Waves Breaking

In this episode I get to talk to Zoe Tuck in a coffee shop in Oakland. We discuss speculative fiction, the second wave feminism she navigated during her coming of age years, spirituality, trans identities and collective memory, and more.

Zoe's website is here: zoetuck.com and you can order Terror Matrix from TIL here: http://timelessinfinitelight.com/products/zoe-tuck-br-terror-matrix

Other writers and thinkers brought up in this show:

David Antin: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/188685/talmudic-improv-david-antin

Interview that Tom Leger was part that I referenced: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/interviews/09/17/three-umpires-walk-into-a-bar-transgender-authors-and-editors-on-transgender-literature/

"What is Bay Area Poetry" Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/heonversant

Zoe's review of Archipelago: http://www.spdbooks.org/pages/staff-picks/default.aspx

Connie Willis: http://www.tor.com/2015/06/24/where-to-start-with-the-works-of-connie-willis/

Ursula K. Le Guinn: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/

Laura Moriarty: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/1891190245/ultravioleta.aspx

Alice Notley: http://www.amazon.com/Descent-Alette-Penguin-Poets/dp/0140587640

Zach Ozma: http://cargocollective.com/zachozma

bell hooks on arts education and visual politics: http://www.amazon.com/Art-My-Mind-Visual-Politics/dp/1565842634

In this episode I have the pleasure of interviewing the current editors of Vetch: A Magazine of Trans Poetry and Poetics: Kay Gabriel, Stephen Ira, Liam O'Brien and Rylee Lyman. We talk about their approaches to putting the journal together, their insights into transgender poetics, and touch on the archival of transgender/gender-variant art.

There's a huge reading/viewing list for this episode. Explore all the trans art!

• Vetch (obviously!) http://vetchpoetry.co.vu/
• Lilith Latini http://topsidepress.com/author/lilith-latini/
• Merrit K's podcast http://woodlandsecrets.co/ and DBZ fanzine Badman: http://pinebark.tumblr.com/post/131704442142/badman-a-dragon-ball-zine and INTERNET MURDER REVENGE FANTASY https://a-dire-fawn.itch.io/imrf
• Trace Peterson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/trace-peterson succubus in my pocket can be purchased here: http://eoagh.com/?p=2486
• Cat Fitzpatrick http://topsidepress.com/author/cat-fitzpatrick/
• Kay Gabriel's essay on Trish Salah's Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 https://www.academia.edu/22511089/Untranslating_Gender_in_Trish_Salahs_Lyric_Sexology_Vol._1 which will soon be released in TSQ*: https://www.dukeupress.edu/TSQ-Transgender-Studies-Quarterly
• Aristilde Kirby https://twitter.com/motjustine
• Maxe Crandall https://maxecrandall.com/
• Trish Salah http://www.thefeministwire.com/2013/12/3-poems-by-trish-salah/
• Aiyanna Maracle (who just recently passed away): http://indianacts.gruntarchives.org/video-day-1-keynote-panel-1.html http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/death-in-the-shadow-of-the-umbrella-aiyyana-maracle/
• Donate to help archive Aiyyana's work here: https://www.gofundme.com/2bwu25ks
• Mirha-Soleil Ross http://zagria.blogspot.com/2014/09/mirha-soleil-ross-1969-sex-worker.html#.Vy0US_krI2w
• Xanthra Phillipa MacKay http://www.citr.ca/2015/11/20/from-the-citr-archives-17-64288/
• Manuel Arturo Abreu's essay Transtrender: A Meditation on Gender as a Racial Construct http://blog.newhive.com/transtrender-a-meditation-on-gender-as-a-racial-construct/
• Hal Schrieve https://twitter.com/hal_schrieve

The Sound of Waves Breaking for this episode is a clip from Season 4 of DBZ "Goku's Special Technique."

In this interview I get a chance to talk with Joy Ladin. We talk about her latest book Impersonation, how her relationship to poetic language changed as she transitioned, the use of persona in poetry, the early Modernists, and trends in trans & gender-variant poetry.

Joy's website is: joyladin.com. GO BUY IMPERSONATION IT'S GREAT.

Email me at: [email protected]

Theme music by Bahati Kiro, transition music by Chris Zorn. The Sound of Waves Breaking is from the Nasa's new collection of space sounds up on Soundcloud. It's Chorus Radio waves from within Earth's atmosphere.

Today's show features a conversation between Loma and me about the government influence on poetry, the boundaries of a poem between other objects and being, poetry & activism, struggling with how to write poetry about domestic abuse, fearlessness, and more.

Poets & essays mentioned in this episode:

Juliana Spahr and her influential essay on Contemporary Poetry and Its Nationalisms: ( http://www.academia.edu/9079433/Contemporary_US_Poetry_and_Its_Nationalisms )

Loma's website ( christophersoto-poet.com )

Dark Matter: ( http://www.darkmatterpoetry.com/ )

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: ( http://joshuajenniferespinoza.com/ )

Stephanie Burt ( http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/category/stephanie/ )

TC Tolbert ( http://www.tctolbert.com/ )

Julian T. Brolaski ( http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/julian-brolaski )

In this interview I am in conversation with poet and activist Amir Rabiyah. This is the first episode of "Waves Breaing," a podcast in which I, a lonesome transbaby, interview my contemporaries in trans and genderqueer poetry.

Help out Aurora Levins Morales at http://www.littlevehicleforchange.org/

and Amir Rabiyah's Hambidge Residency at https://www.gofundme.com/amirgoestohambidge