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DaMaris B. Hill is the author of Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood (2022), A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland (2019) -a 2020 NAACP Image Award finalist for Outstanding Literary Work, The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland (2016), Vi-zə-bəl   Teks-chərs(Visible Textures) (2015).  Similar to her creative work, Hill's scholarly research is interdisciplinary. Hill is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky. http://damarishill.com  Order your copy of a Breath Better Spent here

Novelist Julia Elliott and poet and writer DaMaris B. Hill join hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to consider the writing and face of rural America—particularly as it might look 30 years from now. First, Elliott talks about growing up as an outsider in her own South Carolina hometown, and reads from her debut novel The New and Improved Romie Flutch. Then, Hill, who was born in West Virginia, speaks to the diversity of rural spaces and reads a historical poem, “Beloved Weirdo,” from her forthcoming poetry collection Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood. Hill also speaks about judging the Maya Angelou Book Award. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel, Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel, and our website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Hayden Baker and Anne Kniggendorf. Selected readings: DaMaris B. Hill A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland   The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland Breath Better Spent   Julia Elliott The New and Improved Romie Futch The Wilds   Others: Toni Morrison Gail Jones Octavia Butler Crystal Wilkinson Nikki Finney Denise Low The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Gwendolyn Brooks Frank O'Hara Lucille Clifton Angela Davis “Talking to Maya Angelou's Son About the New Award Named in Her Honor” by Anne Kniggendorf Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz Sometimes I Never Suffered by Shane McCrae The Wild Fox of Yemen by Threa Almontaser Our Lies: Jenny Offill and James Plath on Conspiracy Theories in History and Literature (Season 4, Episode 8 of Fiction/Non/Fiction) Airships by Barry Hannah Geronimo Rex by Barry Hannah Westworld Paul West “The New and Improved Romie Futch” New York Times review by Lincoln Michel  Carson McCullers George Saunders Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell Leonora Carrington Meat Racket by Christopher Leonard Hunter S. Thompson David Cronenburg Black Boy by Richard Wright Langston Hughes Alice Walker Latino Writers Collective - Home Frank X Walker - Affrilachian Poet, Educator, Author of Black Box, Buffalo Dance: the Journey of York, and Affrilachia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, a Christian Revolutionary (Angel Harris) and a Spiritual Heathen (Desirée Anderson) have a conversation with Professor and Author Dr. DaMaris B. Hill author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland.” Dr. Hill discusses what made her write this book of poetry along with her thoughts on #BlackIntheIvory, scripture, womanist thought, and how religion and spirituality have shaped her life and understanding of creativity and writing.

This episode showcases selections from three previous episodes featuring poets who explore a variety of social justice issues through their work. This episode contains explicit language. Part One The episode begins with poet and scholar Cameron Awkward-Rich joined in conversation with writer and curator James Fleming. Cameron reads first from his recent award-winning book Dispatch followed by a poem from his 2016 book Sympathetic Little Monster, which broke new ground in Trans, Queer, Black, and American poetry. Part Two This excerpt features the poet Layli Long Soldier in conversation with San Francisco poet Brynn Saito. Layli reads a selection from her collection of poetry WHEREAS, and talks with Brynn about her journey writing these poems in response to the congressional resolution “Apology to Native Peoples.” Part Three The episode closes with diversity and inclusion specialist Denise Boston in a conversation with author and academic DaMaris B. Hill that spans poetry, history, and current events to illuminate the lives of extraordinary women and their impact on today's society. DaMaris also reads from her book A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland.

This trailblazer became the most successful and significant black woman writer of the first half of the 20th century. In the 1970s, during the second wave of feminism, Alice Walker helped revive interest in this pioneer’s writings, bringing them back to public attention. Have you ever heard of Zora Neale Hurston? DOWNLOAD NOW Credit: It was a deep honor and absolute pleasure to speak with Valerie Boyd, author of Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, and DaMaris Hill, a professor at the University of Kentucky and author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, for this episode. Sources: Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston; Boyd, Valerie; Scribner; February 3, 2004. Dust Tracks on a Road; Hurston, Zora Neale; Harpers; 1942, updated 2017. A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland; Hill, DeMaris; Bloomsbury Publishing; January 15, 2019. Zora Neale Hurston; Official Website; Maintained by the Zora Neale Hurston Trust; Retrieved February 2019. Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography; Hemenway, Robert; University of Illinois Press, September 1, 1980.

Author and poet DaMaris B. Hill talks to Daniel Ford about her new collection A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland. To learn more about DaMaris B. Hill, visit her official website, like her Facebook page, and follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Today’s episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and OneRoom.

Social worker, public speaker, community activist, and blogger Feminista Jones is the author of the novel Push the Button and the poetry collection The Secret of Sugar Water. She was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Magazine)  and one of The Root's Top 100 Black Social Influencers. Her articles have appeared in a variety of periodicals, including the New York Times, Ebony, Time, and Essence. In Reclaiming Our Space, Jones examines the ways black women are using digital spaces to change the conventional dialogues of culture and social movements. DaMaris B. Hill is the author of The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage, Jim Crow: Staking Claims, and the poetry collection Vi-ze-belTeks-chers. A double PhD in English and women and gender studies, she teaches creative writing and African American and Africana studies at the University of Kentucky. In A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland, Hill evokes some of the most powerful incarcerated American women of color-from Assata Shakur to Zora Neale Hurston-to present an unflinching, unbridled celebration of struggle and transcendence. (recorded 2/5/2019)

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss No Exit, Thick, The Far Field, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Warby Parker, and As Long As We Both Shall Live by JoAnn Cheney. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: No Exit: A Novel by Taylor Adams Last Woman Standing by Amy Gentry The Dreamers: A Novel by Karen Thompson Walker Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom The Orphan of Salt Winds by Elizabeth Brooks The Good Food: A Cookbook of Soups, Stews, and Pasta by Daniel Halpern and Julie Strand The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris What we're reading: Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?: (And How to Fix It) by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic More books out this week: Marked by S. Andrew Swann Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po) by Ha Jin The Perfect Liar: A Novel by Thomas Christopher Greene The Smiling Man: A Novel by Joseph Knox Unquiet: A Novel by Linn Ullmann A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers by Preston Lauterbach Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Aldamuy Denise and Paola Escobar Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives by Jane Brox Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua D Mezrich Adèle: A Novel by Leila Slimani Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll by Ian S. Port No Mercy (Ellery Hathaway) by Joanna Schaffhausen Elsey Come Home by Susan Conley Mothers: Stories by Chris Power Talk to Me by John Kenney Annelies: A Novel by David R. Gillham Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro Oculus: Poems by Sally Wen Mao Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday by Natalie C. Anderson Late in the Day: A Novel by Tessa Hadley Hark by Sam Lipsyte Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life by Kim McLarin You Know You Want This: "Cat Person" and Other Stories by Kristen Roupenian Unmarriageable: A Novel by Soniah Kamal The Liar’s Room by Simon Lelic Joy Enough: A Memoir by Sarah McColl The Whispers by Greg Howard The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843: Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun by Percival Everett None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed , and the Criminalization of Educators by Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married by Abby Ellin Night School: A Reader for Grownups by Zsófia Bán and Jim Tucker Fearless by Sarah Tarkoff As Long as We Both Shall Live by JoAnn Cheney Something Like Breathing by Angeka Readman Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction by Meghan Cox Gurdon  Downhill from Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality by Katherine S. Newman Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon Why We Fight: One Man’s Search for Meaning Inside the Ring by Josh Rosenblatt The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown by Nick Barratt Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age by Mary Pipher 96 Words for Love by Rachel Roy and Ava Dash Big Bang by David Bowman Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape by Gregory Benford Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds