Waves Breaking

I'm back! Hello! I got to talk with Andrea Abi-Karam this time, and I had a blast catching up with them about their latest book "EXTRATRANSMISSION."

Andrea Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg, writing on the art of killing bros, the intricacies of cyborg bodies, trauma & delayed healing. Their chapbook, THE AFTERMATH (Commune Editions, 2016), attempts to queer Fanon's vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Simone White selected their second assemblage, Villainy for forthcoming publication with Les Figues. They toured with Sister Spit March 2018 & are hype to live in New York. EXTRATRANSMISSION [Kelsey Street Press, 2019] is their first book.

• Andrea's Website
• Andrea's Twitter
• Spray Tan's bandcamp
• Rob Halpern's Music for Porn
• Jennifer Terry's "Significant Injury:War, Medicine, and Empire in Claudia's Case" (Andrea didn't specifically name this paper, but I felt it was relevant).
• Jasbir Puar's Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
• Sister Spit Tour 2018
• Equine Therapy for Military Veterans
• Nightboat Books
• Jasmin Gibson Don't Let Them See Me Like This
• Wendy Travino's Cruel Fiction
• Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's Sketchtasy

This episode's editor and social media manager was Mitchel Davidovitz.

The "Sound of Waves Breaking" was Spray Tan's "SOLOSLUT."

This month I got to talk to June Gehringer about her latest book. June Gehringer is the author of "I Love You It Looks Like Rain" (Be About It 2017), and "I Don't Write About Race" (Civil Coping Mechanisms 2018), the latter of which was the winner of Civil Coping Mechanisms's 2017 Mainline contest. She lives in Philadelphia and has more crushes than she can count. She tweets about it @june_gehringer, and if you're a press interested in her next book you can reach her at [email protected] .

She's also an editor over at tenderness lit.

I Don't Write About Race can be purchased here.

Writers, presses, musicians mentioned in the show:

• Peyton Burgess
• Danez Smith
• Prairie M. Faul
• Sung Yim
• Naadeyah Haseeb
• glo worm press
• EVIL MTN
• jayy dodd
• p.e. garcia
• Alexandra Naughton
• Mitski
• Kristin Chang
• Hanif Abburraqib
• The Wanderer
• Zack Blackwood

Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz

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In this episode I got to speak to Chase Berggrun about their new book R E D (Birds, LLC, 2018). Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Pinwheel, PEN Poetry Series, Sixth Finch, Diagram, The Offing, Prelude, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. They received their MFA from New York University. They are Poetry Editor at Big Lucks.

Chase's website

Chase's Twitter

Go Buy R E D

List of things and people mentioned in this episode:

• Bram Stoker's novel Dracula

• Dodie Bellamy's The Letters of Mina Harker

• Cathy Park Hong essay: "Delusion of Whiteness in the Avant-Garde"

• Joey De Jesus essay: "Goldsmith, Conceptualism & the Half-baked Rationalization of White Idiocy"

• Solamz Sharif essay "The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and Poetical: Erasure"

• Solmaz Sharif's LOOK

• Matt Rasmussen's Black Aperture

• Jos Charles' feeld

• George Abraham: al youm: for yesterday & her inherited traumas

• Gala Mukomolova's One Above, One Below: Positions and Lamentations

• Leslie Jameson's The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

• Tommy Pico's podcasts Food 4 Thot and Junk

• The Parent Trap starring Lindsay Lohan and Lindsay Lohan

• Spongebob asexually reproducing

Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz

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This month I got to talk with Luis Lopez-Maldonado. Prepare yourself, this episode gets a little more sexy than usual. Luis is a Xicanx poeta, playwright, dancer, choreographer, and educator. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California Riverside in Creative Writing and Dance. His poetry has been seen in The American Poetry Review, Foglifter, The Packinghouse Review, Public Pool, and Spillway, among many others. He also earned a Master of Arts degree in Dance from Florida State University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame. He is currently a co-founder and editor at The Brillantina Project.

• Luis' website
• Luis' Twitter
• Luis is on Instagram @luis.lopezmaldonado
• The Artist is Present
• Wicked

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Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz

The Sound of Waves Breaking: LA/Orange County Metro

This month I got to chat with Kayleb Rae Candrilli. Kayleb is author of "What Runs Over," winner of the 2016 Pamet River Prize, with YesYes Books. "What Runs Over" is a 2017 Lambda Literary finalist for Transgender Poetry. Candrilli is published or forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, Booth, RHINO, Cream City Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Adroit, Bettering American Poetry, Boaat Press, Vinyl, CutBank, Muzzle, New Orleans Review, and many others. ​ They have served as the nonfiction editor of the Black Warrior Review and as a feature editor for NANO Fiction. They are now an Assistant Poetry Editor for Boaat Press. In 2015, Candrilli was a Lambda Literary Emerging Fellow in Nonfiction, and again in 2017 as a fellow in poetry. Kayleb is a Best of the Net winner and has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes (in prose and poetry) and for Best New Poets. They were also a 2017 recipient of a Leeway Art and Change Grant.

Authors and music mentioned in this episode:

• Kayleb's website: https://www.krcandrilli.com Purchase "What Runs Over" here: https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/what-runs-over-by-kayleb-rae-candrilli
• Nabila Lovelace "Sons of Achilles" https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/sons-of-achilles-by-nabila-lovelace
• Shaelyn Smith "The Leftovers" http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/books/the-leftovers
• Jamie Mortara "GOOD MORNING AMERICA I'M HUNGRY AND ON FIRE" https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/good-morning-america-i-am-hungry-and-on-fire-by-jamie-mortara
• Chase Berggrun "R E D" http://www.birdsllc.com/catalog/red
• Lynette Reeman: https://www.linettereeman.net
• Post-ironic bummer pop band Coping Skills: https://copingskills.bandcamp.com/album/worst-new-music
• Swedish EDM Kasbo: https://www.edmsauce.com/tag/kasbo/

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This episode is edited by Mitchel Davidovitz. Mitchel Davidovitz is also the Social Media Manager.

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This month(ish) I got to interview Nat Raha! Nat Raha is a poet and trans / queer activist, living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her poetry includes two collections countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013) and Octet (Veer Books, 2010); and numerous pamphlets including 'de/compositions' (Enjoy Your Homes Press, 2017), '£/€xtinctions' (sociopathetic distro, 2017), '[of sirens / body & faultlines]' (Veer Books, 2015), 'radio / threat' (sociopathetic distro, 2014) and 'mute exterior intimate' (Oystercatcher Press, 2013). She's performed and published her work internationally. Nat co-edited the Radical Transfeminism zine, and is currently finishing PhD in on queer Marxism and contemporary poetry at the University of Sussex.

http://sociodistro.tumblr.com (if you go here, there's pdfs of £/€xtinctions, the first edition '[of sirens...], and 'radio/threat') http://sociopatheticsemaphores.blogspot.com

Ideas and writers discussed in this episode:

• Psychogeography
• Situationism
• Guy Debord
• Ivan Chtcheglov
• Sonic Youth
• My Bloody Valentine
• early Austerity 2011 England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme
• The New York School
• Sean Bonney "The Commons"
• Nat Raha's essay "Transfeminine Brokenness, Radical Transfeminism" https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article/116/3/632/129746/Transfeminine-Brokenness-Radical-Transfeminism
• Lauren Berlant's idea of "slow death" found in her book "Cruel Optimism"
• Verity Spott, "Click Away Close Door Say" http://www.contrabandbooks.co.uk/verity-spott/
• Linus Slug, Mendoza, Tommy Peeps, Insect Librarian: ninerrors http://ninerrors.blogspot.com
• Jay Bernard: http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/19397/29/Jay-Bernard
• Nisha Ramayya
• Frances Kruk
• Vahni Capildeo, Measures of Expatriation

This episode was edited and social media managed by Mitchel Davidovitz

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This month I got to speak with Chely Lima and Margaret Randall, the translator for his new collection of poetry What the Werewolf Told Them/ Le que los dijo el licantropo.

Chely Lima is a queer Cuban-American writer who has published numerous books (poetry, novel, short story, theater, literature for children) in his country of origin, and also in Spain, United States, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador. Some of these books are the novels Lucrecia quiere decir perfidia (2015), Triángulos mágicos (2014) and Confesiones nocturnas (1994), as well as the poetry books Zona de silencio (2004), Discurso de la amante (2013), and Lo que les dijo el licántropo / What the Werewolf told them (2017). His texts have been translated into English, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, Czech and Esperanto, and numerous selections and anthologies of literature from various parts of the world collect samples of his work.

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Books, authors, and ideas mentioned in this episode:

• Chely Lima's blog
• What the Werewolf Told Them/ Lo que los dijo el licantropo
• Margaret Randall's website
• The Operating System
• Jungian concept of the shadow
• An article about androgyny and shamanism, though I would exercise caution around its terminology, which might be harmful for non-binary POC folks in its use of the term "third gender"
• Viracocha and Dionysus

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This month I had the opportunity to interview H. Melt about the anthology they've just edited: Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation. H. Melt is a poet, activist, and educator whose work proudly celebrates Chicago's queer and trans communities. Their writing has appeared many places including In These Times, The Offing, and Them, the first trans literary journal in the United States. They are the author of The Plural, The Blurring and editor of Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation. Lambda Literary awarded them the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers and they've been named to Newcity's Lit 50 list, as well as Windy City Times' 30 under 30. H. Melt co-leads Queeriosity at Young Chicago Authors and works at Women & Children First, Chicago's feminist bookstore. Writers, books and artists mentioned in this episode: Subject to Change anthology Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Christopher Soto AKA Loma Beyza Ozer Cameron Awkward-Rich Kay Ulanday Barrett Jay Besemer KOKUMO Troubling the Line anthology H. Melt's book The Plural, The Blurring H. Melt's website Women and Children First Bookstore Jesse Jacobs' work Crawl Space Sound of Waves Breaking: butter melting in a pan Editing and Marketing by: Mitchel Davidovitz WE HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA: check out our new facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WavesBreakPod/ and our new Twitter account at @WavesBreakPod You can, of course, always reach me at [email protected]

This month, I had the pleasure of meeting Venus Selenite in person while she started her first leg of her #RehabYearTour. Venus is a Bettering American Poetry 2016 nominee, a 2017 Pink Door Fellow, and one of the most notable trans women of color interdisciplinary artists in the United States. She is the author of two books: trigger and the fire been here. She lives in Washington, D.C. and the internet.

• Venus's website
• Venus's Patreon
• trigger
• The Fire Been Here
• James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
• Nameless Woman anthology
• Goddess X
• KOKUMỌ
• J Mase III
• Jamie Berrout
• Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi
• • Her new book: For Black Trans Girls Who Gotta Cuss a Motherfucker Out When Snatching an Edge Ain't Enough
• Jayy Dodd
• • Their new book Mannish Tongues
  • Also, shameless plug for my interview with them back on Episode 10
• What you can do to support trans artists of color (thread)

The Sound of Waves Breaking is by Chris Lynn, a recording of voices in Washington, D.C. near the Jefferson Memorial. The editor is Mitchel Davidovitz, and the show is produced by me.

This month I speak with Raquel Salas Rivera from their residence in Puerto Rico.

Raquel Salas Rivera es una poeta, traductora, ensayista y educadora puertorriqueña que vive y trabaja en Filadelfia. Ha publicado poemas, traducciones y ensayos en numerosas revistas y antologías; también ha publicado cuatro libros de poesía: Caneca de anhelos turbios (2011), oropel/tinsel (2016), huequitos/holies (2016) y tierra intermitente (2017). En el 2018, publicará el libro lo terciario/the tertiary con Timeless, Infinite Light. Actualmente, es editora contribuyente y traductora para The Wanderer. Si para Roque Dalton no existe revolución sin poesía, para Raquel no existe poesía sin Puerto Rico. Puedes aprender más sobre su trabajo si visitas raquelsalasrivera.com.

Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, essayist, and educator living and working in Philadelphia. They have published poetry, translations, and essays in numerous anthologies and journals, and as well as four poetry books: Caneca de anhelos turbios (2011), oropel/tinsel (2016), huequitos/holies (2016), and tierra intermitente (2017). In 2018, Timeless, Infinite Light will publish their fifth book, lo terciario/the tertiary. Currently, they are a Contributing Editor at The Wanderer. If for Roque Dalton there is no revolution without poetry, for Raquel there is no poetry without Puerto Rico. You can find out more about their work at raquelsalasrivera.com.

Artists and other things mentioned in this month's episode

• The Wanderer
• César Vallejo
• Ángelamaría Dávila
• Nestor Perlongher
• Lezama Lima
• Severo Sarduy
• Julia de Burgos
• Manuel Ramos Otero
• Los nadaístas
• Quitapon beer
• Pedro Scaron's El Capital
• PROMESA
• Colette Arrand
• Chloe Rose
• jayy dodd
• RE Katz
• Gaddiel Francisco Ruiz Rivera
• Caleb David Acevedo
• John Paul Kirkland
• Gegman Lee
• Mara Pastor
• Vara Liceaga
• Raquel Albarrán
• Xaviar Valcarcel
• Abdiel Echevarría
• Yolanda Arroyo
• Nicole Delgado
• Charles Theonia
• Jasmine Gibson
• Marc Anthony Richardson (Raquel notes that Year of the Rat was great)
• Angel Dominguez
• Moss Angel Witchmonstr
• Ginger Ko
• Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
• Gabriel Ojeda Sague
• Kirwyn Sutherland
• CA Conrad
• Sophie Robinson
• José Raúl González (Gallego)

This episode was edited by Mitchel Davidovitz and produced by me.

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