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  • J. Mae Barizo

    Chair of the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program and Assistant Professor of Writing-Multi-genre

    Email
    jmaebarizo@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    J. Mae Barizo

    Profile

    J. Mae Barizo is a poet, essayist and multidisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of poetics, performance and decoloniality. She is the author of two books of poetry. Pink Noise, a book of hybrid essays on John Cage and the poetics of sound was a finalist for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and the Megaphone Prize. Her work has been anthologized in books published by W.W. Norton, Atelier Editions and Harvard University Press. An advocate of cross-disciplinary work, she has collaborated with artists such as Salman Rushdie, Mark Morris and the American String Quartet. As a librettist, she is the inaugural recipient of Opera America's IDEA residency; DRIFT, her opera (written with composer Alyssa Weinberg) on migration and climate change, is in development at the National Opera Center. A 2024 Artist in Residence at Baryshnikov Arts Center, she is also the recipient of fellowships and awards from Bennington College, the MAP Fund, Mellon Foundation, Critical Minded, Jerome Foundation and Poets House.

     


    Recent Publications

    Tender Machines, 2023

    The Cumulus Effect, 2015


    Performances and Appearances

    ISOLA, Long Beach Opera and Princeton University 

    Unbroken, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis 

    Bomb Interview with J. Mae Barizo, BOMB Magazine 


    Research Interests

    Contemporary Poetics, Performance, Decoloniality, Radically Inclusive Pedagogy and Curricula, Hybrid Studies.


    Current Courses

    Poetry Workshop
    NWRG 5100, Fall 2024

    Future Courses

    Creative Thesis & Lit. Project
    NWRG 5920, Spring 2025

    Global Citizen Initiative
    NWRW 0003, Summer 2025

    Honors Program: Thesis
    NWRW 4950, Spring 2025

    TNS: Multi Arts/Writing Wkshp
    NWRW 3980, Spring 2025

    Past Courses

    Creative Thesis & Lit. Project
    NWRG 5920, Spring 2024

    Global Citizen Initiative
    NWRW 0003, Summer 2024

    Honors Program: Thesis
    NWRW 4950, Spring 2024

    Independent Study
    NSBA 3900, Spring 2024

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