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In our 14th episode — and the second episode of our third season — co-host Jerome Moore and Scene managing editor Alejandro Ramirez are joined by poet and organizer Ciona Rouse. As Alejandro wrote in a recent feature, despite Nashville's thriving poetry scene, Nashville doesn't have a poet laureate. We talk about that, local poetry events, our most active poets and more.Follow Jerome Moore on Instagram (@jeromelmoore) and see how to keep up with Ciona via her website. Give it a listen, and subscribe to hear more! This episode is sponsored by the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.
Recorded by Ciona Rouse for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on March 28, 2024. www.poets.org
Episode 2: Ciona Rouse(July 22, 2002)Andy's conversation with Nashville's unofficial poet laureate goes deep into the mystery and power of poetry in fractious times, the importance of seeking out voices of people outside one's own culture, and, perhaps more to the point for this show's purposes, the historic relationship between writers and alcohol—specifically bourbon in Rouse's case (and Andy's, too, as luck would have it). Related topics: Lucille Clifton, Langston Hughes, the derivation and pronunciation of the name Ciona, the pros and cons of puns, Andy's musical theater issues, the Louisa Nelson Awards (Rouse received one in 2019), and the deep pleasure of reading Shakespeare aloud among friends. Special Guest Appearance by Andy's dog Clyde, the very best boy in the whole wide world.
We sit down with Trudy Gaba and Ciona Rouse, co-curators on the special exhibition, Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick. Learn how they became involved in the project and about their personal connections with the artwork. Art Palace is sponsored by PNC Bank. Learn more about the exhibition: https://cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/exhibitions/kara-walker-cut-to-the-quick/ For more info and other programs, visit: www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org Theme song: Offrande Musicale by Bacalao Take our survey: bit.ly/ArtPalaceSurvey
This week Kim chats with Ciona Rouse, poet, author, editor, and chapbook champion. She is co-curating Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick at the Frist Art Museum July 23 - October 10, 2021.
Join us for a little more of our conversation with Ciona Rouse, as she shares about the gift of open Sunday mornings and supportive friends. If you haven’t heard it yet, check out our full conversation with Ciona, “Resting On A Limb On the Tree of Knowledge”. Support us by: Subscribing to us on Apple [...]
Join us for an updated conversation with poet Ciona Rouse, first about her experience of the pandemic and our national reckoning with racism, and then about her journey from cradle United Methodist and pastor’s kid out of Christianity. Episode Highlights Include: Ciona’s upbringing as a pastor’s kid and her experience as a denominational employee Her vocation as [...]
Join us for a conversation with poet Ciona Rouse about her journey from cradle United Methodist and pastor’s kid out of Christianity. Episode Highlights Include: Ciona’s upbringing as a pastor’s kid and her experience as a denominational employee Her vocation as a writer and “God as author” “It struck me that I had spent my [...]
Check out the trailer for our opening series on 2020, “Why I Stayed/Why I Left”, examining all the different choices people are making about their spiritual commitments in our new religious reality, with guests Wayne Jacobsen, Elaine Heath, Ophelia Hu-Kinney, and Ciona Rouse. We’ll be releasing all our conversations on Wednesday, March 11th, and stay [...]
Ciona Rouse is dichteres in Nashville en Simone zocht haar op in Nashville voor een goed gesprek over oa magnolia's en haar liefde voor Mexico.
Ciona Rouse is dichteres in Nashville en Simone zocht haar op in Nashville voor een goed gesprek over oa magnolia's en haar liefde voor Mexico.
Poet and author (Vantablack, published in 2017 by Third Man Books), poetry editor (Wordpeace journal), co-host (forthcoming Third Man podcast Re/Verb with Kendra DeColo), sharing introvert, traveler, thinker, and more. Visit her website CionaRouse.com or find her on social media under the handle @ cionar. December 2018 / 2h 13m / Music by Brian Stone / LionSuit.com Some names and specifics we could not recall during our conversation: ● Matthew Stevenson is the young man who invited Derek Black (Stormfront) to Shabbat every week. ● John Lewis is the British company with the great holiday advert history. ● Krista Tippett's On Being guest was Anand Giridharadas, who says, "It’s language like the “win-win,” which sounds great, but in some deep way is actually about rich people saying, the only acceptable forms of social change are the forms of social change that also kick something back upstairs — language like “doing well by doing good,” which, again, is like, “The only conditions under which I’m willing to do good is under which I would also do well.”
Have you ever had the nightmare where you’re standing at the front of an audience, about to say something important, but when you open your mouth there’s nothing? Well imagine waking up in that nightmare and realizing that you couldn’t get out. That’s exactly what happened to KC Steedle, the night that a mysterious blackout nearly killed his dream of ever having a career in music. KC tells poet Ciona Rouse about the disquieting experience of confronting a medical anomaly. And a surprising change in plan that ultimately saved his career, and his life. Then Ciona takes his unsettling tale, and turns it into poetry. Versify is a production of Nashville Public Radio and The Porch, Nashville’s nonprofit literary center. Editing and production came from WPLN’s Mack Linebaugh, with additional editing by Anita Bugg. The episode was hosted, scripted, and produced by Joshua Moore. Today’s story and poem were recorded by Luke Wiget at the March 2017 Jefferson St. Art Crawl. **The music is by Kevin Chambers. Versify is distributed by PRX.
Serg Rodriguez hasn’t seen his family in years. He was excommunicated by their church and grew apart from his parents and siblings. But now as a writer in Nashville, his little sister is never far from his mind. Without warning, she troubles his thoughts and finds here way into everything he puts on paper. In this episode, we find out how family rejection has actually helped Serg to better understand unconditional love. And then Nashville poet Ciona Rouse turns Serg’s story into an original poem. Credits: Editing and production by Tony Gonzalez, hosting and editing by Joshua Moore. Additional editing assistance: Emily Siner, Blake Farmer, Anita Bugg, Susannah Felts, Katie McDougall, & J. Joseph Kane. The show is mastered by Carl Pedersen. The music is by The Ampersand Posture, with additional tracks by Coolzey, and DarkSunn. Versify is a production of Nashville Public Radio and PRX. Stories and poems are gathered with the help of The Porch, Nashville's nonprofit literary center.
Ebralie Mwizerwa is a mother of five, an accountant, a devoted church-goer — and a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. She fled with her family while pregnant and now runs a nonprofit that assists incoming refugee families in Nashville, Tennessee. Ebralie shares the story of her harrowing escape to poet Destiny Birdsong, who takes up the challenge of crafting an original poem for Ebralie — “trying to figure out how to speak the unspeakable,” as Destiny says. This story was recorded at Legacy Mission Village and the poem recorded live on stage as part of the International Women’s Day celebration at OZ Arts Nashville in March 2017. Credits: Editing/Co-production by: Tony Gonzalez, Hosting/Co-production by: Joshua Moore Additional Editing assistance: Emily Siner, Blake Farmer, Anita Bugg, Susannah Felts, Ciona Rouse, and Carissa Stolting The show is mastered by Carl Pedersen. The music is by The Pangolins and by Komiku — both found through the Free Music Archive.