Right now I'm...

• taking my last batch of classes for an undergraduate degree in English.
• working on my honors thesis under Dr. John Melillo. The goal is to make some sort of poetry toy / tool / game that would be fun and useful even for someone with only a passing interest in poetry.
• compiling a chapbook of poetry about mishearing, misinterpreting, and misusing words.

What I've Read / Am Reading

• Anne Carson, "The Gender of Sound" is about female sound and the related injustices. It's such a pleasant read because it has a genuine poetics to it-- Anne Carson is such a good assembler of facts.
• Miranda Fricker, Epistemic Injustice is a wonderfully clearheaded text on the kinds of injustice that take place in the realm of knowledge, rather than atoms. One of my classes is centered around the first chapter, and I liked it so much I'm reading on.
• Matthew Olzmann, Constellation Route is some of my favorite poetry recently, leaning toward the genre "what if a guy was weird and lived in a society?"
• Charles Bernstein, Doubletalking the Homophonic Sublime jump-scared me with the first footnote, helpfully informing me that it's translated from Esperanto. It continues to shock, for better or for worse, for 20-odd pages that don't feel that brisk at all, talking about everything from stand-up comedy to Oulipo.

If you're in Tucson, email me! Let's get together for lunch and masked fun.