Writers are always living (and writing) through unrest or upheaval at the systemic level, and often carrying the unrest of previous generations in their bodies, memoires, and often through their work. This conversation with Jehanne Dubrow and Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach will explore crafting what the body bears, carries, and passes on to the next generation amid global catastrophe, both environmental and political. Both Julia's new poetry collection, 40 Weeks, and Jehanne's forthcoming essay collection, Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity, are about the body's bearing of a traumatic past, the elasticity of history (particularly Jewish history) and the indirect and direct ways we, as writers, circle that history.

JULIA KOLCHINSKY DASBACH is the author of three poetry collections: 40 Weeks (YesYes Books, 2023), Don’t Touch the Bones (Lost Horse Press, 2020), winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize, and The Many Names for Mother, winner the Wick Poetry Prize (Kent State University Press, 2019) and finalist for the Jewish Book Award. She is currently working on a poetry collection as well as a book of linked lyric essays, both of which grapple with raising a neurodiverse child with a disabled partner under the shadow of the war in Ukraine, Julia's birthplace. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, The Nation, and AGNI, among others. Julia holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. In the fall of 2023, Julia will join Denison University as Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing.

JEHANNE DUBROW is the author of nine poetry collections and three books of creative nonfiction, including most recently Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity (University of New Mexico Press, 2023). Her next book of poems, Civilians, will be published by Louisiana State University Press in 2025. Her writing has appeared in New England Review, POETRY, and The Southern Review, among others. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.

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