'''Judith Kerman''' (born New York, 1945)<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=SFE: Kerman, Judith |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kerman_judith |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=sf-encyclopedia.com}}</ref> is a poet, publisher, academic, and translator in the U.S. and active from the 1970s.<ref name=":7" />

== Life, education, and career == Kerman earned her B.A. with honors from the University of Rochester in 1967 and her M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1977) both from the University of Buffalo.<ref name=":5" /> In 2002, she was a Fulbright senior scholar to the Dominican Republic.<ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Judith Kerman |url=https://www.woodstockhousingalliance.org/judith-kerman |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=Woodstock Housing Alliance |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Judy Kerman |url=https://www.eastgate.com/people/Kerman.html |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=www.eastgate.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Stephanie Mathson interviews poet and author Judith Kerman |url=https://d.lib.msu.edu/vvl/424 |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=d.lib.msu.edu}}</ref>

She was a university professor and dean of Arts and Behavioral Sciences<ref>{{Cite web |title=Judith Kerman {{!}} ELMCIP |url=https://elmcip.net/person/judith-kerman |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=elmcip.net}}</ref> and is now a professor emerita of English at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1981-05-28 |title=Judith Kerman |url=https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/judith_kerman |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=Poets & Writers |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":5" />

She founded ''Earth's Daughters'' magazine in Buffalo, New York (1971 to present) and founded and runs Mayapple Press (1978 to present)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-02-20 |title=Mayapple Press – Publishing challenging and accessible literary books since 1978 |url=http://mayapplepress.com/ |access-date=2025-06-15 |language=en-US}}</ref> in Woodstock, New York.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Poets |first=Albany |date=2019-09-04 |title=Judith Kerman, Marilyn McCabe, and Open Mic at C.R.E.A.T.E. |url=https://hvwg.org/2019/09/judith-kerman-marilyn-mccabe-and-open-mic-at-c-r-e-a-t-e/ |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=Hudson Valley Writers Guild |language=en-US}}</ref>

She is vice chair of the Woodstock, New York, Planning Board.<ref name=":5" />

== Works ==

=== Electronic literature === An electronic literature (hypertext poem) version of ''Mothering'' was published in the Eastgate Systems quarterly review in 1995, and was issued as a paper book, ''Mothering and Dreams of Rain'' (Ridgeway Press, 1996).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Judith Kerman |url=https://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab//hfl0270.html |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=www2.iath.virginia.edu}}</ref>

She wrote the content for a poem authoring system ''Colloquy'', (implemented by Robert Chiles). This was an early generative poem that produced 17-line standzs and were "hypertexts where every word is an anchor and every path limited in length and non-retraceable."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Colloquy |url=https://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab//hfl0272.html |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=www2.iath.virginia.edu}}</ref>

Kerman's graphic poem series, ''Migrations,'' (1987) are short poems presented for a computer screen.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Migrations |url=https://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab//hfl0271.html |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=www2.iath.virginia.edu}}</ref>

=== Poetry === * ''Obsessions (Intrepid Press, Beau Fleuve Series, 1974)'' * ''The Jakoba Poems (White Pine Press, 1976)'' * ''Mothering'' (Uroboros/Allegheny Mtn Press, 1978) * ''Driving for Yellow Cab'' (Tout Press, 1985) * ''Three Marbles'' (Cranberry Tree Press, 1999) ''Mothering & Dream of Rain'' (Ridgeway Press, 1997) * ''Plane Surfaces/Plano de Incidencia'' (Mayapple Press, 2002) * ''A Woman in Her Garden: Selected Poems of Dulce Maria Loynaz'' (White Pine Press, 2002) * ''Galvanic Response'' (March Street Press, 2005) ''Postcards from America'' (Post Traumatic Press, 2015) * ''Aleph, broken: Poems from My Diaspora'' (Broadstone Books, 2016)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aleph, broken: poems from my diaspora - by Judith Kerman |url=https://www.broadstonebooks.com/shop/p/aleph-broken-poems-from-my-diaspora-by-judith-kerman |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=Broadstone Books |language=en-US}}</ref> * ''definitions'' (Fomite Press, 2021)<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Judith Kerman {{!}} Yetzirah |url=https://yetzirahpoets.org/bios/judith-kerman/ |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=yetzirahpoets.org}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |title=Definitions |url=https://www.fomitepress.com/definitions.html |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=www.fomitepress.com}}</ref>

=== Journals === * 32 Poems, Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Driftwood, MacGuffin, Salt Hill

=== Translations === * ''Book: Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic'' by Aida Cartagena Portalatin, Angela Hernandez Núñez, Ylonka Nacidit Perdomo, translated from the Spanish (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2009, published as a Lannan Selection).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Poet and author Judith Kerman reads her selected works at the Michigan Writers Series |url=https://d.lib.msu.edu/vvl/425 |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=d.lib.msu.edu}}</ref> * ''Entre Dos Silencios/Between Two Silences: Short Fiction by Hilma Contreras'' (Mayapple Press, 2013)<ref name=":6" />

== Awards and honors== * Abbie M. Kopps Poetry Prize; Honorable Mention, Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award.<ref name=":6" />

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