Stacey Waite
{{Short description|Poet}}
Stacey Waite is a poet—focusing on both slam and written verse—who also works as an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.{{cite web|url=http://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/english-professor-finds-contradictions-rule-breaking-basis-of-teaching-methods/article_7603b868-c315-11e5-bbe2-5f835c236260.html|title=English professor finds contradictions, rule-breaking basis of teaching methods |author=Lindsay Esparrago |publisher=dailynebraskan.com|date=2016-01-25|accessdate=2016-03-16}} Waite's poetry often explores themes of the body—of the intersections of gender, sexuality, place and relationships. She has published four collections of poetry over the past several years.{{cite web|url=http://therumpus.net/2013/02/butch-geography-by-stacey-waite/|title=Butch Geography By Stacey Waite - The Rumpus.net|date=5 February 2013 |publisher=therumpus.net|accessdate=2016-03-16}}
Career
Waite attended her first live slam poetry performance in New York City as a teen. Since moving to Nebraska, Waite has worked as a teaching artist with the Nebraska Writers Collective and its slam-poetry program Louder Than A Bomb (LTAB). LTAB allows high school students from around the state of the Nebraska to write, practice, perform and compete in slam poetry bouts around the state.{{cite web|url=http://newriters.org/news/teaching-artist-spotlight-stacey-waite |title=Teaching Artist Spotlight: Stacey Waite (interview) |date = February 29, 2016 |publisher= Nebraska Writers Collective |access-date=2016-03-16}}
Waite has also published a significant book, Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing, in the field of Composition Studies about pedagogy and the teaching of writing with the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2017, a project that aligns with Waite's role as a writing professor and her interest in the hows and whys of teaching writing and composition to first-year college students.
Reception
A review in Lambda Literary praises how Waite's poetry in Butch Geography "demonstrates the centrality of gender in our lives; she explores the intimacy and uncertainty of gender."{{cite web|url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/07/23/butch-geography-by-stacey-waite/|title='Butch Geography' by Stacey Waite |last=Enszer |first=Julie |publisher=Lambda Literary |date = July 23, 2013 |access-date=21 March 2016}} In a recent review, poet and Prairie Schooner editor Kwame Dawes called Waite "a pathfinder," who in Butch Geography in particular charts "with disarming honesty, humor, pathos, and willful perplexity the uncertain terrain of gender in ways that shatter assumptions, unsettle easy presumptions, and yet, through the sheer grace of craft ... open us to the beauty of our strange human enterprise."{{cite web|url=http://www.staceywaite.com/|title=Stacey Waite|publisher=staceywaite.com|accessdate=2016-03-16}}
Publications
= Poetry =
- Choke - winner of the 2004 Frank O'Hara prize {{oclc|71805926}}
- Love Poem to Androgyny - chapbook, winner of the 2006 Main Street Rag Competition {{oclc|140561124}}
- the lake has no saint - winner of the 2008 Snowbound Prize from Tupelo Press {{oclc|654311038}}
- Butch Geography - published in 2013 by Tupelo Press {{oclc|881283672}}
=Other works=
- Butch Defines Feminism Under the Following Conditions
- The Kind of Man I Am At The DMV{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/nyregion/in-whitmans-backyard-a-salute-to-poetry.html?_r=0|title=In Whitman's Backyard, a Salute to Poetry|last1=Jacobson|first1=Aileen|date=1 November 2013|accessdate=21 March 2016|work=New York Times}}
- Aunt Liz Whittles A Wooden Dollhouse{{cite news|url=http://patch.com/pennsylvania/upperstclair/acclaimed-local-poet-encourages-summer-reading-writing|title=Acclaimed Local Poet Encourages Summer Reading, Writing|last1=Klingler|first1=Sarah|date=4 July 2011|accessdate=21 March 2016|publisher=Patch}}
- {{citation |title = Teaching queer: radical possibilities for writing and knowing | last = Waite | first = Stacey | date = 2017 | publisher = University of Pittsburgh Press | oclc = 959275204}}