Catherine Pond's guest appearances

Catherine Pond

The Deerfield Public Library Podcast

Skylight Books Podcast Series

Megan Fernandes

Marina Shifrin

Kazim Ali

Eileen Myles

Mallory Rubin

Chuck Klosterman

Benjamin Franklin

Jon Hamm

Kate Schatz

Miriam Klein Stahl

Michelle Tea

Matt Bell

Sarah Ruhl

Amy Stewart

Joanna Angel

OwlTail

Catherine Pond was born in New York City and grew up in Georgia. She is the author of Fieldglass (Southern Illinois University Press 2021), winner of the Crab Orchard First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Best American Nonrequired Reading, AGNI, The Adroit Journal, Narrative, and other publications. Pond is a PhD candidate in Literature &amp; Creative Writing at the University of Southern California, where she teaches writing. Instagram: @catherine.pond "Riding the Bus Back to Oxford" was originally published in Lambda Literary:  https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2014/09/three-poems-by-catherine-pond/ Text of today’s poem and more details about our program can be found at: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/ Queer Poem-a-Day is directed by poet and teacher Lisa Hiton and Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the Deerfield Public Library. Music for our series is from Excursions Op. 20, Movement 1, by Samuel Barber, performed by pianist Daniel Baer. Queer Poem-a-Day is supported by a generous donation from the Friends of the Deerfield Public Library. Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language.

Catherine Pond was born in New York City and grew up in Georgia. She is the author of <a href="http://siupress.com/books/978-0-8093-3815-3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fieldglass</a> (Southern Illinois University Press 2021), winner of the Crab Orchard First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Best American Nonrequired Reading, AGNI, The Adroit Journal, Narrative, and other publications. Pond is a PhD candidate in Literature &amp; Creative Writing at the University of Southern California, where she teaches writing. Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/catherine.pond/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@catherine.pond</a> "Riding the Bus Back to Oxford" was originally published in Lambda Literary: <a href="https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2014/09/three-poems-by-catherine-pond/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2014/09/three-poems-by-catherine-pond/</a> Text of today’s poem and more details about our program can be found at: <a href="http://deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/</a> Queer Poem-a-Day is directed by poet and teacher <a href="https://www.lisahiton.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lisa Hiton</a> and Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the Deerfield Public Library. Music for our series is from Excursions Op. 20, Movement 1, by Samuel Barber, performed by pianist <a href="http://danielbaerpiano.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Daniel Baer</a>. Queer Poem-a-Day is supported by a generous donation from the <a href="https://deerfieldlibrary.org/friends-of-the-library/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Friends of the Deerfield Public Library</a>. Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language.

Queer Poem-a-Day: Catherine Pond "Riding the Bus Back to Oxford"

Callie Siskel

In an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability, Megan Fernandes's Good Boys offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage, negotiations with race and travel, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless, nervy, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city, from enchantment to disgust, always reemerging-just barely-on the trains and bridges and barstools of New York City. A child of the Indian ocean diaspora, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory, messy. Her homelands are theoretical and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane rides and has dark fantasies about the "hydrogen fruit" of nuclear fallout. Ultimately, these poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds, the hounded earth, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and, more importantly, where to direct our mercy. Fernandes is in conversation with Catherine Pond and Callie Siskel.

In an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability, <a href="https://www.skylightbooks.com/book/9781947793408" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Megan Fernandes's Good Boys</a> offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage, negotiations with race and travel, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless, nervy, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city, from enchantment to disgust, always reemerging-just barely-on the trains and bridges and barstools of New York City. A child of the Indian ocean diaspora, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory, messy. Her homelands are theoretical and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane rides and has dark fantasies about the "hydrogen fruit" of nuclear fallout. Ultimately, these poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds, the hounded earth, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and, more importantly, where to direct our mercy. Fernandes is in conversation with Catherine Pond and Callie Siskel.

Megan Fernandes, "GOOD BOYS" w/ Catherine Pond & Callie Siskel