Vievee Elaure Francis

Biography

Vievee Elaure Francis primary interest is in poetics, particularly in how poetry is made and the value of such deliberate creative practice. She want to know how poetry serves us collectively and as individuals in ways that meet this era, this moment; however, in order to gain that understanding contexts cannot be ignored, nor can history be set aside. It is the intent of her instruction and an inherent objective of her own poetry to upturn how we think about poetry, its lineage, and the cultural impact of received aesthetics. She insists upon a reconsideration of the erroneous assumptions and common mythologies around poetry that allow only for the immediate and the intuitive as a measure of what is authentic. Instead she focuses on the possibilities within work drawn from the counterintuitive, and how craft alongside context may underscore intent.

Research Interest

Contemporary Poetry, African Diasporic Poetry, Eastern European Poetry, African American Literature