Today’s guest is brilliant poet Tiana Nobile whose recent collection of poems Cleave is an exceptional exploration of transnational adoption. Tiana shares her story with us from the deeply personal struggles to her in-depth research on the problematic history of adoption. Tiana also teaches us about contranyms and you’ll be in awe of the perfection of the title Cleave when she unpacks that for us.

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Recommended Resources

• Cleave by Tiana Nobile, Spirit of the Staircase by Tiana Nobile
• Henry Goldkamp’s interview, “Disrupting Lexical Expectations in “Cleave”
• Surviving the White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll
• Find out more about Tiana’s upcoming workshops on her events page tiananobile.com/events

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