Juliana Spahr reads from "The Incinerator"

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Juliana Spahr reads from "The Incinerator on November 6, 2009 at the Kelly Writers House. "The Incinerator" is a poem/essay/meditation about growing up working-class in Chillicothe OH, under exceptionally modest circumstances compared to the US American "dream," average circumstances compared to her fellow or sister Chillicothians, and in the lap of abundance compared to women in most of the rest of the world. In the course of the long poem (thirteen large and full pages) Spahr invokes Weiner's "Radcliffe and Guatemalan Women," a previously unpublished collage of news items about the circumstances of Guatemalan women in the 1980s, a dire period in that civil-war-torn country, and snippets of conversation or alumnae magazine reportage covering a Radcliffe College reunion or other gathering of sorts.

Juliana Spahr is a poet, editor, and scholar. Her most recent book of poetry is This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (2005, University of California), a collection of poems that she wrote from November 30, 2002 to March 30, 2003 that chronicled the buildup to the latest US invasion of Iraq. Atelos recently published the Transformation (2007), a book of prose which tells the story of three people who move between Hawai'i and New York in order to talk about cultural geography, ecology, anticolonialism, queer theory, language politics, the academy, and recent wars. Spahr co-edited the journal Chain with Jena Osman from 1994-2005 and together they currently edit the Chain Links series. With nineteen other poets she has been an editor of the collectively edited and collectively funded Subpress.