Brooklyn Poets
What to Wear Out by Jen DeGregorio
What to Wear Out by Jen DeGregorio
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Jen DeGregorio’s debut full-length poetry collection, What to Wear Out, witnesses a woman chafing at the seams of her life. From an “eager to please” youth hemmed in by white femininity, patriarchy, and consumerism to a mid-life urge to shed these constraints, the speaker of this intricately woven collection tangles with family dynamics, romantic relationships, social class, and a planet wracked by environmental and political crises. Framed by a sequence of poems about the Covid-19 pandemic, What to Wear Out records a personal reckoning, the quest to fashion an authentic self amid “the shared / emergency of the world.”
Jen DeGregorio’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Literary Hub, Paterson Literary Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Spoon River Poetry Review, Third Coast, WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly), and elsewhere. She is the associate director of creative writing at Binghamton University (SUNY). A former senior editor of Poets & Writers, she holds a PhD in English from Binghamton and an MFA in creative writing from Hunter College (CUNY).
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