Aging and Dying with A Sense of Humor: An Improvisation in Diaspora | Torrance Festival of Ideas
Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann-Taylor
Poet and arts-based scholar, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, meditates on the art, poetry, and comedy of growing older and facing the inevitable end of life. She connects readers in Athens to a series of events as part of the NEA Big Read Program featuring “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” by Roz Chast. This graphic memoir by the New Yorker cartoonist, tells the story of Chast’s parents’ final years through cartoons, photos, and narrative prose. If everybody’s parents age, why don’t we talk more about it ourselves?
Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor is the director of the 2021 NEA Big Read Program (https://coe.uga.edu/events/big-read-preview). NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. In addition, she is a professor of language and literacy education at the University of Georgia’s Mary Frances Early College of Education.
- Start: 23 April 2021
- End: 23 April 2021
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- Location: N/A , , United States