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ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6296-4401
Document Type
Campus Access
Degree Program
English
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2022
Month Degree Awarded
May
Keywords
poetry, music, medicine, queerness, identity, disability
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/28439531.0
Abstract
As a poet, I am continually on the lookout for the strange in the real, and the real in the strange: scientific, linguistic, poetic, human. These poems are my offerings of strange realness and real strangeness. Often where the poems want to go is toward questions that live in connection / disconnection, identity, disability and illness, art, religion and ritual, desire and love and wanting, and one of my dearest loves, music. And, of course, science and language, and the language of science.