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 41: Danez Smith
Episode 40: Kaveh Akbar
Episode 39: Erika L. Sánchez
Episode 38: Sharon Olds
Episode 37: Sheila Heti and Sarah Manguso
Episode 36: Dialogue Arts Project
Episode 35: Aracelis Girmay
Episode 34: Dr. Joshua Bennett
Episode 33: Sabrina Orah Mark
Episode 32: Laynie Browne
Episode 31: Carmen Giménez Smith
Episode 30: Sarah Vap
Episode 29: Molly Peacock
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Episode 26: Alice Notley
Episode 25: Ross Gay
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