Our 3rd episode was recorded on December 9th, 2019 in Athens, Georgia.
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LeAnne Howe, born and raised in Oklahoma, is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation. Some awards include: the Western Literature
Association’s 2015 Distinguished Achievement Award for her body of work; the inaugural
2014 MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures; 2012 United States
Artists Ford Fellowship; and a 2010 Fulbright Scholarship to Jordan. She received the American Book Award in 2002
for her first novel, Shell Shaker. Her most recent book, Savage Conversations, 2019, Coffee House Press, is the story of Mary Todd Lincoln and a
Savage Indian spirit that she (Mary) imagined was torturing her nightly. Based on Mary Todd Lincoln’s letters and
reports from her doctors, scholar Philip J. Deloria writes, “[the book] explodes with the stench and guilt
and insanity that undergirds the American story.”
Episode #2: Raquel Salas Rivera
Our 2nd episode was recorded on December 1st, 2019 in Philadelphia.
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Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and literary critic. In 2018, they were named the Poet Laureate of Philadelphia for a two-year term. The following year they became the inaugural recipient of the Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. They are also the author of seven chapbooks and five full-length poetry books. Their third book, lo terciario/the tertiary (2nd ed., Noemi Press, 2019), was on the 2018 National Book Award Longlist and won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. while they sleep (under the bed is another country), was published by Birds, LLC in 2019. Their fifth book, x/ex/exis: poemas para la nación/ poems for the nation was the first recipient of the Ambroggio Prize (Editorial Bilingüe/ Bilingual Press, 2020). They received their Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. During 2020, they will be growing trinitarias in Santurce as La Impresora’s first poet in residence. Please also read Raquel's essay on translation.
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Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and literary critic. In 2018, they were named the Poet Laureate of Philadelphia for a two-year term. The following year they became the inaugural recipient of the Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. They are also the author of seven chapbooks and five full-length poetry books. Their third book, lo terciario/the tertiary (2nd ed., Noemi Press, 2019), was on the 2018 National Book Award Longlist and won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. while they sleep (under the bed is another country), was published by Birds, LLC in 2019. Their fifth book, x/ex/exis: poemas para la nación/ poems for the nation was the first recipient of the Ambroggio Prize (Editorial Bilingüe/ Bilingual Press, 2020). They received their Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. During 2020, they will be growing trinitarias in Santurce as La Impresora’s first poet in residence. Please also read Raquel's essay on translation.
Photo by Kielinski Photography
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