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is an Alabama poet and educator. His work can be found in or forthcoming in Stone Circle Review, The Harvard Advocate, Bending Genres Journal, and many others. DADDY, I'M SORRY, I CANNOT WRITE AN ELEGY, his debut chapbook, was published in 2024 by Penumbra Press.
He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Harvard University, where he served as poetry editor of The Harvard Advocate. Currently, he is an educator with an interest in how poetry education can best prepare to students to write, read, and engage with contemporary poetry.
Poetry
"SIXTY-FOUR SYLLABLES ON DRINKING ALONE" - The Harvard Advocate
"IN MAY" - Fifth Wheel Press
"SHOOTING ROMAN CANDLES OVER THE CHARLES RIVER" - Fifth Wheel Press
"Negotiating the Difference in Nostalgia and Sentimentality" - Cataloguing Poetry Magazine
"Skin in a Bed of Kudzu" - The Crawfish
"Crème Fraîche" - Stone Circle Review
"Sanitizing a 3OH!3 Album" - The Lickety~Split
"passersby in new england" - Eunoia Review
"Fall Upon (an ode to november, 1833)" - Eunoia Review
"veins: a soiled genealogy" - Eunoia Review
"Ballad of an Unwilling Seamster" - Eunoia Review
"Platinum, a Means for Catalytic Combustion" - Eunoia Review
"Delivering a Eulogy in Joshua Tree" - Eunoia Review
"Vignette in Which REM is Not Playing" - Eunoia Review
"The Lesson" - Lavender Bones Magazine
"A Reminder of Room Three's August" - Bending Genres Journal
DADDY, I'M SORRY, I CANNOT WRITE AN ELEGY
Penumbra Press, 2024.
Written in the wake of the death of the poet’s father, DADDY, I’M SORRY, I CANNOT WRITE AN ELEGY, is a chapbook which asks how we ever expected a single poem to hold all of grief. Re-examining the traditional elegiac form, these poems reimagine poems about grief as being both independent and interconnected, with each poem holding an entire, complete episode of grief while sitting beside other moments of grief in an interconnected ebb-and-flow of emotion. More than anything, though, DADDY, I’M SORRY, I CANNOT WRITE AN ELEGY, is a son’s attempt at understanding what it means to no longer have a father.
A digital version of the chapbook is available to be read here.
An interview about the chapbook can be read here.
Selected Critical & Other Writing
Review of Him, Her, & I by Christian Weissmann
"Boston Bohemians: An Evening of Poetry from Local Poets" - Harvard Library
"A Library of Imagination: The Bow and Arrow Press" - Harvard Library
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