A Poem and A Piece

Late 2023 is flush with publications! “Letter to Those Who Wanted Me”—one of my favorite poems from In Parachutes Descending—appeared in the winter edition of the Colorado Review. You can read it here.

My article "Better Medicine: Shared Suffering and Chronic Vulnerability in Brian Teare's The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven" also made its way to the most recent issue of Literature and Medicine.

A posthumanist understanding of the body does not view "illness" and "health" as properties of the individual body, but as emergent features of the relationships between bodies. As such, a relational view of health opens up avenues for the betterment of both human bodies and their social and physical environments. Drawing on posthumanism and the ethics of vulnerability, this article demonstrates how Brian Teare's The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven (2015) provides a different way of thinking (and doing) illness, death, and vulnerability. With his acceptance and promotion of the body's dynamic materiality and chronic vulnerability, Teare advances a posthuman ethics based on our shared embodied condition.

In Parachutes Descending

Huzzah! The cover for IN PARACHUTES DESCENDING is here! Many thanks to Grace Mikell Ramsey for the use of her incredible painting. And endless gratitude to Alex Wolfe @Pitt Poetry Series for the splendid design. It’s perfect for a book of poems that has been described as “floating between fact and possibility, destruction and passion, introspection and challenge.” (Thanks Lauren Russell!)

You can pre-order, if you dare: https://upittpress.org/books/9780822967200/

And see more from Grace Mikell Ramsey: https://www.gracemikellramsey.com/

Sleeping With Jane: In Parachutes Descending

Happy to have a new poem in the latest issue of North American Review. And double extra bonus: it is full of some really amazing art! Especially the embroidery by Angie Hall Anderson and textile work of Hannah Gebhart.

“Sleeping with Jane” will also appear in my forthcoming poetry collection, In Parachutes Descending, to be published in Spring 2024 with University of Pittsburgh Press.