{"id":278,"date":"2021-02-18T14:21:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T22:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=278"},"modified":"2024-12-17T08:12:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:12:49","slug":"amber-mcbride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/amber-mcbride\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 87: Amber McBride"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About Amber McBride<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Amber McBride is an English professor at the University of Virginia. She received her BA in English from James Madison University in 2010 and acquired her MFA in Poetry from Emerson College in 2012.\u00a0Amber low-key practices Hoodoo and high key devours books (150 or so a year keep her well fed).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her poetry has appeared in\/forthcoming in various literary magazines including\u00a0Ploughshares<\/em>,\u00a0Provincetown Arts<\/em>,\u00a0DecomP<\/em>,\u00a0The Cincinnati Review<\/em>,\u00a0The Rumpus<\/em>\u00a0and others. Amber also writes Middle Grade and Young Adult fiction and is represented by Rena Rossner at The Deborah Harris Literary Agency. Her novel-in-verse\u00a0Me (Moth)<\/a>\u00a0will be published by Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan, in Aug 2021.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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A Profile of the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Notes on “Southern Gothic (For the Black Boy)” and “Desecrate”<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSouthern Gothic (For the Black Boy)\u201d & \u201cDesecrate\u201d are both from a poetry collection I am working on tentatively called,\u00a0Thick With Trouble<\/em>. The collection examines being a minority in The United States and how simply living is an act of protest. The seeds for the poem \u201cDesecrate\u201d were actually planted when I was 13 or 14. My parents took us to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, CA. While walking through the museum I became very upset; I did not understand why so many human bodies were on display and why they were so far away from where they died. Two years ago, I had the same thought at a museum and started drafting this poem on my phone. I wanted to inspect if time had anything to do with the wishes of the deceased and the line between research and ritual. As an adult I was also very aware that the bodies of Pharaohs were on display, but not European kings\/ queens. So this poem asked why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSouthern Gothic (For the Black Boy)\u201d arose from the frustration with the continued abuses\/ fears and inaccurate stereotypes about Black men\/boys in America. There is a twin poem in my collection that speaks to these same fears thrown at Black women. I also wanted to write a poem using couplets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the heart, both of these poems birthed from questioning the disparity between how white bodies are treated compared to the bodies of BIPOC. Inspecting these subtle and sometimes blatant disparities is a central theme in my collection,\u00a0Thick With Trouble<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music, Food, Booze, Tattoos, Kittens, etc.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I have to listen to music when I write, so I am a huge fan of all genres. If I put my \u201cLiked Spotify Playlist\u201d on shuffle the first five songs I get are: Strange Fruit<\/em> by Billie Holiday, Black Parade<\/em> by Beyonce, Dilemme<\/em> by Lous and The Yakuza, Daechwita<\/em> by Agust D, and Dinner & Diatribes<\/em> by Hozier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tattoos are essentially accessories you never have to take off\u2014I adore them. I have several (all words and numbers) and I anticipate that as soon as it is safe to travel I will accidently (on purpose), get 15 in one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My German Shepherd, Shiloh, is my wolf child and best friend\u2014she also enjoys music and if she did not have so much fur would want a tattoo.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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“Southern Gothic (For the Black Boy)” and “Desecrate” by Amber McBride<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

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