Joseph Fasano '08 Publishes Twitter Project 'Poem For My Son'

By
Rebecca Tseng
March 31, 2022
Black and white headshot of Joseph Fasano.

Alumnus and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Creative Writing Joseph Fasano '08 recently embarked on a creative project through Twitter titled "Poem for My Son."

As a first-time father, Fasano wanted to write a poem to his son that explores his experiences with fatherhood and his growing relationship with his son. By tweeting new lines of the poem each day, Fasano is constructing a "living poem" that serves as a digital record of this time in his life. "It's raw. It grows daily. It stumbles. Follow along with us on our learning, imperfect way," Fasano stated.

For Fasano, the Twitter platform reflects the challenges of parenthood. "You make one mistake today and you maybe fix it, but you can't erase that mistake entirely,"  he said in an interview with Spectrum NY1 News. "This poem is a record of that spiritual attitude toward parenting."

Fasano's poem is available on Twitter at @stars_poem.

Fasano’s work has appeared in The Yale ReviewThe Southern Review, Boston ReviewThe Times Literary SupplementTin HouseFIELDMeasure, and Passages North, among others. He has been featured in the Academy of American Poets’ poem-a-day program and on Verse Daily. Fasano is the 2008 winner of the RATTLE Poetry Prize, a finalist for the 2009 Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.