I am the Offsite Shelving & Withdrawals Assistant stationed at Buhr Shelving Facility and Hatcher Graduate Library. My position entails maintaining the circulation of materials between our offsite repositories & U-M community and the outflow of withdrawn items from the shelves. I work closely with the Physical Collections & Access Supervisors, as well as Offsite Shelving and Withdrawals Assistants, to execute strategic movements of the collections. I also serve on various committees in the library, where I create opportunities for staff connections and research & creative projects.

My forthcoming poetic exploration is titled The cosmic fragments: an erasure project. This meditation in verse explores erasure writing through the philosophical lens of Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic cosmologist memorialized by his principles of flux & paradox. Emphasizing his notion that “everything flows,” Heraclitus’s work highlights the dynamic interplay of creation & destruction in our understanding of the present. Using erasure as a creative tool, I will deconstruct existing texts to engage deeply with Heraclitus’s philosophy and uncover hidden meanings that reflect our contemporary experience.