About

Joshua Hoeynck’s research focuses primarily on the confluences between process philosophy, Black Mountain poetry, and environmental criticism. His work has appeared in The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later, Contemporary Literature, and The Blackwell Companion to American Poetry. In conjunction with the Charles Olson Society, he edited Staying Open: Charles Olson’s Sources and Influences (Vernon Press 2019). As co-director of the Charles Olson Society, he organizes annual panels at the Re-Viewing Black Mountain College Conference, The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, and the American Literature Association Conference. Currently, he is working to complete the final five volumes of the Charles Olson and Robert Creeley Correspondence, which will finish the work begun by George Butterick and published in ten volumes by Black Sparrow Press. He teaches writing and literature in the English Department at Case Western Reserve University, with courses on the American Western, the history of ecology in American literature, and Magical Realism.