Elizabeth Theriot
words, classes, creative services
Publications
Poetry
"Self-Portrait as Self-Care Mantra," Sugar House Review Issue 22
"Girl Elegy,"The Pinch 41.1
"Elegy for Living Alone," the tiny Issue 9
3 poems, Luna Luna Magazine
"Fox Harbor," Field Notes, Cordella Magazine
"Before the Horses," All Accounts & Mixture, Cutbank
"Ode to Maw-Maw's Intestinal Bacteria," Yemassee 25.2
"Dear Briseis" and "At nineteen with a few teeth left,” A VELVET GIANT Issue 2
"Visiting the Underworld" and "Fangs," Winter Tangerine, "Beyond the Breadcrumbs"
5 poems, Ghost Proposal Issue 9
"Girl Fool," Jet Fuel Review Issue 15
"FAT i," Rogue Agent Issue 36
"Anna passes a note to Lady Mary after dinner" and "Jeff Buckley Covering Night Flight," Barrelhouse, POP Love
"Briseis Dreams of Ships", Crab Fat Magazine Feb 2018, nominated for Best of the Net 2018
"Witch : Satiation," OCCULUM Issue 4
"Our Stories Do Not Begin and End with Achilles" Poetry Contest Finalist, The Mississippi Review Issue 45
"Fear No Evil (Prepare a Table)", Tinderbox Poetry Issue 3.6
"Approximately" and "Wolf-Jane", Requited Issue Issue 15
"Desire Song (Driving to Tuscaloosa, March 2015)", Pretty Owl Issue10
"Mary Cotton's Premonition", Alyss Lit Issue 3
Nonfiction
"Screaming at Ghosts," The Rumpus
"Common Surfaces," Crab Orchard Review Vol 24.1
"No other fount I know," Barely South Review 10.2
"Calendars," Vagabond City Issue 30
Fiction
"Live Mermaids," Winter Tangerine, "Beyond the Breadcrumbs
"Painted Bread," Corvid Queen
"Strays," Storyscape Issue 20
Interviews and Reviews
"Night Moves: A Conversation with Jessica Hopper," Adroit 2019
"45.2 Feature: An Interview with Amanda Kallis," Black Warrior Review, April 2019
"45.1 Feature: An Interview with Tyrese Coleman," Black Warrior Review, November 2018
"Local Spotlight: An Interview with Kwoya Fagin Maples," Black Warrior Review, September 2018
"Meet the Editors: An Interview with Poetry Editor, J. Taylor Boyd," Black Warrior Review," February 2019
"Meet the Editors: An Interview with Nonfiction Editor, Elizabeth Theriot," Black Warrior Review, January 2018
Chapbook Review: Letters to Colin Firth by Katherine Riegel, Black Warrior Review, June 2016
WBRH Poetry Month 1st Place Contest Winner Broadcast, April 2015, New Orleans
Selected Performances
2019
Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Indianapolis, IN
MFA Reading Series, Tuscaloosa, AL
2018
"Avalanche or Avenue," Tuscaloosa, AL
The Moody Concert Hall, with Brett William Dietz, Tuscaloosa, AL
The Fuze Factory Artistic and Digital Arts Lab, Columbus, OH
The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Glad Day Bookstore, Toronto, Ontario
Tranzac, Toronto, Ontario
Laurier University. Waterloo, Ontario
Bechdel West, Louisville, KY
Fond Objects, Nashville, TN
2017
"Partitions & Ravelings," Tuscaloosa, AL
Improbable Fictions Presents: "Titia Andronica," adapted by Erin Hildebrand and Courtney Parker, Tuscaloosa, AL
MFA Reading Series, Tuscaloosa, AL
Improbable Fictions Presents: "Such Vicious Loves" by Meredith Noseworthy, Tuscaloosa, AL
2016
Tea Town Cafe, Tuscaloosa, AL
2015
Sella-Granata Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL
2014
The AllWays Lounge and Cabaret, New Orleans, LA
Compositions & Collaborations
"propinquity" with Justin Greene, premiered at the Moody Music Hall in Tuscaloosa, AL, March 2019
"if you could rely on your bones" music by Justin Greene, with Nathaniel Trost, premiered for "Avalanche and Avenue" at Yoga Bliss, Tuscaloosa, AL, November 2018
they let their wings down for speaking percussionist and electronics; music by Justin Greene; text by Anne Carson’s Sappho translations, Alvah C. Bessie’s Pierre Louÿs translations, and by the writer; commissioned and premiered by Kasey Blezinger at Mayday Space Brooklyn, New York during Word Made Flesh by Sacred Circle Theater Company, October 2017
the sea rose like ashes (as if anything was satiable) for percussion, oboe, and tape; music by Justin Greene, text by the writer; commissioned and premiered by Kasey Blezinger and Kaylyn Shearer at The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, during Word Made Flesh by Sacred Circle Theater Company, October 2017
"Baby Teeth" for open text score; commissioned and premiered by Justin Greene at Waterloo Region Contemporary Music Sessions, Waterloo, ON, August 2017