This thesis contains forty-three poems that deal with themes of family, relationships, and working-class life. Home to a variety of unique features and challenges that my work contends with, the Rust Belt makes up nearly all specified settings in my poems. The first section cont…
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My Time Among the Cannibals is a collection of prose poems that use absurdist techniques to address themes such as community, performance, spectacle, and commerce in late capitalism. Russell Edson, considered by many to be the godfather of American prose poetry, once referred to…
Soft Palette is a collection of poems in four sections. Interested in sound play and intricate lyricism, the collection’s voice attempts to carefully attend to every turn of phrase. Poems appear in both free verse and set forms such as the sonnet and ghazal. This collection is i…
My poems are frequently spaces of discovery for the body, how we each move through and mark and are marked by this world around us, this world we both confront and simultaneously are a part of. My poems, that is, exhibit a type of phenomenological ecology: thinking about how we …
The interests and obsession of this writing lie in exploring femininity as constructed as well as inherited, following a matrilineal thread that is interwoven through genetics, experience, and location. Within this manuscript of poetry, Preying Women, the women figures are self …
This book analyzes the weight of grief. It takes a sharp, deep breath and demands that the reader look closely at the history, the decisions that lead to unexpected death. The people that death leaves behind. While the reader begins to understand the narrator’s past, they are aw…
I automatically read the customer’s minutest movements and gaze, and my body acts reflexively in response. My ears and eyes are important sensors to catch their every move and desire. Taking the utmost care not to cause the customer any discomfort by observing him or her too clo…