POST POET POP

Post Poet Pop, Episode 29 features the work of Sara Larsen, specifically her latest book, Detonated Mirror . The book makes me ask, What is a body and what is a body’s destruction? As the work you will hear Sara Larsen read in this episode reflects how body may be parenthetical, an echo, Russian doll-esque, as poetry may also be. The work is crucial at the moment to take deeper looks at how self r...

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual assault. What does it mean to be silent in an era of necessary refusal? This question has taken many forms of late, for me, especially following my interview with this episode's featured poet—David McLoghlin, whose third collection of poems, Crash Centre , is just out from Salmon Poetry in Ireland. To begin the book, David employs an epigraph, a Latin proverb:...

Post Poet Pop, Episode 27 features poems from the new anthology of Venezuelan poets living in Chile entitled A Scar Where Goodbyes Are Written (Louisiana State University Press, 2023). The anthology showcases the work of 15 poets, including: Ivana Aponte, Georgina Ramírez, Miguel Ortiz Rodríguez, Sara Emanuel Viloria (all of whose work you will hear today) and many others. The book is translated a...

Post Poet Pop, Episode 26 features the bike commuting, softball coaching, Oakland A's loving poet and scholar, Jared Stanley. He is the author of So Tough (Saturnalia Books, 2024), and it's that title of Jared's book that made me think about the always-reaching descriptor that the word "tough" is. So Tough is a sequential, set-in-octet book that appears gentle, in a visual sense, but doesn’t waste...

Post Poet Pop, Episode 25 features the poet Kristina Erny, the author of Elijah Fed By Ravens (Solum Literary Press, 2024). In her own words, Kristina Erny is a third culture person who was raised in Seoul and is always homesick for somewhere. She is a poet, a visual artist, a teacher, a wife, a mother, and a foreigner. We conducted this conversation via voice message letters, in which I was sendi...

Post Poet Pop, Episode 24 features the poet Douglas Piccinnini. Douglas is an interdisciplinary artist and author and his latest poetry collection, Beautiful, Safe & Free (New Books, 2023) examines origins and the ordinary under new light and scrutiny. Douglas writes, in the poem, "In America," "I imagine myself / through desire / to numb myself [...] I'm brutal, at first, unsanitary / aroused...

Post Poet Pop, Episode 23 features the poet Kristi Maxwell and her 2023 Wishing Jewel Prize winning book, Goners , with poems set in lipogram form and organized around the names of endangered or extinct species. In the opening essay in the collection, Kristi writes: In The New Poetics of Climate Change, Matthew Griffiths asks, “Must poetry of climate change belong in the tradition of the pastoral...

Post Poet Pop, Episode 22 features the poet Isaac Pickell. Isaac Pickell is a Black & Jewish poet, and was raised in Michigan near the back of his parents’ used bookstore. He graduated from Miami University's MFA program, and is currently a PhD candidate, and an adjunct instructor in Detroit where he is working on his dissertation called “Passing Over, Passing Through: Transgressive Ambig...

Post Poet Pop, Episode 21 features not 1 but 2 poets who reside at opposite ends of the US—Elizabeth Metzger and Timothy Donnelly.  Elizabeth lives in LA and is the editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books and author of (her second book) Lying In —which we will focus on today—and has just been published by Milkweed Editions in 2023. Elizabeth writes, at the end of the poem, “Daughter As Myse...

The poet Lao Yang (via translators Lynn Xu and Joshua Edwards) writes, in his poem, “Imitation of Autobiography” (from the collection Pee Poems published by Circumference Books in 2022): At night Each person is lifted into their own starry sky To meet a self who has been resurrected again and again To encounter the boundlessness of darkness Today’s episode features the work of the 3 brilliant poet...

Post Poet Pop, Episode 19 features the work and conversation of poet, scholar, photographer and more—A.H. Jerriod Avant. Jerriod has just seen his first collection of poems— Muscadine— come to life, published by Four Way Books this month, September 2023. Muscadine, for anyone who may not know, is a type of vined grape that grows in the US South and has long been used for jams, preserves, and even...

Welcome to the 18th episode of Post Poet Pop; This is Part 2 of a dedicated set featuring poets from the Once A City Said Louisville poets anthology put out by Sarabande Books and launched this summer. You can purchase the book, here , and you can learn more about the featured poets by visiting the links below. I would like to dedicate this episode to: James Taylor, Michael Newby, David McAtee, an...

Welcome to the 17th episode of Post Poet Pop; This is Part 1 of a dedicated set featuring poets from the Once A City Said Louisville poets anthology put out by Sarabande Books and launched this summer. You can purchase the book, here , and you can learn more about the featured poets by visiting the links below. I would like to dedicate this episode to: James Taylor, Michael Newby, David McAtee, an...

Post Poet Pop, Episode 16 features the poet Olivia Muenz. Olivia is a disabled writer from New York. She won the 2022 Gatewood Prize for the poetry collection, I Feel Fine published by Switchback Books this year and which we will be putting under the spotlight today. Olivia was an undergraduate at New York University and went on to earn an MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University, w...

Post Poet Pop, Episode 15 features the poet Jared Daniel Fagen. Jared was born in South Korea and teaches in Manhattan at City College as he completes his PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center. His work has been featured in The Brooklyn Rail , Fence , Lana Turner , and Asymptote , among other publications. He is also the editor and publisher of Black Sun Lit. Jared has previously said that he wants read...

Post Poet Pop, Episode 14 features the poet Danika Stegeman. Danika is not only prolific and driven when it comes to her poetry practice but in her work, she does not shy away from the uncomfortable or the difficult. She engages in new formalism on her own—some of which are blended into existing conceptualist approaches (assemblage, erasure, etc.) and some of which she creates originally. Today, w...

Post Poet Pop, Episode 13 features the poet Mackenzie Berry. Mackenzie is a not only from Louisville, Kentucky but she is a beacon of positive representation of this, her hometown. Her debut poetry collection— Slack Tongue City  (Sundress Publications, 2022)—is a compendium of Louisville nostalgia and detail, and it is a compass of what it means to bring your hometown along with you as you mo...

Post Poet Pop, Episode 8 features Toby Altman—a poet, scholar, documentarian, and author of Discipline Park (selected as an Editor's pick from Wendy's Subway). Toby was born in the Prentice Women's hospital, designed by the architect Bertrand Goldberg, and has tracked the demolition of that building. He has traveled to many of Bertrand Goldberg's buildings to place his self as poet at the epicente...

Post Poet Pop, Episode 6 features Julia Guez—a poet, translator, Fulbright recipient, Columbia MFA, and much more. She's published 2 books of her own poetry with Four Way Books—'In An Invisible Glass Case Which Is Also a Frame' (2019) and 'The Certain Body' (2022). Find out more about her at JuliaGuez.net . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.