S152.
Body Terrorism: Poems of Resistance, Defiance, and Survival
Saturday, February 10, 2024
10:35 am to 11:50 am
In the United States today many of us are under constant attack by both the state and individuals. Anti-Black, -Indigenous, -woman, -trans, and -Queer violence; bans on gender-affirming care for adults and youth, bans on abortion; systemic racism, sexism, and fear-based decision-making at all levels of our communities cause degrees of harm physically and psychically. This group of poets will read and speak to these and other forms of body terrorism. We use poetry to speak out, speak up, and speak truth.
Participants
Subhaga Crystal Bacon is a Queer poet living in rural north central Washington on unceded Methow land. She is the author of four collections of poetry, Transitory from BOA Editions, 2023; Surrender of Water in Hidden Places, 2022; Blue Hunger, 2020; Elegy with a Glass of Whiskey, BOA Editions, 2004.
Jennifer Martelli is the author of The Queen of Queens and My Tarantella, both selected as Must Reads by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Her work has appeared in Poetry and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day. Martelli has twice received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Chavonn Williams Shen was a 2022 McKnight Writing fellow and a first runner-up for the Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction Contest. She was also a winner of the Loft Literary Center's Mentor Series and a fellow with the Givens Foundation for African American Literature.
