Conference Season is Open

Hello Everyone! I've been busy, prepping myself for conference season and attempting to start writing that pesky little book-length work called a dissertation. The good news is that I'm presenting at three conferences this semester, and am quite excited about all of them. The bad news is that I'm presenting at three conferences this semester, and I'm not one of those "brilliant on the fly" kind of people, which means that I work hard to try to get something together that doesn't sound like pure drivel coming out.

Yesterday, I made my 2010 conference debut at the Virginia Humanities Conference. The conference was great, and it was really nice to be on a panel on Women in Poetry with my fellow MATXer Lee Bloxom. All of our presentations were quite interesting yet different, and all spoke to the issue of giving 'voice' to women often unable to speak for themselves. I talked about Barbie, one of my favorite subjects, and some of my favorite poems about one of my favorite subjects.

Vhc2010 Presentation

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Next up: ISSN in Cleveland, Ohio - see a draft of the conference program.
And then?: ELO at Brown. I'll try to post updates soon!