The Poet Salon is a podcast where poets talk over drinks prepared especially for them. Your hosts are Gabrielle Bates, Luther Hughes, and Dujie Tahat. In our first season, we'll interview some of the very best in the world. Each of our guests will span two episodes over two weeks. In the first episode with them, we have a wide-ranging conversation about their work. In the second, we have shorter discussion about a poem our guest loves.  Our first episode drops January 9, 2019. Keep up with us on our website (thepoetsalon.com) and on Twitter (@poetsalonpod).

The Poet Salon is a podcast where poets talk over drinks prepared especially for them. Your hosts are <a href="https://www.gabriellebat.es/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gabrielle Bates</a>, <a href="https://www.lutherxhughes.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Luther Hughes</a>, and <a href="https://dujietahat.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dujie Tahat</a>. In our first season, we'll interview some of the very best in the world. Each of our guests will span two episodes over two weeks. In the first episode with them, we have a wide-ranging conversation about their work. In the second, we have shorter discussion about a poem our guest loves.  Our first episode drops January 9, 2019. Keep up with us on our <a href="/thepoetsalon/episode/thepoetsalon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a> (<a href="http://thepoetsalon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thepoetsalon.com</a>) and on <a href="mailto:twitter.com/@poetsalonpod">Twitter</a> (@poetsalonpod).

Introducing The Poet Salon: Season 1 Trailer!

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

We're live! In this, our first episode, you'll hear us discuss the virtues and vices of chapbooks. We we interview the inimitable Lena Khalaf Tuffaha over Sonnet Spiced Coffee. LENA KHALAF TUFFAHA is an American poet, writer, and translator of Palestinian, Jordanian, and Syrian heritage. She is the winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize for Arab in Newsland, and the author of Water &amp; Salt, a book of poems from Red Hen Press published in April 2017, which won the Washington State Book Award. You can follow her on Twitter @LKTuffaha. SONNET SPICED COFFEE RECIPE The word “sonnet” comes to us from the Italian word “sonetto,” meaning little song. We don’t know exactly what song is inspiring this coffee, but we’re pretty sure it would sound amazing if sung by Fairuoz (iconic Lebanese diva, see picture below). This drink is pretty easy to make (assuming you know how to make coffee in a French Press and have a bean grinder). Simply coarse-grind your coffee beans and spices together, then proceed with your coffee brewing per usual. Sonnet Spiced Coffee pairs splendidly with fresh satsumas, tiny porcelain cups, and this very episode. 8 tablespoons of coffee (we used Peets “Big Bang” blend) 3 black peppercorns dash of cardamom dash of cinnamon dash of nutmeg dash of crushed clove  REFERENCES "Translation" and "Water &amp; Salt" by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha Invasive Species (Nightboat) by Marwa Helal "Imagining a Vernacular Future", A Brooklyn Poets class taught by Marwa Helal American-Arab Anti-Discrimination committee (ADC) Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) "'I Belong to Many Places': A Q&amp;A with Washington State Book Award Winner Lena Khalaf Tuffaha" (The Seattle Times, December 2018) "Hold Up! Time For An Explanatory Comma" (NPR Code Switch) "Dozens of Palestinian Detainees on Hunger Strike Are Hospitalized" (The New York Times, May 2014) "Ana La Habibi" by Fairuz Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press) by Luther Hughes

We're live! In this, our first episode, you'll hear us discuss the virtues and vices of chapbooks. We we interview the inimitable <a href="https://www.lenakhalaftuffaha.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lena Khalaf Tuffaha</a> over <a href="https://www.thepoetsalon.com/nonalcoholicdrinks/2018/12/12/sonnet-spiced-coffee" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sonnet Spiced Coffee</a>. LENA KHALAF TUFFAHA is an American poet, writer, and translator of Palestinian, Jordanian, and Syrian heritage. She is the winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize for Arab in Newsland, and the author of Water &amp; Salt, a book of poems from Red Hen Press published in April 2017, which won the Washington State Book Award. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/LKTuffaha" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@LKTuffaha</a>. SONNET SPICED COFFEE RECIPE The word “sonnet” comes to us from the Italian word “sonetto,” meaning little song. We don’t know exactly what song is inspiring this coffee, but we’re pretty sure it would sound amazing if sung by Fairuoz (iconic Lebanese diva, see picture below). This drink is pretty easy to make (assuming you know how to make coffee in a French Press and have a bean grinder). Simply coarse-grind your coffee beans and spices together, then proceed with your coffee brewing per usual. Sonnet Spiced Coffee pairs splendidly with fresh satsumas, tiny porcelain cups, and this very episode. <ul><li>8 tablespoons of coffee (we used Peets “Big Bang” blend)</li> <li>3 black peppercorns</li> <li>dash of cardamom</li> <li>dash of cinnamon</li> <li>dash of nutmeg</li> <li>dash of crushed clove</li> </ul> REFERENCES <ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/PoetSalonPod/status/1083038379535523840" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Translation"</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/PoetSalonPod/status/1083041406619242496" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Water &amp; Salt"</a> by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha</li> <li><a href="http://nightboat.org/title/invasive-species" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Invasive Species</a> (Nightboat) by <a href="http://marshelal.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marwa Helal</a></li> <li><a href="http://brooklynpoets.org/workshops/level-ii/a-vernacular-future/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Imagining a Vernacular Future", A Brooklyn Poets class</a> taught by Marwa Helal</li> <li><a href="https://support.adc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">American-Arab Anti-Discrimination committee (ADC)</a></li> <li><a href="https://imeu.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/i-belong-to-many-places-a-qa-with-washington-state-book-award-winner-lena-khalaf-tuffaha/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"'I Belong to Many Places': A Q&amp;A with Washington State Book Award Winner Lena Khalaf Tuffaha"</a> (The Seattle Times, December 2018)</li> <li><a href="https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=504482252:505487421" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Hold Up! Time For An Explanatory Comma"</a> (NPR Code Switch)</li> <li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/world/middleeast/dozens-of-palestinian-detainees.html?module=inline" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Dozens of Palestinian Detainees on Hunger Strike Are Hospitalized"</a> (The New York Times, May 2014)</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYKlK39Il50" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Ana La Habibi"</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairuz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fairuz</a></li> <li><a href="https://siblingrivalrypress.bigcartel.com/product/touched-by-luther-hughes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press) by Luther Hughes</a></li></ul>

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha + Sonnet Spiced Coffee

Mahmoud Darwish

Welcome back, dearest. In last week’s episode, we spoke to Lena Khalaf Tuffaha about activism, home, language, and so much more. In this episode, Lena brought to The Poet Salon Mahmoud Darwish’s “To Our Land”. She was even kind enough to read it to us in the original Arabic. LENA KHALAF TUFFAHA is an American poet, writer, and translator of Palestinian, Jordanian, and Syrian heritage. She is the winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize for Arab in Newsland, and the author of Water &amp; Salt, a book of poems from Red Hen Press published in April 2017, which won the Washington State Book Award. You can follow her on Twitter @LKTuffaha. Palestinian MAHMOUD DARWISH was born in al-Birwa in Galilee, a village that was occupied and later razed by the Israeli army. Because they had missed the official Israeli census, Darwish and his family were considered “internal refugees” or “present-absent aliens.” Darwish lived for many years in exile in Beirut and Paris. He is the author of over 30 books of poetry and eight books of prose, and earned the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize from the Lannan Foundation, the Lenin Peace Prize, and the Knight of Arts and Belles Lettres Medal from France (excerpted from the Poetry Foundation). FADY JOUDAH has published four collections of poems, The Earth in the Attic, Alight, Textu, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; and, most recently, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received a PEN award, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Houston, with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine. REFERENCES "To Our Land" by Mahmoud Darwish, English translation by Fady Joudah; Palestinian Deceleration of Independence; "A Conversation With Fady Joudah" (Kenyon Review) "Remembering Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish 10 years after his death" (The National, August 2018)

Welcome back, dearest. In last week’s episode, we spoke to <a href="https://lenakhalaftuffaha.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lena Khalaf Tuffaha</a> about activism, home, language, and so much more. In this episode, Lena brought to The Poet Salon Mahmoud Darwish’s “To Our Land”. She was even kind enough to read it to us in the original Arabic. LENA KHALAF TUFFAHA is an American poet, writer, and translator of Palestinian, Jordanian, and Syrian heritage. She is the winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize for Arab in Newsland, and the author of Water &amp; Salt, a book of poems from Red Hen Press published in April 2017, which won the Washington State Book Award. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/LKTuffaha" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@LKTuffaha</a>. Palestinian MAHMOUD DARWISH was born in al-Birwa in Galilee, a village that was occupied and later razed by the Israeli army. Because they had missed the official Israeli census, Darwish and his family were considered “internal refugees” or “present-absent aliens.” Darwish lived for many years in exile in Beirut and Paris. He is the author of over 30 books of poetry and eight books of prose, and earned the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize from the Lannan Foundation, the Lenin Peace Prize, and the Knight of Arts and Belles Lettres Medal from France (<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mahmoud-darwish" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">excerpted from the Poetry Foundation</a>). FADY JOUDAH has published four collections of poems, The Earth in the Attic, Alight, Textu, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; and, most recently, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received a PEN award, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Houston, with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine. REFERENCES <ul><li><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52554/to-our-land-56d2311d9f3ad" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"To Our Land" by Mahmoud Darwish</a>, English translation by Fady Joudah;</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Palestinian_Declaration_of_Independence" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Palestinian Deceleration of Independence</a>;</li> <li><a href="https://www.kenyonreview.org/conversation/fady-joudah/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"A Conversation With Fady Joudah"</a> (Kenyon Review)</li> <li><a href="https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/remembering-palestinian-poet-mahmoud-darwish-10-years-after-his-death-1.758161" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Remembering Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish 10 years after his death"</a> (The National, August 2018)</li></ul>

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha reads Mahmoud Darwish's "To Our Land"

Danez Smith

You're back, dear listener, and just in time to hear us fangirl over fangirling, We also interview American treasure Danez Smith while sipping Hot Daddies.  DANEZ SMITH is a Black, Queer, Poz writer &amp; performer from St. Paul, MN. Danez is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award, and [insert] boy (YesYes Books, 2014), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. They are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Montalvo Arts Center, Cave Canem, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez's work has been featured widely including on Buzzfeed, The New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Best American Poetry, Poetry Magazine, and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and is the co-host of VS with Franny Choi, a podcast sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Postloudness. Danez’s third collection, Homie, will be published by Graywolf in Spring 2020.  THE HOT DADDY Fun fact! Langston Hughes’s favorite cocktail was one he invented called the ‘Hard Daddy.’ As described in a letter to a friend, the ‘Hard Daddy’ = whiskey, maple syrup, lemon juice, and ice. For our recording sesh with Danez Smith, we decided to make a hot version of this intriguingly named cocktail, subbing hot water for the ice and serving it in a cozy mug. Go generous with the lemon and light on the syrup and your taste buds will be happy. Pairs perfectly with cold winter Mondays, Ezell’s chicken, and this here episode.    INGREDIENTS: 2 oz Irish whiskey; fresh lemon; maple syrup; hot water  REFERENCES: 2018 National Book Award Poetry Finalists, The Fat Sonnets by Samantha Zighelboim, The Tradition by Jericho Brown, Youth Speaks Brave New Voices, "summer, somewhere", "Litany with Blood All Over" and "Not an Elegy" by Danez Smith; Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi; Heavy by Kiese Laymon

You're back, dear listener, and just in time to hear us fangirl over fangirling, We also interview American treasure Danez Smith while sipping Hot Daddies.  <a href="http://www.danezsmithpoet.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DANEZ SMITH</a> is a Black, Queer, Poz writer &amp; performer from St. Paul, MN. Danez is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award, and [insert] boy (YesYes Books, 2014), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. They are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Montalvo Arts Center, Cave Canem, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez's work has been featured widely including on Buzzfeed, The New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Best American Poetry, Poetry Magazine, and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and is the co-host of VS with Franny Choi, a podcast sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Postloudness. Danez’s third collection, Homie, will be published by Graywolf in Spring 2020.  THE HOT DADDY Fun fact! Langston Hughes’s favorite cocktail was one he invented called the ‘Hard Daddy.’ As described in a letter to a friend, the ‘Hard Daddy’ = whiskey, maple syrup, lemon juice, and ice. For our recording sesh with Danez Smith, we decided to make a hot version of this intriguingly named cocktail, subbing hot water for the ice and serving it in a cozy mug. Go generous with the lemon and light on the syrup and your taste buds will be happy. Pairs perfectly with cold winter Mondays, Ezell’s chicken, and this here episode.    INGREDIENTS: 2 oz Irish whiskey; fresh lemon; maple syrup; hot water  REFERENCES: <a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2018/?cat=poetry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2018 National Book Award Poetry Finalists</a>, <a href="http://argosbooks.org/?p=2843" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Fat Sonnets</a> by <a href="https://samanthazighelboim.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Samantha Zighelboim</a>, <a href="https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7B138DF245-5792-4F5D-A2BA-6A4D6BC663B1%7D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Tradition</a> by <a href="https://www.jerichobrown.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jericho Brown</a>, <a href="http://youthspeaks.org/bravenewvoices/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youth Speaks Brave New Voices</a>, <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58645/from-summer-somewhere" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"summer, somewhere"</a>, <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58645/from-summer-somewhere" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Litany with Blood All Over"</a> and "Not an Elegy" by Danez Smith; <a href="https://www.ibramxkendi.com/stamped-from-the-beginning/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kend</a>i; <a href="https://www.kieselaymon.com/heavy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heavy by Kiese Laymon</a>

Danez Smith + The Hot Daddy

Franny Choi

Oh there you are, lovely. Last week, we chopped it up with worldwide sensation Danez Smith on reading for the National Book Awards, joy, and the violence necessary to achieve utopia. For this week's episode, they brought in Franny Choi's "Introduction to Quantum Theory" for us to discuss, and spoiler alert: it's a banger. DANEZ SMITH is a Black, Queer, Poz writer &amp; performer from St. Paul, MN. Danez is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award, and [insert] boy (YesYes Books, 2014), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. They are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Montalvo Arts Center, Cave Canem, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez's work has been featured widely including on Buzzfeed, The New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Best American Poetry, Poetry Magazine, and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and is the co-host of VS with Franny Choi, a podcast sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Postloudness. Danez’s third collection, Homie, will be published by Graywolf in Spring 2020. FRANNY CHOI is a writer, performer, and educator. She is the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody, 2014) and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). She has been a finalist for multiple national poetry slams, and her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, the New England Review, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman Fellow, Senior News Editor for Hyphen, co-host of the podcast VS, and member of the Dark Noise Collective. Her second collection, Soft Science, is forthcoming from Alice James Books

Oh there you are, lovely. Last week, we chopped it up with worldwide sensation Danez Smith on reading for the National Book Awards, joy, and the violence necessary to achieve utopia. For this week's episode, they brought in Franny Choi's "<a href="http://www.theadroitjournal.org/issue-twenty-franny-choi-the-adroit-journal/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Introduction to Quantum Theory</a>" for us to discuss, and spoiler alert: it's a banger. <a href="http://www.danezsmithpoet.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DANEZ SMITH</a> is a Black, Queer, Poz writer &amp; performer from St. Paul, MN. Danez is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award, and [insert] boy (YesYes Books, 2014), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. They are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Montalvo Arts Center, Cave Canem, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez's work has been featured widely including on Buzzfeed, The New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Best American Poetry, Poetry Magazine, and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and is the co-host of VS with Franny Choi, a podcast sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Postloudness. Danez’s third collection, Homie, will be published by Graywolf in Spring 2020. <a href="http://frannychoi.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FRANNY CHOI</a> is a writer, performer, and educator. She is the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody, 2014) and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). She has been a finalist for multiple national poetry slams, and her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, the New England Review, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman Fellow, Senior News Editor for Hyphen, co-host of the podcast VS, and member of the Dark Noise Collective. Her second collection, Soft Science, is forthcoming from Alice James Books

Danez Smith reads Franny Choi's "Introduction to Quantum Theory"

Nabila Lovelace

Good to see you hear us again, boo. This week we quibble about cover letters and interview the wise and generous Nabila Lovelace as we sip on Cold Clove Couplets. NABILA LOVELACE is a born and raised Queens native, as well as a first generation American. In her debut collection, Sons of Achilles, Nabila attempts to examine the liminal space between violence and intimacy. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Narrative Northeast, Washington Square Review, Day One, ESPNW, &amp; Vinyl. She is co-founder of The Conversation Literary Festival.   COLD CLOVE COUPLET is a cold take on a hot toddy. Like a heroic couplet, this cocktail marches on sure feet, giving the bite of ginger, the brightness of bubbles, and the warmth of bourbon and spice. Think Moscow Mule meets the Deep South over the holidays. Perfect for when you feel the sniffles coming on, but you still want to have a cute boozy brunch with your people. Pairs splendidly with apple pastries, rambunctious readings of the Iliad, and our episode with Nabila. INGREDIENTS: Rachel’s ginger beer; 2 oz bourbon; squeeze of fresh lemon; ice; two whole cloves

Good to see you hear us again, boo. This week we quibble about cover letters and interview the wise and generous <a href="/thepoetsalon/episode/nabilalovelace.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nabila Lovelace</a> as we sip on <a href="https://www.thepoetsalon.com/alcoholicdrinks/2018/12/12/cold-clove-couplets" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cold Clove Couplets</a>. <a href="https://nabilalovelace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NABILA LOVELACE</a> is a born and raised Queens native, as well as a first generation American. In her debut collection, <a href="https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/sons-of-achilles-by-nabila-lovelace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sons of Achilles</a>, Nabila attempts to examine the liminal space between violence and intimacy. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Narrative Northeast, Washington Square Review, Day One, ESPNW, &amp; Vinyl. She is co-founder of <a href="http://theconversationlit.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Conversation Literary Festival</a>.   <a href="https://www.thepoetsalon.com/alcoholicdrinks/2018/12/12/cold-clove-couplets" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">COLD CLOVE COUPLET</a> is a cold take on a hot toddy. Like a heroic couplet, this cocktail marches on sure feet, giving the bite of ginger, the brightness of bubbles, and the warmth of bourbon and spice. Think Moscow Mule meets the Deep South over the holidays. Perfect for when you feel the sniffles coming on, but you still want to have a cute boozy brunch with your people. Pairs splendidly with apple pastries, rambunctious readings of the Iliad, and our episode with Nabila. INGREDIENTS: Rachel’s ginger beer; 2 oz bourbon; squeeze of fresh lemon; ice; two whole cloves

Nabila Lovelace + Cold Clove Couplets

Aracelis Girmay

We're here! Last week, we were chatting it up with Nabila Lovelace about the South, the Conversation Literary Festival, and, of course, violence and intimacy. This week, Nabila brought in "On Kindness" by Aracelis Girmay. Hear her read it and be healed.   NABILA LOVELACE is a born and raised Queens native, as well as a first generation American. In her debut collection, Sons of Achilles, Nabila attempts to examine the liminal space between violence and intimacy. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Narrative Northeast, Washington Square Review, Day One, ESPNW, &amp; Vinyl. She is co-founder of The Conversation Literary Festival.     ARACELIS GIRMAY is the author of three collections of poetry: the black maria (BOA Editions, 2016); Kingdom Animalia (BOA Editions, 2011), winner of the 2011 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award and the GLCA New Writers Award, and a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; and Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007). The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Civitella Ranieri, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Girmay is the winner of a 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry. She teaches in Hampshire College’s School for Interdisciplinary Arts and Drew University’s low-residency MFA program in poetry.

We're here! Last week, we were chatting it up with Nabila Lovelace about the South, the <a href="http://theconversationlit.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conversation Literary Festival</a>, and, of course, violence and intimacy. This week, Nabila brought in "On Kindness" by Aracelis Girmay. Hear her read it and be healed. <a href="https://nabilalovelace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NABILA LOVELACE</a> is a born and raised Queens native, as well as a first generation American. In her debut collection, <a href="https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/sons-of-achilles-by-nabila-lovelace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sons of Achilles</a>, Nabila attempts to examine the liminal space between violence and intimacy. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Narrative Northeast, Washington Square Review, Day One, ESPNW, &amp; Vinyl. She is co-founder of <a href="http://theconversationlit.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Conversation Literary Festival</a>.   <a href="http://aracelisgirmay.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ARACELIS GIRMAY</a> is the author of three collections of poetry: <a href="https://www.boaeditions.org/collections/aracelis-girmay/products/the-black-maria" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the black maria</a> (BOA Editions, 2016); <a href="https://www.boaeditions.org/collections/aracelis-girmay/products/kingdom-animalia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kingdom Animalia</a> (BOA Editions, 2011), winner of the 2011 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award and the GLCA New Writers Award, and a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; and Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007). The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Civitella Ranieri, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Girmay is the winner of a 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry. She teaches in Hampshire College’s School for Interdisciplinary Arts and Drew University’s low-residency MFA program in poetry.

Nabila Lovelace reads Aracelis Girmay's "On Kindness"

Quenton Baker

Good day, love. This week we wrestle with long response times from journals *cough* Tin House *cough cough*, and sit down with one of our favs Quenton Baker over New Formalist Old Fashioneds. QUENTON BAKER is a poet, educator, and Cave Canem fellow. His current focus is anti-blackness and the afterlife of slavery. His work has appeared in Jubilat, Vinyl, Apogee, Poetry Northwest, Pinwheel, and Cura and in the anthologies Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters and It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop. He has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Southern Maine and is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He is a 2017 Jack Straw Fellow and a former Made at Hugo House fellow, as well as the recipient of the 2016 James W. Ray Venture Project Award and the 2018 Arts Innovator Award from Artist Trust. He is the author of This Glittering Republic (Willow Books, 2016). NEW FORMALIST OLD FASHIONED: Like the poets in the late 20th and early 21st century who tried to put a modern spin on traditional metrical forms and rhyme schemes, we’ve revamped Don Draper’s favorite cocktail with rye whiskey, cardamom bitters, and a dash of orange blossom water. The NFOF is perfect for those looking for a spicier, more botanical take on this classic sip. Stir, don’t shake, and serve over ice in a short, stemless glass. Pairs well with floral hoodies, QFC muhammara dip, and our episode with Quenton Baker.INGREDIENTS: 2 oz rye whiskey (we used Templeton); 4 drops cardamom bitters; a dash of orange blossom water; a smidge of simple syrup; orange peel garnishREFERENCES: This Glittering Republic and Ballast (a Frye Art Museum Exhibit) by Quenton Baker; Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th-Century American Poetry by Lorenzo Thomas; Dante Micheaux; Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America by Saidiya Hartman; Fred Moten; Gwendolyn Brooks; Henry "Box" Brown; Olio by Tyehimba Jess; Phillis Wheatley; Citizen by Claudia Rankine

Good day, love. This week we wrestle with long response times from journals *cough* Tin House *cough cough*, and sit down with one of our favs Quenton Baker over New Formalist Old Fashioneds. <a href="http://quentonbaker.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">QUENTON BAKER</a> is a poet, educator, and Cave Canem fellow. His current focus is anti-blackness and the afterlife of slavery. His work has appeared in Jubilat, Vinyl, Apogee, Poetry Northwest, Pinwheel, and Cura and in the anthologies Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters and It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop. He has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Southern Maine and is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He is a 2017 Jack Straw Fellow and a former Made at Hugo House fellow, as well as the recipient of the 2016 James W. Ray Venture Project Award and the 2018 Arts Innovator Award from Artist Trust. He is the author of This Glittering Republic (Willow Books, 2016). <a href="https://www.thepoetsalon.com/alcoholicdrinks/2018/10/31/new-formalist-old-fashioned" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NEW FORMALIST OLD FASHIONED</a>: Like the poets in the late 20th and early 21st century who tried to put a modern spin on traditional metrical forms and rhyme schemes, we’ve revamped Don Draper’s favorite cocktail with rye whiskey, cardamom bitters, and a dash of orange blossom water. The NFOF is perfect for those looking for a spicier, more botanical take on this classic sip. Stir, don’t shake, and serve over ice in a short, stemless glass. Pairs well with floral hoodies, QFC muhammara dip, and our episode with Quenton Baker.INGREDIENTS: 2 oz rye whiskey (we used Templeton); 4 drops cardamom bitters; a dash of orange blossom water; a smidge of simple syrup; orange peel garnish REFERENCES: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/This-Glittering-Republic-Quenton-Baker/dp/0997199601" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">This Glittering Republic</a> and <a href="https://fryemuseum.org/exhibition/6864" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ballast (a Frye Art Museum Exhibit)</a> by <a href="http://quentonbaker.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Quenton Baker;</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Measures-Afrocentric-20th-Century-Contemporary/dp/0817310150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th-Century American Poetry</a> by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lorenzo-thomas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lorenzo Thomas;</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AmorousShepherd?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dante Micheaux</a>; <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Scenes-Subjection-Self-Making-Nineteenth-Century-American/dp/0195089847" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America</a> by <a href="https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/saidiya-hartman/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Saidiya Hartman</a>; <a href="https://fredmoten.site.wesleyan.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fred Moten</a>; <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gwendolyn-brooks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gwendolyn Brooks</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Box_Brown" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Henry "Box" Brown</a>; <a href="https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/olio" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Olio </a>by <a href="https://www.tyehimbajess.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tyehimba Jess</a>; <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Phillis Wheatley</a>; <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Citizen-American-Lyric-Claudia-Rankine/dp/1555976905" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Citizen</a> by <a href="https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/olio" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Claudia Rankine</a>

Quenton Baker + New Formalist Old Fashioned

Gwendolyn Brooks

O dearest listeners, this week’s episode is a banger. The last time you heard us, we chopped it up with our homie, the immaculate Quenton Baker, about erasure, rigor, rap, and more. This week, Quenton brought in an underapprecated Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “Riders to a Blood-Red Wrath”, and, well, we all just marvel at it for a while. QUENTON BAKER is a poet, educator, and Cave Canem fellow. His current focus is anti-blackness and the afterlife of slavery. His work has appeared in Jubilat, Vinyl, Apogee, Poetry Northwest, Pinwheel, and Cura and in the anthologies Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters and It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop. He has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Southern Maine and is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He is a 2017 Jack Straw Fellow and a former Made at Hugo House fellow, as well as the recipient of the 2016 James W. Ray Venture Project Award and the 2018 Arts Innovator Award from Artist Trust. He is the author of This Glittering Republic (Willow Books, 2016). GWENDOLYN BROOKS is one of the most highly regarded, influential, and widely read poets of 20th-century American poetry. She was a much-honored poet, even in her lifetime, with the distinction of being the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. She also was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress—the first Black woman to hold that position—and poet laureate of the State of Illinois. Many of Brooks’s works display a political consciousness, especially those from the 1960s and later, with several of her poems reflecting the civil rights activism of that period. Her body of work gave her, according to critic George E. Kent, “a unique position in American letters. Not only has she combined a strong commitment to racial identity and equality with a mastery of poetic techniques, but she has also managed to bridge the gap between the academic poets of her generation in the 1940s and the young Black militant writers of the 1960s.” (read the rest here)  

O dearest listeners, this week’s episode is a banger. The last time you heard us, we chopped it up with our homie, the immaculate Quenton Baker, about erasure, rigor, rap, and more. This week, Quenton brought in an underapprecated Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “Riders to a Blood-Red Wrath”, and, well, we all just marvel at it for a while. <a href="http://quentonbaker.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">QUENTON BAKER</a> is a poet, educator, and Cave Canem fellow. His current focus is anti-blackness and the afterlife of slavery. His work has appeared in Jubilat, Vinyl, Apogee, Poetry Northwest, Pinwheel, and Cura and in the anthologies Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters and It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop. He has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Southern Maine and is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He is a 2017 Jack Straw Fellow and a former Made at Hugo House fellow, as well as the recipient of the 2016 James W. Ray Venture Project Award and the 2018 Arts Innovator Award from Artist Trust. He is the author of This Glittering Republic (Willow Books, 2016). <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gwendolyn-brooks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GWENDOLYN BROOKS</a> is one of the most highly regarded, influential, and widely read poets of 20th-century American poetry. She was a much-honored poet, even in her lifetime, with the distinction of being the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. She also was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress—the first Black woman to hold that position—and poet laureate of the State of Illinois. Many of Brooks’s works display a political consciousness, especially those from the 1960s and later, with several of her poems reflecting the civil rights activism of that period. Her body of work gave her, according to critic George E. Kent, “a unique position in American letters. Not only has she combined a strong commitment to racial identity and equality with a mastery of poetic techniques, but she has also managed to bridge the gap between the academic poets of her generation in the 1940s and the young Black militant writers of the 1960s.” (read the rest <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gwendolyn-brooks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>)

Quenton Baker reads Gwendolyn Brooks' "Riders to a Blood-Red Wrath"

Rick Barot

What's good friends. This week we get down with getting back into the swing of "the poetry world." We also sat down with Rick Barot and got taken all the way to school. He dropped so much knowledge on art and the body and the state of contemporary American poetry. Hurry up and listen already! RICK BAROT was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. He has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002); Want (2008); and Chord (2015), which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and received the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award. Barot is the poetry editor of New England Review.  He lives in Tacoma, Washington and teaches at Pacific Lutheran University.  He is also the director of The Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at PLU. His fourth book of poems, The Galleons, will be published by Milkweed Editions in Spring 2020. THOSE WINTER GIN AND TONICS:  What did we know, what did we know of a gin and tonic’s potential to be a winter cocktail? Nothing! (Until we invented this version). The addition of Amaro Averna and fresh blood orange give the refreshing G&amp;T you know and love some deeper bitter notes and a blink more sweetness. The title of the drink alludes to the famous, heartbreaking sonnet “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. Ingredients: Gin (we used Seattle-based Big Gin), Tonic Water, Amaro Averna, Blood OrangeREFERENCES: "Archaic torso of Apollo" by Rainer Maria Rilke; "Ode to a Grecian Urn" by John Keats; “Styrofoam Cup” by Brenda Hillman; Las Meninas by Diego Veláquez; "An A to Z of Theory: Roland Barthes and Semiotics" by Andrew Robinson; The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry &amp; Poetics; "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop; VIDA

What's good friends. This week we get down with getting back into the swing of "the poetry world." We also sat down with Rick Barot and got taken all the way to school. He dropped so much knowledge on art and the body and the state of contemporary American poetry. Hurry up and listen already! <a href="http://rickbarot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RICK BAROT</a> was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. He has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: <a href="http://rickbarot.com/books/the-darker-fall/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Darker Fall</a> (2002); <a href="http://rickbarot.com/books/want/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Want</a> (2008); and <a href="http://rickbarot.com/books/chord/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chord</a> (2015), which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and received the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award. Barot is the poetry editor of <a href="http://www.nereview.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New England Review</a>.  He lives in Tacoma, Washington and teaches at Pacific Lutheran University.  He is also the director of The Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at PLU. His fourth book of poems, The Galleons, will be published by Milkweed Editions in Spring 2020. <a href="https://www.thepoetsalon.com/alcoholicdrinks/2019/3/4/those-winter-gin-and-tonics" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">THOSE WINTER GIN AND TONICS</a>:  What did we know, what did we know of a gin and tonic’s potential to be a winter cocktail? Nothing! (Until we invented this version). The addition of Amaro Averna and fresh blood orange give the refreshing G&amp;T you know and love some deeper bitter notes and a blink more sweetness. The title of the drink alludes to the famous, heartbreaking sonnet <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46461/those-winter-sundays" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Those Winter Sundays”</a> by Robert Hayden. Ingredients: Gin (we used Seattle-based <a href="https://www.captivespiritsdistilling.com/big-gin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Big Gin</a>), Tonic Water, <a href="https://www.thespruceeats.com/amaro-averna-liqueur-760263" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amaro Averna</a>, Blood OrangeREFERENCES: <a href="https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/archaic-torso-apollo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Archaic torso of Apollo" by Rainer Maria Rilke</a>; <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Ode to a Grecian Urn" by John Keats</a>; <a href="https://www.fenceportal.org/styrofoam-cup/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Styrofoam Cup” by Brenda Hillman</a>; <a href="https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/las-meninas/9fdc7800-9ade-48b0-ab8b-edee94ea877f" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Las Meninas by Diego Veláquez</a>; <a href="https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-barthes-1/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"An A to Z of Theory: Roland Barthes and Semiotics" by Andrew Robinson</a>; <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/9677.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry &amp; Poetics</a>; <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52192/at-the-fishhouses" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop</a>; <a href="https://www.vidaweb.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">VIDA</a>

Rick Barot + Those Winter Gin and Tonics

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Jericho Brown

Bizzy Izzy

Hello beautiful beautiful people! We're back! Season two is here and what a season it is. We're thrilled to start of 2020 talking about the books that messed us all the way up in 2019 and to chat with the inimitable Jericho Brown about the South, rhyme, and why we write at all.   Jericho Brown is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Writer's Award. Brown’s first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection is The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019). His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review, Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME magazine, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University.   The Bizzy Izzy: sherry, bourbon, pineapple, and lemon juice on ice in a high ball glass. A pre-prohibition cocktail created by Tom Bullock, the first African-American to author his own cocktail manual.

Hello beautiful beautiful people! We're back! Season two is here and what a season it is. We're thrilled to start of 2020 talking about the books that messed us all the way up in 2019 and to chat with the inimitable Jericho Brown about the South, rhyme, and why we write at all. <a href="https://www.jerichobrown.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jericho Brown</a> is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Writer's Award. Brown’s first book, <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781930974791" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Please</a> (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The <a href="https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7B5398070A-E281-47A2-BA14-D8F158F557C3%7D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Testament</a> (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection is <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781556594861" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Tradition</a> (Copper Canyon 2019). His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review, Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME magazine, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. The Bizzy Izzy: sherry, bourbon, pineapple, and lemon juice on ice in a high ball glass. A pre-prohibition cocktail created by Tom Bullock, the first African-American to author his own cocktail manual.

Jericho Brown + The Bizzy Izzy

Keetje Kuipers

Another week, another hundred hand-washes. This week we get dig into ways to unstick writer's block before the blessing that was the virtual company of Keetje Kuipers. Together, we talk about symmetry, sadness, and sticking cold cheese in unexpected places. Buckle up! Writer and editor KEETJE KUIPERS (pronounced Kay-tcha Ky-pers) is the author of three books of poems, all from BOA Editions. Her first book, Beautiful in the Mouth, was selected by Thomas Lux as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Named one of the top ten debut poetry books of 2010 by Poets &amp; Writers, her first book also appeared in the top ten on the contemporary poetry bestseller list. Her second collection, The Keys to the Jail (2014), was a book club selection for The Rumpus, and her third book, All Its Charms (2019), includes poems honored by publication in both The Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. THE SMALL TOWN DRAG SHOW: fresh grapefruit juice, rose water, campari, served in a bedazzled mason jar

Another week, another hundred hand-washes. This week we get dig into ways to unstick writer's block before the blessing that was the virtual company of Keetje Kuipers. Together, we talk about symmetry, sadness, and sticking cold cheese in unexpected places. Buckle up! Writer and editor <a href="https://keetjekuipers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KEETJE KUIPERS</a> (pronounced Kay-tcha Ky-pers) is the author of three books of poems, all from BOA Editions. Her first book, <a href="https://keetjekuipers.com/books/beautiful-in-the-mouth/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beautiful in the Mouth</a>, was selected by Thomas Lux as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Named one of the top ten debut poetry books of 2010 by Poets &amp; Writers, her first book also appeared in the top ten on the contemporary poetry bestseller list. Her second collection, <a href="https://keetjekuipers.com/books/the-keys-to-the-jail/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Keys to the Jail</a> (2014), was a book club selection for The Rumpus, and her third book, <a href="https://keetjekuipers.com/books/all-its-charms/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">All Its Charms (2019)</a>, includes poems honored by publication in both <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pushcart-Prize-XL-Small-Presses/dp/1888889802" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Pushcart Prize</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Best-American-Poetry-2016/dp/150112756X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1547154179&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=best+american+poetry+2016" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Best American Poetry</a> anthologies. THE SMALL TOWN DRAG SHOW: fresh grapefruit juice, rose water, campari, served in a bedazzled mason jar

Keetje Kuipers + The Small Town Drag Show

Our people, our people! We're back this week with a fresh new episode featuring the one and only Oliver de la Paz. He came through The Poet Salon to talk about parenting, prose poems, and myths. OLIVER DE LA PAZ is the author of five collections of poetry, Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby (SIU Press 2001, 2007), and Requiem for the Orchard (U. of Akron Press 2010), winner of the Akron Prize for poetry chosen by Martìn Espada, Post Subject: A Fable (U. of Akron Press 2014), and the forthcoming book The Boy in the Labyrinth (U. of Akron Press 2019).  He is the co-editor with Stacey Lynn Brown of A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (U. of Akron Press 2012).  He co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Asian American Poetry. A recipient of a NYFA Fellowship Award and a GAP Grant from Artist Trust, his work has appeared in journals like Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Tin House, Poetry, and in anthologies such as Asian American Poetry:  The Next Generation. He teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in the Low-Residency MFA Program at Pacific Lutheran University.  The Long Line: Espresso soda, almond syrup, chocolate bitters.

Our people, our people! We're back this week with a fresh new episode featuring the one and only Oliver de la Paz. He came through The Poet Salon to talk about parenting, prose poems, and myths. <a href="https://www.oliverdelapaz.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OLIVER DE LA PAZ</a> is the author of five collections of poetry, Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby (SIU Press 2001, 2007), and Requiem for the Orchard (U. of Akron Press 2010), winner of the Akron Prize for poetry chosen by Martìn Espada, Post Subject: A Fable (U. of Akron Press 2014), and the forthcoming book The Boy in the Labyrinth (U. of Akron Press 2019).  He is the co-editor with Stacey Lynn Brown of A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (U. of Akron Press 2012).  He co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Asian American Poetry. A recipient of a NYFA Fellowship Award and a GAP Grant from Artist Trust, his work has appeared in journals like Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Tin House, Poetry, and in anthologies such as Asian American Poetry:  The Next Generation. He teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in the Low-Residency MFA Program at Pacific Lutheran University.  The Long Line: Espresso soda, almond syrup, chocolate bitters.

Oliver de la Paz + The Long Line

Ross Gay

O dearest delights—welcome! After a quick chat about the virtues of book contests, the crew sat down for this week's episode with Ross Gay in a quirky, quaint Portland hotel. While sipping Spoiling Orchards, Uncle Ross chopped it up with on the performance of delight, the practice of tenderness, and gardening—among other things. ROSS GAY is the author of three books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His collection of essays,The Book of Delights, was released by Algonquin Books in 2019. Ross is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Ross teaches at Indiana University.  SPOILING ORCHARD: Fruity, fizzy, and a little bit funky, this mocktail is kind on the eyes and the bod. Like a sangria minus the hangover, Spoiling Orchards are perfect for a sunny day when you want to be clear-headed and attentive to the delights around you. Pairs well with vegan fruit gummies, Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s book The Orchard, and our conversation with the effervescent Ross Gay. Serve in something clear and non-pretentious, like a jelly jar, and enjoy.INGREDIENTS: Kombucha Black cherry juice Fresh fruit (raspberries)

O dearest delights—welcome! After a quick chat about the virtues of book contests, the crew sat down for this week's episode with <a href="http://www.rossgay.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ross Gay</a> in a quirky, quaint Portland hotel. While sipping <a href="https://www.thepoetsalon.com/nonalcoholicdrinks/2019/4/15/spoiling-orchard" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spoiling Orchards</a>, Uncle Ross chopped it up with on the performance of delight, the practice of tenderness, and gardening—among other things. <a href="http://www.rossgay.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ROSS GAY</a> is the author of three books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His collection of essays,The Book of Delights, was released by Algonquin Books in 2019. Ross is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.bloomingtoncommunityorchard.org/site/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bloomington Community Orchard</a>, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Ross teaches at Indiana University.    <a href="https://www.thepoetsalon.com/nonalcoholicdrinks/2019/4/15/spoiling-orchard" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SPOILING ORCHARD</a>: Fruity, fizzy, and a little bit funky, this mocktail is kind on the eyes and the bod. Like a sangria minus the hangover, Spoiling Orchards are perfect for a sunny day when you want to be clear-headed and attentive to the delights around you. Pairs well with vegan fruit gummies, Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s book The Orchard, and our conversation with the effervescent Ross Gay. Serve in something clear and non-pretentious, like a jelly jar, and enjoy. INGREDIENTS: <ul><li>Kombucha</li> <li>Black cherry juice</li> <li>Fresh fruit (raspberries)</li></ul>

Ross Gay + Spoiling Orchard

Solmaz Sharif

Yooo we did it! Another week, another episode. In this one, the one-and-only Aria Aber brings in Solmaz Sharif's "The Master's House" to binge and revel and geek and play and laugh and pray. And oh did we— ARIA ABER was raised in Germany. Her debut book Hard Damage won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was published in September 2019. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, Poem-A-Day, Narrative, Muzzle Magazine, Wasafiri and elsewhere. A graduate from the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, where she was the Writers in Public Schools Fellow, she holds awards and fellowships from Kundiman, Dickinson House, and the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. For Spring 2020, Aber will be the Li Shen Visiting Writer at Mills College. She is at work on a second book of poems and a novel. Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, SOLMAZ SHARIF holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, the New York Times, and others. The former managing director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, her work has been recognized with a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and an NEA fellowship. She was most recently selected to receive a 2016 Lannan Literary Fellowship and the 2017 Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is currently an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. Her first poetry collection, LOOK, published by Graywolf Press in 2016, was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Yooo we did it! Another week, another episode. In this one, the one-and-only Aria Aber brings in Solmaz Sharif's <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/146216/the-masters-house" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"The Master's House"</a> to binge and revel and geek and play and laugh and pray. And oh did we— <a href="https://www.podbean.com/thepoetsalon/episode/ariaaber.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ARIA ABER</a> was raised in Germany. Her debut book Hard Damage won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was published in September 2019. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, Poem-A-Day, Narrative, Muzzle Magazine, Wasafiri and elsewhere. A graduate from the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, where she was the Writers in Public Schools Fellow, she holds awards and fellowships from Kundiman, Dickinson House, and the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. For Spring 2020, Aber will be the Li Shen Visiting Writer at Mills College. She is at work on a second book of poems and a novel. Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, <a href="https://solmazsharif.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SOLMAZ SHARIF</a> holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, the New York Times, and others. The former managing director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, her work has been recognized with a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and an NEA fellowship. She was most recently selected to receive a 2016 Lannan Literary Fellowship and the 2017 Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is currently an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. Her first poetry collection, LOOK, published by Graywolf Press in 2016, was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Aria Aber reads Solmaz Sharif's "The Master's House"

Duino Mojito

Friends! Lovers! Nemeses! Hope you're washing your hands! This episode is our first recording entirely remotely—including our interview with special guest Aria Aber, who was gracious enough to deal with a combination of technical difficulties and our muddled quarantine brains. No amount of ambient noise could get in the way of her sheer brilliance though.  ARIA ABER was raised in Germany. Her debut book Hard Damage won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was published in September 2019. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, Poem-A-Day, Narrative, Muzzle Magazine, Wasafiri and elsewhere. A graduate from the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, where she was the Writers in Public Schools Fellow, she holds awards and fellowships from Kundiman, Dickinson House, and the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. For Spring 2020, Aber will be the Li Shen Visiting Writer at Mills College. She is at work on a second book of poems and a novel. DUINO MOJITO: muddled mint and a scoop of limone sorbet in a coup glass, topped with rum, fresh lime, and a splash of soda

Friends! Lovers! Nemeses! Hope you're washing your hands! This episode is our first recording entirely remotely—including our interview with special guest Aria Aber, who was gracious enough to deal with a combination of technical difficulties and our muddled quarantine brains. No amount of ambient noise could get in the way of her sheer brilliance though.  <a href="/thepoetsalon/episode/ariaaber.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ARIA ABER</a> was raised in Germany. Her debut book Hard Damage won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was published in September 2019. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, Poem-A-Day, Narrative, Muzzle Magazine, Wasafiri and elsewhere. A graduate from the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, where she was the Writers in Public Schools Fellow, she holds awards and fellowships from Kundiman, Dickinson House, and the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. For Spring 2020, Aber will be the Li Shen Visiting Writer at Mills College. She is at work on a second book of poems and a novel. DUINO MOJITO: muddled mint and a scoop of limone sorbet in a coup glass, topped with rum, fresh lime, and a splash of soda

Aria Aber + Duino Mojito

Hanif Abdurraqib

It's goin up on a Tuesday, dearest listener, and for this week's episode we get into it with the inimitable Hanif Abdurraqib about sneakers, slashes, and suffering for one's art. Mmhmmm. But first your favs chat it up about how many rejections we can take before letting go of a dream journal...  HANIF ABDURRAQIB is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His first full-length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was released in 2016 from Button Poetry, was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His first collection of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was released in 2017 by Two Dollar Radio and was named a book of the year by Buzzfeed, Esquire, NPR, Oprah Magazine, and The Los Angeles Review, among others. Hanif’s book Go Ahead In The Rain published this year by University of Texas Press debuted as a New York Times Best Seller. His next books are A Fortune For Your Disaster from Tin House and They Don't Dance No' Mo'  2020 from Random House. SPRITE in a glass. No ice. Straw optional.

It's goin up on a Tuesday, dearest listener, and for this week's episode we get into it with the inimitable Hanif Abdurraqib about sneakers, slashes, and suffering for one's art. Mmhmmm. But first your favs chat it up about how many rejections we can take before letting go of a dream journal...  <a href="http://www.abdurraqib.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HANIF ABDURRAQIB</a> is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His first full-length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was released in 2016 from Button Poetry, was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His first collection of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was released in 2017 by Two Dollar Radio and was named a book of the year by Buzzfeed, Esquire, NPR, Oprah Magazine, and The Los Angeles Review, among others. Hanif’s book Go Ahead In The Rain published this year by University of Texas Press debuted as a New York Times Best Seller. His next books are A Fortune For Your Disaster from Tin House and They Don't Dance No' Mo'  2020 from Random House. SPRITE in a glass. No ice. Straw optional.

Hanif Abdurraqib + Sprite

Paisley Rekdal

Have you washed your hands yet? Please take care of your selves and each other. This week, we recorded remotely for the first time. After chopping it up about how COVID-19 has affected our relationships to poetry, we dive into a conversation with Paisley Rekdal from a few months ago about mythology, movement, and making difficult editorial choices.  PAISLEY REKDAL  is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee;  the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; and Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. Her newest work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. A new collection of poems, Nightingale, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid's The Metamorphoses, was published spring 2019.  Appropriate: A Provocation, which examines cultural appropriation, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in Feb. 2021.  She is the guest editor for Best American Poetry 2020. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), Narrative's Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web project Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah's Poet Laureate and received a 2019 Academy of American Poets' Poets Laureate Fellowship.  THE DARK SISTER: Pear juice, ginger soda, and a dash of aged balsamic vinegar.

Have you washed your hands yet? Please take care of your selves and each other. This week, we recorded remotely for the first time. After chopping it up about how COVID-19 has affected our relationships to poetry, we dive into a conversation with Paisley Rekdal from a few months ago about mythology, movement, and making difficult editorial choices.  <a href="https://www.paisleyrekdal.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PAISLEY REKDAL</a>  is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee;  the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; and Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. Her newest work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. A new collection of poems, Nightingale, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid's The Metamorphoses, was published spring 2019.  Appropriate: A Provocation, which examines cultural appropriation, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in Feb. 2021.  She is the guest editor for Best American Poetry 2020. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), Narrative's Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web project <a href="http://www.mappingslc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mapping Salt Lake City.</a> In May 2017, she was named <a href="https://heritage.utah.gov/arts-and-museums/poet-laureate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Utah's Poet Laureate</a> and received a 2019 Academy of American Poets' Poets Laureate Fellowship.   THE DARK SISTER: Pear juice, ginger soda, and a dash of aged balsamic vinegar.

Paisley Rekdal + The Dark Sister

Laura Jensen

Look. Last week we got into it over sonnets (which, it turns out, we know a lot more about than prosody!) before diving into a conversation with Oliver de la Paz about his work. This week he brought in Laura Jensen's much-beloved poem "Bad Boats". OLIVER DE LA PAZ is the author of five collections of poetry, Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby (SIU Press 2001, 2007), and Requiem for the Orchard (U. of Akron Press 2010), winner of the Akron Prize for poetry chosen by Martìn Espada, Post Subject: A Fable (U. of Akron Press 2014), and the forthcoming book The Boy in the Labyrinth (U. of Akron Press 2019).  He is the co-editor with Stacey Lynn Brown of A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (U. of Akron Press 2012).  He co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Asian American Poetry. A recipient of a NYFA Fellowship Award and a GAP Grant from Artist Trust, his work has appeared in journals like Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Tin House, Poetry, and in anthologies such as Asian American Poetry:  The Next Generation. He teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in the Low-Residency MFA Program at Pacific Lutheran University.  Laura Jensen was born in Tacoma, Washington, where she continues to reside. She received her BA at the University of Washington and earned an MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Jensen’s collections of poetry include Bad Boats (1977), Memory (1982), and Shelter (1985). Her work has been included in the anthologies In Tahoma’s Shadow: Poems from the City of Destiny (2009), Longman Contemporary Poetry (2nd ed.; 1989), and Northwest Variety: Personal Essays by Fourteen Regional Writers (1987). Jensen has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Washington State Arts Commission, and the Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Fund.

Look. Last week we got into it over sonnets (which, it turns out, we know a lot more about than prosody!) before diving into a conversation with Oliver de la Paz about his work. This week he brought in Laura Jensen's much-beloved poem <a href="https://twitter.com/danalevinpoet/status/452477942946217984/photo/1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Bad Boats".</a> <a href="https://www.oliverdelapaz.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OLIVER DE LA PAZ</a> is the author of five collections of poetry, Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby (SIU Press 2001, 2007), and Requiem for the Orchard (U. of Akron Press 2010), winner of the Akron Prize for poetry chosen by Martìn Espada, Post Subject: A Fable (U. of Akron Press 2014), and the forthcoming book The Boy in the Labyrinth (U. of Akron Press 2019).  He is the co-editor with Stacey Lynn Brown of A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (U. of Akron Press 2012).  He co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Asian American Poetry. A recipient of a NYFA Fellowship Award and a GAP Grant from Artist Trust, his work has appeared in journals like Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Tin House, Poetry, and in anthologies such as Asian American Poetry:  The Next Generation. He teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in the Low-Residency MFA Program at Pacific Lutheran University.  <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/laura-jensen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Laura Jensen</a> was born in Tacoma, Washington, where she continues to reside. She received her BA at the University of Washington and earned an MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Jensen’s collections of poetry include Bad Boats (1977), Memory (1982), and Shelter (1985). Her work has been included in the anthologies In Tahoma’s Shadow: Poems from the City of Destiny (2009), Longman Contemporary Poetry (2nd ed.; 1989), and Northwest Variety: Personal Essays by Fourteen Regional Writers (1987). Jensen has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Washington State Arts Commission, and the Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Fund.

Oliver de la Paz reads Laura Jensen's "Bad Boats"

Geffrey Davis

Dearest beloved—you're back just in time to hear us chop it up about the ethics of writing (and publishing) work about family. And have a beautiful chat with beautiful poet Geffrey Davis. GEFFREY DAVIS is the author of Night Angler (BOA Editions), winner of the 2018 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Revising the Storm ​(BOA Editions), winner of the 2013 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. ​A native of the Pacific Northwest, Davis lives with his family in Fayetteville, AR. He teaches at the University of Arkansas and with The Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran's low-residency MFA program. Davis also serves as poetry editor for Iron Horse Literary Review. BOURBON IN A SMALL GOLD GLASS “if the poem follows / you home, whiskey” —tai freedom ford, “how to get over ["when the poem flirts..."] “beauty you can stick a manicured finger / into and through, beauty that doesn’t rely / on any sentence the sun chants, it’s whiskey / swelter blown scarlet” —Patricia Smith, “Prologue—And Then She Owns You” “I inhale the perfume of the Bourbon rose, then try to separate / what is scent, sense, and what you call memory, what is emotion, where in a / dialogue like touching is it so vibratory and so absorbent of my attention and / longing, with impressions like fingerprints all over.” —Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, “Hello, The Roses”  Sometimes, it’s best to just keep things simple. Sometimes, you just want bourbon in a small gold glass. This was one of those weeks! Bourbon in a Small Gold Glass pairs well with many things, including late-night talks about family, thunderstorms real and remembered, and our early spring conversation with the incredible Geffrey Davis.

Dearest beloved—you're back just in time to hear us chop it up about the ethics of writing (and publishing) work about family. And have a beautiful chat with beautiful poet Geffrey Davis. <a href="https://www.geffreydavis.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GEFFREY DAVIS</a> is the author of <a href="https://www.boaeditions.org/collections/geffrey-davis/products/night-angler" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Night Angler</a> (BOA Editions), winner of the 2018 <a href="https://www.poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/james-laughlin-award" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">James Laughlin Award</a> from the Academy of American Poets, and <a href="https://www.boaeditions.org/products/revising-the-storm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Revising the Storm</a> ​(BOA Editions), winner of the 2013 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. ​A native of the Pacific Northwest, Davis lives with his family in Fayetteville, AR. He teaches at the <a href="http://mfa.uark.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">University of Arkansas</a> and with <a href="https://www.plu.edu/mfa/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Rainier Writing Workshop</a>, Pacific Lutheran's low-residency MFA program. Davis also serves as poetry editor for <a href="https://www.ironhorsereview.com/home2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Iron Horse Literary Review</a>.   <a href="https://www.thepoetsalon.com/alcoholicdrinks/2019/4/1/bourbon-in-a-small-gold-glass" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BOURBON IN A SMALL GOLD GLASS</a>   “if the poem follows / you home, whiskey” —tai freedom ford, <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143491/how-to-get-over-59567037386cd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“how to get over ["when the poem flirts..."]</a> “beauty you can stick a manicured finger / into and through, beauty that doesn’t rely / on any sentence the sun chants, it’s whiskey / swelter blown scarlet” —Patricia Smith, <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55709/prologue-and-then-she-owns-you" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Prologue—And Then She Owns You”</a> “I inhale the perfume of the Bourbon rose, then try to separate / what is scent, sense, and what you call memory, what is emotion, where in a / dialogue like touching is it so vibratory and so absorbent of my attention and / longing, with impressions like fingerprints all over.” —Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58186/hello-the-roses" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Hello, The Roses” </a> Sometimes, it’s best to just keep things simple. Sometimes, you just want bourbon in a small gold glass. This was one of those weeks! Bourbon in a Small Gold Glass pairs well with many things, including late-night talks about family, thunderstorms real and remembered, and our early spring conversation with the incredible Geffrey Davis.

Geffrey Davis + Bourbon in a Small Gold Glass

Brigit Pegeen Kelly

O dear ones—hope you're staying safe and well! We're coming to you from our respective apartments for our second conversation with Paisley Rekdal, who was kind enough to bring in Brigit Pegeen Kelley's "Black Swan". We geeked. If you haven't yet, be sure to check out last week's episode and leave us a sweet review! PAISLEY REKDAL  is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee;  the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; and Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. Her newest work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. A new collection of poems, Nightingale, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid's The Metamorphoses, was published spring 2019.  Appropriate: A Provocation, which examines cultural appropriation, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in Feb. 2021.  She is the guest editor for Best American Poetry 2020. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), Narrative's Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web project Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah's Poet Laureate and received a 2019 Academy of American Poets' Poets Laureate Fellowship.  BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY was born in Palo Alto, California, in 1951. Her first collection of poems, To The Place of Trumpets (1987), was selected by James Merrill for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Song (BOA Editions), which followed in 1995, was the 1994 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets. Her third collection, The Orchard (2004), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Her work has also appeared in several volumes of the Pushcart Prize Anthology and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. She has taught at the University of California at Irvine, Purdue University, Warren Wilson College, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, as well as numerous writers' conferences in the United States and Ireland. In 2002 the University of Illinois awarded her both humanities and campus-wide awards for excellence in teaching. She died in October 2016.

O dear ones—hope you're staying safe and well! We're coming to you from our respective apartments for our second conversation with Paisley Rekdal, who was kind enough to bring in <a href="https://poets.org/poem/black-swan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Brigit Pegeen Kelley's "Black Swan"</a>. We geeked. If you haven't yet, be sure to check out last week's episode and leave us a sweet review! <a href="https://www.paisleyrekdal.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PAISLEY REKDAL</a>  is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee;  the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; and Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. Her newest work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. A new collection of poems, Nightingale, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid's The Metamorphoses, was published spring 2019.  Appropriate: A Provocation, which examines cultural appropriation, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in Feb. 2021.  She is the guest editor for Best American Poetry 2020. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), Narrative's Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web project <a href="http://www.mappingslc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mapping Salt Lake City.</a> In May 2017, she was named <a href="https://heritage.utah.gov/arts-and-museums/poet-laureate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Utah's Poet Laureate</a> and received a 2019 Academy of American Poets' Poets Laureate Fellowship.  <a href="https://poets.org/poet/brigit-pegeen-kelly" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY</a> was born in Palo Alto, California, in 1951. Her first collection of poems, To The Place of Trumpets (1987), was selected by <a href="https://poets.org/poetsorg/poet/james-merrill" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">James Merrill</a> for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Song (BOA Editions), which followed in 1995, was the 1994 <a href="https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/james-laughlin-award" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lamont Poetry Selection</a> of the Academy of American Poets. Her third collection, The Orchard (2004), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Her work has also appeared in several volumes of the Pushcart Prize Anthology and several volumes of <a href="https://poets.org/poetsorg/book/great-anthology-best-american-poetry-series" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Best American Poetry</a>. She has taught at the University of California at Irvine, Purdue University, Warren Wilson College, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, as well as numerous writers' conferences in the United States and Ireland. In 2002 the University of Illinois awarded her both humanities and campus-wide awards for excellence in teaching. She died in October 2016.

Paisley Rekdal reads Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "Black Swan"

Hello dearest dearests—what a time to be alive listening to podcasts! If you're here, you probably know the drill already. If not, you're about to hear a thoughtful and laugh-filled conversation with Taneum Bambrick about sturgeon, sex, and stuff you throw in the trash. If you're new to The Poet Salon, stay tuned for next week, where she brings a poem for us to fawn over.  Taneum Bambrick is the author of Vantage, which was selected by Sharon Olds for the 2019 American Poetry Review/Honickman first book award (Copper Canyon Press 2019). Her chapbook, Reservoir, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Chapbook Prize. A graduate of the University of Arizona’s MFA program, she is the winner of an Academy of American Poets University Prize, an  Environmental Writing Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Arts Center, and the 2018 BOOTH Nonfiction Contest. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, PEN, Narrative, The Missouri Review, 32 Poems, West Branch, and elsewhere. She has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. End of Tour Toddy: A regular Hot Toddy with a splash of hopped mead

Hello dearest dearests—what a time to be alive listening to podcasts! If you're here, you probably know the drill already. If not, you're about to hear a thoughtful and laugh-filled conversation with Taneum Bambrick about sturgeon, sex, and stuff you throw in the trash. If you're new to The Poet Salon, stay tuned for next week, where she brings a poem for us to fawn over.  <a href="https://www.taneumbambrick.com/about" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Taneum Bambrick</a> is the author of Vantage, which was selected by Sharon Olds for the 2019 American Poetry Review/Honickman first book award (Copper Canyon Press 2019). Her chapbook, Reservoir, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Chapbook Prize. A graduate of the University of Arizona’s MFA program, she is the winner of an Academy of American Poets University Prize, an  Environmental Writing Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Arts Center, and the 2018 BOOTH Nonfiction Contest. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, PEN, Narrative, The Missouri Review, 32 Poems, West Branch, and elsewhere. She has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. End of Tour Toddy: A regular Hot Toddy with a splash of hopped mead

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Gerald Stern

What's delighting you fam. Last week, we talked with Tito Sauce about discipline, death, and, of course, delight. For this week's convo, Uncle Ross brought in for us "The Dog" by Gerald Stern. Listen and weep. ROSS GAY is the author of three books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His collection of essays,The Book of Delights, was released by Algonquin Books in 2019. Ross is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Ross teaches at Indiana University.  GERALD STERN has been called an “American original,” “a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary,” and, by his friend Stanley Kunitz, “the wilderness in American poetry.” Over dozens of books, and decades of teaching and activism, Stern has emerged as one of America’s most celebrated and irascible poets. “His second poetry collection, Lucky Life (1977), was the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and nominated for a National Book Award. His next, The Red Coal (1981), received the Melville Caine Award from the Poetry Society of American. Subsequent collections include Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems (1990); Bread Without Sugar (1992), winner of the Paterson Prize; This Time: New and Selected Poems (1998), which won the National Book Award; Last Blue (2002); American Sonnets (2002); Everything is Burning (2005); Save the Last Dance (2008);  Early Collected Poems: 1965–1992 (2010), a volume collecting six of Stern’s earliest books; Galaxy Love (2017); and Blessed As We Were: Late Selected &amp; New (forthcoming). Stern has also written two collections of essays, including the autobiographical What I Can’t Bear Losing: Notes from a Life (2004; 2009).  

What's delighting you fam. Last week, we talked with Tito Sauce about discipline, death, and, of course, delight. For this week's convo, Uncle Ross brought in for us "The Dog" by Gerald Stern. Listen and weep. <a href="http://www.rossgay.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ROSS GAY</a> is the author of three books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His collection of essays,The Book of Delights, was released by Algonquin Books in 2019. Ross is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.bloomingtoncommunityorchard.org/site/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bloomington Community Orchard</a>, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Ross teaches at Indiana University.  <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gerald-stern" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GERALD STERN</a> has been called an “American original,” “a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary,” and, by his friend <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/stanley-kunitz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stanley Kunitz</a>, “the wilderness in American poetry.” Over dozens of books, and decades of teaching and activism, Stern has emerged as one of America’s most celebrated and irascible poets. “His second poetry collection, Lucky Life (1977), was the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and nominated for a National Book Award. His next, The Red Coal (1981), received the Melville Caine Award from the Poetry Society of American. Subsequent collections include Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems (1990); Bread Without Sugar (1992), winner of the Paterson Prize; This Time: New and Selected Poems (1998), which won the National Book Award; Last Blue (2002); American Sonnets (2002); Everything is Burning (2005); Save the Last Dance (2008);  Early Collected Poems: 1965–1992 (2010), a volume collecting six of Stern’s earliest books; Galaxy Love (2017); and Blessed As We Were: Late Selected &amp; New (forthcoming). Stern has also written two collections of essays, including the autobiographical What I Can’t Bear Losing: Notes from a Life (2004; 2009).

Ross Gay reads Gerald Stern's "The Dog"

Erika Meitner

Dear ones: we were blessed for this week's episode to have Erika Meitner come through. We chatted it up about documentary poetics, political rhetoric, pop culture detritus, saviors, and more. But before that conversation, your cute hosts waded into the *poetry plagarism* discussion.  ERIKA MEITNER is the author of five books of poems. Her first book, Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore, won the 2002 Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and was published in 2003 by Anhinga Press. Her second book, Ideal Cities, was selected by Paul Guest as a winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series competition, and was published in 2010 by HarperCollins. Her third collection, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, was published by Anhinga Press in 2011. Her fourth collection of poems, Copia, was published by BOA Editions in 2014 as part of their American Poets Continuum Series, and her newest collection, Holy Moly Carry Me, was also published by BOA Editions in September 2018. Holy Moly Carry Me is the winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in poetry, and a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle award in poetry. HIBISCUS ON THE SLEEPING SHORES “Shut to the blather that the water made / Rose up besprent and sought the sleeping red… all the stupid afternoon” —Wallace Stevens, “Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores” This drink glows a bright, hypnotic pink in the light, making it a perfect day-drinking cocktail. Pairs well with a view of water, naps in the sun, and our conversation with the equally bright, equally delightful Erika Meitner. INGREDIENTS: Ice, Gin, Tonic Water, Fresh lime, Hibiscus tea (strong, chilled), Hibiscus bloom (garnish, optional) *Your ratios are your own—Mix it to taste!

Dear ones: we were blessed for this week's episode to have Erika Meitner come through. We chatted it up about documentary poetics, political rhetoric, pop culture detritus, saviors, and more. But before that conversation, your cute hosts waded into the *poetry plagarism* discussion.  <a href="http://erikameitner.com/about-erika/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ERIKA MEITNER</a> is the author of five books of poems. Her first book, Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore, won the 2002 Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and was published in 2003 by Anhinga Press. Her second book, Ideal Cities, was selected by Paul Guest as a winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series competition, and was published in 2010 by HarperCollins. Her third collection, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, was published by Anhinga Press in 2011. Her fourth collection of poems, Copia, was published by BOA Editions in 2014 as part of their American Poets Continuum Series, and her newest collection, Holy Moly Carry Me, was also published by BOA Editions in September 2018. Holy Moly Carry Me is the winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in poetry, and a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle award in poetry. <a href="https://www.thepoetsalon.com/alcoholicdrinks/2019/4/1/hibiscus-on-the-sleeping-shores" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HIBISCUS ON THE SLEEPING SHORES</a> “Shut to the blather that the water made / Rose up besprent and sought the sleeping red… all the stupid afternoon” —Wallace Stevens, <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=15368" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores”</a> This drink glows a bright, hypnotic pink in the light, making it a perfect day-drinking cocktail. Pairs well with a view of water, naps in the sun, and our conversation with the equally bright, equally delightful Erika Meitner. INGREDIENTS: Ice, Gin, Tonic Water, Fresh lime, Hibiscus tea (strong, chilled), Hibiscus bloom (garnish, optional) *Your ratios are your own—Mix it to taste!

Erika Meitner + Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores

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