Posted in 2020 Writers, SoundPages Literary Podcasts on Mar 24th, 2021 Comments Off on Exhibits – Arianne True
Arianne True’s project for the 2020 Jack Straw Writers Program is a poetic “museum” that creates a safe space to engage in difficult subjects such as childhood sexual abuse. In her conversation with curator Anastacia-Renée, they discuss the ritual of writing, engaging with experimental forms, and creating visceral experiences with words. “Through poetry, you can […]
Posted in 2020 Writers, SoundPages Literary Podcasts on Mar 3rd, 2021 Comments Off on Uhuru – Jeffrey Lee Cheatham II
2020 Jack Straw writer Jeffrey Lee Cheatham II’s project is a graphic novel titled Uhuru, a pirate adventure story centering Black characters. In his conversation with curator Anastacia-Renée, they discuss the lack of Black representation in children’s literature, professional wrestling and Archie comics, and creating Black stories that expand beyond a monolithic experience. “One of […]
Posted in 2020 Writers, SoundPages Literary Podcasts on Feb 17th, 2021 Comments Off on Naia – Helen K. Thomas
2020 Jack Straw writer Helen K. Thomas’s project is a collection of short stories that feature Black girl protagonists from the Pacific Northwest. In her conversation with curator Anastacia-Renée, they discuss Young Adult fiction and expanding representation of young Black girls in those stories. “To be a part of that and to choose to be […]
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 […]
