Roundtable

Today’s news, always about to be old news, is that auto-writing has made it back big--- as if it ever went away--- thank goodness--- it’s exhausting to pretend you’re not around when you’re hitting the keys or holding the pen--- unless, that is, your genius lies in splendor among the many ways we play at now you see me, now you don’t we will talk about this situation and do not forget about invention, dreams or memory, nostalgia and the uncanny action of finding yourself a stranger to yourself. We invite you to join in, everyone is invited to bring a short poem to read as our time

Through literature and media, from the rise of Tumblr to the current, trendy Instagram poetic form, and observing through the films of Wes Anderson, A24, Greta Gerwig, and Noah Baumbach to the music of Phoebe Bridgers, Mitski, Bright Eyes' Connor Oberst, and Lucy Dacus, Millennials have made it chic to be sad, forlorn, and distraught. But there's something deeper going on underneath the surface as many of these queer, gender-questioning artists battle grief, late-stage capitalism, the popularity of social media, and deep religious indoctrination in response to the late 80's Satanic Panic.