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 This page lists selected publications, performances/readings, exhibitions and workshops from 2007 to the present. For information concerning older publications or other projects not listed here, feel free to use the form on the CONTACT page.
Click here for my Directory entry on the Poets & Writers website.
BIOGRAPHY Jen
Besemer grew up in Buffalo, New York. After earning BA and MA credentials in creative writing from Antioch University, Jen worked and studied in
Washington, D.C. under artists Steve Cushner, William Christenberry
and Joyce McCarten. A Chicago resident since 2000, Jen taught college English from late 2003 through early 2011, while pursuing solo and collaborative
projects in poetry, translation, performance, criticism, visual art
and combinations thereof. Jen's cross-media work has been featured in
solo and group shows in Chicago and Washington, D.C., and new work
continues to appear in many print and online publications. Available and forthcoming books and chapbooks include What Is Born (Lilliput Review Modest Proposal Chapbook Series); Ten Word Problems (White Knuckle Press); Quiet Vertical Movements (Beard of Bees); Object with Man's Face (Rain Taxi Ohm Editions, coming May 2013) and Telephone (Brooklyn Arts Press, coming November 2013).
CHRONOLOGY
2013: “Triple Play: Jen Besemer, Richard Fox and Robert McDonald.” March 21, City Lit Books, Chicago.
“Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics Marathon Reading.” March 8, 2013, Club Cafe, Boston.
“Brooklyn Arts Press Author Reading.” March 8, 2013, Lir Irish Pub, Boston. 2012: "Between Reading" at Mess Hall Chicago, October 12. Celebrating the release of the Between Compendium (Richard Fox, Beverly Nelson, Steven Teref and Jen Besemer) and the novel Between by Nicholas Alexander Hayes.
 "Surrogates" collaborative poetry reading/performance. Elastic Sound & Vision Gallery, October 6. Part of the Seventh Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival.
"Visual Poetics" exhibition at Addison Center for the Arts. Apr. 9-May 4.
Four prose poems in BlazeVOX11's winter edition Jan. 2012
2011
"Preface" reading series w/ARTIFICE, Chicago Book Expo, Nov. 17.
Reading/screening at the ARTIFICE #4 release party, Elegant Mr. Gallery, Nov. 12
Veneer eight-piece visual poetry series in Otoliths #23 October 23.
 6th Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival, October 8 (with Tim Armentrout).
 Half-Truths exhibition, Logan Square Art Festival, July 28-31.
Two "Word Weave" visual poems in REM Magazine Volume 2, July. Two more Word Weaves also appear on the REM Magazine blog in June.
 Red Rover Series # 43: "Restrictive Andragogies & Ex-Citation," Outer Space Studio, Chicago, Feb. 19.
Review of Lynda Barry's Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book in Rain Taxi Review of Books, Vol. 15 issue 4, Jan.
2010
Fifth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival, Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago, Oct. 10.
Review of Michel Sanouillet's DADA in Paris, Rain Taxi Review of Books online edition, Spring 2010 issue.
2009  Four chapters translated from French to English in Michael Löwy's book, Morning Star: Surrealism, Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism, Utopia. University of Texas Press.
Feature article, "Franklin Rosemont: The Revolutionary Autodidact at Play," in Rain Taxi Review of Books Volume 14, issue 4, Winter 2009-10.
Review of bell hooks' Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom, in Rain Taxi Review of Books online edition, Winter 2009-10.
2008
 "Hello Tiresias" in Information Booth: Duet for Caller and Oracle. Anthology edited by Vincent Dermody.
 "Local Authors Night" reading, The Book Cellar, April 30.
Collage poems in Dust electronic anthology, Ignavia Press.
2007 "Geometric Abstract" poetry reading curated by Lina ramona Vitkauskas, Sept. 16. "Cabinet of Wonders" invitational exhibition curated by David London, June 1-23.
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