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Profile: Thylias Moss

Title: Professor
Degree: M.A., New Hampshire  1983
Moss

Contact Info

Office:

3247 AH

Hours:

M, Tu 5:15-6 pm (& by appt), DL1, Duderstandt Center, north campus

Phone:

764-0443 (AH), 647-8749 (DL1, DC)

Uniqname:

thyliasm

email:

thyliasm@umich.edu

Website:

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Research Interests

Primary Interests

Limited Fork Poetics: the study of interacting language systems (including visual, sonic, tactile, and olfactory systems), poetry as a complex adaptive system, creativity science, the science of the impossible --especially as related to interacting language systems, digital interfaces in language systems, experimental poetry, poetry of the avant-garde, poetry as a communication tool, access studies in interacting language systems, the nature of container and contained in continuously shifting structures, three-dimensional iterations of outcomes of interactions in language systems (poams), simultaneity studies. Examples of LFP poams (products of acts of making) are available on The Forkergirl Channel, in the Limited Fork Weblogs: A Limited Forker Girl's Tines, Bifurcation Station, Tine D.A.D.A. Club, Limited Fork 101, Limited Fork Academic Split Tine, Tine Times, Tine Times Cyber Workshop, Tine Times 2, and from the Limited Fork podcasts on iTunes: Limited Fork, Limited Fork Music, Limited Fork Video Anthology

Secondary Interests

Defining and redefining the boundaries of print objects, especially as related to poetry; presentation platforms for poetry and other poams (products of acts of making), including the acquisition of dimensionality; transitional stations in metaphor, ladders and lattices in interacting language systems, filmmaking, the application of LFP principles in multiple fields of inquiry toward the making of poams that draw from the interaction of input from multiple fields of inquiry, the poam as organism, the poam as evidence of community activity on multiple scales.

Publications

Limited Fork weblogs (2007): A Limited Forker Girl's Tines, Bifurcation Station, Tine D.A.D.A. Club, Limited Fork 101, Limited Fork Academic Split Tine, Tine Times, Tine Times Cyber Workshop, Tine Times 2, Tokyo Butter (2006); The Forkergirl Channel, Limited Fork podcasts on iTunes (2006): Limited Fork, Limited Fork Music, Limited Fork Video Anthology; Slave Moth (2004); Last Chance For The Tarzan Holler (1998); Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress (1998); Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems (1993); Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky (1991); At Redbones (1990); Pyramid of Bone (1989); Hosiery Seams on a Bowlegged Woman (1983); I Want To Be (1993).
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