User:PoetrixViridis
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PoetrixViridis is a Ph.D candidate at the University at Buffalo's English department, working with their one-of-a-kind poetics program. She has worked as a waitress, a web designer, a palmist, an artists' model, an Air Force marketing aide, an Avon lady, a purveyor of dubiously-marketed vitamins, and a canvasser for an allegedly aboveboard activist organization. She has published poems and essays, and her first manuscript, my maiden cowboy names, is currently circulating among presses and book contests. She earned her B.S. in speech-communication at Central Missouri State University in 2001 and her M.F.A. at Louisiana State University in 2004.
She can most often be found reading articles about
- anatomy, health, and disease
- unusual and even gross foods like durian or balut
- countries with which she's unfamiliar, usually when one catches her eye in the news
- bands associated with bands she already likes
- political figures
- famous people of any sort afflicted with various mental illnesses
Her editing interests include
- poetry and poets
- literary criticism, critics, and movements
- Modernist art and literature
- living writers
- religious movements, particularly in the Victorian and Modernist periods
- pedagogy, especially English but also in other disciplines or general articles
- Midwestern history and culture, as she grew up in a weensy town in central Missouri
Other interests vary--Hellenic, Mesopotamian, and Elizabethan literatures and cultures; her still-new home of Buffalo, NY; cooking, knitting, making her own bath products, and other perhaps surprisingly domestic activities; Denver Broncos football; travel, in the area (NYC and Toronto; a nearby butterfly preserve, a nearby glassmakers' workshop) or overseas (she'd love to take the Yeats tour in Ireland, and to travel all over the Mediterranean); and so on.
She currently teaches a writing course focused on literature of the American family and in the fall will be teaching one centered around the idea of textual ownership, probably using Wikipedia itself. During her M.F.A. she also taught poetry and fiction workshops and introduction to drama. Her dissertation, were she to start it today, would examine the roles of religion, spirituality, and the body in poetry from G. M. Hopkins to the present, possibly stopping at Gertrude Stein, Robert Duncan, and another writer yet to be determined along the way. It would attempt to answer questions about what the nature and reception of mythopoesis have been, how that can illuminate the development of poetry over the last century-plus, and whether mythopoesis can properly exist today. She suspects that it can't.
