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Publications and Works in Progress​

Books in Progress

Jazz Sonnets: The American Sonnets of Wanda Coleman, co-edited by Lizzy LeRud and Jennifer Ryan-Bryant. Forward by E. Ethelbert Miller. Manuscript currently under review.

Unsettling Poetry Pedagogy, co-edited by Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud. Manuscript in progress.
(Interested in contributing to this volume? View the CFP here)

Against Prose: The Fear of Decline in American Poetry Since Reconstruction. Manuscript in progress.

Radical Rule-Makers. Manuscript in progress.

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

"Against Prose: Poetry's Defense, Definition, and Dichotomization." 8363 words. Currently under review.

"Blues and the South," Routledge Companion to the Literature of the U. S. South, eds. Katie Burnett, Monica Miller, and Todd Hagstette. Routledge. 2500 words. Forthcoming, 2022.


"'My best story': Bishop, Lowell, and the Confessional Prose Poem," The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem, eds. Mary Ann Caws and Michel Delville, Edinburgh University Press, 2021, pp. 168-80. Click here to read more about this collection.

"Radical Revision: Rewriting Feminism with This Bridge Called My Back and Kate Rushin's 'The Bridge Poem,'" Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 39, no. 2, Fall 2020, pp. 303-328. Click here to read more about this article.


"Living Poems in Thoreau's Prose," Thoreau Bicentennial Essays, a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose, edited by Richard J. Schneider, vol. 44, no. 2, Fall 2017, pp. 155-176. Click here to read more about this article.

More Essays and Articles

"Scansion Redux, or Doing Data Viz in the Poetry Classroom," TECHStyle, 25 May 2021. 2000 words. Click here to read this article: https://techstyle.lmc.gatech.edu/scansion-redux-or-doing-data-viz-in-the-poetry-classroom/

"Race and the Embodied Poem: Using Slam Poetry to Confront the Limits of Textual Analysis." "7 Brittain Fellows Reflect on Antiractist Pedagogy," TECHStyle, 14 December 2020. 500 words. Click here to read this article: https://techstyle.lmc.gatech.edu/7-brittain-fellows-reflect-on-antiracist-pedagogy/

"Heart First Into this Ruin: Revisiting Wanda Coleman," The Poetry Foundation, 11 May 2020. 4000 words. Click here to read this article: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/153468/heart-first-into-this-ruin

Additional works in progress -

  • Article on Langston Hughes and the emergence of blues poetry
  • Article on Golden Shovel poems and the American Sonnet form, featuring poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks, Terrance Hayes, and Wanda Coleman

​​Image attributions
Row 1, left to right
"Friday" from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau, Penguin Classics edition, 1998, photo by Lizzy LeRud, May 19, 2016
Cover art of This Bridge Called My Back, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, Persephone Press, 1981
Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House in Cambridge, Massachusetts, photo by Lizzy LeRud, May 25, 2017
Page 631 of Physiognominal Systems by Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Spurzheim, Londini, 1815, https://archive.org/details/b24925020/page/n612


Row 2, left to right
Elizabeth Bishop, Vassar College Yearbook, 1934, public domain
Books by Claudia Rankine, Terrance Hayes, and Jericho Brown, photo by Lizzy LeRud, September 17, 2019
"Gwendolyn Brooks" by Brian Lanker on view at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, photo by Lizzy LeRud, February 18, 2016

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