Spatial Poetics Second Generation New York School Poetry

This monograph offers the first comprehensive study of Second Generation New York School Poetry as poetry. My work closely reads the poems of Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Ron Padgett, and Joe Brainard for form, with an attention to the shaping propensity of the urban inhabited spaces they so often recall.  ​

This book is complete and is under contract with Oxford University Press for publication in September, 2018.

Stanza

This Digital Humanities project offers a digital archive devoted to presenting its general user with a sense of the literal density of urban places. Stanza is a user-friendly app ultimately aiming to engage the public in a sense of the literariness of places. Stanza (Italian, after all, for “the places one stands in”) integrates geo-tagged information with GPS technology to smoothly present its pedestrian with a sense of the poetry of their environment. In 2017, this project was generously awarded a seed grant  by Florida Atlantic University's South Florida Cultures Platform. 

Stanza will be available for free download from Google Playstore in  October, 2018

​​Joe Brainard's Art

This edited collection examines the ways in which Brainard’s work informingly lined, bound, and shaped the poetics of the American avant-garde movements which he illustrated. It includes essays that treat the aesthetics of Brainard’s collages, cartoons, postcards, miniature art, and poetry, along with personal reflections from New York School poets regarding Brainard's influence. This book is under contract for publication in January, 2019.

​Voices from the Camps

This book project chronicles personal narratives of Syrians living amongst the 80,000 refugees in Zaatari Refugee Camp of Jordan, 60,000 in Azraq Refugee Camp, and the over 1.1 million in other camps and make-shift communities throughout Jordan as “urban refugees.” It focuses on the experiences of mothers, attending to the resilient achievement of make-shift senses of home within the liminal spaces of refugee camps. This work ultimately aims to faciliate understanding between worlds of the developed and the developing; the settled and the rootless, revealing the universal in definitions of home. ​Interpreting oral histories as literary and cultural contributions to ongoing studies of space/place, kinship, care, ethics, and home, this work will speak to both academic and popular audiences.