Smoothed Over With Feeling
Excerpted from Smoothed Over with Feelings: Poems for New Parents
About the Author
Vanessa Hope Schneider and Carissa Potter Carlson
About Vanessa Hope Schneider
Vanessa Hope Schneider is a writer and performance artist, interested in how collective generation creates outcomes that cannot be realized by individuals. Her work includes poetry, essays, zines, video, and live performance.
Past collaborations include the San Francisco Neo-Futurists, the Poetry Foundation, and Christian Jankowski for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
About Carissa Potter Carlson
Carissa Potter Carlson is a human longing for connection. She makes art, writes, collaborates, and talks to people. Her life changed in 2019 with the birth of Margaret. Past books include
I Like You, I Love You, It’s Okay to Feel Things Deeply, How To Heal From Heartbreak, and upcoming Breathe Through it. Potter has worked with Facebook, Substack, Google, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, SFMOMA, Hammer, De Young Muesuem, Mia in Minneapolis. In 2021 she was voted one of AdAges 50 most inspiring people and one of Cosmo Mags 24 people making the world a better place.
