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Assistant Professor of English
Research and teaching interests
Creative writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction); modern and contemporary poetry and poetics; hybrid genres; collaboration; the prose poem; chapbook culture; small press publishing; art of the book review
Education
M.F.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004
B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1999
Publications
Books
The Year of the Rooster (book-length poem). Ahsahta Press, forthcoming
Zeros on the Left (poetry). Quale Press, forthcoming
Novel Pictorial Noise (book-length poem). HarperCollins Perennial, 2007
With Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Figures for a Darkroom Voice (poems). Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007
A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow (poems). New Issues, 2007
Inbox (conceptual memoir). BlazeVOX Books, 2006
The Area of Sound Called the Subtone (poems). Ahsahta Press, 2004
The Frequencies (book-length prose poem). Tougher Disguises, 2003
Selected essays
“Against Ekphrasis.” 1913: a Journal of Forms 3 (forthcoming 2009).
“Introduction to the Poetry of Farid Matuk.” Boston Review (forthcoming 2009).
“An Interview with John Olson.” Denver Quarterly (forthcoming 2009).
“Chapbook Corner Round-up 2008” Raintaxi Online (Winter 2008/2009).
“An Interview with Jennifer Moxley.” Denver Quarterly 43:1 (October 2008): 59-72. Reprinted in Jacket
“Keeping Creeley’s Company: chapbook design, community, and collaboration.” Rain Taxi Online (Summer 2008).
“Noah Eli Gordon.” Poet’s Bookshelf II: Contemporary Poets on Books That Shaped Their Art. Ed. Peter Davis and Tom Koontz. Barnwood Press, 2008,130-133. Reprinted in DMQ Review
“Explosive Exactitude: On the Single Line Stanza.” Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts 7 (2008): 73-74.
“Written and Rewritten to Order: Generative Possibility in the Work of David Shapiro.” Burning Interiors: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Tomas Fink and Joseph Lease. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007, 107-116. Reprinted in Octopus Magazine
With Eric Anderson, “Conversational Noise: Some Talk on Some Notes on My Programming, by Anselm Berrigan.” Jacket 33 (July 2007).
As interviewed by: Rain Taxi
“A Brief History of the Little Book.” Rain Taxi 11:1 (Spring 2006): 30-31. Reprinted in Jacket
“The Human Measure of Aaron Kunin’s Folding Ruler Star.” Jacket 28 (October 2005).
“Bleeding, Beading, Trickling: Spar by Karen Volkman.” Boston Review 28:2 (Summer 2003): 57-58.
Poems published in
26: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, 3rd bed, 580 Split, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, A Public Space, Agricultural Reader, Alice Blue Review, Ambit, American Poet, American Letters & Commentary, Antennae, Another Chicago Magazine, Art New England, Aught, Barn (v.), Bird Dog, Black Box Manifold, Bling Bling, Boog City, Boston Review, Both, Bowl of Stories, Cab/Net, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Cannibal, Cant, Carve, Castagraf, Chase Park, Coconut, Cold Drill, Colorado Poets Center, Colorado Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Conjunctions, Copper Nickel, Cricket Online, Cul-de Qui (UK), Cypress Magazine, DC Poetry Anthology, Denver Quarterly, Diode, Dislocate, Double Room, Effing Magazine, The Eleventh Muse, EM Literary, English Language Notes, Eoagh, Factorial, Fascicle, Forklift Ohio, Fourteen Hills, Free Verse, Goodfoot, Hambone, Homônumos (China), Hunger, The Ixnay Reader, Jacket, jubilat, LIT, The Laurel Review, Lungfull!, Many Mountains Moving, Matchbook, The Modern Review (Canada), Moria, Muse Apprentice Guild, New American Writing, New Review of Literature, New Ohio Review, Octopus, Off the Air, One Less, Parlorgames, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Parthenon West, Peregrine, Phoebe, Poetry Daily, Poets.org,The Poker, P-Queue, Real Poetik, Shampoo, Shiny, Sidebrow, Sleeping Fish, Small Town, Spinning Jenny, Syllogism, The Styles, The Tiny, Track & Field, Traffic, Trickhouse, Typo, Upstairs at Duroc (France), Ur Vox, Versal (Netherlands), Verse, Verse Daily, VeRT, Volt, West Wind Review, With + Stand, Word/ For Word, Xantippe, Your Black Eye, Zygote (Canada), and others
Fiction published in
Encyclopedia Project Vol. 2: F-K; Lilies and Cannonballs Review
Creative nonfiction published in
Fence; Packingtown Review; Woodland Pattern Archive
Selected honors and awards
San Francisco State Poetry Center 2007 Book Award for Novel Pictorial Noise, 2009
National Poetry Series Open Competition winner (selection by John Ashbery) for Novel Pictorial Noise, 2006
Green Rose Prize for A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow, 2006
Greg Gummer Poetry Award, selected by Robert Creeley, 2005
Sawtooth Poetry Prize for The Area of Sound Called the Subtone, 2004
Glosband Fellowship, selected by David Shapiro, 2004
Jarrell Poetry Prize, selected by Carolyn Forché, 2000
Editorial positions
Co-Editor/Co-Founder/Co-Publisher, Letter Machine Editions
Editor/Founder/Publisher, Braincase Press
Current projects
Lonesome Heroes: Innovative poetry from Colorado (anthology)
Air Full of Astronauts (poems)
Dysgraphia (creative nonfiction/memoir)
The Source (poetry/lyric essay)
Your Assignment (poetry/creative nonfiction)
Other Noise: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Interviews (collection of criticism)