Double Helix approaches the conjunction of visual poetry and long poetry from two distinct but related viewpoints. The first is a scholarly examination of the techniques used to make a long poem visual or a visual poem long. The second is a production of an original long visual poem exhibiting these techniques. The first part, "The Look of the Long Poem," posits that there are five major techniques which are used in long visual poems: line breaks, imagetexts, white space, page division, and collage and montage. These techniques are grounded in the theoretical work of, among others, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, W.J.T Mitchell, Marjorie Perloff, and Johanna Drucker. The techniques are examined in detail as they play out in the work of Anne Carson, David Daniels, Christine Wertheim, Johanna Drucker, Langston Hughes, Ed Dorn, Lisa Jarnot, and Tom Phillips. The second part consists of an original sixty-four-page long poem / poetic sequence titled "diluvium." "diluvium" utilizes all the techniques analyzed in the previous part, attempting furthermore to educate the reader in the process of negotiating its parts as it is read – that is, to act as a poetics as well as a poem.

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This manuscript is comprised of a selection of poems written during my time as a student in the creative writing MFA program at Georgia State University. These are lyric/narrative poems arranged loosely according to subject matter – family, spiritual yearning/mystery.

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The poems in this collection are, in a sense, experiments in the employment of voice, wordplay and mythopoetic structures. The purpose, in so much as this collection can be said to have a purpose, is to celebrate the alienation and absurdity common to modern day life by depicting and dramatizing their connection with the culture we have inherited from classical tradition.

Divided into four sections, the poems of Signaletics concern what is measurable and what is not measurable, the counted and the perceived. Using language from literature, religious texts, and outdated science manuals, especially Alphonse Bertillon’s late 19th-century criminal identification manual titled Signaletic Instructions including the theory and practice of Anthropometrical Identification, alongside autobiography, the poems reckon with identity, political responsibility, and empathy. Several sequences appear within the manuscript, including “Sublimation” and “Latent Print,” and the poems, as a whole, attempt a wide range of styles, balancing experimentation with form, narrative with fragmentation. As of the date of submission, twenty-four of the thirty-one poems have been published in nationally and internationally distributed literary journals, including AGNI, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.

ACCOUNT BOOK By Lynda Fleet Perry, MFA A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2014 Major Director: Thesis / David Wojahn, Professor, English Department

A poetry thesis exploring issues of loss, death, creation, imagination, family, interpersonal relationships, nature, sexuality, and writing. The manuscript includes a preface that discusses literary influences such as Ai, H.D., and Sharon Olds, as well as writing in forms such as the dramatic monologue, imagistic poem, and confessional poem. Three main sections organize the manuscript's poems.

A book of poems composed of an alternating lyric sequence entitled, "Heroin," and other poems.