Jennifer Moxley

Biography

Jennifer Moxley joined our faculty in 2000. She has served as Director of Creative Writing, co-advisor to The Open Field, and Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies. Her areas of expertise include creative writing (poetry, essay, personal narrative); poetry, poetics and translation (theory and practice). Secondary areas include French Symbolism, Orphic Poetics, American modernism, and contemporary American poetry.

Moxley’s poem “Behind the Orbits” was included by Robert Creeley in The Best American Poetry 2002. In 2005 she was granted the Lynda Hull Poetry Award from Denver Quarterly, and in 2015 her book The Open Secret was awarded the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams award and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

Courses

Graduate

ENG 508: Writing Workshop in Poetry and Poetics
ENG 546: Modern American Literature
ENG 580: Topics in Poetry and Poetics (Topics taught include: The Symbolist Movement in Poetry; Pre-Stonewall Poetics; Poetics of Translation; Orpheus: The Myth of the Poet; The Poet in Wartime: H.D. and Robert Duncan; A Poetics of Co-Respondence: Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov)

Undergraduate

ENG 205: Introduction to Creative Writing
ENG 206: Descriptive & Narrative Writing
ENG 222: Reading Poems
ENG 308: Writing Poetry
ENG 382: Genres: The Lyric in Historical Perspective
ENG 382: Genres: Literature and the Blues
ENG 391: Themes: Orpheus the Myth of the Poet
ENG 408: Advanced Poetry Writing
ENG 429: Topics in Literature  (Topics taught include: The Grail in Medieval Literature and 20th Century Film; The Symbolist Movement in Poetry; Orpheus and Eurydice in Literature)
ENG 449: Contemporary American Poetry