Rachel Zucker speaks with poet and professor Cate Marvin, author of Oracle, A Fragment of the Queen’s Head, and The World’s Tallest Disaster, co-editor of Legitimate Dangers and co-founder and former president of VIDA “a non-profit feminist organization committed to creating transparency around the lack of gender parity in the literary landscape.” Marvin talks about moving from Staten Island, NY to Scarborough, ME, teaching at different types of educational institutions, writing about childhood, therapy, Charlotte Mew, writing longer pieces, writing prose, being a single mom, her summer schedule, working at the public library, gardening, why her poems are getting messier, alcohol, her first kiss, smoking, being married, her decision to have a child on her own, narcissism, literary citizenship, her Tillie Olsen feminist awakening, starting VIDA, stepping away from VIDA, money, power, re-thinking social media, why she’s a poet, why writing poetry matters, knowing when it’s time to revise, and her flower tattoo.
EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 58Books by Cate MarvinOracle (W.W. Norton, 2016)
Fragment of the Head of a Queen (Sarabande, 2007)
World’s Tallest Disaster (Sarabande, 2001)
Legitimate Dangers (Editor, with Michael Dumanis, Sarabande, 2006)
Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the EpisodeCharlotte Mew
Kafka’s Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Editions, 2015)
Please Excuse this Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation; edited by Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick (Viking)
250 Poems: A Portable Anthology by Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
Robert Creeley
Paul Celan
Gerard Manley Hopkins
T.S. Eliot
Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections; edited by Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker (University of Iowa Press)
Josh Bell’s poem “Zombie Sunday”
Andrew Marvell “To His Coy Mistress”
Adrienne Rich
Other Relevant LinksVIDA
"Scent of a Woman's Ink" by Francine Prose
Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing”
Erin Belieu
Rick Barot
Episode 121: Fred Moten and Ronaldo Wilson - Part 2
Episode 120: Fred Moten and Ronaldo V. Wilson
Episode 119: Eugenia Leigh's Bianca (KTCO feed drop)
Episode 118: Laurel Snyder
Episode 117: Charif Shanahan & Safia Elhillo with Isaac Ginsberg Miller
Episode 116: The Gathered Congregation
Episode 115: Moheb Soliman
Episode 114: Live & Embodied
113: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Episode 112: Gabrielle Octavia Rucker with V Conaty
Episode 111: The Confessional Episode
Episode 110: The Poetics of Wrongness
Episode 109: Joy Harjo
Episode 108: Saeed Jones
Episode 107: Eileen Myles
Episode 106: S. Yarberry with V Conaty
Episode 105: Carl Phillips
Episode 104: The Critical Response Process with Liz Lerman & John Borstel
Episode 103: Cody-Rose Clevidence with Valentine Conaty
Episode 102: Rebekah Wolkstein
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