Laura Mullen Explained

Laura Mullen
Birth Place:Los Angeles, California, USA
Alma Mater:UC Berkeley (BA)
University of Iowa (MFA)
Occupation:Poet, translator

Laura Mullen (born 1958, in Los Angeles) is an American poet who has published 9 books of poetry and one translation.

Early life and education

Mullen was born in Los Angeles in 1958. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.[1]

Career

Mullen began her career teaching at Colby College, the University of Miami, and Colorado State University, where her courses included seminars on modernism, postmodernism, and cross-genre writing. She was invited to teach as a visitor at Brown University (2001, 2017), Naropa University's Summer Writing Program, and Columbia College. She left Louisiana State University, where she was the McElveen Professor in English, to hold the Kenan Chair of Humanities at Wake Forest University from 2021-2023.[2] She resigned from Wake Forest University in October 2023 in the midst of backlash against a post on her personal X account that same month, regarding the Gaza–Israel conflict.[3]

Mullen was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1988 and has since received numerous other fellowships in the United States and abroad.[4]

Her poetry collections of poetry include The Surface (1991), After I Was Dead (1999), Murmur (2007), Dark Archive (2011), Enduring Freedom (2012), Complicated Grief (2012), and EtC (2023). The Surface was a National Poetry Series selection. Her poems have also been included in anthologies, including American Hybrid (2009), The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (2012), and I'll Drown my Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (2012), among others.[5] Her work has also been published in Bomb,[6] Denver Quarterly, Ping Pong, Lingo,[7] Fence,,[8] [9] Xantippe, Aufgabe, New American Writing, Ploughshares,[10] Mipoesias,[11] How2,[12] Talisman, Cranky, Poets.org,[13] BookForum,[14] and The Iowa Review. She also published a hypertext piece on AltX.[15]

Composers and others artists have also released renditions of her poetry. In 2011, American composer Jason Eckardt released a setting of her poem "The Distance (This)" as "Undersong" with Mode Records. Composer Nathan Davis released "a Sound uttered, a Silence crossed" in 2015. Black Square Editions published her translation of Véronique Pittolo’s HERO (2019)[16] and an artist’s book with photographs by John David O’Brien, Verge, was published in a limited edition in 2018.[17]

Reception

Dark Archive, published in 2011, was praised for its exploration of memory and archive material and practices. The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics called the book impressive for the way "it daringly draws on very different types of knowledge and the way it creates new ones in new combinations".[18]

EtC, published in 2023, examines the poetry industry itself (referred to as the Dairy Industry), and was called "a project book stripped of recognizable content by the very process of that projection".[19]

Publications

Books

Anthologized works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Laura Mullen . 2024-08-20 . . August 3, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240803164648/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/laura-mullen . live .
  2. Web site: Bice . Tina . 2021-03-16 . Laura Mullen announced as William R. Kenan Jr. Chair in the Humanities . 2024-08-18 . . en . August 18, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240818122649/https://inside.wfu.edu/2021/03/laura-mullen-announced-as-william-r-kenan-jr-chair-in-the-humanities/ . live .
  3. Web site: Pierre . Aine . 31 October 2023 . Breaking: Professor Laura Mullen resigns . 2024-08-18 . Old Gold & Black . July 2, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240702135332/https://wfuogb.com/21837/news/breaking-laura-mullen-resigns/ . live .
  4. Web site: An Interview With Poet Laura Mullen . 2024-08-24 . Marshall . Tod . . 2002-04-05 . June 20, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210620213426/https://www.pw.org/content/interview_poet_laura_mullen . live .
  5. Web site: Laura Mullen . 2020-07-13 . 2024-08-22 . Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
  6. Web site: Rikki Ducornet by Laura Mullen . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070708073022/http://www.bombsite.com/ducornet/ducornet.html . 2007-07-08 . 2024-08-20 . BOMB Magazine.
  7. Web site: Mullen . 2024-08-20 . cultureport . September 5, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080905174056/http://www.cultureport.com/newhp/lingo/authors/mullen.html . live .
  8. Web site: Nachrichten aus der Welt von Heute . dead . https://archive.today/20130123010750/http://www.fencemag.com/v1n2/work/lauramullen.html . 2013-01-23 . 2024-08-20 . Fence.
  9. Web site: v.2 n.2 - Laura Mullen . dead . https://archive.today/20010212045346/http://www.fencemag.com/v2n2/work/lauramullen.html . 2001-02-12 . 2024-08-20 . Fence Magazine.
  10. Web site: Laura Mullen . dead . 2024-08-20 . . July 10, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240710090352/https://pshares.org/authors/laura-mullen/ .
  11. Mullen . Mipoesias . 19 . 3 . October 5, 2007 . October 28, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071028193023/http://www.mipoesias.com/Volume19Issue3Gudding/mullen.html . live .
  12. Friedman . Stan . March 1999 . The Tales of Horror by Laura Mullen . How2 . . 1 . 1 . 2024-08-20 . December 15, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231215215435/https://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive/online_archive/v1_1_1999/lmtales.html . live .
  13. Web site: Empty by Laura Mullen - Poems Academy of American Poets . 2024-08-20 . . en . August 20, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240820223914/https://poets.org/poem/empty . live .
  14. Web site: April–May 2007 . BookForum . dead . https://archive.today/20070504224341/http://www.bookforum.com/Warn.html . 2007-05-04 . 2024-08-20 . BOOKFORUM.
  15. Web site: Black Ice Online . 2024-08-20 . AltX . October 23, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071023191229/http://www.altx.com/profiles/archives/artdiss/mullen/index.html . live .
  16. Book: Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic . . Quinn . Alice . June 9, 2020 . 177 . 9780593318713 . August 22, 2024.
  17. News: Poetry Connection: Creating Community through Poetry . 2024-08-22 . 2024-06-18 . Palacio . Melinda . .
  18. Web site: Archive and Appropriation: Dark Archive by Laura Mullen . 2024-08-22 . Leong . Michael . Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics . 2011 .
  19. Web site: Milk Money: On Laura Mullen's "EtC" . 2024-08-22 . Stough . Cary . clereviewofbooks.com . Cleaveland Review of Books . 2023-11-20.
  20. Web site: 1999-05-03 . The Tales of Horror: [A Flip-Book] by Laura Mullen ]. 2024-08-20 . . August 20, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240820223916/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780932716484 . live .
  21. Web site: 2011-01-17 . Dark Archive by Laura Mullen . 2024-08-20 . . August 20, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240820223917/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780520268869 . live .
  22. Robbins . 2016 . Trilogy of Trash . Pacific Coast Philology . 51 . 2 . 210–227 . 10.5325/pacicoasphil.51.2.0210 . 10.5325/pacicoasphil.51.2.0210 . 0078-7469.
  23. Web site: 2015-11-16 . Complicated Grief by Laura Mullen . 2024-08-20 . . August 20, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240820224005/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780984414284 . live .

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