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Let’s Talk Memoir162. Finding Patterns and Switching Lenses featuring Bridgett M. DavisBridgett M. Davis joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the effect of trauma and weathering on Black lives, the unique bond between sisters, showing relationships in action and dialogue, homing in on a throughline, giving our books and writing the space they need,finding patterns and switching lenses, exploring varying lived experiences within family structures, shedding light on Lupus, the physiological effects of systemic racism, Black maternal mortality, moments of heartbreak, asking important narrative questions early on, the letters her sister wrote to her, and her new memoir Love, Rita.
Also in thi...2025-04-0839 min
VSChet’la Sebree vs. EtymologyWelcome to Season 9! On today’s episode of VS, Brittany and Ajanae chat with Chet’la Sebree about love, the origin of words and theory, chronic illness, vulnerability, and using language to explore our curiosities. Until Next Time: Here is some media to accompany your experience of the episode and a writing prompt to tide you over until we meet again!Natasha Tretheway: Natasha Trethewey’s Poems Take Wing on Intimate Details - The New York TimesShara McCallum FIELD STUDY: CHET'LA SEBREE IN CONVERSATION WITH SHARA MCCALLUMAllison Saar : #5WomenArtists Spotlight: Alison Saar - English with Aud...2025-03-181h 00Let’s Talk Memoir155. Grappling with Contradictions and Leaving Readers Room to Decide featuring Martha S. JonesMartha S. Jones joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about being Black, white, and other in America, the origins of her family in slavery and sexual violence, anti-miscegenation laws, passing, who we call kin and why, taking up space, avoiding the Black-White binary, discovering family stories, writing in a full-throated way, leaving complexity in our work, being patient with our material, chasing threads, the duty we have to the people we write about, grappling with contradictions, leaving readers room to decide, writing and rewriting to get someplace new, the courage it takes to confront the past, and he...2025-03-0639 minLet’s Talk Memoir135. Reckoning with What We Need to Write and Learning to Stop Punishing Ourselves featuring Sarah LaBrieSarah LaBrie joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the year her mom was diagnosed with schizophrenia and the legacy of mental illness in her family, rethinking ambitions in light of tragedy and grief, releasing emotional pressure with writing, when fiction doesn’t cut it, finding company for our mental illness stories, knowing why you want to write a memoir, learning to stop punishing ourselves, being a workaholic, processing our stories through writing, and her new memoir No One Gets to Fall Apart.
Also in this episode:
-contemplating our parents’ backstory
...2024-11-2629 minLet’s Talk Memoir126. Writing with a Sense of Exploration and Curiosity featuring Lilly DancygerLilly Dancyger joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the challenges of existing in the world as a woman, approaching the writing process with a sense of exploration and curiosity, discovering what's really essential and what can we let go of, the nitty-gritty of writing an essay, getting clarity on our material, finding the container to write about what we need to write, articulating the connections we’re making, girlhood, going off the rails as a teenager, how grief and art can be inextricably linked, the tug to write about close relationships with women, living in community and...2024-10-2243 min
From the Front PorchEpisode 476 || Into the Backlist, Vol. 3This week on From the Front Porch, we have a new episode series: Into the Backlist! Today, Annie changes her focus from new releases to dive into the backlist: the books that came out years ago, the books that didn’t get enough attention, the books you may stumble upon while browsing in an indie bookstore like The Bookshelf.
To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our website (type “Episode 476” into the search bar and tap enter to find the books mentioned in this episode) or or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app:...2024-05-0925 minLet’s Talk Memoir94. Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow featuring Steve AlmondSteve Almond joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the ambivalence memoirists often experience when writing about others, the story underneath the story we are telling, disrupting the negative feedback loop of writer’s block, dialing the ego down, questions of inner life, his contribution to Dear Sugars podcast, generosity and mercy in our work, performing versus storytelling, how our failures are actually are teachers, and his new book on writing, Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow.
Also in this episode:
-the contract we make with the reader
-th...2024-05-0750 min
Stacks and StoriesShelf Absorbed with Tracy and ShellieJoin Tracy and Shellie on this episode of Shelf Absorbed as they discuss what they've been reading and watching lately.
Books mentioned:
The Impossible Life of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Foe by Iain Reed
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reed
Stoner by John Williams
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
How Strange a Season by Megan Mayhew Bergman
Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman
The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard
Domestic Work by Natasha Tretheway
The Teacher by Freida McFadden
2024-04-1748 min
Sarah's Bookshelves LiveEp. 140: 2023 Summer Reading Special with Susie (@NovelVisits)Susie Boutry (@NovelVisits) and I share our favorite books that missed last year’s Summer Reading Guides, some nonfiction books we think are great for summer reading, and our #1 picks for four categories, including what I have featured in my 2023 Summer Reading Guide. This post contains affiliate links through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Get Even More Summer Reading Recommendations with Summer Shelves: In addition to my annual 2023 Summer Reading Guide, I’m once again offering Superstars Patrons ($7/mo) exclusive access to Summer Shel...2023-05-171h 07
Don't Read the SynopsisPoetry is for You!In celebrating National Poetry Month, Devon talks about why she enjoys poetry collections and offers some suggestions for new and seasoned poetry readers. You will find many recommendations for expanding your own poetry reading.
Latest Reads
Better Than Fiction by Alexa Martin
Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey
Poetry Collections Mentioned
Set Me on Fire : A Poem for Every Feeling by Ella Risbridger
The Best American Poetry series
Life of the Party by Olivia Gatwood
...2023-04-1935 minStacks and StoriesModern Mississippi AuthorsJoin Tracy and Elisabeth as they talk about their favorite modern Mississippi authors!
Authors mentioned:
Angie Thomas
Brad Watson
Beth Ann Fennelly
Kiese Laymon
Natasha Tretheway
2023-03-2230 min
Bookmark with Don NobleBookmark with Don Noble - Natasha Tretheway (2007)Poet Natasha Tretheway joins Don Noble to talk about her historical and personal poetry.2022-07-1125 min
Ms. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 8: Grief at Personal and Eco Loss in PoetryA Listener's Question from Chika. Actually two questions on whether grief writing can be seen as exploitative and whether personal grief twins with environmental mourning in poems. I aim to address my perspective on this complexity in 10 minutes, drawing on the origins of elegy, elegiac poets, current quotes from Natasha Tretheway on grief and art and the communal fusions of modes of mourning. I love these challenges!2021-11-1011 min
Making MeaningCompromiso cívico a través de la poesíaCarol Ann Carl, narradora de la isla de Pohnpei, en los Estados Federados de Micronesia, habla de cómo utiliza la poesía para apoyar a las comunidades históricamente marginadas; y Natasha Trethewey, dos veces premiada con el US Poet, describe cómo la poesía puede articular actos de compromiso cívico.Explore la obra de Carol Ann Carl y conozca el Why it Matters Poetry Workshop con el que dio clases a través del Consejo Hawaiano para las Humanidades. Obtenga más información sobre Natasha Tretheway en su página webO...2021-11-0911 minMaking MeaningCivic Engagement by Way of PoetryCarol Ann Carl, a storyteller from Pohnpei Island in the Federated States of Micronesia, talks about how she uses poetry to advocate for historically marginalized communities, and two-term US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey describes how poetry can articulate acts of civic engagement.Explore Carol Ann Carl’s work and learn about the Why it Matters Poetry Workshop she led through the Hawai’i Council for the Humanities. Learn more about Natasha Tretheway on her website.Read more about this episode’s topic and guests at our website.
2021-11-0922 min
The Brown Rose PodcastBrown Rose Book Recommendations (Part I)Join us in one of the most passionate discussions we've had yet. As passionate and avid readers both Nyla and Lexi are constantly recommending books. Listen in to hear a list of must reads in a number of different genres and to find your next read. The chat got so good we had to break it in two parts!
Our top book recommendations in the following categories:
1. Self Help (Lexi: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, Nyla: More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth
2. Fantasy/Sci-Fi (Lexi: A Song Below Water by Bethany C...2021-10-2858 min
Yes Jazz Matters PodcastEpisode 51 Tyrone Jackson, Composer/Performer/EducatorComposer/Performer/Educator, TYRONE JACKSON is the quintessential jazz piano player. His boundless creativity coupled with harmonic mastery, utilizes the piano as a blank canvas. Jackson is nationally recognized and has traveled the world as a solo artist and sideman.
As a composer, Jackson has composed original music for Pulitizer Prize winning author Natasha Tretheway's book of poems "Native Guard" turned theatrical play, Pearl Clege's play, "Tell Me My Dream", "Ethel" and this year’s Alliance Theater production of “Nick’s Flamingo Grill.” Jackson has recorded 4 Albums—“Dedicated”, “Another Voyage”, “Melody In Nede”, and new release “From The Mind Of.”
Cur...2021-08-251h 06
A Readers' CommunityDown Memoir Lane with Robert HamblinIn this episode about memoirs, we bring you a conversation with Robert Hamblin about his just-published book, ‘Robert: A Queer and Crooked Memoir for the Not So Straight or Narrow', and staff recommend their favourite memoirs.Megan’s favourite is ‘The Glass Castle’ by Jeanette Walls, Luami loved ‘Priestdaddy’ by Patricia Lockwood, and Carmen’s recommendation is ‘Memorial Drive’ by Natasha Tretheway.Hosted by Vasti Calitz. Produced by Andri Burnett.2021-06-2243 min
The Ezra Klein ShowObama Explains How America Went From ‘Yes We Can’ to ‘MAGA’“My entire politics is premised on the fact that we are these tiny organisms on this little speck floating in the middle of space,” Barack Obama told me, sitting in his office in Washington, D.C.To be fair, I was the one who had introduced the cosmic scale, asking how proof of alien life would change his politics. But Obama, in a philosophical mood, used the question to trace his view of humanity. “The differences we have on this planet are real,” he said. “They’re profound. And they cause enormous tragedy as well as joy. But we’re ju...2021-06-0158 min
The Daily PoemNatasha Tretheway's "What the Body Can Say"Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2013.[1] She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetryfor her 2006 collection Native Guard,[2] and she is a former Poet Laureate of Mississippi.[3] Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe2021-05-1708 min
Bad On PaperBecca Interviews Grace.This week it’s Grace’s turn in the hot seat. Becca is getting the answers to all of your most burning questions: will she get another cat? What are her trash person tendencies? How does she find new artists? What was working with Amazon the Drop like? We also learn more about her life as the oldest of three sisters, dealing with being laid off, saving habits, her fall skincare routine, and more. Grace’s Fall Skincare Routine: Farmacy’s Green Clean Cleansing Balm Klur Gel Cleanser Farmacy Green Toner Biossance Phyto Retinol Shani Dard...2020-10-211h 17
The Daily PoemNatasha Tretheway's "Family Portrait"Today's poem is Natasha Tretheway's "Family Portrait." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe2020-07-1405 min
The Daily PoemNatasha Tretheway's "Limen"Welcome back to The Daily Poem! Today's poem is Natasha Tretheway's "Limen." Remember: subscribe, rate, review! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe2019-02-0605 min
Close Talking: A Poetry PodcastEpisode #054 Letter - Natasha TretheweyIn the first episode of 2019, Connor and Jack discuss Natasha Trethewey’s “Letter.” Jack calls Connor out for his poetical preferences, Connor waxes abstractly about associative logic, both explore how things as small as a letter can reveal our most profound grief. A Dybek umbrella descends.
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AASLH2013 Natasha Tretheway Keynote AddressNatasha Trethewey, the 19th United States Poet Laureate (2012-13), is the author of Thrall, Native Guard, for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia, which was named a Notable Book for 2003 by the American Library Association, and Domestic Work. She is also the author of Beyond Katrina: A Mediation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In his citation, Librarian of Congress James Billington wrote, “Her poems dig beneath the surface of history—personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ago—to explore the human struggles that we all face.” In this keynote address, Trethewey reads from her recent boo...2016-02-2300 min
Vermont Studio CenterVSC Reading Series: Natasha Tretheway 6/13/2011Natasha Trethewey is author of Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin), for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize; Bellocq’s Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002) which was named a Notable Book for 2003 by the American Library Association; and Domestic Work (Graywolf, 2000). She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Her poems have appeared in such journals and anthologies as American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Gettysburg Review, and several volumes of Be...2013-08-2738 min
Poetry (Video)Black Nature: The First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American PoetsJoin contributors to “Black Nature,” the First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American Poets including the writers Harryette Mullen, Ed Roberson, Evie Shockley, Natasha Tretheway, Camille Dungy and Al Young. They read from their work and participate in a discussion on the literary and environmental issues raised by the new anthology. Series: "Writers" [Humanities] [Show ID: 18356]2010-05-101h 24Poetry (Audio)Black Nature: The First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American PoetsJoin contributors to “Black Nature,” the First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American Poets including the writers Harryette Mullen, Ed Roberson, Evie Shockley, Natasha Tretheway, Camille Dungy and Al Young. They read from their work and participate in a discussion on the literary and environmental issues raised by the new anthology. Series: "Writers" [Humanities] [Show ID: 18356]2010-05-101h 24
Black History (Audio)Black Nature: The First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American PoetsJoin contributors to “Black Nature,” the First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American Poets including the writers Harryette Mullen, Ed Roberson, Evie Shockley, Natasha Tretheway, Camille Dungy and Al Young. They read from their work and participate in a discussion on the literary and environmental issues raised by the new anthology. Series: "Writers" [Humanities] [Show ID: 18356]2010-05-101h 24Black History (Video)Black Nature: The First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American PoetsJoin contributors to “Black Nature,” the First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American Poets including the writers Harryette Mullen, Ed Roberson, Evie Shockley, Natasha Tretheway, Camille Dungy and Al Young. They read from their work and participate in a discussion on the literary and environmental issues raised by the new anthology. Series: "Writers" [Humanities] [Show ID: 18356]2010-05-101h 24
PoetryBlack Nature: The First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American PoetsJoin contributors to “Black Nature,” the First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American Poets including the writers Harryette Mullen, Ed Roberson, Evie Shockley, Natasha Tretheway, Camille Dungy and Al Young. They read from their work and participate in a discussion on the literary and environmental issues raised by the new anthology. Series: "Writers" [Humanities] [Show ID: 18356]2010-05-101h 24PoetryBlack Nature: The First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American PoetsJoin contributors to “Black Nature,” the First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American Poets including the writers Harryette Mullen, Ed Roberson, Evie Shockley, Natasha Tretheway, Camille Dungy and Al Young. They read from their work and participate in a discussion on the literary and environmental issues raised by the new anthology. Series: "Writers" [Humanities] [Show ID: 18356]2010-05-101h 24