This is a podcast where I interview contemporary poets in trans and gender-variant poetry. We discuss their literary contributions, methods, insights, and lives.
Waves Breaking
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This is a podcast where I interview contemporary poets in trans and gender-variant poetry. We discuss their literary contributions, methods, insights, and lives.
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Recent Episodes
February 4, 2023
Interview with Kamden Ishmael Hilliard
<p class="" data-pm-slice="0 0 []">Finally, after a long break, Waves Breaking returns with this interview with Kamden Ishmael Hilliard. Kam generously shares their time with me to discuss their debut book of poems, <a href= "https://nightboat.org/book/misssettl/">MissSettl</a>, out last year with Nightboat Books. We go in deep to discuss their thoughts around the sentence, modes of speech, writing poems within this current era of late-stage capitalism, and teaching students.</p> <p class="">Kamden Ishmael Hilliard was born in La Jolla, CA; their fam settled on O'ahu, Hawai'i. Kamden holds a BA in American Studies from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Kamden, a nonbinary Black settler who goes by Kam, works on issues of surveillance, race, queerness, contemporary art and American politics. They're thankful for support from The National YoungArts Foundation, The Davidson Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, and The UCROSS Foundation. Kam’s writing appears in West Branch, The Black Warrior Review, Tagvverk, Denver Quarterly, The Columbia Review, and other publications.<br /> <br /> Formerly, they served as an AmeriCorps VISTA, held Maytag, Teaching-Writing, and Pfluflaught Fellowships at the University of Iowa, and were the 2020-2022 Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Publishing and Writing at the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, a reader at Flypaper Lit, and a board member at VIDA: Women In Literary Arts.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.kamdenihilliard.com/">Kamden's website</a></p> <p class=""><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/killyardtrillyard/">Kamden's Instagram</a></p> <p class="">Go buy <a href= "https://nightboat.org/book/misssettl/">MissSettl</a>!</p> <p class=""><strong>Mentioned in the interview:</strong></p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://www.joyellemcsweeney.com" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Joyelle McSweeney</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="http://www.jaysonpsmith.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jayson P. Smith</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="">“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUSTxhYu7-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Poem About My Rights</a>” by <a href="https://poets.org/poet/june-jordan" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">June Jordan</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bell hooks</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodie_Allen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hoodie Allen</a> (I’m sorry lol)</p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skee-Lo" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Skee-Lo</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://www.punahou.edu" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Punahou School Hawaii</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href= "https://www.openculture.com/2018/12/cia-helped-shaped-american-creative-writing-famous-iowa-writers-workshop.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iowa Writers Workshop and the Cold War</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Baldwin</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nene_(bird)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nene</a> (bird)</p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://www.fws.gov/story/2022-12/plight-nene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The nene population is on the rebound from its endangered status</a></p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href= "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beloved</a> by Toni Morrison</p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class="">Huge plug for everyone to listen to the audiobook version of Beloved read by Toni Morrison herself. Find it on <a href="https://libbyapp.com/interview/welcome#doYouHaveACard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Libby</a>!</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href= "https://woofrepublic.com/blog/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-french-bulldog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096438/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Who Framed Roger Rabbit?</a> (film)</p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class="">My poem with Judge Doom in it is “<a href= "https://www.smallpresstraffic.org/traffic-report/avren-keating">After Saturn Ate His Own Kid</a>” at the bottom of this page.</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3581652/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">West Side Story</a> (film)</p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href= "https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/27746288" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Goodbye, Vitamin</a> by Rachel Khong</p> </li> </ul> <p class=""><strong>Kam’s Anti-recommendations:</strong></p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class="">Apocalypse Now (film)</p> </li> <li> <p class="">The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad</p> </li> <li> <p class="">The Sandman (TV series)</p> </li> </ul> <p class="">This show's Editor and Social Media Manager is Mitchel Davidovitz. </p> <p class="">The Sound of Waves Breaking is a clip of my cousin Ian and me (fake band name: Diminutive Denizens) doing a cover of “Dig My Grave” by They Might Be Giants. It’s on <a href= "https://tmbs.bandcamp.com/album/apollo-18" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">this cover album of Apollo 18</a> if you want to listen to the whole thing. There are a bunch of other covers you can listen to there for free, including a very dumb skit my friend Greg and I did for one of the “Fingertips.” Greg’s the host of the excellent podcast This Might Be a Podcast which I’ve also guested on many times. <a href= "https://thiismightbeapod.podbean.com/e/this-might-be-a-podcast-episode-130-sold-my-mind-to-the-kremlin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Check it out!</a></p>
April 25, 2022
Interview with Yanyi
<p class="" data-pm-slice="0 0 []">Photo of Yanyi, taken by him</p> <p class="">In this episode I spoke with Yanyi about his new book, Dream of the Divided Field, and his newsletter, <a href= "https://reading.yanyiii.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Reading</a>.</p> <p class="">Yanyi is the author of <a href= "https://www.yanyiii.com/dream-of-the-divided-field" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Dream of the Divided Field</a> (One World Random House, 1 March 2022) and <a href= "https://www.yanyiii.com/the-year-of-blue-water" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Year of Blue Water</a> (Yale University Press 2019), winner of the <a href= "http://youngerpoets.yupnet.org/2018/03/05/carl-phillips-chooses-yanyi-as-2018-yale-series-of-younger-poets-winner-for-the-year-of-blue-water/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize</a>. His work has been featured in or at NPR’s All Things Considered, New York Public Library, Granta, and New England Review, and he is the recipient of fellowships from Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Poets House. He holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University and was most recently poetry editor at <a href="https://www.foundryjournal.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Foundry</a>. Currently, he teaches creative writing at large and gives writing advice at <a href= "https://reading.yanyiii.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">The Reading</a>.</p> <p class=""><a href="https://yanyiii.com" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Yanyi's website</a><br /> You can <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780593230992" target="_blank" rel="noopener">purchase Dream of the Divided Field here</a><br /> <a href="https://twitter.com/yanyi___" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Yanyi's Twitter</a><br /> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yanyi.docx/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yanyi's Instagram</a></p> <p class=""><strong>Various books, movies, podcasts, etc. mentioned in this episode:</strong></p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class=""><a href= "https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/babbleNoiseGenerator.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Algorithm crowd sounds</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8385496/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Surviving R. Kelly</a> docuseries</p> </li> <li> <p class="">Shakespeare’s <a href= "https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1508/1508-h/1508-h.htm" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">The Taming of the Shrew</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="">AI generated imagery</p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/images_ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@images_ai</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://www.wombo.art" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">WOMBO Dream</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href= "https://www.inputmag.com/tech/openais-dall-e-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DALL-E</a></p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p class="">Virgina Woolf’s audio <a href= "https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160324-the-only-surviving-recording-of-virginia-woolf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC interview</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_Were_Young_(festival)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">When We Were Young Festival and its much parodied poster</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href= "https://www.studentwritingcenter.us/twentieth-century/the-black-mountain-poets.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Mountain Poets</a></p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class="">Olson’s "<a href= "https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69406/projective-verse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Projective Verse</a>" manifesto, some explicit field talk</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p class="">Lydia Davis’s "Hand" story (this is the whole story lol):</p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class="">"Beyond the hand holding this book that I’m reading, I see another hand lying idle and slightly out of focus — my extra hand."</p> </li> <li> <p class="">(<a href= "http://maxima-library.org/year/b/289330?format=read" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">more stories here</a>)</p> </li> <li> <p class="">"<a href= "http://www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/the-cows-lydia-davis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cows</a>" chapbook</p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://reading.yanyiii.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yanyi's newsletter</a></p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class=""><a href= "https://reading.yanyiii.com/the-freedom-of-hate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Letter on why he left Substack</a></p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvmyRoEEAHo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yanyi at the Poetry Project</a> discussing de las Rivas's "Black Sun" and fascist dogwhistling in contemporary poetry</p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://ghost.org" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Ghost</a>, the platform Yanyi uses to now send his newsletters</p> </li> <li> <p class="">bell hooks’s <a href= "https://sites.utexas.edu/lsjcs/files/2018/02/Teaching-to-Transcend.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Teaching to Transgress</a> full PDF</p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1509268" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak</a> documentary</p> </li> <li> <p class="">Laura Engels Wilder’s <a href= "https://www.goodreads.com/series/40412-little-house" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Little House on the Prairie series</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="">FEELING ASIAN podcast episodes:</p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class=""><a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-evening-with-two-asian-therapists-feat-peter-adams/id1481891689?i=1000538414406" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An Evening With Two Asian Therapists (feat. Peter Adams, Ph.D and Melissa Yao, Ph.D)</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asian-seeking-asian-therapists/id1481891689?i=1000525688155" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asian Seeking Asian (therapists)</a></p> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"> </p> <p class=""><strong>Editor and Social Media Manager:</strong> Mitchel Davidovitz</p> <p class=""><strong>Host and Producer:</strong> Avren Keating</p> <p class=""><strong>Sound of Waves Breaking:</strong> <a href= "https://drive.google.com/file/d/15gVw_kgN9vLHxc_EClFzcXXWNfjzla9B/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sounds from this video of Merlin</a>, my sweet 5-year-old Frenchie that died of a brain tumor in the time between recording and editing this episode. I love you, little bubs. </p>
February 17, 2022
Interview with Sarah Nnenna Loveth Nwafor
<p class="" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">In this interview, I spoke with Sarah Nnenna Loveth Nwafor about their latest publication Already Knew You Were Coming. We discuss Igbo cosmology and time, vengeance poetry, their process in writing this chapbook, and more.</p> <p class="">Sarah Nnenna Loveth Nwafor (They/Them) is a queer Igbo-American Poet, Educator, and Facilitator who descends of a powerful ancestry. They believe that storytelling is magick, and they speak to practice traditions of Igbo orature. When they witness, their forebears are pleased. Sarah has been writing for a minute and is learning something new about their voice each year, but one thing they’re proud to share is that they have a chapbook out with Game Over Books! When Sarah's not writing; they’re probably sitting under a tree, reading about Love, dancing with friends or cooking a bomb-ass meal like the true Taurus they are.</p> <p class="">Go buy <a href= "https://www.gameoverbooks.com/product-page/already-knew-you-were-coming" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Already Knew You Were Coming</a></p> <p class=""><a href="https://instagram.com/sarahnwafor">Sarah’s Instagram</a></p> <p class=""><a href="https://sarahnwafor.com">Sarah’s website</a></p> <p class=""><strong>Books, artists, musicians, etc. mentioned in this episode:</strong></p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://www.instagram.com/mythsooka/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Mithsuca Berry</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="">Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s <a href= "https://www.dukeupress.edu/dub" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Dub: Finding Ceremony</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="http://sinisterwisdom.org/SisterLove" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/isjonespoetry" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">I.S. Jones</a>’s <a href= "https://newfound.org/shop/i-s-jones-spells-of-my-name-print-e-book/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spells of My Name</a></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><a href="https://www.nwaobiala.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nwaobiala</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="">Dena Igutsi’s <a href= "https://www.gameoverbooks.com/product-page/cut-woman" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Cut Woman</a></p> </li> </ul> <p class="">Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz</p> <p class="">Host and Producer: Avren Keating</p> <p class="">Sound of Waves Breaking: <a href= "https://freesound.org/people/DaveJf/sounds/614890/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Melody Loop 95 BPM</a>, DaveJf</p>
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