what.this.thing.is
Here is for a lot of things. Here is the point from which I axis.
Here you will find: notes on pedagogy, poetry and poetics, and other musings; micro-reviews of things I am reading; shameless plugs for work my friends and I have published (or for work I just genuinely admire); and maybe a touch or two about living in small town, mid-atlantic America.
As an artist and scholar I am interested theories of writing, including poetics and writing theory in the composition and writing center worlds. I am interested in language use, pedagogy, genre theory, materiality, procedural and constrained texts, hybrid texts, and eco-poetics/composition.
Many thoughts begin here at the blog and go off to be better articulated (mostly in practice in poem and pedagogy) elsewhere.
identity-ish.things
Writing Center Assistant Director, Washington College (2010 to present)
Lecturer, Departments of English and Education, Washington College (2010 to present)
MFA in Poetry from George Mason University (2010)
(see CV for more things).
major.project.things
Individual and visual poems have been featured or are forthcoming in journals such as DIAGRAM, Marginalia, The Offending Adam, Word For/Word, and Fringe Magazine. A review has been published at Gently Read Literature, and I hope to publish more reviews in the future.
Here Now, Myriads, the manuscript born from my MFA thesis (now much revised), cites and makes use (of the language of) Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect of Central Park, Boston’s park system, and many many other recreational spaces in the United States. Some poems from this manuscript can be found around the internets. The manuscript has received some finalist nods but is still in search of a permanent, printed home.
I’ve also completed several collaborations with visual artists. In particular, a 24-piece collaboration with the ceramic artist Stephanie Rozene, Simultaneous Contrast, was shown during NCECA 2010 in Wallingford, PA in an exhibit entitled DIS Arming Domesticity curated by Gail Brown. Three excerpts from this project are forthcoming from The Offending Adam.
I hope I’ll have some pedagogical or composition scholarship to add here, but for now that thinking begins at the blog and is in draft form (looking something like a talk or an article).
contact.thing
moriahlpurdy AT gmail DOTCOM
