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Jeanine Webb poet

Jeanine Onori Webb (she/they) is a genderfluid writer, translator, collective organizer and cancer survivor.

A 2016 Fellow in Literature at UC San Diego, her research focuses include poetry and poetics in relation to radical politics, as well as race and gender in speculative fiction. Her poetry has been published in many journals, including DATABLEED, Lana Turner, The Capilano Review, The West Wind Review, ARMED CELL, The Ghazal Page, The Antioch Review, SPECTRUM, Across the Margins, Star*Line, ZYZZYVA, Jupiter 88 and in the collaborative poetry pamphlet Poetry is Not Enough, and many others.

 

Her essays and reviews have been published on ON Contemporary Practice's .pdf Archive Series, Steve Evans's Attention Span and on The Poetic Labor Project and new essays have been published in Tripwire, the Post-Crisis Poetics series and on Monstering. Some current or forthcoming book projects which feature her work include the San Diego Writers' Anthology A Year In Ink Vol.3 (2010), the Now That's What I Call Poetry Anthology (2019), The Alette in Oakland Reader (Bay Area Public School/Hearts Desire, forthcoming) and Occupy Poetics (Essay Press, 2015).

 

When she can afford to, she publishes the bilingual, cartonera-style handmade journal, TACOCAT. In 2016, she presented on contemporary graphic novels at Comic-Con; in summer 2017 she was a short-term fellow-in-residence at Emory's Rose Library and taught a course at UC San Diego on Women Writing the Ancient and Classical World. Summer 2018 she was a fellow at the Dickinson Critical Institute in Amherst. She currently co-curates the Non-Standard Lit Reading Series in San Diego and teaches courses in Film and Literature and Music and Literature as a faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department and Philosophy Departments for Woodbury University in Barrio Logan, and for California State University San Marcos's Literature and Writing Program.

Their anti-capitalist poems use persona, complex irony, sincere firsthand narrative and myth blended with the scientific and economic.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS - POETRY
 

  • "Pocket Apocalypse" and "Ritmo Natal" in Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion, #12, 2020: Free .pdf here

  • "Sleek and Savage" in Madwoman, Etc. Issue 2, premier at SD Zinefest Fall 2019

  • "Redcollection" 5 Poems From this Series in DATABLEED, Spring 2018

  • "Century Note" and "This is a Free Space to Shine and to F Up" from "Redcollection" series in Circle of Little Animals, handbound collaborative chapbook of San Diego writers

  • "A System" and "Suite For A Moon Landing," two poems written in 2007, in Across the Margin, Summer 2018

  • "Ritmo Natal" from "Redcollection" series in handbound pamphlet Radix: Or, Make Revolt Great Again to benefit Groundwork Books after far-right attack

  • Forthcoming: Now That's What I Call Poetry Anthology, excerpts from "Postcards From Space in the Time of Riots," (apostrophic poems addressed to many different people and ideas) "Letter Through Trauma," 2018

  • Forthcoming: Lumen, "Panoramas and Eidophusikons" and "A Spell For Survival," Issue 04, 2018, edited by Yesenia Padilla and Rosemary Donahue

  • "The Mercury Rift," and "We Know Slickening," in Star*Line, the journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, Spring 2016

  • "Spring Ghazal" on The Ghazal Page, August 2016

  • "Back Up/Back Up!" in Lana Turner Journal, Vol. 8, 2015

  • "Please Press Firmly," Jupiter 88, collaborative collage poem written with Colorado and California poets including Melissa Mack, Brian Ang, Sirama Bajo, Erin Costello, Serena Chopra, Michael Flatt, Marlon MacAllister, 2014, editor CA Conrad

  • "Higgs-Boson Fever Fills Cern With..." The Capilano Review, Fall 2012

  • "Helps Keep Me Stoked," "Memorable Crisis" (excerpt), TACOCAT (self-edited journal), Summer 2011

  • "Bound Bloc" and "Poem [#Feb11],"  in Lana Turner 4, 2011

  • "Untitled ["In the future, the cities were burning"]" in ARMED CELL 1, 2011

  • "The Gambler/Our Lady of Hedgefunds" in the West Wind Review, 2011

  • Poetry is not Enough. Collaboratively-produced chapbook/pamphlet, with Brian Ang, Joseph Atkins and Tiffany Denman, August 2010.  "Illegal Tender" and "Salvage"

  • Juked, September 16, 2010, poetry, "Fibonacci Sequence."

  • wtf pwm, Issue 2.2, Summer 2010, poetry, "Lamarck" and "State of the Union II"

  • The Latent Print, Summer 2010, poetry, "Chaparral", "Anacoluthon", "Suicide Girls", "Poem (the lights came up...")" and "Trade Winds [for Nic]"  

  • A Year In Ink 3rd Annual San Diego Writers Ink Anthology, poetry, “Tight Pants”

  • The Antioch Review, Winter 2010, poetry, “Winter Night Grievance”

  • ZYZZYVA, Winter 2008, #84, poetry, “Embarcadero”

  • Louis Liard Magazine, Winter 2008, poetry, “Orpheum” and “Space Tourisms: Suite For a Mars Landing”

  • PRODUCE, 2007, poetry, “Cynthia”

  • Into the Teeth of the Wind, Vol III, Issue 3, 2003, poetry, “Relatvity I”, “Realitivity II,” “Sappho and I at the Summit” and Vol. IV, Issues 2-4, 2004, poetry, “Adaptation”

  • Spectrum, 2003, poetry, “Calling In the Meteorite”

  • Spectrum Anthology, 2004, poetry, “Calling In the Meteorite”

  • Eleven: Fifteen, 2003, poetry (a letterpress printed collaborative artist’s book, College of Creative Studies Bookarts, UCSB)


    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS - CRITICAL ESSAYS & PROSE

     

  • "Brujas, Tech Travelers, and Genre-Breaking: San Diego Speculative Counterepic" in Tripwire: A Journal of Poetics, Issue 17, 2021

  • "Bodies That Swerve and Resist: Lisa Robertson's 'The Venus Problem' and Feminist New Materialisms," Tripwire: A Journal of Poetics, Dialogues Special Issue, 13

  • "Stars, Seeds, Swarms: on the present and future of border-area action collectives," on the Post-Crisis Poetics series

  • "'Fledgling,' 'Wild Seed,' and Bodies That Resist" on two of Octavia Butler's novels on Monstering's first issue

  • Occupy Poetics, contribution originally published for Ed. Thom Donovan's Series "Our Occupations: After the Occupations," for the Poetry Foundation. Essay Press, 2015

  • Forthcoming: "'Poetry tends to abolish time: Alice Notley's Counterepic" in (Bay Area Public School Press/Hearts Desire, 2017)

  • "The Poetics of Reverie, Labor and the Drone Imaginary," on the Poetic Labor Project, 2014

  • "'Weak Intimacy,' Celebrity and Bay Area Poetics," in ON Contemporary Practice .PDF Archive Series, 2014. https://on-contemporarypractice.squarespace.com/

  • Attention Span, 2011, on Steve Evans's Third Factory, Notes to Poetry

  • Notes on "Can Art and Politics Be Thought?" conference, 2011, published on social media

    RECENT REVIEWS AND FEATURES

     

  • David Lau's shoutout on "Poetics of Resistance" in the New Left Review 98, March-April 2016

  • Feliz Lucia Molina, "Desert Poetry: A Response to the Political Present," in Poets & Writers

    SELECTED INVITED READINGS & LECTURES

    LECTURES/TALKS

  • "Wild Seed, Fledgling and Bodies That Resist," Shaping Change: Remembering Octavia Butler Through Archives, Art and Worldmaking Conference, Resistance and Revolution: Post-Apocalyptic Yearnings Panel, UCSD, 2016.

  •  "Counterepic Comics and Fugitive Forms of Belonging." Collaborative Poster Session. Comics Arts Conference: The Poster Session, Comic-Con 2016, San Diego

  • ""Nos querían enterrar, pero que no sabían que estábamos semillas"/ They Tried To Bury Us But They Didn't Know We Were Seeds: Border Collectives, Ayotzinapa, Mourning and the Politics of the Disappeared," Buffalo Poetics, SUNY Buffalo, NY,  2016. In progress due to fighting cancer.

  •   Alette in Oakland: A Symposium on the Work of Alice Notley, October             25, 2014 at the Omni, Oakland, CA.

  • Chair, Pacific and Modern Languages Association Panel, "Poetics III," Bahia Hotel, San Diego, November 2, 2013.

  • "Poets and Rogues: Art and the 'Terrain of Aggregation' in the Work of the Negative," talk for "Poetry After the Crisis" panel, Historical Materialism New York, NYU, 2013.

  • "'Weak Intimacy,' Celebrity and Bay Poetics," talk for Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing Conference, Poetry and Politics Research Cluster, UC Santa Cruz, May 4, 2012.

  • &NOW Conference, UCSD, Panel Talk and Reading, "By the Occupied Earth," for the panel "San Diego's Social Geography and Innovative Literary Aesthetics," with Bruna Mori, K. Lorraine Graham and Mark Wallace


    SELECTED COURSES TAUGHT (as Instructor)

     

  • Poetry Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, Spring 2004

  • Making Poems, UC Davis, Spring 2008

  • Women Writing the Ancient and Classical World, UC San Diego (to be in Summer 2017, focusing on Sumerian, Babylonian, Southeast Asian, Greek writers, and others)

    as Teaching Assistant:

    University of California, San Diego

  • CAT 1, "Media Seductions: Influence Theory from Plato to Battlefield 2." Fall 2014 and "Music, Technology and Society,"  Fall 2015

  • CAT 2, "Society of the Spectacle." Winter 2015 and 2016

  • CAT 3, "Are We Alone? Imagining Alternate Worlds and Futures." Spring 2015

  • Humanities 1, "Foundations of the Western Tradition." Winter 2013

  • Humanities 2, "Rome, Christianity and the Middle Ages."  Spring 2013

  • Humanities 3: "Renaissance and Reformation Europe." Fall 2013

  • Humanities 4: "Enlightenment, Romanticism, Revolution, 1660-1848." Winter 2014

  • Humanities 5: "Modern Culture." Spring 2014

    University of California, Davis

  • ENL 46A, “Masterpieces of English Literature to 1640.”  Winter 2008

  • ENL 46C, “Masterpieces of English Literature, 1832 – Twentieth Century.” Fall 2007

  • ENL 111, “Vikings!” Spring 2007

  • ENL 113B, “The Canterbury Tales.” Winter 2007 and Summer 2007

  • ENL 45, University of California, Davis., “Introduction To, and Close Reading of, Poetry.”  Fall 2006

    SELECTED POETRY READINGS

     

  • The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles, with Tongo Eisen-Martin, Rocío Carlos, traci kato-kiriyama, David Lau and Mike Sonksen, March 31st, 2018

  • Verbatim Books, with David Lau, Tongo Eisen-Martin and Mike Sonksen, San Diego, March 30, 2018

  • Poetic Research Bureau, with Feliz Lucia Molina and Oki Sogumi, Los Angeles, May 5, 2017.

  • Reading for Lumen, Non-Standard Lit, San Diego, with Julia Dixon Evans, November 6, 2016.

  • Beyond Baroque, Venice, Los Angeles, reading with David Lau, Brian Ang, Sesshu Foster, Victor Valle, and Mike Sonksen, October 30, 2016.

  • Now That's What I Call Poetry Reading Series, Vol. 11, San Diego, The Hideout, January 18, 2015 and Vol. 14, Sin Titulo Gallery, Tijuana, April 24, 2015, Vol. 26, August 21, 2016, Tiger! Tiger! (with Hari Alluri, Angela Peñaredondo, Dean Robertson) San Diego.

  • Non-Standard Lit Reading Series, Gym Standard, San Diego, December 7, 2014 with Reema Rajbanshi.

  • ."Poetry After the Crisis," reading at Human Relations Books, Brooklyn, New York, April 27, 2013.

  • "Poetry, Practice Politics--Reading and Conversation," Pop-Hop Books and Print, Los Angeles, February 9, 2013.

  • Poetic Research Bureau, The Public School, Los Angeles, reading with Sandra Simonds, July 20 2013.

  • ¡YAhora!, Tijuana, Mexico, El Grafografo, Avenida Revolution, October 15, 2011

  • Reading with Alan Bernheimer, Public house reading, Brian Ang's Residence in Oakland, June 15, 2011

  • Poetic Research Bureau, Reading Series, The Public School, Los Angeles, curated by Ara Shirinyan and Joseph Mosconi, June 5, 2011

  • Innisfree Poetry Bookstore Reading, Boulder, CO, March 12, 2011

  • The Bay Area Writers' Exchange at Dikeou, Dikeou Gallery, Denver, March 11, 2011

  • Emergent Forms: West Wind Review 2011 Release Reading, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University

  • 2011 MLA Off-Site Reading, ArtShare, Los Angeles, organized by Brian K. Stefans, January 8, 2011

  • AGITPROP Poetry Reading Series, AGITPROP Gallery, San Diego, August 7, 2010 curated by K. Lorraine Graham

  • San Diego Writers, Ink 3rd Annual Anthology A Year In Ink reading and release party, Cygnet Theatre, San Diego, February 15, 2010

  • Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium, reading, UC Davis University Club, Davis, April 26, 2008

  • College of Creative Studies Literature Symposium, UC Santa Barbara, Old Little Theater, 2004

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