Susan Briante

Interests

Teaching

Poetry and Poetics, Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Documentary Studies, Translation, Affect Theory,

Research

Poetry and Poetics, Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Documentary Studies, Translation, Environmental Writing,

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Briante, S. (2023). El Mercado se pregunta/The Market Wonders (Spanish translation of poetry collection). Barcelona: Kriller 71.
• Briante, S. (2022). Midwinter Constellation. Black Lawrence Press.
• Briante, S. (2020). Defacing the Monument: Documentary Poetics. Virginia Tech University: Noemi Press, Infidel Poetics Series.
• Briante, S. (2016). The Market Wonders. Boise State University, Boise, Idaho: Ahsahta Press.
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  Named a finalist for the National Poetry Series, as well as Nightboat Books' and Copper Canyon's open reading period, featured on Harriet (the Poetry Foundation Blog) and on the BBC's radio program The Verb. Made the Small Press Distribution Monthly Best Seller List for Poetry three times, debuting at number 4. Reviewed in New Pages, The Volta blog, Poetry Flash, Lana Turner, ASAP journal and The Kenyon Review (print and blog).

Chapters

• Briante, S. (2021). "Further Exercises". In The Best American Poetry 2021(pp 13-15). New York, NY: Scribner.
• Briante, S. (2021). Mother is Marxist. In The Poetry of Capital. Voices from Twenty First Century America(pp 64-68). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin.
• Briante, S. (2019). "Off Sides" (essay). In Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing(p. 223). Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
• Briante, S. (2018). "Ruins" (essay). In "Counter Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene"(pp 60-16). Wesleyan Univ. Press.
• Briante, S., & Foster, T. (2018). "Song in Barry Key" (poem). In Renga for Obama(p. 47). Harvard Review Press.
• Briante, S. (2017). "Big Data Birdsong" (essay). In The Manifesto Project(pp 48-51). Akron, OH: The University of Akron Press.
• Briante, S. (2017). "My Revolution" and "Oleanders Shrink Under Precisely This" (poems). In Resist Much/Obey Little(p. 66). Brooklyn, NY: Spuyten Duyvil Press.
• Briante, S. (2017). "The Market as Composition" and "June 14—The Dow Closes Down 10192" (poems). In The Manifesto Project. Akron, OH: The University of Akron Press.
• Briante, S. (2017). "You the Recoil" (poem). In Poems for Political Disaster(p. 24). Boston, MA: The Boston Review.
• Briante, S. (2015). "Alexander Litvenenko," "Specimen Box" and “Isabella” (poems). In The Volta Book of Poets(pp 31-35). San Francisco and Portland: Sidebrow Books.
• Briante, S. (2015). Towards a Poetics of the Dow (essay). In The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on Accessibility & the Avant-Garde(pp 21-26). NY, NY: Nightboat Books.
• Briante, S. (2015). “Ruins, Camera, Flightpath” (Essay). In The Volta Book of Poets(pp 29-30). San Francisco and Portland: Sidebrow Books.
• Briante, S. (2015). “The Physicists Say the Universe Might Be” (Poem). In Devouring the Green: Fear of a Human Planet: An Anthology of New Writing(p. 499). Brookline, MA: Jaded Ibis Press.

Journals/Publications

• Briante, S. (2024). "Stage Notes" and "A View from a Nation". Imagined Theaters.
• Briante, S. (2022). “Blind Curve,” and “With a View to the Black Walnut Tree” (Poems). Virginia Quarterly Review, 70-71.
• Briante, S. (2022). “Nest, Hospice, Prison Camp" (poem). The Brooklyn Rail, 54-55.
• Briante, S. (2020). Poetics/Documents/Justice A Conversation featuring Susan Briante, Phil Metres, M. NorubeSe Philip, and Craig Santos-Perez. Synthesis: An Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies, 13, 114-129.
• Briante, S. (2021). "My Documentarian" (poem). Cherry Tree Review, 7, 92-93.
• Briante, S. (2021). "On the Archive and Ephemerality—Notes from the US-Mexico Border". Ilanot Review, 22.
• Briante, S. (2021). "The Wonderful Musician". Fairy Tale Review, 17, 26-27.
• Briante, S. (2021). Writing in relation: From defacing the monument. Western Humanities Review, 74(1).
• Briante, S. (2021). from Defacing the Monument. Western Humanities Review, 74.1, 27-49.
• Metres, P., Philip, M. N., Briante, S., & Santos-Perez, C. (2021). Poetics/Documents/Justice A conversation featuring Susan Briante, Philip Metres, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Craig Santos-Perez. Synthesis, 2020(13). doi:10.12681/syn.27564
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• Briante, S. (2019). "Defacing the Monument" (essay). Fence, 15 ms pages.
• Briante, S. (2019). "Every Atom-Reflections on Whitman at 200" (essay). North American Review, 304(3), 2 ms. pages.
• Briante, S. (2019). "Gallery Walls" and "May Day" (poems). New Sinews, 3 ms pages.
• Briante, S. (2019). "Milkweed, Mirror, Chainlink Fence" and "Questions from Milkweed, Mirror, Chainlink Fence" (poems). Typo, 3 ms pp.
• Briante, S. (2019). "The Market Wonders: On the Impossibility of Personal Accounting" (essay). Work Book | Tool Box Project, iii, 37-42.
• Briante, S. (2019). "We Need More than Stories for the Unheard" (essay). High Country News.
• Briante, S. (2018). "13 Questions for the Next Economy" (poem). Poem-A-Day, December 3, 2018, 1.
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  Poem-a-Day is a daily digital poetry series featuring over 250 new, previously unpublished poems each year. Launched in 2006, Poem-a-Day is distributed via email, web, and social media to 500,000+ readers free of charge. The series is curated by twelve poets from across the country who have wide-ranging expertise and editorial perspectives.
• Briante, S. (2018). "Midsummer Day" (essay). Essay Daily, July 4, 2019, 3 ms pages.
• Briante, S. (2018). "Some Notes on the Document After 11/8" (essay). The Grist/On line, 5 ms pages.
• Briante, S. (2018). "This is Not" (visual poem). Jacket.2, 1.
• Briante, S. (2018). "To Erasures, Erasures" (poem). The Literary Review, 61(02), 4 ms pages.
• Briante, S. (2018). Weiß sehen (Seeing White--essay translated into German). Bahia.
• Briante, S. (2019). "Little Christmas". Essay Daily, December 20, 2018, 4 ms pages ms pages.
• Briante, S. (2017). "Falls First" (poem with process note). Tupelo Quarterly, 3(11), web based.
• Briante, S. (2017). "Mother is Marxist" (essay-reprint). The Whiteness Issue, The Racial Imaginary Institute.
• Briante, S. (2017). "Renga for Obama" (poem). Harvard Review Online.
• Briante, S. (2017). "Seeing White" (essay). Guernica, 13 ms pp.
• Briante, S. (2017). "The Work" (essay). Lit Hub.
• Briante, S. (2017). "Then Burn" (poem/essay). A Dozen Nothing, 7 ms pp.
• Briante, S. (2017). Excerpt from "Towards a Poetics of the Dow" (poem/essay, reprint). Lemon Hound 3.0.
• Briante, S., & Blake, S. (2017). "PERSONAL, POLITICAL, AND POETIC: A CONVERSATION WITH SUSAN BRIANTE" (interview). The Rumpus, 5 ms. pp..
• Briante, S. (2016). "An Interview with Poet Susan Briante". TIMBER A Journal of New Writing—University of Colorado.
• Briante, S. (2016). "From Elsewhere: On poetry, translation, and context". Sonora Review, 12-17.
• Briante, S. (2016). "Mother is Marxist" (essay). Guernica, 23 ms. pages.
• Briante, S. (2016). “Mother is Mathematician” (Poem). The Progressive, 80(6), 45.
• Briante, S. (2016). “The Messengers” (Essay). Black Warrior Review, 42(2), 144-155.
• Briante, S., & Brkich, M. (2016). One-on-One with Visiting Writer Susan Briante. Open Book: An Inprint Blog.
• Briante, S. (2015). “All Swan We Are” (Poem). Synecdoche, 1, 27.
• Briante, S. (2015). “An excerpt from Ticker from The Market Wonders” (Poem). Matter, Web.
• Briante, S. (2015). “Striding, Walking” (Poem). Bombay Gin, 41, 13-14.
• Briante, S. (2015). “Towards the Shoreline” (Essay-Poem). Gulf Coast, 28:1, 53-63.
• Briante, S. (2014). 4 Dreams About the New Economy (Poem). Kadar Koli, 9, 25-26.
• Briante, S. (2014). Defacing the Monument: Muriel Rukeyser’s Innovations in Documentary Poetics (article). Jacket2, 26 ms. pages.
• Briante, S. (2014). Little Brown Bat, Ming Vase, My Adam’s Task (essay). Atticus Review.
• Briante, S. (2014). The Physicists Say (Poem). Dusie Tuesday Poem.
• Briante, S. (2014). The Physicists Say Consciousness (Poem). Touch the Donkey, 3, 2 ms pages unnumbered.
• Briante, S. (2014). “A Fork, A Rock, A Plastic Travel Toothbrush” and "December 12—The Dow Is Closed" (Poems). Everyday Genius, 2 ms pages unnumbered.
• Briante, S. (2014). “October 29—The Dow Closes Down 11118,” “May 15—The Dow is Closed,” “November 20—The Dow is Closed” and “Meditation.” (Poems). Colorado Review, 41(2), 125-131.
• Briante, S., & Graham, L. (2014). A Rising Moon, A Poem, An Exercise in Attention: An Interview with Susan Briante. Atticus Review.
• Briante, S., & McLennan, R. (2014). Seven Questions for Susan Briante. TtD Supplement, 11.
• Briante, S., & Minor, S. (2014). No Blossoms Yet But Space Cleared for their Coming: An Interview with Susan Briante. Terrain.
• Briante, S., & Moschovakis, A. (2014). Any Theory of Evolution (Poem). Likestarlings, 5 ms pages.
• Matuk, F., Matuk, F., Briante, S., & Briante, S. (2014). Other Remedies (essay). The Boston Review, 2ms. pp..
• Briante, S. (2011). Relics. Rethinking History, 15(1), 105-110. doi:10.1080/13642529.2011.546963
• Briante, S. (2010). Casino, Asbury Park, NJ. Rethinking History, 14(1). doi:10.1080/13642520903515744
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  A meditation on a contemporary seaside ruin, which shows how the ruin of an old boardwalk arcade can serve as a symbol for one community's rise and fall as well as the nation's promise and failures in the wake of 9/11 and in light of our current economic crisis.

Presentations

• Briante, S. (2022, September). “The Unlearning: Race, “Riots,” and Potential Histories.” (conference paper). ASAP/13. UCLA: Association for the Study of Arts of the Present.
• Briante, S. (2019, March 27-30). "Defacing the Monument". Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Portland, OR: Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
• Briante, S. (2019, October 9-12). "Is this about money? Can we talk about how our economic shame can both be explored and compounded when it is expressed in poetry?. ASAP/11/Seminar. College Park, MD: Association for the Study of Arts of the Present.
• Briante, S. (2018, November 2018). Reconceptualizing Nonfiction through Field Studies in Writing. Nonfiction Now Conference. Phoenix, Arizona: Nonfiction Now.
• Briante, S. (2018, November 2018). Writing in Relation. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Annual Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana: Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.
• Briante, S. (2017, 2/10/2017). "Notes on the Documentary After November 8". (Not) Just the Facts: Teaching Docupoetry and Investigative Poetics (AWP panel). Washington, DC: Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
• Briante, S. (2017, January 23, 2017). "The Market Wonders: On the Impossibility of Personal Accounting". Markets and Morals Lecture Series, Roger Mudd Center for Ethics, Washington and Lee University. Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia: Roger Mudd Center for Ethics.
• Briante, S. (2017, March 11, 2017). The Market Wonders: Writing Capitalism. Writing Capitalism: Chicken Shack to Cloud Corporation, Barmaid to Boss (AWP panel). Washington, DC: Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
• Briante, S. (2017, October 26, 2017). "Defacing the Monument: Documentary Poetics". Disobedient Poetics Redux: Poetry Against Fascism (ASAP panel). Oakland, CA: Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present/9.
• Briante, S., Matuk, F., Ali, K., Gimenez Smith, C., & Kocher, R. E. (2017, October 21, 2017). Roundtable Discussion. Thinking Its Presence/"Addressing Structural Racism in Creative Writing Programs". Tucson, AZ: Thinking its Presence.
• Gutierrez, R., Dozal, G., Briante, S., & Matuk, F. (2017, August). Group Reading. Marfa Poetry Festival. Marfa, TX: Marfa Book Company.
• Briante, S. (2015, April 20, 2014). “Lost in Translation, Collaboration and Investigation”. Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference/ Panel: Reimagining the Author: Pedagogies of Collaboration, Chance, and New Media in Poetry Workshops. Minneapolis, MI: Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
• Briante, S. (2015, November). Penciled Calculations on the Writing of The Market Wonders. National Women's Studies Association/Panel: “Beyond the Poems” Creative Writing in Times of Precarity. Milwaukee, WI: National Women's Studies Association.
• Briante, S. (2015, October). Written on our Landscapes: Contemporary Western Ruins. Western Literature Association Conference/ Panel: Polychronography and the American West. Reno, Nevada: Western Literature Association Conference.
• Briante, S. (2014, February 27, 2014). Translation in Creative Writing Programs. Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference. Portland, OR: Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
• Briante, S. (2014, June 3, 2014). Big Data, Bird Song. Summer Writing Program. Boulder, CO: Naropa University.
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  Paper presented at the Radical Instances: How to Work with Difficult Material panel.
• Briante, S. (2013, September 26, 2013). Dissecting the Web: Documentary Poetics. &Now Conference. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado, Boulder.

Reviews

• Briante, S. (2016. Dream Vacation (Review Blurb).
• Briante, S. (2016. The Gray Market (Review Blurb).
• Briante, S. (2015. A Modern Shape: Muriel Rukeyser’s Savage Coast(pp 234-237).

Creative Productions

• Briante, S. (2017. "Letter for Gianna" (video). The Whiteness Issue, Letters to Our Children. https://theracialimaginary.org/issue/the-whiteness-issue/letters-to-our-children/: The Racial Imaginary Institute.

Creative Performances

• Briante, S. (2018. Featured Bilingual Reading. Poetry Reading. Phoenix Museum of Art: Cardboard House Press. http://www.phxart.org/event/6901cf57-0856-cf7f-c4dd-10c734c99a8a
• Briante, S. (2018. Wrecktasty Reading Series. Poetry Reading. Brooklyn, NY: Soho20 Gallery. https://newyork.carpe-diem.events/calendar/8508231-wreckstasy-reading-2-at-soho20-gallery/
• Briante, S. (2016. Poetry Reading. Boise State University. Boise, ID: MFA Program, Boise State University.
• Briante, S. (2016. Poetry Reading. Colorado State University. Fort Collins, CO: Colorado State University.
• Briante, S. (2016. Poetry Reading. La Sociedad Reading Series, New Mexico State University. Las Cruces, New Mexico: Creative Writing Program New Mexico State University.
• Briante, S. (2016. Poetry Reading. University of Colorado Boulder. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Boulder.
• Briante, S. (2016. Poetry Reading. University of Houston. Houston, TX: Creative Writing Program, University of Houston.
• Briante, S. (2016. Poetry Reading. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX: University of Texas at Austin, Bat City Review.
• Briante, S. (2014. Poetry Reading. Poetry Reading at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Tucson Arizona: University of Arizona Poetry Center.