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	Podcast:		RealTalkRealWoman
	Episode:		Up Close & Personal: Marty McConnell
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:32:00
	Publish Date:		2009-12-18 16:00:00
	Description:		Marty McConnell’s work explores the intersection of gender, sexuality, religion, and history. Using the perspectives of figures as diverse as Catholic saints, pop culture icons, and the population of the traditional tarot deck. McConnell’s poems both comment on and illuminate what it means to live in early 21st century America, a period marked by both an expanded concept of human interaction – the first Black President, gay marriage at the cusp of legalization, the explosion of communication through technology – and vehement, sometimes violent efforts by select populations to protect the status quo and even return the country to its segregated, repressive past. For nearly a decade, she co-curated the flagship reading series of the New York City-based louderARTS Project, which featured poets including Yusef Komunyakaa, Mark Doty, Marie Howe, Dorianne Laux, and more. She appeared on both the second and fifth seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam. She returned to Chicago in 2009 to co-found Vox Ferus, an organization dedicated to empowering and energizing individuals and communities through the written and spoken word. "Marty McConnell is a brilliant poet, the future of the genre."~Thomas Lux *Website: www.martyoutloud.com
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