Areas

20th Century and Contemporary poetry, Modernist Women, Translation, Creative Nonfiction

Major Publications

The Book of Jon, Literary Nonfiction/Hybrid (City Lights: 2004); The California Poem (Coffee House Press: 2004); The Monster Lives of Boys & Girls (Green Integer, National Poetry Series: 2003); Earliest Worlds (Coffee House Press: 2001); The Book of Tendons (Post-Apollo Press: 1997); To Speak While Dreaming (Selva Editions: 1993).

Work in Progress

Translation of Roubaud's Echanges de la lumiere; a family history.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

Poetry workshop; American Poetry since 1945.

Graduate

Poetry workshops; Modernist Women; Writing & Place: Land Art; Translation.