Posted in 2020 Writers, SoundPages Literary Podcasts on Dec 30th, 2020 Comments Off on A Resurrection – Rob Arnold
Rob Arnold’s project for the 2020 Jack Straw Writers Program is a poetic memoir that tackles the complex legacies of familial trauma. In his conversation with curator Anastacia-Renée, they discuss cross-genre writing, the distance and connection created by language, and matching linguistic precision with visual expansion. “I started thinking about these things in a much […]
Posted in 2020 Writers, SoundPages Literary Podcasts on Dec 23rd, 2020 Comments Off on Breath – Ching-In Chen
2020 Jack Straw writer Ching-In Chen’s project is a series of experimental prose poems inspired by their relationship to breath, and the Texas Tax Day Flood of 2016. In their conversation with curator Anastacia-Renée, they discuss their process of creating in a hybrid genre, representation in art, and creating within community. “What surprised me is […]
Posted in 2020 Writers, SoundPages Literary Podcasts on Dec 2nd, 2020 Comments Off on Giant – Michelle Goodman
Michelle Goodman’s project for the 2020 Jack Straw Writer’s Program is a creative nonfiction piece that deals with dying and grief. In her conversation with curator Anastacia-Renée, they discuss navigating the balance between telling the truth and what remains untold, shaping nonfiction, and writing as an act of understanding. “I’ve always liked telling true life […]
Posted in 2020 Writers on Nov 19th, 2020 Comments Off on Insubordinate – Ebo Barton
2020 Jack Straw writer Ebo Barton’s poetry project is both a printed work and an audiobook. In their conversation with curator Anastacia-Renée, they discuss the differences between spoken word and page poetry, the pressure on artists to constantly produce, and what it means to share work aloud. “When I say the stage is my church, […]
Posted in 2020 Writers, SoundPages Literary Podcasts on Nov 5th, 2020 Comments Off on Body – Wryly T. McCutchen
Wryly T. McCutchen’s project for the 2020 Jack Straw Writer’s Program is part of a “drag-a-licious” show of “of weird, solo, interdisciplinary, poetry-fueled content.” In their conversation with curator Anastacia-Renée, they discuss the physical nature of their work, their destructive poetry practice, and the importance of sharing one’s work. “Poetry offers the opportunity to use […]
Posted in 2020 Writers on Oct 28th, 2020 Comments Off on Ezekiel – Elaina Ellis
2020 Jack Straw writer Elaina Ellis’s poetry project could be described as a book-length exploration of the story of Ezekiel, but that’s just the beginning. In her conversation with curator Anastacia-Renée, they discuss bringing one’s whole self to the creative process, love-bombing, and the multiple resonances, from the erotic to the traumatic, that can be […]
Posted in 2020 Writers, SoundPages Literary Podcasts on Oct 14th, 2020 Comments Off on Future Myths – Maisha Banks Manson
Maisha Banks Manson’s project for the 2020 Jack Straw Writers Program is “myth building in the future.” In their conversation with curator Anastacia-Renée, they discuss their strategies for making a life in the arts, the speculative/narrative nature of their work, and reimagining fairytale narratives. “Part of it is taking how I feel, right now, about […]
Posted in 2019 Writers, SoundPages Literary Podcasts on Apr 16th, 2020 Comments Off on Fireflies – Suzanne Warren
Suzanne Warren’s 2019 Jack Straw Writers Program project is a collection of short stories called In the Country of Husbands that marries domestic realism with magic realism and focuses on the lives of women and girls. In her conversation with curator Kathleen Flenniken, they discuss her background in experimental film, themes of rape culture, and […]
Posted in 2019 Writers, SoundPages Literary Podcasts on Apr 1st, 2020 Comments Off on Survivor – Putsata Reang
Putsata Reang’s project for the 2019 Jack Straw Writers Program is a memoir that chronicles her life growing up in rural Oregon and her family’s journey escaping the war and genocide in Cambodia. In her conversation with curator Kathleen Flenniken, they discuss the difficulty of writing a memoir involving people who are living, displacement in […]
Posted in 2019 Writers, SoundPages Literary Podcasts on Mar 18th, 2020 Comments Off on Birmingham/Mars – Gabrielle Bates
2019 Jack Straw writer Gabrielle Bates spoke with curator Kathleen Flenniken about her collection of poems about growing up in the South. In their conversation, they discuss her array of projects, including a poetry comic collection, surrealism in her writing, and finding patience during a project. “I keep going back, lately, to this great quote […]
