Episode Thirty

Photo by: Neon M Esc

In this episode, I had the opportunity to talk with Zefyr Lisowski about her book Blood Box.

Zefyr Lisowski is a trans and queer writer, artist, and North Carolinian currently living in NYC. She's a Poetry Co-editor for Apogee Journal and the author of Blood Box, winner of the Black River Editor's Choice Award from Black Lawrence Press and forthcoming fall 2019; she's also the author of the microchap Wolf Inventory (Ghost City Press, 2018) and is a 2019 Tin House Summer Workshop Fellow.

Zefyr's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lit Hub, Nat. Brut., Muzzle Magazine, and DIAGRAM, among many other places; she's also received support from Sundress Academy for the Arts, McGill University, the New York Live Ideas Fest, and the 2019 CUNY Graduate Center Adjunct Incubator Grant for the arts. A 2018 nominee for the Pushcart Prize, she also goes by Zef.

Zefyr Lisowski's website
Go buy Blood Box! 

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

• Sharon Pollock's play Blood Relations

• Angela Davis's short story "The Fall River Axe Murders"

• Angela Davis's Bloody Chamber

• Lizzie Borden's film Born in Flames

• Lizzie (2018 film)

• Muriel Leung 

• Joey De Jesus 

• Jessie Rice Evans 

• Cyree Jarelle Johnson's SLINGSHOT  (and here's my interview with Cyree)

• Diana Khoi Nguyen's Ghost Of 

• Johanna Hedva's "Sick Woman Theory" 

• @Mx_ctrl is my Instagram handle, and...I definitely failed Inktober 

• Samuel Ace/ Linda Smukler's Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don't wash. 

Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz
Sound of Waves Breaking is "Cicada Single" by Jedo.

Lucky Episode Thirteen

This month I had the pleasure of interviewing Ching-In about their recent publication, recombinant. We got to talk about archive, language, history, and gender. 

Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi Books) and recombinant (Kelsey Street Press) and co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press; AK Press) and Here is a Pen: an Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press). A Kundiman, Lambda, Watering Hole and Callaloo Fellow, they are part of the Macondo and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation writing communities. Their work has appeared in The Best American Experimental Writing, The &NOW Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. They are a senior editor of The Conversant and poetry editor of the Texas Review. They serve on the Executive Board of Thinking Its Presence: Race, Advocacy, Solidarity in the Arts as the Director of Membership and Social Media. www.chinginchen.com

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Artists and works mentioned in this episode:

• Ching-In's book recombinant

• Ching-In's book The Heart's Traffic

• The Peabody Essex Museum's collected artifacts of the basket and fan

• Milwaukee lynch mob information

• Cheng Chui Ping aka "Sister Ping" 

• Golden Venture Disaster

• Michael Lin's artwork at Peabody Essex Museum

• I Was Born with Two Tongues

• Tyehimba Jess's Olio

• Syncopated Sonnets

• Kundiman

• Cathy Linh Che

• Wo Chan

• Jai Arun Ravine

• Trish Salah
   
• conference: Thinking as Presence, creative writing, race and the arts. CFS!

The Sound of Waves Breaking this week is from Jon Jang and the Pan-Asian Arkestra's "Night in Tunisia," just in case you're curious. 

This episode was edited by Mitchel Davidovitz, whose sound project you can find here on bandcamp