Poet, teacher, writer, proofreader, and tutor with more than eight years expertise writing and publishing poetry, scripts, articles, and providing tutoring and editing in these same areas for students. Background in writing, teaching, proofreading, editing, entrepreneurship, short-filmmaking, podcasting, theatre production (i.e. directing, sound design, dramaturgy, acting, and public relations), visual art production, sales involving direct customer interaction, and organization/ maintenance of work space.Research InterestsComedy writing and performance, American masculinity, queer theory, ancient eastern poetry traditions (Haibun, Haiku, Renga), colloquial language in poetry, canned language, altruism, Taoist writing/philosophy, New York School poetics (Ashbery, Koch, O’Hara), intimacy in poetry, poetry and cinema.