Jessica Temple

Lecturer, English

Biography

Jessica Temple is a poet who teaches composition and literature courses. In addition, she writes and voices shows for the syndicated weekly poetry college radio program melodically challenged. Her scholarly interests include creative writing, 20th Century American literature, Southern literature, and a wide range of poetry.

She has presented scholarly work on Eudora Welty's short stories, women in Renaissance drama, formal poetry, and the poetry of Gary Snyder, Thoreau, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Stevie Smith and Natasha Trethewey, among other topics. Her chapbook, Seamless and Other Legends, is available from Finishing Line Press.

For her full CV and samples of her poetry, visit her official site.

Dr. Temple's Complete CV

Education

  • Ph.D., Creative Writing - Poetry, Georgia State University, 2015
  • M.A., English, Mississippi State University, 2011
  • B.A., English, University of Alabama, 2001
  • TESOL Certificate, Mississippi State University, 2011

Classes Taught

Publications

Poetry Collection

  • Seamless and Other Legends, Finishing Line Press, 2013

Academic Publications

  • "'My Old Lady': The Influence of Eudora Welty's Phoenix Jackson on Elizabeth Bishop's 'Faustina, '" The Eudora Welty Review, June 2015
  • Course Syllabus and Writing Prompts Selected for Inclusion in Instructor's Guide to Everyone's an Author, forthcoming in 2015 from W.W. Norton
  • Guide to First-Year Writing, Fountainhead Press, 2014, Editorial Staff
  • Guide to First-Year Writing, Fountainhead Press, 2013, Editorial Staff
  • Forming a Critical Perspective, Pearson Learning Solutions, 2010, Editorial Staff and Teaching Apparatus Developer

Poetry Publications

  • "Bearing," Stone, River, Sky: An Anthology of Georgia Poems, June 2015
  • "Witch's Milk," 44th Annual Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Magazine, March 2015
  • "Seersucker," Blast Furnace, Volume 4 Issue 3
  • "Mālama," "My Grandmother Turns Eighty-Eight," "Two Descents," Canyon Voices, Issue 10, Fall 2014
  • "Bearing," Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual, 2015 Edition
  • "Littoral, Thalassic, Pelagic," The Best of Loose Change, Volume 4.1
  • "Cleansing," "Littoral, Thalassic, Pelagic," "Mercy Breakfast" Loose Change, Volume 3.3
  • "Black Rabbit," "Anniversary," "Philitas of Cos," The Red Clay Review, Issue V
  • "Twisted," Birmingham Arts Journal, Volume 9 Issue 1
  • "2508 Circle Drive," decomP magazinE, March 2011

Book Review and Interview Publications

  • Review of Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White by Sarah Ford, The Eudora Welty Review, June 2015
  • Review of The Heights of Macchu Pichu by Pablo Neruda, translated by Tomás Q. Morín, The Rumpus, forthcoming
  • Featured Poet in "Authors’ Alcove" interview series, Canyon Voices, Issue 10, Fall 2014

Affiliations

  • Eudora Welty Society
  • Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society
  • South Atlantic Modern Language Association
  • Southeastern Writing Center Association
  • Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity
  • Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity