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…
Category: Appearing Elsewhere
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…
Poem: Dolls
In my latest poem, Dolls, now appearing at Bird’s Thumb, I’ve mashed up fiction and truth-as-I-remember-it to twist youthful slings back against themselves. The fun part, for me, is that I don’t have to tell you which lines I believe to…