Thomas Murphy
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- School: Texas A&M University
- Campus: Corpus Christi
- Department: English
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Corpus Christi, TX - Dates at Texas A&M University: December 2008 - May 2020
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Professor Murphy is nice He provides great constructive feedback on papers and provides grades on time. This class is not easy though. However, if you pay attention to lectures and feedback, and ask questions, it's not too difficult. Overall, he's the best professor at Texas A&M University.
Biography
Texas A&M University Corpus Christi - English
Professional Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
Higher Education
Thomas M. "Tom"
Murphy
Corpus Christi, Texas Area
Experienced Assistant Professor Of English with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in Poetry Readings, Editing, Curriculum Development, Public Speaking, and Art. Strong professional with a Master of Arts (M.A.) focused in English Literature with a Creative Thesis from Sonoma State University.
Experience
San Francisco State University
Internship @ The Poetry Center
Helped gather information for funding grants. Worked with writers who read such as Carl Rakosi, Linda Hogan and others. Whirled through the Rolodex in awe. Wrote a manual for future interns.
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Professional Assistant Professor of English
Thomas worked at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi as a Professional Assistant Professor of English
Anchor Brewing Company
Bottler
Put beer into bottles, kegs and belly. Brewing: tossed malt into mash tun, prepared hop bags for dry hoping during secondary fermentation. Cleaned fermentation vessel. And other crap.
K Space Contemporary
Volunteer
Thomas worked at K Space Contemporary as a Volunteer
BOW
Artist
Created two issues of Box of Words (88-89), Created art, Head Financial Officer.
Education
San Francisco State University
Creative Writing
San Francisco State University
Internship @ The Poetry Center
Helped gather information for funding grants. Worked with writers who read such as Carl Rakosi, Linda Hogan and others. Whirled through the Rolodex in awe. Wrote a manual for future interns.Sonoma State University
Master of Arts (M.A.)
English Literature with a Creative Thesis
Publications
Stone Renga
Tail Feathers Press
Renga is an ancient Japanese form for cooperatively written poems. In the days of Basho the poems had rigid formal properties. In recent years, the American poet Bob Homan has rejuvenated the spirit of cooperation by as jettisoned the formal requirements. This renga, in the informal or “American” form, focuses on stones and was created by 60 poets from the United States and five other countries. The subject was chosen by Linda Hogan, Native American poet, novelist, environmentalist and writer, and whose renga starts the collection. As the renga progresses, it becomes apparent how elemental these primitive artifacts are in human existence. Stones offered us our first shelters, temples and memorials. They were our first weapons, and as we are reminded often the pages of this one, they continue to be hurled in anger and ignorance.
Stone Renga
Tail Feathers Press
Renga is an ancient Japanese form for cooperatively written poems. In the days of Basho the poems had rigid formal properties. In recent years, the American poet Bob Homan has rejuvenated the spirit of cooperation by as jettisoned the formal requirements. This renga, in the informal or “American” form, focuses on stones and was created by 60 poets from the United States and five other countries. The subject was chosen by Linda Hogan, Native American poet, novelist, environmentalist and writer, and whose renga starts the collection. As the renga progresses, it becomes apparent how elemental these primitive artifacts are in human existence. Stones offered us our first shelters, temples and memorials. They were our first weapons, and as we are reminded often the pages of this one, they continue to be hurled in anger and ignorance.
American History
Slough House Press
American History poems by Tom Murphy American History's subjects are the nature of America and its peoples. From alcoholism, drugs, political strife, war, racism, industrial greed, genocide and a communion with the environmental surroundings. Historically, covers Washington to the present times, though mostly since Hiroshima. While also including natural surroundings of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the beauty of the Great Basin, the Dakotas, the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, Sangre de Cristo ranges. Landscape as home. History and Literary characters are woven through the fabric of these poems that "wag a finger" at our times. American History meditates on shape of the country leaving nothing out with the damage starting at home and most locals. Though in nature the poems find an uneasy peace. Traditional poems of haiku, tanka, villanelle, and free verse with words covering the page in abstract juxtapositions as have been called "quirky spacing" but is the mindset and the page location of words written. People mentioned throughout the text: Whitman, Emerson, Washington, Revere, Copley, Kay Boyle, George W. Bush, Barbital Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Hitler, Reagan, Rigoberta Menchu, Aung San Suu Kyi, Mohamed Atta, Chicago 7, Tiresias, Jack Kerouac as Ti Jean, Jello Biafra, Homi Bhabha, Gilgamesh, Bigger Thomas, Hamlet, Buddy Ebsen, Monica Lewinsky, James Joyce, Derrida, Hillis Miller, Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Hemingway, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Sacco, Vanzetti, Nancy Spungen Buzz Aldrin, Simonetta Vespucci, Sandro Botticelli, Confucius, Elaine Showalter, Donna Haraway, Judith Butler, Virginia Woolf, Christine de Pizan, Bert & Ernie, Raskolnikov, Spuds McKenzie, Shirley Jackson, Sacagawea, John Wesley Powell, Bob Dylan, Brigham Young, David Ben-Gurion, Joseph Smith, Hitler Youth, Plato, Tojo, Scooby Doo and Auchschim Tschitey. Read the poems out loud and hear the voice of an American son's pain.
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