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 historical avant-garde, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and linguistics.Professional Biography
My most recent books of poetry include My Earliest Person (The Last Books, 2025) and Comeback Death (Krupskaya, 2024).The best way to read my poetry is to access a physical copy.
My critical monograph Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2025 and explores the relationship between poetic composition and the absence or failure of memory. 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: Poetry as Forgetting was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2025 and explores the relationship between poetic composition and the absence or failure of memory. 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
