Faculty
Carmen Giménez Smith
Assistant Professor
Email:
carmen@noemipress.org
Office Address:
New Mexico State University
Department of English
P.O. Box 30001, MSC 3E
Las Cruces, NM 88003
Phone:
(575) 646-4338
Fax:
(575) 646-7725
Biographical Statement
- M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of Iowa
- B.A. English, San Jose State University
I grew up in California and studied at San Jose State University with Alan Soldofsky, Virginia de Araujo and Samuel Maio. I went on to study creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop where I was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. I am an associate editor for Puerto del Sol and a contributing editor for Tusculum Review. I am publisher for Noemi Press (www.noemipress.org) and live in Las Cruces with my husband Evan Lavender-Smith and our two children.
Research and Creative Interests
I am interested in poetry since modernism and particularly the poetries of avant-garde movements. I teach a book arts class in which we explore the relationship between form and content in artist's books and collaborative books. I like to promote small publishing culture. I am also very interested in fairy tales and hybridized forms of writing including the lyric essay.
Courses Recently Taught
- ENGL 220: Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENGL 306: Poetry Writing
- ENGL 363: Children’s Literature
- ENGL 414: Advanced Creative Writing, Poetry
- ENGL 535: Form and Technique of Poetry: Poetics
- ENGL 575: Graduate Workshop
- ENGL 580: Intersections in Text and Art
Teaching Statement
The creative writing MFA in poetry is an apprenticeship to the long and varied history of poetry that precedes each poet, but it is also the occasion for the poet to consider what important risks he or she is to take in his or her work and how is he or she going to change the terms of their art for the good of the art in general. The workshop is one of many occasions in this program to begin to interrogate what one does in their work, how and why.
Selected and Recent Publications
Chapbooks
Casanova Variations published by Dos Press (forthcoming 2008) (http://www.dospress.blogspot.com/)
Anthologies
poems in Floricanto Si! U.S. Latina Poets (Penguin 1998)
short story in New Voices: Young Latino Writers (Bantam Dell 1997)
short story in An Intricate Weave (Iris Editions 1997)
poems in Contextos: Poemas (Moving Parts Press 1994)
Magazines (poetry)
Individual poems have appeared in:
26
100 Words
American Letters and Commentary
Bilingual Review
Boston Review
Brooklyn Rail
canwehaveourballback
Chicago Review
Diode
Fairy Tale Review
Fourteen Hills Review
Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies
jubilat
Kalliope
Near South
nocturnes
Poet Lore
Poetry Magazine
POOL: A Journal of Poetry
Provincetown Arts
Shampoo Poetry
Tusculum Review
Xantippe
and are forthcoming in Ocho, Mandorla and Brooklyn Rail