{"id":38,"date":"2018-04-23T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T23:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2018-04-27T16:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T16:00:31","slug":"lillian-yvonne-bertram","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/lillian-yvonne-bertram\/","title":{"rendered":"Lillian-Yvonne Bertram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">writer\/artist\/educator<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillianyvonnebertram.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.lillianyvonnebertram.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>THE BODY DEFORMED BY TIDAL FORCES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Darkness still here, hunkered against the trees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spring so uneasy this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No matter morning&#8217;s boundary culling our bodies,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">another romantic passage assaults us!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">O limp future centered on this body!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the model solar system, planets suspend &amp; twirl<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as if from a spider&#8217;s whirl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The quantum in backpedal, in decline, spring so ungripping<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">this year. Bored mouth. Bored fingers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The umpteenth day\/night running like such\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">truly, truly\u2014this troubling with physics!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not still winter, not yet anything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">O thuggish awakening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All planets but this one were named after gods.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Artist Statement<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMy writing is wide-ranging and concerns the malleability of language and forms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am interested in the intersections of the innovative and experimental with aspects race, gender, and the more-than-human world. My work is ground in inquiry, ways of knowing, and how language can (and cannot) communicate experiences felt in body and mind. Even at its most cerebral my work is centered in notions of embodiment and the lived experience of seeing and being seen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My practice and process includes photographic and video work and mixed media composition. Current projects include computational poetics and emerging technologies, spell-casting, and collaborative writing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">University of Utah MFA, PHD\/\/ University of Illinois, MFA\/\/Carnegie Mellon University, BA<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Professional<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assistant Professor in the Department of English at UMass Boston<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MFA Creative Writing Program, Boston Ma.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Director of the Chautauqua Institution Writers\u2019 Festival, New York<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Past Affiliations<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Williams College, Williamstown, Ma.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Bibliography<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c\u2019<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fightandfiddle.com\/2018\/01\/18\/unstruck-matches-everywhere-a-critical-review-of-patricia-smiths-incendiary-art\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">unstruck matches everywhere<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019: A Critical Review of Patricia Smith\u2019s Incendiary Art\u201d. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Fight and the Fiddle<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Winter 2018. Vol. 1, Iss. 3<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exhibition booklet for \u201cThe Acephalous Series\u201d, paintings by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/art21.org\/artist\/laylah-ali\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Laylah Ali <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(December 2017)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c\u2019<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/harriet\/2017\/04\/to-find-kisses-pressed-in-books-one-hundred-years-of-gwendolyn-brooks\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To find kisses pressed in books: One Hundred Years of Gwendolyn Brooks.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/harriet\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harriet<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Poetry Foundation, April 2017.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.acontainer.co\/product\/grand-dessein-lillian-yvonne-bertram\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grand Dessein <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Container Press, 2017)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tupelopress.org\/product\/personal-science-lillian-yvonne-bertram\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">personal science<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Tupelo Press, 2017)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redhen.org\/authors\/lillian-yvonne-bertram\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a slice from the cake made of air<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Red Hen Press, 2016)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redhen.org\/authors\/lillian-yvonne-bertram\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Red Hen Press, 2012)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cutthroat glamours (Phantom Limb Press, 2013)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tierra Fisurada, (Editoriales del Duende, 2001)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Awards<\/strong> <\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2017 Harvard University Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Grant<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2016 Narrative Magazine Poetry Award<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2014 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2010 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Benjamin Saltman Award<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Additional Links<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetrysociety.org\/psa\/poetry\/crossroads\/new_american_poets\/lillian-yvonne_bertram\/\">Poetry Society of America<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twelfthhousejournal.com\/lillian-yvonne-bertram.html\">Twelfth House<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/lillian-yvonne-bertram\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Poetry Foundation<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pinwheeljournal.com\/poets\/lillian-yvonne-bertram\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pinwheel<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>writer\/artist\/educator https:\/\/www.lillianyvonnebertram.com\/ THE BODY DEFORMED BY TIDAL FORCES Darkness still here, hunkered against the trees. Spring so uneasy this year. No matter morning&#8217;s boundary culling our bodies, another romantic passage assaults us! O limp future centered on this body! In the model solar system, planets suspend &amp; twirl as if from a spider&#8217;s whirl. 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