Grace Price
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In a post-confessional tradition, both inward and outward facing, Grace Price is concerned with how social scripts impact embodiment. As a speaker moves through childhood and adulthood and between different genders and physical capacities, they assess narratives inherited from the dead and the living, larger society and family, partners and strangers, parsing through and piecing together personal truth by call and response. These poems critique gender, religion, relationship dynamics, and cycles of abuse. Wrestling with self-knowledge, queerness, forging healthy masculinities, loving one's disabled body, and history, they ask, how do social structures shape personhood? How can a person choose a life for themself, redefining the roles they've inherited? In almost every poem, italics mark overheard phrases and parentheses note internal processing, situating the project itself multiple conversations.