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My poetry is, for better or for worse, largely about me. Often about me and God. Often about my struggles. But in writing I try to write in as universal a manner as possible, because I view my struggles, insights, pain, and growing relationship with God as significant insofar as they are manifestations of the human condition--my particulars as mere details. I entitled my blog "Ab Infra," meaning in Latin "from within." I call myself "corrigenda" meaning "things/she who is to be corrected," referring to my path of painful refinement. As I wrote on my blog, I fear my writing is too religious for secular circles yet too secular for religious circles; too conventional in form for some, yet not enough for others. I hope here it may encounter a compatible audience.
Writing poetry is not so much a decision for me as a necessity. I love the English language and the challenge of discovering a rhythmed cadence or a well appointed rhyme. Now 26 years old, I have been taking the art of poetry seriously for about half my life. I just joined Blogit and have put up a good number of my writings from the past few years. I may put up some of my older stuff sometime.
I was born in raised in Houston, Texas. I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002 with a degree in Classics and History and then began a masters in Religion at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, which I had to cut short when my father became ill. I returned to Houston, where I taught high school history for a year, after which I decided to go to law school. I currently have one more year left at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. I am interning at a law firm in Houston this summer and it is likely I will return to Houston after graduation.