R E B E C C A K O S I C K
Rebecca Kosick is Associate Professor of Comparative Poetry and Poetics in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol where she also co-directs the Bristol Poetry Institute. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Cornell University.
Rebecca is the author of Labor Day (Golias Books 2020) and Material Poetics in Hemispheric America: Words and Objects, 1950-2010 (Edinburgh University Press 2020) as well as editor-translator of Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics (Soberscove and Winter Editions 2023). Her next book, Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press is forthcoming from Wayne State University Press in 2026. She has also published numerous articles, essays, and other fragments that address, translate, or are themselves poetry. She grew up in Michigan, occupied Potawatomi lands.
Poetry
My debut poetry collection, Labor Day, is available from Golias Books. You can also find my poems in the Small Press chapbook, Maths Poems; in the Poetry Project’s magazine, The Recluse; in Fence; in Luigi Ten Co; in Action, Spectacle; and elsewhere. For copies of Labor Day in the UK, try EBB or Bookhaus.
Translation
My translation of Hélio Oiticica’s Secret Poetics is available from Soberscove and Winter Editions. For the same publishers, I am currently editing and translating a new book of Oiticica’s prose writing published between 1960 and 1980. Find more of my translations in The Iowa Review, ecopoesia.com, Jukub, and Bailliwik.
Scholarship
My first monograph, Material Poetics in Hemispheric America, is available from Edinburgh University Press. My next academic book, Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press will be out from Wayne State University Press in 2026. More about my research can be found on my university website here.
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