{"id":23723,"date":"2018-10-19T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T16:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=23723"},"modified":"2018-11-09T10:12:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T15:12:22","slug":"book-length-poem-wins-accolades-and-attention-for-2001-graduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/book-length-poem-wins-accolades-and-attention-for-2001-graduate\/","title":{"rendered":"Book-length poem wins accolades and attention for 2001 graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"well span3 pull-right\">\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"900\" data-attachment-id=\"23730\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/book-length-poem-wins-accolades-and-attention-for-2001-graduate\/because\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Because.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"596,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1506504044&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Because\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Because.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23730\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Because.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Because.jpg 596w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Because-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Because-580x876.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Because-132x200.jpg 132w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Because-265x400.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/>If you go<\/h3>\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong> Meacham Writers\u2019 Workshop<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Thursday, Oct. 25-Saturday, Oct. 27<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> Thursday at Chattanooga State Community College; Friday and Saturday at UTC University Center<\/p>\n<p><strong>Admission: <\/strong>Free<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meachamwriters.org\/index.htm\">https:\/\/www.meachamwriters.org\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Talking at the Table<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Josh Mensch also will be part of the Honors College Alumni Table Talks. A reception is set for 4-7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25, in the University Center\u2019s Chattanooga Rooms.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Raquel Barlow \u201912 <\/strong>\u2014 Talent &amp; Leadership Development Specialist for Cracker Barrel Old Country Store\u2019s corporate office.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christina Chavez \u201909<\/strong> \u2014 Eight years at Dell and Microsoft, including as mentor for 150 women in Kenya creating a tech startup.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stephen Craven \u201999<\/strong> \u2014 Assistant professor of electrical engineering at UTC from 2008-2013.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Athena Davis \u201900, \u201901<\/strong> \u2014 Teacher at Cleveland High School, created curriculum for the Holocaust Literature class.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua \u201906 <\/strong>\u2014 Worked in Namibia and Rwanda for WorldTeach, nonprofit that sends volunteer teachers abroad.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marvin Hall \u201983<\/strong> \u2014 Pediatric physician and Patient Safety Officer and Associate Medical Director for Patient Safety and Quality at Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jessica Ornsby \u201911<\/strong> \u2014 Founded A+O Law Group, a Washington, D.C.-based civil litigation firm.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bradley Paul \u201995 <\/strong>\u2014 Poet and television writer who has written for <em>Better Call Saul, Lodge 49<\/em> and <em>Animal Kingdom.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Stacy Richardson \u201910<\/strong> \u2014 Chief of Staff for Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23729\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"750\" data-attachment-id=\"23729\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/book-length-poem-wins-accolades-and-attention-for-2001-graduate\/mensch\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Mensch.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"572,750\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mensch\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Mensch.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-23729\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Mensch.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Mensch.jpg 572w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Mensch-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Mensch-153x200.jpg 153w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Mensch-305x400.jpg 305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Mensch is a 2001 graduate of UTC.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To get his debut book published, Josh Mensch went about it the hard way: He wrote a book-length poem.<\/p>\n<p>A first-time writer of any kind has the odds stacked against him from the outset, acknowledges Mensch \u201901, but poetry is \u201cthe only form in which I am truly comfortable as a writer.\u201d Still, he kept his expectations low.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t terribly worried about its commercial viability since that wasn\u2019t an assumption I had anyway. Poets don\u2019t really tend to think about those things; there\u2019s not much commercial viability in anything we do,\u201d says Mensch, a UTC honors program student who graduated with a degree in humanities and concentrations in creative writing and international studies.<\/p>\n<p>His book\u2014<em>Because<\/em>:\u00a0<em>A Lyric Memoir<\/em>\u2014took about three years to sell, but eventually was purchased by W.W. Norton, a respected publishing house. Well-received, it\u2019s now a finalist for Canada\u2019s Governor General\u2019s Literary Award for poetry, a prestigious prize in the country. A native of Nova Scotia, Mensch says he was \u201celated\u201d when told about the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Mensch will be one of the visiting writers at the Meacham Writers\u2019 Workshop.\u00a0Greg O\u2019Dea, associate dean of the Honors College, notes that Mensch has been a visiting writer at previous Meacham Workshops, there is an added bonus this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving been nominated for the Governor General\u2019s Prize for poetry, he brings an additional dimension with him: Evidence that UTC\u2019s creative writing program really does help to develop world-class writers. Current students and writers in our community can see the possibilities for themselves,\u201d O\u2019Dea says.<\/p>\n<p>Now living in Prague in the Czech Republic, working as marketing director for a technology firm, Mensch says he originally enrolled in UTC for a number of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike many young people, I had an intense desire to radically change my environment and going to Chattanooga seemed like a good way to accomplish that,\u201d he says. \u201cI was fascinated by the idea of the South, which I knew only from books and movies, and found the landscape around Chattanooga to be incredibly beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut more than that, I was genuinely charmed by the faculty and students I met at UTC during my campus visit and realized pretty quickly that this was a place where I would get a great education \u2014 the kind of education I wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the writing of <em>Because <\/em>was not difficult from a technical point of view, the subject was harder and more painful to express, he says. \u201cIn often uncomfortable detail,\u201d the book relates his experiences at a summer camp\/private school he attended from the ages of 10 to 15. The camp was run by a man named Don, who was trusted and respected by the parents who sent their kids to him each summer. Then he was arrested and convicted of molesting children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was one of those children and my book, which is a memoir in verse, is my attempt to answer the many questions I\u2019ve fielded over the years about what happened\u2014and how, and why it happened, and why it lasted for as long as it did\u2014 by showing what the whole experience was like,\u201d Mensch says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur monsters rarely look like monsters, and people who are capable of monstrous acts can also be capable of great kindnesses and may even believe the harmful things they do are morally defensible, if not good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mensch began by writing a novel, but that didn\u2019t work, so he switched to a prose memoir, but that didn\u2019t work, either. Finally, he realized that poetry \u201cwas the only way I could tell the story I wanted to tell in the way I needed to tell it. It took some trial and error and a number of years to figure this out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Proof that he was on the right track came quickly. Three days after starting, he had written 60 pages. \u201cIt was ungovernable, to say the least.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you go What: Meacham Writers\u2019 Workshop When: Thursday, Oct. 25-Saturday, Oct. 27 Where: Thursday at Chattanooga State Community College; Friday and Saturday at UTC University Center Admission: Free Information: https:\/\/www.meachamwriters.org\/index.htm Talking at the Table Josh Mensch also will be part of the Honors College Alumni Table Talks. 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