About
Stephanie Strickland’s 10 books of poetry include How the Universe Is Made: Poems New & Selected (2019) and Ringing the Changes (2020), a code-generated project for print based on the ancient art of tower bell-ringing. Other books include Dragon Logic and The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil.
Strickland’s 12 collaborative digital works include slippingglimpse, a poem that maps text to Atlantic wave patterns; the Vniverse app for iPad, interactive companion to the print V : WaveTercets / Losing L’una; Sea and Spar Between, a poem generator paired with Duels—Duets, a companion generator reflecting on Sea and Spar’s composition and paired also with cut to fit the toolspun course, the Sea and Spar code glossed. Recent work includes Liberty Ring! (2020), interactive companion to Ringing the Changes; House of Trust, a generative poem in praise of free public libraries; and Hours of the Night, an MP4 PowerPoint poem probing age and sleep.
Strickland’s folio, For the Pandemics—Say What?, was selected for Tupelo Press’s Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic (forthcoming). A member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization, Strickland co-edited Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1, and her work across print and multiple media is being collected by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University. http://stephaniestrickland.com
Featured Work
How the Universe Is Made: Poems New & Selected
"The poems, gathered from a lifetime of writing, open to history, to code, to mathematics and matter as these translate each other and offer a road to light." —Sarah Glaz, Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics , University of Connecticut. “Where to begin? Stephanie Strickland easily ranks among the most forward-looking, rigorous, and evocative poets writing today, and HOW THE UNIVERSE IS MADE is a tour through the poetic universe she continues to bring into existence. From its soulful Big Bang, through perhaps the first serious poetry to explore the emerging implications of the digital age for poetics, to the inner body of her new work, her spare words evoke strong, Emily Dickinson-like responses while generating a contemporary synthesis of scientific, human, and poetic discourses. Prescient then, dead-on relevant to the science saturated now, Stephanie Strickland’s poetry speaks as no other to how we understand our world.” — Steve Tomasula
Other Works
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Liberty Ring! (with Ian Hatcher)
2020
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Ringing the Changes
2020
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How the Universe Is Made: Poems New & Selected
2019
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Hours of the Night (with M. D. Coverley)
2016
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Vniverse iPad app (with Ian Hatcher)
2015
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V: WaveTercets / Losing L'una
2014
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House of Trust (with Ian Hatcher)
2014
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Dragon Logic
2013
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Duels-Duets (with Nick Montfort)
2013
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Sea and Spar Between (with Nick Montfort)
2010
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Zone : Zero
2008
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slippingglimpse (with Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo and Paul Ryan)
2007
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Versus Vega: Precessing (with Jason Nelson)
2005
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V : Vniverse (with Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo)
2002
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V: WaveSon.nets / Losing L’una
2002
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Errand Upon Which We Came (with M.D. Coverley)
2001
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The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot
1999
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To Be Here as Stone Is (with M.D. Coverley)
1999
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True North
1997
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The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil
1993