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Project Website (with 30 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11002/
Norma Cole is a poet, painter and translator. Her most recent poetry publication is Spinoza in Her Youth (Omnidawn Press, January 2002). SCOUT, a text/image work, is forthcoming from Krupskaya Editions in CD-ROM format. Among her poetry books are MARS, MOIRA and Contrafact. Current translation work includes Danielle Collobert’s Journals, Fouad Gabriel Naffah’s The Spirit God and the Properties of Nitrogen, Anne Portugal’s Nude and Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France. She has edited special issues of both Chain and Avec magazine, and with Stacy Doris co-edited a translation issue of Raddle Moon. Cole has been the recipient of a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award, Gertrude Stein Awards, as well as awards from The Fund for Poetry. “Poetics of Vertigo,” Cole’s George Oppen Memorial Lecture, won the Robert D. Richardson Non-Fiction Award. Cole and Boston photographer Ben E. Watkins won the Purchase Award for their photo/text collaboration, "They Flatter Almost Recognize." Other collaborations include A Library Book with poet Michael Palmer, We Address with painter Amy Trachtenberg, and Catasters, a text/paste up collaboration with visual artist Jess. Residencies include the Center for Poetry and Translation at Djerassi, Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, the Fondation Royaumont in France, Louisiana State University, the Kootenay School, the Naropa Institute, and Brown University. She teaches at San Francisco State University, the University of San Francisco and is on the faculty of the MFA program at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. A Canadian by birth, Cole migrated via France to San Francisco where she has lived since 1977.
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