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O, Word?e·pon·y·mous | "YEET!" by jason b. crawfordA conversation with jason b. crawford about their collection YEET!, finding a safe home for Black people, and how we write ourselves alivejason b. crawford (He/They), born in Washington, DC and raised in Lansing, Michigan, is the author of Year of the Unicorn Kidz. Their second collection, YEET! is the winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize and was published Fall 2025. At the time of this recording, it was also a finalist for the 2026 Lammy Awards from Lambda Literary. They have been published in POETRY Magazine, Academy of American Poets, Cincinnati Review, Beloit Poetry...
2026-06-0130 min
O, Word?O, Nonce!A conversation with Nick Martino about Nonce Forms, The Possibilities of Visual Poetics, and Writing Towards SurpriseNick Martino is a poet and teacher from Milwaukee. His debut poetry collection, Scrap Book (from Alice James Books) won the 2024 Alice James Editors’ Choice Award and will be published in June of 2026. His poems have been published in Best New Poets, Narrative, Ninth Letter, The Boston Review, and The Southern Review, among others. A finalist for the 2024 Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, he holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine where he received the 2022 Excellence in Poetry Prize. He...
2026-05-1139 min
O, Word?O, Joy!A conversation with Jonny Teklit about Joy as Poetic Practice, Poetic Influences, and How Joy Can Push Us Towards ActionJonny Teklit is an award-winning poet who has had work appear in The Academy of American Poets, The New Yorker, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. His poems have been anthologized in Poemhood: Our Black Revival and The Gift of Animals: Poems on Love, Loss, and Connection. He is currently working on his debut collection. Get full access to O, Word? at oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe
2026-04-2733 min
O, Word?e·pon·y·mous | "Black Bell" by Alison C. RollinsTalking with Alison C. Rollins about Black Bell, the poetics of referentiality, and performance as mode of collective meaning-makingAlison C. Rollins is the author of the poetry collections Black Bell and Library of Small Catastrophes. Rollins holds an MFA from Brown University and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. Her work, across genres, has appeared in American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. ...
2026-04-1333 min
O, Word?O, Prosody!A conversation with Tariq Thompson about Rhythm, Hip Hop as a Guiding Force, and the Muscularity of LanguageTariq Thompson is a poet and educator from Memphis, Tennessee. He’s the author of the chapbook LONE LILY (from Sunset Press, 2021). His poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Adroit Journal, Split Lip Magazine and elsewhere. Thompson was a finalist for a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. He holds an MFA in poetry from New York University. You can find more of his work at tariqthompson.com. Get full access to O...
2026-03-3033 minWeekday Night Live at P&TDr. Darius Phelps, Taiyo Na, DeeSoul Carson, Karl Michael Iglesias, & Andrew Chi Keong YimWednesday, Feb 25: P&T Knitwear was pleased to welcome Dr. Darius Phelps to celebrate and discuss his latest collection of poetry, My God's Been Silent. Darius was joined in conversation by Taiyo Na, DeeSoul Carson, Karl Michael Iglesias, & Andrew Chi Keong Yim.
2026-03-201h 23
O, Word?O, Repetition!Talking with Summer Farah about Repetition, leaning into frantic energy, and the value of revisitationSummer Farah is a Palestinian American writer, editor, and zine-maker from California. She is the author of the chapbook, i could die today and live again, poems inspired by the legend of Zelda and published by Game Over Books in 2004. Her debut collection, The Hungering Years is forthcoming from Host Publications in 2026. She's calling on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of the Palestinian people each day. Get full access to O, Word? at oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe
2026-03-1629 min
O, Word?e·pon·y·mous | "Bloodmercy" by I.S. JonesTalking with I.S Jones about Bloodmercy, the complicated presence of God, and cataloging the milestones of girlhoodI.S. Jones is the author of Bloodmercy, chosen by Nicole Sealey as the winner of the 2025 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, and the chapbook Spells of my Name, selected by Newfound in 2021 for their Emerging Writer series (and might I add, an O, Word? 2025 5-star read). Currently, she is a senior editor for Poetry Northwest, where she runs her column, “The Legacy Suite.” Her works have appeared in Granta, LA Review of Books, Guernica, Prairie Schooner, the Rumpus, and...
2026-03-0235 min
O, Word?O, Persona!Talking with Victoria Mbabazi about persona, anger as a motivating force, and the merits of hate.Victoria’s work can be found in several literary journals. They have two chapbook collections, chapbook, through Anstruther Press, published in 2021, and Flip from Knife Fork Books in 2022. Both are sold out. However, their first full length poetry collection, The Siren in the Twelfth House, from Palimpsest Press, 2024 is available where books are sold. Their second poetry collection, The Stone Who Strapped Me, will be available with Arsenal Pulp Press in Spring 2027. Not so long ago, they moved to the mysterious la...
2026-02-1624 min
O, Word?O, Hybridity!Talking with Kay E. Bancroft about the hybridity, getting funky on the page, and messing with documents as an entryway to poetry Get full access to O, Word? at oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe
2026-01-2627 min
O, Word?e·pon·y·mous | "Room Swept Home" by Remica Bingham-RisherTalking with Remica Bingham-Risher about the archive, grandmothers, and the work of witness Get full access to O, Word? at oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe
2025-11-2125 min
O, Word?Eponymous | "Resting B***h Face" by Dr. Taylor ByasNote: This transcription is edited to facilitate the reading experience. To see every word uttered in this recording, please click the “Transcript” button for captioning you can follow :)DeeSoul Carson: And it was just like, what a crazy thing to say! You know, you’re a professor of poetry at this big institution and you’re just like, people of color aren’t doing sonnets?!?! They aren’t doing sonnets?!?!Taylor Byas: Yeah, like just say, you don’t read. Just say that.DC: Right! Just say that. I would have respected that answer. I won’...
2025-10-1324 min
O, Word?O, Summer Slump!In this episode of O, Word?, DeeSoul reflects on Summer Work, Summer Reading, and Keeping Himself Accountable to a Thing No One Has Asked Him to Do Get full access to O, Word? at oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe
2025-09-2914 min
Moving Write AlongDeeSoul Carson on PoetryIn the thick of National Poetry Month, our hosts welcome poet DeeSoul Carson aboard to talk about all things meter, rhyme, and imagery. (And the enemies to lovers question tradition continues).
2022-04-1654 min
The Poet Speaks PodcastWhat Does God Think Of My Poetry? (ft. Deesoul)We welcome to the podcast, Deesoul! Darnell “DeeSoul” Carson (He/They) is a Black queer poet, performer, and educator from San Diego, CA. A The Watering Hole Writing Workshop Fellow, his work has been featured by Button Poetry, Write About Now Poetry, The Adroit Journal, & elsewhere. He graduated with a degree in Cultural/Social Psychology and a minor in Creative Writing from Stanford University and is a Writer in the Public Schools Fellow in the NYU M.F.A program. Check out him and Amanda's conversation on everything from religion , race, the 2020 pandemic and of course all things poetry!
2022-03-1337 min
Meeting the Moment PodcastJune | JOY AS RESISTANCE | Sunshine and Dominoes and Lemonade and JoyA defiant poet’s instructions for living joyful resistance.
For Stanford University's Office for Religious and Spiritual Life's Meeting's the Moment program, this story showcases our June '21 theme, JOY AS RESISTANCE. Told by Meeting the Moment Fellow Darnell (DeeSoul) Carson ’21.
Music in this piece:
“Sunday Morning Chant” by Freesound Music
"Positive Hip-hop" by Maxkomusic
"Trial Of Fire" by Catch 22 Beats
"Remember When" by Pieper Beats
"ELEGANCE" by B.EaZYbeats
"4 Page" by Quentin Beatino
2021-05-1415 min