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No One Cares About Your Kid: Navigating Parenthood as a Poetic Subject
Saturday, March 26, 2022
10:35 am to 11:50 am
If it’s true that no one wants to hear about another person’s kids, how then do we write about parenthood? How do we differentiate our writing from the deluge of poems on parenting? How do we craft fresh, compelling work for a wide range of audiences, including nonparents? Five poets discuss how parenthood changed their relationship to their work, sharing practical writing advice for the poet-parent and techniques they developed to avoid cliché and self-indulgence.
Participants
Casey Thayer is the author of Self Portrait with Spurs and Sulfur. His second collection Rational Anthem, finalist for the Miller Williams Prize, is forthcoming. Winner of the Cow Creek Chapbook Prize and Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, he has published work in AGNI, APR, and Poetry.
Lisa Fay Coutley is the author of tether, Errata (Crab Orchard Series winner), In the Carnival of Breathing, and Back-Talk. She's received an NEA fellowship and is an associate professor of poetry and creative nonfiction in the Writer's Workshop at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Eugenia Leigh is the author of Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows. Her second collection, Bianca, is forthcoming, and recent poems have appeared in the Nation, Ploughshares, and Poetry. She is a Kundiman fellow and the recipient of awards from Poets & Writers Magazine, Poetry magazine, and elsewhere.
Neelanjana Banerjee is the managing editor of Kaya Press. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have been published in Prairie Schooner, Chicago Quarterly Review, PANK, the Rumpus, and several anthologies. She teaches writing and Asian American literature at UCLA and Loyola Marymount University.
Trey Moody
