The Frog Poem Project

<p><em>The Frog Poem Project</em> is a book-length poem structured like a textbook informed by decades of creative research into frog dissection manuals antique medical textbooks surgical gynecological texts visits to a human cadaver anatomy lab and frog festivals in Rayne Louisiana and Calaveras County California. Following an arc from trauma to healing it is a poetic inquiry that begins with metaphors conjured by examination in a doctor's office and explores the unexpected beauty embedded in clinical and biological terminology around bodies. A response to the temporality of scientific language it highlights the traces of meaning that remain on the individual and collective level even when vocabulary is lost. As a poem project it expands the parameters of a traditional collection of poems creating a space where through the lens of poetry multiple genres and diverse disciplines like art and science can coalesce to create new knowledge.</p>