j a n e t  k a u f f m a n

     from Telescopic Heavens (1998)
     4 double-sided 1" X 1 1/2" recycled plastic pages, collaged text

     Poetry and Fiction Publications

Trespassing; Dirt Stories & Field Notes (Wayne State Univ. Press, 2008) - fiction/non-fiction
Five on Fiction (Burning Deck Press, 2004) - poems
Rot (New Issues, 2001) - novel
Characters on the Loose (Graywolf, 1997) – short fiction
The Body in Four Parts (Graywolf, 1994) – novel
Obscene Gestures for Women (Knopf, 1989) – short fiction
Where the World Is (Montparnasse Press, 1988) – poems
Collaborators (Knopf, 1986) – novel, finalist PEN/Faulkner Award
Places in the World a Woman Could Walk (Knopf, 1983) – stories, winner
     of Rosenthal Award from American Academy-Institute of Arts and
     Letters
The Weather Book (Texas Tech University Press, 1981) – poems, AWP
     Award Series Selection
Writing Home, with Jerome McGann (Coldwater Press, 1978) – poems


Non-fiction

"Down the Drain," Fresh Water; Women Writing on the Great Lakes (MSU Press, 2006)
"A Dirty River Runs Beneath It; Midwest Agriculture's Filthy Secret" (Prairie Writers Circle, 2003)
"The Fantasy of the Clip Art Farm," Dissent (Summer 2002)
"Buried Water," The Huron River; Voices from the Watershed, (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2000)
"Bare Earth is Scorched Earth" (Prairie Writers Circle, 2007)

         Mixed Media

        The Violence of Plowshares - Two Stanzas; Meat in the Dark; What Was Is
            tobacco sizing boxes, stamped text, found objects, Ag yearbooks (2006)
        Armed Bug Women & Other Planetary Forces Confront the Lenawee County
            Road Commission, recycled plastic pages, collaged photos (2000)
         This is the House That Jack Built, 8 recycled plastic pages, 1/16in. dowels,
           mixed text (1999)
         being imperfectly broken, recycled wood, wire binding, scanned tobacco leaves (1998)
         A Book, search-a-word pages, tube binding (1998)
         Telescopic Heavens, collaged text on recycled plastic, 4 double-
             sided pages, 1in. X 1 ½in. (1998)
          But Still the Posse Comes Back Swinging, board pages, March to Montgomery, AL,
            collaged text from March,1965, spiral bound (1998)
          Red Barn Gone Black, hand-made, cardboard cut-out images
            printed on newsprint, etching press, 8in. X 10in. (1997)
          Stain & Suture Book, hand-made, cut pages, boxed, 8in. X 8in. (1997)
          Behind the Lips, accordion, Polaroid emulsion transfer images,
            bamboo stick frame, 9in.X 24in. (1997)
       

      Collaborative Projects

         Another Account: The Life of a Stream, collaborative installation and book with Nancy
          Chalker-Tennant (2003)

        
         Meet Me Machine, with Nancy Chalker-Tennant, full-color12 pages, accordion fold (2001)
         Missing ///// In Action, installation with ENGL 335 students, Traverse City (1999)
         We Are Moving Words, with Nancy Chalker-Tennant (1997)
          X Amount of Time/Lines, with Nancy Chalker-Tennant (1995)
        
            email: jkauffman@emich.edu 
         see EMU student writing/mixed media work Fall 2006, Fall 2007