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Click this image to read Marcus's poetry chapbook, "End of the Season."

End of the Season

This chapbook is about the creation, gestation, and birth of the child that will bring about the end of the world. It explores human sexuality, violence, and parenthood through the lens of deities and landscapes.

Click this image to read Marcus's poem, "Generation (Ars Poetica)."

Generation (Ars Poetica)

This poem is an exploration into the mechanics of writing a poem through the birth, life, and death of a child opens the poem up to questions of control, innocence, violence, and how those things intersect.
Originally published in the April 2019 issue of Riggwelter.

Click this image to read Marcus's poem, "Classroom Calling."

Classroom Calling

This poem belongs to a sequence about a speaker, their lover, and their lover's husband. Navigating family structures and atypical relationships, "Classroom Calling" brings in questions of parenthood and possession.
Originally published in the print edition of Cult Magazine, produced by Rad Press Publishing.

Click this image to read Marcus's one act play the "Haunted Hard Clamshell."

Haunted Hard Clamshell - Script

This is a one-act play, exploring grief and new beginnings through the eyes of a possible relationship. Our leading woman, Noella, is haunted by ghosts from her past and others as she attempts to navigate a blind date.

Click this image to read Marcus's ekphrastic play, "Pas De Deux."

Pas De Deux

Based on Joseph Cornell's box "Naples," this short play follows the lives of two Italian boys, Mattéo and Pierre. They grow from childhood friends to secret lovers, are separated and come together again through ballet.

Click this image to read and Marcus' developmental editing project.

Editing

This is a mock developmental editing write up for a multi-media article entitled, "Emma’s (“Belle’s) yellow gown from Beauty and the Beast: A Costume Study." The document provides my description of the text, an evaluation, my suggested edits, and a mock-email to the author.

Click this image to read and listen to Marcus's non-profit psa.

Non-Profit PSA

I created and produced mock radio PSA for the non-profit organization "David Thomas Foundation for Adoption." Inside the PDF a link is provided to the produced audio.

Click this image to read Marcus's poem, "Little Questions" in issue two of The Hellebore.

Little Questions

This poem belongs to a larger sequence about a speaker, their lover, and their lover's husband. Navigating family structures and atypical relationships, "Little Questions" embeds itself in the summer of southern America and finds the cool shadows lingering at the edge.
Originally featured in issue two of The Hellebore.

Click this image to read Marcus's valentine's poems in the valentine edition of "Shadow and Glow."

Jutro • Bona Dea • The Girl of My Dreams

My three poems, are explorations of love in different forms. Divinity and dreamscapes are put into the lens of desire in order to explore what love can look like.
These poems are featured in the February 2019 special valentine's themed release "Shadow and Glow."

Click this image to read Marcus's poem, "The Reaper's Ex."

The Reaper's Ex

This poem is a dissociation from grief through weaponized sexuality. Following a speaker inundated in the emotions of others, they follow the movements expected of them becoming more and more distant.
Originally published in the June 2018 issue of Ghost City Review.

Click this image to read Marcus's COVID-19 play, "I Won't Say It."

I Won't Say It

This one-act is a COVID play, embroiled in a romantic drama. Jonah and Harper watch as their friend Daniel looses himself to infatuation and come up with a plan to help him before lock-down begins.

Click this image to read Marcus's 10-minute adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, "Adndronike."

Andronike

This short play is a retelling of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. Titus's unreliability as a narrator is highlighted as he reenacts his return from war with the corpses at his dinner table.

Click this image to read Marcus's document redesign.

Document Redesign

With a teammate, I redesigned a document for International Student Services at St. Edward's University. We revised this document with global accessibility and St. Edward's design guidelines in mind. The original document was redesigned into a brochure, both versions are provided in the PDF below.

Click this image to read Marcus's story board for Special Olympics Texas' Healthy Athletes Program.

Storyboard

As part of a team, I created a mock advertising campaign for Special Olympics Texas' Healthy Athletes Program. My work included scripting and storyboarding a 30-second video.

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