American poetry -- 21st century

Rescue explores human interactions and pays particular attention to those relationship in which one side dominates the other. The world here deals with ground trampled by military, religion, science and addiction but never forgets its origins in a place w

Retrograde examines the metaphysics of location, and charts the borders and trails of multiple stories: the memory of a grandfather; the artists's handle on society; the effects of modern tragedy; our place in space; and our understanding of morality. Ret

This is a collection of thirty-nine poems. Some of them work within forms and others depart from the conventions of formal poetry. Many of them approach the task of place making, and they do so in a way that acknowledges both connection and disconnection

Explores both intimate spaces and the external world, through reflection and an examination of the speaker's psyche.--Abstract.

In this group of poems, I've drawn from my own history, my fractured family, my travels, and my love for and connection with animals, to create a thread of memories and imaginings that link fragments of personal experience, as well as touch on how the nat

The major theme of this collection is seeing. As a whole the poems are concerned with what it is to see the world and live in it while trying to interact and function in that world. -- abstract.

"Sea of Doors is a collection of poems that utilizes the form of the video game by using the rules (ethics, diction, perspective) of individual game worlds as the guiding philosophy behind each poem." --Abstract.

Seeds is a collection of poems that reworks well-known stories from Greek mythology, Homer, the Bible, and Shakespeare. Using different tones of voice and narrative strategies, these versions aim to consider anew the powerful dynamics of their sources whi

Lighthearted or serious, whimsical or violent, autobiographical or wholly imagined, the world rendered in each of the following poems is inevitably somehow off kilter, not quite right." The reader, like the writer, should not feel at ease in experiencing

This collection of poems represents my mental trappings, and it is broken into two section. The first section is more personal and emotional, expressing anger, bitterness, sadness, and loneliness experienced in childhood, resulting from the difficult rel

The Speed of Skin is a collection of 40 poems, many of which incorporate rhyme, repetition, and meter. The poems playfully experiment with point-of-view and narrative distance, and the balance of free verse with more traditional forms (sestinas, villanell

"This collection intends to support the notion that the power of writing can revise a history unfathomed. While we may or may not recall an incident or an experience as true, we have the power to adjust memory to engage interpretation, and therefore continually rewrite our pasts to better effect a constantly shifting present. These poems address and grapple with that concern." --Abstract.

State Line documents and praises the musical and natural richness of Piedmont North and South Carolina. The work includes poems that involve the Carolina landscape--its biodiversity, its geology, and the history of human interaction with the land; poems f

Strange to Praise is a collection of poems written in traditional and experimental forms that reconstruct personal narrative to achieve a greater understanding of the connections between the individual and the world. -- abstract.

The poems in this collection look at the unexpected nature of home. The title reflects the balance between feeling lost and feeling safe, and the poems within the manuscript grapple with this theme. --Abstract.

Sun and Planet Gears is a collection of poems concerned with place, time, and memory. Some evoke formative moments during childhood and adolescence. Others meditate on events and artifacts associated with cultural history past and present. Overall, the po

Named for the road that runs the length of Bucks County, PA, Swamp Road blends local history, mythology, and the story of a family bound together by the land even as they drive each other apart. -- abstract.

This manuscript is about a search for a true identity: one that is not purely good, one that is constantly changing, and one that is also equally filled with darkness. -- abstract.