Articulate Experience

On this episode of Articulate Experience—three writers explore how moms and motherhood have impacted their life and work.
Chip Delany is considered a “Grandmaster” of science fiction– but he wasn’t born that way. Maternal influences shaped him at every turn.
Karen Russell is a Macarthur “genius” and a mother of two. Both roles changed the way she saw herself, and the world.
Elizabeth Acevedo dominated spoken word poetry competitions before becoming a best-selling young adult author. And though they haven’t always seen eye to eye, her mom has always been her biggest fan.

• [01:19 ] Samuel "Chip" Delany https://www.samueldelany.com
• [11:18 ] Karen Russell https://karenrussellauthor.com
• [27:24 ] Elizabeth Acevedo http://www.acevedowrites.com

Articulate Experience examines stories of humanity, resilience, and wisdom through the words of some of today’s greatest writers.

Articulate Experience is a production of the Articulate Foundation.

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Welcome to Articulate Experience `— the show that examines stories of humanity, resilience, and wisdom through the words of some of today’s greatest writers.

Articulate Experience examines stories of humanity, resilience, and wisdom through the words of some of today’s greatest writers.

Articulate Experience is a production of the Articulate Foundation.

More at articulateshow.org

On this episode of Articulate Experience— four writers who’ve each seen war from a different angle.

Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper comic strip artist Garry Trudeau sent one of his tentpole Doonsebury characters to Vietnam and both Gulph wars. Along the way, he connected with real veterans and became a proud vessel for their stories.
The award-winning author Maaza Mengiste and her family fled Ethiopia during the revolution of 1974. And though she was only three years old at the time, she remembers a great deal.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Yusef Komunyakaa has documented war inside and out. As a black soldier fighting for the U.S. in the Vietnam War, he won a Bronze Star for his combat reporting. Years later, he started writing poetry reflecting on his experiences of battle, and found he couldn’t stop.
For Aleksander Hemon, stories are the stuff of selfhood. He writes to preserve the memory of his family, and the homeland they lost to the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.

• [01:04] Garry Trudeau
• [21:04] Maaza Mengiste
• [31:12] Yusef Komunyakaa
• [40:44] Aleksander Hemon
  

Articulate Experience examines stories of humanity, resilience, and wisdom through the words of some of today’s greatest writers.

Articulate Experience is a production of the Articulate Foundation.

More at articulateshow.org

On this episode of Articulate Experience—three writers who grew up with distinct vantage points on American identity.
Gish Jen was raised in the 1960s by Chinese immigrants living in New York. It took decades of learning, reflecting, and writing, for her to embrace the full complexity of her bi-cultural identity—but looking back, she wouldn’t change a thing.
The sci-fi/fantasy writer Tochi Onyebuchi has always been fascinated by other people and their perspectives. But it was only after he started writing about his own experiences as a Nigerian-American in his mid-twenties that his speculative fiction began to take off. Today, he’s earned some of the genre’s highest honors.
Deborah Eisenberg came of age with the so-called, “peace and love generation” —educated young Americans who believed that the world was changing for the better. Over four decades, her short stories have formed a record of her evolving understanding of her native country, and of herself.

• [1:38] Gish Jen
• [17:25] Tochi Onyebuchi
• [34:12] Deborah Eisenberg

Articulate Experience examines stories of humanity, resilience, and wisdom through the words of some of today’s greatest writers.

Articulate Experience is a production of the Articulate Foundation.

More at articulateshow.org

On this episode of Articulate Experience—three writers whose love of language propelled their work.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon hasn’t lived in Ireland since he was a teenager. But everywhere he’s gone, his native culture’s obsession with language and storytelling has travelled with him.

A childhood love of words led Kory Stamper to spend nearly twenty years writing and editing dictionary definitions.

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor has found purpose in preserving and promoting her native Trinidadian creole through her dialectic poetry,

• [01:01] Paul Muldoon
• [12:18] Kory Stamper
• [34:58] Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

Articulate Experience examines stories of humanity, resilience, and wisdom through the words of some of today’s greatest writers.

Articulate Experience is a production of the Articulate Foundation.

More at articulateshow.org