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Hannah VanderHart

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in Opal, Virginia, The United States
May 18

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Han VanderHart is a queer, Southern writer who grew up in rural Virginia and now lives in Durham, North Carolina. Their manuscript Larks was recently selected by Chanda Feldman as the recipient of the 2024 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, and is forthcoming from Ohio University Press in 2025. Han is also the author of the poetry chapbook Hands like Birds (Ethel Zine Press, 2019) and the poetry collection What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, Spring 2021). They hold an MFA in poetry from George Mason University and an MA in English from Georgetown, where they worked with Carolyn Forché at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. In 2019, Han received their PhD in English from Duke University and defended the dissertation Gender and Collab ...more

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Hannah VanderHart This is such a great question. I think the answer has to be: do the work. And this means figuring out what the conversation is, and how others speak a…moreThis is such a great question. I think the answer has to be: do the work. And this means figuring out what the conversation is, and how others speak about their lives and the lives of others. Go to the poets! Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely (before Citizen and The White Card!), C.D. Wright's Rising Falling Hovering (before One Big Self!), Tess Taylor's Forage House, Brenda Coultas's The Marvelous Bones of Time, Joy Katz's White: An Abstract (and Katz's essay "Awake In the Scratchy Dark: On Writing Whiteness" at American Poetry Review). Also get their hands on The Racial Imaginary. This work is simply waiting to be picked up.(less)
Hannah VanderHart This is an interesting question because it makes it sound like writing a book comes from one thing, when ideas actually take years and many forms of i…moreThis is an interesting question because it makes it sound like writing a book comes from one thing, when ideas actually take years and many forms of input, conversations with others, personal growth, etc. It's taken my life to write this book, as I'm sure many authors feel. There is, however, a poem that the book really formed around: "Confederate Statues Are Falling This Morning," a poem about a fight I had with my mother when activists pulled down the confederate soldiers statue in front of the Old Durham courthouse. That poem was originally the title of the book and the opening poem--it gathered the other poems to it, and made me go deeper into family history.(less)
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