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Book ShelterBook ShelterFreedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental WritingAnthony Reed's "Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing," part of the Callaloo African Diaspora Series, examines the innovative literary expressions of Black writers. The book analyzes how these writers engage with and transform existing poetic forms and techniques, such as concrete poetry and the lyric, to explore themes of race, identity, history, and community. Reed focuses on the works of various authors, including N. H. Pritchard, M. NourbeSe Philip, Kamau Brathwaite, Claudia Rankine, Douglas Kearney, Harryette Mullen, and Suzan-Lori Parks, revealing their unique approaches to language and form. By considering their experimental styles, Reed investigates...2025-03-2924 minBookey En(Book Review and Notes)Bookey En(Book Review and Notes)Blank: A Summary of Marlene NourbeSe Philip's Work Chapter 1 What's Blank "Blank" is a notable work by Trinidadian-Canadian poet and author Marlene NourbeSe Philip. It was published in the context of examining themes of language, identity, colonialism, and the experiences of the Black diaspora. Philip is well-regarded for her innovative use of language and form, often blending poetry with prose and visual elements. In "Blank," Philip explores the concept of silence and the power of the unspoken word, particularly regarding the historical narratives of marginalized communities. Through her unique approach, she confronts the erasure of Black voices from dominant narratives and the impact of...2025-02-0706 minOf Poetry PodcastOf Poetry PodcastJunious 'Jay' Ward (Of the Field, the Mythic Perception of the South, and the Vulnerable Document)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Inheritance" and "Homecoming, Rich Square, NC" (Fourway Review)Purchase: Composition (Button Poetry, 2023)Junious 'Jay' Ward is a poet and teaching artist from Charlotte, NC. He is a National Slam champion (2018), an Individual World Poetry Slam champion (2019), author of Sing Me A Lesser Wound (Bull City Press 2020) and Composition (Button Poetry 2023). Jay currently serves as Charlotte's inaugural Poet Laureate and is a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Ward has attended Breadloaf Writers Conference, Callaloo, The Watering Hole and Tin...2024-10-3046 minThe Windham-Campbell Prizes PodcastThe Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcastm. nourbeSe philip on Kamau Brathwaite's BORN TO SLOW HORSESm. nourbeSe philip (winner of a 2024 Windham Campbell Prize for Poetry) talks with Prize Director Michael Kelleher about Kamau Brathwaite's tremendous collection, Born to Slow Horses, the lineage of Brathwaite's complex and playful work, and her own poetic connections to Brathwaite's writing.Reading list: Born to Slow Horses by Kamau Brathwaite • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys • The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon • The Tempest by William Shakespearem. nourbeSe philip is an internationally renowned poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. Across her diverse and rich body of work, philip has constant...2024-08-2131 minGetting Lit with Linda - The Canadian Literature PodcastGetting Lit with Linda - The Canadian Literature PodcastBeing Educated About Being EducatedLinda has been mulling over what an education is, what purposes it serves. She was so curious about it that she begin to reflect on the etymology of the word. The root of “educate” comes from educe, from the Latin, meaning "to lead forth" or "lead out of," which then led her to think, leading out of … what? From where and to where? And who is doing the leading? For whom? And why? Weaving in her personal conversations and experiences alongside different cultural texts – from Valley of the Bird Tail to An Education to Tom Wayman’s “Did I Miss Anythin...2024-06-2025 minUnderworlds - Sites and Struggles of Global Dis/OrderingUnderworlds - Sites and Struggles of Global Dis/OrderingOceansOceans as Site and Struggle of Global Dis/Ordering Rather than concentrating only on how oceans are formally framed or regulated as objects of international legal ordering, this episode foregrounds the patterns and imaginaries of global dis/ordering that thinking through the ocean reveal. Which material historical conditions have shaped the current legal constitution of oceanic space? Which new legal and political temporalities, geographies, and subjectivities might ‘thinking oceanically’ generate? How are international law and the ocean co-constituted – through its specific spatial zones, its depths and bottoms, its vexing vents, and amphibious legalities? Which critical practices can enable...2024-04-031h 00The More the Merrier with donna gThe More the Merrier with donna gtmtm 17 march 24 Guests: award-winning m. nourbeSe philip Zong! and John Galway on the Toronto Irish Film FestivalAuthor, m. nourbeSe philip on her seminal work Zong, celebrating its 15th anniversary, plus we reminisce about her as well-received children's book, Harriet's Daughter.John Galway, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Toronto Irish Film Festival is back to showcase the feature films at this year's festival. Note: I'm a member of the shorts program jury so we didn't discuss those in detail.2024-03-1859 minMomus: The PodcastMomus: The PodcastNasrin Himada – Season 6, Episode 7For the 50th (!) episode of Momus: The Podcast, Lauren Wetmore speaks to Nasrin Himada, a Palestinian curator and writer who is currently associate curator at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. "I write for my people. I write for Palestinians, and I write for the liberation of our lands," Himada says of their practice, which foregrounds "embodiment as method, desire as transformation, and liberation through many forms." Wetmore and Himada discuss esteemed Caribbean-Canadian poet and writer M. NourbeSe Philip's text, “Interview with an Empire'' (2003), thinking through how Philip teaches us to decontaminate language from...2024-02-1559 minHaymarket Books LiveHaymarket Books LiveBallast: A Reading and LaunchJoin Quenton Baker and special guests for a celebration of and conversation on their new book ballast. This event occurred on April 26, 2023. Ballast is a poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black lives and the afterlife of slavery. In 1841, the only successful, large-scale revolt of American-born enslaved people erupted on the ship Creole. 135 people escaped chattel slavery that day. The event was recounted in US Senate documents, including letters exchanged between US and British consulates in The Bahamas and depositions from the white crew on the...2023-12-201h 30Poem-a-DayPoem-a-DayM. NourbeSe Philip: "frigates that take us lands away"Recorded by M. NourbeSe Philip for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 31, 2023. www.poets.org2023-08-3104 minGet Latest Full Audiobooks in Teen & YA, HistoricalGet Latest Full Audiobooks in Teen & YA, HistoricalPart of a Story That Started Before Me: Poems about Black British History by Christienna FryarPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548459 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Part of a Story That Started Before Me: Poems about Black British History Author: Christienna Fryar Narrator: Michelle Femi Tiwo, Rohan Nedd, Charlotte Gosling, Troy Glasgow, Seroca Davis, George The Poet Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 17 minutes Release date: July 13, 2023 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'It's time we told our story too. The melanin speaks for itself.' - George the Poet Part of a Story That Started Before Me is an extraordinary new collection of poems chosen by acclaimed spoken-word performer and social...2023-07-1305 minForeign, Domestic & ForbiddenForeign, Domestic & ForbiddenYou Never Get to the Bottom of a Word -- a conversation with poet and translator Denise NewmanAfter a brief break, Lobo and Trash are back in the studio and welcoming poet and translator Denise Newman. They discuss how poetry can change our perception of an ever-crazier world, or provide solace when things get too heavy. And as Bard might put it, they talk about how literature is "a way to explore the human condition, challenge our assumptions, and make us laugh (at ourselves)." Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus by Signe Gjessing alphabet by Inger Christensen Zong! By M. NourbeSe Philip Journey to Mt Tamalpais by Etel Adnan Scala...2023-06-2259 minformula_true poetry - poesia italiana contemporaneaformula_true poetry - poesia italiana contemporaneaformula true poetry - aspettandoo il nono episodio - poesia italiana contemporaneaformula_true poetry è è un format video multimediale di poesia italiana contemporanea - creato da Martina Campi e Giusi Montali, e disponibile su youtube - che indaga il rapporto che si instaura, indirettamente e/o direttamente, tra autore e lettore attraverso voce, incontro e riflessioni di lettura. In formula viene indagato il rapporto tra realtà e rappresentazione, tra scrittura e lettura, tra pensiero e azione. e si propone una pratica di ascolto attivo che permetta di giungere a un rapporto personale con il testo. Il format video di poesia italiana contemporanea è disponibile sia sul sito ufficiale (⁠⁠qui⁠⁠), s...2023-05-0911 minFree City RadioFree City RadioPaula Dykstra + Spriodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارةPaula Dykstra + Spirodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة For @radioalhara Broadcasting on April 23 at 5pm Bethlehem time, 11am eastern time at radioalhara.net 01. Milton Nascimento - Txai 02. Milton Nascimento - Planeta Blue 03. Luedji Luna - Um Corpo no Mundo 04. M NourbeSe Philip - Discourse 05. Ava Rocha - Boca do Céu 06. Raquel Dimantas - Snake Head 07. Boca de Groselha - Curumin 08. Erasmo Carlos - É Preciso Dar Um Jeito, Meu Amigo 09. Elza Soares - O que se cala 10. Badawi - Dstry All Prfts 11. Asher @doldrumss & Jordan @jordanchristoff - Ambient Human Power Generation (@crashsymbols) 12. Nick Schofield @nickschofield - AAA (Montréal Session)- Vitrola Era 13...2023-04-2300 minSpeaking for ChangeSpeaking for ChangeEpisode 8: NourbeSe Philip on Belonging, Race and ArtThis episode presents a keynote talk by M. NourbeSe Philip from Social Justice Week 2017, called Black Be/longing: At the crossroads of art, culture, and human rights. It was part of the Mandela ECI Lecture series: A unique series of keynote talks by renowned Black public intellectuals and artists. The series was presented by Social Justice Week in collaboration with TMU’s Office for Equity and Community Inclusion. This talk spotlights one of Canada’s most important contemporary writers and revolutionary thinkers, M. NourbeSe Philip, whose aim has always been to make us see what has gone...2023-03-1647 minLIVE! From City LightsLIVE! From City LightsDouglas Kearney in conversation with Tisa BryantCity Lights presents Douglas Kearney reading from his new book and in conversation with Tisa Bryant. Douglas Kearney celebrates his collection of lectures "Optic Subwoof" published by Wave Books. This virtual event was hosted by Peter Maravelis. You can purchase copies of "Optic Subwoof" directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/optic-subwoof/ Douglas Kearney has published seven poetry collections, including "Sho" (Wave 2021), which was a finalist for the National Book Award, PEN Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and "Buck Studies" (Fence Books, 2016), winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award, the CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry, and...2023-02-091h 31The Archaeology Podcast Network FeedThe Archaeology Podcast Network FeedBlack Cemeteries - HeVo 70On today's episode, Jessica hosts a conversation with Dr. Antoinette Jackson and Delande Justinavil about Black cemeteries. We talk about their work and how their efforts fit into larger efforts to learn more about and protect Black cemeteries. We talk about the importance of using a variety of methods and disciplines to understand this important topic, as well as the necessity of including living people and art to inform this work and speak to the general public. The discussion includes the importance of reframing away from the idea of Black cemeteries as “abandoned” and the many layered efforts necessary to p...2023-01-1757 minHeritage VoicesHeritage VoicesBlack Cemeteries - Ep 70On today's episode, Jessica hosts a conversation with Dr. Antoinette Jackson and Delande Justinavil about Black cemeteries. We talk about their work and how their efforts fit into larger efforts to learn more about and protect Black cemeteries. We talk about the importance of using a variety of methods and disciplines to understand this important topic, as well as the necessity of including living people and art to inform this work and speak to the general public. The discussion includes the importance of reframing away from the idea of Black cemeteries as “abandoned” and the many layered efforts necessary to p...2023-01-1757 minOn the NoseOn the NoseThe Scream Clarifies an ElsewhereLast week, Graywolf Press released Civil Service, the debut poetry collection by Jewish Currents Culture Editor Claire Schwartz. The book is a daring study of the violence woven into our world, from everyday encounters to the material of language itself. The poems unfold in three main sequences: a quartet of lyric lectures, a fragmentary narrative that follows a cast of archetypal figures named for the coordinates of their complicities with power—the Dictator, the Curator, the Accountant, and so on—and a series of interrogation scenes centered on a spectral, fugitive figure named Amira, who gives us a glimpse of a...2022-08-111h 03The More the Merrier with donna gThe More the Merrier with donna gtmtm Feb 6, 2022My chat with about her pieces written for Nourbese Philip "Zong" event, plus lessons she's learned over the years as a Black woman in the arts.2022-02-081h 02Wyrd WordsWyrd Words"Shifting the Orientations of the Heart": Conversation with Sarah deLeeuw, Part 2Sarah deLeeuw, award-winning poet and essayist and professor at UBC and UNBC in the Northern Medical Program where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Humanities and Health Inequities, joins Lisa Dickson and her cohost, Shannon Murray, to delve into her creative practice and explore ideas of empathy, beauty, and hope, and the necessity of paying particular attention to the absent and the overlooked. Music Credits: Intro/Outro: “Summer Pride” by Loyalty Freak Music Additional music in order of appearance: “No Rocking in the Jazz Hands Zone” by Peter Gresser “Actio...2021-04-0829 minWyrd WordsWyrd Words"Shifting the Orientations of the Heart": Conversation with Sarah deLeeuw, Part 1Sarah deLeeuw, award-winning poet and essayist and professor at UBC and UNBC in the Northern Medical Program where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Humanities and Health Inequities, joins Lisa Dickson and her cohost, Shannon Murray, to talk about how the stories we tell about the landscape and our bodily experiences have material effects on our lives and wellbeing. Music Credits: Intro/Outro: “Umlungu” by John Martmann Additional music in order of appearance: “No Rocking in the Jazz Hands Zone” by Peter Gresser “No Cadillac” by Loyalty Freak Music 2021-04-0837 minThe SOF/Heyman BookshelfThe SOF/Heyman BookshelfJack Halberstam's Wild Things: The Disorder of DesireIn Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of opposition to modernity's orderly impulses. Wildness illuminates the normative taxonomies of sexuality against which radical queer practice and politics operate. Throughout, Halberstam engages with a wide variety of texts, practices, and cultural imaginaries—from zombies, falconry, and M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong! to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and the career of Irish anticolonial revolutionary Ro...2021-02-1735 minbig oofs onlybig oofs onlyE10: ... 快乐 (... Kuai Le / ... Happy) 🥟🎆🧧🏮🎉Before we begin,  恭喜发财   群节快乐! This episode is mostly an anthology of some of the semi amusing racial microaggressions that we have encountered as East Asian women. This is not to diminish the racism we face. In fact, making light of these stories is how we cope with how traumatizing it is to be conditioned to accept racist behavior. Our experiences are also not representative of the experiences of all Asian people in America. We are acutely aware that people in the Asian community suffer from structural violence, not just microaggressions. But it’s lunar new year! So if you want ~real talk~, check out our pr...2021-02-131h 02Conversations with NeighboursConversations with NeighboursEpisode 8: How might we trace the afterlives of the trans-Saharan trade routes of the 8th century?In this final episode of ‘Conversations with Neighbours,’ we ask how we might trace the afterlives of the trans-saharan trade routes of the 8th century? We travel through time and memory with Morrocan writer and translator, Omar Berrada, as he excavates the hidden histories of his once enslaved great, great grandmother; We travel from from Ilorin to Timbuktu with scholar, Moshood Jimba as he recounts the journey that led him to establish a manuscript collection on his return to Nigeria; And we hear from musician Amino Belyamani, of the healing purposes of Gnawa music in Morocco, and the languages and...2021-01-2758 minWaves BreakingWaves BreakingInterview with noor ibn najamIn this episode I spoke with noor ibn najam about her recent work and writing process. they also discussed showing work to friends and skill-sharing. Sorry that the intro and outro audio is a little wonky this time around, but my interview with noor is still good. noor is a poet who teases, challenges, breaks, and creates language. she's received fellowships from Callaloo and The Watering Hole and is a recent resident of the Vermont Studio Center. her poems have been published and anthologized with DIAGRAM, ANMLY, The Academy of American Poets, the Rumpus, Bettering American Poetry...2021-01-1144 minKnow the ShowKnow the ShowShow BoatSHOW BOAT Music by Jerome Kern | Book & Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Based on the novel SHOW BOAT by Edna FerberEpisode Segments:1:58 - Speed Test4:24 - Why God Why8:27 - Back to Before28:08 - What's Inside54:27 - How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?1:13:33 - Our Favorite Things1:19:05 - Corner of the Sky1:20:27 – What Comes Next?Works Consulted & Reference :Show Boat (Original Libretto) by Oscar Hammerstein IIShow Boat (Harold Prince Version) by Oscar Hammerstein IIShow Boat (Goodspeed Version) by Oscar Hammerstein II | Adapted by Rob RuggieroShow Boat: The Story of a Classic Ame...2020-12-161h 22TIA House TalksTIA House TalksEpisode 8: Lillian Allen Interviews Lenore KeeshigThis episode is dedicated to Daniel David Moses This interview of Lenore Keeshig by Lillian Allen was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, it brought together a small council of mostly BIPOC senior practitioners in the contemporary arts to sit in council over three days to discuss such topics as what our communities need now; memory and...2020-09-081h 19DipsausDipsausBonus - 🇬🇧 Black Togetherness: Carnival and Remembering our Diasporic Connections Through Our MovingBarby Asante and friends present a collective reading of poet, writer and lawyer M. NourbeSe Philip's essay Caribana: African Roots & Continuities, Race Space and the Poetics of Moving. Written in 1996 Caribana traces the history of Caribana, the Toronto Carnival, from the plantation to emancipation, through Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas and to Europe.  Barby and friends bring this reading together in a ceremony of grief and celebration, to remember the deep and long history of carnival as a living practice of resistance, survival, remembrance, joy and mourning, at a time when the COVID 19 pandemic takes the 54th Notting Hill Carniv...2020-08-311h 08E se fossem 40 livros de poesia...E se fossem 40 livros de poesia...Episódio 21 Lado B - algo pesa como o ar quando não respiram ou lendo Lubi PratesLADO B: ensaio-poema sobre “Um corpo negro”, de Lubi Prates. Registro da palavra de ordem “no justice, no peace”, durante as manifestações do #blacklivesmatter. Registro da morte de George Floyd, “I can’t breathe”. Citação de NourbeSe Philip, “Discourse on the logic of language”, na voz da poeta. Citação de “For Black poets who think of suicide”, de Etheridge Knight, na leitura Harvard Westlake. Voz: Piero Eyben. Sonoplastia, mixagem e trilha-sonora: Camille Ruiz.2020-08-1808 minCommonplace PodcastCommonplace PodcastEpisode 86: Global Roll Call, Part 1David Trinidad is the author of numerous poetry collections, most recently Swinging on a Star. He teaches poetry and creative writing at Columbia College and lives in Chicago.Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry. She lives in Paris.Cathy Park Hong’s latest book is Minor Feelings. She is poetry editor of the New Republic and is a professor at Rutgers-Newark University.John Murillo is the author of Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. He is an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University and also teaches in...2020-05-141h 00The Poet SalonThe Poet SalonMichelle Peñaloza reads Douglas Kearney's "Tallahatchie Lullabye, Baby"Hi loves, we're back with part deux of our conversation with the vibrant Michelle Peñaloza. Coming off of last week's lovely conversation about her own work, for this episode, she brought in Douglas Kerney's "Tallahatchie Lullabye, Baby". We excited to share the poem and this chat with you. Hope you're staying safe! MICHELLE PEÑALOZA is the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize (Inlandia Books, 2019). She is also the author of two chapbooks, landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias, 2015), and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes (Organic Weapon Arts, 20...2020-05-0526 minThe PEN PodThe PEN PodEpisode 17: Are We Really In This Together? With M. NourbeSe PhilipIn this episode, we talk about the pandemic, poetry, and the inequalities of the outbreak with M. NourbeSe Philip, and she shares an original poem. Also, PEN America and a broad coalition call on Congress to include local news in the next coronavirus stimulus package. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/penamerica/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/penamerica/support2020-04-0912 minCommonplace PodcastCommonplace PodcastEpisode 84: M. NourbeSe PhilipBooks by M. NourbeSe PhilipBlank: Essays and Interviews (Book*hug, 2017)She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (Wesleyan University Press, 2015)Zong! (Wesleyan University Press, 2011)A Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays (Mercury Press, 1998)Frontiers: Selected Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture 1984-1992 (Mercury Press, 1992)Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (Mercury Press, 1991)Other Texts and Writers Featured in the EpisodeKamau BrathwaiteNathaniel (Nate) Mackey and his lecture, “Breath and Precarity”Phillis Wheatley2020-03-261h 35Seeing ColorSeeing ColorEpisode 37: Poetry Under Pressure (w/ Jo Elizabeth Stewart)Hey everyone. I hope everyone is staying safe. My school in China has currently moved to online teaching for the foreseeable future as no one knows how long the virus will affect China. As I mentioned in my previous episode, I rerouted my flight to Thailand to wait out the virus. I stayed in Chiang Mai and enjoyed living in  warm weather and eating a lot of amazing northern Thai food, also called Lanna cuisine. I was also able to check out the Land Foundation, an art project started by Rirkrit Tiravanija. The foundation was hosting a solar panel c...2020-02-251h 15Waves BreakingWaves BreakingInterview with Samuel AceIt's been a minute! Thanks for your patience as I've slogged through life. In this episode I spoke with Samuel Ace about his book Our Weather Our Sea. Samuel Ace is a trans/genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author of several books, most recently Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish 2019), the newly re-issued Meet Me There: Normal Sex and Home in three days. Don’t wash., (Belladonna* Germinal Texts 2019), and Stealth with poet Maureen Seaton. He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer Award and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry, as we...2019-08-211h 09AAWW Radio: New Asian American Writers & LiteratureAAWW Radio: New Asian American Writers & LiteratureArchive Seance (ft. M. NourbeSe Philip & Phinder Dulai)We had Canadian experimental poets M. NourbeSe Philip and Phinder Dulai in our space for a reading and conversation on working between poetry and the archive. Phinder Dulai's dream / arteries remixes archival photos, ships manifests, passenger records, and interviews from the traumatic Komagata Maru event. M. NourbeSe Philip explodes genre boundaries with Zong!, Philip's response to the Zong slave ship massacre through legal poetry. Zong! is generally regarded as one of the most significant experimental poetry books of the last decade. Introduced and moderated by AAWW Executive Director Ken Chen.  2018-02-281h 39Poem TalkPoem TalkQuestion Therefore the Age: A discussion of M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Amber Rose Johnson, Tracie Morris, and Alexandria Johnson. 2017-11-1748 minGreat Writers Inspire at HomeGreat Writers Inspire at HomeM. NourbeSe Philip on the haunting of historyM. NourbeSe Philip reads from She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) and Zong! (2008) as she describes her poetic development. In discussion with Prof. Elleke Boehmer, Prof. Marina Warner offers a response that emphasises the transformative power of story, and Matthew Reynolds discusses Philip’s linguistic innovations.2017-08-251h 41Great Writers Inspire at HomeGreat Writers Inspire at HomeM. NourbeSe Philip on the haunting of historyM. NourbeSe Philip reads from She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) and Zong! (2008) as she describes her poetic development. In discussion with Prof. Elleke Boehmer, Prof. Marina Warner offers a response that emphasises the transformative power of story, and Matthew Reynolds discusses Philip’s linguistic innovations.2017-08-251h 41The World in WordsThe World in WordsHow dialects from Trinidad to Hawaii are expanding the limits of EnglishWe may be in the midst of a golden age of vernacular English literature. Writers like Junot Diaz and M. NourbeSe Philip are introducing readers-- and the the English language-- to thoughts and expressions from their cultural backyards.2014-10-2319 minCiTR -- Audio Text (2010)CiTR -- Audio Text (2010)Broadcast on 16-Dec-2009Selected poems from the Battered Women's Support Services Poetry Night, including Lisa Slater, Scruffmouth, Cynthia, and Julie Peters with a reading from Marlene NourbeSe Philip2009-12-1734 minCiTR -- Audio Text (2010)CiTR -- Audio Text (2010)Broadcast on 16-Dec-2009Selected poems from the Battered Women's Support Services Poetry Night, including Lisa Slater, Scruffmouth, Cynthia, and Julie Peters with a reading from Marlene NourbeSe Philip2009-12-1734 min