Ph.D. Student Profiles

Michael Peters
Combined M.A. / Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY
B.S. Communications, Ohio University

Research Interests:
19th- & 20th-Century American Literature, Philosophy and Poetics, Transdisciplinary Post-War American Avant-Garde Writing

Select Publications:

• Vaast Bin; n Ephemerisi. New York: Calamari Press, 2007
  Entries for Kostelanetz’s Dictionary of the Avant-Garde. New York: Schirmer / Routledge, 2000
• Various “writings” published/forthcoming in Vispoeologee (Minnesota Center for Book Arts) and Charles Olson's Prose (Cambridge Scholars Press), along with numerous poems, visual-poems, fictions, and critical writing appearing in Spinning Jenny, Lungfull, American Weddings, Word for/Word, Tool: a Magazine, Xtant, Rhino, Posted, and Sleepingfish, among others.

Select Conference Presentations:

• “The Ocean of Thought; Gravitational Waves in Charles Olson's Poetry and Prose,” ALA Conference, San Francisco, 2006
• “Wholesale Form,” Avant-Garde Symposium, Columbus, Ohio, 2002
• “Absence and Psychogeography in the Dawn of the Trickster,” No Future Conference,
  Wolverhampton University, UK, 2001

Select Teaching Experience:
ENG 226: Special Topics: Native American Literature
ENG 261: American Literary Traditions
ENG 240: Growing Up in America
ENG 102Z: Intro to Creative Writing
ENG 100Z: Intro to Analytic Writing

mpeters@poemrocket.com