Rachel Zucker talks with poet, editor/publisher and professor, Carmen Gimenez Smith, about the intersection of the lyric and the spoken word, the long poem, punctuation, working on several books at once, Cantomundo, Carmen’s writing process, writing long poems, being an editor, working with editors as a creator, the imagined or intended audience, the importance of getting feedback, political charge, the politicization of the bodies of women and people of color, Carmen’s mother and father, poetry as a form of recuperation, destabilizing the lyric “I”, writing about adolescents, Trump, “self-help” books, privilege, and the gift of entitlement.
EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 31Books by Carmen Giménez SmithMilk and Filth (University of Arizona Press, 2013)
Goodbye, Flicker (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012)
The City She Was (Center for Literary Publishing, 2011)
Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering, Art, Work, and Everything Else (University of Arizona Press, 2010)
Odalisque in Pieces (University of Arizona Press, 2009)
Other writers, poems and artists mentioned in the episodeThe Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda (Copper Canyon, 2001)
Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda
Roland Barthes
Pedro Pietri
Eduardo Chirinos
Deborah Paredez
Lucie Brock-Broido
Natalie Diaz
Rita Dove
Lucille Clifton, “Shapeshifter”
Evan Lavender-Smith
Richard Greenfield
Farid Matuk
Czeslaw Milosz
John Jakes
Luce Irigaray
Who Carmen is reading lately that gives her energyRosa Alcalá, Daniel Borzutsky, Alejandra Pizarnik, Larry Levis, Dana Levin, Natalie Eilbert, Vanessa Villarreal, Kim Hyesoon
Other relevant linksNoemi Press
Poets House
Graywolf Press
Jeff Shotts
San Jose State University
City Lights Books (the spotlight series)
Cantomundo
Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly”
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Brian Cassidy
Diane Wolkstein Archive at Library of Congress
Mommie Dearest
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 30: Sarah Vap
Episode 29: Molly Peacock
Episode 28: Poems for Mother's Day
Episode 27: Rita Dove
Episode 26: Alice Notley
Episode 25: Ross Gay
Episode 24: Julie Carr
Episode 23: Morgan Parker
Episode 22: Undocupoets 2 — Javier Zamora, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, and Janine Joseph
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