{{short description|American poet|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}} '''Jean Day''' (born 1954) is an American poet.
==Life and work== Born in Syracuse, New York, and raised in Middletown, Rhode Island, Day graduated from Antioch College in 1977. Since then she has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and worked in literary publishing, for many years as associate editor of ''Representations''. She was acquisitions manager, then executive director of Small Press Distribution from 1977 to 1989, developing close associations with many Bay Area writers and publishers, including Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, Steve Benson, Johanna Drucker, Barrett Watten, Alan Bernheimer, Kit Robinson, Laura Moriarty, and Tom Mandel. She is married to the philosopher and art critic John Rapko.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagoreview.org/jean-day/|title=Chicago Review|date=January 14, 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/637728/jean-day-late-human-a-poet-of-isolation-and-uncertainty/|title=A Poet of Isolation and Uncertainty|date=April 17, 2021 }}</ref>
Day has published eleven books of poetry, and her work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including ''The Best American Poetry 2004'', ''Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women'' (1998), and ''In the American Tree'' (1986). Her translations from the Russian (with Elena Balashova) have been anthologized in ''Third Wave: The New Russian Poetry'' (1992) and ''Crossing Centuries: The New Generation in Russian Poetry'' (2000).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smallpresstraffic.org/traffic-report/jean-day-jacob-kahn|title=Traffic Report: Trusting the Logic}}</ref> She has received awards and fellowships from the Fund for Poetry, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Contemporary Arts Educational Project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arts.gov/impact/literary-arts/creative-writing-fellows/jean-day|title=NEAFellowships 2001}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://howard-foundation.brown.edu/search?q=jean+day|title=Howard Foundation Fellowships 1998 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/jean-day|title=MacDowell Fellowships 2002}}</ref>
==Books by Jean Day== *''Linear C,'', 1983, Tuumba (Berkeley) *''Flat Birds'', 1985, Gaz (San Francisco) *'' A Young Recruit'' {{ISBN|0-937804-30-4}}, 1988, Roof Books (New York) *''The I and the You'' {{ISBN|0-937013-41-2}}, 1992, Potes & Poets, (Edgemont, CT) *''The Literal World'' {{ISBN|1-891190-01-6}}, 1998, Atelos (Berkeley) *''Enthusiasm: Odes & Otium'' {{ISBN|0-9761612-3-0}}, 2006, Adventures in Poetry (New York) *''Early Bird'', 2014, O'Clock Press (Philadelphia and Providence) *''Daydream'' {{ISBN|978-1-933959-36-8}}, 2017, Litmus (Brooklyn) *''The Triumph of Life'' {{ISBN|978-0-9998350-05}}, 2018, Insurance Editions (New York) *''Late Human'' {{ISBN|978-1-946433-83-1}}, 2021, Ugly Duckling Presse (New York) *''The Night Before the Day on Which'' {{ISBN|978-1-946433-83-1}}, 2022, Roof Books (New York) *''The Matter'', Asterion Projects, 2022 *''Apicality'' {{ISBN|9781945129100}}, Nion Editions, 2024 (Berkeley)
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==External links== *[https://www.jeantday.net/ Jean Day website] *[http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/day Jean Day at the Electronic Poetry Center] *[http://www.ubu.com/ubu/pdf/day_linear.pdf? Linear C and "The I and the You"] [http://www.ubu.com/ubu/ /ubu editions] *[https://www.writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-general-reading-style-is-to-be-in.html Silliman's Blog review of ''Enthusiasm: Odes & Otium''] *[https://brooklynrail.org/2021/10/poetry/Late-Humans-and-Other-Animals Jason Morris's review of ''Late Human''] in The Brooklyn Rail *[https://hyperallergic.com/637728/jean-day-late-human-a-poet-of-isolation-and-uncertainty/ Mark Scroggins's review of ''Late Human''] at Hyperallergic *[https://auxiliarymonuments.blogspot.com/2021/03/jean-day-late-human.html?m=1 Mike Hauser's review of ''Late Human''] at Auxiliary Monuments
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