To Seek a Sentence,” Pierre Alféri

2008 Fence “Aveux non avenus” [excerpts], Claude Cahun

2006 Harvard Review “Love,” Ivan Blatny [co-translated with Veronika Tuckerová] “Misspelled,” Ivan Blatny [co-translated with Veronika Tuckerová]

2004 nest: a quarterly of interiors “Hashish,” Théophile Gautier

Book Reviews and Introductions

2014 Boston Review Micro review of Urban Tumbleweed, Harryette Mullen

2013 Poetry Society of America “New American Poets” Series Introduction to the work of Simone White

2011 American Book Review “Poetics of Guilt,” review of Tragodía 1: Statement of Fact, Vanessa Place

2010 Poetry Project Newsletter “We Will Make the Movie and Stay Friends,” review of We Saw the Light, Daniel Kane

2005 BOMB Magazine A N N A M O S C H O V A K I S |

Notable American Women, Ben Marcus

2005 Poetry Project Newsletter Mary Burger

2005 Poetry Project Newsletter Leslie Scalapino [co-written with Alystyre Julian]

2004 Poetry Project Newsletter Report from the Moscow International Poetry Biennale [co-written with Matvei Yankelevich]

Honors and Awards

2014 Writers OMI residency fellowship

2013 Fund for Poetry grant

2013 Writers OMI residency fellowship

2012 Fund for Poetry grant

2011 James Laughlin Award for a second book of poems, Academy of American Poets Selected by Juliana Spahr, Monica de la Torré, and Brian Teare

2011 Coldfront, Top 30 Poetry Books of 2011

2011 Shortlist, Best Translated Book Award for The Jokers

2011 Finalist, French-American Foundation Florence Gould Award for The Jokers

2009 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship in poetry

2009 Selected for “New American Poets” series, Poetry Society of America

2009 apexart “Outbound” residency fellowship, nominated by Siri Hustvedt

2009 Finalist, Creative Capital Fellowship for innovative literature

2006 Fund for Poetry grant

2006 Runner-up, Norma Farber First Book Award, Poetry Society of America Judge: Rosmarie Waldrop

2006 “High Pass” on comprehensive doctoral exams in Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

2001 Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship for creative writing

1997 Fisher Fellowship in creative writing, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College

Selected Bibliography

Reviews of You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake

2013 The Georgia Review, by Stephen Dunn Loads of Learned Lumber

2012 Lana Turner: a Journal of Poetry and Opinion, by Geoffrey G. O'Brien The Rumpus, by Collin Shuster A N N A M O S C H O V A K I S |

The Nation, by Stephen Burt The Volta, by Caroline Davidson 2011 The San Francisco Bay Guardian Kenyon Review American Poetry Hot Metal Bridge Coldfront, by Rachel Mennies Bookforum.com, by Craig Teicher H_NGM_N, by Matt McBrides New Pages, by Sima Rabinowitz Galatea Resurrection, by Guillermo Parra

Reviews of I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone

2011 Harriet [The Poetry Foundation], by Emily Warn 2008 Smartish Pace, by Maggie Schwed Pebble Lake Review, by Rebecca Waldinger 2007 Bookforum, by Max Winter Boston Review, by Nick Bredie 2006 Bookslut, by Olivia Cronk Rain Taxi, by Jason Ranon Uri Rostein Galatea Resurrection, by Craig Santos Perez

Reviews of The Jokers

2010 Harpers Magazine 2010 The Independent 2010 The Guardian U.K. 2010 The Times Book Review, by David Ulin 2010 NPR.org 2010 Three Percent

Reviews of The Possession

2010 The Second Pass 2009 The New York Times Book Review Three Percent

Reviews of The Engagement

2007 Time Out New York Three Percent The Philadelphia Inquirer

Profiles and Interviews

2012 The New York Times online, “Small Presses Take Brooklyn” (video)

2012 The Conversant, interview with H.L. Hix

2012 MetroFocus, “Brooklyn Book Festival Expands as Reputation of Small Presses Grows”

2011 Conversational Reading, “Six Questions for Anna Moschovakis,” by Scott Esposito

2011 Cape Ann Beacon, “Anna Moschovakis to read at Writers Center”

2011 Poets & Writers, “Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin”

2011 Cross-Cultural Poetics, Radio interview with Leonard Schwartz about You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake

2010 The Huffington Post, “Virtual Book Tour: Three Emerging Poets,” by Anis Shevani

2009 The Poetry Project Newsletter, “An Interview with Ugly Duckling Presse,” by Kyle Schlessinger A N N A M O S C H O V A K I S |

2009 Poetry Society of America / Poetrysociety.org, “New American Poets”

2008 Buffalo ArtVoice, “Culture Workers Unite,” by Michael Kelleher

2007 Poets & Writers, “The Poetry of Beginning: Twelve Poets Who Got Things Going in 2007,” by Kevin Larimer

2006 Poets & Writers, “First Books,” by Kevin Larimer

2006 L.A. Lit, Radio interview and reading

Teaching Experience

2014-present Pratt Institute Department of Writing, MFA Core Faculty As a core member of the faculty in this new, activism-oriented Writing MFA, I mentor incoming students and teach seminars on varying topics (Spring 2015's course is on multilingual writing). I also am co-designing the “fieldwork” component of the program, which will launch in 2015.

2009-present Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College Core Faculty As a core member of the faculty in this interdisciplinary low-residency M.F.A. program, I perform one-on-one studio visits (“conferences”) daily with writers, visual artists and sound artists, and take a leadership role in weekly discipline-specific caucuses and interdisciplinary seminar critiques. I am on up to six Masters review committees each year, participating in two-hour Masters review boards.

2006-present Pratt Institute Department of Writing, BFA Visiting Assistant Professor; Internship Coordinator — SENIOR STUDIO As a professor of poetry in this B.F.A. Creative Writing program, I have three times taught the Senior Studio class, a year-long course in which students develop and complete their senior thesis in poetry, including a critical introduction that demonstrates their accomplishment in the study of poetry and poetics. — THE SERIAL POEM This combination workshop / literature seminar focused on modern and contemporary long and book-length poems and on the poetics of duration. — CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY I designed this introductory course for non-majors to take advantage of the array of creative disciplines among the student body at Pratt, emphasizing text-image work, conceptual projects, and form. — INTRODUCTION TO THE PROFESSIONAL WORKPLACE / INTERNSHIP SEMINAR As Internship Coordinator I teach a two-part, year-long class called Introduction to the Professional Workplace / Internship Seminar to all juniors in the program. The course offers an introduction to the literary field including publishing, agenting, and other literary careers, and incorporates theoretical and practical material, visiting professionals, and field trips into its syllabus. A course blog allows for the students to easily share information and to build ties with each other that will enhance their future endeavors in writing-related fields.

2011 Poets House Visiting Instructor THE CHAPBOOK This hands-on creative writing course engaged the poetic and formal scope and limits of the chapbook-length poem or poem series through readings and assignments.

2009 Naropa University Summer Writing Program Visiting Instructor NECESSARY FAILURE(S): TRANSLATING THE UNTRANSLATABLE, SAYING THE UNSAYABLE This intensive writing course was designed as a workshop/seminar revolving around texts that court, challenge, theorize, celebrate, or enact failure, including Agamben, Benjamin, Riding, Blanchot, Levinas, Blatny, Lispector, Wittgenstein, Beckett.

2002-2006 Department of Comparative Literature, Queens College Adjunct Professor GREAT BOOKS I, GREAT BOOKS II I taught in this program for seven semesters, including one summer intensive session. The primary courses I taught were Great Books I: from Homer to A N N A M O S C H O V A K I S |

Dante and Great Books II: From Shakespeare to the present. Within those rubrics, the design of the courses was up to me, and I developed several different versions of each, including “Focus on Orpheus” and “Classic Literature on Film.” MODERN POETRY I designed my section of this survey course, “Modern Poetry: Process and Purpose,” to emphasize the complex and irreducible effects of international poetic and art movements on the contemporary poetic landscape.

WOMEN IN WORLD LITERATURE In this upper-level course, which I titled “Unsentimental Women Writers,” I emphasized the work of influential but sometimes marginalized women writers whose lack of a “feminine sensibility” has marked their work and affected its reception.

1999-2000 Baltimore City Community College Adjunct Professor I taught English Composition here for two semesters, facing the challenges of inner-city schools: basic literacy problems, spotty attendance due to life circumstances, and the challenge of creating a syllabus that

Conferences, Panels, and Visiting Writer Engagements

2014 UCLA. Visiting Poet The Kitchen.LAB, New York. Performance and panel discussion: “Narrative” American Literary Translators Association. Panel: “After publication” NYU. Invited talk on publishing 2013 Brooklyn College. Visiting Poet Los Angeles Art Book Fair. Artist's talk: “What Should an Art Book Do?” 2012 Brown University Writing Program. Visiting Poet Ithaca College. Invited talk on publishing University of . Visiting Poet University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Juniper Poetry Festival. Featured Poet University of California, Santa Cruz. Conference: “Emergent Communities in Contemporary Experimental Writing. Invited Respondent Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference. Panel: “Print Culture: From Literary Magazine to Chapbook Press” Muhlenburg College. Visiting Poet Shippensburg University. Visiting Poet The Center for the Humanities Chapbook Festival. Panel: “Publishing and translation” 2011 Occidental College. Visiting Poet PEN / World Voices Festival. Panel: “The Publishing Revolution Is Here” The Center for the Humanities Chapbook Festival at Poets House. Panel: “What the chapbook means to me” The Center for the Humanities Chapbook Festival. Panel: “Nuts and bolts of chapbook publishing” Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference. Panel: “Presses with a mission” Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference. Panel: “Translation and experimental literature” American Literary Translators Association. Panel: “Publishing translations” 2010 New York University, “Ambiance in the Humanities” Conference. Panel presentation: “A is for Addis” University of Wyoming at Laramie. Visiting Poet The Center for the Humanities Chapbook Festival. Panel: “Nuts and bolts of chapbook publishing” University of Colorado Small Press Festival. Panel: Small-press publishing 2009 SUNY Buffalo Small Press Conference. Panel presentation: “The temptations of unsustainability, or valuing the ephemeral” 2008 Symphony Space / Thalia Book Club. Panel: “Inspecting Inspector Maigret: a tribute to Georges Simenon” Naropa Summer Writing Program. Panel presentation: “Ivan Blatny and the challenges of multi-lingual translation” Yale University Beinecke Library Conference, “Metaphor Taking Shape.” Panel: “Art and the book” 2007 Princeton University Conference on Translation and Publishing. Roundtable. 2006 University of Wisconsin, Madison. Panel: Micro-publishing Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference. Panel presentation: “Editing Ivan Blatny's multilingual poems” University of Maine at Orono. Visiting Poet 2005 Graduate Center of the City University of New York, International Conference on Contemporary Poetry. Co-organizer 2004 Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Comparative Literature Conference. Panel presentation: “I'm plastic, what are you?: The poetry of David Trinidad” A N N A M O S C H O V A K I S |

Selected Public Readings

2014 DIA Chelsea (New York, NY) The Organism for Poetic Research (NYU) New York, NY Berl's Poetry Shop (Brooklyn, NY) 2013 Naropa University (Boulder, CO) Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY) 2012 Yale University, Beinecke Library (New Haven CT) University of California at Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA) Small Press Traffic (San Francisco, CA) Hatchet Job (New York, NY) St. George's English Bookshop (Berlin, Germany) Ada Books (Providence, RI) WarScapes Reading at Alwan Center for the Arts (New York, NY) Boston Poetry Marathon (Cambridge, MA) 2011 Just Buffalo BIG NIGHT (Buffalo, NY) Metro Reading (New York, NY) Mixer (New York, NY) Rock City Readings at Kleinert/James Art Gallery (Kingston, NY) St. Marks Bookstore (New York, NY) Gloucester Writers Center (Gloucester, MA) Moles not Molars (Philadelphia, PA) Double Change Reading Series (Paris, France) The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church (New York, NY) Poetic Research Bureau (Los Angeles, CA) Pierogi Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) Cadmium Series (Kingston, NY) 2010 Second Story bookstore (Laramie, WY) Pine Lake Environmental Campus at Hartwick College (Oneonta, NY) Unnameable Books (Brooklyn, NY) 2009 The Center for Book Arts (New York, NY) SUNY Buffalo (Buffalo, NY) YES, Reading! (Albany, NY) The Stain of Poetry (Brooklyn, NY) 2008 Poetic Research Bureau (Los Angeles, CA) The New Series at 21 Grand (Oakland, CA) Segue Series (New York, NY) 2007 Belladonna* Series (New York, NY) The Poetry Project (New York, NY) I.E. Readings (Baltimore, MD) 2006 Double Change Reading Series (Paris, France) Wave Books poetry bus tour (Texas to Arizona) Beyond Baroque (Los Angeles, CA) University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI) 2005 Myopic Books (, IL) Soon Productions (Ithaca, NY) Hugo House (, WA) Western Front (, BC) The Poetry Project (New York, NY) 2004 Segue Series (New York, NY) Virginia Festival of the Book (Charlottesville, VA) The Boston Poetry Marathon (Cambridge, MA)

Collections A N N A M O S C H O V A K I S |

Artist's books, ephemera, and collaborations in the collections of the Beinecke Library at Yale University, New York Public Library, and the Museum of Modern Art.

Editorial and Curatorial Activities

Additional lectures, class visits, and workshops on small-press publishing, translation, editing and book arts given regularly at educational institutions including NYU, Sarah Lawrence College, The New School, Long Island University; and Pratt Institute.

Executive Co-director and editor-member (since 2002) of Ugly Duckling Presse, a nonprofit art and publishing collective supported by its subscribers, by NYSCA, the NEA, The Jerome Foundation, and the Fund for Poetry, and by many private contributors. Major activities include general programming and project development, editing and designing books, letterpress printing, web designing and development, and supervision of volunteers and interns. Editor of more than 35 books for UDP, and founding editor of its Dossier series for investigative texts. (2002-present).

Curator of reading series in including The Segue Reading Series and the Cronica* Reading Series.

Member of the DUSIE chapbook collective (2009-2012).

Reading Languages

French. Intermediate Modern Greek.