All-American Dad (Poetry) set for publication in Fall 2026 by Bridwell Press
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 a poet and translator of francophone poetry. His latest translation is of Jean D’Amérique’s Workshop of Silence (Vanderbilt, 2025), and his most recent book of poems is The Enemy of My Enemy is Me (Diode Editions, 2021). His work has earned support from Bread Loaf, the Community of Writers, Cornell’s Institute for Comparative Modernities, The de Groot Foundation, the Frost Place, Inprint, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and can be found in places like the American Poetry Review, BOMB, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, New England Review, the New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Sixth Finch. He teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Visit Conor’s website: www.conorbracken.com