Adjunct Instructor
Year Started at JMU: 2015
brennadj@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Education
M.F.A., Creative Writing with a concentration in Poetry, University of Alabama, 2007
B.A., Creative Writing and English Literature, Oberlin College, 2000
Professional Focuses
Poetry, contemporary poetics, music writing, romanticism, the lyric essay.
Publications
Books
A Dash as Long as the Earth’s Orbit (poetry), Bateau Press, 2023
Disintegration F_ace (investigative poetics), Schism Press, 2023
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 Family Flamboyant (poetry) Brickhouse Books, 2011
The White Visitation (poetry), BlazeVox Books, 2010
Recent Poems
"Self-Portrait Against Self-Portraits," petrichor 22, April 2023
"First Lines for the Death of Facebook," Dream Pop, March 2022
"Disintegration F_ace," BathHouse Journal 22, Spring 2022
"Disintegration F_ace," FENCE online, November 2021
"American Men," Inverted Syntax 3, 2020
"One-Third of Voices Think Voices," SHARKPACK Poetry Review 6, 2020
"Americans Who Wake Confused" and "Deep-brain Johnny Cash," Hotel Amerika Volume 18, 2020
"A Botanist," Conduit 29, Spring 2019
"Disease Was Wafting," "Piglet Rejected By Its Mother," "Romantic Love With British Comedians," "Two "Strangers Gaze at the Dark," "Tennis Players' Grunts," and "Compulsive Tendency to Defragment," Always Crashing 2, Spring 2019
"Listening to AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck,'" Obra/Artifact 6, January 2019
"Python Cornflakes," Animal Literary Magazine, July 1, 2018
"Chernobyl Fox," Okay Donkey, November 28, 2018
