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Education

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Ph.D. in Communication & Information Sciences: Book and Publishing Studies (expected 2027)
Dissertation: Field Notes: The Agrarian Roots, Cultural Impact, and Archival Complexities of Pocket Notebooks in America, dir. Robert Riter.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL
M.A.E. in Secondary Education: English Language Arts, 2021. 

Miami University, Oxford, OH
M.F.A. in Creative Writing, 2019. 
Thesis: The Daybooks, dir. Hoa Nguyen.
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State University of New York at Buffalo (University at Buffalo), NY
M.L.S., Information and Library Science, 2010. 
Project: Buffalo Arts Digital Library.
M.A. in Comparative Literature: Critical Theory, 2005. 
Thesis: Sonic Territories: Deleuze and the Politics of Sound in Kafka and Duras, dir. Henry Sussman. 
B.A. summa cum laude, 2002. Phi Beta Kappa. Comparative Literature: Language Theory (Special Major) and English double major; University Honors Scholar.

Scholarly Publications

Google scholar profile: jessica.s.smith@gmail.com
ORCiD: 0000-0001-6593-6203

Book Chapters
“Reading in the Stacks: Raising Young Poet-Librarians in The Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo,” in Poetry as Knowledge in Library and Information Science: Inquiry, Identity, and Practices, eds. Bharat Mehra and Vanessa Irvin (Emerald Group Publishing 2026)
“Odontomancy” in A Counter-Desecration Handbook, eds. Linda Russo and Marthe Reed (Wesleyan UP 2018).
“Creating Creativity: Zines and Teen Empowerment,” Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel: Innovative Meditations on Librarianship, eds. Sommer Browning and Shannon Tharp (Library Juice Press 2018).

​Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“The Plasticity of Poetry” in Literature Compass Vol. 3 No. 3 (Blackwell, U.K., Spring 2006). Winner of the 2005 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize.
“The Plasticity of Poetry,” OEI 18/19/20/21: Visual Poetry (Stockholm, Winter 2004). Translated to Swedish by Martin Hägglund.
“Buffalo, NY, 26 February 2002: The Silent Reading and Poetry Reading Politics” in Mantis 3 (“Poetry and Performance,” Stanford, Winter 2002).
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Book Reviews
“Review of Emily Jungmin Yoon’s A Cruelty Special to Our Species,” Fence Digital | Constant Critic (2019)
“Review of Tiana Clark’s I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood and Ashley M. Jones’s dark // thing,” Fence Digital | Constant Critic (2019).
“Something in the Water”: Niedecker’s Homemade Poems,” Review of Lorine Niedecker’s Homemade Poems. Quarterly West (2019).
“Review of Cynthia Arrieu-King’s Futureless Languages,” Fence Digital | Constant Critic (2019).
“Review of Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead., The Georgia Review (Fall/Winter 2018).
“Don Mee Choi’s ‘Hardly War’: A child’s history of conflict,” Review of Hardly War by Don Mee Choi. Jacket2 (Philadelphia, PA; 2018).
“On Time: Joanne Kyger’s Journals and Ephemera,” Review. Quarterly West (2018).
“Against Apocalypse.” Review of Revelator by Ron Silliman. Jacket2 (Philadelphia, PA; 2014).
“Theresa Hak Kyung Cha & Gestural Poetics.” verdure #7, (Buffalo, NY; archived online Winter 2004).

Other Critical Publications

“The Phenomenology of Lizzo’s Field Notes,” Finalist, Essay Press Chapbook Contest 2022 (unpublished)
“Girls to the Front: The secret punk feminism of above/ground press,” above/ground press blog (2018).
“Agape in the Southland: Erasure Responses to the Election,” in Radio 11.8.16, Essay Press (2017).
“Vanesa Pacheco and T.A. Noonan: On Translation and Erasure.” Queen Mob’s Teahouse (2016).
“Introduction” to Molly Jean Bennett’s Paper Apartment, Essay Press (2015).
“The Art of the Poem: Jessica Smith on Susan Howe.” Literary Mothers blog (2014).
“Curate What You Know: The Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series,” Library as Incubator Project blog (June 2013).
“Saving Poetry Books, One Book at a Time: Mike Basinski and The Poetry Collection at SUNY Buffalo” Boog City (Issue 83).
“The Library as Incubator Project: Promoting Creative Collaboration Between Libraries and All Artists” Boog City (Issue 81).
“Poetry and Libraries: A Report on Contemporary Collection Methods,” Boog City (Issue 80).
“Beyond the Blockbuster Model: Why small press representation is important,” Library Journal blog, (July 2011).

Invited Lectures

Public conversation with Johanna Drucker in advance of her talk, “​​Inventing the Alphabet: Technologies of Knowledge Production in the Humanities,” Literary Studies Lecture Series, University of Alabama, 2023.
“Secret Passageways in Memory Palaces: Considering Audience and the Unpredictable Fullness of Language,” at untitled: speculations on the expanded field of writing, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, 2008. Sponsored by a grant from the Annenberg Foundation.

Chaired Conference Panels

“The Pleasures of Inefficiency,” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) Conference, Montreal, QC, 2022.
“Re-mix, Reconsider, Re-imagine: Contemporary Creative Writing,” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) Conference, Montreal, QC, 2022.
“The Art of Constraint and Experiment in 20th-Century Poetry,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, The University of Louisville, KY, 2019.
“Poetry Under/As Power,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, The University of Louisville, KY, 2019.
“Modernist Objects, Modernist Values,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, The University of Louisville, KY, 2018.
“Varieties of Objectivist Value,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, The University of Louisville, KY, 2018.
“Immanence, The New Materialism, and the Nonhuman: Readings in Ecopoetics,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, The University of Louisville, KY, 2018.
“Poetry and Libraries: Collection Challenges,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference, Boston, MA, 2013.

Conference Papers and Panels

“Climate and Culture: A Generative Talk and Workshop,” New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA, 2023. 
“The Dancer from the Dance,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, 2020. (Panel canceled due to COVID-19)
“Muriel Rukeyser’s Book of the Dead and the Human Document,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, The University of Louisville, KY, 2019.
“Experiments in Intimacy: Visual Poetics of Femme Friendship,” New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA, 2018.
“Art and Trash Poetics,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, The University of Louisville, KY, 2018.
“In (Mixed) Company: Tracing the Nonbinary Brain in Olson’s Poetry,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, The University of Louisville, KY, 2018.
“The Daybooks,” “Not Having Feelings is Boring: Book-Length Autobiographical Poetics and the Avant-Garde,” New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA, 2017.
“Let’s Take This Outside,” “The Natural Writer: Unschooling the Creative Writing Classroom,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 2016.
“Poet-Publishers: A Contemporary Small Press Symposium,” SUNY Buffalo, NY; Poetry Library, 2009.
“Valentines for the Future: Zukofsky’s Alternate Poetics,” at The Louis Zukofsky Centennial Conference at Columbia and Barnard, 2004.
“Dada and Memory,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, The University of Louisville, KY, 2004.
“The Aesthetic Implications of ‘Julia’s Wild,’” at the Re-Reading Louis Zukofsky’s Bottom: On Shakespeare Symposium, University at Buffalo, 2003.
“On the Plasticity of Poetry,” NEMLA 2003 Convention, Boston, MA.
“’The intention is always to thwart design’: Reading The Black Debt through McCaffery’s Poetics of Excess,” the 31st Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, The University of Louisville, KY, 2003.
“Lorine Niedecker’s Poetics of Fragile Environments,” the 12th Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, SUNY Cortland, NY, 2002.
“Time’s Flat Surface in Thomas Bernhard’s Correction,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, The University of Louisville, KY, 2002. 

Poster Sessions
“Collaborative Weeding,” Alabama Library Association Conference, Huntsville, AL 2014.
“Using Curricular Programming to Increase Circulation,” Alabama Library Association Conference, Montgomery, AL 2013.

Creative Publications

Books
The Daybooks. Insert Press, forthcoming in four parts.
    The Daybooks: Winter. Forthcoming January 2024.
    The Daybooks: Spring. Forthcoming April 2025.
    The Daybooks: Summer. Forthcoming July 2026.
    The Daybooks: Fall. Forthcoming October 2027.
How to Know the Flowers. Veliz Books, 2019. 
Life-List. Chax Press, 2015. 
Articulating Space: Short Essays on Poetry. Argotist Ebooks, 2011.
Organic Furniture Cellar: Works on Paper 2002-2004. Outside Voices, 2006. 

Unpublished Manuscripts
Dream House (semifinalist for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize, 2015)
Glazed Glitter (semifinalist for the Tarpaulin Sky Poetry Prize, 2017)

Selected Reviews
Report from the Smith Society, Vol 1. No. 1. Ed. rob mclennan. above/ground press, 2023. A compendium of critical and creative responses to my work.
Arrieu-King, Cynthia. “Scientific, Healing Magic: How To Know The Flowers by Jessica Smith,” The Rumpus, 2020.
Featured in Poets House’s Poetry Showcase 2019.
Jacobs-Beck, Kimberly. Crab Creek Review (print), 2019.
Of The Lover is Absent (chapbook), Subterranean Blue Poetry, 2017.
Russo, Linda. “Listening-Being: Some unnamed species of porous poems,” Jacket2, 2015.
Tucker, Aaron. “Review by Aaron Tucker.” Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, 2014.
Bloomberg-Rissman, John. ZEN. Galatea Resurrects, 2014.
Foursquare Magazine. “The Indie Innovators.” Poets & Writers, 2010.
Loydell, Rupert. “The Ones that Didn’t Get Away.” Stride, 2007.
Baxt, Ellen. “Organic Furniture Cellar by Jessica Smith.” Boog City, 2006.
beaulieu, derek. “Organic Furniture Cellar by Jessica Smith.” Matrix, 2006.
Gardner, Susana. “Organic Furniture Cellar by Jessica Smith” Galatea Resurrects, 2006.
Fama, Steven. BIRD-BOOK. Galatea Resurrects, 2006
Lowinger, Aaron. “Organic Furniture Cellar.” House Press Newsletter, 2006.
McSweeney, Joyelle. “Organic Furniture Cellar: Works on Paper 2002-2004.” The Constant Critic (FENCE), 2006.
Peverett, Michael. “Jessica Smith, Organic Furniture Cellar.” Intercapillary Space, 2006.
Silliman, Ron. “I respond positively to ambitious work.” Silliman’s Blog, 2006.

Chapbooks
ex libris, Sunnyoutside Press, forthcoming.
Fever, Model Press, 2021.
Lion’s Den, above/ground press, 2019.
The Lover is Absent. above/ground press, 2017. Featuring poems from The Daybooks.
Poems from The Daybooks. Mondo Bummer, 2015. Featuring poems from The Daybooks.
The Women in Visual Poetry: the Bechdel Test. Essay Press, 2015.
Trauma Mouth. Dusie, 2015. Featuring poems from The Daybooks.
Cicada Radio. Phafours Press, 2014.
mnemotechnics. above/ground press, 2013. Featuring poems from Life-List.
What the Fortune-Teller Said. a+bend/Dusie, 2009; reprinted as “The Fortune Teller” in The Chapbook Journal (Issue 2, October 2013). Featuring poems from The Ring Cycle (formerly Dream House)
butterflies. Big Game Books, 2006. Digital version published by The Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange, 2013.
The Plasticity of Poetry. No Press, 2006. Featuring material from Organic Furniture Cellar.
Telling Time. No Press, 2006. Featuring poems from Organic Furniture Cellar.
Shifting Landscapes. above/ground press, 2006. Featuring poems from Organic Furniture Cellar.
blueberries. Handmade; sponsored by a Publication Grant from the McNulty Chair at the University at Buffalo, 2004.
bird-book. Handmade. First edition sponsored by a Special Project Grant from the Honors Program at the University at Buffalo, 2001. Reprinted by House Press (2005) and digital version published by Detumescence Press (2006). Featuring poems from Life-List.
Problemattica. Handmade, 2001.
Relation. Handmade, 2001. Reprinted by The Chapbook Vol. 2, 2013.

Collaborations
Ursularia. An opera by Opera Cabal (Majel Connery & Nicholas DeMaison), 2007.
musicartmovement. bird-book poems used as scores for music and dance, with Brett Masteller, composer, and Chelsea Warren, choreographer, 2003.
Elevator Postcard Project. Elevator 4: The Grid Project (words for mobile), with Amy Stalling, artist, 2003.
Elevator Postcard Project. Elevator 3: The Postcard Project, “Westward,” with Isabelle Pelissier, artist, 2001.
Transient Views. excerpts from bird-book (film), with Terry Cuddy, filmmaker, 2001.

Exhibits
April 13-20 2019: New Orleans, LA: Verbicovisual: An International Visual Poetry Exhibition. Barrister’s Gallery, St. Claude.
January 19 – April 15, 2018: New Haven, CT: collaborative art/poetry books from the ELEVATOR Project books (The Postcard Project and The Grid Project) at “The Art of Collaboration” at the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library.
January 12 – February 25, 2016: New York, NY: Pages from Glazed Glitter (erased text) and Reading the Illegible (handwritten/asemic text) in conjunction with “Formation” at Bernarducci Meisel Gallery. See also Poets and Artists magazine Issue 80. 
April 1-30 2014: Cobourg, ON: The Human Bean, “Textual Artivity”: “Milton’s Transcriptionist” and “Memory of Reading Virginia Woolf in Jamaica.” 
July 16 – Sept 3, 2010: Buffalo, NY: Foursquare magazine, “Wide Margins: An Exhibition of ‘Zines from the Sublime to the Silly”: Western New York Book Arts Center.
March 2009: Westchester and Providence, RI: Foursquare magazine, Handmade/Homemade exhibit
March 4-8, 2009: Brussels, Belgium: “Veil,” “infusoria: an exhibition of visual poetry by women from three continents”: Maison des Cultures.
April 25, 2008: Ghent, Belgium: “tiny wonderrooms of love,” zaoem festival.
October 6, 2002: “Veil,” installation for Anomaly magazine release reading with Lorraine Graham and Tom Orange: Bridge Street Books, Washington, D.C.
September 13, 2002: Buffalo, NY: visual poetry, name Reading: Big Orbit Soundlab.
February 26, 2002: Buffalo, NY: visual poetry, name Silent Reading: Rust Belt Books
February 7, 2002: Buffalo, NY: bird-book poems featured in Transient Views, panel discussion; Rust Belt Books.
November 30, 2001: Buffalo, NY: objets de poésie, name Poetry Reading & Bazaar; Rust Belt Books.
April 5, 2001: Buffalo, NY: of installation poetry, Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Poetry Prize Awards Ceremony, Poetry/Rare Books Library, University at Buffalo.

Periodicals
8Poems, an excerpt from The Daybooks (Vol. 3 No. 1, July 2020)
Can We Have Our Ball Back? excerpts from The Daybooks (May 2020)
Bear Review, excerpts from The Daybooks (May 2020)
Poets.org, “Daybooks 3 May 2013” (excerpt from The Daybooks) (2019)
Ethel Zine, an excerpt from Reading the Illegible (Issue 4, 2019)
Dilettante Army, “Approach” (Spring 2019)
Glass Poetry, an excerpt from The Daybooks (Special Feature: 100,000 Poets for Change—Birmingham 2018)
8Poems, an excerpt from The Daybooks (Vol. 1 No. 1, July 2018)
Dream Pop Journal, excerpts from Reading the Illegible (Issue 3, 2018)
Open Letters Monthly, from The Daybooks, “5 June 2016” (2017)
Poets and Artists, excerpts from Glazed Glitter and Reading the Illegible (Issue 80, 2017)
Dusie Advent Calendar, from The Daybooks, “4 November 2016” (2016)
Opon, from The Daybooks, “17 November 2002,” “4 December 2014,” “4 November 2005,” “7 November 2009,” “3 December 2004,” “14 September 2007,” “25 December 2007,” “21 October 2013” (Issue 4, 2015)
Pine Hills Review, from The Daybooks, “17 June 2007” (2015)
MiPoesias, from The Daybooks, “29 May 2012,” “11 December 2009” (Spring 2015)
The Ladowich Review, “The Potter,” “The Skull Bones,” “The Ceramics,” “The Ceramics,” “The Lines” (Issue 1, 2015)
Touch the Donkey, from The Daybooks, “23 June 2009,” “27 June 2003,” “28 July 2009,” “28 September 2003,” “19 November 2005” (Issue 4, 2015)
Drunken Boat, from The Daybooks, “30 March 2005,” “6 May 2011,” “31 October 2002” (Issue 20, 2014)
Delirious Hem, from The Daybooks, “13 December 2006” (December 2014)
Open Letters Monthly, from The Daybooks, “22 October 2013” (December 2014)
Entropy, from The Daybooks, “31 January 2009,” “10 March 2010,” “2 April 2005,” “21 June 2005,” “29 September 2013,” “12 October 2002,” “20 November 2007” (November 2014)
Bling that Sings, from The Daybooks, “2 March 2004,” “10 April 2014” (September 2014)
The Volta, “811.6” (August 2014)
Boston Poetry Magazine, “30 January 2014” (July 2014)
Zigest, “from The Daybooks / 7 July 2005 / Stockholm” (May 2014)
Newport Life, “from The Daybooks / 8 June 2009 / Buffalo” (April 2014)
The Rumpus, “from The Daybooks / 11 February 2004 / Buffalo” (April 2014)
The Brooklyn Rail, “Little Daughter, “Bronzino,” “Saskia” (March 2014)
17 seconds, “The Dead,” “The Double-Spout,” “The Instruments,” “Resin,” “The Geoglyphs,” “The Loom,” and “Riddles in the Sand” (Winter 2014)
La Vague Journal, three poems from “Exact Resemblance” (Issue 2, February 2014)
Cordite Poetry Review, “Gondwanaland” (Issue 44, December 2013)
Delirious Hem Advent Calendar, “Saskia, Rembrandt (1636)” (December 2013)
The Emerald Tablet, “chrysopoetics” (December 2013)
The Volta (Evening May Come), “alectryomancy” (Issue 33, September 2013)
aesthetix, “800” (Issue 6, 2013)
Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, “undercurrents,” “rwb,” “psychotherapy,” “piece for sky,” and “robins” (July 2013)
N/A Literary Journal, “magazine,” “beat the air,” “Canada geese,” “mourning” (Issue 1, 2013)
Open Letters Monthly, “wild swans” (July 2013)
Word for/Word, “In Love” (vol. 21, 2013)
Futurepoem Blog, response to Noah Eli Gordon’s The Source (2012)
Kadar Koli, poems (Buffalo 2010)
The Buffalo News, excerpts from What the Fortune-Teller Said (Buffalo 2010)
Area Sneaks, “Mod Diary” and interview (Los Angeles 2009)
speechless, “Mod Diary” (Calgary 2008)
Apocryphaltext, “Wake,” (Montevallo, AL 2008)
Cannibal, “Other Testimony of Summer Nights” (NYC 2008)
knives out, “dissent – descent” (Toronto 2008)
Phoebe, “Duras” (WDC 2008)
A Sing Economy, “Cortland” (Albany 2008)
The Other Herald, “Sidewalk” (Buffalo 2008)
Big Game Review, “Mars” (WDC 2007)
WOMB, CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (“a summer wish”) (San Diego 2007)
FOURSQUARE, “Wake” (Charlottesville 2007)
Rock Heals, “Sidewalk” and “Poetry is Like Music” (Baltimore 2007)
Zinhar, “Manifest” (in Turkish translation, Istanbul 2007)
Small Press Traffic, interview (San Francisco 2006)
small town, poems (San Francisco 2006)
Filling Station, excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (Calgary 2005)
American Weddings, excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (No. 1, Boston 2004)
Drill, excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (No. 4, South Bend 2004)
Mantis, “Silent Protest: Feminism and Poetry Reading Politics in the 21st Century” (No. 3, Palo Alto 2004)
OEI, untranslatable excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar and article, “The Plasticity of Poetry,” a variation on the Organic Furniture Cellar preface (No. 18/19/20/21, Stockholm 2004)
rout/e, “legend” or “mapmaking” excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (Toronto 2004)
vortex, Buffalo broadsides by William Sylvester, excerpts from blueberries (Buffalo 2004)
Antennae, “Corpse of Time” (No. 4, Chicago 2003)
Anomaly, “evolocution” excerpts (No. 1, D.C. 2002)
dANDelion, “canal series” excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (No. 28 vol. 2, Calgary 2002)
Ecopoetics, “Common Blues” excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (No. 2, Buffalo 2002)
Ferrum Wheel, “Leave No Trace” (No. 4, Buffalo 2002); “Buffalo Cycle” (No. 3, Buffalo 2002); “poem for regeneration” (No. 2, Buffalo 2001); “japanese beetle” from bird-book (No. 1, Buffalo 2001)
ixnay, “das lied von der erde,” “hero n,” and “japanese beetle,” from bird-book (No. 7, Philadelphia 2002)
Outlet (7) Heroines, “Cherries” (San Francisco 2001)
xtant one 09.01, “lov  r” (No. 1, North Carolina 2001)
Queen Street Quarterly, “Jemison Trail” and “Morris Trail” from Organic Furniture Cellar (Vol. 7, No. 1; 2004); excerpts from bird-book (Vol. 5, No. 3; 2002); “for Mariama Bâ” (Vol. 4, No. 4; 2001) (Toronto)
name, “found poem” (No. 8/9, 2004), “(>)” (No. 7, 2003), excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (No. 6, 2002), excerpts from Evolocution and “oscilli” from bird-book (No. 4/5, 2002); “Relation/I-I,” “Relation/I-III,” and “Cherries” (No. 3, 2001) (Buffalo)

Guest Workshops
Class visit and workshop. Holy Family Cristo Rey High School, Birmingham, AL; November 1, 2019
Poetry and art workshop. Harlan Hubbard Studios, Fort Thomas, KY; July 27, 2019
Poetry workshop. Alabama State Poetry Society Fall Conference, Oct. 27, 2018
Class visit and workshop. Norman High School and Norman North High School, Norman, OK; January 18, 2017. Sponsored by the Mark Allen Everett Poetry Reading Series.
Class visit and reading. Yale University, October 28, 2015
Class visit and reading. Central Connecticut State University, October 27, 2015

Selected Poetry Readings
March 10, 2023: Seattle, WA; Veliz Books AWP Off-site Reading, MadArt Studio.
July 30, 2022: Oxford, OH; Miami University, Alumni Reading.
May 15, 2022: Montreal, QC; ACCUTE/SpokenWeb Poetry Reading. 
April 9, 2020: Birmingham, AL: Magic City Poetry Festival. (Participation canceled due to COVID-19.) 
March 4, 2020: San Antonio, TX: Festival of Language reading (Participation canceled due to COVID-19.)
March 5, 2020: San Antonio, TX: Chax/Tinfish/Eoagh AWP off-site reading (Participation canceled due to COVID-19.)
March 6, 2020: San Antonio, TX: Veliz Books/co.im.press AWP off-site reading (Participation canceled due to COVID-19.)
November 1, 2019: Online. A Brief Chat podcast (abriefchat.com).
July 29, 2019: Oxford, OH: Miami University, Final Project Reading
August 27, 2019: Fort Thomas, KY: Harlan Hubbard Studio
April 20, 2019: New Orleans, LA; New Orleans Poetry Festival 
March 13, 2019: March 13, 2019: Brooklyn, NY; Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7pm
February 2, 2019: Birmingham, AL; DISCO. How to Know the Flowers Launch Party, 7pm
September 27, 2018: Birmingham, AL; Revelator Coffee; 100 Thousand Poets for Change
June 29, 2018: Birmingham, AL; ArtTown.
May 5, 2018: Philadelphia, PA; Brickbat Books. Hugely Popular series
April 20, 2018: New Orleans, LA; New Orleans Poetry Festival. Coven Press Reading
January 16, 2018: Oxford, OH: Miami University MFA Reading
August 1, 2017: Oxford, OH: Miami University MFA Reading
April 22, 2017: New Orleans, LA; New Orleans Poetry Festival. Coven Press Reading
April 22, 2017: New Orleans, LA; New Orleans Poetry Festival. Chax Press Reading
March 25, 2017: Birmingham, AL; Sister City Presents—She Persisted: Spoken Word Artist Showcase
February 10, 2017: Washington, D.C.; Chax/Kelsey St. Offsite AWP, Busboys & Poets
February 9, 2017: Washington, D.C.; Coven Press Offsite AWP, Songbyrd Cafe
January 18, 2017: Norman, OK; Mark Allen Everett Poetry Reading Series
December 10, 2016: Brooklyn, NY; Berl’s Poetry Shop, Tiny Talks Series
September 24, 2016: Birmingham, AL; The 6th Annual 100 Thousand Poets for Change.
April 16, 2016: New Orleans, LA; New Orleans Poetry Festival
April 1, 2016: L.A., CA; Ahsahta/Chax Press AWP Conference off-site reading at Book Show
November 15, 2015: New Orleans, LA
October 28, 2015: New Haven, CT; Yale class visit
October 27, 2015: New Britain, CT; Central Connecticut State University class visit
October 25, 2015: Brooklyn, NY; Unnameable Books with Coven Press as part of the d.a. levy lives series
October 23, 2015: Brooklyn, NY; Berl’s Poetry Shop
October 10, 2015: L.A., CA; Open Press
September 13, 2015: Knoxville, TN; Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) Reading Series
April 9, 2015: Minneapolis, MN; Lavender Ink/Dialogos/Chax Press reading at AWP at Segue Cafe
April 13, 2015: Birmingham, AL; Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series
April 26, 2015: Birmingham, AL; National Poetry Month reading at Emmet O’Neal Library
May 23, 2015: Tuscaloosa, AL; Sacred Grove Reading Series
October 12, 2014: Washington, D.C.; Arts & Crafts Beer Festival 
October 11, 2013: Oxford, MS: Bozarts Gallery (Trobar Ric Reading Series)
July 13, 2013: Ottawa, ON: The Carleton Tavern (The Factory Reading Series)
April 19, 2012: Atlanta, GA: Emory University (What’s New in Poetry? Series)
March 24, 2012: Buffalo, NY: Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Buffalo Small Press Book Fair)
March 27, 2010: Buffalo, NY: Sugar City (Buffalo Small Press Book Fair)
January 24, 2010: NY, NY: Zinc Bar
October 21, 2009: Buffalo, NY: Buffalo State College (Rooftop Poetry Club)
October 16, 2009: Lowell, MA (Mass Poetry Festival)
August 14, 2009: Buffalo, NY: Sugar City
July 10, 2009: Buffalo, NY: House reading (Habenicht Press)
May 19, 2009: NY, NY: ACA Galleries (d.a. levy lives series/dusie press)
March 20, 2009: Buffalo, NY: Sugar City (flim forum press)
February 27, 2009: NY, NY: St. Mark’s Poetry Project (A Sing Economy anthology release)
December 14, 2008: Buffalo, NY: Rust Belt Books
October 25, 2008: LA, CA; REDCAT Untitled: Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing
May 17, 2008: Baltimore, MD: (i.e. reading series)
April 25, 2008: Brooklyn, NY: Stain Bar (Local-National Poetry Month)
December 9, 2007: Brooklyn, NY: Unnameable Books
November 4, 2007: Asheville, NC: wordplay on WPVM hosted by Jeff Davis
October 2, 2007: Durham, NC: House reading (minor american reading series)
June 17, 2007: NY, NY: Zinc Bar
March 30, 2007: Buffalo, NY: Electric City Spectacular
March 28, 2007: Oxford, OH: Miami University
November 18, 2006: Toronto, ON: Test Reading Series
January 27, 2006: WDC: 3Word Productions House Concert
January 21, 2006: Brooklyn, NY: BookCourt
January 20, 2006: Baltimore, MD: i.e. reading series
December 29, 2005: WDC: DCAC (DC Poets MLA Multi-Poet Extravaganza)
November 12, 2005: WDC: Washington Printmakers Gallery (Ruthless Grip series)
September 13, 2002: Buffalo, NY: visual poetry, name Reading: Big Orbit Soundlab.
February 26, 2002: Buffalo, NY: visual poetry, name Silent Reading: Rust Belt Books
February 7, 2002: Buffalo, NY: Rust Belt Books.
November 30, 2001: Buffalo, NY: name Poetry Reading & Bazaar; Rust Belt Books.
April 5, 2001: Buffalo, NY: Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Poetry Prize Awards Ceremony, Poetry/Rare Books Library, University at Buffalo.

Recognition
Semifinalist, Nightboat Poetry Prize, 2020. (The Daybooks)
American Book Award nomination, 2019. (How to Know the Flowers)
LAMBDA Award nomination, 2019. (How to Know the Flowers)
Pushcart Prize Nomination (How to Know the Flowers) by Veliz Books, 2019.
Pushcart Prize nomination, for “Give me my flowers” and “10 June 2017” from How to Know the Flowers, 2019. 
First Prize, Academy of American Poets Prize, Miami University, 2019.
Finalist, Veliz Books, 2018. (How to Know the Flowers)
Finalist, Nightboat Poetry Prize, 2017. (How to Know the Flowers)
Finalist, Sundress Publications Book Prize, 2017. (How to Know the Flowers)
Semifinalist, Tarpaulin Sky Poetry Prize, 2017. (Glazed Glitter)
Pushcart Prize nomination, for “30 January 2014” (The Daybooks) Boston Poetry Magazine 2014.
Semifinalist, Tarpaulin Sky Poetry Prize, 2015. (Dream House)
Finalist, BOAAT Chapbook Competition, 2014 (Forms of Trust)
Finalist, Nightboat Poetry Prize, 2012. (Life-List)
First Prize, Academy of American Poets Prize, University at Buffalo, 2004.
First Prize, Academy of American Poets Prize, University at Buffalo, 2002.
First Prize, Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Poetry Prize, University at Buffalo, 2001.
University at Buffalo Honors Program Special Project Grant, 2001.

Teaching

Awards                                                                                                                                           
Nominated by students for the Promoting Student Development Outside of the Classroom Faculty Award, The University of Cincinnati at Clermont, 2020.
Nominated by students for the Faculty Recognition Award: Teaching Excellence, The University of Cincinnati at Clermont, 2019
Composition Essay Prize, University at Buffalo, 2009
Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award, University at Buffalo, 2005

University Teaching by Level and Subject
English 383: Book and Print Design, The University of Alabama, Fall 2023
English 380: Academic and Professional Writing (Teaching Assistant). The University of Virginia, Fall 2006
Rhetoric 306: Introduction to Rhetoric: Reading, Writing, and Research (Online Writing Assessment Specialist), The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2019
Humanities 242: Hermann Hesse’s World. University at Buffalo, Fall 2003
English 2089: Intermediate English Composition, The University of Cincinnati at Clermont (online/asynchronous), Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Summer 2022
English 201: Advanced Writing I. University at Buffalo, Spring 2003
English 106/096: Introduction to Freshman Writing I (with Lab), The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Fall 2019
English 102: Honors Writing II. University at Buffalo, Spring 2004 and Fall 2004
English 102: English Composition II, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
English 101: English Composition I. University at Buffalo, Fall 2002, Fall 2008, Fall 2009;  The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Fall 2017, Fall 2018; The University of Alabama, Fall 2022, Spring 2023
English 1001: Composition, The University of Cincinnati at Clermont (online/asynchronous), Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Summer 2020, Summer 2021
UB Experience 101: The University Experience (Teaching Assistant). University at Buffalo, Fall 2000
Women’s Studies 100: Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies. The University of Alabama at Birmingham (online/asynchronous), Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022

K-12 Teaching 
Substitute Teacher, all subjects, Grades 6-12. Magic City Acceptance Academy, 2021-22
English Language Arts, Grade 9. Remote via WebEx with synchronous and asynchronous components utilizing Google Docs and Schoology. Shades Valley High School, Birmingham, AL, Spring 2021
English Language Arts, Grade 11. Shades Valley High School, Birmingham, AL, Fall 2020-Spring 2021
Ethnic Literature, Grade 12. Shades Valley High School, Birmingham, AL, Spring 2021
English Language Arts, Grade 7. Huffman Middle School, Birmingham, AL, Spring 2020
Wilderness Literature, Grade 12. Indian Springs School, Spring 2017
Experimental Literature, Grades 11-12. Indian Springs School, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016
Critical Thinking and Analytical Writing, Grades 10-11. Indian Springs School, Fall 2013 – Spring 2014
Feminist Literature, Grade 12. Indian Springs School, Spring 2013    
World Literature, Grades 11-12. Indian Springs School, Spring 2012, Fall 2012
Book Arts, Summer at Springs, Grades 5-7, Indian Springs School, Summer 2012