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Carla Barger is an ecolyric poet and essayist whose work primarily focuses on poetry-of-place and ecolyricism. Her writing has appeared in several literary journals, including HeartWood Literary Magazine and Slippery Elm. She's received the David Diamond Writing Prize from the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature and the Malcolm Sedam Writing Award for Poetry from Miami University.
Carla's collection of poetry and lyric essays, Two Dead Thrushes, explores ecocollapse and American bootstrap culture, among other themes. It is currently under review with several presses. In addition, she's developing a digital public humanities project titled Redacted / An Elegy for Farmers that elucidates the intricate relationship between governmental policy, industrial agriculture, the climate crisis, and rising suicide rates among Midwestern farmers. The project marries scientific research and lyric poetry by transforming data and archival material into poems that “stet," or reclaim and honor, the bodies (human, animal, environmental) caught up in these systems.
Creative Writing (Poetry, Lyric Essay, Hybrid Forms); Lyric History and Theory; Ecopoetics and Environmental Literature; Poetic Praxis; Film Rhetoric; the Long 19th Century; American Romanticism; Native American Literature
Lyric Theory; Spectrality; Computational and Embodied Poetics; Contemporary Hybrid Forms; Rural Poetics & Poetics of Place; Ecopoetics; Folklore; Transgenerational Trauma; Digital and Public Humanities; Wuthering Heights
