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Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Person
Location	Normal, Illinois, United States
Interests	Being happy. Riding a bicycle. Riding a unicycle. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Whitewater kayaking. Vipassana meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin (as taught by S N Goenka). Potamophilia (love of rivers). Afro-Caribbean Poetries. Metta Bhavana. Translation as Creative Writing. Contemporary Poetry by North American Women. Sociology of Literary Production. Transgeneric Writing. Dysraphic Poetry Writing. Essay Writing. Innovative Poetry. Novelized Writing. Conceptions of Masculinity in the "Avant Garde." Gender Dynamics in Self-Defined "Avant Garde" Poetry Movements. Creative Writing Pedagogy. Teaching in Prisons. Prison Literature (Boethius to Gramsci to Etheridge Knight). Artes Vivendi and Non-Discursive Knowledge. Stoicism. The Politics of Empathy. William James and Embodied Cognition. Buddhadhamma. Theories and Practices of Poetry Composition. Sunlight. Eurocentricism & Phallocentrism in Experimental Poetics. Intellectual History of American Poetics. Kindness and The Inevitability of Hypocrisy. Cultural Formation of Literary Taste. Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. Theories of Comedy. Invective in Literature. Horological History. Sociology of Time. Semiotics of Timepieces. Social Epistemology of Calendars and Clocks.