Episode 134: Luther Hughes
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10/26/22 • 62 min
Luther Hughes is a poet based in Seattle, WA. The poems in Luther’s debut collection, A Shiver in the Leaves, are tender, erotic, vulnerable, erudite, at times dark, and at times ecstatic. In our conversation, we talked about power dynamics in sexual encounters, different forms of love, and writing as a way of understanding oneself. Then in the second section, we talked about why so many sex scenes in popular media are so strange.
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Show Notes:- Luther Hughes
- Purchase A Shiver in the Leaves: Open Books (Seattle, WA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
- Brooklyn Poets Reading Series - Luther Hughes, Lynn Melnick, Carl Phillips
- The Poet Salon
- Lue’s Poetry Hour
- Luther Hughes - “On Power”
- Seattle Times - “Seattle poet Luther Hughes on ‘A Shiver in the Leaves,’ his debut collection”
- Brandon Taylor - Real Life
- Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
- Music: Podington Bear
- Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
Luther Hughes is a poet based in Seattle, WA. The poems in Luther’s debut collection, A Shiver in the Leaves, are tender, erotic, vulnerable, erudite, at times dark, and at times ecstatic. In our conversation, we talked about power dynamics in sexual encounters, different forms of love, and writing as a way of understanding oneself. Then in the second section, we talked about why so many sex scenes in popular media are so strange.
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Show Notes:- Luther Hughes
- Purchase A Shiver in the Leaves: Open Books (Seattle, WA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
- Brooklyn Poets Reading Series - Luther Hughes, Lynn Melnick, Carl Phillips
- The Poet Salon
- Lue’s Poetry Hour
- Luther Hughes - “On Power”
- Seattle Times - “Seattle poet Luther Hughes on ‘A Shiver in the Leaves,’ his debut collection”
- Brandon Taylor - Real Life
- Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
- Music: Podington Bear
- Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
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Episode 133: André Ramos-Woodard
André Ramos-Woodard is a photographic artist originally from Texas and Tennessee. In their series BLACK SNAFU, André combines photographs celebrating Blackness with appropriated illustrations from racist cartoons as a way of confronting the history and present reality of American racism. In our conversation we discussed appropriation, questions of audience and community, and mental health. Then in the second segment, we talked about what inspires us outside of the visual arts.
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Show Notes:- André Ramos-Woodard
- André Ramos-Woodard - BLACK SNAFU
- Hannah Jane Parkinson - “Instagram, an artist and the $100,000 selfies—appropriation in the digital age” (Article about Richard Prince Instagram images)
- William Camargo
- William Camargo’s IG post riffing on John Diva’s work
- Kansas City Artists Coalition - André Ramos-Woodard Artist Talk
- André Ramos-Woodard - African America
- Roger Ebert - “Video games can never be art”
- Beyonce - Renaissance
- Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
- Music: Podington Bear
- Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
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Episode 135: Molly Spencer
Molly Spencer is a poet based in Michigan. The poems in her collections In the House and Hinge engage with chronic illness, divorce, domesticity, motherhood, and the ways that our lives don’t always work out the way we expected them to. In our conversation, we talked about dissolution, the uses of poetry, ways of knowing, and speaking unlovely truths. Then for the second section, we talked about attention—both the kind of attention we’d like to cultivate in our own lives, and what kind of attention we ask of our readers.
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Show Notes:- Molly Spencer
- Purchase If the House: Literati (Ann Arbor, MI) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop
- Purchase Hinge: Literati (Ann Arbor, MI) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop
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- Susan Glaspell - “A Jury of Her Peers”
- Molly Spencer - “On ‘Most Accidents Occur At Home’”
- Mary Oliver - “Yes! No!”
- Solmaz Sharif - Customs
- Dionne Brand - Nomenclature
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