07/28/2020
Tonight's episode of Electric Poetry features Marty McConnell! Listen live at 10:15 PM EST on 88.1 FM WYCE or online at wyce.org.
About the poet: Marty McConnell is the author of “wine for a shotgun," “when they say you can’t go home again, what they mean is you were never there,” and “Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop." McConnell’s work has been published in numerous anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2014; Bullets & Butterflies: Q***r Spoken Word Poetry; A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry; City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry; and Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Movement, as well as journals including Bellevue Literary Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Crab Orchard, and Beloit Poetry Journal, among many others.
McConnell was recently selected for a residency at Hedgebrook, and she has performed and facilitated workshops at schools and festivals around the country, including The Dodge Poetry Festival, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Wicker Park Arts Festival, Connecticut Poetry Festival, Cornell University, University of Utah, James Madison University, Old Dominion, University of Connecticut, University of Arkansas, DePaul University, and more. She lives in Chicago with her wife and their several thousand favorite books.
