Jen Bervin

Jen Bervin (née Jennifer Jean Bervin; born 1972) is an American multidisciplinary visual artist, poet, and writer. Bervin often works with textiles and sewing techniques. The Dickinson Composites incorporated quilting and embroidery; a project called Silk Poems was "nano-imprinted on silk film" as well as printed at human scale in book form; and an art installation titled River is made up of hand-sewn silver sequins that re-create the course of the Mississippi River.

According to John Yau, Bervin "has expanded the notion of what it is to be a poet in the 21st century." Her work frequently makes her artistic sources visible, as in her book of erasure poetry Nets (a series of erasures of Shakespeare's sonnets) as well as her artist's book The Dickinson Composites (which foregrounds Emily Dickinson's "unusual punctuation marks" in her manuscript poems). "One of the striking things about Bervin's work," comments Yau, "is her ability to both preserve and change her source."