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Years at Knox: 2011 to present
Education
Ph.D., 2010, Western Michigan University.
B.A., 2004, Knox College.
Teaching Interests
Modern and contemporary poetry, creative writing, 20th and 21st century American literature, British modernism
"Saying Your Name to the Rain." Cream City Review (Winter 2011).
Interview with Alicia Ostriker (co-authored with Natalie Giarratano), Third Coast (forthcoming Fall 2010).
"Homing," "Reading," "Giving the Bird," and "Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009." New Ohio Review 8 (Fall 2010).
"You Are Here," "The Weather Project," and "Shaking the House." Fifth Wednesday Journal 6 (Spring 2010).
Review of Temper by Beth Bachmann, Poet Lore (forthcoming Spring 2010).
"Meanwhile." The Sakura Review 1 (Fall 2009).
"Blasphemy Psalm." The Cimarron Review 167 (Spring 2009).
"Anatomy (Photographs)." Tammy 1.1 (Spring 2009).
"Improvisation." santa clara review 96.1 (Fall 2008/Winter 2009)
"After Viewing Cold, Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991) by Cornelia Parker."
Crazyhorse 74 (Fall 2008).
"Rothko's Room." CONTROLLED BURN 14 (Spring 2008).
"Mimma's Carbonara Recipe" and "Of the Day We Went to War." Fifth Wednesday Journal 2 (Spring 2008).
Review of The Miniature Room by Rebecca Dunham, Third Coast (Fall 2007).
"At the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago." rednoW: an experiment in art and wonder (August 2007).
"Scraping Out." Redactions Poetry & Poetics 8.9 (May 2007)
Review of Less of Her; Stumble, Gorgeous; and Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses by Paula McLain. Third Coast (Fall 2006).
Presentations
Winter Wheat: The Mid-American Review Festival of Writing, Panels: "Ekphrasis & Contemporary Poetry: Description & Desire" and "Writing the Midwest." Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, November 13, 2010.
Poetry reading. Third Coast Reading Series, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, annually 2005-2010.
"Toward a Livable Architecture: On Teaching the Undergraduate Poetry Workshop." Michigan College English Association, Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan, October 20, 2006.
Campus & Community Involvement
Co-Editor, Pilot Light: a journal of 21st century poetics and criticism.
Assistant Poetry Editor, Third Coast, Western Michigan University.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Mark Konkol, a member of the Chicago Sun-Times team that won a 2011 Pulitzer Prize, converses about his work and offers tips to aspiring journalists about how to report and write high-quality news stories.
The National Endowment of the Arts' Big Read Blog interviews a Knox College student and faculty member who helped to create a unique audio archive that spotlights writers from across the United States.
"Horizons: A Celebration of Student Inquiry, Imagination, and Creativity" featured student research presentations in the humanities, sciences and social sciences on May 5, and student presentations in music in on May 8.
