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Profile: Josie Kearns

Title: Lecturer II
Kearns

Contact Info

Office:

3262 AH

Phone:

936-1561

Uniqname:

jakearns

email:

jakearns@umich.edu

Research Interests

Primary Interests

Primary interests are poetry, the Beats, Harlem Renaissance, film and television, how ancient language shapes may have been influenced by markings on seashells.Also, quantum physics, specifically string theory.
Post modern poetry, fiction.

Publications

Life After the Line (nonfiction) Wayne State University Press, based on interviews with laid-off autoworkers in new careers.
New Numbers (poetry) New Issues Press, based on number theory, Mayan numbers systems and quantum physics theory.
The Theory of Everything (poetry) Mayapple Press, based on string theory, sometimes called the theory of everything in physics, unified field theory.
Alphabet of the Ocean (poetry) March Street Press, based on the idea that ancient language shapes may have been inspired by markings on seashells (cuneiform, Hebrew, runes, Arabic)
Stealing: Theft and Consequence (work in progress, non fiction)
Pink Noise (poetry, work in progress) based on sounds made in nature.
Various poems in anthologies: Boomer Girls, Are You Experienced?, Sweeping Beauty (all Iowa University Press), Industrial Strength Poetry, Passages North Anthology, Songs from Unsung Worlds (New York), Contemporary Michigan Poetry (II and III), The Body (forthcoming) and in literary magazines The Iowa Review, The Georgia Review, Passages North, Poetry Northwest, The Greenfield Review, etc.

Additional Info

Awards: three Hopwood Awards, four Creative Artist Awards from the Michigan Council for the Arts (now ArtServe), Fellowship to the NEA in Washington, D.C., Cowden Fellowship, numerous writer-in-residencies to Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois, etc. 

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