Of Poetry Podcast - jason b. crawford (Of Queer Black Language, Phantom Safety, and Debt)

jason b. crawford (Of Queer Black Language, Phantom Safety, and Debt)

04/25/22 • 61 min

Of Poetry Podcast

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Read: "Unicorn Kidz Dance Under the Moonlight, Too" at SplitLip

jason b. crawford (They/Them) is a writer born in Washington DC, raised in Lansing, MI. Their debut chapbook collection Summertime Fine is out through Variant Lit. Their second chapbook Twerkable Moments is out from Paper Nautilus Press. Their third chapbook, Good Boi, is out from Neon Hemlock press. Their debut Full Length Year of the Unicorn Kidz will be out in 2022 from Sundress Publications. crawford holds a Bachelor of Science in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University and is the co-founder of The Knight’s Library Magazine. crawford is the winner of the Courtney Valentine Prize for Outstanding Work by a Millennial Artist, Vella Chapbook Contest, and Variant Lit Chapbook Contest. They were a finalist for the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid 2021 Poetry Contest and the 2021 OutWrite chapbook contest winner in poetry. Their work can be found in Split Lip Magazine, Glass Poetry, Four Way Review, Voicemail poems, FreezeRay Poetry, HAD, among others. They are a current poetry MFA candidate at The New School.

Purchase: Year of the Unicorn Kidz(Sundress Publications, 2022)

Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere

Read: "Unicorn Kidz Dance Under the Moonlight, Too" at SplitLip

Purchase: Year of the Unicorn Kidz(Sundress Publications, 2022)

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Marlanda Dekine (Of Coming Home, Staying in the Body, and Gullah-Geechee Pronouns)

Read: "Hurricane Family," published at Moist Poetry Journal.

Marlanda Dekine’s debut full-length poetry collection, Thresh & Hold, is the winner of Hub City Press's 2021 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize and is forthcoming in March 2022.

MARLANDA DEKINE’S WORK HAS BEEN PUBLISHED OR IS FORTHCOMING IN OXFORD AMERICAN, POETRY, EMERGENCE MAGAZINE, BEESTUNG, ANNULET, SHUDDHASHAR MAGAZINE, AND ELSEWHERE. THEY ARE THE 2021-2022 CASTLE OF OUR SKINS SHIRLEY GRAHAM DU BOIS CREATIVE-IN-RESIDENCE, A RECIPIENT OF THE 2022 PALM BEACH POETRY FESTIVAL LANGSTON HUGHES FELLOWSHIP, A 2021 TIN HOUSE SCHOLAR, AND A WATERING HOLE FELLOW. CURRENTLY, MARLANDA SERVES AS HEALING JUSTICE FELLOW WITH GENDER BENDERS AND IS WORKING WITH THE AWARD-WINNING COMPOSER/PERFORMER COLLECTIVE, COUNTER)INDUCTION, ON A MUSO-POETIC WORK ENTITLED ARS POETICA. THEY ARE A GRADUATE OF FURMAN UNIVERSITY (B.A. PSYCHOLOGY) AND THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK). THEY LIVE IN GEORGETOWN, SOUTH CAROLINA WITH THEIR AMAZING DOG, MALACHI.

Purchase: Thresh & Hold (Hub City Press, 2022)

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Shelley Wong (Of Quietness, Fire Island, and Looking at Each Other)

Read: Shelley Wong's poem "To Yellow," which she reads on Episode 24.

Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, May 2022), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry , Kenyon Review, and New England Review. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center. She is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts and lives in San Francisco.

Purchase: As She Appears(YesYes Books, 2022).