Stephanie Young (poet)

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Stephanie Young is an American poet, activist, and scholar who lives in Oakland, California.[1] 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 2005-08.

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 2013-2015.[10]

Bibliography[edit]

Poetry[edit]

  • Telling the Future Off (2005)[11]
  • Picture Palace (2008)[12]
  • Ursula or University (2013)[13]
  • Pet Sounds (2019)[14]

Editor[edit]

  • A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism. Co-editor with Julian Spahr (2012)
  • Bay Poetics. Editor (2006)[15]

Selected essays[edit]

  • The Program Era and the Mainly White Room. Co-authored with Juliana Spahr. (2015)[16]
  • Business Feminism. (2017)[17]
  • The Paradox of Protecting Students. Co-authored with Juliana Spahr. (2018)[18]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Stephanie Young". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2018-03-30. Retrieved 2018-03-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ "MFA in Creative Writing | Mills College". www.mills.edu. 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. [Place of publication not identified]: In Girum Imus Nocte. ISBN 9781934639061. OCLC 244767473.
  6. ^ Young, Stephanie (2013). Ursula or University. San Francisco, CA. ISBN 9781928650355. OCLC 859447162.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ Bay poetics. Young, Stephanie, 1974-. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2006. ISBN 9780976521136. OCLC 70110282.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. ^ A megaphone : some enactments, some numbers, and some essays about the continued usefulness of crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun feminism. Spahr, Juliana., Young, Stephanie, 1974-. Oakland: ChainLinks. 2011. ISBN 978-1930068483. OCLC 712256701.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  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. [Place of publication not identified]: In Girum Imus Nocte. ISBN 9781934639061. OCLC 244767473.
  13. ^ Young, Stephanie (2013). Ursula or University. San Francisco, CA. ISBN 9781928650355. OCLC 859447162.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. ^ "Pet Sounds".
  15. ^ Bay poetics. Young, Stephanie, 1974-. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2006. ISBN 9780976521136. OCLC 70110282.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  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.