Episode Thirty-five

This month’s guest is Aeon Ginsberg. We dug into their recently published book Greyhound and also talked about PoBiz/Big Lit, death, and teeth poetry.

Aeon Ginsberg (they/them) is an agender transfeminine writer and performer from Baltimore City, MD. They are the author of Greyhound, the 2019 winner of the Noemi Press Poetry Prize, and their work has been published in various magazines in print and online. Aeon is a Taurus, a bartending, and a bitch.

Aeon’s website

Aeon’s Twitter account

Go get Greyhound!

Writers, news, books, events mentioned in this episode:

• Aeon’s previous chapbooks:

  • Until the Cows Come Home (Elation Press, 2016)

  • Loathe/Love/Lathe (Nostrovia! Press, 2017)

• Yanyi has written an excellent article regarding PoMag’s “trans issue” and critiquing special issues in general: “Counting Tokens: Special Issues and the Theatre of Delay.”

• #BeyondSpecialIssue folio organized by jayy dodd

• Roy Guzman on what happened after their close reading of Toby Martinez de las Rivas’s published and fascist work "Titan / All Is Still" in PoMag’s Nov 2018 issue.

• PoFound statement about how they plan to reorient themselves and dismantle white supremacist practice in their organization.

• “Exclusive: The Paris Review, the Cold War and the CIA,” in Salon

• speCt! books open letter to PoFound at the wake of the COVID-19 crisis

• “MICA professor resigns after former student alleges misconduct, says she informed college two years ago,” in The Baltimore Sun.

• Isobel Bess (sorry for accidentally using her previous name!)

• Jamie Berrout

• Marxist Poetry Podcast

• Magpie Killjoy's I Pity The Immortal

• RBG's personal trainer doing push-ups in front of her casket

• Chen Chen

• Shazia Hafiz Ramji

• David Davis

• Kayleb Candrilli

• Chris, a Christine and the Queens album

• “Hello -- A Greeting From Nowhere”

• Anne Boyer's What Resembles A Grave

• Peach Mag

• Fargo Tbakhi's 12 World's Interrupted By The Drone

• Aeon made a Spotify playlist of songs that are in conversation with their book

• Anne Carson quote: "If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it."

The Sound of Waves Breaking is this video Aeon sent me of Vin Diesel singing Rhianna.

Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz

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Episode Thirty-three

In this episode, I spoke with poet kiki nicole about their manuscript, Autobiography of the boi Venus which not published (yet!), their embroidery work, film work, and current interests.

kiki nicole is a Black, Queer, and Non-binary multimedia artist and poet based in Charlotte, North Carolina.. They’ve received invitations to fellowships such as Pink Door Writing Retreat, The Watering Hole, and Winter Tangerine. kiki nicole is currently a reader for Muzzle Magazine. They work to explore a Black, queer, femme & genderless universe that un/bodies, un/genders, & re/news, kiki hopes to lend a voice for the void in which Black femmes not only exist in plain view, but thrive.

from kiki’s Autobiography of the boi Venus, also using a still from ariella tai’s "she's not going to get more dead"

kiki’s site

kiki’s instagram

Donation link to support kiki

Media, artists, books, etc mentioned in this episode:

• Winter Tangerine’s fellowship program

• jayy dodd

• venus selenite 

• Tyrell Blacquemoss (TBN), who runs Cause Reign

• Find examples of kiki’s textile and multimedia work here

• ariella tai

• ariella tai’s "she's not going to get more dead"

• the first + the last, a experimental film/video and new media arts project for Black femmes, women, and non-men that kiki and ariella co-curate

• Lil Uzi Vert

• Katherine McKittrick's Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle

• “Stitches in Time” quilt exhibition, was not at the museum 

• M. Norbese Philips's Zong!

• Yoruba deity Oshun

• Yoruba deity Yemaya

• Yoruba deity Shango

• Roman deity Venus

• Gríma Wormtongue from The Lord of the Rings

• Shakespeare’s Macbeth

• Toni Morrison’s Beloved

• Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and Kindred

• Naked and Afraid reality series

• Xandria Phillips's HULL

• adrienne marie brown's Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy)

• Big Thief’s "Not"

• Mitski

• Noname’s “Song 33”

• Noname Book Club

• Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau

• kiki's syllabus “Into a New Year.” kiki notes, “This is a syllabus of mine that I think ties a lot into what I was trying to convey near the end about preparing for a new world.”

• kiki’s pdf library “blk thots~” to decolonize your bookshelves!

The sound of waves breaking is Sylvester's “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real).”

This episode was edited and social media managed by Mitchel Davidovitz.

Stay safe, everyone!!