co-sponsored by: the Critical Writing Program
hosted by: Michelle Taransky
Whenever We Feel Like It presents a reading and discussion featuring poets Chris Martin and Adam Wolfond. Chris is also the author of the nonfiction book, May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future about his work to help autistic students, like Adam, find their voices. Please join us for their performance and audience-led discussion with the writers about the potential of writing and the lessons we might learn writing with and alongside one another.
CHRIS MARTIN is this very moment endeavoring to become himself, a somemany and tilted thinking animal who sways, hags, loves, trees, lights, listens, and arrives. He is a poet who teaches and learns in mutual measure, as the connective hub of Unrestricted Interest/TILT and the curator of Multiverse, a series of neurodivergent writing from Milkweed Editions. His most recent book of poems is Things to Do in Hell (Coffee House, 2020) and his first book of nonfiction, May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future, was published by HarperOne in 2022. He lives on the edge of Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis, among the mulberries, with Mary Austin Speaker and their two bewildering creatures.
ADAM WOLFOND is the author of The Wanting Way. He is a nonspeaking autistic artist, poet, and university lecturer whose work has been featured in multimedia exhibitions, documentary films, academic journals, and philosophical treatises. He is the youngest writer to appear in the Academy of American Poets’ “Poem-A-Day” series and is the author of two chapbooks, There Is Too Music in My Ears and In Way of Music Water Answers Toward Questions Other Than What Is Autism, both published by Unrestricted Editions. He is also a founding member of dis assembly, a neurodiverse artist collective based in Toronto.
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