Education: B. What are your job responsibilities? Workshop in Poetry. What do you like most about your job? I truly love walking into a classroom and launching into a discussion about good writing, good poetry, and getting to hear students talk about their own aesthetics and what they think makes a good poem a good poem.
On my best teaching days, the classroom becomes a hotbed of passionate discussion that involves the entire class. And also relaxing, since there are fewer people hustling to get to class. What are your hobbies? I used to collect comic books, and had a collection of about 10, The easy answer would be when my first book was published. But I once had a poem selected as the basis for a short film by an organization called Motionpoems.
Almost every year they select a dozen or so poems to turn into short films to comprise a season. For my poem which deals with superheroes they decided to make an animated film instead of live action. Being a kid who grew up on superhero comics, and that being the largest influence on me becoming a writer, it was so surreal to see my own poem animated, and featuring Superman no less!
Name a creative work book, movie, performance, etc. Her poems are deceptively narrative, full of risks, and quite a few are β for lack of a better word β transformative. What was your favorite TV show growing up? Spoiler Alert: In that film, they killed off most of the characters from the television show and replaced them with new ones, because they wanted to sell new toys!
So they just wiped the old ones away. What is something your campus colleagues would be surprised to know about you? Probably any one of my answers in this interview. What was your first job? My first real job was working at a local comic book store: Gatekeeper Hobbies.
