Claire Lacey

Rob McLennan asked me to contribute to his ongoing series "On Writing." I wrote about pain, process, my first book, my current project, & being publicly political. Check it out:  http://ottawapoetry.blogspot.com/2020/03/on-writing-171-claire-lacey.html

With cancellations of live events, I have made some videos of recent poems I have produced as part of my PhD project which uses poetry to explore brain injury. In the first video I give a character to the brain structure of the amygdala, which is involved in both fear and pleasure responses. In the second, I swaddle myself in a blanket to read about brain injuries and moths.