Erica Hunt
February 22–23, 2021
- Reading: Streaming video
- Discussion: Streaming video
Bio
Erica Hunt is a poet, essayist, and author of Local History, Arcade, Piece
Logic, Time Flies Right Before the Eyes, A Day and Its Approximates, Veronica: A
Suite in X Parts, and her newest work Jump The Clock: New and Selected Poems out
with Nightboat Books in October 2020. Her poems and non-fiction have appeared in
BOMB, Boundary 2, The Brooklyn Rail,
Conjunctions, The Los Angeles Review of
Books, Poetics Journal, Tripwire,
FENCE, Hambone, and
In The American Tree,
among other publications. Essays on poetics, feminism and politics have been
collected in Moving Borders, Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women and
THe Politics of Poetic Form, The World, and other anthologies. With poet and
scholar Dawn Lundy Martin, Hunt is co-editor of the anthology Letters to the
Future, Black Women/Radical Writing from Kore Press.
Hunt graduated with a B.A. in English from San Francisco State University in 1980 and an M.F.A. from Bennington College in 2013. She has received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Fund for Poetry, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Djerassi Foundation, and is a past fellow of Duke University/the University of Capetown Program in Public Policy and a past Fellow at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing in Poetics and Poetic Practice here at Penn. Currently, Hunt is Bonderman Visiting Professor at Brown University and a Poet in Residence at Temple University.