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The poems in this manuscript synthesize three locations in my experience. These locations embody some combination of geography, space, and time specific to the South (Georgia), Southern California, and my heart. The heart is ultimately...
The poems in the dissertation 81st Division explore British colonialism and its legacy in Nigeria. The dissertation adopts various European poetic styles as a way of acknowledging European influences in Nigeria while breaking the rules...
His Visible Bones follows its speaker from active illness and addiction through recovery and into a long-term relationship. The poems focus on lived experiences of queerness, mental illness, addiction, recovery, and romance. They operate...
The King of Ketamine is a thesis made up of 41 poems, through which I explore such themes as the prison system, child neglect, alcoholism, body positivity, death, love, and an array of other emotions. There are three sections contained...
This manuscript is a collection of poems that relies in part on an unavoidable lineage of Southern poetics, while simultaneously asserting a divergence from that poetic and reimagining how reconciliations with that lineage may be reached...
This manuscript of poems is a wandering through the last ten years of my life, but stretches back into childhood as well. It wanders, because I have wandered, but as I did, it wanders with purpose. The poems roam from work to travel, ...
Flowers as Mind Control is a debut collection of poems that mixes the Welsh notion of Hiraeth and memories with a fiery, insatiable need to "power through." It also blends narrative elements with lyric ones. Here I try for a raw edge...
There is no namesake figure in the dissertation manuscript, Barnburner, and no single "Barnburner" poem appears. Instead, the poems reflect a specific modern mindset. The concept "barnburner" was popularized in the mid-nineteenth century...
This manuscript is the culmination of my earliest work. Many of these poems are lyric narratives and 'confessional' although what part of writing does not simultaneously reveal and conceal at the same time? Influences include Sylvia...
A Wedding of Jackals is a creative dissertation in poetry. It follows a queer speaker who, after the end of his marriage, tries and fails to restore a relationship with his estranged father. In evaluating and moving through these...
These poems are written in a frantic high lyric tradition, though confessional narrative is also a main goal. Sections of a long poem, MOON AORTA MOON DITCH MOON are split up throughout the collection to organize the narrative of the...
The poems of Willing draw on my personal experience and family history to explore the metaphors, mythologies, and lived experiences of Mormonism. As a whole, the book is framed by Joseph Smith's declaration that one must "search into and...
The following poems focus upon fundamental experiences with technologies, physical forms, obsessions, and ideas in order to reveal an inherent unity in humanity. These “artifacts” are found in ancient, but also contemporary, contexts, ...
The easiest way to make a living as a poet is to write fiction. That is: When you visit the museum that is the African equivalent of Auschwitz, the hallways are not lined with piles of long hair of Jewish girls or luggage stamped...
My thesis, REWIND, is an homage to the life of my brother, Shane—and my own life, which today wouldn’t be possible without him. I break the thesis down into two sections, WEDGEWOOD WAY and I DO MY BEST TO REMEMBER YOU. While the first...
This novel tells the story of Sinatra Hawkins, a combat veteran of the Afghanistan War, who quests north as a personal favor to his drug-dealing, pornographer boss, Major Dufresne. In Chicago, Sinatra's narrative weaves with that of a...
My 21st Century Big Budget Apocalypse is a collection of free verse poetry which derives influence from the Romantics and 19th Century French prose poets. The manuscript's centerpiece is a long-form narrative journey through a post...
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...
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