Poetry (and other publications)
Publications & Exhibits
- 30 Poems in 30 Days Project for Tupelo Press (January 2020).
- “The False Mirror” in riverbabble 34 (January 2019).
- 30 Poems in 30 Days Project for Tupelo Press (September 2018).
- 30 Poems in 30 Days Project for Tupelo Press (August 2017).
- "The Siren" in Madwoman et cetera 1 (June 2017).
- Broadside Exhibit at San Diego State University (December 2016, February 2017, May 2017). Artwork below.
- "Skin" and "She Imagines the Lightness of Being" in the Magee Park Poets 2017 Anthology.
- Selections from Canti di un luogo abbandonato on Poetry International Online. Italian translations.
- "Songs from an Abandoned World" in Poetry International 22/23 (March 2017). Italian translation.
- "Seeds" in The Skinny Poetry Journal (February 2017).
- "Butterfly Child.” Broadside Exhibit at San Diego State University (May 2016).
- "Suppressed" in the San Diego Poetry Annual 2015-2016.
- "This Old Earth," "After Gunshots," and "Americans Watch the Beheading of Kenji Goto." Broadside Exhibit at San Diego State University (December 2015). Artwork below.
- "Come Rain or Snow," "The Eye Is the Eye," and "Sunset Lovers.” Broadside Exhibit at San Diego State University (December 2014). Artwork below.
Broadsides
Poetry International and SDSU Typography II students collaborate each semester, merging art, typography, and poetry. The following are my poems made into broadsides.
Artist: Mariel Lopez-Cotero
Artist: Joseph Converse
Improvisation
The following collaboration was originally performed as a performance art piece. The timing of the poetry and music was improvised by me speaking and composer Alex Levy playing. The poem was distributed to the audience and they were invited during a second play-through of the music to contribute to the improvisation by either calling out a line of the poem or to speak out anything else that came to mind in association with rain or otherwise.
Composer: Alex Levy
Book Reviews, Interviews, etc.
Interview with Rob Carney on Facts + Figures (Harpy Hybrid Review, June 2020).
"Poems from Banned Countries" ed. by Jahleh Ghanbari, Ilya Kaminksy, and Janel Spencer (Poetry International Online, June 2017).
"Butterfly Knocking on Our Window: A Review of Athanor & Other Pohems" (Hyperion, Volume IX No. 2, October 2015).
"Poems from Banned Countries" ed. by Jahleh Ghanbari, Ilya Kaminksy, and Janel Spencer (Poetry International Online, June 2017).
"Butterfly Knocking on Our Window: A Review of Athanor & Other Pohems" (Hyperion, Volume IX No. 2, October 2015).
Editing Work
Harpy Hybrid Review Issues #1-9.5 (2020-2022).
Poetry International 22/23 (March 2017).
Lullaby for a Hanged Man by Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood (Calypso Editions).
Poetry International 22/23 (March 2017).
Lullaby for a Hanged Man by Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood (Calypso Editions).
Education, Influences, Etc.
I received my BA in English Literature with a minor in Italian from the University of Arizona in 2012. I graduated with my MFA in Poetry from San Diego State University in May 2017.
One of my favorite places to read and discover poetry is the Poetry Center in Tucson, Arizona.
Poets I come back to again and again include: Gwendolyn Brooks, Luci Tapahonso, Eavan Boland, Audre Lorde, Czeslaw Milosz, Adrienne Rich, Yehuda Amichai, Randall Jarrell, James Baldwin, Valzhyna Mort, Carolyn Forché, Sappho, Robert Desnos, Robert Hass, and Sylvia Plath. Additionally I love: Claudia Rankine, Muriel Rukeyser, Jericho Brown, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Chelsey Minnis, Amy Gerstler, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robin Lewis Coste, Matsuo Basho, and Nazim Hikmet. Of course Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and William Shakespeare. Early favorites included Anne Carson, Jack Gilbert, Paul Celan, Marianne Moore, Rumi, e.e. cummings, John Donne, and T. S. Eliot.
Past mentors whose poetry I admire include Ilya Kaminsky, Katie Farris, Sherwin Bitsui, Sandra Alcosser, Blas Falconer, and Sean Rys.
MFA colleagues whose work I highly recommend include Hari Alluri, Kayla Rodney, Arthur Kayzakian, Kevin Dublin, and Jennifer Ruby.
My favorite fiction and nonfiction writers include Zora Neale Hurston, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mary Shelley, Gabriel García Márquez, Viktor Frankl, and Albert Camus.
One of my favorite places to read and discover poetry is the Poetry Center in Tucson, Arizona.
Poets I come back to again and again include: Gwendolyn Brooks, Luci Tapahonso, Eavan Boland, Audre Lorde, Czeslaw Milosz, Adrienne Rich, Yehuda Amichai, Randall Jarrell, James Baldwin, Valzhyna Mort, Carolyn Forché, Sappho, Robert Desnos, Robert Hass, and Sylvia Plath. Additionally I love: Claudia Rankine, Muriel Rukeyser, Jericho Brown, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Chelsey Minnis, Amy Gerstler, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robin Lewis Coste, Matsuo Basho, and Nazim Hikmet. Of course Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and William Shakespeare. Early favorites included Anne Carson, Jack Gilbert, Paul Celan, Marianne Moore, Rumi, e.e. cummings, John Donne, and T. S. Eliot.
Past mentors whose poetry I admire include Ilya Kaminsky, Katie Farris, Sherwin Bitsui, Sandra Alcosser, Blas Falconer, and Sean Rys.
MFA colleagues whose work I highly recommend include Hari Alluri, Kayla Rodney, Arthur Kayzakian, Kevin Dublin, and Jennifer Ruby.
My favorite fiction and nonfiction writers include Zora Neale Hurston, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mary Shelley, Gabriel García Márquez, Viktor Frankl, and Albert Camus.