Poetry Event: L.S. McKee in Conversation with Hannah Palmer

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Want to know more about Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine? Keep reading:

"Striking and seducing" & a reminder that “we’re all machines hungry to be opened," Tennessee native and writing professor L.S. McKee’s debut collection of alter-ego poems, Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine confronts the surveillance gaze of online desire.

The poet builds an internal monologue that's part desire, part astrophysics, and all carnal voice–Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine analyzes Tinder's dead fish, midnight cowboys, men who use the word "dear" unironically, and follows them home from the binary nets of internet security.

Alva's voice (or is it McKee's?) burns with the minute-by-minute monitoring of being a woman, blurring the first and third person, the woman on IRL dates and the woman behind the screen. Both watcher and watched, both online and very offline, Alva is Matisse’s series: Sculpture of a Vanishing Woman. No longer experiencing the same male gaze in middle age, she relishes her transformation to a “physicist smashing its particles.” On the pieces, she finally feeds her appetite.