Charla | Políticas de la poética: Molly McCully Brown y Matt Bodett

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Politics of Poetics trae a la poeta Molly McCully Brown al MCA para una lectura seguida de una conversación con el artista radicado en Chicago y director del Centro para la Cultura Loca, Matt Bodett.

McCully Brown reads a selection of her work including poems from her critically acclaimed debut collection, The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea Books, 2017). The Colony, located 15 miles from where McCully Brown grew up, was deeply involved in the eugenics movement in the first half of the 20th century. She is joined by artist Matt Bodett—who recently published Dunning: Special Report, a book on the Cook County Asylum—to discuss a shared interest in researching psychologically and politically charged sites as sources of inspiration for new narratives and understandings of disability and mental health past and present in the United States.

Política de la Poética es una serie de talleres, lecturas y conversaciones que destacan a poetas contemporáneos cuyas prácticas atraviesan lo político en la escritura, la enseñanza y el activismo.

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Molly McCully Brown es la autora de la colección de ensayos Places I've Taken my Body (Persea Books, 2020; Faber & Faber, 2021) y la colección de poesía The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea Books, 2017), que ganó el Premio al Primer Libro Lexi Rudnitsky en 2016 y fue nombrado uno de los mejores libros de la crítica del New York Times de 2017. Junto con Susannah Nevison, también es coautora del libro de poesía In The Field Between Us (Persea Books, 2020).

McCully Brown has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, a United States Artists Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, and the Jeff Baskin Writers Fellowship from the Oxford American magazine. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, The Guardian, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Times, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Raised in rural Virginia, she is a graduate of Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Stanford University, and the University of Mississippi, where she received her MFA. She lives and teaches in Laramie, Wyoming, where she is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Wyoming.
Matt Bodett received his MFA from Boise State University in 2011 and moved to Chicago in 2013, where he has been a prominent advocate for disability and mad culture. In 2022, he founded the Center for Mad Culture, dedicated to exploring and amplifying the voices of those identifying with madness. Bodett currently teaches at Loyola University Chicago and serves on the board of the Good Hart Artist Residency.

Como artista visual, poeta e intérprete, el trabajo de Bodett se ha presentado localmente en lugares como Steppenwolf Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, The Poetry Foundation e Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, e internacionalmente en el Museo Freud de Londres, el No Limits Festival de Berlín y otros. Su práctica interroga sus experiencias vividas con la locura, conectando los ideales histórico-artísticos occidentales con las comprensiones contemporáneas de la locura como una identidad viable. Bodett está impulsado por la creencia en el poder transformador del arte para desafiar las narrativas sociales, fomentar la empatía y crear espacio para voces locas en las conversaciones culturales.