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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
 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. From 2002-2006, she performed largely under the pseudonym Dr. Madelyn Hatter, 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 Christian Bök, Andrei Codrescu, and Alice Notley, to Laura Mullen, Collin Kelley and Buddy Wakefield.
Volpert has been in competition at the National Poetry Slam, and is a board member of Poetry Atlanta Inc. She published two collections in 2007: Face Blindness with BlazeVOX Books and Domestic Transmission, a chapbook with MetroMania Press. Volpert’s second full-length collection, The Desense of Nonfense, is forthcoming from BlazeVOX Books in 2009. Her other publications 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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