Jill S. Rapaport is a poet, essayist, and playwright. Her work has appeared in Resister,
Lungfull!, the St. Marks Poetry Project Newsletter, National Poetry Magazine of the Lower
East Side, City of DIS, Pink Pages, Long Shot, IKON, Red Tape, Beet, Rant, Sensitive Skin,
Appearances, New Observations: The City as Mnemonic Device and others. Her work is
also represented in The Unbearables anthology (Autonomedia). She is the author of
the illustrated chapbook Bag o' Ridgies, Can o' Colt '45 an' Thou, various
broadsides, The Wizard (a tract on the subject of do-it-yourself psychotherapy) and
Abattoir en Rose (a political essay). She has also read at various venues in New
York City, Albany, NY, Chicago, Easton, PA, and Washington, D.C. Her plays have been read
and performed at LaMama Theater and at several venues in and around New York City. Jill
can be heard on the Spoken Word CD "Nuyorican Symphony," (Knitting Factory
Works), and was a guest on the "Word Is the Bird" show on WFMU radio. Her work
was displayed at the WAC Reading Room, Art in the Anchorage, Summer 1992. She was a
participant in the 1996 St. Mark's Poetry Project Symposium, and in the 25th Anniversary
St. Mark's Poetry Project Symposium in 1991; recipient in 1990 of a fellowship for writing
from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and was a panelist in a lecture series on the
European Ecology Movement and "The Electronic Disturbance," at CUNY Graduate
Center Cultural Studies Department, NY, NY, 1996. Jill's currently at work on a collection
of prose, and occasionally leads a small and obscure, cabalistic discussion group
exploring the creative process. She is also the editor of a newsletter which goes under
various aliases and has sometimes been available at St. Marks Books and Tower Books in New
York City.
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