In my lyrical poetry the fragmentation of words on the page embodies the scattering of the self into multiple voices and identities.  My experimental poems are non-linear and destabilize the traditional flow of romantic verse. The multiplication of puns, the juxtaposition of polysemous --and at times contradictory-- phrases weave and unweave a fabric of unsettling images. In my intermedial practice visual, verbal and musical arts intertwine to give rise to a heterocosm in perpetual change. My videopoems dramatize the dispersal of language in motion. I am inspired by Hart Crane's fusion of Romanticism, Symbolism and Modernism in a "transmemberment of song", by Robert Duncan's "grand collage", by Paul Celan's fragmentary works, by Octavio Paz's surreal romantic love lyrics and by Rosmarie Waldrop's postmodernist prose poems.  

M. A. in English. Graduate Student Instructor.
Ph. D. candidate.