Episode 48: Poets at MacDowell: Destiny Birdsong, Juleen Johnson, Jenny George, Eloisa Amezcua, & Amanda Galvan Huynh
Host Rachel Zucker talks with poets Destiny Birdsong, Juleen Johnson, Jenny George, Eloisa Amezcua, and Amanda Galvan Huynh in Savage Library at MacDowell Artist Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
They talk about their particular interests—writing about women of color, writing about place, writing from unknowing or from knowing to unknowing, writing about the relationship between humans and animals, working with found texts, writing about assimilation and loss of culture, bi-linguality—and about their shared experiences at MacDowell. They offer advice for folks who might be headed to a residency, talk about various writing processes, and about what was wonderful and what was challenging about being at the residency including their feelings about being selected and about the selection process and not having to do the kind of labor one does in normal life.
Extra Materials for Episode 48MacDowell Fellows in this EpisodeEloisa Amezcua
Destiny Birdsong
Jenny George
Amanda Galvan Huynh
Juleen Johnson
Other MacDowell Fellows who were there at the same time as we were, some of whom we mention in this episode—all of whom were important in our work:Koji Nakano
Greg Marshall
Alexandria Smith
Dahlia Elsayed
Marc Ohrem-Leclef
Maude Mitchelland Lee Bruer
Uchenna Awoke
Justin Sherin
Haruko Tanaka
Andrew May
Joyce Zonana
Janie Geiser
Mona Mansour
Erik den Breejen
Edgar Kunz
Jonathan Berger
Erin M. Riley
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