University at Buffalo (UB)
Simon Eales
simonpet@buffalo.edu
Interests: Experimental poetry; poetics; satire; performance studies; Australian & global poetries; decoloniality; Deleuze.
Simon is from Melbourne, a city built on country called Narrm. He has published critical and poetic work in Cordite, Rabbit, Don't Do It, and Street Press Australia, on various aspects of postcolonial poetics. He regularly performs work, and recently put out the germ of a life-project, Deathroll & Netbag, through the ephemeral LifeStorage Live Press.
Declan Gould
Interests: 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Poetics, Disability Studies, Medical Humanities, Gender
Declan Gould holds an MFA from Temple University. She is the author of the chapbooks "Like" or "As" (dancing girl press, 2018) and Model Figure (Shirt Pocket Press, 2015) and the article “‘I am/in pain’: The Form of Suffering in David Wolach’s Hospitalogy and Amber DiPietra and Denise Leto’s Waveform” (Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, 2017).
George Life
Interests: poetry and poetics, twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature, translation, post- and decolonial studies, film and visual studies
George is currently working on two manuscripts of poetry, entitled Precarity – excerpts from which have appeared or are forthcoming in Berkeley Poetry Review, New American Writing, Hambone, and elsewhere – and Hereditament. In addition, he is working on a mixed genre project centered around a translation of the late poems of Du Fu.
Katie Naughton
Interests: time, subjectivity, collectivity, and alterity in contemporary lyric and experimental poetry; weak theory and thought/thinking in poetry; art and politics
Katie Naughton is a first year student in the Poetics program. She holds an MFA from Colorado State University and her poetry has been published or is forthcoming from flag + void, jubilat, and Lambda Literary's Poetry Spotlight.
Travis Sharp
Interests: Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, ecopoetics, biopolitics, aesthetic theory, queer theory, performativity
Travis Sharp is the author of the chapbook Sinister Queer Agenda (above/ground press, forthcoming) and co-editor of Radio: 11.8.16 (Essay Press, 2017). His writing has appeared with Columbia Poetry Review, Bombay Gin, LIT, Puerto del Sol, Fact-Simile, Tagvverk, and elsewhere. He's an editor at Essay Press and small po[r]tions.