ZOOM READING: General Bad-assery: Defining the Bad-ass in Early 21st Century Poetry

WHEN: May 23, 2021 08:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
WHERE: ZOOM

Annmarie O'Connell

Andreas Fleps

Phill Provance

Annmarie O'Connell is a lifelong resident of the south side of Chicago. Her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Sixth Finch, Juked, Verse Daily & The American Journal of Poetry. Her first full length collection of poems, Your Immaculate Heart, was published by Trio House Press in 2016. Her 4th chapbook called Hellraiser was published last year with Ethel Zine.

Andreas Fleps is a 29-year-old poet based near Chicago. He studied theology and philosophy at Dominican University, and his debut collection of poems entitled, Well into the Night (via Energion Publications) was released at the end of 2020. Battling Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder since the age of five, he translates teardrops.

Phill Provance's poetry and prose have received national grants from Poets & Writers, PEN America, the Poetry Foundation and the Poetry Society of America, in addition to dozens of other honors and awards.

​What is 'bad-assery'? More than simply a mood, tone, theme, or mechanical approach, surreptitiously, imperceptibly this new verve far beyond the quaint, drawing-room politeness of traditional verse has taken hold of the poem and shaken it free from its place as artistic expression of rarified intellectualism and mollycoddle elitism. No longer is the poet everyone, as Walt Whitman claimed, but everyone is a poet; now being a bard is no-holds-barred. And with this, arguably, has come greater vulnerability, honesty and perceptiveness as well as a will to treat all of life in contemporary verse, while also breaking down poetry's performative pretenses. This reading brings together three of the finest practitioners of Bad-assery today, Annmarie O'Connell, Andreas Fleps and Phill Provance, for a reading of their work followed by a discussion what Bad-assery and the Bad-ass means for poetry today and in the future.

Phill Provance is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

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