Craig Dworkin

Dworkin earned his B.A. from Stanford University and his PhD from University of California, Berkeley. He is a poet, critic, editor, and currently a professor at the University of Utah.

Dworkin has written a number of books of poetry, including The Pine-Woods Notebook (Kenning Editions, 2019), Def (Information As Material, 2018), Twelve Erroneous Displacements and a Fact (Information As Material, 2016), and Alkali (Counterpath Press, 2015). Dworkin is the author of four scholarly monographs: Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality (University of Chicago Press, 2020); Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography (Fordham University Press, 2020); No Medium (MIT Press, 2013), in which he discusses works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent; and Reading the Illegible (Northwestern University Press, 2003). Edited collections include Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, co-edited with Kenneth Goldsmith (Northwestern University Press, 2011), The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound, co-edited with Marjorie Perloff (University of Chicago Press, 2009), and The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics (Roof Books, 2008). He has published articles in such diverse journals as October, Grey Room, Contemporary Literature, PMLA, and Critical Inquiry.[2]

Dworkin runs Eclipse,[3] an online archive focusing on digital facsimiles of radical small-press writing from the last quarter of the 20th century.

• Eclipse Editor
• Eclipse Archive