:: Threads

a book of prose, poetry, and collage from Futurepoem Books : published spring 2007 : click here for ordering info

text and images excerpted in The Brooklyn Rail

An Old Book Became Threads : notes and images from the seed of the project

:: reviews of Threads

from Ron Silliman's blog May 03, 2007
from Publishers Weekly May 21, 2007, Poetry Reviews
from Cutbank by Heather Sweeney, December 10, 2007
from Galatea Resurrects #8 by Pamela Hart

an interview about Threads

destroying Threads : a project for Hilda Magazine

:: Torchwood

a collection of poems :: published January 2008 by Shearsman Books
(order from Amazon.com, Borders Books, or Small Press Distribution)

:: excerpts from Torchwood

Nival (of or growing in or under snow) : published in Harp and Altar

Nine "religious" sonnets : published in Raised in a Barn 4

Six poems : published in Moria Poetry

:: Cadastral Map

a chapbook from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs :: excerpt and a review

:: some visual works, essays

Images of two small books : a project of homemade three-of-a-kind books, given away

an interview with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council : on being a writer-in-residence

"No Unbarbed Region Now: Poetry, Consent, and Resistance" : a review of Laura Elrick´s book Fantasies in Permeable Structures : published in Jacket

Excerpts from COMPASS & HEM : a chapbook published for the Dusie Kollectiv Publishing Exchange

Images from The Seneca Village Series : The Fabric of America Series : Book Sculpture

The Look of Truth : The Sociological Imagination, Poetry, and Visual Art : a talk given at the Poetry Project, November 2005

Handwriting : Reading the Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson: A Facsimile,Leslie Scalapino's Crowd and not evening or light and Cecilia Vicuña´s Instan published in The New Review of Literature, spring 2005

:: courses and workshops

The Poet In The Library: Research And Imaginative Writing : a workshop at The Poetry Project winter/spring 2008

Is there a role for research in imaginative or creative writing projects? Sure! In this workshop we´ll combine prior knowledge with curiosity, creating opportunities to stumble upon interesting language and images. We´ll develop research questions to accompany our intuitive and imaginative writings; search for materials in books, historical documents, articles, newspapers; take field trips to public archives, libraries, and historical sites; experiment with using found text; explore ways to structure a long poem, including the possibility of creating a hybrid text, and a text that includes visuals. All along, we´ll take a look at works by Susan Howe, Gale Jackson, Claudia Rankine, Juliana Spahr, and others, and the visual/text work of Mary Kelly, Lorna Simpson, The Atlas Group, and others.

Surfacing History: a poetry and visual poetry workshop at Poets House, New York, May-June 2006\

Instead of creating stable, easily decoded pages, we´ll create a series of visual poems, layered surfaces of documents, historical records, maps, hand-written notes, pages from old books, our own writings, and pieces of everyday text and paper. We'll start with investigative writing—researching events and landscapes at the intersection of civic and personal history, culling words, and fashioning poems and prose from what we find. Then, by collaging, soaking, wrinkling, writing, mark-making, and photocopying, our pages will gather the signs of wear and tear, personal use, distress—the look of history. Writers and artists we´ll study include Susan Howe, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Tom Phillips, Mary Kelly, Anselm Kiefer, Eugenio Dittborn. No drawing experience is required; no purchase of materials required.

Syllabus for Introduction to Poetry: The Poet as Citizen, Poetry as Public Record (click here for pdf)

Syllabus for Intermediate Poetry: The Long Poem (click here for pdf)

The Essay

20th Century Women Writers

Literature, Art, and the Human Experience: Core Humanities II

20th Century American Poetry, spring 2005

20th Century American Poetry, summer 2003

Poetry Workshop

Fiction Workshop

"Dis-Ease and Connectivity: Women's Experimental Writing" : a participatory reading/workshop at the 2nd Annual Scholarly Conference on Women, The City College/CUNY Center for Worker Education

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