BK Fischer is the author of four books of poetry, My Lover’s Discourse (Tinderbox, 2018), Radioapocrypha (The Journal/Wheeler Prize, Mad Creek, 2018), St. Rage’s Vault (Washington Prize, The Word Works, 2013), and Mutiny Gallery (T.S. Eliot Prize, Truman State, 2011), as well as a critical study, Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry (Routledge, 2006). Her poems and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Jacket2, FIELD, WSQ, Ninth Letter, Blackbird, Los Angeles Review of Books, Modern Language Studies, and elsewhere. A former poetry editor of Boston Review, she teaches in the School of the Arts at Columbia University.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Arias of Dissonance: On “NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified)”
B. K. Fischer considers “NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified)” by Aby Kaupang and Matthew Cooperman....
Shake Forth a Nest: Feminist Ekphrasis and the Example of Louise Bourgeois
B.K. Fischer uses the visceral sculptural works of Louise Bourgeois to examine the evolution of ekphrasis as a tool and an inspiration in feminist American poetry....
Poets’ Roundtable on Person and Persona, Part 3
Click here for Part 1 of the Poets' Roundtable on Person and Persona Click here for Part 2 of the Poets' ...
