March 17, 2021

Obituary Generator

Mariah Bosch

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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.

“René Descartes and the Clockwork Girl” by Kathryn Nuernberger
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“OBIT [The Blue Dress]” by Victoria Chang
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Thanks to Sasha Pimentel, author of For Want of Water (Beacon Press, 2017), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month’s weekdays. Read a Q&A about Pimentel’s curatorial approach and find out more about our guest editors for the year.

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