David Brennan

POSITION: Adjunct Faculty

DEPARTMENTS:
School of Theology, Humanities and Performing Arts
Language & Literature

Dave is a poet and essayist whose research interests range from contemporary poetics to the linguistics of social media to music writing to the literatures of Asia. He can be found online at dave-brennan.com.

Education

BA, Oberlin College (Creative Writing and English Literature)
MFA, The University of Alabama (Poetry)

Publications
BOOKS
If Beauty Has to Hide, cross-genre, Spuyten Duyvil, 2018
Murder Ballads: Exhuming the Body Buried Beneath Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads, creative literary criticism, Punctum Books, 2016
The White Visitation, poetry, BlazeVox Books, 2010
CHAP
The Family Flamboyant, poetry, winner of the Stonewall Chapbook Contest, Brickhouse Books, 2011
POEMS
“Disease Was Wafting,” “Piglet Rejected By Its Mother,” “Romantic Love With British Comedians,” “Two Strangers Gaze at the Dark,” “Tennis Players’ Grunts,” “Compulsive Tendency to Defragment,” Always Crashing 2 (forthcoming)
“no.22(Whiteout),” Really System 17, Winter 2018
“After,” “Death Bed 2,” “Saint of Swimming Goggles,” Claudius Speaks 3, 2017
“Anecdote of the Twice-Stuffed Moose,” BOAAT 5, 2015
“How Are You?” “Rather Than Build a Tower of Bones,” “Sucka MC,” B O D Y, April 2013
“I am Tired of Watching,” Atticus Review, January 2013
“Self-Reproof,” Box of Jars 3, Autumn 2013
“At the Concert,” Coldfront Magazine, Poets off Poetry Feature, September 2012
“Robert Frost, OMG,” “Robert Frost, Robert Frost,” “It Is Winter, Robert Frost,” Heavy Feather Review 1.2, Summer 2012
“The White Visitation,” Verse Daily, May 30, 2010
“A Superior Garden,” “Adventure Story,” “Casting a Romantic Production,” “Ka-boom,” Beeswax Magazine 6, 2010
“Film Study,” “The Long Walk,” Dear Sir, 3, 2009
“In Memory of HAL,” PANK 3, 2009
“I Wrote This,” H_NGM_N 6, 2007
ESSAYS
“If Beauty Has to Hide or Thinking of Shit,” Timber 7.2, Summer 2017
“Kyary Pamyu Pamyu,” One Week // One Band, August 2013
“Small Love Affairs Gone: Music, Memory, Missing,” Gadfly Magazine, March 2013
“Choice and Its Opposite: On Listening to Other People’s Music,” Unlikely Stories IV, December 2012
“We Are What We Here,” Coldfront Magazine, Poets Off Poetry Feature, September 2012
“Birdcatcher,” Stymie Magazine 3.2, 2010
Courses Taught
WRIT 423: Advanced Poetry Workshop
WRIT 370: Poetry Workshop
WRIT 200: Introduction to Creative Writing

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