Post Poet Pop Ken Walker

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 and edited by David Brunson. 
This work is crucial because it elucidates the diasporic experience of being a migrant, not only to Chile, but away from a misunderstood homeland; and now—at a time when many diasporas are being ignited or re-ignited in Haiti, the Sudan, and of course the genocide in Palestine—it is even more important to become more than acquainted with that experience. The term diaspora comes from the Greek and means to scatter across but it also means to be forced to leave home. Venezuela has seen nearly 8 million of its citizens depart its borders and over 5,200 Venezuelans have been killed, extrajudicially. Chile has its own complications and repressive history and this enmeshing of two cultures at the very least sets the stage for poets to, in the words of David Brunson’s introduction, empathetically reclaim identity and more fully realize a sense of humanity.
Get an e-Book or print copy of A Scar Where Goodbyes Are Written from Louisiana State University Press (or order one from your local bookstore), and learn more about David (the book's translator and editor) at DavidMBrunson.com and Ivana (poet in the book) at CopihuePoetry.com/who-we-are.

Blue Scholars - No Rest For The WearyDavid Brunson - On the Venezuelan immigrant reality in ChileBilly Stewart - Sitting In The ParkIvana Aponte - Migración / Migration (& discussion)Gil Scott-Heron - I’m New HereDavid Brunson - On getting married and staying in ChileJalen Ngonda - Here To Stay David Brunson - On moving to and living in Chile The Ramones - OutsiderGeorgina Ramírez - Un poema llamado pais / A Poem Called Country (& discussion)chicarica - SantiagoMiguel Ortiz Rodríguez - Ya me reconozco / I Already Recognize Myself (& discussion)Queens of The Stone Age - I Sat By The OceanSara Emanuel Viloria - Venceremos / Patria o Muerte—Venceremos The Beatles - Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight (Takes 1-3/Medley)David Brunson - The Top 5The Magnetic Fields - The Book of Love
All poems are performed by Ivana Aponte and David Brunson and all the author’s poems discussed are published in A Scar Where Goodbyes Are Written: An Anthology of Venezuelan Poets in Chile (Louisiana State University Press, 2023). The poems are the property of the author(s) and the publisher(s) listed. The song played during the introduction is “Sunday Afternoon” and is performed by The True Loves. Please support their work. All music herein is property of the respective artists and record labels, as presented.

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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 a speck of anything, as Jared's work has always done, in its devotion to the ecological. He writes, in one of the poems you will not hear him read on this episode, “able bodied youths throw their muscle at smoke, It’s sunday” … What durability, how fibrous, and yet all that wasted potential that’s become an everyday thing but, here, it's also a supposed day of rest—all those firefighters trying to stop mountains of wind and heat. Is the world tough to withstand humanity or are we tough to endure climate change? Who can tell? It’s all so very absurd.
Find out more about Jared's work at JaredStanleyInfo.Wordpress.com, and you can grab a copy of So Tough from Saturnalia Books, or wherever books are sold.

Bobby Womack - Fire and Rain Jared Stanley - On the origins of So ToughSBTRKT ft Little Dragon - WildfireJared Stanley - “Dear voices…” and “If there is a future…” (& discussion)Minutemen - It’s Expected I’m GoneJared Stanley - “Skunks live in the drain…” and “In a meditative fear…” (& discussion)Chris Spedding - Video LifeJared Stanley - On reemergence and “cruel peace”The Only Ones - City of FunJared Stanley - On the trees screaming in quietudeJanet Jackson ft Q-Tip and Joni Mitchell - Got Til It’s GoneJared Stanley - “It no longer snows in this country…” and “In a meditative fear…”Mazzy Star - Fade Into YouJared Stanley - The Top 5Yusef Lateef - Love Theme from Spartacus
All poems are performed by Jared Stanley and all the author’s poems discussed are published in So Tough (Saturnalia Books, 2024). The poems are the property of the author and the publisher(s) listed. The song played during the introduction is “Sunday Afternoon” and is performed by The True Loves. Please support their work. All music herein is property of the respective artists and record labels, as presented.

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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 sending questions to Kristina that she would get in the morning and her answers would come in, to me, in the morning. We truly bridged time. Kristina writes, in the poem "In the Days Before" that "In the days before the actual end there were many smaller heartbreaks [...] A person used to be able to split through the husk and know there would be seeds." I think these two statements summarize the poetics of Elijah Fed By Ravens and our conversation quite well. Kristina is a magnetic person and I hope you will find a bit of sustenance you may need in this conversation.
Find out more about Kristina's work by visiting KristinaErny.com and you can buy a copy of Elijah Fed By Ravens from Solum Literary Press, and wherever books are sold.

Bon Iver - Faith Kristina Erny - On the origin of Elijah Fed by Ravens (Solum Literary Press, 2024)Samm Henshaw (ft EARTHGANG) - ChurchKristina Erny - Elijah Fed by Ravens (and discussion)Black Star (ft. Weldon Irvine) - Astronomy (8th Light)Kristina Erny - On a typical day living in ShanghaiNico - These DaysKristina Erny - Horeb, Mountain of The Lord (and discussion) Mavis Staples - You Are Not AloneKristina Erny - The Lord, A Resurrection (and discussion)Stevie Wonder - Have a Talk With GodKristina Erny - A SignMeernaa - A PromiseKristina Erny and The Top 5Patty Griffin - Time Will Do The Talking
All poems are performed by Kristina Erny and all the author’s poems discussed are published in Elijah Fed By Ravens (Solum Literary Press, 2024). The poems are the property of the author and the publisher(s) listed. The song played during the introduction is “Sunday Afternoon” and is performed by The True Loves. Please support their work. All music herein is property of the respective artists and record labels, as presented.

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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, then friendly / coached by a system [...] I drink from the invisible / order that sustains me". These poems' truths are also the work of dreams and coalesce into (in Douglas's words) "new scenery made / by what is missing". Douglas is actively engaged in developing content for film and television, and lives with his wife, Tara, and their son, Oblio, in western New Jersey.
Find out more about Douglas's work at DouglasPiccinnini.com and grab a copy of Beautiful, Safe & Free directly from him.

Blondie - Dreaming Douglas Piccinnini - On dreaming and potentially time travelingBlack Merda! - RealityDouglas Piccinnini - “As If I Am Someone Else” (& discussion)Kendrick Lamar - FEEL. Douglas Piccinnini - On writing Beautiful, Safe & Free (New Books, 2023)Arooj Aftab - Last Night Douglas Piccinnini - “Interrobang” (& discussion)The Cure - In Between Days Douglas Piccinnini - “Preventable Feeling” (& discussion)Alabama Shakes - This FeelingDouglas Piccinnini - “Vanilla” (& discussion)R.E.M. - Tongue Douglas Piccinnini - On the ordinary & “Daydreamer” (& discussion)The Cranberries - DreamsDouglas Piccinnini - The Top 5 Brian Eno - 1/1
All poems are performed by Douglas Piccinnini and all the author’s poems discussed are published in Beautiful, Safe & Free (New Books, 2023). The poems are the property of the author and the publisher(s) listed. The song played during the introduction is “Sunday Afternoon” and is performed by The True Loves. Please support their work. All music herein is property of the respective artists and record labels, as presented. 

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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 or the elegy? … What alternative models or approaches might there be?” And, later: "What I stress now: I’m not writing about endangered species; I’m writing without them—attempting to imagine in a linguistic landscape the ways that loss would be registered and felt or fail to be Kristi is the author of 8 books of poetry, an associate professor of English at the University of Louisville, and holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona. We, of course, talk about animals, but also we speak about her process for Goners and the uncanny and much more.
Find out more about Kristi's work at KristiMaxwellPoetry.com and grab a copy of Goners from Green Linden Press right away.

Blackalicious - Alphabet AerobicsKristi Maxwell - On composing Goners (Green Linden Press, 2023) and the lipogram form Deep Sea Diver - Lights Out (Live on KEXP)Kristi Maxwell - ‘Akeke‘e (and discussion)Broken Bells - Holding On For LifeKristi Maxwell - Koala (and discussion)Parquet Courts - ExtinctionKristi Maxwell - Dugong (and discussion)Wet Leg - Chaise LoungeKristi Maxwell - Pangolin (and discussion)Jane. - Before We Die Kristi Maxwell - On not using AI when writing Goners and individual vocabulariesMichael Jackson - Human NatureKristi Maxwell - Cicek (and discussion)Pearl Jam - AnimalKristi Maxwell - On her new project “o” and the work of Inger Christensen  Twin Limb - Priestess Kristi Maxwell - The Top 5Lou Reed - Perfect Day
All poems are performed by Kristi Maxwell, and all the author’s poems discussed are published in Goners (Green Linden Press, 2023) . The poems are the property of the author and the publisher(s) listed. The song played during the introduction is “Sunday Afternoon” and is performed by The True Loves. Please support their work. All music herein is property of the respective artists and record labels, as presented. 

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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 Ambiguity Beyond the Colorline,” and you can learn more about his work at IsaacPickell.com and be sure to get a copy of It’s not over once you figure it out from Black Ocean, as soon as you can. 

Lenny Kravitz - It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s OverIsaac Pickell - On the origins of It’s Not Over Once You Figure It Out (Black Ocean, 2023)Run The Jewels ft Pharrell Williams and Zack De La Rocha - JU$T (Toy Selectah Remix)Isaac Pickell - “Quadroon” (and discussion)The Detroit Cobras - Midnite BluesIssac Pickell - “You will pay for your osmosis & it will make you smile” (and discussion)Sade - Hang Onto Your LoveIssac Pickell - Untitled (and discussion)The Dramatics - Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get Isaac Pickell - “On my blue eyes in a hall of mirrors” (and discussion)The Stooges - Search And DestroyIsaac Pickell - On the adjunct life in DetroitFrank Sinatra - The Impossible DreamIsaac Pickell - The Top 5 (and a family anecdote)Belle and Sebastian - The State I’m In
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All poems are performed by Isaac Pickell, and all poetry discussed are published in It’s Not Over Once You Figure It Out (Black Ocean, 2023) . The poems are the property of the author and the publisher(s) listed. The song played during the introduction is “Sunday Afternoon” and is performed by The True Loves. Please support their work. All music herein is property of the respective artists and record labels, as presented. 

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