Patrick Durgin

Into the Field from Jacket2.org

I met up with Patrick Durgin at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches literature, writing, and critical theory. Patrick has published books and journals under the Kenning Editions imprint since 1998, during which time he's lived in a number of poetry-rich locales: Iowa City, the Bay Area, Buffalo, Ypsilanti, and now the Windy City. In 2004 he earned his Ph.D. in the SUNY-Buffalo Poetics Program. Patrick's latest book is The Route (Atelos, 2008), a collaboration with Jen Hofer. His essay "New Life Writing," on the writing practices of Jackson Mac Low and Hannah Weiner, recently appeared in Jacket2.