POETRY
Books
Equivalents, collection of poetry, Lost Roads Press, 2013. Winner of the Besmilr Brigham Women Writers Prize. See St. Louis Magazine blog piece about the book, press and prize.
Late and Soon, Getting and Spending, letterpress chapbook of prose poems, All Along Press, 2011.
Remains to Be Used, collection of ekphrastic poetry, Apostrophe Books, 2010. See review by Dan Magers in Harp & Altar #9.
less like an object more like the weather, poem for exhibition catalogue, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 2013.
The Harp & Altar Anthology, select poems, Ellipsis Press, 2010.
Journals
POOL, (forthcoming 2013).
Jet Fuel Review, April, 2013.
The Awl, March, 2013.
Harp & Altar #10, Spring 2013.
Weekday #3, Fall 2012.
BOMB Magazine, Summer 2012.
Projector #4, Summer 2012.
Sink Review #6, September 2010.
Tusculum Review, Summer 2009.
52nd City #6, July 2007.
Harp & Altar #1, Fall 2006.
Projects
366 Skies, a year-long collaborative work with artists Gina Alvarez & Amy Thompson. This project won a 2012 Critical Mass Creative Stimulus Award.
Reviews
Harp & Altar #8, November 2010, “Learning Again What We Think We Know,” review of Brandon Downing’s Lake Antiquity.
Other
With poet Jennifer Kronovet, I co-curate the fort gondo poetry series.
The Next Big Thing: internet chain-letter/self-interview about Equivalents, on Jennifer Kronovet’s blog.
“These are my greatest hits,” LINES essay, April 2013, Lost Roads Press blog.
Painter Eva Lundsager chose a line from my poem “Atlantis” as the title of her September 2011 exhibition at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York — “And Stillness is There and Then Some”.
The Riverfront Times, August 2012, profile of poet Stephanie Pippin.
ART WRITING
The Riverfront Times, ongoing arts column for St. Louis’s alternative news weekly.
RFT Music, May 2013, interview with Patti Smith.
BOMBsite.com, April 2013, interview with Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt.
Art in America, December 2012, review of B. Wurtz, White Flag Projects.
Art in America, September 2012, review of Chelsea Knight, Saint Louis Art Museum.
Art Papers, July 2012, review of Brandon Anschultz’s Pacer, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Art in America, May 2012, review of Balazs Kicsiny: Killing Time, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
The Riverfront Times, April 2012, “Sign of (Old) Times: Bill Christman preserves St. Louis history.” Exhibition profile, with slideshow.
Art Papers, January 2012, review of Adrian Kellard: The Learned Art of Compassion, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art.
Art in America, December 2011, review of David Noonan, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
Art Papers, September 2011, review of Wonder Koch & Eliza Newman-Saul’s What’s the Use?, Snowflake Gallery.
Catalogue essay for Lisa Bulawsky’s Four Chapters in the Present We Were.
Graphic Impressions, SGC International Newsletter, Summer 2011, “Anyway Autobiography Is Easy Like It or Not Autobiography Is Easy for Any One And So This Is to Be Everybody’s Autobiography,” essay for Everybody’s Autobiography exhibition.
Art Papers, July 2011, review of Cosima von Bonin: Character Appropriation, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Art Papers, May 2011, review of Jessica Stockholder’s Grab grassy this moment your I’s, Laumeier Sculpture Park.
TAR Magazine, Spring 2011, “The Grave is a Fine and Private Place,” essay accompanying Aurel Schmidt’s “Voodoo Dolls.”
The Riverfront Times, April 2011, “The Graduate: Artist Tom Friedman Goes Back to Where it All Began: High School.” Artist Profile.
BOMB Magazine, Summer 2010, “First Proof,” introduction to a portfolio of Eva Lundsager watercolors.
The Daily RFT, April 2009, “It Is What It Is: A Bombed-Out Car from Baghdad Arrives in the Loop,” blog post on Jeremy Deller and Tris Vonna-Michell performances.
The Daily RFT, February 2009, “Now See Here: Kevin Harris Installation at Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts.”
Last Exit Magazine, December 2007, “A Little Human Touch,” review of Jason Rhodes’ Black Pussy, David Zwirner Gallery, and Walter de Maria’s New York Earth Room.
The Village Voice, May 2007, “Let’s Be Frank,” review of Jason Meadows’ Frame Narrative, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Magnetic Highway, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts MFA Satellite exhibit, May 18, 2013.
Contact: Mike Newton, fort gondo compound for the arts, May 4 - June 1, 2013.
Mamie Tinkler, fort gondo compound for the arts, March 23 - April 20, 2013.
All That Heaven Allows: Benjamin Edelberg & Brandon Anschultz, fort gondo compound for the arts, January 19 - February 23, 2013
Ideas of Order: Gina Alvarez, John Early, Wonder Koch & Peter Pranschke, COCA, September 28-November 18, 2012.
Day of the Locust, White Flag Projects, November 3-December 10, 2011.
Everybody’s Autobiography: Robert Gober and Kerry James Marshall, SGC International Curated Exhibition at COCA, March 17-April 24, 2011.
All of This And Nothing, Saint Louis Artists’ Guild, November 12, 2010-January 7, 2011.
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: The True Praxis of Dotty Page, Willy Nilly & the Book of Roof, Read Daily by Savant in the Cathedral of St. Anamnesis, & the Sacred Dentures of Emma Street, the Front Room at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, April 30-May 23, 2010.
READINGS / WORKSHOPS
Readings
Left Bank Books, April 2013, St. Louis, MO, with Jennifer Kronovet.
Poet-in-residence, March 2013, CCS Bard, NY, in conjunction with the exhibition None the Wiser, curated by Marie Heilich.
AWP (Off-Site @ The Distillary), March 2013, Boston, MA, with poets from Coconut Books, 1913, and Horse Less Press.
The Hinge, February 2013, St. Louis, MO, with David Schuman.
Burning Chair Reading Series, October, 2012, Fayetteville, AR, with Adam Clay, Keith Newton & Johnathon Williams.
Principia College, September 2012, Elsah, IL.
DIALing up an Epiphany: Hello Modernism at the Pulitzer Foundation, September 2012, St. Louis, group reading.
River Styx’s Hungry Young Poets Series, August 2012, St. Louis, MO, group reading.
Observable Readings, May 2012, St. Louis, MO, with Joshua Corey and Brian Teare.
Celebrating Poetry in St. Louis, April 2012, St. Louis, MO, group reading.
A Common Sense Reading Series, April 2012, Kansas City, MO, with Phil Estes and Dan Magers.
University of Missouri, Kansas City, April 2012, with Dan Magers.
Buddhism and the Beats at the Pulitzer Foundation, December 2011, St. Louis, group reading.
The Birds Are Acting Weird, October 2011, St. Louis, MO, with Eric Lundgren, Wonder Koch and David Schuman.
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, September 2011, New York, NY, with Sally Van Doren.
BONK!, April 2011, Racine, WI, with Joel Craig.
Golden Age, April 2011, Chicago, IL, with a screening of Robert Altman’s “3 Women”, 1977.
Possess Nothing: A Small Press Event, February 2011, AWP Washington D.C., group reading.
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, January 2011, with Mary Jo Bang.
Possess Nothing: A Small Press Event, March 2010, AWP Denver, CO., group reading.
Readings Between A & B, 2007, New York, NY, with Bob Hicok and Mary Austin Speaker.
Harp & Altar Inaugural Reading, November 2006, New York, NY, with Andrea Baker and Michael Zeiss.
Workshops
Art Writing, MFA seminar, Washington University St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art, Spring / Fall 2013.
St. Louis University’s Inside Out Speaker Series, Bonne Terre, MO, March 2013, with artist Brian Calvin.
Sunday Poetry Workshop, September 2012, St. Louis, MO.
Art Writing Workshop, July 2012, PLUG Projects, Kansas City, MO.
How to Write an Art Review, August 2011, Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, MO.
ABOUT
Jessica Baran lives in St. Louis, Missouri with her husband and four dogs.
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