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torrin a. greathouse and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Form as Open-Source Software and Being Loud on the Page
torrin a. greathouse and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Form as Open-Source Software and Being Loud on the Page
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Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Aug 1, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
This week, Cindy Juyoung Ok talks with torrin a. greathouse, a transgender cripple-punk poet and essayist who is the author of the forthcoming DEED (Wesleyan University Press), as well as Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020). Ok and greathouse get into poetic forms—which they liken to open-source software—particularly the beloved “burning haibun” form that greathouse created and that she wrote about for Poetry’s “Not Too Hard to Master” series. The essay appears in the July/August issue of Poetry alongside their Springsteen-inspired burning haibun, “Dancing in the Dark,” which greathouse reads on the podcast. They also interrogate the anti-trans rhetoric and language of radical white feminist poets, and greathouse reads “There’s No Trace of the Word ‘Transgender’ in Adrienne Rich’s Biography,” which previously appeared in Poetry.
Released:
Aug 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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