BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MFA, Georgia College. MA/PhD, University of Connecticut. Poet and author of The Unstill Ones and Impossible Things. Poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, The London Review of Books, and Poem-a-Day. Recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, 92Y/The Nation Discovery Prize, and an NYFA/NYSCA fellowship. SLC, 2025–
Graduate Courses 2025-2026
Master of Fine Arts in Writing
Poetry Workshop: Poetry and the Archive
Seminar—Fall
WRIT 7017
In this generative workshop, we will explore the poetics of the archive. While poetry can spring from us in an outpouring of spontaneous emotion, engagement with exterior texts can unlock new possibilities for the page. We are, of course, archives ourselves, of our own lived experiences— all we have known and felt, all we’ve learned from the interior and exterior texts of our lives. We will investigate the relationships between our inner and outer archives and the fruitful tensions that this interplay opens up in our poems. Our class will visit at least one archive together as a group, and you will also be asked to work more extensively with an archive of your choosing. This could take the form of a personally held archive—letters from an ancestor, for example, or engagement with materials at one of the many amazing archives nearby, such as the Lesbian Herstory Archive in Brooklyn. Our reading companions will be books featuring archival work, such as Cameron Awkward-Rich’s Dispatch, Anne Carson’s Nox, Alice Oswald’s Memorial, Marwa Helal’s Invasive Species, Ellen Bryant Voigt’s Kyrie and Philip Metres’ Shrapnel Maps.