Dowdy asks what it means to father under conditions of patriarchy. He refuses easy answers, turning a critical eye toward both the father acts that shaped him and his attempts to break out of the patriarchal mold and parent his daughter otherwise.
Michael Dowdy
Michael Dowdy is a poet, scholar, essayist, and editor. He is the author of Urbilly, winner of the 2017 Main Street Rag poetry book award, and Broken Souths: Latina/o Poetic Responses to Neoliberalism and Globalization, a study of Latinx poetry. With Claudia Rankine, he is coediting the forthcoming anthology, American Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement (Wesleyan University Press, 2018). He teaches at the University of South Carolina.