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Publications:

The Currency, Four Way Books, 2009.

“A Space for Desire and the Mutable Self: Karen Volkman’s Experimentations with the Lyric,” in American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics, Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell eds. Wesleyan University Press, 2007.
 

Courses/Seminars:
  • Introductory Poetry Writing

  • Intermediate Poetry Writing

  • Advanced Poetry Writing

Paul Otremba is a poet and critic whose work has focused on modes of understanding and representation in poetry, including investigations of artworks, film, and other media as subjects alongside experiences drawn from Midwestern landscapes and urban centers both in America and abroad. He is currently finishing a second manuscript, which includes experiments in forms and occasions for poetry, including psalms, sonnets, epistles, and literary allusion.
   
Paul Otremba
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Houston
 
 
Office: Dallas Hall, Room 12
Office Hours: TTH 12:30-2:00
Phone: 214-768-4374
Email: potremba@smu.edu
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