Jonathan Skinner

Faculty, Language and Thinking Program

Biography: Jonathan Skinner (B.A., St. John's College; B.A., University of Oxford; M.A., University College London; Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo) founded and edits the journal ecopoetics, which features creative-critical intersections between writing and ecology. His poetry collections include Birds of Tifft (BlazeVOX, 2011) and Political Cactus Poems (Palm Press, 2005). Skinner has published critical essays on Charles Olson, Ronald Johnson, Lorine Niedecker, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Bernadette Mayer, translations of French poetry and garden theory, essays on bird song from the perspective of ethnopoetics, and essays on horizontal concepts such as the Third Landscape, and on Documentary Poetry. Currently, he is writing a book of investigative poems on the urban landscapes of Frederick Law Olmsted, and a critical book on Animal Transcriptions in contemporary poetry.
Phone: 845-758-7141
Website: https://languageandthinking.bard.edu
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