In this episode, Gessy Alvarez talks with French writer, poet, and editor Marie Baléo. Marie's chapbook Submersion is the winner of our 2021 Digging Press Chapbook Series Award. The poetry collection articulates dignity, admiration, and a profound kinship for Beirut, Lebanon. Submersion is a subtle love letter exquisitely expressed in lyrical and narrative verse. Marie writes primarily in English, and her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in literary magazines in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. She is one of the Poetry Society's 2020 National Poetry Competition winners. She was raised in France, Norway, and Lebanon and now lives in Paris.
Marie treats us to readings of two poems from the collection, "Awakening" and "When you remember your exile in reverse, it always ends like this."
Submersion by Marie Baléo is available exclusively at DiggingPress.com
Intro and Closing Music Credits: John Sib for Pixabay. "Tropical House."
