Christine Hume

Christine Hume (born 1968) is an American poet and essayist. Christine Hume is the author of three books of poetry, Musca Domestica (2000), Alaskaphrenia (2004), and Shot (2010) and six prose chapbooks, Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense (Ugly Duckling Press, 2008), Ventifacts (Omnidawn Press, 2012), Hum (Dikembe Press, 2014), Atalanta: an Anatomy (Essay Press, 2016), Question Like a Face (Image Text Ithaca, 2017), a collaboration with Jeff Clark and Red: A Different Shade for Each Person Reading the Story (PANK Books, 2020). She is faculty in the Creative Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University.

Life[]

Hume received her BA, MFA, and PhD degrees from Penn State University, Columbia University School of the Arts, and University of Denver, respectively. She has taught at Stuyvesant High School, Illinois Wesleyan University, The School of the Art Institute in Chicago and is currently a Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University, where she has worked since 2001.^[1] Hume has written and lectured on sound poetry, audio documentary poetics, voice, and radio from a feminist perspective. From 2006 to 2010 she hosted an internet radio program, Poetry Radio, featuring contemporary and historic performance arts, sound poetry, audio narratives, sound art, and collaborations between writers and musicians. She has collaborated on sonic arrangements for her work with Stephen Vitiello, Gregory Whitehead, Ben Miller, and other musicians. In the last decade, Hume's creative interests have shifted to creative nonfiction.

In 2002, she was one of two Americans invited to an international festival, “Days of Poetry and Wine” in Slovenia; in 2006, she taught a poetry workshop in St. Petersburgh for Summer Literary Seminars, and in 2012 she taught a writing workshop on the walk in Lisbon for Disquiet: Dzanc Books International Literary Program.

Awards[]

• Barnard Women Poets Prize 1999
• Green Rose Award
• 2005 Best Book of the Year Award, Small Press Traffic
• Fine Arts Work Center Fellow 1998-99
• Wurlitzer Foundation 2000
• Fund For Poetry 2002
• MacDowell Colony residency 2003

Works[]

Musca Domestica, Hume's first book of poetry and winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize, was published in 2000 by Beacon Press. Her second book, Alaskaphrenia, winner of the Green Rose Award and Small Press Traffic's Best Book of 2004 Award, was published in 2004 by New Issues. Her most recent book, Shot, was published in 2010 by Counterpath Press. Her chapbook, a text image collaboration with her partner, Jeff Clark, Question Like a Face (ITI Press, 2017) was one of The Brooklyn Rail's"Best Nonfiction Book of 2017."

Her prose and criticism have appeared in Harper's, Architecture and Culture, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Contemporary Literature, Disability Studies Quarterly, Rain Taxi, Chicago Review, How2, Afgabe, Constant Critic, Womens Studies Quarterly as well as three volumes of a series by Wesleyan University Press, Poets in the 21st Century. In 2019, she edited and introduced a #MeToo focus of American Book Review.^[2]

• "Halloween and Stranger Danger," Boston Review
• "LUNAR HALO", Typo 6
• "Noctilucent Elegy"; "Ward"; "Her Night Lamb", Coconut 7
• Various Readings of an Illegible Postcard
• Musca Domestica. Beacon Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8070-6859-5.
• Alaskaphrenia. Western Michigan University. 2004. ISBN 978-1-930974-40-1.
• Lullaby, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007 (a chapbook)

Anthologies[]

• James Tate; David Lehman, eds. (1997). "Helicopter on a Hill". Best American Poetry 1997. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-81452-0.
• Gerald Costanzo; Jim Daniels, eds. (2000). American Poetry: the Next Generation. Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0-88748-343-1.
• No Crossing Guards (University of Iowa 2004)
• Brett Fletcher Lauer, Aimee Kelley, ed. (November 1, 2004). Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets. Wave Books. ISBN 978-0-9746353-1-6.
• Brian Henry; Andrew Zawacki, eds. (2005). The Verse Book of Interviews: 27 Poets on Language, Craft & Culture. Wave Books. ISBN 978-0-9746353-5-4.
• Michael Dumanis, Cate Marvin, ed. (2006). Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. Sarabande. ISBN 978-1-932511-29-1.
• Catherine Wagner; Rebecca Wolff, eds. (2007). Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing. Fence. ISBN 978-0-9771064-8-6.
• Christina Mengert; Joshua Marie Wilkinson, eds. (2008). 12x12. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-1-58729-791-5.

References[]

External links[]

• "Christine Hume", Elective Affinities, October 5, 2010
• "Christine Hume", Here Comes Everybody, June 25, 2005