All-American Dad (Poetry), Cleveland Heights, OH
All-American Dad is a collection of poems which complicates the hypermasculine construction of fatherhood so we can see it as a unit of empire to be decolonized.
“I hope this project can remind us that the personal is political for all of us, and we all deserve to live in a world free of the white heteropatriarchy.”
Conor Bracken is the author of The Enemy of My Enemy is Me (Diode Editions, 2021), as well as the translator of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Scorpionic Sun (CSU Poetry Center, 2019) and Jean D’Amérique’s No Way in the Skin Without This Bloody Embrace (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022), a finalist for the 2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. He teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Visit Conor’s website: www.conorbracken.com