writing samples
POETRY: rhizomag
Rasp Wail
of the Rock Ptarmigan
Dad buys a thick gray book
winking revelation: Annals
of the Former
World. But its words…
POETRY: Jelly Squid Magazine
Statue of Mercury
at the Museum of Fine Arts
If we consider the body and consider it
broken, our eyes have done the breaking.
If we plan its restoration and dig for the legs,
if we stick metal rods into the hips framed…
POETRY: 3Elements Literary Review
Anchorage
and Other Places
Going to Anchorage would destroy the perfection
of Anchorage, a beautiful city, they say, where
I have never been. A place without and a place within,
where glass and glaciers reflect each other…
MASTERS THESIS: Arizona State University
Digital City: Visual Communication
via Municipal Twitter Feed in the Urban Northeast
Contemporary cities are physical and virtual. This thesis describes the findings of a mixed-methods study concerning visual images of the city in the urban Northeast of the United States. I ground these approaches in existing literature concerning digital media, visual narrative, genre ecology, urban planning…
NEWS ARTICLE: Massachusetts Teachers Association
Lexington Learns Together:
Rewriting the PD Script
Educators in the Lexington Public Schools experienced a professional development reboot in 2014 when the district’s Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Learning reimagined the landscape for such programs. The result was a full day of workshops in fall 2015…
TECHNICAL WRITING: Sample
Functions and Features
of Lucidchart Software
Lucidchart is a web-based software application used for designing and drawing. You can use it to create diagrams, graphics, flowcharts, mind maps, and mockups. This description of the software will highlight some of its significant functions and features…
LITERARY ANALYSIS: Sample
The Troubled Reader
of Swift’s A Modest Proposal
Separating the voice of author Jonathan Swift and that of the speaker in A Modest Proposal is a problematic task for the reader. Swift seemingly conflates the two, carefully rebalancing the rhetorical scales when one voice begins to overshadow the other…