Rachel Zucker speaks with scholar, poet, playwright, professor, artist, mother Khadijah Queen about what she’s teaching, her doctoral studies, her memoir-in-progress, her newest book (I’m So Fine), her new, unpublished poems, simultaneity and happening-aliveness, emotion, emotion as knowledge, humor, healing, intuition, ancient traditions, fibromyalgia, gender violence, being single, the writing community in Denver, the patriarchy, wanting not only to begin but to continue, memes, and recognizing that not everything will turn out perfectly.
EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 62Books by Khadijah QueenI’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (YesYes Books, 2017)
Fearful Beloved (Argos Books, 2015)
Non-Sequitur (Litmus Press, 2015)
Black Peculiar (Noemi, 2011)
Conduit (Akashic, 2008)
Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the EpisodeDionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk:Ars Poetica in 59 Versos (Duke University Press, 2018)
Sydia Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 1997)
Sara Ahmed’s Living a Feminist Life (Duke University Press, 2017)
Margaret Cavendish
Herman Melville
Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born (WW Norton, 1995)
Muriel Rukeyser’s The Life of Poetry (Wesleyan University Press, 1996)
Gwendolyn Brooks’ In the Mecca (Harper and Row, 1968)
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (Vintage Books, 1995)
Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself (University of Iowa Press, 2006)
Edward Hirsch’s Gabriel (Knopf, 2014)
Roland Barthes
Lucille Clifton
Tommy Pico
Alice Notley
Sommer Browning
Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Carolina Ebeid
Jeffrey Pethybridge
Bin Ramke
Emily Pettit
Renee Gladman
Other Relevant LinksVisible Binary
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Carley Moore “Why I Can’t Have Coffee with You: Saying No to the Patriarchy”
Nauru Island in Australia
Episode 61: Rosa Alcalá (Translation Series, Ep. 1)
Episode 60: Robin Coste Lewis
Episode 59: Alison S. M. Kobayashi
Episode 58: Cate Marvin
Episode 57: Dorothea Lasky
Episode 56: Jennifer Kronovet
Episode 55: Anne Waldman
Episode 54: Gerald Stern
Episode 53: Tommy Pico
Episode 52: Richard Siken
Episode 51: TC Tolbert
Episode 50: Inside Commonplace
Episode 49: CAConrad
Episode 48: Poets at MacDowell: Destiny Birdsong, Juleen Johnson, Jenny George, Eloisa Amezcua, & Amanda Galvan Huynh
Episode 47: Erin Riley
Episode 46: Allison Parrish
Episode 45: Tyehimba Jess
Episode 44: Matthew Zapruder
Episode 43: Airea D. Matthews
Episode 42: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
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