Kristine Snodgrass is an artist, poet, professor, editor, cultural advocate, and publisher living in Tallahassee, Florida. Her written and visual works have appeared world-wide. She has collaborated with dozens of artists, writers, and musicians.
Comments about her work:
“It may be difficult to find “news that stays news” in the field of asemic writing, but this looks to me exactly like that rarity, which is exactly what we need in our ongoing quest for clarity in this context” —Jim Leftwich
.“The concept behind American Apparell is likely familiar to most readers. Interrogation of the capitalist colonization of women’s bodies, for instance, has been a lively avant lit topic for decades. In her introduction Snodgrass writes, “The glitch reimagines the language, dissecting it and rearranging it in the spirit of asemics. Or pansemic. Or abstract.”
As a close reader of her work, I find Kristine Snodgrass to be a courageous explorer of gender and sexual identity. She does not hesitate to explore and reveal the recesses of her own identity as part of the effort. She makes remarkable use of the avant garde and the postavant to express new realms of consciousness and awareness.” —De Villo Sloan
“Michael Leung wondered recently (in an MFA of the Americas craft talk 6/22) what would happen if we thought about translation not so much as its customary horizontal reach across a divide but, rather, vertically: we might ask, for example, what seeps in from above or what pushes loamily from below. Leung’s wish to disrupt what he thinks of as a usual horizontal practice offers a helpful way to consider the poetics of Neon Galax, a recurring shimmer of a book by collaborators Andrew Brenza and Kristine Snodgrass. The duo’s bright entry into a strong current field of visual poetry invites us to boldly re-think how we translate lines in space: that is, how we think about (among other things) poetry” —Terri Witek, Professor, Stetson University, Poetry in the Expanded Field
“In this way, Rank is an essential work for our times. It dismisses convention, foregoes logic, and destroys edification, but not toward nihilistic ends. Rather, Snodgrass offers us a generative shattering, one that opens the possibilities of humanity and the humane through inhuman means. In short, it upends the human means by which we have created a fundamentally inhuman and inhumane world. It is marvelous!” —Andrew Brenza
As Co-director of Anhinga Press, an independent poetry publisher that has published 50 years of poets and writers, Kristine is responsible for driving the vision and scope of the organization. Anhinga is a 501(c)3 non-profit and works in the local, state, and national poetry communities, Anhinga publishes at least four full-length poetry collections and several hand-made chapbooks per year. Anhinga Press is proudly women-run.
Kristine is Associate Professor of English and Modern Languages in the area of Creative Writing/Poetry at Florida A&M University, an HBCU founded in 1887 where she teaches poetry and composition to students she loves. She founded the campus literary journal, Cake, a journal of art & poetry. The journal publishes work by students alongside more seasoned writers. Contributors have included Amiri Baraka. Kristine also founded and curates an annual reading series, The FAMU Visiting Poets Series bringing in poets from around the country for a reading and craft talk. Her work as a professor at FAMU has been a highlight of her career.
Kristine Snodgrass has worked with poets Terese Svoboda, Maureen Seaton, and Denise Duhamel and sees them as her poetic goddesses and most important teachers. Kristine’s love and language of collaboration was incubated, tended, and flourished under the concinnity of Seaton and Duhamel. She also is mentored by Rick Campbell, former Director of Anhinga Press, who is instrumental to the cultivation of her service in the local and national poetry community, as well as her teaching and service in the academic sphere.
Snodgrass serves as the Series Editor for the Anhinga Press Visual Poetry Series sponsored by the Sloan Fund in Elbridge, New York. The series explores the expanding field of visual poetry—including asemics, new concrete, and other intermedia—by publishing books and chapbooks from U.S. visual poets. As Visual Arts Editor of South Florida Poetry Journal, an online journal of writing and art based in Miami, Florida, she curates a quarterly feature of seasoned and burgeoning visual artists from around the world.
The proud founder and curator of Women Asemic Artists & Visual Poets (WAAVe), Kristine searches to create a global online space for women in the asemic and vispo communities to share work, offer support, and network. The project aims to showcase women more in asemic and vispo galleries, exhibits, and publications. Kristine is Managing Editor and Editor of the WAAVe Global Gallery (Hysterical Books, 2021) an anthology of women asemic writers and visual poets. She hopes to build Volume Two of the anthology in the future.
In service to her local Tallahassee community, Kristine is piloting a “Writing and Wellness” progam at the Leon County Libraries in April, 2024. This program aims to provide underserved community residents including the homeless and elderly populations of the city. The writing program will explore how writing is available to all folks and can elevate wellness levels and mental health.
Kristine has authored 20 collections of poetry and visual poetry. She is especially proud of her chapbook, zero-zero, poems in collaboration with the late Maureen Seaton. New projects include: Gradients, a solo collection of digital transmographications of asemics tattooed on her body forthcoming from Post Asemic Press (2023); collaborations with visual artist and poet, Karla Van Vliet; and NODES, sound poetry collaborations, still glitched images and soundwork, with professional jazz musician and professor Brian Hall. Recent asemic and glitch work, ICON, is up at Van Vliet Gallery. She is the author of Rank from JackLeg Press (2021), American Apparell from AlienBuddha Press (2020), Rather, from Contagion Press (2020), These Burning Fields (Hysterical Books 2019) as well as Out of the World (Hysterical Books 2016) and The War on Pants (JackLeg Press 2013) which was re-issued in the fall of 2021 as Robot, Girl. Her solo poetry has appeared in decomP, Versal, Big Bridge, 5_Trope, Shampoo, 2 River View, Otoliths and South Florida Poetry Journal among others. She is the author of the chapbooks, Put the Pie Away Quietly and Without Fervor (Cy Gist Press 2012) and Fledgling Starlet (Grey Book Press 2009). Kristine's collaborative work with Maureen Seaton can be found in Diode, Hayden's Ferry Review, Melusine, Artifice, LIT, and others. Her triads with Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton can be found in Guernica, DIAGRAM , and the book, Two Thieves & a Liar (JackLeg Press 2012) and a chapbook Facial Geometry (Neo Pepper Press 2006). She has also collaborated with Scott Sweeney on a chapbook of poems, Hot Body Contest (Grey Book Press), with artist Niki Nolin clouds passing (Cloud 9, an exhibit), and book artist Denise Bookwalter (Small Craft Advisory Press) & poet Jay Snodgrass on a letter press broadside, Carte Blanche in addition to an artist book, A Guide to Florida, from the same press. Kristine’s asemic and vispo work has been published in Utsanga (Italy), Slow Forward, South Florida Poetry Journal, Voices de la Luna, Brave New Word, and Talking About Strawberries, and forthing coming in Street Cake. Snodgrass has collaborated with many artists, musicians, and poets and is always searching for new collaboration projects. You can find some of Kristine's writing about collaboration at TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism.
Snodgrass holds an MFA in poetry from University of Miami where she was a James Michener Fellow and a BSW in Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University.