{{short description|American poet, and English professor (born 1969)}} {{Infobox writer | name = Craig Dworkin | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1969|01|18}} | birth_place = Bloomington, Indiana | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Poet, critic, editor, professor | genre = | notableworks = | influences = | influenced = | website = {{URL|eclipsearchive.org}} }}
'''Craig Dworkin''' is an American poet, critic, editor, and Professor of English at the University of Utah.<ref name="Faculty Page">{{cite web |title=Craig Dworkin |url=https://faculty.utah.edu/u0455611-CRAIG_DWORKIN/research/index.hml |website=The University of Utah |access-date=1 July 2021}}</ref><ref name="Warhol Arts Writers Grant">{{cite web |title=Craig Dworkin |url=https://www.artswriters.org/grant/grantees/grantee/craig_dworkin |website=The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant |access-date=24 December 2022 |date=2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Craig Dworkin |url=https://mappingliteraryutah.org/utah-writers/craig-dworkin |website=Mapping Literary Utah |access-date=24 December 2022}}</ref> He is the founding senior editor of Eclipse, an online archive of 20th-century small-press writing and 21st-century born-digital publications.<ref name="Jacket2 Eclipse Interview">{{cite web |last1=LaMarre |first1=James |title=Poetic protocols: An interview with Craig Dworkin |url=http://jacket2.org/interviews/poetic-protocols |website=Jacket2 |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=5 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gossett |first1=Michael |title=Eclipse Archive |url=https://archivalencounters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/eclipse-archive/ |website=Archival Encounters |access-date=24 December 2022 |date=4 March 2019}}</ref>
== Education and career == Dworkin received his BA from Stanford University and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.<ref name="Warhol Arts Writers Grant" /> He was an assistant<ref>{{cite web |title=Assistant professors join faculty |url=https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/98/1116/join.htm |website=Princeton Weekly Bulletin |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=16 November 1998}}</ref> and associate professor<ref>{{cite web |title=Board approves 14 promotions |url=https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/04/0419/2b.shtml |website=Princeton Weekly Bulletin |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=2004}}</ref> at Princeton University from 1998 to 2004 before joining the faculty at the University of Utah, where he is a Professor of English.<ref name="Faculty Page" />
Dworkin has written a number of books of poetry, including ''Helicography'' (Punctum Books, 2021),<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sacksteder |first1=Joe |title="Helicography by Craig Dworkin" |url=https://www.therupturemag.com/rupture/helicography |website=The Rupture |access-date=24 December 2022 |date=April 2022}}</ref> ''The Pine-Woods Notebook'' (Kenning Editions, 2019),<ref>{{cite web |title=Al Filreis and Danny Snelson discuss The Pine-Woods Notebook |url=https://www.kenningeditions.com/kenning-editions/al-filreis-and-danny-snelson-discuss-the-pine-woods-notebook/ |website=Kenning Editions |access-date=1 July 2021}}</ref> ''Def'' (Information as Material, 2018),<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dworkin |first1=Craig |title=From DEF – A Long Poem |url=https://arcade.stanford.edu/dibur/def-long-poem |website=Arcade: A Digital Salon |date=19 April 2017 |publisher=Stanford |access-date=1 July 2021}}</ref> ''Twelve Erroneous Displacements and a Fact'' (IAM, 2016),<ref>{{cite web |last1=Liberty |first1=Megan N. |title=Reading as Art & Publishing as Artistic Practice |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2017/04/art_books/Simon-Morris-Ed-Reading-as-Art-Annette-Gilbert-Ed-Publishing-as-Artistic-Practice |website=Brooklyn Rail |access-date=24 December 2022 |date=April 2017}}</ref> ''Alkali'' (Counterpath Press, 2015),<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brunvand |first1=Amy |title=Poetry as Mineralogy: Craig Dworkin's Conceptual Poetry Crystalizes in Alkali |url=http://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/poetry-as-mineralogy-craig-dworkins-conceptual-poetry-crystalizes-in-alkali/ |website=Artists of Utah |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=3 April 2016}}</ref> ''The Crystal Text (After Clark Coolidge)'' (Compline, 2012),<ref>{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Tyrone |title=Dworkin after Coolidge: 'The Crystal Text' stripped bare ... |url=http://jacket2.org/commentary/dworkin-after-coolidge |website=Jacket2 |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=9 June 2014}}</ref> ''Motes'' (Roof Books, 2011),<ref>{{cite web |last1=Burt |first1=Stephanie |title=Games About Frames: Minimalists Craig Dworkin and Michael O'Brien |url=http://bostonreview.net/poetry/games-about-frames-0 |website=Boston Review |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=7 February 2013}}</ref> ''The Perverse Library'' (IAM, 2010),<ref>{{cite web |title=Exhibitions and events: The Perverse Library |url=http://laurencesternetrust.org.uk/exhibition.php?id=84 |website=The Laurence Sterne Trust |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=2010}}</ref> and ''Strand'' (Roof, 2005).<ref>{{cite journal |title=Self-Portrait in a Context Mirror: Pain and Quotation in the Conceptual Writing of Craig Dworkin |last1=Stephens |first1=Paul |journal=Postmodern Culture |date=2009 |volume=19 |issue=3 |doi=10.1353/pmc.2009.0004 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press}}</ref>
Dworkin is the author of four scholarly monographs: ''Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality'' (Chicago, 2020);<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jackson |first1=Virginia |title=Virginia Jackson reviews Radium of the Word |url=https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/virginia_jackson_reviews_radium_of_the_word/ |website=Critical Inquiry |access-date=24 December 2022 |date=December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Dworkin discusses Radium of the Word|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlChq3cm6d0&t=4s|website=YouTube|access-date=12 June 2023|date=May 2021}}</ref> ''Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography'' (Fordham, 2020);<ref>{{cite web |last1=Malyszek |first1=Chelsea |title=The Poet and the Dictionary |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-poet-and-the-dictionary/ |website=The Los Angeles Review of Books |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=7 November 2020}}</ref> ''No Medium'' (MIT, 2013),<ref>{{cite web |last1=Drucker |first1=Johanna |title=Understanding Media: Craig Dworkin's "No Medium" |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/understanding-media-craig-dworkins-no-medium/ |website=The Los Angeles Review of Books |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=9 July 2013}}</ref> in which he discusses works that are "blank, erased, clear, or silent";<ref>{{cite web |last1=Leong |first1=Michael |title=Reading the "Nothings that Are": Craig Dworkin's "No Medium" |url=https://hyperallergic.com/72790/reading-the-nothings-that-are-craig-dworkins-no-medium/ |website=Hyperallergic |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=8 June 2013}}</ref> and ''Reading the Illegible'' (Northwestern, 2003).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Khalip |first1=Jacques |title=Harder to See |url=https://bostonreview.net/archives/BR29.5/khalip.php |website=Boston Review |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=October 2004}}</ref> Edited collections include ''Against Expression'' (co-edited with Kenneth Goldsmith, Northwestern, 2011), in which he coined the term "conceptual writing";<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Reed |first1=Brian |title=Idea Eater: The Conceptual Lyric as an Emergent Literary Form |journal=Mosaic|date=June 2016 |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=1–18 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44030581 |access-date=1 July 2021 |publisher=University of Manitoba|doi=10.1353/mos.2016.a621125 |jstor=44030581 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> ''The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound'', co-edited with Marjorie Perloff (Chicago, 2009); and ''The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics'' (Roof, 2008). He has published articles in such diverse journals as ''October'',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dworkin |first1=Craig Douglas |title=Fugitive Signs |journal=October |date=Winter 2001 |volume=95 |pages=90–113 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/779201 |access-date=24 December 2022 |publisher=The MIT Press|jstor=779201 }}</ref> ''Grey Room'',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dworkin |first1=Craig |title=Whereof One Cannot Speak |journal=Grey Room |date=Fall 2005 |volume=21 |issue=21 |pages=46–69 |doi=10.1162/152638105774539798 |url=https://direct.mit.edu/grey/article/doi/10.1162/152638105774539798/10461/Whereof-One-Cannot-Speak |access-date=1 July 2021|url-access=subscription }}</ref> ''Contemporary Literature'',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dworkin |first1=Craig |title=The Imaginary Solution |journal=Contemporary Literature |date=Spring 2007 |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=29–60 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4489188 |access-date=1 July 2021 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|doi=10.1353/cli.2007.0023 |jstor=4489188 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> ''PMLA,''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dworkin |first1=Craig |title=The Poetry of Sound |journal=PMLA |date=May 2008 |volume=123 |issue=3 |pages=755–761 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25501896 |access-date=1 July 2021 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|jstor=25501896 }}</ref> and ''Critical Inquiry''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dworkin |first1=Craig |title=Poetry in the Age of Consumer-Generated Content |journal=Critical Inquiry |date=Summer 2018 |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=674–705 |doi=10.1086/698173 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/698173 |access-date=1 July 2021|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
== Eclipse ==
Dworkin is the founding senior editor of Eclipse, an online archive focusing on digital facsimiles of radical small-press writing from the last quarter of the 20th century.<ref name="Jacket2 Eclipse Interview" /> Dworkin started the archive in 2002 to provide readers and scholars with access to avant-garde works that were no longer available in print from their original publishers; Eclipse later expanded to publish selected new works and born-digital publications in the spirit of those earlier presses.<ref name="2017 Entropy">{{cite web |last1=Higgs |first1=Christopher |title=Helping to Redraw the Map of 20th Century Literature: In Conversation with Craig Dworkin, editor of Eclipse online archive of avant-garde writing |url=https://entropymag.org/helping-to-redraw-the-map-of-20th-century-literature-in-conversation-with-craig-dworkin-editor-of-eclipse-online-archive-of-avant-garde-writing/ |website=Entropy Mag |access-date=27 March 2024 |date=1 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301191214/https://entropymag.org/helping-to-redraw-the-map-of-20th-century-literature-in-conversation-with-craig-dworkin-editor-of-eclipse-online-archive-of-avant-garde-writing/ |archive-date=2017-03-01 }}</ref> The archive's name is an homage to Douglas Messerli’s Sun & Moon press.<ref name="2017 Entropy" />
Eclipse includes high-resolution scans of every page of its included texts, most from Dworkin's personal collection,<ref name="Jacket2 Eclipse Interview" /> in an attempt to "conserve ... the facture and material specificity of the book or printed document as an object."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dworkin |first1=Craig |title=Hypermnesia |journal=Boundary 2|date=Fall 2009 |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=77–95 |doi=10.1215/01903659-2009-021 |url=http://eclipsearchive.org/Editor/DworkinHypermnesia.pdf |access-date=27 March 2024 |publisher=Duke University Press}}</ref> Dworkin co-manages the archive with Danny Snelson, assistant professor of English at UCLA.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Snelson |first1=Danny |title=An Elegy for Jimmy & Lucy's House of "K" (1984–1989) |url=https://post45.org/2023/06/an-elegy-for-ijimmy-and-lucys-house-of-k-1984-1989/#footnote_8_20645 |website=Post45 |access-date=27 March 2024 |date=6 June 2023}}</ref>
==Works==
=== Scholarly monographs === {{refbegin|30em}} * {{cite book| title=Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality| series=Thinking Literature| publisher=University of Chicago Press| year=2020| url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo68659686.html}} * {{cite book| title=Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography| publisher=Fordham University Press| year=2020| url=http://www.fordhampress.com/9780823287987/dictionary-poetics/}} * {{cite book| title=No Medium| publisher=MIT Press| year=2013| url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/no-medium}} * {{cite book| title=Reading the Illegible| publisher=Northwestern University Press| year=2003| url=http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/reading-illegible-0}} {{refend}}
=== Edited collections === {{refbegin|30em}} * {{cite book| title=Nothing: A User's Manual| publisher=Information as Material| year=2015| url=http://www.informationasmaterial.org/portfolio/nothing-a-users-manual/}} * Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith, eds. {{cite book| title=Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing| publisher=Northwestern University Press| year=2011| url=http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/against-expression}} * Craig Dworkin and Marjorie Perloff, eds. {{cite book| title=The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound| publisher=University of Chicago Press| year=2009| url=https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo7873526.html}} * {{cite book| title=The Consequence of Innovation: 21st-Century Poetics| publisher=Roof Books| year=2008| url=http://www.seguefoundation.com/roofbooks/books/dworkin.html}} * {{cite book| title=Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci| publisher=MIT Press| year=2006| url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/language-cover-page}} * Craig Dworkin and María Eugenia Díaz Sánchez, eds. {{cite book| title=Architectures of Poetry| publisher=Rodopi| year=2004| isbn=90-420-1892-5| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9p1ESXfoioC}} {{refend}}
=== Poetry books and pamphlets === {{refbegin|30em}} * {{cite book| title=Lagniappes.| publisher=Hiding Press| year=2022| url=https://www.hidingpress.com/books/lagniappes/}} * {{cite book| title=Helicography.| publisher=Punctum Books| year=2021| url=https://punctumbooks.com/titles/helicography/}} * {{cite book| title=Clock.| publisher=Inscription: the Journal of Material Text| year=2020| url=https://inscriptionjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2296_Inscription_Journal_12ppBooklet.LowRes_Digital.pdf}} * {{cite book| title=The Pine-Woods Notebook.| publisher=Kenning Editions| year=2019| url=https://www.kenningeditions.com/kenning-editions/craig-dworkins-the-pine-woods-notebook/}} * {{cite book| title=In Two Dimensions.| publisher=Sync| year=2019| url=https://sync.abue.io/issues/191122cd_sync2_45_in2d.pdf}} * {{cite book| title=Def.| publisher=Information As Material| year=2018| url=http://www.informationasmaterial.org/portfolio/def/}} * {{cite book| title=Twelve Erroneous Displacements and a Fact| publisher=Information As Material| year=2016| url=http://www.informationasmaterial.org/portfolio/twelve-erroneous-displacements-and-a-fact/}} * {{cite book| title=Alkali| publisher=Counterpath Press| year=2015| url=http://counterpathpress.org/alkalicraig-dworkin}} * Craig Dworkin and Madeline Gilmore. {{cite book| title=An Attempt at Exhausting a Space in Williamstown| publisher=Publication Studio| year=2015| url=http://eclipsearchive.org/Editor/DworkinExhausting.pdf}} * {{cite book| title=Remotes| publisher=Little Red Leaves| year=2013| url=http://www.textileseries.com/shop/remotes-by-craig-dworkin}} * {{cite book| title=Chapter XXIV| publisher=Red Butte Press| year=2013| url=https://lib.utah.edu/collections/red-butte-press/publications/chap-xxiv.php}} * {{cite book| title=The Crystal Text (After Clark Coolidge)| publisher=Compline| year=2012| url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2013/01/craig-dworkins-homage-to-clark-coolidges-the-crystal-text}} * {{cite book| title=A Handbook of Protocols for Literary Listening| publisher=Arika| year=2012| url=http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/library/Dworkin_Craig_A-Handbook-of-%20Protocols-for-Literary-Listening.pdf}} * {{cite book| title=Emblem of My Work| publisher=Laurence Sterne Trust| year=2011| url=https://www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/shop-item.php?id=116}} * {{cite book| title=Copys| publisher=No Press| year=2011| url=http://eclipsearchive.org/projects/COPYS/copys.html}} * {{cite book| title=Motes| publisher=Roof Books| year=2011| url=http://www.seguefoundation.com/roofbooks/books/dworkin.html}} * {{cite book| title=The Perverse Library| publisher=Information As Material| year=2010| url=http://eclipsearchive.org/Editor/DworkinPerverse.pdf}} * {{cite book| title=Unheard Music| publisher=Information As Material| year=2009| url=http://eclipsearchive.org/Editor/DworkinUnheard.pdf}} * {{cite book| title=Parse| publisher=Atelos| year=2008| url=http://www.atelos.org/parse.htm}} * {{cite book| title=Maps| publisher=Editions Ubu| year=2007| url=http://www.ubu.com/ubu/unpub/Unpub_009_Dworkin_Maps.pdf}} * {{cite book| title=Strand| publisher=Roof Books| year=2005| url=https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/1931824142/strand.aspx}} * {{cite book| title=Smokes| publisher=Editions Ubu| year=2004| url=http://www.ubu.com/ubu/dworkin_smokes.html}} * {{cite book| title=Dure| publisher=Cuneiform Press| year=2004| url=http://eclipsearchive.org/Editor/DworkinDure.pdf}} * {{cite book| title=Index| publisher=housepress| year=2002| url=http://eclipsearchive.org/Editor/DworkinIndex.pdf}} * {{cite book| title=Signature—Effects| publisher=ghos-ti-| year=1997| isbn=978-1-891190-51-3| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0zghAQAAIAAJ}} {{refend}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://eclipsearchive.org/Editor/ Eclipse Editor] * [http://eclipsearchive.org Eclipse Archive]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dworkin, Craig}} Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni Category:21st-century American poets Category:Stanford University alumni Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:American male poets Category:21st-century American male writers Category:University of Utah faculty