Rachel Zucker speaks with poet Aracelis Girmay about creating new forms and structures, employing fragments, the time it takes to get to urgent questions, research, patience, appreciating snails with Kamau Brathwaite, menarche, estrangement, pregnancy, naming, our fathers and families, worrying about doing harm in poems, effort, June Jordan, Ross Gay, writing about family, history, avoiding and countering the language of violence and brutality, writing long poems and find ways to express anger and rage without adopting the language of tyranny and oppression.
EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 35Books by Aracelis GirmayThe Black Maria (BOA Editions, 2016)
Kingdom Animalia (BOA Editions, 2011)
Teeth (Curbstone, 2007)
Changing, Changing (George Braziller, 2005)
Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the EpisodeMonticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poems on Jefferson by Lisa Russ Spaar (University of Virginia Press, 2016)
Kamau Brathwaite
June Jordan
Ross Gay
James Baldwin
Joy Harjo
Shane McCrae
Other Relevant LinksDodge Poetry Festival
Poetry Society of America: Aracelis Girmay (New American Poets)
End of Kingdom Animalia — “Ars Poetica”
Interview with Rosa Alcalá and Eduardo C. Corral
Arielle’s Greenberg’s article in American Poetry Review on Shane McCrae
Aracelis’s poem “You Are Who I Love,” written for Split this Rock
Review of Aracelis’ book The Black Maria by Tara Betts in APR
Poetry Society of America, Latino/a Poetry Now: 3 poets discuss their art (Aracelis Girmay, Rosa Alcalá, Eduardo C. Corral
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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