Jack Straw SoundPages

Rachel Trignano’s project for the 2018 Jack Straw Writers Program is a collection of essays called Home[sic] that deals with family, memory, and the changing of truth over time. In her conversation with curator Daemond Arrindell, they discuss the intersections of storytelling, intimacy, and perspective. “You can have an intimacy and familiarity with your family and know them your entire life—I liken it [to] having your favorite mailman or something. . . . I’ve known you since I was x years old, I see you all the time, I enjoy you . . . I have no idea who you are.”

Rachel’s poetry, fiction, and essays have been featured in NPR affiliate WABE’s Storytellers and City Lights series, poet Saul Williams’s Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, and the City of Atlanta’s Elevate public art program. Since 2010, Rachel has been performing her work in Atlanta and Denver, and is published in the Loose Change Literary Magazine anthology The Best of Loose Change, Write Club Atlanta’s Tender Bloodsport Vol. 1, and numerous other print and digital publications, including What the Hell Have I Done?, her travelogue about driving aimlessly around the United States. She produces and occasionally performs in Write Club Denver, a competitive literary series that raises money for charity. Through her work, Rachel tries to use truth and humor to relate to the reader about the joy and horror living human life can bring.

SoundPages was produced by Jack Straw Cultural Center as part of the Jack Straw Writers Program. All of the writers heard in this series are published in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology, and featured online at www.jackstraw.org.

Music by Amy Rubin and Dawn Clement, produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

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