While earning his Bachelor of Arts at Wayne State University, Devin participated in a Poetry Writing Workshop course led by the skilled Professor Robert Laidler. Throughout the course, he wrote six craft essays: each work in response to a collection of poetry; each work meticulously crafted within the realm of its respective source material; each work a bastard of form—vigorously shattering the constructs of a typical essay as well as that of what one would expect from a literary review.