The first set from my series of poems making use of language found in pre-1914 medical texts can now be read at Figure 1. While the idea behind the poetry has its roots in books so physical I can smell…
Category: Appearing Elsewhere
Poem: Neutral Buoyancy
At fifteen, I started taking courses at the local community college full-time through Running Start—Washington state’s dual enrollment program. Except for my penultimate quarter, when only a 6:30 am Composition II had space, I would usually arrive on campus hours early…
Prose Poem: If I Didn’t Show
Silver Birch Press recently published my prose poem, If I Didn’t Show, as part of its IF I Poetry and Prose Series. Sometimes you think you’ve finished with a theme and, nearly as often, you later come to think you’ll…
Essay: Whither Teaching in the University Novel?
Now that I have converted my doctoral thesis into a book, my critical work is moving in two directions. One looks at the questions raised during my first project, mostly related to how power, pleasure, play, and pedagogy overlap in…
Two Poems: Erich and Willy
Two poems from my manuscript Aktion T4, Erich and Willy, have appeared in issue nine of Mayday Magazine.
Two Reviews in Poets’ Quarterly
I have two reviews in the late summer edition of Poets’ Quarterly, both of which combine poetry with other obsessions of mine. Marisa Frasca’s Via Incanto: Poems from the Darkroom, as the subtitle indicates, takes photography as one of its subjects. Carrie…