About

About me

I am the author of three books of poems—Murder Ballads (Elixir 2005), A Murmuration of Starlings (Southern Illinois University Press 2008), winner of the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry, and Persons Unknown, forthcoming from SIU Press in October 2010—as well as a work of literary history, The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry (Routledge 2005). My poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Southern Review, Quarterly West, Third Coast, Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, The Northwest Review, and DIAGRAM.

I am an Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Colorado Denver, where I collaborate with my colleagues and students to produce the journal Copper Nickel. I also serve as a contributing editor for Shenandoah.

 

About "Ambient Witness"

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Recent Entries

Lewis University, with Jason Koo and Susan Slaviero
On Thursday, November 11, I'll join Jason Koo and Susan Slaviero, for a reading on the campus of Lewis University…
Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan
On Saturday, November 13th, I'll join Traci Brimhall for a reading at the Book Arts Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Details…
University of Colorado Boulder
I'll join Joshua Marie Wilkinson on Thursday, October 21, for a reading on the campus of the University of Colorado…
Poetry Society of America Celebration of Southern Poetry
On October 7th, I'll join Kevin Young, Natasha Trethewey, C. D. Wright, and a host of others for a…
The Sazerac & The Birth of the Cocktail (Mixed Taste Lecture at MCA)
On Friday, June 18th, I'll present a lecture on The Sazerac and The Birth of the Cocktail as one half…

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