Rachel Zucker speaks with poet Morgan Parker (author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night and There are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé) in front of a LIVE audience at the KGB Red Room on February 27, 2017. Morgan reads new work, discusses what she’s working on, who she’s writing for, and her 13 husbands. They talk about confessional poetry, performance, blackness, whiteness, therapy, Beyoncé, authenticity, revision, therapy as reparations, and Nelly.
EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 23Books by Morgan ParkerThere Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (Tin House, 2017)
Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback, 2015)
Other Books/Writers/Thinkers/Musicians MentionedBeyoncé
Julie Buntin
Rachel McKibbens
Lizzie Harris
Angel Nafis
Monica McClure
Nate Marshall
Mickalene Thomas
Matthew Dickman
D.A. Powell
Christine Larusso
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Other Relevant Links“How to Stay Sane While Black” by Morgan Parker, published by the New York Times
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