Jennifer Bartlett (poet)
Jennifer Bartlett (born November 11, 1969) is an American poet, editor, and disability activist.
Biography
Jennifer Bartlett was born in San Francisco, CA and studied at the University of New Mexico, Vermont College, and Brooklyn College. She lives in New York City.
Bartlett is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: Derivative of the Moving Image (2007), (a) lullaby without any music (2012), and Autobiography/Anti-Autobiography (2014). She also co-edited Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (2011) with Michael Northen and Sheila Black. She was the co-founder, with her husband Jim Stewart, of the poetry journal Saint Elizabeth Street Press (1999–2003). She has written a blog since 2006.
Bartlett has taught creative writing and English for the New York City Department of Education, Montclair State University, United Cerebral Palsy, The Multiple Sclerosis Society, and St. Mark’s Poetry Project.
Selected bibliography
- Autobiography/Anti-Autobiography. Oakland, CA: theenk press, 2014.
- Beauty is a Verb: The New Disability Poets. (Ed. With Sheila Black and Michael Northen) El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, 2011.
- (a) lullaby without music. Tucson, AZ: Chax Press, 2011.
- Derivative of the Moving Image. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
- In Company: New Mexican Poets Since the 1960s ed. V.B. Price, Lee Bartlett, Diane Edwards: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.