Kellogg Writers Series: Liz Whiteacre (Poetry Reading)

Tuesday, April 8, 2025
7:30-8:30 p.m.
Schwitzer Student Center, UIndy Hall A
Poetry Reading
L/P Credit Available

Free and open to the public!

The Kellogg Writers Series brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings.

Liz Whiteacre’s poetry explores accident, disability, aging, and wellness. She is the author of Hit the Ground (Finishing Line Press, 2013), and her poems have appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Wordgathering, Kaleidoscope, Breath & Shadow, Last Leaves, The Scores, Flying Island, and other publications. Whiteacre is an associate professor of English at the University of Indianapolis. She teaches writing and publishing there, as well as advises Etchings Press. As a 2022-2024 research fellow with UIndy’s Center for Aging and Community, she worked with CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions of Central Indiana, exploring resilience through poetry with health care providers and aging populations.

Praise:
“In the collaborative collection, it could account for the panic, poet Liz Whiteacre and musician Meadow Bridgham invite readers into the surreal world of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). With a crip aesthetic, the poet uses defamiliarization to blur reality and drop us down a rabbit hole where nothing is as it seems; when one might see only loss, these poems explore the complexity—beneficial and destructive—of learning a new way of living. The poetry collection ends with hope for the future stating: “I want to work towards our harvest / we’ll pull things up and start over: next season will be better. / We’ll learn from this, grow, & move on.” These poems show us the truth that the disabled live everyday: the social expectations and reactions are often more disabling than the impairment itself.
~ Kara Dorris, author of Have Ruin, Will Travel and When the Body is a Guardrail