Judith Kerman


Judith Kerman is a poet, publisher, academic, and translator in the U.S. and active from the 1970s.
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Life, education, and career

Kerman earned her B.A. with honors from the University of Rochester in 1967 and her M.A. and Ph.D. both from the University of Buffalo. In 2002, she was a Fulbright senior scholar to the Dominican Republic.
She was a university professor and dean of Arts and Behavioral Sciences and is now a professor emerita of English at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan.
She founded Earth's Daughters magazine in Buffalo, New York and founded and runs Mayapple Press in Woodstock, New York.
She is vice chair of the Woodstock, New York, Planning Board.

Works

Electronic literature

An electronic literature version of Mothering was published in the Eastgate Systems quarterly review in 1995, and was issued as a paper book, Mothering and Dreams of Rain.
She wrote the content for a poem authoring system Colloquy,. This was an early generative poem that produced 17-line standzs and were "hypertexts where every word is an anchor and every path limited in length and non-retraceable."
Kerman's graphic poem series, Migrations, are short poems presented for a computer screen.

Poetry

Obsessions The Jakoba Poems Mothering Driving for Yellow Cab Three Marbles Mothering & Dream of Rain Plane Surfaces/Plano de Incidencia A Woman in Her Garden: Selected Poems of Dulce Maria Loynaz Galvanic Response ''Postcards from America Aleph, broken: Poems from My Diaspora definitions''

Journals

Translations

Book: Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic by Aida Cartagena Portalatin, Angela Hernandez Núñez, Ylonka Nacidit Perdomo, translated from the Spanish.
  • ''Entre Dos Silencios/Between Two Silences: Short Fiction by Hilma Contreras''

Awards and honors