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Joe Deany-Braun
Reimagining methodologies of representation and embodiment in the digital age.My practice hinges on the direct experience of literary space. What I have found in over a decade of research and community engagement is that when we make embodied contact with literature, we return to the roots of language as a medium. Our feelings deepen, our perceptions broaden, and our imaginations go wild.This deepening, broadening, and (re)wilding is a local instantiation of the global movement to 1) ensure the sustainability and equity of new technological systems, and 2) restore faith in relationships and institutions of all kinds.
EDUCATION
| 2013 | Naropa University, MFA Writing & Poetics, |
| 2010 | University of Miami, BA Ecosystem Science & Policy |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| 2020- | Founder & Curator, Perelandra Bookshop, Fort Collins, CO |
| 2020- | Director, Reader in Residence Program, Fort Collins, CO |
| 2020- | Managing Editor, Wolverine Farm Publishing, Fort Collins, CO |
| 2023 | Independent Publicist, The Shipman Agency, New York, NY |
| 2018 | Marketing Bookseller, Seminary Co-op Bookstores, Chicago, IL |
| 2016 | Bookseller, Trident Booksellers & Cafe, Boulder, CO |
| 2015- | Editor & Publisher, The Lune, Fort Collins, CO |
| 2013 | Bookseller, Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, Boulder, CO |
PRESS AND RECOGNITION
| 2025 | Featured Speaker, Get the Word Out, Poets & Writers |
| 2025 | “Days of Wayward Gifts,” Los Angeles Review of Books |
| 2025 | “Fort Collins bookshop's program gives...” 9News |
| 2024 | “Your New Literary Dream Job,” Literary Hub |
| 2024 | “Fort Collins bookstore pays people...” The Colorado Sun |
| 2016 | “Making poetry intimate, accessible,” The Denver Post |
| 2015 | “Poetry Now: Colorado poets read their work,” The Denver Post |
COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING (selected)
| 2026 | “Community and Democracy” curriculum feature / CSU Online |
| 2025 | “Citizen Futures” with Jon Alexander / Ctr for Public Deliberation |
| 2022 | “Poetry x Stations of the Cross,” PEAK Community Church |
| 2021 | “Open Flame Poetics” with Anne Waldman, Fort Collins Book Fest |
| 2021 | “New Dark Age” with James Bridle, Fort Collins Book Fest |
| 2015 | “The Avant Range,” BMoCA / Biennial of the Americas, Denver |
PUBLICATIONS
| 2026 | “Mishawaka,” A Poetic Inventory of the Poudre River |
| 2026 | “Low Sun, Long Shadow,” The Imaginable |
| 2022 | “Two Pages,” Florilegium |
| 2022 | “Cold Waters,” The Imaginable |
| 2018 | “Devotional Erasures,” Adirondack Review |
| 2016 | “Science,” “I Once Was An Angel,” The Denver Post |
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
| 2018 | “Georhythmic Drift Music” with Ryan Ruehlen, TANK Ctr for Sonic Arts |
| 2017 | “Transcendence Tour” with Govinda / Asalott, Fox Theatre, Boulder |
| 2016 | “The Hidden Code” with DJ Spooky, Fort Collins Museum of Discovery |
| 2016 | “Phoria” (score), Achroous Productions / Univ. of Colorado, Boulder |
| 2015 | “The Hidden Code” with DJ Spooky, Fiske Planetarium, Boulder |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
| 2023 | Guest lecturer, IU 180A2: The More-than-Human World, CSU |
| 2015 | Guest lecturer, WRI 705: Small Press Publishing, Naropa Univ. |
| 2009 | Guest lecturer, ENG 209: Intro to Creative Writing, U. of Miami |
| 2009 | Guest lecturer, ENG 209: Intro to Creative Writing, U. of Miami |
AWARDS
| 2009 | Bunnen Community Scholarship, University of Miami |