About "it gets better," they were never wrong, the path-forgers, the ground-breakers. How it gets better is another question, for a new century has brought changing minds, but also new hardships. That is why this extraordinary book matters. Teaching is such a sacred office, and we who teach today know the attentiveness that must be brought to the profession. These poems track, record, memorialize, and meditate on that office. There are poems of the student one lost, the student who reached out at last, of the daily commitment that teaching who you are requires, of why it matters. There is nothing like this thoughtful collection of trenchant, witty, poignant, blunt, and luminous poems on the art of teaching by LGBTIQ poets assembled with judicious vision by Megan Volpert. This assignment is so gay is a beautiful and necessary book, not just for teaching, but for us all. - Cynthia Hogue on This assignment is so gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching
ISBN-13: 9781937420420
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press
Publication Date: 08-06-2013
Pages: 226
Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.52(d)
Megan Volpert is a poet and critic from Chicago who has settled in Decatur, GA, with her wife, Mindy. Volpert holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University, and is a high school English teacher as well as a reviewer for Audible. She is the author of THIS ASSIGNMENT IS SO GAY (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013), SONICS IN WARHOLIA (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2011), THE DESENSE OF NONFENSE (BlazeVOX [books], 2008) FACE BLINDNESS (BlazeVOX [books], 2007), and Domestic Transmission (MetroMania Press, 2007). This self- proclaimed love child of Joan Jett and Roland Barthes has performed with a wide range of poets, from Christian Bök and Andrei Codrescu to Laura Mullen and Daphne Gottlieb. Volpert has been in competition at the National Poetry Slam, is a board member of Poetry Atlanta and is Co-Director of the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival with Collin Kelley. Rooted in confessionalism and surrealism, her work has a strong interest in the performative and is also influenced by second-generation New York School poetry. Volpert is a theory junky and cannot resist rock and roll.
