Linda Reinfeld

Telephone: (585) 244-3428
Email: lmrgla at rit dot edu

Ph.D., English, University of Buffalo, 1988; B.A., UCLA; Barnard College

Language Poetry: Writing As Rescue (Louisiana State University Press, 1992). A study of the relationship between contemporary experimental American poetry and critical theory. Chapter One locates this writing within a social and intellectual context (Stein and Joyce, Williams and Wittgenstein); Chapters 2, 3, and 4 provide close contextual readings of poems by Charles Bernstein, Michael Palmer, and Susan Howe; an Epilogue briefly notes the critical issue of marginality. Reviews of Language Poetry have appeared in The Georgia Review, The American Book Review, American Literature, Sipapu, the Year's Review of English Studies, The Times Literary Supplement, the Journal of American Studies, and Contemporary Literature.

Hyakunin Isshu: The Game of 100 Poems. Writers & Books, Rochester, NY, Januaray 1996. A modern English version of a 12th century Japanese poetry anthology. With an introduction. Translated in collaboration with Toshi Ishihara.

One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems. Japanese and English. 1997. Translated in collaboration with ToshiIshihara. Introduction and photographs. (Kansai University Press, Osaka Suita, Japan.)

Case Pieces. Collection of original poems, in circulation.

"Wall and Wave in the Writing of Mei Mei Berssenbrugge." Paper presented at the Twenty-First Century Asian American Literature Conference, Beijing, China, May 28, 2006. Publication forthcoming.

"Language Poetry and Beyond: The Music of the Fears." Essay on Shadowtime, an opera by Brian Ferneyhough (music) and Charles Bernstein (libretto). Paper presented at Krikri Symposium on Polypoetry, The Sound(s) and Images of Contemporary Poetry: an American Connection, Brussels, November 25, 2006. Published in Conference Proceedings.

"From Dewdrops to Dragons: On Translating Classical Japanese Poems." Flower City Review, Spring, 2003.

"Hyakunin Isshu: Between Power and Play, an Anthology in Translation." With Toshi Ishihara. In A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing. Jerome Rothenberg and Steven Clay, editors. Granary Press, 2000.

"Language Poetry in Translation: Excerpts from the Poetry of Charles Bernstein, Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, and Ron Silliman." With Toshi Ishihara. So-Ai University Journal of Research, December 1995.

"Twenty Poems from Hyakunin Isshu," with photographs. Translated in collaboration with Toshi Ishihara. So-Ai University Journal of Research, April 1994.

"Hyakunin Isshu: Between Power and Play, an Anthology in Translation." With Toshi Ishihara. In Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, and the Book Arts (Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, 1995). An essay on traditional and non-traditional forms of translating the 12th century Japanese poetry anthology known as Hyakunin Isshu.

"Of 'Poet(h)eory'; Forms of Marjorie Perloff's Poetic License," The New Review, 1993.

"Indulgences," (verse essay on Susan Howe and value in poetic narrative), Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, January 1990.

"Reciprocal Relations: The Poetry of Leslie Scalapino," Voices in Italian Americana, Spring 1990.

"Sun: Light on Michael Palmer," Occident, Spring 1990.

Review of High Resolution by Henry Sussman, Modern Language Notes, December 1990.

"On Henry David (Susan Howe) 'Thorow'," The Difficulties, Fall 1989.

"As Slope of Mind" (review of Charles Bernstein's The Sophist and Artifice of Absorption), The American Book Review, September 1988.

Howe's Hope: Impossible Crossings" (review of Articulation of Sound Forms in Time), Temblor 6, 1987.

"Bernstein's Dream" (review of Content's Dream), Temblor 5, 1987.

Publications in Soujourner, Sulfur, The Widener Review, The Black Mountain II Review, Talisman, Screens and Tasted Parallels, and The Happy Genius (forthcoming)

Mixed media presentation of my poem "BlurbLs" with singer Amy Blum, accompanied by bassist and composer-conductor James Vandemark. 1994. Kilbourn Hall (Eastman School of Music), Buffalo's Red Flannel Poetry Series, Writers & Books Language Festival.

Creative Writing Coordinator, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. 2005 - present.

Lecturer, College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. 2000-present. Courses offered: Writing and Literature; Writing Seminar; Arts of Expression: Experiments and Explorations; The Art of Poetry; Modern Poetry, Digital and Contemporary Poetry (Spring 2004).

Adjunct Professor of English, Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY. 1982-2000. Courses offered: College Composition, Introduction to Literature, Technical Writing, New Poetries.

Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, State University of NY at Oswego, 1992-1993. Courses offered: American Literature Survey; Ethnicity and Cultural Difference in American Literature.

Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, University of Buffalo, Millard Fillmore College, 1986-87. College Composition.

Workshop and seminar leader, Writers & Books, Rochester, NY. Courses offered: Women and Language, Writing and Deconstruction, Creative Writing (Poetry), Writing Experiments and Explorations Forthcoming: Poetry for Students of ESL; Internet Resouces for Writers.

Literacy Volunteers, ESL Tutor, 1992-present. Worked with students from a variety of language backgrounds, helping them learn to understand and use English.

Professor Janet Zandy, Chair, Department of English, Rochesteer Institute of Technology.

Professor Charles Bernstein, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania. Email: bernstei@bway.net

Professor Judy Hall (retired), Department of English, Monroe Community College. Email: judyhall@localnet.net

Professor Norman Holland, Department of English, University of Florida. Email: nholland@ufl.edu

Professor Marjorie Perloff, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University. Email: perloff@leland.stanford.edu

Professor Mary Rorty, School of Nursing, San Francisco State University. Email: mvr2j@leland.stanford.edu

Professor Neil Schmitz, Department of English, University of Buffalo

Professor Henry Sussman, Yale University