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photos by rob friedman
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Megan A. Volpert is a performance poet from Chicago who has settled in Atlanta. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University, and currently teaches High School English.
She performed largely under the pseudonym dr. madelyn hatter from 2002 to 2006, and featured at over fifty venues in more than a dozen states promoting her spoken word CD, no morning after. This self-proclaimed love child of Joan Jett and Tina Fey has shared her witty left-wing banter and moderately obnoxious shenanigans on stage with a wide range of poets: from Bitch, Buddy Wakefield and Collin Kelley, to Laura Mullen, Christian Bök and Andrei Codrescu. She has been in competition at the National Poetry Slam and is a board member of Poetry Atlanta.
Volpert published two collections in 2007: face blindness with BlazeVOX Books and a chapbook, domestic transmission, with MetroMania Press. Her other publication credits include columbia poetry review, coconut and MiPOesias Magazine. Rooted in confessionalism and surrealism, her work has a strong interest in the performative and is also influenced by second-generation New York School poetry.
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the era of pins and needles is over,
and the chapbook has arrived!
18 new pieces
in one gloriously sparkly package
guaranteed to knock pessimistic socks off,
this is the story of how one rock n roll poet
found love and kept it
without giving up herself.
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domestic transmission:
poems for the next generation
of housewives
for reviews, excerpts
and to order your copy,
go to
www.metromaniapress.com
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