Advanced Poetry: Learning from Poets

Dr. Jodi Johnson is a poet and literary scholar from Ireland. He currently teaches in the Writing Program at Harvard University. He was educated at Oxford University (BA), the Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA), and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (PhD), where his dissertation focused on spectral image formation in Renaissance literature. He is a Poetry Editor at Tampa Review and his work has appeared in The Nation, and Prelude. Prior to Harvard, he taught in the writing departments of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Tampa, the University of South Florida, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. His research is particularly interested in developmental poetics, creative writing, and phenomenology.