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Thesis Information
Title: Fling The Emptiness Out Of Your Arms
Program: Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Advisor: Dr. Martin Corless-Smith, Theatre, Film, and Creative Writing
Committee Members: Dr. Sara Nicholson, Theatre, Film, and Creative Writing and Dr. Taryn Birdsall, Theatre, Film, and Creative Writing
Abstract
My thesis is a 113-page creative work comprised of 5 sections of poetry. The poems traverse mythological personae–drawing heavily from Ovid, Aeschylus, and the Bible–memory and grief, vulnerability and violence, intimacy, and defiant redemption.
