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Bodies define and shape us yet are in a constant state of transience, as much a tangible, living thing as a social and cultural entity. What stories do our bodies tell? How do we move within these physical and poetic spaces, including the ways we move against racial, gendered, hetero and able-bodied norms?
As writers, how we address our own physicality (including whether we do at all) happens at the intersection of identities. This panel will specifically feature women poets whose work marries the physical, social, and poetic, as their bodies (that are aging, disabled, female, trans, queer, black, brown, sick, poor…) are under constant threat of regulation, conflict, and ownership. Our bodies are definitive, fickle, serious, fragile, strong, sexy, ugly, political… and inseparable from our identities and experiences. Panelists will read from their own work and discuss how their own corporeality and identity influence their poetic practice.