Gabrielle Bates is a poet based in Seattle, WA. Throughout Gabrielle’s debut collection, Judas Goat, there is a feeling of quiet, that the poems are almost being whispered to you. And yet it is not a soft or comforting quiet that these poems bring, but rather one that often contains a sense of menace. In our conversation, Gabrielle and I talked about that disquieting feeling, the slipperiness of memory, the poetics of attention, and how important narrative to her poetics. Then for the second segment, we discussed what literature and poetry can do.

[Recorded Jan 2, 2023]

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Show Notes:

• Gabrielle Bates
• Purchase Judas Goat: Open Books (Seattle, WA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 123: KTCO Book Club - Song (with Gabrielle Bates)
• Between the Covers - Claire Schwartz : Civil Service
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 134: Luther Hughes
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 120: Kazim Ali
• Gabrielle Bates - Poetry Comics
• Kazim Ali - “Know No Name”
• Abi Pollokoff
• Erin L. McCoy
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 112: Ross Sutherland
• Benjamin Labatut - When We Cease to Understand the World

Transcript Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo