Jessica Smith EDUCATION University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL M.A.E. in Secondary Education, English Language Arts (in progress). ​ Miami University, Oxford, OH M.F.A. in Creative Writing, 2019. Oral exam in Contemporary Poetry and Memoir. ​ Thesis: The Daybooks, directed by Hoa Nguyen. ​ ​ State University of New York at Buffalo (University at Buffalo), NY M.L.S., 2010. NYS Civil Service Librarian I certification. ​ M.A. in Comparative Literature: Critical Theory, 2005. Languages: French, German, Swedish. ​ Thesis: Sonic Territories: Deleuze and the Politics of Sound in Kafka and Duras, directed by Henry Sussman. ​ ​ B.A. summa cum laude, 2002. Phi Beta Kappa. Comparative Literature: Language Theory (Special ​ ​ ​ Major) and English double major; University Honors Scholar. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Ph.D. Coursework toward a Ph.D. in Literature in English (abandoned), 2005-2007. Proficiency ​ exams in German and French. Oral exam preparation in Anglo-American Modernism and Critical ​ Theory. President’s Fellow. ​ Mountain Brook High School, Birmingham, AL Class of 1998. National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar with Honors, Outstanding History Student, Co-Captain of the Debate Team.

TEACHING Awards Nominated by students for the Faculty Recognition Award: Teaching Excellence, University of Cincinnati at Clermont, 2019 Composition Essay Prize, University at Buffalo, 2009 Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award, University at Buffalo, 2005

Courses by Level See Employment section for chronology English 380: Academic and Professional Writing (Teaching Assistant). University of Virginia, Fall 2006 Rhetoric 306: Introduction to Rhetoric: Reading, Writing and Research (Online Writing Assessment Specialist), University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2019 Humanities 242: Hermann Hesse’s World. University at Buffalo, Fall 2003 English 2089: Intermediate English Composition, University of Cincinnati at Clermont (online), Summer 2020 English 201: Advanced Writing I. University at Buffalo, Spring 2003 English 106/096: Introduction to Freshman Writing I (with Lab), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Fall 2019 English 102: Honors Writing II. University at Buffalo, Spring 2004 and Fall 2004 English 102: English Composition II, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020 English 101: English Composition I, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, English 101: Writing I. University at Buffalo, Fall 2002, Fall 2008, Fall 2009 ​ ​ English 1001: Composition, University of Cincinnati at Clermont (online), Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Summer 2020 UB Experience 101: The University Experience (Teaching Assistant). University at Buffalo, Fall 2000 ​ ​

1 Experimental Literature (grade 12). Indian Springs School, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016 Feminist Literature (grade 12). Indian Springs School, Spring 2013 Wilderness Literature (grade 12). Indian Springs School, Spring 2017 World Literature (grades 11-12). Indian Springs School, Spring 2012, Fall 2012 Critical Thinking and Analytical Writing (grades 10-11). Indian Springs School, Fall 2013 - Spring 2014 Book Arts, Summer at Springs (grades 5-7), Indian Springs School, Summer 2012

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Books Articulating Space: Short Essays on Poetry. Argotist Ebooks 2011. ​

Book Chapters “Democratized Art and Mechanical Reproduction: Zines, Screenprints, and Letterpress in Teen Library Programming,” forthcoming in Art at the Intersection of Librarianship and Social Justice, ed. Nina Clements ​ ​ ​ ​ (forthcoming from Library Juice Press, 2020). “Fashioning Gender,” forthcoming in Supporting Transgender Students: A Guide for Schools and Teachers, ed. ​ ​ Douglas Ray (forthcoming from Jessica Kingsley Publishers, date TBD). ​ “Odontomancy” in A Counter-Desecration Handbook, eds. Linda Russo and Marthe Reed (Wesleyan UP 2018). ​ ​ ​ “Creating Creativity: Zines and Teen Empowerment,” forthcoming in Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel: Innovative Meditations on Librarianship, eds. Sommer Browning and Shannon Tharp (Library Juice Press ​ 2018).

Essays and Reviews “Review of Emily Jungmin Yoon’s A Cruelty Special to Our Species,” Fence Digital | Constant Critic (2019) ​ ​ “Review of Tiana Clark's I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood and Ashley M. Jones's dark // thing,” ​ ​ ​ ​ Fence Digital | Constant Critic (2019). “Something in the Water”: Niedecker’s Homemade Poems,” Review of Lorine Niedecker’s Homemade Poems. ​ ​ ​ Quarterly West (2019). ​ “Review of Cynthia Arrieu-King’s Futureless Languages,” Fence Digital | Constant Critic (2019). ​ ​ “Review of Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead., The Georgia Review (Fall/Winter 2018). ​ ​ ​ ​ “Don Mee Choi’s ‘Hardly War’: A child’s history of conflict,” Review of Hardly War by Don Mee Choi. ​ ​ Jacket2 (Philadelphia, PA; 2018). ​ “On Time: Joanne Kyger’s Journals and Ephemera,” Review. Quarterly West (2018). ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ “Girls to the Front: The secret punk feminism of above/ground press,” above/ground press blog (2018). ​ “Agape in the Southland: Erasure Responses to the Election,” in Radio 11.8.16, Essay Press (2017). ​ ​ “Vanesa Pacheco and T.A. Noonan: On Translation and Erasure.” Queen Mob’s Teahouse (2016). ​ ​ “Introduction” to Molly Jean Bennett’s Paper Apartment, Essay Press (2015). ​ ​ “Against Apocalypse.” Review of Revelator by Ron Silliman. Jacket2 (Philadelphia, PA; 2014). ​ ​ ​ ​ “The Art of the Poem: Jessica Smith on Susan Howe.” Literary Mothers (2014). ​ ​ “Curate What You Know: The Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series,” Library as Incubator Project (June ​ ​ 2013). “Saving Poetry Books, One Book at a Time: Mike Basinski and The Poetry Collection at SUNY Buffalo” Boog ​ City (Issue 83). ​ “The Library as Incubator Project: Promoting Creative Collaboration Between Libraries and All Artists” Boog ​ City (Issue 81). ​ “Poetry and Libraries: A Report on Contemporary Collection Methods,” Boog City (Issue 80). ​ ​ “Beyond the Blockbuster Model: Why small press representation is important,” Library Journal (July 2011). ​ ​

2 “The Plasticity of Poetry” in Literature Compass Vol. 3 No. 3 (Blackwell, U.K., Spring 2006). Winner of the ​ ​ 2005 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize. “The Plasticity of Poetry,” OEI 18/19/20/21: Visual Poetry (Stockholm, Winter 2004). Translated to Swedish ​ ​ by Martin Hägglund. “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha & Gestural Poetics.” verdure #7, (Buffalo, NY; archived online Winter 2004). ​ ​ “Buffalo, NY, 26 February 2002: The Silent Reading and Poetry Reading Politics” in Mantis 3 (“Poetry and ​ ​ Performance,” Stanford, Winter 2002).

Selected Critical Citations Barstad, Hans M., and Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer. "Eschatology in Malachi: The emergence of a doctrine." (2014). Berges, Ulrich, et al. Continuity and Discontinuity: Chronological and Thematic Development in Isaiah 40–66. Vol. 255. ​ ​ Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014. Chambers, Matthew Joseph. Island view: Poetic periodical formations and English culture in late modernist Britain. Diss. ​ ​ State University of New York at Buffalo, 2012. Langer, Federico. "Mental Imagery, Emotion, and Literary Task Sets Clues Towards a Literary Neuroart." (2012). Maldonado Serrano, Jorge Francisco. "Música y creación: un sentido en el pensamiento de Gilles Deleuze." (2008). Robinson, Rachel. "Plastic Poetry of the Page: Cecilia Vicuna's Instan." Latin American Literary Review 45.90 ​ ​ (2018): 33-44. Swan, Jim. “‘Life Without Parole’: Metaphor and Discursive Commitment. (1).” Style, vol. 36, no. 3, Northern ​ ​ Illinois University, Sept. 2002. Zorn, Jonathan, and Coffey, Ted. Voices in the Electronic Furnace: Towards an Analysis of Electroacoustic Vocal Music. ​ ​ ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1 Jan. 2012.

Invited Lectures “Secret Passageways in Memory Palaces: Considering Audience and the Unpredictable Fullness of Language,” at untitled: speculations on the expanded field of writing, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, 2008. Sponsored by a grant from the Annenberg Foundation.

Conference Papers and Panels “The Dancer from the Dance,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, 2020. (Panel cancelled.) “Muriel Rukeyser’s Book of the Dead and the Human Document,” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, ​ ​ University of Louisville, KY, 2019. “Experiments in Intimacy: Visual Poetics of Femme Friendship,” New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA, 2018. “Art and Trash Poetics,” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, 2018. “In (Mixed) Company: Tracing the Nonbinary Brain in Olson’s Poetry,” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, 2018. “The Daybooks,” “Not Having Feelings is Boring: Book-Length Autobiographical Poetics and the ​ ​ ​ ​ Avant-Garde,” New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA, 2017. “Let’s Take this Outside,” “The Natural Writer: Unschooling the Creative Writing Classroom,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 2016. “Poet-Publishers: A Contemporary Small Press Symposium,” SUNY Buffalo, NY; Poetry Library, 2009. “Valentines for the Future: Zukofsky’s Alternate Poetics,” at The Louis Zukofsky Centennial Conference at Columbia and Barnard, 2004. “Dada and Memory,” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, 2004.

3 “The Aesthetic Implications of ‘Julia’s Wild,’” at the Re-Reading Louis Zukofsky's Bottom: On Shakespeare ​ Symposium, University at Buffalo, 2003. “On the Plasticity of Poetry,” NEMLA 2003 Convention, Boston, MA. “’The intention is always to thwart design’: Reading The Black Debt through McCaffery's Poetics of Excess,” st ​ ​ the 31 ​ Annual Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, 2003. ​ th “Lorine Niedecker’s Poetics of Fragile Environments,” the 12 ​ Annual Central New York Conference on ​ Language and Literature, SUNY Cortland, NY, 2002. “Time's Flat Surface in Thomas Bernhard's Correction,” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University ​ ​ of Louisville, KY, 2002.

Chaired Conference Panels “The Art of Constraint and Experiment in 20th-Century Poetry,” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, 2019. “Poetry Under/As Power,” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, 2019. “Modernist Objects, Modernist Values,” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, ​ ​ KY, 2018. “Varieties of Objectivist Value,” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, ​ ​ 2018. “Immanence, The New Materialism, and the Nonhuman: Readings in Ecopoetics,” Twentieth Century ​ ​ Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, 2018. “Poetry and Libraries: Collection Challenges,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference, Boston, MA, 2013.

Poster Sessions “Collaborative Weeding,” Alabama Library Association Conference, Huntsville, AL 2014. “Using Curricular Programming to Increase Circulation,” Alabama Library Association Conference, Montgomery, AL 2013.

Selected Conferences Attended The Birmingham Institute for Teaching Writing, 2019 TEDxBirmingham 2017 AWP 2017 ALLA 2017 TEDxBirmingham 2016 ALLA 2016 EduTech Summit 2012 ALA 2011 AWP 2008 AWP 2007 MLA 2005 NEMLA 2001

Academic Service and Guest Editing Outside Evaluator, “Narratives of Friendship in Prout’s In Search of Lost Time” by Jan Rafael Cornel. B.A.). ​ ​ Marlboro College, 2020. Peer Reviewer, Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2020. ​ ​ Judge, Mountain Brook Elementary School Arts Contest (Creative Writing), 2020. Curator, Treehouse Reading Series, Vestavia Hills Library in the Forest, July-December 2018.

4 Reader, Miami University Press Novella Prize, 2017-present Artistic Director, Viewpoints Magazine, Western Reserve Academy (OH), 2017-2019. ​ ​ Volunteer, Woodlawn Writers Corps, Desert Island Supply Company, 2016-2017. Scholarly Development and External Engagement Committee, Indian Springs School, 2016-2017. Artistic Director, Learning Through Writing: Essays and Poems from the Indian Springs School Class of 2016. ​ Editor, The Women in Visual Poetry: the Bechdel Test. Essay Press, 2015. ​ ​ Judge, Chapbook Contest, Essay Press, 2015. Hiring Committee, Indian Springs School, 2015-16. Peer Reviewer, Art Documentation, 2014-2016. ​ ​ Advisor for University of Alabama SLIS Internship at Indian Springs School, 2014-15. Founding Editor, Coven Press, 2014-Present. “Women of Visual Poetry,” Evening Will Come (volta.org), (Issue 33, September 2013). ​ ​ Libraries Editor, Boog City, 2013. th th ​ ​ 8 -​ 9 ​ Grade Planning Committee, Indian Springs School, 2011-12. ​ ​ Technology Committee, Indian Springs School, 2011-2017. Academics Committee, Indian Springs School, 2011-2017. Curator of the Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series, 2011-2017. Founding Editor, Outside Voices Press and Foursquare magazine, 2006-2010. ​ ​ “Women Visual Poets,” Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art (Vol. 37 No. 1, 2008). ​ ​ Guest Editor, BothBoth (2006). ​ ​ Member, IREWG Gender Institute Graduate Student Steering Committee, UB, 2004-05. rd Organizer, “Le 3 ​ Sexe Qui Parle,” Gender Week (IREWG) Poetry Festival, UB, September 2004. ​ Artistic Director, Department of Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo (UB), Fall 2004. Judge, College of Arts and Sciences Poetry Contest, UB, February 2003 and 2004. Associate Editor, theory@buffalo Issue 8: “Deleuze and Feminism,” 2003-2004. ​ ​ Founding Editor, name magazine, the undergraduate poetry magazine at UB, 2000-2002. ​ ​ Organizer, UB English Department Undergraduate Convocation, each May 2000-2002. Assistant Organizer, E-POETRY, 2001: An International Digital Poetry Festival, UB, April 2001. Undergraduate Representative, UB English Department Undergraduate Review Committee, 2000-2001.

Affiliations Phi Kappa Phi (Miami University), 2019-present National Book Critics Circle, 2019-present Alabama Library Association (ALLA), 2011-present Alabama School Library Association (ASLA), 2011-2017 American Library Association (ALA), 2011-present American Association of School Librarians (AASL), 2011-2017 American Library Association New Members Round Table (NMRT), 2011-2013 Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA), 2011-2017 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), 2008-present Phi Beta Kappa (University at Buffalo), 2002-present Golden Key International Honour Society, University at Buffalo, 2000-present University at Buffalo Alumni Association, 2002-present University at Buffalo English Honors Program, 2000-2002 University at Buffalo University Honors Program, 1998-2002

Grants, Fellowships, and Scholarships Graduate Students' Achievement Fund Award, Miami University, 2018

5 Graduate Grant-in-Aid, Miami University, 2018-19 College of Arts and Sciences College Fellowship, University at Buffalo, 2004-2005 Graduate Student Employees Union Ph.D. Student Retention Award, University at Buffalo, 2003 DAAD Hochschulsommerkurse Fellowship, Freie Universität Berlin’s Summer University, 2003 Graduate Student Employee’s Union/New York State Professional Development Grant, 2003 University at Buffalo Honors Council Honorarium, 2002 Graduate Tuition Scholarship, University at Buffalo, 2002-2005 College of Arts and Sciences Special Tuition Scholarship, University at Buffalo, 2002 New York State SUNY Scholarship for Academic Achievement, University at Buffalo, 2001 University at Buffalo Honors Scholarship, 1998-2002

LANGUAGES Cataloging I have cataloged in many languages I have not studied, as well as ones I have studied. I developed Spanish, Chinese, and German collections for Indian Springs School, funded in part by donations from UAB and the Confucius Institute, to serve the Language curriculum and our international students. I have cataloged in German and French (languages I know) as well as Spanish, Chinese, and Korean.

International Study Alpha Sprachinstitut, Vienna, Austria, Spring 2005. Intensive German language review at Mittelstufe II-III levels. Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Summer 2003. Summer coursework focusing on German Expressionist literature. Funded by a Hochschulsommerkurse Fellowship from the DAAD.

Aptitude German: Advanced reading, writing, and comprehension; intermediate speaking ability. High school and college instruction with brief periods of immersion. Passed the German Reading Proficiency Exam at the University of Virginia. (TELC C2/C1) French: Beginning reading, speaking, listening comprehension. High school instruction. Passed the French Reading Proficiency Exam at the University of Virginia. (TELC A1/A2) Spanish: Beginning reading, speaking, listening comprehension. Duolingo instruction. (TELC A1) Swedish: Beginning intermediate reading, speaking, listening comprehension. Immersion. (TELC B1)

CREATIVE WORK Books How to Know the Flowers. Veliz Books 2019. ​ Life-List. Chax Press 2015. ​ Organic Furniture Cellar: Works on Paper 2002-2004. Outside Voices 2006. ​

Unpublished Manuscripts Dream House (semifinalist for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize, 2015) ​ Glazed Glitter (semifinalist for the Tarpaulin Sky Poetry Prize, 2017) ​ The Daybooks (in-progress manuscript, partially published as Trauma Mouth and Poems from the Daybooks ​ ​ ​ ​ chapbooks) Double Take (in-progress manuscript) (formerly Reading the Illegible) ​ ​ ​ The Ring Cycle (in-progress manuscript) (formerly Dream House) ​ ​ ​ Song of the Family (in-progress manuscript, partially published as The Lover is Absent chapbook) ​ ​ ​

6 Reviews of Books How to Know the Flowers Arrieu-King, Cynthia. “Scientific, Healing Magic: How To Know The Flowers by Jessica Smith,” The Rumpus, ​ ​ ​ 2020. Nominated for Pushcart Prize (excerpts), 2019. Featured in Poets House’s Poetry Showcase 2019. Jacobs-Beck, Kimberly. Crab Creek Review (print), 2019. ​ ​ mclennan, rob. “Jessica Smith, How to Know the Flowers,” rob mclennan’s blog, 2019. ​ ​ ​

Life-List mclennan, rob. “Jessica Smith, Life-List,” rob mclennan’s blog, 2015. ​ ​ ​ Russo, Linda. “Listening-Being: Some unnamed species of porous poems,” Jacket2, 2015. ​ ​

Organic Furniture Cellar Heggeman, Sally. Organic Furniture Cellar. Galatea Resurrects, 2015. ​ ​ Tucker, Aaron. “Review by Aaron Tucker.” Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, 2014. ​ ​ Loydell, Rupert. “The Ones that Didn’t Get Away.” Stride, 2007. ​ ​ Baxt, Ellen. “Organic Furniture Cellar by Jessica Smith.” Boog City, 2006. ​ ​ ​ ​ beaulieu, derek. “Organic Furniture Cellar by Jessica Smith.” Matrix, 2006. ​ ​ ​ ​ Gardner, Susana. “Organic Furniture Cellar by Jessica Smith” Galatea Resurrects, 2006. ​ ​ ​ ​ Lowinger, Aaron. “Organic Furniture Cellar.” House Press Newsletter, 2006. ​ ​ mclennan, rob. “Jessica Smith's Organic Furniture Cellar: Works on Paper 2002-2004.” rob mclennan’s blog, 2006. ​ ​ ​ ​ McSweeney, Joyelle. “Organic Furniture Cellar: Works on Paper 2002-2004.” The Constant Critic, 2006. ​ ​ Peverett, Michael. “Jessica Smith, Organic Furniture Cellar.” Intercapillary Space, 2006. ​ ​ ​ ​ Silliman, Ron. “I respond positively to ambitious work.” Silliman’s Blog, 2006.

Other Reviews Of The Lover is Absent (chapbook), Subterranean Blue Poetry, 2017. ​ ​ ​ ​ Bloomberg-Rissman, John. ZEN. Galatea Resurrects, 2014. ​ ​ ​ ​ Foursquare Magazine. “The Indie Innovators.” Poets & Writers, 2010. ​ ​ ​ Fama, Steven. BIRD-BOOK. Galatea Resurrects, 2006 ​ ​ ​ ​

Chapbooks ex libris, Sunnyoutside Press, forthcoming. ​ Lion’s Den, above/ground press, 2019. ​ The Lover is Absent. above/ground press, 2017. Featuring poems from The Daybooks. ​ ​ Poems from The Daybooks. Mondo Bummer, 2015. Featuring poems from The Daybooks. ​ ​ The Women in Visual Poetry: the Bechdel Test. Essay Press, 2015. ​ Trauma Mouth. Dusie, 2015. Featuring poems from The Daybooks. ​ ​ Cicada Radio. Phafours Press, 2014. ​ mnemotechnics. above/ground press, 2013. Featuring poems from Life-List. ​ ​ What the Fortune-Teller Said. a+bend/Dusie, 2009; reprinted as “The Fortune Teller” in The Chapbook Journal ​ ​ (Issue 2, October 2013). Featuring poems from The Ring Cycle (formerly Dream House) ​ ​ ​ ​ butterflies. Big Game Books, 2006. Digital version published by The Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange, 2013. ​ The Plasticity of Poetry. No Press, 2006. Featuring material from Organic Furniture Cellar. ​ ​ Telling Time. No Press, 2006. Featuring poems from Organic Furniture Cellar. ​ ​ Shifting Landscapes. above/ground press, 2006. Featuring poems from Organic Furniture Cellar. ​ ​

7 blueberries. Handmade; sponsored by a Publication Grant from the McNulty Chair at the University at Buffalo, ​ 2004. bird-book. Handmade. First edition sponsored by a Special Project Grant from the Honors Program at the ​ University at Buffalo, 2001. Reprinted by House Press (2005) and digital version published by Detumescence Press (2006). Featuring poems from Life-List. ​ Problemattica. Handmade, 2001. ​ Relation. Handmade, 2001. Reprinted by The Chapbook Vol. 2, 2013. ​ ​ ​

Collaborations Ursularia. An opera by Opera Cabal (Majel Connery & Nicholas DeMaison), 2007. ​ musicartmovement. bird-book poems used as scores for music and dance, with Brett Masteller, composer, and ​ Chelsea Warren, choreographer, 2003. Elevator Postcard Project. Elevator 4: The Grid Project (words for mobile), with Amy Stalling, artist, 2003. ​ Elevator Postcard Project. Elevator 3: The Postcard Project, “Westward,” with Isabelle Pelissier, artist, 2001. ​ Transient Views. excerpts from bird-book (film), with Terry Cuddy, filmmaker, 2001. ​ ​ ​

Exhibits April 13-20 2019: New Orleans, LA: Verbicovisual: An International Visual Poetry Exhibition. Barrister's Gallery, St. Claude. January 19 - April 15, 2018: New Haven, CT: collaborative art/poetry books from the ELEVATOR Project books (The Postcard Project and The Grid Project) at “The Art of Collaboration” at the Beinecke Rare ​ ​ ​ ​ Books and Manuscript Library. January 12 - February 25, 2016: New York, NY: Pages from Glazed Glitter (erased text) and Reading the Illegible ​ ​ ​ (handwritten/asemic text) in conjunction with “Formation” at Bernarducci Meisel Gallery. See also Poets and Artists magazine Issue 80. ​ April 1-30 2014: Cobourg, ON: The Human Bean, “Textual Artivity”: “Milton’s Transcriptionist” and “Memory of Reading Virginia Woolf in Jamaica.” July 16 - Sept 3, 2010: Buffalo, NY: Foursquare magazine, “Wide Margins: An Exhibition of ‘Zines from the ​ ​ Sublime to the Silly”: Western New York Book Arts Center. March 2009: Westchester and Providence, RI: Foursquare magazine, Handmade/Homemade exhibit ​ ​ March 4-8, 2009: Brussels, Belgium: “Veil,” “infusoria: an exhibition of visual poetry by women from three continents”: Maison des Cultures. April 25, 2008: Ghent, Belgium: “tiny wonderrooms of love,” zaoem festival. October 6, 2002: “Veil,” installation for Anomaly magazine release reading with Lorraine Graham and Tom ​ ​ Orange: Bridge Street Books, Washington, D.C. September 13, 2002: Buffalo, NY: visual poetry, name Reading: Big Orbit Soundlab. ​ ​ February 26, 2002: Buffalo, NY: visual poetry, name Silent Reading: Rust Belt Books ​ ​ February 7, 2002: Buffalo, NY: bird-book poems featured in Transient Views, panel discussion; Rust Belt Books. ​ ​ ​ ​ November 30, 2001: Buffalo, NY: objets de poésie, name Poetry Reading & Bazaar; Rust Belt Books. ​ ​ ​ ​ April 5, 2001: Buffalo, NY: of installation poetry, Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Poetry Prize Awards Ceremony, Poetry/Rare Books Library, University at Buffalo.

Periodicals Can We Have Our Ball Back? excerpts from The Daybooks (May 2020) ​ ​ ​ Bear Review, excerpts from The Daybooks (May 2020) ​ ​ ​ Poets.org, “Daybooks 3 May 2013” (excerpt from The Daybooks) (2019) ​ ​ Ethel Zine, excerpt from Reading the Illegible (Issue 4, 2019) ​ ​ ​ Dilettante Army, “Approach” (Spring 2019) ​

8 Glass Poetry, excerpt from The Daybooks (Special Feature: 100,000 Poets for Change—Birmingham 2018) ​ ​ ​ 8Poems, excerpt from The Daybooks (Issue 1, July 2018) ​ ​ ​ Dream Pop Journal, excerpts from Reading the Illegible (Issue 3, 2018) ​ ​ ​ Open Letters Monthly, from The Daybooks, “5 June 2016” (2017) ​ ​ ​ ​ Poets and Artists, excerpts from Glazed Glitter and Reading the Illegible (Issue 80, 2017) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Dusie Advent Calendar, from The Daybooks, “4 November 2016” (2016) ​ ​ ​ Opon, from The Daybooks, “17 November 2002,” “4 December 2014,” “4 November 2005,” “7 November ​ ​ ​ 2009,” “3 December 2004,” “14 September 2007,” “25 December 2007,” “21 October 2013” (Issue 4, 2015) Pine Hills Review, from The Daybooks, “17 June 2007” (2015) ​ ​ ​ MiPoesias, from The Daybooks, “29 May 2012,” “11 December 2009” (Spring 2015) ​ ​ ​ The Ladowich Review, “The Potter,” “The Skull Bones,” “The Ceramics,” “The Ceramics,” “The Lines” (Issue ​ 1, 2015) Touch the Donkey, from The Daybooks, “23 June 2009,” “27 June 2003,” “28 July 2009,” “28 September 2003,” ​ ​ ​ “19 November 2005” (Issue 4, 2015) Drunken Boat, from The Daybooks, “30 March 2005,” “6 May 2011,” “31 October 2002” (Issue 20, 2014) ​ ​ ​ Delirious Hem, from The Daybooks, “13 December 2006” (December 2014) ​ ​ ​ Open Letters Monthly, from The Daybooks, “22 October 2013” (December 2014) ​ ​ ​ Entropy, from The Daybooks, “31 January 2009,” “10 March 2010,” “2 April 2005,” “21 June 2005,” “29 ​ ​ ​ September 2013,” “12 October 2002,” “20 November 2007” (November 2014) Bling that Sings, from The Daybooks, “2 March 2004,” “10 April 2014” (September 2014) ​ ​ ​ The Volta, “811.6” (August 2014) ​ Boston Poetry Magazine, “30 January 2014” (July 2014) ​ Zigest, “from The Daybooks / 7 July 2005 / Stockholm” (May 2014) ​ ​ ​ Newport Life, “from The Daybooks / 8 June 2009 / Buffalo” (April 2014) ​ ​ ​ The Rumpus, “from The Daybooks / 11 February 2004 / Buffalo” (April 2014) ​ ​ ​ The Brooklyn Rail, “Little Daughter, “Bronzino,” “Saskia” (March 2014) ​ ​ ​ 17 seconds, “The Dead,” “The Double-Spout,” “The Instruments,” “Resin,” “The Geoglyphs,” “The Loom,” ​ and “Riddles in the Sand” (Winter 2014) La Vague Journal, three poems from “Exact Resemblance” (Issue 2, February 2014) ​ Cordite Poetry Review, “Gondwanaland” (Issue 44, December 2013) ​ Delirious Hem Advent Calendar, “Saskia, Rembrandt (1636)” (December 2013) ​ The Emerald Tablet, “chrysopoetics” (December 2013) ​ The Volta (Evening May Come), “alectryomancy” (Issue 33, September 2013) ​ aesthetix, “800” (Issue 6, 2013) ​ Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, “undercurrents,” “rwb,” “psychotherapy,” “piece for sky,” and “robins” (July 2013) ​ N/A Literary Journal, “magazine,” “beat the air,” “Canada geese,” “mourning” (Issue 1, 2013) ​ Open Letters Monthly, “wild swans” (July 2013) ​ Word for/Word, “In Love” (vol. 21, 2013) ​ Futurepoem Blog, response to Noah Eli Gordon’s The Source (2012) ​ ​ ​ Kadar Koli, poems (Buffalo 2010) ​ The Buffalo News, excerpts from What the Fortune-Teller Said (Buffalo 2010) ​ ​ ​ Area Sneaks, “Mod Diary” and interview (Los Angeles 2009) ​ speechless, “Mod Diary” (Calgary 2008) ​ Apocryphaltext, “Wake,” (Montevallo, AL 2008) ​ Cannibal, “Other Testimony of Summer Nights” (NYC 2008) ​ knives out, “dissent – descent” (Toronto 2008) ​ Phoebe, “Duras” (WDC 2008) ​

9 A Sing Economy, “Cortland” (Albany 2008) ​ The Other Herald, “Sidewalk” (Buffalo 2008) ​ Big Game Review, “Mars” (WDC 2007) ​ WOMB, CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (“a summer wish”) (San Diego 2007) ​ FOURSQUARE, “Wake” (Charlottesville 2007) ​ Rock Heals, “Sidewalk” and “Poetry is Like Music” (Baltimore 2007) ​ Zinhar, “Manifest” (in Turkish translation, Istanbul 2007) ​ Small Press Traffic, interview (San Francisco 2006) ​ small town, poems (San Francisco 2006) ​ Filling Station, excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (Calgary 2005) ​ ​ ​ American Weddings, excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (No. 1, Boston 2004) ​ ​ ​ Drill, excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (No. 4, South Bend 2004) ​ ​ ​ st Mantis, “Silent Protest: Feminism and Poetry Reading Politics in the 21 ​ Century” (No. 3, Palo Alto 2004) ​ ​ OEI, untranslatable excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar and article, “The Plasticity of Poetry,” a variation on ​ ​ ​ the Organic Furniture Cellar preface (No. 18/19/20/21, Stockholm 2004) ​ ​ rout/e, “legend” or “mapmaking” excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (Toronto 2004) ​ ​ ​ vortex, Buffalo broadsides by William Sylvester, excerpts from blueberries (Buffalo 2004) ​ ​ ​ Antennae, “Corpse of Time” (No. 4, Chicago 2003) ​ Anomaly, “evolocution” excerpts (No. 1, D.C. 2002) ​ dANDelion, “canal series” excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (No. 28 vol. 2, Calgary 2002) ​ ​ ​ Ecopoetics, “Common Blues” excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (No. 2, Buffalo 2002) ​ ​ ​ Ferrum Wheel, “Leave No Trace” (No. 4, Buffalo 2002); “Buffalo Cycle” (No. 3, Buffalo 2002); “poem for ​ ​ ​ regeneration” (No. 2, Buffalo 2001); “japanese beetle” from bird-book (No. 1, Buffalo 2001) ​ ​ ixnay, “das lied von der erde,” “hero n,” and “japanese beetle,” from bird-book (No. 7, Philadelphia 2002) ​ ​ ​ Outlet (7) Heroines, “Cherries” (San Francisco 2001) ​ xtant one 09.01, “lov r” (No. 1, North Carolina 2001) ​ ​ ​ Queen Street Quarterly, “Jemison Trail” and “Morris Trail” from Organic Furniture Cellar (Vol. 7, No. 1; 2004); ​ ​ ​ excerpts from bird-book (Vol. 5, No. 3; 2002); “for Mariama Bâ” (Vol. 4, No. 4; 2001) (Toronto) ​ ​ name, “found poem” (No. 8/9, 2004), “(>)” (No. 7, 2003), excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (No. 6, 2002), ​ ​ ​ excerpts from Evolocution and “oscilli” from bird-book (No. 4/5, 2002); “Relation/I-I,” ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ “Relation/I-III,” and “Cherries” (No. 3, 2001) (Buffalo)

Guest Workshops Class visit and workshop. Holy Family Cristo Rey High School, Birmingham, AL; November 1, 2019 ​ Poetry and art workshop. Harlan Hubbard Studios, Fort Thomas, KY; July 27, 2019 Poetry workshop. Alabama State Poetry Society Fall Conference, Oct. 27, 2018 Class visit and workshop. Norman High School and Norman North High School, Norman, OK; January 18, 2017. Sponsored by the Mark Allen Everett Poetry Reading Series. Class visit and reading. Yale University, October 28, 2015 Class visit and reading. Central Connecticut State University, October 27, 2015

Poetry Readings March, 2020: San Antonio, TX: Veliz Books/co.im.press AWP off-site reading (details TBA) November 1, 2019: Online. A Brief Chat podcast (abriefchat.com). July 29, 2019: Oxford, OH: Miami University, Final Project Reading August 27, 2019: Fort Thomas, KY: Harlan Hubbard Studio April 20, 2019: New Orleans, LA; New Orleans Poetry Festival March 13, 2019: March 13, 2019: Brooklyn, NY; Berl's Poetry Shop, 7pm

10 February 2, 2019: Birmingham, AL; DISCO. How to Know the Flowers Launch Party, 7pm ​ ​ September 27, 2018: Birmingham, AL; Revelator Coffee; 100 Thousand Poets for Change June 29, 2018: Birmingham, AL; ArtTown. May 5, 2018: Philadelphia, PA; Brickbat Books. Hugely Popular series April 20, 2018: New Orleans, LA; New Orleans Poetry Festival. Coven Press Reading ​ January 16, 2018: Oxford, OH: Miami University MFA Reading August 1, 2017: Oxford, OH: Miami University MFA Reading April 22, 2017: New Orleans, LA; New Orleans Poetry Festival. Coven Press Reading ​ April 22, 2017: New Orleans, LA; New Orleans Poetry Festival. Chax Press Reading ​ March 25, 2017: Birmingham, AL; Sister City Presents—She Persisted: Spoken Word Artist Showcase February 10, 2017: Washington, D.C.; Chax/Kelsey St. Offsite AWP, Busboys & Poets February 9, 2017: Washington, D.C.; Coven Press Offsite AWP, Songbyrd Cafe January 18, 2017: Norman, OK; Mark Allen Everett Poetry Reading Series December 10, 2016: Brooklyn, NY; Berl’s Poetry Shop, Tiny Talks Series September 24, 2016: Birmingham, AL; The 6th Annual 100 Thousand Poets for Change. April 16, 2016: New Orleans, LA; New Orleans Poetry Festival April 1, 2016: L.A., CA; Ahsahta/Chax Press AWP Conference off-site reading at Book Show November 15, 2015: New Orleans, LA October 28, 2015: New Haven, CT; Yale class visit October 27, 2015: New Britain, CT; Central Connecticut State University class visit October 25, 2015: Brooklyn, NY; Unnameable Books with Coven Press as part of the d.a. levy lives series October 23, 2015: Brooklyn, NY; Berl’s Poetry Shop October 10, 2015: L.A., CA; Open Press September 13, 2015: Knoxville, TN; Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) Reading Series April 9, 2015: Minneapolis, MN; Lavender Ink/Dialogos/Chax Press reading at AWP at Segue Cafe April 13, 2015: Birmingham, AL; Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series April 26, 2015: Birmingham, AL; National Poetry Month reading at Emmet O’Neal Library May 23, 2015: Tuscaloosa, AL; Sacred Grove Reading Series October 12, 2014: Washington, D.C.; Arts & Crafts Beer Festival October 11, 2013: Oxford, MS: Bozarts Gallery (Trobar Ric Reading Series) July 13, 2013: Ottawa, ON: The Carleton Tavern (The Factory Reading Series) April 19, 2012: Atlanta, GA: Emory University (What’s New in Poetry? Series) March 24, 2012: Buffalo, NY: Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Buffalo Small Press Book Fair) March 27, 2010: Buffalo, NY: Sugar City (Buffalo Small Press Book Fair) January 24, 2010: NY, NY: Zinc Bar October 21, 2009: Buffalo, NY: Buffalo State College (Rooftop Poetry Club) October 16, 2009: Lowell, MA (Mass Poetry Festival) August 14, 2009: Buffalo, NY: Sugar City July 10, 2009: Buffalo, NY: House reading (Habenicht Press) May 19, 2009: NY, NY: ACA Galleries (d.a. levy lives series/dusie press) March 20, 2009: Buffalo, NY: Sugar City (flim forum press) February 27, 2009: NY, NY: St. Mark’s Poetry Project (A Sing Economy anthology release) ​ ​ December 14, 2008: Buffalo, NY: Rust Belt Books October 25, 2008: LA, CA; REDCAT Untitled: Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing May 17, 2008: Baltimore, MD: (i.e. reading series) April 25, 2008: Brooklyn, NY: Stain Bar (Local-National Poetry Month) December 9, 2007: Brooklyn, NY: Unnameable Books November 4, 2007: Asheville, NC: wordplay on WPVM hosted by Jeff Davis

11 October 2, 2007: Durham, NC: House reading (minor american reading series) June 17, 2007: NY, NY: Zinc Bar March 30, 2007: Buffalo, NY: Electric City Spectacular March 28, 2007: Oxford, OH: Miami University November 18, 2006: Toronto, ON: Test Reading Series January 27, 2006: WDC: 3Word Productions House Concert January 21, 2006: Brooklyn, NY: BookCourt January 20, 2006: Baltimore, MD: i.e. reading series December 29, 2005: WDC: DCAC (DC Poets MLA Multi-Poet Extravaganza) November 12, 2005: WDC: Washington Printmakers Gallery (Ruthless Grip series) September 13, 2002: Buffalo, NY: visual poetry, name Reading: Big Orbit Soundlab. ​ ​ February 26, 2002: Buffalo, NY: visual poetry, name Silent Reading: Rust Belt Books ​ ​ February 7, 2002: Buffalo, NY: Rust Belt Books. November 30, 2001: Buffalo, NY: name Poetry Reading & Bazaar; Rust Belt Books. ​ ​ April 5, 2001: Buffalo, NY: Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Poetry Prize Awards Ceremony, Poetry/Rare Books Library, University at Buffalo.

Recognition American Book Award nomination for How to Know the Flowers ​ LAMBDA Award nomination for How to Know the Flowers ​ Pushcart Prize nomination, for “Give me my flowers” and “10 June 2017” from How to Know the Flowers, 2019. ​ ​ First Prize, Academy of American Poets Prize, Miami University, 2019. Finalist, Veliz Books, 2018. (How to Know the Flowers) ​ ​ Finalist, Nightboat Poetry Prize, 2017. (How to Know the Flowers) ​ ​ Finalist, Sundress Publications Book Prize, 2017. (How to Know the Flowers) ​ ​ Semifinalist, Tarpaulin Sky Poetry Prize, 2017. (Glazed Glitter) ​ ​ Pushcart Prize nomination, for “30 January 2014,” Boston Poetry Magazine 2014. ​ ​ Semifinalist, Tarpaulin Sky Poetry Prize, 2015. (Dream House) ​ ​ Finalist, BOAAT Chapbook Competition, 2014 (Forms of Trust) ​ ​ Finalist, Nightboat Poetry Prize, 2012. (Life-List) ​ ​ First Prize, Academy of American Poets Prize, University at Buffalo, 2004. First Prize, Academy of American Poets Prize, University at Buffalo, 2002. First Prize, Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Poetry Prize, University at Buffalo, 2001. University at Buffalo Honors Program Special Project Grant, 2001.

EMPLOYMENT University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL, 2017-present Training Instructor, Office of Learning and Development, January 2020-March 2020 ​ ● Retooled PowerPoint presentations and handouts for Management Fundamentals curriculum and Emotional Intelligence courses for UAB employees Adjunct Instructor, English Department, Aug. 2017-present ​ ● Taught EH 101-102 and 106, the Freshman Composition sequence (rhetoric/research) ● Course load of 3:3 with varying course sizes (101-102 cap at 24, while 106-107 cap at 16 and include an additional writing lab component) ● Adhered to Department curriculum and syllabus standards while tailoring to student interests ● Utilized Canvas to manage assignments, grades, and feedback ● Traditional college student population

12 ● Professional Development: Big Think Pedagogy Workshop: Grading and What We Value in Student Writing; Responding to Student Writers: A Workshop with Nancy Sommers; Open Face: Strategies for Impacting Online Students; Bringing Local Communities into the Classroom; Evaluating Student Writing, Team-Based Strategies for Teaching Writing; Online Design and Teaching: Tips for ​ Successful Online Course Delivery, Communication and Feedback Adjunct Tutor, Writing Center, Aug. 2017-2019 ​ ● Tutored students at all levels in writing ● PD: Setting the Agenda, Working with Multilingual Writers; Safe Zone 101

University of Cincinnati at Clermont, OH, 2019-present Adjunct Instructor, English Department, August 2019-present ​ ● Utilized Canvas, including Kultura and Zoom, to teach students online ● English 1001, a condensed one-semester rhetoric and research course for freshmen ● 2:2, 25 students per section ● Nontraditional students including adults and high school seniors earning college credit ● Nominated by students for the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award ● PD: Checkpoint Data Security and Privacy, FERPA

Freelance Book Reviewer, 2018-present ● Paid book reviewing ● Constant Critic (Fence Digital), 2019-present ​ ● The Georgia Review, 2018-present ​

Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, NJ, 2016-present Reader ● AP English Literature (2019-2020) Rater ● Scored SAT: Writing section (2016-2017), ELPAC (2018-2020)

University of Texas at Austin, TX, Fall 2019 OnRamps Writing Assessment Specialist ● Online MOOC assessment for 80 students per semester ● Rhetoric 306: Introduction to Rhetoric: Reading, Writing and Research ● Nontraditional student population of Texan high school students earning college credit ● Professional Development (PD): FERPA, Child Protection ​

Vestavia Hills Library in the Forest, AL, 2017-2018 Teen Clerk ● Assisted with daily management of the Teen Department including circulation, holds, acquisitions, weeding, cataloging, processing, social media, Overdrive digital collection development, and patron services ● Updated the Reader Advisory print materials by grade levels and by subject matter ● Planned creative educational programs for teens including zines-making, letterpress, blackout poetry, recycled mason bee houses, paper marbling, book binding, dyeing from natural materials, friendship bracelet weaving, paper airplane engineering, and writing workshops ● Founded and curated the Treehouse Reading Series for visiting and local poets as a collaborative program between Teen and Adult Departments ● Certified National Passport Acceptance Agent

13 ● PD: Overdrive Ordering, National Passport Acceptance Agent Training; Lynda.com: Body Language for Leaders, The Neuroscience of Learning, Digital Citizenship, Queue Up: Your Path to Somewhere Meaningful, Understanding Copyright: A Deeper Dive, Internal Interviewing, Clifton Strengths

Indian Springs School, Birmingham, AL, 2011-2017 Librarian and English Teacher ● Managed the library (acquisitions, archives, original and copy cataloging, circulation, deaccession, instruction, inventory, research, patron services, processing, shelving) ● Increased the average age of the collection from 1977 to 1993 through aggressive deaccession and sophisticated acquisition and collection development ● Increased circulation by over 400% ● Developed special collections in non-English languages to support the Languages Department ● Managed two full-time staff and three part-time student employees ● Managed the student-run Writing Center (student staff training and management) ● Initiated and schematized digitization of the School Archives ● Initiated “Research across the Curriculum” ● Integrated information literacy instruction across the curriculum, 8-12th grades ● Researched, proposed and implemented technology initiatives ● Founded and curated the Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series ● Utilized social media to promote the library holdings, archives, and events ● Advised the student newspaper, The Woodward Post (2015-2017) and student clubs including Radio, ​ ​ Dance, and Conlang (Constructed Languages); faculty advisor to Amnesty International ● Coach for the Poetry Out Loud team ● Advised small groups of seniors as Faculty Advisor ● Assisted with Schoolwide Summer Reading (2012-16) ● Served on the Scholarly Development Committee (2016-2017) ● Taught English classes (see “Courses” list) ● Taught summer Book Arts electives ● PD: CPR/AED Certification, Mandatory Reporting, Teens and Social Media, Curriculum Mapping, Differentiated Assessment, Understanding By Design, Student Safety and Security, Formative Assessment, EdTech Teacher Summit, Power Searching with Google, TED Talks for Education, etc.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Buffalo, NY, 2008-2010 Box Office Associate, 2009-2010 ​ ● Box office ticket sales and customer service Subscription Sales Associate, 2008-2009 ​ ● Cold call sales and patron ticket renewals

Internet Archive (archive.org), New York, NY, 2008 Digital Archivist ● Scanned books from the New York Public Library for Internet Archive ● Post-production quality management in customized design software

University of Virginia, University of Virginia, VA, 2006 Teaching Assistant, English Department ​ ● Assisted with ENWR 380, the Little Red Schoolhouse advanced writing course for seniors ● Learned the Little Red Schoolhouse model of writing instruction

14 State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 1999-2010 Project Manager, Buffalo Arts Digital Library, 2010 ​ ● Led a team of six to gather media and permissions from local Buffalo artists ● Conceived and implemented viral marketing campaign ● Wrote and presented grant proposals ● Managed submissions requests, rejections, and related correspondence ● Determined appropriate metadata schema; collected and entered metadata ● Utilized and customized Greenstone software Teaching Assistant and Adjunct Instructor, English Department, 2002-2004; 2008-2009 ​ ● Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award, 2005 ● Designed and taught HMN 242: Hermann Hesse’s World (German Literature course) ● Taught the English Composition sequence, including ENG 101: Writing I; ENG 102: Honors Writing; ENG 201: Advanced Writing I. Designed courses within guidelines, lectured, graded ● Assisted in UBE 101: The University Experience (semester-long freshman orientation course) ● Utilized Blackboard and GoogleDocs to organize class materials Archivist, Poetry/Rare Books Collection, 2000-2002 ​ ● Prepared a true-color version of James Joyce’s Ulysses manuscript for “Digital Ulysses: An Annotated ​ ​ ​ ​ Hypertext and Manuscript Archive” ● Assisted with final XML editing for the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn CD-ROM Edition ​ ​ ● Archived rare materials, assisted patrons with access to closed stacks Archivist, Poetics Program, Summer 2000 ​ ● Prepared poet Charles Bernstein’s correspondence for the archive at Mandeville Special Collections Library at UC-San Diego ● Used Eudora to sort, print, index and file extensive email correspondence and manuscripts Concert Assistant, Slee Hall, 1999-2001 ​ ● Wrote program notes and publicity releases ● Managed permissions ● Ushered concerts ● Set up and broke down staging ● Opened and closed ticket office including managing ticket sales and cash.

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