Colin is an English major concentrating in Poetry & Poetics and minoring in Hispanic Studies. He is interested in an expansive definition of poetics – one that includes not just literary expression but much more. He is interested in the poetics of mourning and loss, of environmental and biological phenomena, of social behaviors and interactions. He believes in the capability of poetry to project into the future, to comprehend and articulate what would otherwise be inaccessible. His own writing follows these interests quite closely, and a friend once said after reading his poems that he “seems to have an obsession with light.”