Digging Through with Gessy Alvarez

About Digging Through with Gessy Alvarez

Digging Through  features conversations with writers, artists, and other creatives. The podcast delves into the creative processes, challenges, and inspirations of its guests, offering insights into their work and lives. No snark. No bark. Just good talk. ©️Digging Press LLC / DiggingPress.com

Publisher

Digging Press

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

3 Jul 2017

Latest episode

3 Jul 2023

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Jul 2023

   Marie Baléo - Submersion

   In this episode, Gessy Alvarez talks with French writer, poet, and editor Marie Baléo. Marie's chapbook Submersion is the winner of our 2021 Digging Press Chapbook Series Award. The poetry collection articulates dignity, admiration, and a profound kinship for Beirut, Lebanon. Submersion is a subtle love letter exquisitely expressed in lyrical and narrative verse. Marie writes primarily in English, and her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in literary magazines in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. She is one of the Poetry Society's 2020 National Poetry Competition winners. She was raised in France, Norway, and Lebanon and now lives in Paris. Marie treats us to readings of two poems from the collection, "Awakening" and "When you remember your exile in reverse, it always ends like this." Submersion by Marie Baléo is available exclusively at DiggingPress.com Intro and Closing Music Credits: John Sib for Pixabay. "Tropical House."

2. 

   11 Jan 2023

   Abigail Carl-Klassen, Ain't Country Like You

   Gessy Alvarez talks to Digging Press author Abigail Carl-Klassen about her chapbook Ain't Country Like You available at DiggingPress.com. About Ain't Country Like You Winner of the 2019 Digging Press Chapbook Series Award, Abigail Carl-Klassen depicts rural spaces inhabited by a community dependent on the boom and bust cycles of oil fields and cash crop agriculture. The personal and confrontational voices in these eighteen poems, embody the constant tension of political rhetoric and social vulnerability in contemporary America. Unapologetically tender and with a hopeful nod to an elusive American ideal, these poems imbue a nation's struggles with culture, class, and identity.

3. 

   8 Jul 2022

   Mandy-Suzanne Wong, Awabi 2nd Edition

   Gessy Alvarez talks to Digging Press author Mandy-Suzanne Wong about her chapbook Awabi. About Awabi: A Duet of Short Stories Mandy-Suzanne Wong deftly explores the complex world of the ama — ocean women, mostly elderly, who eke out a living while diving deep to capture abalone, snails, and otherworldly sea creatures for food. Unlike the men of the fictional village of Kaiyono who fish from boats, the ama battle the cold currents without scuba tanks or snorkels. They do this while facing the threat of an ecological crisis they had no hand in causing. Suffused with lyrical imagery and profound longing, Mandy-Suzanne Wong creates evocative moments of love, pride, jealousy, misunderstanding, and sacrifice in this duet of short stories. Winner of the Digging Press Chapbook Series Award and a Wardrobe’s Best Dressed selection, Awabi is in its second edition. About the Author: Mandy-Suzanne Wong is a Bermudian writer of fiction and essays. Her debut novel, Drafts of a Suicide Note (Regal House, 2019), was a Foreword INDIES finalist, Independent Publisher Award winner, NextGen Indies Award winner, and PEN Open Book Award nominee. Listen, we all bleed (New Rivers, 2021), her first essay collection, was an ASLE Book Award finalist, an EcoLit Best Environmental Book of 2021, and a PEN/Galbraith nominee. Her fiction chapbook Awabi (Digging Press, 2022), winner of the 2018 Digging Press Chapbook Series Award, is now in its second edition. Her next novel, The Box (Graywolf), is forthcoming in 2023. You can find out more about Mandy-Suzanne at mandysuzannewong.com or follow her on Twitter @MandySuzanneW Awabi is available to buy at DiggingPress.com. Intro and Closing Music Credits: John Sib for Pixabay. "Tropical House."

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