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PUBLICATIONS

Kurt Cole Eidsvig is the author of five books, including Drowning Girl, The Simple Art of Murder, OxyContin for Breakfast, Art Official, and POP X POETRY. His work in poetry and art criticism has appeared in regular columns and features for outlets such as Big Red & Shiny, ArtsAmerica, SpinRecords, Poets Reading The News, and Examiner.com. His writing has earned recognition like the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Award, and the Edmund Freeman Award. 

FEATURED & RECENT

Betsy Ross Decides To Burn a Flag

Betsy Ross Decides To Burn a Flag

Poets Reading The News

Bob Ross Making Minimalist Art

Bob Ross Making Minimalist Art

Drunk Monkeys Magazine

Art Basel Miami Beach and Miami Art Week 2023— A Meditation On Access

Art Basel Miami Beach and Miami Art Week 2023— A Meditation On Access

Whitehot Magazine

Future Pop Nostalgia: William Nelson at Cavalier Gallery

Future Pop Nostalgia: William Nelson at Cavalier Gallery

B Scene Zine

POETRY

Poets Reading The News, October 9, 2024, "Betsy Ross Decides To Burn a Flag."

Drunk Monkeys, April 29, 2024, "Bob Ross Making Minimalist Art."

The Ekphrastic Review, February 3, 2023, "Porky's Obscura & Art Week Miami, 2022: Nina Chanel Abney Turning the Artworld Upside Down at ICA."

Hanging Loose, Issue #112, 2022, "OxyContin for Breakfast." 

Poetry and COVID, February 12, 2021, "Must-Have Holiday Emoji Recipes for 2020."

The Deadline, Summer 2020, "Postponing the Emojis." 

Redline Zine, Issue Number 4, August 2020, "Another Word for Hunger." 

Redline Zine, Issue Number 2, June 2020, "Excerpts from New Symptoms of Quarantine."

District Lit "How To" Issue, May 2020, "Robberies." 

The Dewdrop, April 20, 2020, "Seasonal."

Poems from The Lockdown (Anthology). Willowdown Books, 2020. "In and Out of Quarantine with Persephone."

Poets Reading the News, March 2020, "Sweet & Sticky Mango" (with audio).

Polemical, Issue 11, Volume 1, December 2019, "Microwave Love Poem," and, "The Reasons They Think We Are Moving to Miami." 

Poets Reading the News, November 2019, "The Simple Art of Murder."

Poets Reading The News, September 2019, "120 After Hemingway."

Poets Reading The News, October 2019, "Once Upon a Time in Heaven."

Poets Reading The News, May 2019, "Saying I Love You in Wookiee."

Poets Reading The News, August 2018, "28 Different Spoons."

Decimos, Number 5, March 2018, "Sunday on the Way to L.A."

Decimos, Number 4, March 2018, "Lamplights." 

Decimos, Number 2, December 2017, "Take Aways." 

Decimos, Number 1, November 2017, "Another Train." 

Poets Reading The News, November 2017, "Sending Letters to Tomorrow."

Poets Reading The News, September 2017. "Steam."

The Ekphrastic Review, August 2107, "The Estate of Ideas."

Poets Reading The News, August 2017, "Keeping the Beat."

Poets Reading The News, July 2017, "Empty Tomb."

Hanging Loose, Issue #108, 2017, "Southie" and "Another Word."

Documnt, Issue 1, 2017. "Mixed Messages."

Sourland Mountain Review, Volume 1.1, 2017, "Salmon as Silver / Salmon as Fire."

Big RED and Shiny, October 9, 2014, "Fumes."

Big RED and Shiny, Volume 2, Number 11, August 13, 2013, "23 Exit Signs."

Big RED and Shiny, June 2013, "Portrait of Larry Rivers (With Wrist Bandages)."

Big RED and Shiny, March 2013. "Door to the River: After Willem de Kooning."

The Present Tense, February 4, 2013, "I Wish You New (After EL Putnam at Mobius)"

Big RED and Shiny, January 28, 2013, "Poem for Vladimir Umanets."

BurnerMag, Issue #3, Spring 2011, “The Soundtrack of Airport Goodbyes.”

Slipstream, Issue #31, Spring 2011, “Gina from Las Vegas.”

BurnerMag, Issue #2, Winter 2010, “Dear Jukebox.”

Muse & Stone, Fall 2010, “Las Vegas.”

Big RED and Shiny, Issue #130, May 3, 2010, “Picasso on Cocktail Napkins.”

Big RED and Shiny, Issue #126, March 2, 2010, “This Guernica.”

Where the Road Begins, An Anthology. The Cultural Organization of Lowell, 2007, “Parking Lot Destinations.”

Borderlands, Number 23, Fall/Winter 2004, “Falling into Briars.”

Big RED and Shiny, Issue #125, February 14, 2010, “Undulate.”

Big RED and Shiny, Issue #123, January 13, 2009, “The Reason I Hate Gauguin.”

Big RED and Shiny, Issue #122, December 21, 2009, “The Gallery There on Green Street.”

Artpoint, Fall 2007, “Dear Jukebox,” and “The Reason I Hate Gauguin.”

The Masthead, Volume 1, Issue 3, Summer 2006, “Picasso on Cocktail Napkins,” Meet Me at the MOMA,” and “White Numbers.”

South Boston Literary Gazette, Volume 17, Spring 2006, “Lunchtime Near the Pentagon.”

Slipstream, Number 26, 2006, “St. Petersburg.”

South Boston Literary Gazette, Volume 16, Fall 2005, “Counting.”

Hanging Loose, Issue #86, 2005, “Poem for Mandy/Poem for Ron.”

South Boston Literary Gazette, Volume 13, Summer/Fall 2004, “Pinball Music #48: Finding Those Places Underwater.”

Main Street Rag, Volume 8 Number 4, Winter 2004, “When I Die #5.”

Hanging Loose, Issue #84, 2004, “Blue,” and “You’re Probably in Japan By Now.”

South Boston Literary Gazette, Volume 12, Spring 2004, “Chicago,” “Last Will and Testament,” and “The Last Time I Saw Johnny Blockbuster.”

South Boston Literary Gazette, Volume 11, Winter 2003, “Providence.”   

South Boston Literary Gazette, Volume 10, Summer 2003, “Saint Augustine’s.”

Hanging Loose, Issue #81, 2002, “Missoula.”

Hanging Loose, Issue #79, 2001, “Counting.”

The 114th Meridian, Number 1, 2001, “Ring, “Commuting,” and “Fifty.”

A Bigger Universe: Jenny Holzer: Light Line at the Guggenheim

A Bigger Universe: Jenny Holzer: Light Line at the Guggenheim

Whitehot Magazine

ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN at MoMA

ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN at MoMA

Whitehot Magazine

Are You There, God? It's Me, Andy

Are You There, God? It's Me, Andy

The Ekphrastic Review

NGA: Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective

NGA: Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective

Big Red & Shiny

NON-FICTION ART WRITING & CRITICISM

Whitehot Magzine, September 20, 2024, "A Bigger Universe: Jenny Holzer: Light Line at the Guggenheim."

Whitehot Magazine, December 8, 2023. "Art Basel Miami Beach and Miami Art Week 2023— A Meditation On Access."

Whitehot Magazine, October 2, 2023. "ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN at MoMA."

B Scene Zine, September 24, 2023. "Future Pop Nostalgia: William Nelson at Cavalier Gallery"

The Ekphrastic Review, May 3, 2022. "Are You There God? It's Me, Andy."

Big RED and Shiny, Volume #2, Issue #3, December 16, 2012, "NGA: Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective."
Big RED and Shiny, Issue #133, July 5, 2010, “Coronation: Claude Monet: Late Work at Gagosian.”

Big RED and Shiny, Issue #132, June 8, 2010, “Fluid Figures: An Interview with Nathalie Vogel.”Big RED and Shiny, Issue #127, March 16, 2010, “Philip-Lorca diCorcia and in the Making: Impressions from the ICA Collection.”

The Southeast Review, Volume 28 Number 1, 2010, “Gravity, by Michael Davis.

The Southeast Review, Volume 27 Number 2, 2009, “Skirmish by Dobby Gibson.”
Examiner.com, 2008 -– 2009 Boston-area Museum and Art Critic.

PRESS 

The Ekphrastic Review, Interview With Kurt Eidsvig: Drowning Girl, September, 21, 2024

The Dewdrop, Interview, Why I Write: Kurt Cole Eidsvig, By Vanessa Able, March 5, 2024

Whitehot Magazine, Book Review: Remains To Be Seen: Kurt Cole Eidsvig’s “The Simple Art of Murder,” By Daisy Kincaid, January 15, 2024

Authority Magazine, Kurt Cole Eidsvig: Five Things You Need To Write Powerful And Evocative Poetry, By Kristin Marquet, January 5, 2024

Smy Goodness Podcast, Ep41 - OxyContin for Breakfast with Kurt Cole Eidsvig: Mint Jelly Omelettes, Snapper Dogs and Sanka, November 1, 2022

Interview With Kurt Eidsvig

Interview With Kurt Eidsvig

The Ekphrastic Review

Interview, Why I Write: Kurt Cole Eidsvig

Interview, Why I Write: Kurt Cole Eidsvig

The Dewdrop

OxyContin for Breakfast with Kurt Cole Eidsvig: Mint Jelly Omelettes, Snapper Dogs and Sanka

OxyContin for Breakfast with Kurt Cole Eidsvig: Mint Jelly Omelettes, Snapper Dogs and Sanka

SmyGoodness Podcast

Interview With Author Kurt Eidsvig

Interview With Author Kurt Eidsvig

Awesome Gang

FICTION

Decimos, Number 6, May, 2018 "The Truth About Pelicans." 

The Scarlet Leaf Review, April, 2016, "Be Mime." 

The Scarlet Leaf Review, August, 2016, "Marigold in Winter."

VISUAL ART

Redline Zine, Issue 4, August 2020, Help! Loose! (Revised).

Redline Zine, Issue 3, July 2020, Solstice and She'll

Redline Zine, Issue 2, June 2020, Another Take on We Wore Masks.

Polemical, Issue 12, March 2020, Full Moon in Gemini.

Poets Reading the News, March 2020, Leave Don't.

Decimos, Number 2, December, 2017, "This is Getting Serious.

Poets Reading The News, November, 2017, "Slow Dancing To Open Arms."

Cutbank, Issue #55, Spring 2001, "Bird," 1999, and "Losing Montana-Glacier Park," 2000.

AWARDS

Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital, Writing Workshop Fellow, 2010
Massachusetts Cultural Council, Artist’s Grant Recipient, 2004
Edmund Freeman Award, 2001
University of Montana Teaching Fellowship, 2000-2002

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