Laura Elrick
Associate Professor
Biography
Laura Elrick is a poet, essayist, performance artist, and educator based in Brooklyn, whose books include What This Breathing (The Elephants, 2020), Propagation (Kenning Editions, 2012), Fantasies in Permeable Structures (Factory School, 2005), and Skincerity (Krupskaya Books, 2003), as well as the chapbook Permeable Structures: A Performance Essay in Stereo (Belladonna 2006). Their transmedia performances include: Blocks Away, a psychogeography of Lower Manhattan (exhibited at the Skybridge Art & Sound Space in 2010) as well as the video/poem Stalk, 2008 (“part dystopian urban cartography, part spatial-poetic intervention”) which has been exhibited internationally, including at the Judith E. Wilson Center in Cambridge (UK), Folkebiblioteket in Oslo (Norway), VIVO Arts Centre in Vancouver BC (Canada), Exit Art in New York, and Spaces Gallery in Cleveland. Their work appears in several anthologies and collections, including Contemporary Women’s Poetry and Urban Space, Viz. Interarts: Interventions, Against Expression, War and Peace 2, and Eco Language Reader, as well as in journals such as Bomb, Mandorla, The Brooklyn Rail, XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics, LINE, and Aufgabe, and has been translated into Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish, and French.
Education
MA in Liberal Studies, project foci in Affect Theory and Feminist Geographies, CUNY Graduate Center, 2011
Graduate studies in Poetry & Poetics, New College of California, 1998-1999
BA, Communication, History of Rhetoric & Media focus, University of Southern California, 1994
Publications and Projects
What This Breathing, The Elephants, 2020
“Con Auto Gens,” Bomb Magazine, Issue 138, 2017
“Listening Voice,” (Re)figuring Voice, &Now Blast Radius, 2015
Propagation, Kenning Editions, 2012
“Performative Ingestion: Mourning Rite of Peak Oil,” Interim Magazine, 2011
Blocks Away, Skybridge Art & Sound Space, The New School, 2010
“Sensing the Present: Economies of Fear and the Limits of the Visual,” 2010
“Poetry, Ecology, and the Reappropriation of Lived Space,” Eco Language Reader, Ed. Brenda Iijima, Nightboat Books, 2010
Stalk, performance video, for Positions Colloquium, Kootenay School of Writing, 2008
“Notes Toward a Social Poiesis,” n 49 15.832 – w 123 05.921, Positions Colloquium catalog, 2008
“L.S. and the Anti-Production Room,”for The Work of Leslie Scalapino, The Poetry Project, 2006
Permeable Structures: A Performance Essay in Stereo (excerpts), Belladonna* Chaplets, 2006
5 Pieces for Doubled Voice, New Langton Arts, 2005 & Dixon Place, 2006
Fantasies in Permeable Structures, Heretical Texts/Factory School, 2005
Skincerity, Krupskaya Books, 2003