Jennifer Soong
Assistant Professor in Creative Writing, Poetry
Sturm Hall, 2000 East Asbury Avenue Denver, CO 80210
What I do
I am a poet and scholar of poetry and poetics, with a focus on modern and contemporary Anglophone literature. I am also interested in aesthetics, small press publishing, critical theory, the avant-garde, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and linguistics.Professional Biography
I am the author of several works of poetry, including My Earliest Person (forthcoming with The Last Books, 2025), Comeback Death (Krupskaya, 2024) and Suede Mantis / Soft Rage (Black Sun Lit, 2022). The best way to read my poetry is to access a physical copy.
My critical monograph Slips of the Mind, which explores the relationship between poetry and forgetting, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in the spring of 2025. I have also written about a wide range of topics, including the pronoun "it" in lyric poetry, the figure of the minor poet, Tan Lin, the New York School, John Wieners, and J.H. Prynne. These essays can be found at Critical Inquiry, Modernism/modernity, Textual Practice, Post45, and the Journal of Modern Literature.
I joined the Department of English and Literary Arts at DU in 2023. Prior to that I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford. I received my PhD from Princeton and my BA from Harvard.
My critical monograph Slips of the Mind, which explores the relationship between poetry and forgetting, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in the spring of 2025. I have also written about a wide range of topics, including the pronoun "it" in lyric poetry, the figure of the minor poet, Tan Lin, the New York School, John Wieners, and J.H. Prynne. These essays can be found at Critical Inquiry, Modernism/modernity, Textual Practice, Post45, and the Journal of Modern Literature.
I joined the Department of English and Literary Arts at DU in 2023. Prior to that I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford. I received my PhD from Princeton and my BA from Harvard.
Degree(s)
- Ph.D., English, Princeton University, 2021
- AB, English, with a secondary in Visual and Environmental Studies (Studio), Harvard College, 2014
