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Family Heritage, Violent History: World War I's Lost Transversality in War Poetry Today

121A, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
Thursday, March 24, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

 

World War I’s centennial offered chances for today’s war writers to reflect upon literary debts owed to 1914–1918 poets in blogs, articles, and new work. This panel fuses history, literary analysis, and creative writing to explore this phenomenon. Members include veteran poets addressing issues of religion, family, sexuality, gender, and PTSD through WWI's lens. WWI poetry and contemporary war literature experts propose insight into the intersections of personal experience, history, and literary craft.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWPEVENT_OUTLINE.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Jennifer Orth-Veillon, PhD, is a writer and translator based in Lyon, France. Published in the New York Times, The War Horse, Lunch Ticket, Consequence, and The Wrath-Bearing Tree, her anthology on WWI and today's veterans is forthcoming in 2022. Her first novel, Mice in the Shadows, is based on WWII.

Peter Molin, the keeper of the blog Time Now: The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in Art, Film, and Literature, has written and presented often on war-writing and literature and has led and participated in numerous veterans-writing workshops. An Afghanistan vet, he teaches at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Drew Pham is a queer, transgender writer and educator of Vietnamese heritage. A child of war refugees, her work centers on legacies of violence. She has published in McSweeny's, Slice Magazine, the Daily Beast, and Columbia Journal.

Connie Ruzich is the editor of International Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology of Lost Voices, a project that developed while she was a 2014–15 UK Fulbright Scholar. She curates the popular blog Behind Their Lines and has published numerous essays on FWW poetry.

Seth Brady Tucker is a writer, poet, and veteran originally from Wyoming. Seth is the author of the books, Mormon Boy and We Deserve the Gods We Ask For. He writes and teaches at the Lighthouse in Denver and executive directs the Longleaf Writers Conference in Seaside, Florida.

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