Charla Cultural

03/21/2022

07/08/2021

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06/24/2021

We’re chatting with Paisley Rekdal!! We’re featuring Rekdal's performance of West: A Translation at City of Asylum back in September 2019, as well as a recent interview with Rekdal in support of her newest book Appropriate: A Provocation. We're also talking The Ferrante Project, when it's okay to wear a sombrero, and how not to be a jerk about appropriation.

Paisley Rekdal is an American poet who is currently serving as Poet Laureate of Utah. She is the author of a book of essays entitled The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In, the memoir Intimate, as well as five books of poetry. For her work, she has received numerous fellowships, grants, and awards, including but not limited to a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship among others… She has been recognized for her poems and essays in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series, and on National Public Radio, to name a few.

We’ll also get into country music, the epistolary form, using pseudonyms to write soft-core po*******hy, as well as what we’re reading, and some thoughts for the road!

https://charlacultural.com/episode-007-chatting-with-paisley-rekdal/

We’re chatting with Paisley Rekdal!! We’re featuring Rekdal’s performance of West: A Translation at City of Asylum back in September 2019, as well as a recent interview with Rekdal in support of her newest book Appropriate: A Provocation. We’re also talking The Ferrante Project, when it’s ...

05/14/2021

We’re hanging with Helena María Viramontes!! Author and activist Helena María Viramontes reads and then chat with us about what matters in her writing. We’ll also get into assimilation, intergenerational trauma (with jokes!), what we’re reading, and some thoughts for the road!

Helena María Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other Stories and two novels Under the Feet of Jesus and Their Dogs Came With Them.  She has also co-edited with Maria Herrera Sobek, two collections: Chicana (W) rites: On Word and Film and Chicana Creativity and Criticism. A recipient of num...

04/30/2021

Episode three just dropped. And IT'S AMAZING.

We're talking Carlos Andrés Gómez and it's never been so good!

https://charlacultural.com/talking-with-carlos-andres-gomez/

Carlos Andrés Gómez is a Colombian American poet, speaker, actor, and equity and inclusion strategist from New York City. He is the author of Fractures, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, Hijito, winner of the Broken River Prize, and the memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood, r...

04/08/2021

Episode two is live!!!

It’s all about poet, writer, and activist Denice Frohman.

We were stoked to talk Latinidad, culture, language, and intentionality.

https://charlacultural.com/episode-002-all-about-denice-frohman/

DENICE FROHMAN is a poet, performer, and educator from New York City. A CantoMundo Fellow, she’s received residencies and awards from the National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures, Leeway Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, and Millay Colony.

03/27/2021

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https://charlacultural.com/001-franny-choi/

03/25/2021

Welcome to the very first episode of Charla Cultural, "All Things Franny Choi."

OUR INAUGURAL EPISODE!!! It’s All Things Franny Choi. Franny Choi performed at City of Asylum with Jazz Poetry back in September 2019. We’ll feature her performance, an interview, and a lengthy discussion about her most recent book, Soft Science (Alice James Books).

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OUR INAUGURAL EPISODE!!! Welcome to the very first episode of Charla Cultural! It’s All Things Franny Choi. Franny Choi performed at City of Asylum with Jazz Poetry back in September 2019. We’ll feature her performance, an interview, and a lengthy discussion about her most recent book, Soft Scie...

03/25/2021

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