The Conceptual Poet and the Hiring Committee

  • Invests in genre limits, provided one can violate them.
  • Somewhat underdelivers, often dancing around the encounter.
  • Tendency to pleonasm, though clearly wants to charm. Hints of personals ad in the LRB.
  • Open to traveling for panel appearances.
  • Seeks to individuate. Cites collectives as evidence of curatorial abilities.
  • Claims not to know who Laurie Anderson is.
  • Hyperlinks to allegory (the most repeatable and literary of devices) as evidence of invention.
  • Is flexible, underspecifying the 'movement' as necessary, hesitant to commit to self-description should the next conference demand another.
  • May read too many back issues of October –– envious of painting's egress.
  • Good at market research, though strangely views literature as emerging market.
  • Skeptically references something called "Flarf". (HC - No one knows what this is.)
  • Provides consistent consumer reporting on previously used theoretical apparatus.
  • Definitely willing to travel for panel appearances.
  • Possible hire.