Poetry at the Intersection of Body, Race and Identity

Questioning contemporary conceptions of race, sexuality, and nation, poets Iain Halley Pollock and C. Prudence Arceneaux unite for a conversation about constructing the self in a country that constantly contests personal identity. In All the Possible Bodies, Pollock wrestles with the tensions between personal and national identity, desire and duty, and racial justice and violence in contemporary America. In Proprioception, Arceneaux illuminates the amplified precarity of modern-day life with an examination of race and sexuality in spaces of rejection and greed.