PARENTING CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVERS: KIDS ARE LITTLE PEOPLE WITH BIG IDEAS. THEY'RE GOING TO NEED THEM IN THE FUTURE.

by Matt Hart

The robots are coming... In a future full of technology, automation and machines, what jobs will our kids do? The answer lies in what robots can’t do – be curious, empathise with others, create ideas and collaborate to solve problems. Parenting Creative Problem Solvers distils 20+ years of pioneering creativity and innovation with global leaders – from American Idol, BBC and Cisco to Spotify, Unicef and Warner Music. It’s a playful handbook to help grownups knowingly and confidently parent our little people into their big ideas. They’ll need them in the future. Here’s to Ideas Girls and Boys everywhere. “Matt is known as the Mozart of innovation, but I have found the real Matt in his hands-on relationship with his family. In this relationship, he lives and breathes the passion for his family that is the real motivation for his work” Andrew Harvey, British Author, Spiritual Teacher, Founder of Sacred Activism.

44 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 28, 2020

About the author

Matt Hart’s books include FAMILIAR (Pickpocket Books, 2022), Everything Breaking/For Good (YesYes Books, 2019), and The Obliterations (Pickpocket Books, 2019). His poems, reviews, and essays have been published in journals including American Poetry Review, Conduit, jubilat, The Kenyon Review, and Lungfull!, among others. His awards include a Pushcart Prize, a grant from The Shifting Foundation, and fellowships from both the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

Hart was a cofounder and the editor in chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety from 1994–2019. A faculty mentor in the PNCA/Willamette University Low-Residency Creative Writing MFA Program and the head of creative writing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, he has also been a visiting writer/professor at both the Vermont Studio Center and the University of Texas at Austin. Hart’s music has been featured on MTV and in major motion pictures, including Kevin Smith’s Mallrats. He plays in the post-punk/indie rock bands TRAVEL and NEVERNEW.

Older bio:

Matt Hart is the author of four books of poems, Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006), Wolf Face (H_NGM_N BKS, 2010), Light-Headed (BlazeVOX, 2011), and Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless (Typecast Publishing, 2012), as well as several chapbooks. A fifth collection, Debacle Debacle, is forthcoming from H_NGM_N BKS in 2013. Additionally, his poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Big Bell, Cincinnati Review, Coldfront, Columbia Poetry Review, H_NGM_N, Harvard Review, jubilat, Lungfull!, and Post Road, among others. His awards include a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from both the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Cincinnati where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and plays in the band TRAVEL. This fall he will be a Visiting Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Texas, Austin.