Other Influences

Marcella Durand is a poet, essayist, and translator. Recent books include To husband is to tender; The Prospect; and a translation from the French of Michele Metail's book-length poem, Earth's Horizons/Les Horizons du sol. She is the 2021 recipient of the C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art. Jennifer Firestone is Associate Professor of Writing (Poetry), Chair of Writing and Co-Chair of Literary Studies and Director of a Pedagogy Program, Academic Fellows, at The New School s Eugene Lang College in New York City. She is the author of five books of poetry and the co-editor, with Dana Teen Lomax, of Letters To Poets.

Introduction
1 Let’s All Have Dinner Together -- Bernadette Mayer
2 She summons signs of what the heart smolders to gather at the mouth, for if there aren’t smoke signals, no one will believe the fire. -- Mónica de la Torre
3 Other Influences -- Rosmarie Waldrop
4 The Role of Philosophy -- Renee Gladman
5 Nexus: “Avant-Garde Feminist Poetics” -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis
6 Parentheticalities: (Or How I (We)Came to Be(ing)) -- Tonya M. Foster
7 In lieu of -- Trish Salah
8 Accidental Scalapino -- Eileen Myles
9 Influence: Two Takes -- Carla Harryman
10 La Déferlante -- Nicole Brossard
11 Shouldered -- Tracie Morris
12 Four Questions -- Interview with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
13 “When You Write Poetry You Find the Architecture of Your Life ” -- Hoa Nguyen
14 In Fluence -- Cecilia Vicuña
15 Props to My Peeps: A Roll Call -- Harryette Mullen
16 Writing by Hand—Beginning -- Erica Hunt
17 The Long Arc -- Brenda Coultas
18 Watch You Say! -- Julie Patton
19 Pussy Forward Poetics or The Sex in the Middle : Reading Akilah Oliver and Gail Scott -- Rachel Levitsky
20 Original Lineages -- Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
21 Here where we hold each other dearly: An annotated bibliography of inferences and influences -- KPrevallet
22 Viva Pasolini! -- Stacy Szymaszek
23 Tentacular Time & Space -- Anne Waldman
24 “Finally we are allowed to write, but the world is dying.” -- Evelyn Reilly
25 Abstract Expression: What’s Left When the Ancestors Are Not Oracles? And What Is the Aphorism for Me? -- Prageeta Sharma
26 My Life Among Men -- Anne Tardos
27 Vulnerable Rumbles, Rehearsal for Life -- Sawako Nakayasu
28 Capri Pants and No Travel Journals Influences Come in Words and Fabric -- Patricia Spears Jones
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