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Carla Harryman
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| Assistant Professor |
Creative Writing
Co-Curator, Bath House Reading Series
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602-D Pray Harrold |
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734.487.0155
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charryma@emich.edu
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| Biography:
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I moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Detroit in 1995 in a family caravan of Ryder Truck, Ford Escort, and gas-guzzling Jeep—the unglamorous, boxy variety. As my dog Rebus and I crossed an eastern slope of the California Sierras into Nevada in the Jeep, a voice on the radio announced the death of Jerry Garcia, the famous member of the ultra-Californian Band, the Grateful Dead. I have never been and never will be a Dead Head. Yet, this remains a key moment in my life, marking an instance of surprising convergence and irrevocable transition from one world to another.
My formally innovative writing is also attentive to boundary crossings. I embrace the idea that one can make creative work and cultivate an intellectual life that includes public, creative, and scholarly worlds. The range of my single-authored work in fourteen volumes includes essays, fiction, poetry, performance writing, and Poets Theater plays. Adorno’s Noise (2008) is a collection of experimental and conceptual essays that investigate “noise,” poetry, visual art, philosophy, political existence, and personal experience. I have published two novels, Gardener of Stars (2001) and The Words: After Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre (1991). Volumes of innovative poetry and prose include Open Box, Improvisations (2007) and Baby (2005), a collection in prose and poetry that features the sensual world and critical perspectives of a maverick baby. A recent writing project is The Grand Piano, a collective autobiography in ten volumes by ten writers identified with the rise of Language Poetry in the San Francisco Bay Area. Collaboration is a strong part of my creative world. My current performance work explores bi-lingual and intercultural collaborations and has appeared in Germany, Austria, Montreal, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Detroit. The on-line journal HOW/2 (www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal), Volume 3, Issue 3 offers a special feature on my work that includes audio art and performance samples as well as critical discussions and reviews.
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| Courses:
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| CRTW 522 Performance Writing |
| CRTW 522 Method, Theory, and Practice |
| CRTW 422 Narrative Environments |
| CRTW 422 Experimental Prose |
| CRTW 426 Contemporary/New Forms |
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