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PhD |
State University of New York -- University at Buffalo
Major field: English
Dissertation: Apostate, Sing This World Forth: Avant-Mythopoetic Encounters With Doubt, Chaos, and Community
Oral qualifying exams passed with distinction, 14 May 2008
Dissertation defense passed, 1 December, 2011
Degree conferral, 1 February, 2012
Committee: Tim Dean (chair), Diane Christian and Bill Solomon | |
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MFA |
Louisiana State University, 2004
Major field: Poetry
Thesis: My Maiden Cowboy Names
Committee: David Madden (chair), Sharon Weltman and Michelle Zerba | |
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BS |
Central Missouri State University, 2001
Major field: Speech communications
Minor fields: Creative writing, women's studies
Graduated Summa Cum Laude |
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Capen Grant-in-Aid, University at Buffalo, 2009 Mark Diamond Research Fund grant, University at Buffalo, 2009 my maiden cowboy names, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, 2008; finalist in Tupelo Press's open submissions competition, 2007; finalist for the University of Wisconsin Poetry Series, 2007; semifinalist for the Colorado Review Poetry Prize, 2007; finalist for the Walt Whitman Award, 2006 GSEU Retention Award, University at Buffalo, 2007 Presidential Scholarship, University at Buffalo, 2005-2009 Louis Simpson Award for Teaching, Louisiana State University, 2004 Outstanding Creative Thesis Award, Louisiana State University, 2004 William Jay Smith Poetry Prize, 2004, judged by Beth Ann Fennelly, for a group of poems William Jay Smith Poetry Prize, 2003, judged by Buck Downs, for "pastoral w/dirt under its fingernails" Honorable mention, Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Award, for "an emancipation" David Baker Poetry Prize, 2001, judged by Matthew Cooperman, for "what the sun does to delicate skin" and "year of the horse" Honorable mention, Allegheny Review Poetry Prize, 2001, for "albatross" |
| Book: | my maiden cowboy names, winner of the 2008 T. S. Eliot Prize, judged by Grace Schulman; Truman State University Press, 2009 (preview) | |
| Articles: |
"The Psyche Effect: Theorizing Myth, Poetry and the Operations of Chaos" (10,000 words) forthcoming in English Text Construction (2012).
"'That same fire': Utopic Androgyny In H.D.'s Wartime Trilogy" (10,000 words), under consideration at Modernism/modernity.
"Perfected in Death: Death, Aesthetics, and T. S. Eliot's Impossible Communities" (10,000 words) under consideration at Religion & Literature. | |
| Poems: |
"horses," forthcoming in Allegheny Review, 30th anniversary issue.
"an art in its last days," "catalog after fine calamity," "pasiphae fucking the bull," "signed itself over silence (mockingbird & a sin to say it)," and "the world's littlest virgin goes to mars" forthcoming in Swink.
"catching half angel," "festival for
her sister hanging from a hook," and "in script styled like a slice of
pomegranate," Hotel Amerika, 11.1 (Spring 2012). 141-146. "occasional for hollow bones," Boston Review July/August 2008. 12.
"'" and "work of laura," The Spoon River Poetry Review, 33.1 (Winter/Spring 2008). 33-35.
"graveyard lyric with kiss," Pleiades: a journal of new writing, 28.2 (Spring 2008). 22-23.
"medea," Pleiades: a journal of new writing, 28.1 (Winter 2007). 101-102.
"cow tipping," featured on Verse Daily, 2 Aug 2005.
"cow tipping," "of jilting blood," "on a boy named for war, enrolled in my afternoon comp class," "the space from polestar to dogstar," and "pastoral w/dirt under its fingernails," Chelsea 78 (June 2005). 63-70.
"days gravid," "singer of tales," "lark: to thieve as though in open country," and "highschool sweetheart," Inkwell, Spring 2005. 18-22.
"red*star," Natural Bridge no. 11 (July 2004). 43.
"what the sun does to delicate skin," Chautauqua Literary Journal 1 (June 2004). 64-65.
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Kudzu" and "frog as a metaphor for sex," Arkansas Review 34.3 (December 2003). 190-191.
"coonass maenad," Natural Bridge 8 (January 2003). 150.
"from the wagon" and "honk for support," LIT 6 (2002). 31-32.
"albatross," Allegheny Review 19 (Spring 2001). 2.
"on five: a poem in tarot," welcome to the ragball, Kansas City, MO: Hammerpress (2001).
"at most three years," The Texas Review, v. XXII 3-4 (Fall 2001). 82.
"an emancipation," New Letters 67.3 (August 2001). 120. | |
| Reviews: |
Lyn Hejinian's Book of a Thousand Eyes, forthcoming in Rain Taxi (2012)
After Spicer, ed. John Emil Vincent, forthcoming in Pleiades: a journal of new writing (2012)
"Daze by Matthew Cooperman," ArtVoice 6.9 (14 Nov 2007). 44.
"Family Album," review of The Riddle Song and Other Remembrances, Rebecca McClanahan, American Book Review 24.3 (Mar 2002). 15-16.
"The Purplest Prose," review of Available Means: Women's Rhetoric(s), Joy Richie and Kate Ronald, American Book Review 23.5 (Aug 2001). 13
"Feminism's Bad Name," review of Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations, Adrienne Rich, American Book Review 23.1 (Mar 2001). 5, 8. |
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Predicate 2 (entirety of volume; PDF available for free at link). With Pablo D'Stair. Santa Fe: Brown Paper Publishing, 2010 Appearance on The Joe Milford Poetry Show, joemilfordpoetryshow.com, 30 Oct 2010 |
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"Boughs More Silent: Modern Epiphany in the Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay," Modernist Studies Association, Buffalo, NY, 8 October 2011 "Calcined: Desire, Austerity, and Eliot's Bone Poetic," Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, 25 February 2011 "Tradition and the Communal Talent: Eliot Among the (Early) Moderns," Annual meeting of the T. S. Eliot Society, St. Louis, MO, 24 September 2010 "Because Orpheus Was An Asshole: Jack Spicer's Headless Muse," English Graduate Student Association Works-in-Progress Colloquium, 21 September 2010 "The Psyche Effect: Theorizing Myth Through the Operations of Chaos," Tools of the Sacred, Techniques of the Secular: Awakening, Epiphany, Apocalypse and Doubt in Contemporary English-Language Verse, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 4 May 2010 "Crossing on Doubt: Hart Crane's Bridge," Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, 20 February 2010 Chair, Poets and Precursors, Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, 18 February 2010 "Mr. Eliot's Saturday Evening Service: Faith, Community, and the Turn to Drama," Annual meeting of the T. S. Eliot Society, St. Louis, MO, 27 September 2008 "That Same Fire: H.D.'s Poetics of Androgyny as a Response to War," Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, 22 February 2008 "Crossing on Doubt: Hart Crane's Bridge," Graduate Poetics Group Works-In-Progress Colloquium, University at Buffalo, 19 February 2008 "Bonafides in House of Horne: Making History in Ulysses," Graduate British Studies Group Colloquium, University at Buffalo, 12 April 2007 "With the Bare Hands: Replying to Greek and Latin In the 21st Century," on panel titled "Translation as Response," Giving Attention: Writers, Scholars, Theorists, University of Denver, Denver, 9 October 2005 "Writer/Critic; Writer-Critic: Straddling the Creative/Theory Divide," on panel titled "The Hats We Wear: Navigating Multiple Roles as Graduate Students in Writing," Associated Writing Program annual convention, Chicago, IL, 26 March 2004 "The Generic She," on panel titled "Engaging the Bitch Stereotype: Competitive Debate's Gender Troubles," National Communication Association's annual convention, Seattle, 17 November 2000 |
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"Poetry Inside Out," seminar, workshop and poetry reading for TRIO's Enjoy Reading and Writing series, Danville Area Community College, Danville, IL, 30 October 2008 "The Divine In and Out of the World: Changes In Mythic Ontologies," Danville Area Community College, Danville, IL 30 October 2008 "Chaucer's Adaptation of Source: It Out-Ovids Ovid," University at Buffalo, 28 September 2007 "To Whom We Owe This Pleasure: Personae and Play in Plath and Sexton," University at Buffalo, 23 April 2007 "Tracing Back: Writing, Influence, and Inheritance," Louisiana State University, 8 November 2004 "The Tyrant's Grasp: Kingship, Gender, and Power in Macbeth," Louisiana State University, 29 October 2004 |
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Poet in Residence, Alums Returning Series, University of Central Missouri, 10 April 2012. TSUP Authors Reading, AWP (offsite reading), Fine Arts Center, Chicago, IL, 1 March 2012. Buffalo Infringement Festival (with David Anderson, as pas de hors-texte), 29 July, 1 August, and 3 August 2011. Poetry reading, Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Lousiville, KY, 25 February 2011. Poetry reading for the Truman State University Press 15th Anniversary Reading at the Associated Writing Programs conference, 5 February 2011. Poetry reading, Tools of the Sacred, Techniques of the Secular: Awakening, Epiphany, Apocalypse and Doubt in Contemporary English-Language Verse, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 6 May 2010 Poet In Residence, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, VA, 17-18 November 2008 Poetry reading to launch my maiden cowboy names at 790 Lafayette Ave, Buffalo, NY, 17 October 2008 Poetry reading at Fort Gondo art gallery, St. Louis, MO, with Michael R. Allen, for Rust Belt Readings, 26 September 2008 Poetry reading at Hallwall's Center for the Arts, Buffalo NY, with Paul Hoover, for Poetics Plus, 5 December 2007 Poetry reading at Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 4 February 2006 Inaugural poetry reading for the Eulexia Poetry Series, Baton Rouge, 8 November 2003 Poetry reading for the Everett Maddox Memorial Poetry & Prose Reading Series, The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans, 8 June 2003 New Delta Review benefit reading, 18 October 2001 Poetry reading for the gallery opening of welcome to the ragball, Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City, MO, 6 April 2001 |
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Web content developer, University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 2010-present Instructor, D'Youville College Department of Liberal Arts, 2009-2010 Founder, publisher & coordinator: dove|tail poetry and chapbook series, Buffalo, NY, 2006-present Managing editor, The Emily Dickinson Journal, 2006-2007 Graduate teaching assistant, Department of English, SUNY-Buffalo, 2005-2006, 2007-2009 Instructor, Department of English, Louisiana State University, 2004-2005 Founder & coordinator, Eulexia Poetry Series, Baton Rouge, LA, 2003-2005 Graduate teaching assistant, Department of English, Louisiana State University, 2002-2004 Managing editor, New Delta Review, Louisiana State University: 2001-2002 Co-instructor, Women's Studies Department, Central Missouri State University, 2000 Assistant editor, Pleiades: a journal of new writing, 1998-2001 |
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Introduction to Poetry: Spring 2010 Introduction to Drama: Spring 2004 Introduction to Writing Poetry: Spring 2005, Fall 2003 Introduction to Writing Short Stories: Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2004 Writing About Literature II: Spring 2010, Fall 2009 (2 sections) Advanced Composition: Fall 2007 Composition II: Spring 2006, Spring 2005 (3 sections) Composition I: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2005, Fall 2004 (3 sections), Summer 2004, Fall 2003, Summer 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2002 Race, Class, & Gender: (co-instructor with Jim Schnoebelen), Summer 2000 |
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Graduate Student Voting Member, University at Buffalo Department of English, 2005-2009 Summer Support and Literature Course Committee, University at Buffalo Department of English, 2008-2009 Graduate Review Committee, University at Buffalo Department of English, 2006-2007, 2008-2009 Graduate Admissions Committee, University at Buffalo Department of English, 2007-2008 Editor, EGSA newsletter, Louisiana State University, 2003-2004 |
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The Magpie Picks Her Whims, poetry manuscript Dissertation: Apostate, Sing This World Forth: Avant-Mythopoetic Encounters With Doubt, Chaos, and Secular Community "Attic Grace: The British Museum and the Advent of Modernism" "Because Orpheus Was an Asshole: Jack Spicer's Headless Muse" "For She Had Her Work: Autonomy and Sacrificial Aesthetics in To the Lighthouse and A Room Of One's Own" "A Heap of Broken Images: The Post-Imagist Long Poem" "First Lessons In House of Horne: Making History in Ulysses" "The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet: Who Speaks? Between Poetics and Psychosis" |