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Professional StatementFor the past several years I've been writing and teaching ecopoetry and ecopoetics. In the spring of 2024 I'll be teaching a research seminar on Emily Dickinson. Keats: "The poetry of earth is never dead." Books
--"Whoa!" (long poem), Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics (Spring/Summer 2019) https://www.jstor.org/stable/arion.27.1.0001?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents "Whoa!" reprinted, along with an essay on Ovid and the poem, in Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination, eds.Giulia Sissa and Francesca Martelli (Bloomsbury Publishing, summer 2023). --"The Tree in the Midst" reprinted in Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poems, eds. Jennifer Barber, Jessica Greenbaum, Fred Marchant (Grayson Books, 2022). --"A Climate-Changed Ecopoetics" (essay): Natur in der Lyrik und Philosophie des Anthropozäns, eds. Kirstin Zeyer, Kenricke Stahl, Harald Schwaetzer (Aschendorff Verlag, Trier, Germany, 2022). --"Ecovaluation" (essay), Evaluations of US Poetry Since 1950, eds. Robert von Hallberg and Robert Faggen (U of New Mexico Press, 2021). --"The Tree in the Midst" and "For the Birds" (poems), Poetry Magazine (April 2020). --"A Tree's Shade Speaks of its Shadow" (poem), Kenyon Review (May/June 2019). https://www.kenyonreview.org/journal/mayjune-2019/selections/ --"Pangolin Scales" (poem), Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges: New Eco-poetry from China and the United States (Manoa Journal, 2019) https://manoaecoissue.poetry.blog/?q=shop --"Round County Almanac" (poem), The Wallace Stevens Journal (Spring 2019) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/719196--"Near-Earth Object" (poem) Poetry Magazine (2019): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/148679/near-earth-object on the poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/148856/how-far-weve-come --"Why Ecopoetry?" Poetry Magazine (Jan 2016) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70299/why-ecopoetry --"Least Concern" (poem) Poetry Magazine (September 2016) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/90296 --"Dickinson's Civil War Poetics" The Emily Dickinson Journal (2010) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/408845/summary --"Listening to Dickinson" Representations 86 (Spring 2004) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rep.2004.86.1.20?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents --"Lyric Cryptography" Poetics Today 21 (2000) https://read.dukeupress.edu/poetics-today/article-abstract/21/1/221/20669/Lyric-Cryptography
"The Poems of our Climate" (essay).
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