Podcast appearances and mentions of angel nafis

Send us a textWelcome to the first of a short special series of "Bedside Poetry" podcasts.One poem, one guest, one conversation....I'm delighted to welcome neonatologist and poet Beth Osmond to explore Angel Nafis' poem "Ode to Dalya's Bald Spot"find the poem here:https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/149508/ode-to-dalyas-bald-spot

Day 6: Angel Nafis reads her poem “Why R&B First Thing in the Morning, Why R&B Above All,” originally published on The Rumpus in 2015.  Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Angel Nafis is a writer and the author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press/ New School Poetics, 2012). She earned her BA at Hunter College and her MFA in poetry at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-day, BLACK FUTURES, The Rumpus, Poetry Magazine, Buzzfeed Reader and elsewhere. Text of today's poem and more details about our program can be found at: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/ Find books from participating poets in our library's catalog.  Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language.  Queer Poem-a-Day is directed by poet and professor Lisa Hiton and Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the Deerfield Public Library. Music for this fourth year of our series is from the second movement of the “Geistinger Sonata,” Piano Sonata No. 2 in C sharp minor, by Ethel Smyth, performed by pianist Daniel Baer. Queer Poem-a-Day is supported by generous donations from the Friends of the Deerfield Public Library and the Deerfield Fine Arts Commission.   

Brooklyn Poets Yawp open mic, 4.8.24, featuring Angel Nafis (3:01) and Poem of the Month winner Eva Koehler for "An Email to Emily, Out of the Blue" (48:48). For more info, go to brooklynpoets.org/events/yawp.

On this episode of Vibe Check, Sam, Saeed, and Zach talk about the recent slew of celebrity lawsuits that have been filed in New York, and they reflect on the past year of Elon Musk's reign at X (Twitter). Plus, a few recommendations to help you keep your vibe right.We want to hear from you! Email us at vibecheck@stitcher.com, and keep in touch with us on Instagram at @samsanders, @theferocity, and @zachstaff. ------------------------------------------------------RECOMMENDATIONS:SAM: Dream Scenario and Short Ribs (by Alison Roman)SAEED: Part 2 of Angel Nafis's poem “Gravity” — https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58063/gravity-56d23c1d15a2aZACH: Saltburn

Today's poem is Poem at the Top of a Mountain by Angel Nafis. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Shira Erlichman writes… “Today's poem is about a prayerful space which offers not just withdrawal, but perspective. I see in this poem what it was that I found on my walk to my high school art room sanctuary. What appears to be aloneness is actually a deepening camaraderie.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Created and hosted by poet and former Greenlight bookseller Angel Nafis, Greenlight's Poetry Salon welcomes locally and nationally celebrated poets for a powerful and moving evening of poetry and performance. For our triumphant return to in-person Salons, we welcomed Renia White and her collection Casual Conversation, alongside esteemed poet Aracelis Girmay (The Black Maria), who selected it for BOA Editions's Blessing the Boats Selections. White's debut poetry collection strikes up a conversation, considering what's being said, what isn't, and where it all comes from, probing the norms and mores of everyday interactions. Listen back to a reverent and joyful evening in verse, led in ceremony by our masterful host Nafis. (Recorded May 26, 2022.)  

For phenomenal local writer, theatermaker, and educator Diane Exavier's début collection, The Math of Saint Felix, Greenlight's own Poetry Salon host Angel Nafis held court with Exavier and fellow poets Carlos Sirah and Shayla Lawz for a powerful, multivocal evening of reading, reverie, and irreverence. Exavier's book-length lyric is an attempt to do the math of a woman, a family, a country, and a diaspora, plotting how the sum of one life reveals permutations of many— daughters, sisters, lovers—and the uncountable cost of a single death. Nafis, Lawz, Sirah, and Exavier held space for one another as well as the invisible multitudes living between their lines, delving into questions of “the math of survival”, of audience and witness, and the duty of the writer to witness and tend to their grief. Recorded November 29, 2021.

In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of American poet and spoken-word artist, Angel Nafis. She is the author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press/ New School Poetics, 2012). Her work has appeared in The Rattling Wall, The BreakBeat Poets Anthology, MUZZLE Magazine, The Rumpus, Poetry magazine, and elsewhere. “Woo Woo Roll Deep”it's not just me. Be clear,the whole squad Woo Woo. Kinstay lifted up in metal clouds. Orknuckle deep in earth. Talkingabout how they periods rightaround the corner and what that meansalongside Chani's latest Mercury read.Shira can't wait to tell youabout the dream she had.Big eyes growing wider at each detail.Freaked out and charged at the spirit's hooksdeep in her brain's knowing signal.It all connected. Courtney paintsone wall miss-my-daddy redin every new home she stays in.Morgan say she wants to find lovethis year, keeps a rose quartz betweenher tits. Gio the 3rd grade teacherin Bed-Stuy use to end her emails‘bet you love could make it better.'A week after the 314th police killing thisyear, Jenna mixes up a tincture of charcoal,lemon, and lavender in little spray bottles.Hands them out to us after burgers in Harlem.Woo Woo. Jozie got her man's EKGs tattedon her ring finger. 3 years since he crossedand you best believe she correct when shetalk about him in the present-tense. Gerlonikeeps a frothy pot of black eyed peas boilingon News Years day. Marlee staves off the yeastwith a garlic clove in her puss. You can't tell usshit. We always down for the miracle.The regular-as-fuck dawn making brand newthe farm of our hearts. Jessie, the filmmakerslash jewelry maker slash teaching-artist, danglesa dried out tea bag above her nose, gapesintently at this new face of God appearingright before her like, isn't this justthe most beautiful thingyou've ever seen?Read more at our anthology. Support the show (https://getlit.org/donate/)

Is laughing at your trauma jokes a love language? We get meta on every episode but this one's for those of us who like to open our friends' fridges and fall asleep on their floors and furniture after eating their food and flirting! We talk about our models for intimacy and realize language is what showed us our hearts. We bring honor to the intimate spaces we've been a part of. Who or what are your guiding stars when it comes to intimacy of any kind? Who reminds you of intimacy in your own ecosystem and how can you tenderly connect today? Write to us amores, we welcome ballads at 2localfruit@gmail.com. Our invitation to healing poetry this week is brought to you by Angel Nafis, with “Ode to Shea Butter”. Remember, rhythm over time! appetizerz: Honey x Kehlani The shared solo in I Care at Beychella Frances Ha Trailer FKA TWIGS apple commercial Talk that Talk x Rihanna Hanif in the middle of the goddamn theater the feast: They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraquib All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation) by bell hooks Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohota Jenna Wortham's Instagram Your furniture is not gonna fucking teach you how to Dougie. Joy by Alysia Harris como la flor & sabor a mi by Jasper Bones affirmation by paola after party: Fran Tirado with the bath selfies Sweet Life x Frank Ocean Amárrame x Mon Laferte Love poem to a butch woman, deborah a miranda Mystic Soul: Queer Witchy Conference Where Pao got the Words --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/local-fruit/message

Bojan Louis shares poems that embody deep listening and engagement with particular realities. He introduces Alan Dugan’s grasp of each moment’s truth (“Love Song: I and Thou”); Layli Long Soldier’s poetry of image, witness, and ways of being (“WHEREAS her birth signaled…”); and Angel Nafis’s critical song that speaks to community (“Ghazal to Open Cages”). Louis closes with a recently published ghazal (“Ghazal VI”) of his own.Listen to the full recordings of Dugan, Long Soldier, and Nafis reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:Alan Dugan (1966)Layli Long Solider (2017)Angel Nafis (2019) Listen to a 2019 reading by Bojan Louis on Voca.

Today’s episode is a celebration of the written word in honor of a major milestone—the completion of the Feminist Hotdog book manuscript! (Coming January 2021.) Since words have been dominating my psyche, I decided to devote this week’s episode to reading (and writing!) for liberation. I spoke with Stef Bernal-Martinez of 1977 Books, poet Angbeen Saleem, and Alana Baumann and Samra Michael of the new podcast She Well Read about the role books and poems are playing in their pandemic lives, and the writers who help them envision a more just and intersectional future.  Stuff We Talked About on This Episode Intro by Bernadine Evaristo (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/08/girl-woman-other-by-bernardine-evaristo-review) by Mikki Kendall (https://www.npr.org/2020/02/26/808943234/hood-feminism-is-a-call-for-solidarity-in-a-less-than-inclusive-movement) Part I 1977 Books (1977books.com) @1977books on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/1977books/) by Alex Vitale (https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing) (https://www.akpress.org/beyond-survival.html) Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1108-how-we-get-free) Combahee River Collective (http://circuitous.org/scraps/combahee.html) Octavia Butler (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6YI8lsjJJA) MGM Bailout (https://www.mgmbailout.com) Part II @angribeen on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/angribeen/) Angel Nafis (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/angel-nafis) Paul Tran (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/paul-tran) The Slow Down Show (https://www.slowdownshow.org) The VS Podcast  (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/series/142241/vs-podcast) Haymarket Press BreakBeats Poets collection (http://www.breakbeatpoets.com) by Ross Gay (https://upittpress.org/books/9780822963318/) by Ilya Kaminsky (https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/deaf-republic ) Desis Rising Up and Moving (https://www.drumnyc.org/powerandsafety/) Part III She Well Read Episode 1 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/she-well-read/id1506524661) @shewellread on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/shewellread/) Series (http://www.kieracass.com/books) by Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff (https://read.macmillan.com/torforge/stay-sexy-and-dont-get-murdered/) by Rebecca Traister (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/06/rebecca-traister-interview-all-the-single-ladies) Alana's Reading Playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2YOLn0CBZ5alixgH2x9Bav?si=eSxCdDPeQQ2sCw-XA25OdQ) Support this podcast

Today’s episode is a celebration of the written word in honor of a major milestone—the completion of the Feminist Hotdog book manuscript! (Coming January 2021.) Since words have been dominating my psyche, I decided to devote this week’s episode to reading (and writing!) for liberation. I spoke with Stef Bernal-Martinez of 1977 Books, poet Angbeen Saleem, and Alana Baumann and Samra Michael of the new podcast She Well Read about the role books and poems are playing in their pandemic lives, and the writers who help them envision a more just and intersectional future.  Stuff We Talked About on This Episode Intro https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/08/girl-woman-other-by-bernardine-evaristo-review (Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo) https://www.npr.org/2020/02/26/808943234/hood-feminism-is-a-call-for-solidarity-in-a-less-than-inclusive-movement (Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall) Part I 1977 Books https://www.instagram.com/1977books/ (@1977books on Instagram) https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing (The End of Policing by Alex Vitale) https://www.akpress.org/beyond-survival.html (Beyond Survival) https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1108-how-we-get-free (How We Get Free )https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1108-how-we-get-free (by )https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1108-how-we-get-free (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor) http://circuitous.org/scraps/combahee.html (Combahee River Collective) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6YI8lsjJJA (Octavia Butler) https://www.mgmbailout.com (MGM Bailout) Part II https://www.instagram.com/angribeen/ (@angribeen on Instagram) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/angel-nafis (Angel Nafis) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/paul-tran (Paul Tran) https://www.slowdownshow.org (The Slow Down Show) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/series/142241/vs-podcast (The VS Podcast ) http://www.breakbeatpoets.com (Haymarket Press BreakBeats Poets collection) https://upittpress.org/books/9780822963318/ (The Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay) https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/deaf-republic (Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky) https://www.drumnyc.org/powerandsafety/ (Desis Rising Up and Moving) Part III https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/she-well-read/id1506524661 (She Well Read Episode 1) https://www.instagram.com/shewellread/ (@shewellread on Instagram) http://www.kieracass.com/books (Kiera Cass' Selection Series) https://read.macmillan.com/torforge/stay-sexy-and-dont-get-murdered/ (Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered by Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff ) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/06/rebecca-traister-interview-all-the-single-ladies (All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2YOLn0CBZ5alixgH2x9Bav?si=eSxCdDPeQQ2sCw-XA25OdQ (Alana's Reading Playlist) Support this podcast

Morgan Parker is American poet, novelist, and editor and the author of the poetry collections Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (2015), There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (2017), and Magical Negro (2019), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award poetry prize. Alongside poet Angel Nafis, she runs The Other Black Girl Collective, an internationally touring Black Feminist poetry duo. She sat down with The Cheeky Natives in an extensive conversation to discuss her poetry collection Magical Negro. The conversation took place during the Open Book Festival in Cape Town, in Parker's first visit to South Africa. In what may only be described as a sermon, lecture and a hallelujah moment, Parker took us to church while reading from this collection. The New York Times describes this collection as, “a work that explores the gap between black experience and the white imagination's version of it”. What an apt description, if only lacking in a description of the vividness and clarity with which Parker captures the chasm between the lived experience of Blackness and the mirage created by privilege. The title is a popular reference to the trope of a Black character who appears to almost always assist a white character using strange, sometimes supernatural wisdom. However, what Parker does in using these characters to challenge white supremacy's multiple violence against black womxnhood and its limited imagining of Blackness. Straddling the contemporary and classic, in ways mirroring that of the Black experience, where one lives in multiple ages affected by the issues of their predecessors. In her poem “Now More Than Ever, “defining the title phrase as something whites say “to express their surprise / and disapproval of social or political conditions which, / to the Negro, are devastatingly usual.” In the age of diversity and inclusivity, Parker's poem is an ode to the eye roll all black people have done at white liberal catchphrases such as this. A recurring theme is the invisibility and hypervisibility of Black women, as with “Magical Negro #3: The Strong Black Woman,” whose title character is sexualised to the point that the speaker suggests assaulting her, then says, “She / won't feel nothing.” A powerful commentary on the assault on the humanity of black women contained in statements like “The Strong Black Woman” Morgan Parker is prodigious. This podcast may be the beginning of a powerful conversation about the work and words of Black people.

Today's poem is Directions To Finding You, Or Maybe Just An Inferior Prayer by Angel Nafis.

Poets Angel Dye and Jeremy Flick interview Morgan Parker. Morgan Parker is the author of the poetry collections Magical Negro (Tin House 2019), There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Tin House 2017), and Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015). Her debut young adult novel Who Put This Song On? will be released by Delacorte Press on September 24, 2019. A debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World/ Random House. Parker received her Bachelors in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Columbia University and her MFA in Poetry from NYU. She is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. Parker is the creator and host of Reparations, Live! at the Ace Hotel. With Tommy Pico, she co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series, and with Angel Nafis, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. Morgan is a Sagittarius, and she lives in Los Angeles.

In true queer fam style, the Thots take you for an intimate hand-holding stroll down friendship lane. What makes a best friend, how deep does friendship go, and does queer friendship mean anything different from anything else? What are the promises we hold and keep?     We rev your engines with a lil hoetry in these Twitter streets, our poverty-line vers Thot of all Thots gives us sugar, spice, and everything nice, and for dessert we preach to the choir!  SHOW NOTES: food4thotpodcast.com/newsletter Live tweet the episode: twitter.com/food4thotpod  Troll us on Facebook: facebook.com/food4thotpod  DM us on Insta: instagram.com/gayslutswhoread Danez: twitter.com/Danez_Smif  Joe: twitter.com/reluctantlyjoe  Fran: twitter.com/fransquishco Angel: twitter.com/AngelNafis Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Poet Justin Phillip Reed discusses his debut poetry collection, Indecency with Greenlight staff alums, poets Angel Nafis and Jayson Smith. Together, they read their poems, discus poetic construction, and talk about blackness and white supremacy.

Hootie hoo and a nelly nacho howdy-do to you! It’s a poet’s feast this week as we’ve got Angel Nafis, sam sax, and Max Steele on the show with some extremely comely Junk. And being poets of course they talk about Junky love: Junking toward the future of romantic love, Junk as a reminder of the love for your art practice, and Junk as memory for a beloved pet. To finish us off, I’ve got a Cactus Candy-like teensy piece of my long poem Junk wrapped up and ready for ya! Brought to you, as always, by Tin House Books Follow us on Instagram to get a sneaky peek at our poet’s Junk this week: @junkpodcast Angel Nafis: @AngelNafis sam sax: @samsax1 Max Steele: @billycheer Tommy Pico, host: @heyteebs Alexandra DiPalma, producer: @LSDiPalma Kenya Anderson, production assistant: @kenya_digg_it

In this extra special bonus episode, we are LIVE! on stage at NYC's Bell House with special guest Angel Nafis. We joined other queer AF podcasts for the first annual Big Queer Podfest with the proceeds of the SOLD OUT crowd going straight to the Trevor Project. Tonight, we have real fake sex, pose for the camera one time, and talk about how ashamed we are to show our faces at pride. Plus, get a sneak peak at Tommy's new podcast, JUNK, which launches in July from Tin House Books! Enjoy, lil' thotties, and see u next season. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Angel Nafis is paying attention. She talks with Danez and Franny about learning to rescale her sight, getting through grad school with some new skills in her pocket, activated charcoal, and her two Franks (Ocean and O’Hara).

VS gets live at AWP, where Danez and Franny hosted a packed show featuring the magnificent Hanif Abdurraqib and Angel Nafis. Hear some poems, some nipple-related discussion,and some rooftop giggles on this episode, recorded in front of a live audience on March 8th, 2018.

SURPRISE BINCHES! Season 1 ain’t over quite yet. We have an extra delectable bite for you — the recording of our LIVE show at Ace Hotel in New York muthafuckin’ City. We packed the house to celebrate the fact that Tommy Pico dropped is book Nature Poem like a hot lil’ cake. Plus, local celebrity Angel Nafis joins us for this episode. We now come with a laugh track, and bb, we’re never going back. Also, we write our own gay smut — friction fiction, if you will — we discuss Tommy’s levels of slutty genius, and we end Season 1 (for realz this time) with a hot take from the ineffable Angel. We have big ol’ plans for Season 2, but for now subscribe to our newsletter for periodic updates and thotty mini features: food4thotpodcast.com/newsletter Live tweet the episode: twitter.com/food4thotpod Troll us on Facebook: facebook.com/food4thotpod Angel: twitter.com/angelnafis Joe: twitter.com/reluctantlyjoe Tommy: twitter.com/heyteebs Fran: twitter.com/fransquishco Release date: 11 June 2017 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Welcome to Episode 11 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we skip our usual segment of "What's on Your Mind?" to talk about names, phases, brands, publishing, & so much more with genius poet Morgan Parker. As always, you can reach us at emailthepoetrygods@gmail.com. We are looking to book shows for Fall 2016. Bring The Poetry gods to your campus! MORGAN PARKER BIO: Morgan Parker is the author of Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015), selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize. Her second collection, There Are More Beautiful things than Beyonce, is forthcoming from Tin House Books in February 2017. Morgan received her Bachelors in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Columbia University and her MFA in Poetry from NYU. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in numerous publications, as well as anthologized in Why I Am Not A Painter (Argos Books), The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, and Best American Poetry 2016. Winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize and a Cave Canem graduate fellow, Morgan lives with her dog Braeburn in Brooklyn, NY. She works as an Editor for Amazon Publishing's imprint Little A and Day One. She also teaches Creative Writing at Columbia University and co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico. With poet and performer Angel Nafis, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. She is a Sagittarius. Follow Morgan Parker on twitter: @morganapple on instagram: @morganapple0 Follow The Poetry Gods on all social media: @jayohessee, @azizabarnes, @iamjonsands, @thepoetrygods & CHECK OUR WEBSITE: thepoetrygods.com/ (much thanks to José Ortiz for designing the website! shouts to Jess X Chen for making our logo)

Monday Reading Series Angel Nafis is a Cave Canem Fellow. Her work has appeared in The Rattling Wall, Union Station Magazine, MUZZLE Magazine, Mosaic Magazine, and Poetry Magazine. She has represented the LouderArts Poetry Project at both the National Poetry Slam and the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2011. She is an Urban Word NYC Mentor and the founder, curator, and host of the quarterly Greenlight Bookstore Poetry Salon reading series. She is the author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press/ New School Poetics, 2012). Facilitating writing workshops and reading poems across the United States and Canada, she lives in Brooklyn. Bridget Talone is the author of the chapbook In the Valley Made Personal, published by Small Anchor Press. Recent work has appeared in The Atlas Review, White Elephant, The New Delta Review, and Salt Hill Journal. She lives in Queens.