Kyle Schlesinger

Kyle Schlesinger is a poet, book artist, theorist, and cultural critic. His scholarly writing focuses on the relationships between aesthetics, typography, poetics, art, and new media. He is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate School of Publishing at the University of Houston-Victoria, as well as the Proprietor of Cuneiform Press.

Life

Schlesinger earned his BA from Goddard College (1999) and his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo (1995). His dissertation is entitled "Letterpress Printing in the Postmodern Era: Poetry, Media, Typography."

Schlesinger learned to print letterpress in 1996, and in 2001, established Cuneiform Press, a non-profit publishing house specializing in artists' books, poetry, and music. Cuneiform has published over 50 books to date, including titles by Bill Berkson, Johanna Drucker, Alan Loney, Robert Creeley, Ted Greenwald, Sommer Browning and Jim Dine.

He worked as a curator at the St. Mark's Poetry Project (2008–2009) and with Steve Clay, served as the co-curator of the Threads Lecture Series. In 2010, he curated Poems & Pictures: A Renaissance in the Art of the Book 1946-1981, an exhibition that traveled from New York City to Houston to Buffalo to Chicago.

Schlesinger is the author of numerous creative publications and several books of criticism. In 2005, he received a full fellowship to attend Rare Book School at UVA, and in 2008, he gave the keynote at the Research Group for Artists Publications in London. In 2011 he was artist in residence at The Center for Book and Paper Art at Columbia College. Professor Schlesinger has published and lectured throughout Europe and North America.

Creative publications

Critical publications

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