User:PoetrixViridis

PoetrixViridis is a Ph.D candidate at the University at Buffalo's English department, working with their one-of-a-kind poetics program. She has worked as a waitress, a web designer, a palmist, an artists' model, an Air Force marketing aide, an Avon lady, a purveyor of dubiously-marketed vitamins, and a canvasser for an allegedly aboveboard activist organization. She has published poems and essays, and her first manuscript, my maiden cowboy names, is currently circulating among presses and book contests. She earned her B.S. in speech-communication at Central Missouri State University in 2001 and her M.F.A. at Louisiana State University in 2004.

She can most often be found reading articles about
 * anatomy, health, and disease
 * unusual foods like durian or balut
 * countries with which she's unfamiliar
 * bands associated with bands she already likes
 * political figures
 * famous people of any sort afflicted with various mental illnesses
 * circus people

Maybe not the most politically correct list of interests, but there they are.

Her editing interests include
 * poetry and poets
 * literary criticism, critics, and movements
 * Modernist art and literature
 * living writers
 * religious movements, particularly in the Victorian and Modernist periods
 * pedagogy, especially English but also in other disciplines or general articles
 * Midwestern history and culture, as she grew up in a weensy town in central Missouri

Other interests vary--Hellenic, Mesopotamian, and Elizabethan literatures and cultures; her still-new home of Buffalo, NY; cooking, knitting, making her own bath products, and other perhaps surprisingly domestic activities; Denver Broncos football; travel, in the area (NYC and Toronto; a nearby butterfly preserve, a nearby glassmakers' workshop) or overseas (she'd love to take the Yeats tour in Ireland, and to travel all over the Mediterranean); and so on.

She has taught a variety of courses in English, including poetry and fiction writing workshops and literature classes, and currently works as managing editor for the Emily Dickinson Journal. Her dissertation, were she to start it today, would investigate the nature and reception of mythopoesis in the 20th century, with the overall question of whether, and if so how, mythopoesis can exist today.