Eric Marsh Sr.

Greater Philadelphia Area, Pa United States

Cofounder and Facilitator at The Fathering Circle

The Fathers’ Circle was originally created by playwright Billy Yalowitz, filmmaker Les Rivera and poet Eric Marsh, Sr. to be a series of live poetry and choreographed performances and a short film focusing on fatherhood. Since its inception TFC has grown into a full length documentary project, a series of lectures, discussion and workshops and a support organization for male care-givers of all kinds. The art project and group sessions explore and inform their relationship as fathers of young children, the struggle to create egalitarian fathering practices in families, and how these are impacted by the social norms of masculinity and the residues of boyhood. This group serves as a form of...