Remnants from sublime moments
in a life fill the pages. The reader hopes
the bliss easier going for the author.
The husks remind the bourgeois-
trained commuter that tiger cage bars
housed Ezra Pound or that Rimbaud
played with symbolic order
on shoe laces and then ran away.
‘How to’ guides search
for the reset button on realty.
Creative acts would provide alternatives
to wars ravaging country landscapes,
city centers or in peace the poverty
condemning neighborhoods to early deaths.
Clips from TV shows viewed from laptops
or handhelds provide a similar exit today.
The “I’ve got mine; you get yours” art
went beyond video games to a nirvana.
The hypnotic slumbers and mad love
that marry contradictions liberate, perhaps.
But dreams love for more than dustcovers.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Recent Publications, Presentations, Awards
2011 finalist: Eudaimonia Poetry Review Chapbook Prize; and Teacher’s Voice Poetry Chapbook Prize.
2011 “In a Yellow Wood.” Folly Magazine. http://www.follymag.com/
2011 “Visiting Irony” and “Weekend Splash,” Imaginary Syllabus, Anthology chapters, Palm
Press, Long Beach, CA.
2010, November. "Focused Inquiry Regarding Empathy and the Absurd: Freshmen Discovering the Modern and Postmodern," at the “Crossing the Great Divide: Critical Thinking and Writing in the Majors,” at Quinnipiac University, Hamden CT.
2010, June. “Séance Mettle: Ironic Correspondences” workshop and my paper “Voyeur and Ironic Voices” were facilitated and presented at the Poetry and Voice, a Creative and Critical
Conference at the University of Chichester, UK.
2009 “Empathy’s Limits: Sublime and Aporia Meet Post-Colonial Poetics” Presentation for
University College Symposium, March 2009.
2009 Curator for Ekleksographia issue number 3, an exercise in asymmetrical publishing www.ahadada.com.
2009 "Poetry's Evolving Ecology: Toward a Post-Symbol Landscape.” “Special Issue” The Journal of Ecocriticism,University of British Columbia.
2008 “A Weekend Splash for the Big Toe.” Big Toe Review, Pedagogy Issue.”
2008 Ecological Poetry and Poetics Conference at the Universite Libre De Bruxelles (Brussels, 14-17 May 2008): Paper presented. "Poetry's Evolving Ecology: Toward a Post-Symbol Landscape.” http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/search/titles.
2008 Guest Editor, Inertia Magazine, Issue 1, Vol. Four, www.inertia.com.
2007 “Howl’s Muzzle.” Fringe Magazine, April 2007 issue. http://www.fringemagazine.org/issue_09_criticism.htm.
2007 “Spectacle and Aporia in the Poetry of Ted Kooser and John Ashbery.” Reconfigurations: a Journal of Poetics and Poetry. Nov. 2007. Juried http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/.
2007 American Culture Association Conference: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics in Boston in April. Paper presented: “Spectacle and Aporia in the Poetry of Kooser and Ashbery.”
2007 International New Directions in the Humanities Conference in Paris in July. Paper presented: “Spectacle and Aporia in the Poetry of Kooser and Ashbery.”
2007 “McLuhan’s Warning, Frye’s Strategy, Emerson’s Dream” Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Volume 12 Winter 2006/2007 Juried.
2011 “In a Yellow Wood.” Folly Magazine. http://www.follymag.com/
2011 “Visiting Irony” and “Weekend Splash,” Imaginary Syllabus, Anthology chapters, Palm
Press, Long Beach, CA.
2010, November. "Focused Inquiry Regarding Empathy and the Absurd: Freshmen Discovering the Modern and Postmodern," at the “Crossing the Great Divide: Critical Thinking and Writing in the Majors,” at Quinnipiac University, Hamden CT.
2010, June. “Séance Mettle: Ironic Correspondences” workshop and my paper “Voyeur and Ironic Voices” were facilitated and presented at the Poetry and Voice, a Creative and Critical
Conference at the University of Chichester, UK.
2009 “Empathy’s Limits: Sublime and Aporia Meet Post-Colonial Poetics” Presentation for
University College Symposium, March 2009.
2009 Curator for Ekleksographia issue number 3, an exercise in asymmetrical publishing www.ahadada.com.
2009 "Poetry's Evolving Ecology: Toward a Post-Symbol Landscape.” “Special Issue” The Journal of Ecocriticism,University of British Columbia.
2008 “A Weekend Splash for the Big Toe.” Big Toe Review, Pedagogy Issue.”
2008 Ecological Poetry and Poetics Conference at the Universite Libre De Bruxelles (Brussels, 14-17 May 2008): Paper presented. "Poetry's Evolving Ecology: Toward a Post-Symbol Landscape.” http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/search/titles.
2008 Guest Editor, Inertia Magazine, Issue 1, Vol. Four, www.inertia.com.
2007 “Howl’s Muzzle.” Fringe Magazine, April 2007 issue. http://www.fringemagazine.org/issue_09_criticism.htm.
2007 “Spectacle and Aporia in the Poetry of Ted Kooser and John Ashbery.” Reconfigurations: a Journal of Poetics and Poetry. Nov. 2007. Juried http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/.
2007 American Culture Association Conference: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics in Boston in April. Paper presented: “Spectacle and Aporia in the Poetry of Kooser and Ashbery.”
2007 International New Directions in the Humanities Conference in Paris in July. Paper presented: “Spectacle and Aporia in the Poetry of Kooser and Ashbery.”
2007 “McLuhan’s Warning, Frye’s Strategy, Emerson’s Dream” Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Volume 12 Winter 2006/2007 Juried.
U. S. History, Bridged
One Memory Lane
leads tireless revolutions
on cinder blocks
to where wheel met the road
and together invented
an exhaustive political movement.
leads tireless revolutions
on cinder blocks
to where wheel met the road
and together invented
an exhaustive political movement.
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