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Christina Mengert is known for The Hating Game (2021), Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011) and It Happened One Summer.
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Jun 17, 2010 · Mengert found herself wanting to explore in language what happens both in the body and in the mind when we go from speech to song: the seemingly simple transformation from I am speaking to I am singing.
Dec 15, 2015 · Christina Mengert is the author of As We Are Sung (Burning Deck) and coeditor of 12×12: Conversations in 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics (University of Iowa Press). A contributor to Tarpaulin Sky, Tupelo Quarterly, Web Conjunctions, and other publications, Mengert is also a filmmaker, editor, and faculty for the Bard College Prison Initiative.
Christina Mengert’s first book of poems, As We Are Sung, is forthcoming. She is co-editor of 12×12: Conversations in 21st Century Poetry and Poetics.
Christina Mengert’s As We Are Sung is forthcoming. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Web Conjunctions, the Denver Quarterly, Aufgabe, the New Review of Literature, and elsewhere. In 2004 she won the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award for Poetry and was selected for the Best New Poets 2006 anthology.
Christina Mengert is the author of As We Are Sung (Burning Deck Press) and coeditor of 12x12: Conversations in 21st Century Poetry and Poetics (University of Iowa Press). She makes films, and teaches literature and writing for Bard College’s Prison Initiative Program in New York.
Poems by Christina Mengert from Anatomies of Ascent Today I worked many hours on the proposition that “Love must be a lover of wisdom and, as such, is in between being wise and being ignorant.”
