It’s been a dark week, so a tiny ray of something else: more sonnets from my ongoing sequence, “2022.07,” “2022.08–09,” “2022.10,” “2023.17–18,” and “2023.19,” are in Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Thanks to Strider Marcus Jones for taking these!
Spring Semester 2025: Syllabus
Because I am the 2022–25 Cora A. Babcock Chair in English, I again have a course release this spring. As such, I’ll only be teaching one class this semester, but I’m super excited to teach ENGL 412 Advanced Poetry Workshop again, one of my favorite classes to teach at Hartwick College.
Cleaver Issue 48 Contributors Reading
UPDATE: I’m recovering from a nasty flu and won’t be able to make the reading tonight.
On Sunday, February 2 from 7:00–8:30 p.m. (EST) via Zoom, I’ll be reading “2023.32,” recently published in issue 48 of Cleaver, along with other contributors to the issue: David Lydon-Staley, Christopher David Rosales, Tracie Adams, Sinclair Cabocel, Eden Royce, Connor Fisher, Jeff Gabel, Coleman Bigelow, Jeffrey G. Moss, Krista Puttler, Herman Beavers, and Kiely Todd Roska.
You can register for the reading here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/mSovtLTCRmmjkSMqEZkqFg#/registration.
“2023.26,” “2023.27,” and “2023.28” in Magazine1
Delighted to have “2023.26,” “2023.27,” and “2023.28” from my ongoing sonnet sequence in the third issue of Magazine1.
Fall Semester 2024: Syllabi
I was so busy this fall semester that I forgot to post syllabi for my classes! Here they are. I’m particularly proud of the work my students did in my department’s senior seminar for this year: ENGL 470 Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar.
ENGL 213 Introduction to Creative Writing
“2023.32” in Cleaver
Thanks so much to Cleaver for publishing another sonnet from my ongoing sequence, “2023.32,” in their forty-eighth issue.
Hartwick College’s Faculty Lecture Series, Spring 2025
This spring, the Faculty Development Committee and the Office of Academic Affairs at Hartwick College will present three speakers in the annual Faculty Lecture Series.
All talks take place at during the common hour: 12:20–1:20 p.m. in Eaton Lounge, Bresee Hall at Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York.
The lectures are free and open to the public.
Mark Wolff, “Did a Computer Write This? The Ethics of Reading in an Age of Artificial Intelligence,” Friday, February 7, 2025.
Karl Seeley, “Food First! Reconceptualizing Economic Growth in Light of Climate Change,” Friday, March 7, 2025.
Weiwei Zhang, “Harnessing Materiality: Building Cultural Resonance in the Digital Age,” Friday, April 11, 2025.
For more information, visit the Faculty Lecture Series webpage.
Reading at CANO’s Writers Salon
I recently published a book, 2013–2017: Sonnets (LJMcD Communications, 2024), the first in an ongoing sonnet sequence. I have written the next book in the sequence, 2018–2024: Sonnets, and I’ve started the third, 2024–20XX: Sonnets, and I will be reading poems from these two most recent projects at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 21, 2024 at the Community Arts Network of Oneonta (CANO)’s Writers Salon at the Wilber Mansion on 11 Ford Ave. I promise a poem about the election (writing it right now).
“2023.21,” “2023.22/24,” and “2023.25” in Broken Lens Journal
Thanks so much to Broken Lens Journal for publishing some new sonnets in their ninth issue: “2023.21,” “2023.22/24,” and “2023.25.”
If you’re in Oneonta and want to hear some more poems from the manuscript these come from, stop by CANO’s Writers Salon on November 21.
“2022.11,” “2023.01,” “2023.11,” “2023.12,” “2023.13,” and “2023.14” in Pamenar Online Magazine
I am thrilled to have poems in Pamenar Online Magazine again! Check out: “2022.11,” “2023.01,” “2023.11,” “2023.12,” “2023.13,” and “2023.14.” Thanks to Ghazal Mosadeq for her support and the amazing journal and press she and her team have put together.
If you’re in Oneonta and want to hear some more poems from the manuscript these come from, stop by CANO’s Writers Salon on November 21. I’ll also be reading from 2013–2017: Sonnets on Wednesday, September 25 for Hartwick College’s Visiting Writers Series.
The Hyperarchival Parallax 