Rachel Zucker speaks with poet Sarah Vap about Sarah’s unpublished and evolving manuscript, sentimentality, extreme susceptibility, interruptibility, raising sons, toxic masculinity, the invisible violence of the state, and the extended emergency of mothering young children. Their conversation is informed by Sarah's presentation for Protean Acts: The Art of Reinvention, a panel for the 2017 Association of Writing Programs conference in Washington D.C., of which an excerpt is also included in the episode.
EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 30Books by Sarah VapEnd of the Sentimental Journey (Noemi, 2013)
Arco Iris (Saturnalia, 2012)
Faulkner’s Rosary (Saturnalia, 2010)
American Spikenard (University of Iowa Press, 2007)
Writers on the AWP panel Protean Reinvention (included in episode)Jaswinder Bolina
Dana Levin
Brian Teare
Writers on the AWP panel on Capitalism (Patron extra)Julie Sheehan
Susan Briante
Patricia Spears Jones
Writers on the Sentimentality Panel at HarvardAnnie Finch
Sarah Vap
Rachel Zucker
Kevin Prufer
Joy Katz
Other writers and artists mentioned in the episodeSally Ball
Bernadette Mayer
Miranda Field
Kevin Prufer
Laurel Snyder
Octavia Butler
William Blake
Other relevant links“Where There Is No Love” by Diana Arterian, published in the Los Angeles Review of Books
From “Winter: Aphorisms” by Sarah Vap, published in the Boston Review
Joy Katz in conversation with Sarah Vap, published in The Conversant
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