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Selvage, Diaspora, and Lingual Processes: a Conversation with Hoa Nguyen
National Poetry Month 2020 By: Savannah Trent I sat down, well more accurately sat down and logged into google chat, to talk to poet Hoa Nguyen to ask her about identity, belonging, and the diasporic experience. Nguyen, whose 2016 book length collection of poems Violet Energy Ingots was shortlisted for the 2017 Griffin prize in…
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Meet Your Professors! Interview One — cris cheek
National Poetry Month 2020 At the start of this semester, I wanted to begin a series of interviews with professors; I believe our faculty are what make the entire Miami English department special and I hoped to use the platform to showcase that. Now that so much has changed as a result of the pandemic,…
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Nīnauele me Jim Chapson — Interview by Paul Vogel
National Poetry Month 2020 Born in Honolulu in 1944, Jim Chapson attended San Francisco State University and received his MA in 1968. With his partner, the Irish poet James Liddy (1934–2008), he moved to Milwaukee in 1976 and taught in the UW-Milwaukee English Department as an adjunct until 2016. He served as Poet Laureate of…
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Virtual Student Reading — “Annabel Lee” read by Cosette Gunther
National Poetry Month 2020 To kick off this week, we have another virtual student reading! Today, Cosette Gunther (a first year and member of the editorial staff for inklings) is reading a favorite poem of hers — “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe — and discusses a little bit about why she loves Poe’s poetry.
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Art, Legacy, and Activism: An Interview with Siri Imani, by Kyle Flemings
National Poetry Month 2020 Siri Imani is an artivist who has galvanized the city of Cincinnati with her potent lyricism and star quality performances. Imani and her collective Triiibe, that includes the talented vocalist and musician Aziza Love, and the incredible beat maker and lyricist poet Pxvce (Peace), have performed nationwide and are quickly becoming…
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“The Time to Play among the Borders of the Possible is a Gift:” An Interview with cris cheek
National Poetry Month 2020 cris cheek is a documentary performance writer, sound composer, and photographer. They worked alongside Bob Cobbing and Bill Griffiths with the Consortium of London Presses in the mid 1970’s to run a thriving open access print shop for little press poets. In 1981 they co-founded a collective movement-based performance resource in…
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Virtual Student Reading: 19 by Madi McGirr
National Poetry Month 2020 Here is the first in a series of student creative writing readings. Sophomore Madi McGirr reads her poem “19” which is after the poem “21” by Patrick Roche. You can read this poem as well as other poems and art by Madi in this year’s forthcoming issue of the Femellectual.
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Appreciation: Rae Armantrout’s “Bardos,” by Trevor Root
National Poetry Month 2020 Rae Armantrout, a San Diego native famous for her terse, funny, brainy poems, visited Miami to read from her poems last April. Thanks to generous funding from the Clark Capstone Fund, Armantrout was in Oxford for several days to visit classes and meet with students for individual conferences. Author of over…
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Encountering Each Other in New Ways by Venturing into “Canyons” — A Video Review
National Poetry Month 2020 To continue celebrating National Poetry month, today we have a video review of Canyons by Jessica Poli conducted by apprentice, Lauren Miles. To learn more about Canyons and BatCat press, check out their website.
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Sarah Gridley – Poetry as an Art of Making For, Interview by Dylan Ecker
National Poetry Month 2020 Hello all! March may have felt like years for a lot of us given the current state of affairs, but we have at last made it to April. April, of course, means that it is National Poetry Month! Here on the blog all month long we will be posting a lot…