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Linda Russo
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Linda V. Russo is the author of several chapbooks of poetry including Solvency (publisher unknown, 2005) and o going out (potes and poets, 1999); her manuscript MIRTH is forthcoming in 2007. Her essay on Joanne Kyger has been reprinted in Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America (Gale Group, 2006). She is a contributing editor of HOW2, a journal of experimental writing by women. A graduate of the Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo, Dr. Russo currently organizes SOUNDS OUT, a poetry series, in conjunction with her expository writing class at The University of Oklahoma, where she is currently an Edith Gaylord Kinney Fellow-Lecturer.

I'm keenly interested in making a poetry in play with voice, voices, touch, bodies/nobodies, alienation, miscommunication, fault, bitterness, wit, sexiness, boredom and other problems. On a different note, in the talking I'll be doing this weekend at post moot I'm bringing together some old and new interests - Hannah Weiner & sonic experimentation & communication models. My critical project (PhD, Buffalo) involves highlighting the effect of gender (on poetic praxis in the larger sense) and thus complicating genealogies of poetic innovation in post-WWII American poetics; to this end I reconfigure the work of Weiner (and other women poets) which has been critically summed up and assessed by faster-moving male peers. What makes one a "mother of Language Poetry" if she didn't intend to give birth? Sound is a new area of investigation for me - I'm teaching a writing class on listening/sound (poetry, music, public space, soundscape, etc.) and on the lookout for ways to bring interesting and challenging sonic exercises and works into this context.

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