Kent Shaw
Assistant Professor of English
Departments
Programs
Creative Writing, English, Digital Humanities, Women’s and Gender Studies, Global Literary Studies
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About
Main Interests
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Degrees
Ph.D. in English Literature and Creative Writing, University of Houston, May 2011
MFA, Washington University, May 2003
BA in English Literature, University Missouri-St. Louis, cum laude, January 1999
Publications
Poetry:
- “My fear is that someone would invent a tool to untether me,” from Cincinnati Review (available at Academy of American Poets)
- “Stones,” from New Orleans Review
- “What we did about a world that kept getting very loud,” from Vinyl Poetry
- “Always was being so always around us that we had to put always on the insides of us” from jubilat
- “Dear Mark Doty, are you the man I met 10 years ago?“, “Definitions of lucky are too numerous,” from Miracle Monocle
- “Actually, this poem belongs to my wife,” from Denver Quarterly
- “People don’t understand what an emotion normally look like,” from TYPO
- “My city is not called Ladders“, “Really, there is no end to ambition,” from Memorious
- “A story from my romantic past. It was full of misgivings”, “The definition of OK when you’re only kind of OK,” from Hobart
- “Now I know what maturity is. Thank you, wool!” from Guernica
- “The boxes were arranged so they formed a Leviathan,” from Hayden’s Ferry Review
Book reviews:
- “A Story of I, Self-Conscious Me,” from FENCE Digital
- “On Lo Kwa Mei-en’s Yearling,” from Kenyon Review Online
- Review of Lisa Ciccarello’s At Night, from The Rumpus
- “Complicated Love: On Joanna Klink’s Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy,” from Fanzine
- “What Are We Violence? Jennifer Mackenzie’s My Not My Soldier,” from Fanzine
Books:
- Too Numerous (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019)
- Calenture (University of Tampa Press, 2008)