Kim Rosenfield is a poet and psychotherapist living and working in New York City.
Originally from Southern California, her first chapbook, Some of Us, was published by Ouija Madness Press, Los Angeles in 1982.
She is the author of Two Poems (LEAVE books 1995), Good Morning––Midnight–– (Roof Books 2002, winner of Small Press Traffic’s Book of the Year Award), Tràma (Krupskaya 2004), re:evolution (Les Figues Press 2009), Lividity (Les Figues Press 2012), USO: I’ll Be Seeing You (Ugly Duckling Presse 2013), and Phantom Captain (forthcoming from Fence Books October 2023).
Her work has been included in the anthologies Bowery Women: Poems (YBK Press 2006), Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Burlesque Poetics (Saturnalia Books 2010), Against Expression (Northwestern University Press 2011), I’ll Drown My Book (Les Figues Press 2012), and The Unexpected Guest: Art, writing and thinking on hospitality (Liverpool Biennial, ART/BOOKS 2018).
From 1993-1996, Rosenfield co-edited Object magazine with Robert Fitterman, and is a founding member of the artist collective, Collective Task .
photo by Nikolas Koenig, 2023
PHANTOM CAPTAIN
Winner of the 2023 Fence Books Ottoline Prize
Published October 31st, 2023, Phantom Captain explores the poetry of psychoanalysis, feminism and gender, questions of the 21st century self, and the accelerating pressures of standardizing capitalism upon the human mind.
Upcoming Events and Readings
Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome in Woods Hole, MA. Photo by Kim Rosenfield, 2023
Thurs, Sept 19, 2024, 7:00 PM
Performance of “Permanent Trespass” by Bassem Saad and Sanja Grozdanić, with Omar Berrada
The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church
131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Ave.)
New York, NY
Contact
Sally Ross, The Garden Sisters, 2017 (Collection of Marguerite Steed Hoffman). Used with permission from the artist.