User:Chris DiRusso/Lucas Alan Dietsche

Wikipedia article Notes Committed communist, Trotskyist, saw the USSR workers state, member of Socialist Action or sympathizer from 2004-2019, when expelled and helped  formed Socialist Resurgence, atheist and socialist since 2004. Inspired by student tuition fights, anti-war work. Poetry has changed over the years, imagist, social-expressionist, suffers from depression, anxiety,

7 books, zines, zine research Editor, Poetry Behind the Walls Xennia Poetry Blog, Save the Kids, News articles, Husky times 2, anti racist, EXPO housing, poetry, EXPO radio times 2? Lucas Alan Dietsche is an Editor of Poetry Behind the Walls. Dietsche is currently pursuing his Masters in Criminology/Criminal Justice in University of Wisconsin-Platteville. His Master's Thesis is on "Poetic Justice" to use poetry for healing, dissuasion, and help trauma-affected system-involved youth. Currently living in Superior, Wisconsin he is a  self-taught poet he published works such as “Word Out”, “Elba”, “Commies and Zombies”, “Since the Oregon Trail”,“Moods are Like Wisconsin Weather”,and  “Kapshida.” He has published poetry in Transformative Justice Journal, Ariel Anthology,  and Nemadji Review. He has a blog called "Xennial Poetry Notes.   He is Superior's first Co-Poet Laureate in 2019.  Dietsche is the   Regional Coordinator with Midwest Save the Kids, Formerly Incarcerated Peers, and organizer of Letters to Prisoners group.  He has presented on Letters to Prisoners, zines as radical pedagogy, and upon intersectionality. He is a member of Lake Superior Socialist Resurgence.   He can be reached at lucasdietsche81@gmail.com . A brief biography (one page maximum).      I have a unique experience growing up that has given a lot of background to give my poetry an interesting flavor.   I was born in 1981 to Jodi and Stan Dietsche in Appleton, Wisconsin. For most of my life, I have lived in rural Fond du lac, Wisconsin.  Being the oldest of two younger brothers, I have always written, created, and been interested in the arts. I have been fascinated by science and history.   I used to Civil War Reenactments for 8 years and in various historical societies. I was an extra in the 2004 movie “Gods and General”. Growing up, my taste for poetry has always changed, but I stick to mainly classics. I have been heavily influenced by imagism, Dada, surrealism, mysticism, expressionism, Soviet realism, free verse, Russian, British, and American modernism. My literary heroes are Mina Loy, Sylvia Plath, Edger Allan Poe, Kahil Gibrain, Rumi, Emily Dickenson, e.e. cummings, Audre Lorde, Anna Akhmatova, Sergei Essenin, Ann Sexton, Hugo Ball, h.d, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Vladimir Makovsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Lewis Carrol, Dr. Suess, to name a few. I believe that poets should read all the time, keep a journal, and find their own voice. I take great pride in coming from a non-orthodox English literature background. I have been heavily interested in history, sociology, and criminology. I only took what writing and English classes I needed for my Bachelors. In 2003, I took a British literature class which forever sent me on a timeline as a poet. Since then, my methodology and context of poetry has changed. I consider myself a self-taught poet and for most of the time being insular from other poets. Suffering from decades from depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and Schizotypal Personality Disorder, I write very descriptive, poignant, and real poems using different rhyme schemes. I write on weather, geography, capitalism, love, mental illness, being a Xennial, Scorpio, and death. I have a great wealth of experiences to continuously draw upon poems on. I published seven books that are either novellas or poetry genres. I continue to post on a blog called “Xennial Poetry Notes” and publish poetry on a Facebook page and monthly a “Poetry Planet”. I received by degree in History and Sociology and always thought of myself as a poet first. I am in the middle of finishing my graduate degree in Criminal Justice. I wish to create a genre of criminology called “Poetic Criminology” looking at literature, zines, poetry of incarcerated persons within a literature and criminological context. I aspire to continue research and write in the academic field and at some point, attaining a Phd. I already go to national conferences to give presentations on criminology. My variety of job opportunities have been eclectic and vast. I have worked at cheese factories, picked blue berries, worked as a lab technician, worked at grocery stores, and cleaned office spaces. I am very much the epitome of the Xennial working-class poet, and I believe this is a great fit for a Superior Poet Laureate.

Education:

2014: graduated Bachelor of Science University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

2018: currently a Masters Student at the University of Wisconsin Platteville-credits, GPA 3.66

Books:

2010: Word Out: Poems Written Under the Big Top of Dodge and Stanley Facilities Midnight Express

2011:Elba Memoirs of an Ex-Capitalist Midnight Express

2013: Commies and Zombies Midnight Express

2015: Moods are like Wisconsin Weather:Poems of Fond du Lac Midnight Express

2017: Since we left the Oregon Trail:Poems for the Xennial Generation Razorhead Publishing

2018: Kapshida:The North Korean Video Game Razorhead Publishing

Other publications:

2004: poetry, Night Watchman, Journal of the University of Wisconsin-Superior

2016,"What I did as a communist and on probation. Under Lock and Key. Retrieved from https://www.prisoncensorship.info/article/what-i-did-as-a-communist-and-on-probation-2006-2015/ 2016:blog, Xennial Poetry Notes. Retrieved from https://xennialpoetrynotes.wordpress.com/ 2018: Poetry, Nemadji Review, Journal of the University of Wisconsin-Superior 2019: Poetry, Nemadji Review, Journal of the University of Wisconsin-Superior 2019:Poetry, Ariel Anthology, Journal of Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets 2019:Poetry, Transformative Justice Journal, Issue 1, Volume 3 2019:”On Carceral Feminism, Safety, and Transformative Justice” Transformative Justice Journal. 2020:  Chapter " Prisoner zines: Contemporary samizdat as forms of producing primary sources of radical incarcerated persons and their guidance towards abolition"    Contesting Carceral Logic: Knowledge and Practice in Penal Abolition

Other Trainings:

2018 Certification Of Completion, Certified Peer Review Course, Ashland, Wisconsin

2018: Certification of Completing, Emerging Leaders Training, JustLeadershipUSA

Conference Presentations:

2017:“Convict Criminology Testimony: Using polar opposites to fight against the epoch of neo-incarceration with autoethnographies “2017: American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, PA

2018:“Prison pecking order: Criminal privilege and sex offenders passing to survive as the most stigmatized prison population 2018: American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA

2018" Prisoner zines as forms of producing primary sources of radical incarcerated persons and their guidance towards abolition 2018: American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA

2018"Roundatable" What does a sex offender look like?"2018: American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA

2019"Roundtable"" Prisoner zines as forms of producing primary sources of radical incarcerated persons and their guidance towards abolition 2019: American Society of Criminology, San Francisco

2019.Discussant. Roundtable. "Letters to Prisoners". No Youth in Prison-End the School to Prison Pipeline.2019: American Society of Criminology, San Francisco

2019. Discussant.Roundtable. Roundtable: Strategizing for Inclusion: Building an Intersectionality Marginalized Justice Impacted Base in Convict Criminology.2019: American Society of Criminology, San Francisco"

2019.Panel. Self-Defense Against Sex Trafficking: Lessons from Brown, Kizer, and the Future of Feminist Convict Criminology2019: American Society of Criminology, San Francisco

2019. Discussant."Roundtable" The Future of person-centered language, Identity, and Intersectional Criminology.2019: American Society of Criminology, San Francisco

Community activism:

2004-2006: organizer History Club, University of Wisconsin-Superior, SUperior,WI

2004-2006: organizer, Youth for Socialist Action, Superior,WI

2004-2006: member Queer Allied Student Union, UW-Superior

2010-present: member, Convict Criminology Group,

2009-2010:member, Esperanto League of North America, Stanley, WI

2016-2018: Secretary, Executive Board, Ex-Incarcerated People Organizing, Wisconsin

2016-2019: organizer, Lake Superior Ex-Incarcerated People Organizing, Superior,WI

2016-present: Midwest Regional Coordinator Save the Kids, Superior,WI

2016-2017: member, Feminist Justice League, Superior,WI

2017-2018: member, Pandemonium: Twin Ports Pansexual/Bisexual Organization, Superior,WI

2018-present:member, Criminal Justice Committee/NAACP, Duluth, MN

December 2018-December 2018, Outreach Coordinator, Twin Ports Action Alliance, Superior, WI

2019--Present :organizer: Formerly Incarcerated Peers, Superior, WI 2019-present:organizer, Cesar DeLeon Solidarity Network, Superior, WI

2019-2019, member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets

2019-2019, member of the Superior Poet Laureate Committee 2019-2019 First Co-Poet Laureate of Superior, Wisconsin

2019-present, Editor Poetry Behind the Walls

Media apperances Protesters Rally Against Hate Demonstration in response to white nationalist posters found in Twin Ports April 23, 2019 Andrew Kirov https://www.fox21online.com/2019/04/23/protesters-rally-against-hate/

Criminal Justice -Lucs Dietsche calls us from Superior and shares his involvement with letter writting and poetry12/11/2019 https://www.riverwestradio.com/episode/expo-ex-prisoners-organizing-0133-lucs-dietsche-calls-us-from-superior-and-shares-his-involvement-with-letter-writting-and-poetry/ -Lucas Dietsche Organizer for EXPO in Superior explains work within Wisconsin and Minnesota https://soundcloud.com/user-240416425/expo-2018-10-31-2030 Lucas Dietsche Organizer for EXPO in Superior explains work within Wisconsin and Minnesota

Forum focuses on housing for formerly incarcerated people Superior Telegram | May 15th 2018 https://www.superiortelegram.com/news/4446069-forum-focuses-housing-formerly-incarcerated-people Poetry Readings at Red Mug for National Poetry Month April is National Poetry Month. April 19, 2019 Viktoria Capek https://www.fox21online.com/2019/04/19/readings-at-red-mug-for-national-poetry-month/

Climate Justice Dozens Sound Off on Husky Refinery Air Pollution Permits August 27, 2019 Nachai Taylor

https://www.fox21online.com/2019/08/27/dozens-sound-off-on-husky-refinery-air-pollution-permits/ Protesters Environmental Rally on Anniversary of Husky Explosion This after Husky announces rebuild of the Superior refinery, with the use of Hydrogen Fluoride. April 27, 2019 Arman Rahman https://www.fox21online.com/2019/04/27/protesters-environmental-rally-on-anniversary-of-husky-explosion/?fbclid=IwAR1csk31cXNtEbCseDFM5ESNC9n7-Lzg6OXlEU09RsnDcnxLeAg0XSBUJqI