Joe Milford Hosts Rick Reid

Rick Reid is a Brooklyn-based artist and writer whose work combines public space, poetics, handwriting, photography, ink and the body. A book of poems, “To Be Hung from the Ceiling by Strings of Varying Length”—a 96 page serial work—has been published by Black Goat in April 2009 and was a finalist for the 2007 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. Most recently his article “Frequency: Vito Acconci’s Frames of the Future Anterior” that considers the relationship of conceptual art to poetics is forthcoming in Binghamton University’s literary journal, Crossings. He is currently at work on a book length study of experimental poetry entitled Lapse: Radical Poetics and Apertures of the Human Machine and teaches Creative Writing and English as an Assistant Professor at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey.