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POETIC & CRITICAL WRITING
Poetry and criticism by Souffrant can be found in literary journals, scholarly reviews, and print anthologies.
Selected Writing:
“A More Visceral Sense of Language’s Limitations,” conversation with Liesl Schwabe in Speak the Magazine.
“Thread: Riddle of the Physical” in Seisma Magazine’s Studio Lab Showcase
Review of migraré in Résonance 2022
Afterword to In Praise of Fragments by Meena Alexander, Nightboat Books 2020
"Reading Simone Weil" in Bone Bouquet
Louise Labé's Sonnet II in Interim, Vol. 34, Issue 3, from a series of poetic transcreations, from the French
”A Brief Meditation on Looking: Why Instagram” in Closed Eye Open.
“Haunting Is Recursive: A brief meditation on erasure and the case of Zong!” appears in L'effacement, a 2019 installment of Formes poétiques contemporaines.
Review of the MoMA exhibition Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971 in the Poetry Project Newsletter
“Mysterious Me: A Brief Meditation on Personae” in Poet Lore
'Like a postponed present': Reading reality in Mandelstam's 'Voronezh Notebooks' in Jacket2
“Look at the Wall: Reading the Unsayable in Duras and Carson” in Pennsylvania Literary Journal
“Mother Delivers Experiment: Poetry of Motherhood: Plath, Derricotte, Zucker, and Holbrook” in WSQ Women’s Studies Quarterly
"Not to Walk" in Poet Lore
A fierce intellectual pacifism: Riding's 'Contemporaries and Snobs' - an essay-review at Jacket2
“In Praise of Unknowing” at EOAGH
“A conception is a motion” in Far From the Centers of Ambition, Lorimer Press
“Long Short Talk on My Black Mountain, Which is Invisible” in Far From the Centers of Ambition, Lorimer Press
“Imperfect Plenty” in Starting Today: Poems for the First 100 Days, University of Iowa Press
“Lucrece in Translation: Analysis of Progressive Silence” in Anamesa Literary Journal
“Heard the unspoken words” in Tygerburning Literary Journal
“Language about language” in Tygerburning Literary Journal
“Untitled (or It was/By the water)” in the Burnside Review
“It’s only when I look at trees” in Memorious
Translation of Marina Tsvetaeva’s “Poem of the End,” from the Russian - unpublished
Additional works have appeared at Delirious Hem, Poet Lore, Poets & Writers online, Weber, and elsewhere.