Susan Briante is a poet, essayist, writer, translator, and teacher. Her books include Defacing the Monument, The Market Wonders, Utopia Minus, and Pioneers in the Study of Motion. Briante writes creative nonfiction and essays on documentary poetics as well as on the relationship between place and cultural memory. Some of these can be found in the Gulf Coast, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Creative Nonfiction, Rethinking History, Jacket2, and The Believer. Her poems and essays been collected in the anthologies Poems for Political Diaster (Boston Review), The Force of What’s Possible, The Volta Book of Poets, Devouring the Green, The Arcadia Project: The North American Postmodern Pastoral, Starting Today: Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days, The Sonnets: Rewriting Shakespeare, and An Introduction to the Prose Poem among others. Briante has received grants and awards from the Atlantic Monthly, the MacDowell Colony, the Academy of American Poets, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund and the US-Mexico Fund for Culture.
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Broader Histories: On Susan Briante’s “Defacing the Monument”
Marie Scarles considers “Defacing the Monument” by Susan Briante....
The Limit of Lyrical Thinking: A Conversation with Susan Briante
Roberto Tejada talks with Susan Briante about migration, documentary poetics, and her new book “Defacing the Monument.”...
