Marty McConnell
Part of the vanguard of poets fusing and refusing and queering the delineations between literary and oral poetry, Marty McConnell’s work blurs the lines between autobiography and personae to comment on and illuminate what it means to live and love outside the lines in 21st century America. McConnell's second poetry collection, when they say you can't go home again, what they mean is you were never there, (Southern Indiana University Press, 2018) won the 2017 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Her first nonfiction book, Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop, was published by YesYes Books. She is the author of wine for a shotgun, (EM Press), which received the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Awards, and was a finalist for both the Audre Lorde Award (Publishing Triangle) and the Lambda Literary Awards. She is also a seven-time National Poetry Slam team member, the 2012 National Underground Poetry Individual Competition (NUPIC) Champion, and appeared twice on HBO’s “Def Poetry Jam.” She is the co-creator and co-editor of underbelly, a web site focused on the art and magic of poetry revision.
Como parte de la vanguardia de poetas que fusionan, rechazan y cuestionan las delimitaciones entre poesía literaria y oral, la obra de Marty McConnell desdibuja las líneas entre autobiografía y la personalidad para comentar e iluminar lo que significa vivir y amar fuera de las líneas en los Estados Unidos del Siglo XXI. El segundo libro de poesía de McConnell, when they say you can't go home again, what they mean is you were never there, (Southern Indiana University Press, 2018) ganó el Michael Waters Poetry Prize en 2017. Su primer libro de no ficción, Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop, fue publicado por YesYes Books. Es autora de wine for a shotgun (EM Press), por el cual recibió la Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Awards, y fue finalista tanto del Audre Lorde Award (Publishing Triangle) y del Lambda Literary Awards. También es siete veces miembro del equipo National Poetry Slam, campeona de la National Underground Poetry Individual Competition (NUPIC) de 2012 y apareció dos veces en "Def Poetry Jam" de HBO. Es co-creadora y co-editora de underbelly, un sitio web enfocado en el arte y la magia de la revisión de la poesía.
