Meet Conor Bracken, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on his poetry collection, Our Children and the War Grow Big Enough to Learn Each Other’s Names.
Our Children and the War Grow Big Enough to Learn Each Other’s Names 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.”
An exciting update from Conor: “The most actionable news item is that I published a poem from the collection as part of Cleveland Book week in a local paper, which you can find on clevescene.com.”
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.