Poem-a-Day - "Obituary Generator" by Mariah Bosch

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March 17, 2021 

Obituary Generator


Mariah Bosch

Copyright © 2021 by Mariah Bosch. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on March 17, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“I wrote this series of bot-obituaries in the wake of my grandfather’s death in October of 2018. I felt as ‘the family poet’ that I should’ve been given some opportunity to write his obituary and instead, the one that was published feels much like these: limited, looking away from real life and toward reduction. The final column is my documenting of his final days. The current form is also in conversation with Victoria Chang’s Obit, a book that pushed me to think of this poem’s true intent.”
Mariah Bosch
Mariah Bosch is from Fresno, California. She is a teaching associate and MFA candidate in poetry.
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