Waves Breaking

Như and I discussed her recent chapbook A System of Satellites and her writing practice, finding dignity as a trans poet, and writing past ingrained fear and doubt.   She also asked me questions. Hear me stumble trying to answer questions about my writing practice and how I approach writing with personal experiences. Như Xuân Nguyễn is a queer and trans Vietnamese American poet and writer. A Kundiman Fellow and a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Rutgers-Newark, she won the 2018 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship with her debut chapbook A System of Satellites. Her work has appeared in The Offing, DELUGE (Radioactive Moat), The Journal, The Shade Journal, and Juked. She is currently based in New York City, where she lives with her two cats, Arya and Azula.  Như's website Buy Như's chapbook   Note: I refer to a NOLA poetry fest panel that is no longer happening due to COVID-19. Wash your hands and stay at home, everyone.   People and Books Mentioned: Adrian Matejka Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings Tracy May Fuad  Emily Luan  Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz   The Sound of Waves Breaking: Lunar Wind, @Walter_Odington

This episode, I got to talk with sung! sung is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Korea. They are the author of What About the Rest of Your Life (Perfect Day Publishing) and Flowers Are for Pussies (Ghost City Press). Their work has appeared in Nat. Brut, Kweli Journal, Contrary, The James Franco Review, The Wanderer, and Crab Fat Magazine.   Media, artists, books, etc mentioned in this episode: sung's website sung's Twitter Kaveh Akbar bag of dirt tweet  Jamie Berrout's essays against publishing Interview with Kaveh Akbar where he discusses "Poems are rarely on the side of power." Not mentioned in the episode, but looks interesting to read (and it's free online!) on the subject of trauma and how our culture makes it a commodity: Decolonizing Trauma Studies: Trauma and Postcolonialism Paintbucket  "To eat the fruit climb the tree" poem Black Orpheus soundtrack Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit by Aisha Sabatini Sloan "On Basquiat, the Black Body, and a Strange Sensation in My Neck" by Aisha Sabatini Sloan Kendra Allen's When You Learn the Alphabet The sound of waves breaking is "Wynd" by weerm This episode's editor and social media manager is Mitchel Davidovitz

In this episode, I had the opportunity to talk with Zefyr Lisowski about her book Blood Box. Zefyr Lisowski is a trans and queer writer, artist, and North Carolinian currently living in NYC. She's a Poetry Co-editor for Apogee Journal and the author of Blood Box, winner of the Black River Editor's Choice Award from Black Lawrence Press and forthcoming fall 2019; she's also the author of the microchap Wolf Inventory (Ghost City Press, 2018) and is a 2019 Tin House Summer Workshop Fellow. Zefyr's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lit Hub, Nat. Brut., Muzzle Magazine, and DIAGRAM, among many other places; she's also received support from Sundress Academy for the Arts, McGill University, the New York Live Ideas Fest, and the 2019 CUNY Graduate Center Adjunct Incubator Grant for the arts. A 2018 nominee for the Pushcart Prize, she also goes by Zef. Zefyr Lisowski's website Go buy Blood Box!  Media, artists, books, etc mentioned in this episode: Sharon Pollock's play Blood Relations Angela Davis's short story "The Fall River Axe Murders" Angela Davis's Bloody Chamber Lizzie Borden's film Born in Flames Lizzie (2018 film) Muriel Leung  Joey De Jesus  Jessie Rice Evans  Cyree Jarelle Johnson's SLINGSHOT  (and here's my interview with Cyree) Diana Khoi Nguyen's Ghost Of  Johanna Hedva's "Sick Woman Theory"  @Mx_ctrl is my Instagram handle, and...I definitely failed Inktober  Samuel Ace/ Linda Smukler's Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don't wash.  Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz Sound of Waves Breaking is "Cicada Single" by Jedo.

This episode, I had the chance to speak with Cyrée Jarelle Johnson about their book, SLINGSHOT. Cyrée Jarelle Johnson (He/They) is a poet and writer from Piscataway, NJ. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Review, Wussy, The Wanderer, Vice, Rewire News, The Root, and Nat. Brut among other publications. They earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University with support from Davis Putter Scholarship Fund. SLINGSHOT, his first collection of poetry, is available now from Nightboat Books. Development of the work was supported by Astraea Foundations' Global Arts Fund, Culture/Strike Climate Change and Environmental Justice Fellowship, and Rewire News Disabled Writers Fellowship. They tweet with significant queer millenial ennui at @CyreeJarelle  Cyrée's website  Cyrée's TED Talk "What is Autism Neutrality?"  Authors and books mentioned in the episode: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Tonguebreaker and Care Work  Kay Undlay Barrett's When the Chant Comes Britteney Black Rose Kapri's Black Queer Hoe Yanyi's Year of Blue Water  The Sound of Waves Breaking was "Natural Disaster" by @davidthomascairns  Editor, Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz Host, Producer: Avren Keating

It's been a minute! Thanks for your patience as I've slogged through life. In this episode I spoke with Samuel Ace about his book Our Weather Our Sea. Samuel Ace is a trans/genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author of several books, most recently Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish 2019), the newly re-issued Meet Me There: Normal Sex and Home in three days. Don't wash., (Belladonna* Germinal Texts 2019), and Stealth with poet Maureen Seaton. He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer Award and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry, as well as a two-time finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. Recent work can be found in Poetry, PEN America, Best American Experimental Poetry, Vinyl, and many other journals and anthologies. He currently teaches poetry and creative writing at Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts. Sam's website Buy Our Weather Our Sea Also buy Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don't wash. Books, poets, artists, etc mentioned in this episode: Ari Banias  Oliver Baez Bendorf  TC Tolbert's "Dear Melissa"  j/j hastain Julie Carr's Real Life: An Installation Ronaldo Wilson's Lucy 72 Douglas Kearney's Mess and Mess and  M. NourbeSe Philip's ZONG!  Ching-In Chen's recombinant  Sawako Nakayasu's Mouth Eats Color  Harmony Holiday a reading from 2015  LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs's Twerk Caroline Bergvall's sound installations  Cecilia Vicuña's New and Selected Poems Saborami (Chainlinks) Tracie Morris two poems Andrea Abi-Karam's EXTRATRANSMISSION  Orlando White LETTERRS  Maureen Seaton  Rickey Laurentiis  Philip B. Williams  Ocean Vuong  Farid Matuk  Kaveh Akbar  Angel Dominguez's D E S G R A C I A D O  Ariana Reines's A Sand Book  Trace Peterson's Since I Moved In  Go listen to my interview with Roy over at the Marxist Poetry Podcast The Sound of Waves Breaking: Samuel Ace's "These Nights"  Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz

I had the opportunity to talk with S. Brook Corfman at AWP this year! S. Brook Corfman is the author of Luxury, Blue Lace, chosen by Richard Siken for the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize, and two chapbooks: the letterpress Meteorites from DoubleCross Press and the digital collection of performance pieces The Anima from GaussPDF. The recipient of grants and fellowships from Lambda Literary, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, recent work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Indiana Review, Muzzle, The Offing, Territory, and Quarterly West (Best of the Net Nomination), among other places. Born and raised in Chicago, Sam now lives in a turret in Pittsburgh. S's website Luxury, Blue Lace Meteorites (chapbook) Writers, topics, etc, mentioned in the show: Collection of essays on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) and why it's bad science I should not be surprised someone wrote a thinkpiece on The Little Mermaid as transgender figure Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice A review of the version S. saw in Chicago Dawn Lundy Martin S recommends Discipline Mei Mei Berssenbrugge This episode's Editor and Social Media Manager is Mitchel Davidovitz The Sound of Waves Breaking is a field recording of kids playing at a park during the day by JohnnyBeCrafty

Hello, hello! Happy Spring! I'm here with another interview for you fine people. I had the opportunity to interview B'ellana Johannx aka Chloe Rose about their two upcoming chapbooks!  B'ellana Johannx's gender is Rilke's dark god: a webbed scrim made of a thousand roots drinking in silence. Also known as Chloe Rose, she/they are a fat, queer, femme, non-binary womxn-of-color living with disabilities and their cats Franz and Pepper in Tacoma, WA. Rose/Johannx has been published in The Wanderer, Dream Pop, and Aspasiology, with Pushcart and Bettering American Poetry nominations henny, so watch out! Tweet them about conlangs, antifa, witchcraft, and drag names @llanaandsuchas. If you are a faggot, you are her/their kin and they love you. May the peace of the Goddess and God be upon you. #SMIB B'ellana's website B'ellana's Twitter  Writers, books, ideas, musicians mentioned: BBC News reporting on Fatbergs Cruising Utopia and Disidentifications by José Esteban Muñoz Raquel Salas Rivera  Kolby Harvey In a Queer Time and Place by Jack Halberstam  blackbox of butterfly goo   Never Angeline Nørth, aka , aka Møss Høpe Ångel, fka Moss Angel the Undying, fka Moss Angel Witchmonstr, fka Sara June Woods, fka Sara Woods  Infancy Gospel of Thomas Epimemetics / cultural mimetics: This Wired article from the 90s and also the more contemporary: Thomas Hobson and Kaajal Modi, "Communist Imaginaries and Queer Futures: Memes as Sites of Collective Imagination" coming soon as part of this anthology  Beast Meridian while they sleep (under the bed another country) by Raquel Salas Rivera Cruel Fiction by Wendy Trevino Big Lucks Dream Pop Femmescapes zine The Faggots and their Friends between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell  Sea-Witch by Never Angeline North Lizzo  listicle about BLACKPINK "The Sound of Waves Breaking" is titled "Ghost Merkel Beat" by stanrams and made me laugh my ass off. This episode was edited and media managed by Mitchel Davidovitz

I'm back! Hello! I got to talk with Andrea Abi-Karam this time, and I had a blast catching up with them about their latest book "EXTRATRANSMISSION." Andrea Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg, writing on the art of killing bros, the intricacies of cyborg bodies, trauma & delayed healing. Their chapbook, THE AFTERMATH (Commune Editions, 2016), attempts to queer Fanon's vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Simone White selected their second assemblage, Villainy for forthcoming publication with Les Figues. They toured with Sister Spit March 2018 & are hype to live in New York. EXTRATRANSMISSION [Kelsey Street Press, 2019] is their first book. Andrea's Website Andrea's Twitter Spray Tan's bandcamp Rob Halpern's Music for Porn Jennifer Terry's "Significant Injury:War, Medicine, and Empire in Claudia's Case" (Andrea didn't specifically name this paper, but I felt it was relevant).  Jasbir Puar's Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times Sister Spit Tour 2018 Equine Therapy for Military Veterans  Nightboat Books  Jasmin Gibson Don't Let Them See Me Like This Wendy Travino's Cruel Fiction Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's Sketchtasy  This episode's editor and social media manager was Mitchel Davidovitz. The "Sound of Waves Breaking" was Spray Tan's "SOLOSLUT."

This month I got to talk to June Gehringer about her latest book. June Gehringer is the author of "I Love You It Looks Like Rain" (Be About It 2017), and "I Don't Write About Race" (Civil Coping Mechanisms 2018), the latter of which was the winner of Civil Coping Mechanisms's 2017 Mainline contest. She lives in Philadelphia and has more crushes than she can count. She tweets about it @june_gehringer, and if you're a press interested in her next book you can reach her at gehringercat@gmail.com . She's also an editor over at tenderness lit.  I Don't Write About Race can be purchased here.    Writers, presses, musicians mentioned in the show: Peyton Burgess Danez Smith Prairie M. Faul Sung Yim Naadeyah Haseeb glo worm press EVIL MTN jayy dodd p.e. garcia Alexandra Naughton Mitski Kristin Chang Hanif Abburraqib The Wanderer Zack Blackwood Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz The Sound of Waves Breaking

In this episode I got to speak to Chase Berggrun about their new book R E D (Birds, LLC, 2018). Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Pinwheel, PEN Poetry Series, Sixth Finch, Diagram, The Offing, Prelude, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. They received their MFA from New York University. They are Poetry Editor at Big Lucks. Chase's website Chase's Twitter Go Buy R E D List of things and people mentioned in this episode: Bram Stoker's novel Dracula Dodie Bellamy's The Letters of Mina Harker Cathy Park Hong essay: "Delusion of Whiteness in the Avant-Garde" Joey De Jesus essay: "Goldsmith, Conceptualism & the Half-baked Rationalization of White Idiocy" Solamz Sharif essay "The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and Poetical: Erasure" Solmaz Sharif's LOOK Matt Rasmussen's Black Aperture Jos Charles' feeld George Abraham: al youm: for yesterday & her inherited traumas Gala Mukomolova's One Above, One Below: Positions and Lamentations Leslie Jameson's The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath Tommy Pico's podcasts Food 4 Thot and Junk The Parent Trap starring Lindsay Lohan and Lindsay Lohan Spongebob asexually reproducing   Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz Sound of Waves Breaking

This month I got to talk with Luis Lopez-Maldonado. Prepare yourself, this episode gets a little more sexy than usual. Luis is a Xicanx poeta, playwright, dancer, choreographer, and educator. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California Riverside in Creative Writing and Dance. His poetry has been seen in The American Poetry Review, Foglifter, The Packinghouse Review, Public Pool, and Spillway, among many others. He also earned a Master of Arts degree in Dance from Florida State University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame. He is currently a co-founder and editor at The Brillantina Project.  Luis' website Luis' Twitter Luis is on Instagram @luis.lopezmaldonado The Artist is Present Wicked Follow Waves Breaking on Twitter at @WavesBreakPod, or email at wavesbreakingshow@gmail.com Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz The Sound of Waves Breaking: LA/Orange County Metro

This month I got to chat with Kayleb Rae Candrilli. Kayleb is author of "What Runs Over," winner of the 2016 Pamet River Prize, with YesYes Books. "What Runs Over" is a 2017 Lambda Literary finalist for Transgender Poetry. Candrilli is published or forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, Booth, RHINO, Cream City Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Adroit, Bettering American Poetry, Boaat Press, Vinyl, CutBank, Muzzle, New Orleans Review, and many others. ​ They have served as the nonfiction editor of the Black Warrior Review and as a feature editor for NANO Fiction. They are now an Assistant Poetry Editor for Boaat Press. In 2015, Candrilli was a Lambda Literary Emerging Fellow in Nonfiction, and again in 2017 as a fellow in poetry. Kayleb is a Best of the Net winner and has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes (in prose and poetry) and for Best New Poets. They were also a 2017 recipient of a Leeway Art and Change Grant. Authors and music mentioned in this episode: Kayleb's website: https://www.krcandrilli.com Purchase "What Runs Over" here: https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/what-runs-over-by-kayleb-rae-candrilli Nabila Lovelace "Sons of Achilles" https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/sons-of-achilles-by-nabila-lovelace Shaelyn Smith "The Leftovers" http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/books/the-leftovers Jamie Mortara "GOOD MORNING AMERICA I'M HUNGRY AND ON FIRE" https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/good-morning-america-i-am-hungry-and-on-fire-by-jamie-mortara Chase Berggrun "R E D" http://www.birdsllc.com/catalog/red Lynette Reeman: https://www.linettereeman.net Post-ironic bummer pop band Coping Skills: https://copingskills.bandcamp.com/album/worst-new-music Swedish EDM Kasbo: https://www.edmsauce.com/tag/kasbo/ The Sound of Waves Breaking is here: https://freesound.org/people/kickhat/sounds/328969/ This episode is edited by Mitchel Davidovitz. Mitchel Davidovitz is also the Social Media Manager. You can contact Avren on twitter @WavesBreakPod, and on Facebook at "Waves Breaking Podcast," and through email wavesbreakingshow@gmail.com.

This month(ish) I got to interview Nat Raha! Nat Raha is a poet and trans / queer activist, living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her poetry includes two collections countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013) and Octet (Veer Books, 2010); and numerous pamphlets including 'de/compositions' (Enjoy Your Homes Press, 2017), '£/€xtinctions' (sociopathetic distro, 2017), '[of sirens / body & faultlines]' (Veer Books, 2015), 'radio / threat' (sociopathetic distro, 2014) and 'mute exterior intimate' (Oystercatcher Press, 2013). She's performed and published her work internationally. Nat co-edited the Radical Transfeminism zine, and is currently finishing PhD in on queer Marxism and contemporary poetry at the University of Sussex. http://sociodistro.tumblr.com (if you go here, there's pdfs of £/€xtinctions, the first edition '[of sirens...], and 'radio/threat') http://sociopatheticsemaphores.blogspot.com Ideas and writers discussed in this episode: Psychogeography Situationism Guy Debord Ivan Chtcheglov Sonic Youth My Bloody Valentine early Austerity 2011 England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme The New York School Sean Bonney "The Commons" Nat Raha's essay "Transfeminine Brokenness, Radical Transfeminism" https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article/116/3/632/129746/Transfeminine-Brokenness-Radical-Transfeminism  Lauren Berlant's idea of "slow death" found in her book "Cruel Optimism" Verity Spott, "Click Away Close Door Say" http://www.contrabandbooks.co.uk/verity-spott/ Linus Slug, Mendoza, Tommy Peeps, Insect Librarian: ninerrors http://ninerrors.blogspot.com Jay Bernard: http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/19397/29/Jay-Bernard Nisha Ramayya Frances Kruk Vahni Capildeo, Measures of Expatriation This episode was edited and social media managed by Mitchel Davidovitz The Sound of Waves Breaking is from CadereSounds, freesound.org

This month I got to speak with Chely Lima and Margaret Randall, the translator for his new collection of poetry What the Werewolf Told Them/ Le que los dijo el licantropo. Chely Lima is a queer Cuban-American writer who has published numerous books (poetry, novel, short story, theater, literature for children) in his country of origin, and also in Spain, United States, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador. Some of these books are the novels Lucrecia quiere decir perfidia (2015), Triángulos mágicos (2014) and Confesiones nocturnas (1994), as well as the poetry books Zona de silencio (2004), Discurso de la amante (2013), and Lo que les dijo el licántropo / What the Werewolf told them (2017). His texts have been translated into English, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, Czech and Esperanto, and numerous selections and anthologies of literature from various parts of the world collect samples of his work.  ** Listeners can use the code WAVES for a 20% on ANY *OS* book directly through our online store, here: https://squareup.com/store/the-operating-system/ **  Books, authors, and ideas mentioned in this episode: Chely Lima's blog What the Werewolf Told Them/ Lo que los dijo el licantropo Margaret Randall's website The Operating System Jungian concept of the shadow   An article about androgyny and shamanism, though I would exercise caution around its terminology, which might be harmful for non-binary POC folks in its use of the term "third gender"   Viracocha and Dionysus   Alberto Serret   Editing and Social Media Management mangaed by none other than Mitchel Davidovitz   Sound of Waves Breaking: Wolves in Finland

This month I had the opportunity to interview H. Melt about the anthology they've just edited: Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation.    H. Melt is a poet, activist, and educator whose work proudly celebrates Chicago's queer and trans communities. Their writing has appeared many places including In These Times, The Offing, and Them, the first trans literary journal in the United States. They are the author of The Plural, The Blurring and editor of Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation. Lambda Literary awarded them the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers and they've been named to Newcity's Lit 50 list, as well as Windy City Times' 30 under 30. H. Melt co-leads Queeriosity at Young Chicago Authors and works at Women & Children First, Chicago's feminist bookstore.   Writers, books and artists mentioned in this episode:   Subject to Change anthology Joshua Jennifer Espinoza  Christopher Soto AKA Loma Beyza Ozer  Cameron Awkward-Rich Kay Ulanday Barrett  Jay Besemer KOKUMO Troubling the Line anthology H. Melt's book The Plural, The Blurring H. Melt's website Women and Children First Bookstore Jesse Jacobs' work Crawl Space   Sound of Waves Breaking: butter melting in a pan   Editing and Marketing by: Mitchel Davidovitz   WE HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA: check out our new facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WavesBreakPod/ and our new Twitter account at @WavesBreakPod   You can, of course, always reach me at wavesbreakingshow@gmail.com 

This month, I had the pleasure of meeting Venus Selenite in person while she started her first leg of her #RehabYearTour. Venus is a Bettering American Poetry 2016 nominee, a 2017 Pink Door Fellow, and one of the most notable trans women of color interdisciplinary artists in the United States. She is the author of two books: trigger and the fire been here. She lives in Washington, D.C. and the internet. Venus's website Venus's Patreon trigger The Fire Been Here James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time Nameless Woman anthology Goddess X KOKUMỌ J Mase III Jamie Berrout Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi  Her new book: For Black Trans Girls Who Gotta Cuss a Motherfucker Out When Snatching an Edge Ain't Enough Jayy Dodd  Their new book Mannish Tongues Also, shameless plug for my interview with them back on Episode 10 What you can do to support trans artists of color (thread) The Sound of Waves Breaking is by Chris Lynn, a recording of voices in Washington, D.C. near the Jefferson Memorial.   The editor is Mitchel Davidovitz, and the show is produced by me. 

This month I speak with Raquel Salas Rivera from their residence in Puerto Rico. Raquel Salas Rivera es una poeta, traductora, ensayista y educadora puertorriqueña que vive y trabaja en Filadelfia. Ha publicado poemas, traducciones y ensayos en numerosas revistas y antologías; también ha publicado cuatro libros de poesía: Caneca de anhelos turbios (2011), oropel/tinsel (2016), huequitos/holies (2016) y tierra intermitente (2017). En el 2018, publicará el libro lo terciario/the tertiary con Timeless, Infinite Light. Actualmente, es editora contribuyente y traductora para The Wanderer. Si para Roque Dalton no existe revolución sin poesía, para Raquel no existe poesía sin Puerto Rico. Puedes aprender más sobre su trabajo si visitas raquelsalasrivera.com. Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, essayist, and educator living and working in Philadelphia. They have published poetry, translations, and essays in numerous anthologies and journals, and as well as four poetry books: Caneca de anhelos turbios (2011), oropel/tinsel (2016), huequitos/holies (2016), and tierra intermitente (2017). In 2018, Timeless, Infinite Light will publish their fifth book, lo terciario/the tertiary. Currently, they are a Contributing Editor at The Wanderer. If for Roque Dalton there is no revolution without poetry, for Raquel there is no poetry without Puerto Rico. You can find out more about their work at raquelsalasrivera.com. Artists and other things mentioned in this month's episode The Wanderer César Vallejo Ángelamaría Dávila Nestor Perlongher Lezama Lima Severo Sarduy Julia de Burgos Manuel Ramos Otero Los nadaístas  Quitapon beer Pedro Scaron's El Capital PROMESA Colette Arrand Chloe Rose jayy dodd RE Katz Gaddiel Francisco Ruiz Rivera Caleb David Acevedo John Paul Kirkland Gegman Lee Mara Pastor Vara Liceaga Raquel Albarrán Xaviar Valcarcel Abdiel Echevarría Yolanda Arroyo Nicole Delgado Charles Theonia Jasmine Gibson Marc Anthony Richardson (Raquel notes that Year of the Rat was great) Angel Dominguez Moss Angel Witchmonstr Ginger Ko Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta Gabriel Ojeda Sague Kirwyn Sutherland CA Conrad Sophie Robinson José Raúl González (Gallego) This episode was edited by Mitchel Davidovitz and produced by me. The Sound of Waves Breaking is of the coquí hanging out at night, found on freesound.org

I got to talk on the phone with poet Kenyatta JP Garcia and their most recent collection Slow Living.  Kenyatta JP Garcia is the author of They Say, Slow Living and ROBOT. JP was raised in Brooklyn but currently resides in Albany, N.Y. where they received degrees in English and linguistics. They are an editor at both Rigorous and Five 2 One Literary Magazine. In a past life, they were a cook for about a dozen years. In this modern incarnation, they get paid to put boxes on shelves by night and by day they read comics, pine, worry, and attempt to craft something worth reading.    JP's Website Slow Living ROBOT: The Waste Land Reimagined Yawning on the Sands Frank O'Hara Oscar Wilde Jean Genet Alice Notley an article about queer death in the media, not the article JP mentioned, but hopefully helps some Michael Sikkemma Danielle Pafunda Mark Lamoureux H.D.'s Helen in Egypt Moss Angel Witchmonstr Jean Toomer's Cane Here by Richard McGuire (not Bill Kartalopoulos like I said in the episode!!) Hank Williams Sr. Joy Division Brooklyn Radio's History of Hip-hop Johnny Cash & Family "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" Claes Oldenburg Andy Warhol If you can, check out Dr. Schoerke's essay, "The Divided Heart," specifically examines the sentimentality-vs-modernism forced schism more clearly than how I articulated it

In this interview, I get to talk IN-PERSON with Julian Shendelman about his new chapbook, Dead Dad Club (Nomadic Press, 2017).  Julian Shendelman has a weird looking dog (part fawn, part fruit bat) and a nice Jewish boyfriend. After 10 years of living in Oakland, where he was an organizer for the Bay Area Trans Writers Workshop, Julian is relocating to Philadelphia with hopes of having more time to write. He was a 2016 Pushcart nominated poet for his piece in Bat City Review, and won a Literary Death Match with a true story about queer punk cannibalism. His first published chapbook, "Dead Dad Club," was released by Nomadic Press in March of this year.   Poets and groups mentioned in this episode: Cam Awkward-Rich (check out the interview I did with Cam here) Zach Ozma Thel Seraphim Bay Area Trans Writers Workshop (if you're in the area, not-cisgender and not a jerk, please come!) "Welcome to the Dead Dads Club" scene in Gray's Anatomy Seahorse by Natasha Dennerstein Quiéreme by Juliana Delgado Lopera  Timeless Infinite Light (sign up for a subscription!)

This month I had the pleasure of interviewing Ching-In about their recent publication, recombinant. We got to talk about archive, language, history, and gender.  Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi Books) and recombinant (Kelsey Street Press) and co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press; AK Press) and Here is a Pen: an Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press). A Kundiman, Lambda, Watering Hole and Callaloo Fellow, they are part of the Macondo and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation writing communities. Their work has appeared in The Best American Experimental Writing, The &NOW Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. They are a senior editor of The Conversant and poetry editor of the Texas Review. They serve on the Executive Board of Thinking Its Presence: Race, Advocacy, Solidarity in the Arts as the Director of Membership and Social Media. www.chinginchen.com Have a listen, spread the word! Artists and works mentioned in this episode: Ching-In's book recombinant Ching-In's book The Heart's Traffic The Peabody Essex Museum's collected artifacts of the basket and fan Milwaukee lynch mob information Cheng Chui Ping aka "Sister Ping"  Golden Venture Disaster Michael Lin's artwork at Peabody Essex Museum I Was Born with Two Tongues Tyehimba Jess's Olio  Syncopated Sonnets Kunidman Cathy Linh Che Wo Chan Jai Arun Ravine Trish Salah conference: Thinking as Presence, creative writing, race and the arts. CFS!   The Sound of Waves Breaking this week is from Jon Jang and the Pan-Asian Arkestra's "Night in Tunisia," just in case you're curious.    This episode was edited by Mitchel Davidovitz, whose sound project you can find here on bandcamp