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ROBO_PO: A Robot Poetry Reading
"Dear Humans" by Dana Teen Lomax University of Sussex, June 29, 2021 This poetry reading given by a robot was followed by a panel discussion. The robot is Cleo, a Mesmer realistic humanoid robot designed and built by Engineered Arts. This event was part of the Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre at the University of Sussex Robot Opera research project. The event took place as part of Robo_Po /// Robo_Op, in June 2021, at the Creativity Zone at the University of Sussex and online. |
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 Each author here, each photographer here, each moment here can change your life. —Juan Felipe Herrera
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A collection of original prose and poetry that ranges from thoughtful to provocative and from experimental to really far-out. Adventurous writings for literary risk-takers and thrill-seekers. —Kirkus Reviews
••• Creative Work Fund Grant Recipient •••
Johns Hopkins University Press Lion & Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Literature
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This courageous and visionary book enacts and embodies a concrete "relational aesthetics" that gives poetic voices an epistolary space — for linguistic intimacy and soul-sharing. Don't miss it!
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Dana Teen Lomax shows her ass and makes you want to kiss it. Bear with me and I’ll explain... —Eileen Tabios
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Dana Teen Lomax's work navigates the vexed relations of life behind the bars of the $$, where gender, race, and class are not merely "discourses" but lived vectors of experience, and where the logic of exchange value mediates that experience to the point where "the $u$pen$e i$ in the death toll$."—David Buuck
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"-the-bigger-picture-" ©2025
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"Vivitocracy" Wesleyan University Press ©2018
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from "Disclosure" Northwestern University Press ©2011
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from "Disclosure" Palm Press ©2010
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"Lullaby" PM Press ©2007
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"Lullaby" and "Lullaby" O Books ©2007
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from "/We" Faux Press ©2006
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Small Press Traffic kicked off its 50th anniversary year on Janaury 27, 2024 with an evening of dancing, poetry, and prizes. Curated by Noah Ross, Jocelyn Saidenberg, and Robin Tremblay-McGaw, the event features nine poets who served various roles in Small Press Traffic’s development as former directors, organizers, readers, and participants — Norma Cole, Tonya Foster, Samantha Giles, Robert Glück, Owen Hill, Dana Teen Lomax, Camille Roy, Juliana Spahr, and Elizabeth Treadwell (Thomas Dunn reading for Treadwell) — who each selected a poem of their choice by another poet. Dana Teen Lomax reads the work of Myung Mi Kim at SPT's "THE PARTY." |
PUBLICATIONS, PERFORMANCES, AND PANELS
2025
excerpts from "-unnamed-relation-," Winter in America (Again), Carbonation Press, 2025
Hive Poetry Collective Radio Show (S7 E4), "-the-bigger-picture-" Winter in America (Again, 2025
excerpts from "-unnamed-relation-," AWP Reading at Cal State LA, Winter in America (Again), Carbonation Press, 2025, Work read by Jill Stengel
excerpts from Celluloid Poetics Film Chapbook, Vita Arts Open Studio Presentation, Ventura, California
2024
excerpts from Shhh! Poems for a Tired Nation, Poetry Appreciation, ed. Yongbo Ma, China, Summer, 2024
excerpts from "-unnamed-relation-," LAdige Review, "California Poets, Part 7," ed. David Garyan, Italy, July 1, 2024
THE PARTY, Small Press Traffic's 50th Anniversary at 31:50, reading the work of Myung Mi Kim from Commons.
2023
Shadow and Light Exhibit, curated by Beau Beausoleil
Photograph and poem to Abdel Aziz al Jazem at P21 Gallery London, Pentacrest Museum: University of Iowa, and elsewhere
2022
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Convenings Grant, THE BEAUTIFUL POETS
Arion Press Limited Broadside Printing and Featured Reader, “Lullaby” from Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, San Francisco, California
Gualala Arts Exhibit and Reading, THE BEAUTIFUL: Poets Reimagine a Nation
Point Arena Reading Series: Third Thursday hosted by Blake More, Featured Reader via zoom
Disclosure presented at Hybridity in Life Writing: How Text and Images Work Together to Tell a Life, Colloque international, Paris
2021
Poet-in-Residence, Gualala Arts Center Gualala, California
excerpt from unnamed relation, American Poetry Review
excerpt from unnamed relation Interim (print version)
excerpt from unnamed relation, Touch the Donkey, Rob Mclennan, Editor
excerpt from unnamed relation, ZaZa
excerpt from unnamed relation, Pi Review
“Dear Humans,” Robo Po, University of Sussex, England (10:27-11:00)
2020
"Democracy Lessons" submission, Jacket2, November 6 2020
"the-in-between," The Elderly's END CAPITALISM NOW, July 4, 2020, pages 100-102
2019
Featured Artist, What I'm Reading Now, Taurpaulin Sky
Featured Reader, LOBA Reading Series, Ukiah Library, THE BEAUTIFUL
Affordable Housing Happening, Downtown San Rafael, California, Keening and Mourning for Marin
Conference Panelist, NOLA Poetry Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana Black Radish Books, Poets on the Essay
Conference Panelist, AWP Off-site Reading, Daedalus Books, Portland, Oregon, Ekphrasis and the Poet
2018
Conference Panelist, NOLA Poetry Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana Black Radish Books, THE BEAUTIFUL
Conference Panelist, &Now Poetry Festival, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame Indiana, Counter-Desecration: Critical Making for Catastrophic Times
Conference Panelist, &Now Poetry Festival, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame Indiana, From Condensary to Essay: A Reading
Conference Panelist, &Now Poetry Festival, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame Indiana, Anger, Grief, Empathy, and Hope: Remembering Marthe Reed as an Activist and Social Justice Poet
2016
Performer, Small Press Traffic: Poets’ Theater Inside The Earthquake Palace
2014
Conference Panelist, AWP Conference, Seattle, WA The Myth of the Inaccessible: Teaching Experimental Poetry in the Community
Guest Lecturer, Columbia University Preparatory School Avant-garde Poetry in the Classroom
Performer and Curator, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA Femshi: Feminist NeoBenshi
2012
Conference Panelist, AWP Conference, Chicago, IL Experiments for the Future: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children
Weekly Podcast from KUSF in Exile, Poet as Radio, edited by Delia Tramontia, Nicholas Leaskou, and Jay Thomas
2011
& Now Conference Panelist, UC San Diego Toward An Aberrant Future
Featured Reader, San Francisco Beat Museum, Ping Pong! Celebration Shhh! Poems for a Tired Nation
Conference Panelist, AWP Conference, Washington D.C. Unite!: Acts of Radical Poetic Collaboration
Mentor Poet, Mills College, Oakland The Writer’s Life
2010
Guest Lecturer, Santa Clara University Creative Writing & Social Justice
Guest Lecturer, University of San Francisco Collaboration in Creative Writing
Guest Lecturer, San Francisco School of the Arts Creative Writing in Response to Crisis
Guest Panelist, San Francisco State University The Business of Creative Writing
Guest Lecturer, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
Guest Panelist, Performing Arts Workshop’s Professional Development Day, San Francisco, California Gertrude Stein in Juvenile Hall
Conference Panelist, California Poets in the Schools Annual Conference, Petaluma, California Poetics and Experiment in the Classroom Environment
Featured Reader, Bay Area Video Coalition/San Francisco Poetry Shhh! Poems for a Tired Nation
Featured Reader, Kokoro Gallery/Flat Earth Collective Reading Shhh! Poems for a Tired Nation
Featured Reader, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin County 3 Performance Pieces: Famous, Tired, and Desert
2009
Guest Lecturer, CalArts, Valencia California Political Poetry & Mentorship
Guest Lecturer, San Francisco Poetry Center Poetics, Politics, & Community
Guest Lecturer, The New School, New York, New York Poetics, Politics, & Community
Guest Lecturer, Santa Clara University Creative Writing & Social Justice
Guest Lecturer, San Francisco School of the Arts Literature & Experiment
Guest Panelist, San Francisco State University The Business of Creative Writing
Featured Reader, Canessa Gallery Series, San Francisco, California Disclosure
Featured Reader, The Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles, California Disclosure
2008
Conference Panelist, AWP Conference, New York, New York Letters To Poets: Conversations in Poetics, Politics, & Community
Featured Reader, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California Curren¢y
2007
Guest Panelist, San Francisco State University The Business of Creative Writing
Featured Reader, City Lights Books, San Francisco, California Curren¢y
Featured Reader, San Francisco Poetry Marathon, The Lab Curren¢y
2006
Featured Reader, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, New York, New York Curren¢y
2004
Featured Reader, Expression College of New Media, Emeryville, California The Work of Creative Writing
2003 Featured Reader, Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, California Poets Against the War
Guest Lecturer, Santa Clara University Poetry & Performance
2002
Featured Reader, Tower Books, Sacramento, California All the Words on Money
2000
Featured Poet, City Search: Local Howlers, San Francisco, California Room
1998
Featured Artist, ODC Gallery, San Francisco, California Text for “Picture Book”
1997
Conference Panelist, Chaparral Valley Poets’ Conference, Empire, California Poets in the Schools
1995
Featured Reader, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco California Bachelor Party Poems
POETRY
Full Length Collections
2020
THE BEAUTIFUL, Dana Teen Lomax Editor
2014
Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children, Black Radish Books, Dana Teen Lomax Editor
2011
Disclosure, Black Radish Books
2008
Curren¢y, Palm Press
Discrete Poems
2020
"the-in-between," The Elderly, Anti-Capitalism Issue
2011
“Lullaby 17” Eleven Eleven (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
“Lullaby 16” “Lullaby 20” Ping Pong!
“Lullaby 19” “Lullaby 18” “All Made Up” Delirious Hem
2010
“Lullaby 12” Poets for Living Waters
“Lullaby 11” bone bouquet
“Lullaby 15” “Lullaby 7” Dusie Kollektiv #4
2009
“In This Life” Concise Delight
“Lullaby & Goodnight” Delirious Hem
from “Disclosure” Work Magazine
from “Disclosure” Try
2008
“Lullaby 8” textsound, Issue #2
2007
“Lullaby 1” 580 Split, Mills College Review
“Lullaby 3”
2005
“Lullaby 10” Dusie
“In God” sonaweb
“We” “Trust” “Legal Tender” mem
2003
“Federal Reserve” Moria, Volume 6, Issue 2
“The Great Seal” Shampoo
“Of The United States” “Treasury” from “Note” 26
2000
“Meritocracy” 14 Hills
1999
“Public & Private” vert
1998
from “Room” Inscape, Volume iv
“Dialogue in Translation” Tripwire
“Endemic Lawrence” Outlet
“Circuitry” Transfer 76
1997
“Ode to Uncle Doug” Coracle, Volume 3
"Autograph #2” Crack
“Divided Skin” Convolvulus
1994
“Repositioning” Sonoma Mandala, Volume 20, 1993
“Lorena” “Why I Can’t Wait…” “Sleeping With Dean 2:54” Blueline
“Sleeping With Dean 3:36” Cape Rock
“Untitled” Rock Falls Review “First Aging Poem” Verve
“Entitled”
1993
“Race Line” El Andar
“Trust” La Gazette
“Edgewater” Graffiti #5
“Ad Lib” Sacred River
ESSAYS
2019
Marthe Reed, an unlikely revolutionary, Jacket2, ed. Linda Russo
2012
Tribute to Daniel Norman Lomax, The Disinhibitor, ed. Michael Cross
2010
“‘the difficulty’ (the necessity),” Delirious Hem, eds Cara Benson. Elizabeth Bryant, and Cathy Wagner “Childcare from the Avant-garde,” Otoliths, ed.
Mark Young
2009
“The Present Moment,” Building is a Process/Light is an Element, eds. Michael Cross and Andrew Rippeon
2007
“In This Effort,” Every Other Day, ed. Kate Greenstreet
2006
“A-Reading, Spicer & Eighteen Sonnets,” Traffic, ed. Elizabeth Treadwell
PLAYS
2007
On Wallace Steven’s Bowl, Cat, and Broomstick, Small Press Traffic’s Poets’ Theater Jubilee California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
2005
Fence/less, 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, California
2002
Pas de Deux, co-written with Danna Lomax, Small Press Traffic’s Poets’ Theater Jubilee, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
2025
excerpts from "-unnamed-relation-," Winter in America (Again), Carbonation Press, 2025
Hive Poetry Collective Radio Show (S7 E4), "-the-bigger-picture-" Winter in America (Again, 2025
excerpts from "-unnamed-relation-," AWP Reading at Cal State LA, Winter in America (Again), Carbonation Press, 2025, Work read by Jill Stengel
excerpts from Celluloid Poetics Film Chapbook, Vita Arts Open Studio Presentation, Ventura, California
2024
excerpts from Shhh! Poems for a Tired Nation, Poetry Appreciation, ed. Yongbo Ma, China, Summer, 2024
excerpts from "-unnamed-relation-," LAdige Review, "California Poets, Part 7," ed. David Garyan, Italy, July 1, 2024
THE PARTY, Small Press Traffic's 50th Anniversary at 31:50, reading the work of Myung Mi Kim from Commons.
2023
Shadow and Light Exhibit, curated by Beau Beausoleil
Photograph and poem to Abdel Aziz al Jazem at P21 Gallery London, Pentacrest Museum: University of Iowa, and elsewhere
2022
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Convenings Grant, THE BEAUTIFUL POETS
Arion Press Limited Broadside Printing and Featured Reader, “Lullaby” from Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, San Francisco, California
Gualala Arts Exhibit and Reading, THE BEAUTIFUL: Poets Reimagine a Nation
Point Arena Reading Series: Third Thursday hosted by Blake More, Featured Reader via zoom
Disclosure presented at Hybridity in Life Writing: How Text and Images Work Together to Tell a Life, Colloque international, Paris
2021
Poet-in-Residence, Gualala Arts Center Gualala, California
excerpt from unnamed relation, American Poetry Review
excerpt from unnamed relation Interim (print version)
excerpt from unnamed relation, Touch the Donkey, Rob Mclennan, Editor
excerpt from unnamed relation, ZaZa
excerpt from unnamed relation, Pi Review
“Dear Humans,” Robo Po, University of Sussex, England (10:27-11:00)
2020
"Democracy Lessons" submission, Jacket2, November 6 2020
"the-in-between," The Elderly's END CAPITALISM NOW, July 4, 2020, pages 100-102
2019
Featured Artist, What I'm Reading Now, Taurpaulin Sky
Featured Reader, LOBA Reading Series, Ukiah Library, THE BEAUTIFUL
Affordable Housing Happening, Downtown San Rafael, California, Keening and Mourning for Marin
Conference Panelist, NOLA Poetry Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana Black Radish Books, Poets on the Essay
Conference Panelist, AWP Off-site Reading, Daedalus Books, Portland, Oregon, Ekphrasis and the Poet
2018
Conference Panelist, NOLA Poetry Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana Black Radish Books, THE BEAUTIFUL
Conference Panelist, &Now Poetry Festival, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame Indiana, Counter-Desecration: Critical Making for Catastrophic Times
Conference Panelist, &Now Poetry Festival, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame Indiana, From Condensary to Essay: A Reading
Conference Panelist, &Now Poetry Festival, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame Indiana, Anger, Grief, Empathy, and Hope: Remembering Marthe Reed as an Activist and Social Justice Poet
2016
Performer, Small Press Traffic: Poets’ Theater Inside The Earthquake Palace
2014
Conference Panelist, AWP Conference, Seattle, WA The Myth of the Inaccessible: Teaching Experimental Poetry in the Community
Guest Lecturer, Columbia University Preparatory School Avant-garde Poetry in the Classroom
Performer and Curator, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA Femshi: Feminist NeoBenshi
2012
Conference Panelist, AWP Conference, Chicago, IL Experiments for the Future: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children
Weekly Podcast from KUSF in Exile, Poet as Radio, edited by Delia Tramontia, Nicholas Leaskou, and Jay Thomas
2011
& Now Conference Panelist, UC San Diego Toward An Aberrant Future
Featured Reader, San Francisco Beat Museum, Ping Pong! Celebration Shhh! Poems for a Tired Nation
Conference Panelist, AWP Conference, Washington D.C. Unite!: Acts of Radical Poetic Collaboration
Mentor Poet, Mills College, Oakland The Writer’s Life
2010
Guest Lecturer, Santa Clara University Creative Writing & Social Justice
Guest Lecturer, University of San Francisco Collaboration in Creative Writing
Guest Lecturer, San Francisco School of the Arts Creative Writing in Response to Crisis
Guest Panelist, San Francisco State University The Business of Creative Writing
Guest Lecturer, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
Guest Panelist, Performing Arts Workshop’s Professional Development Day, San Francisco, California Gertrude Stein in Juvenile Hall
Conference Panelist, California Poets in the Schools Annual Conference, Petaluma, California Poetics and Experiment in the Classroom Environment
Featured Reader, Bay Area Video Coalition/San Francisco Poetry Shhh! Poems for a Tired Nation
Featured Reader, Kokoro Gallery/Flat Earth Collective Reading Shhh! Poems for a Tired Nation
Featured Reader, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin County 3 Performance Pieces: Famous, Tired, and Desert
2009
Guest Lecturer, CalArts, Valencia California Political Poetry & Mentorship
Guest Lecturer, San Francisco Poetry Center Poetics, Politics, & Community
Guest Lecturer, The New School, New York, New York Poetics, Politics, & Community
Guest Lecturer, Santa Clara University Creative Writing & Social Justice
Guest Lecturer, San Francisco School of the Arts Literature & Experiment
Guest Panelist, San Francisco State University The Business of Creative Writing
Featured Reader, Canessa Gallery Series, San Francisco, California Disclosure
Featured Reader, The Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles, California Disclosure
2008
Conference Panelist, AWP Conference, New York, New York Letters To Poets: Conversations in Poetics, Politics, & Community
Featured Reader, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California Curren¢y
2007
Guest Panelist, San Francisco State University The Business of Creative Writing
Featured Reader, City Lights Books, San Francisco, California Curren¢y
Featured Reader, San Francisco Poetry Marathon, The Lab Curren¢y
2006
Featured Reader, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, New York, New York Curren¢y
2004
Featured Reader, Expression College of New Media, Emeryville, California The Work of Creative Writing
2003 Featured Reader, Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, California Poets Against the War
Guest Lecturer, Santa Clara University Poetry & Performance
2002
Featured Reader, Tower Books, Sacramento, California All the Words on Money
2000
Featured Poet, City Search: Local Howlers, San Francisco, California Room
1998
Featured Artist, ODC Gallery, San Francisco, California Text for “Picture Book”
1997
Conference Panelist, Chaparral Valley Poets’ Conference, Empire, California Poets in the Schools
1995
Featured Reader, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco California Bachelor Party Poems
POETRY
Full Length Collections
2020
THE BEAUTIFUL, Dana Teen Lomax Editor
2014
Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children, Black Radish Books, Dana Teen Lomax Editor
2011
Disclosure, Black Radish Books
2008
Curren¢y, Palm Press
Discrete Poems
2020
"the-in-between," The Elderly, Anti-Capitalism Issue
2011
“Lullaby 17” Eleven Eleven (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
“Lullaby 16” “Lullaby 20” Ping Pong!
“Lullaby 19” “Lullaby 18” “All Made Up” Delirious Hem
2010
“Lullaby 12” Poets for Living Waters
“Lullaby 11” bone bouquet
“Lullaby 15” “Lullaby 7” Dusie Kollektiv #4
2009
“In This Life” Concise Delight
“Lullaby & Goodnight” Delirious Hem
from “Disclosure” Work Magazine
from “Disclosure” Try
2008
“Lullaby 8” textsound, Issue #2
2007
“Lullaby 1” 580 Split, Mills College Review
“Lullaby 3”
2005
“Lullaby 10” Dusie
“In God” sonaweb
“We” “Trust” “Legal Tender” mem
2003
“Federal Reserve” Moria, Volume 6, Issue 2
“The Great Seal” Shampoo
“Of The United States” “Treasury” from “Note” 26
2000
“Meritocracy” 14 Hills
1999
“Public & Private” vert
1998
from “Room” Inscape, Volume iv
“Dialogue in Translation” Tripwire
“Endemic Lawrence” Outlet
“Circuitry” Transfer 76
1997
“Ode to Uncle Doug” Coracle, Volume 3
"Autograph #2” Crack
“Divided Skin” Convolvulus
1994
“Repositioning” Sonoma Mandala, Volume 20, 1993
“Lorena” “Why I Can’t Wait…” “Sleeping With Dean 2:54” Blueline
“Sleeping With Dean 3:36” Cape Rock
“Untitled” Rock Falls Review “First Aging Poem” Verve
“Entitled”
1993
“Race Line” El Andar
“Trust” La Gazette
“Edgewater” Graffiti #5
“Ad Lib” Sacred River
ESSAYS
2019
Marthe Reed, an unlikely revolutionary, Jacket2, ed. Linda Russo
2012
Tribute to Daniel Norman Lomax, The Disinhibitor, ed. Michael Cross
2010
“‘the difficulty’ (the necessity),” Delirious Hem, eds Cara Benson. Elizabeth Bryant, and Cathy Wagner “Childcare from the Avant-garde,” Otoliths, ed.
Mark Young
2009
“The Present Moment,” Building is a Process/Light is an Element, eds. Michael Cross and Andrew Rippeon
2007
“In This Effort,” Every Other Day, ed. Kate Greenstreet
2006
“A-Reading, Spicer & Eighteen Sonnets,” Traffic, ed. Elizabeth Treadwell
PLAYS
2007
On Wallace Steven’s Bowl, Cat, and Broomstick, Small Press Traffic’s Poets’ Theater Jubilee California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
2005
Fence/less, 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, California
2002
Pas de Deux, co-written with Danna Lomax, Small Press Traffic’s Poets’ Theater Jubilee, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California