Podcast appearances and mentions of Destiny O Birdsong

This week on Black and Published, Nikesha speaks with Destiny O. Birdsong, author of the triptych novel Nobody's Magic.  She's also a poet and essayist, and her workhas either appeared or is forthcoming in the Paris Review Daily, Poets & Writers, African American Review, The Best American Poetry 2021, and elsewhere. Nobody's Magic, was published by Grand Central in February 2022 and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize.In our conversation, Destiny discusses the deal she made with herself to write whatever came to her mind, shopping a manuscript before it was ready and the power of affirmation that boosted her confidence for writing a story entirely in AAVE. Support the showFollow the Show: IG: @blkandpublished Twitter: @BLKandPublished Follow Me:IG: @nikesha_elise Twitter: @Nikesha_Elise Get My Books

Join Maya Marshall and special guests for a celebration of her new book All the Blood Involved in Love. All the Blood Involved in Love is an urgent and evocative collection—featuring complex and compelling poems about the choices we make surrounding home, freedom, healing, partnership, and family. In a moment of critical struggle for reproductive justice, Maya Marshall's haunting debut meditates on womanhood—with and without motherhood. Traversing familial mythography with an unflinching seriousness, Marshall moves deftly between contemporary politics, the stakes of race and interracial partnership, and the monetary, mental, and physical costs of adopting or birthing a Black child. Get All the Blood Involved in Love from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1884-all-the-blood-involved-in-love --------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Maya Marshall, a writer and editor, is cofounder of underbellymag.com, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision. As an educator, Marshall has taught at Northwestern University and Loyola University Chicago. She holds fellowships from MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, Callaloo, The Watering Hole, Community of Writers, and Cave Canem. She is the author of Secondhand (Dancing Girl Press, 2016). Her writing appears in Best New Poets 2019, Muzzle, RHINO, Potomac Review, Blackbird, and elsewhere. All the Blood Involved in Love is Marshall's debut poetry collection with Haymarket Books. Destiny O. Birdsong is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work has appeared in the Paris Review Daily, African American Review, and Catapult, among other publications. Her debut poetry collection, Negotiations, was published in 2020 by Tin House and was longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Voelcker Award. Her debut novel, Nobody's Magic, was published in February 2022 from Grand Central Publishing. Tarfia Faizullah was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Texas. She is the author of Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf Press, 2018) and Seam (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014). She lives in Dallas, Texas. Aricka Foreman is an American poet and interdisciplinary writer from Detroit, MI. She is the author of the chapbook Dream with a Glass Chamber, and Salt Body Shimmer (YesYes Books) winner of the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. She has earned fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and the Millay Colony. Aricka lives in Chicago and works as a publicist at Haymarket Books. Nicole Homer is an Associate Professor of English at a community college in Central New Jersey. They are a poet, writer, and performer whose work can be found in the American Academy of Poets Poem-a-Day, Muzzle, The Offing, Rattle, The Collagist and elsewhere. A fellow of The Watering Hole, Callaloo and VONA, Nicole serves as a Contributing Editor at BlackNerdProblems writing pop culture critique through a POC lens. Their award-winning collection, Pecking Order (Write Bloody) is an unflinching look at how race and gender politics play out in the domestic sphere. Natasha Oladokun (she/her) is a poet and essayist. She holds fellowships from Cave Canem, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Jackson Center for Creative Writing, Twelve Literary Arts, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the inaugural First Wave Poetry fellow. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Academy of American Poets, Harvard Review Online, and Kenyon Review Online. You can read her column The PettyCoat Chronicles—on pop culture and period dramas—at Catapult. She is Associate Poetry Editor at storySouth, and currently lives in Madison, WI. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/qFVhGJYqI98 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Join Chris in a sit down with Dr. Destiny O. Birdsong, author of Nobody's Magic (Grand Central Publishing) and Negotiations (Tin House), about passions, process, pitfalls, and Poetry! Destiny O. Birdsong is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work has appeared in the Paris Review Daily, African American Review, and Catapult, among other publications. Her debut poetry collection, Negotiations, was published in 2020 by Tin House and was longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Voelcker Award. Her debut novel, Nobody's Magic, was published in February 2022 from Grand Central Publishing. During July 2022, she was the Hurston-Wright Foundation's inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Rutgers University-Newark. She will also serve as an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville from 2022-2023. Connect with her below. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Recorded by Destiny O. Birdsong for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 5, 2022. www.poets.org

Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton dive into the short stories of the acclaimed new collection A Calm & Normal Heart, with its author, Chelsea T. Hicks.  Hicks is a member of the Osage Nation, and the collection, published in June 2022 by Unnamed Press, also incorporates her ancestral language of Wazhazhe ie (which translates to “Osage talk”). The collection opens with a poem in the orthography, along with the Latinized spelling and English translation. Read the full episode transcript. Support Future Episodes: Become a Member in Apple Podcasts or at ursastory.com/join. About Chelsea T. Hicks Chelsea T. Hicks is a model, author and current Tulsa Artist Fellow. She is a Native Arts & Cultures Foundation 2021 LIFT Awardee and her writing has been published in McSweeney's, Yellow Medicine Review, the LA Review of Books, Indian Country Today, The Believer, The Audacity, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She is a past Writing By Writers Fellow, a 2016 Wah-Zha-Zhi Woman Artist featured by the Osage Nation Museum, and a 2020 finalist for the Eliza So Fellowship for Native American women writers.  Her advocacy work has included recruiting with the Virginia Indian Pre-College Outreach Initiative (VIP-COI), Northern and Southern California Osage diaspora groups, and heritage language creative writing and revitalization workshops. She authored poetry for the sound art collection Onomatopoeias For Wrangell-St. Elias, funded by the Double Hoo Grant at the University of Virginia, where she was awarded the Peter & Phyllis Pruden scholarship for excellence in the English major as well as the University Achievement Award (2008-2012). The Ford Foundation awarded her a 2021 honorable mention for promotion of Indigenous-language creative writing. She is planning an Indigenous language creative writing Conference for November 2022 in Tulsa, funded by an Interchange art grant.  Episode Links and Reading List:  A Calm & Normal Heart (2022) Of Wazhazhe Land and Language: The Ongoing Project of Ancestral Work (Lit Hub) Osage writing system and orthography There There, by Tommy Orange (2019) Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino (1978) Night of the Living Rez, by Morgan Talty (2022) America Is Not the Heart, by Elaine Castillo (2019) Men We Reaped: A Memoir, by Jesmyn Ward (2014) Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires (2019) Milk Blood Heat, by Dantiel W. Moniz (2021) Nobody's Magic, by Destiny O. Birdsong (2022) You Don't Know Us Negroes, by Zora Neale Hurston More from Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton:  The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, by Deesha Philyaw The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, by Dawnie Walton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://ursastory.com/join

In this week's episode I am joined by Moe from @readingwithmoe to chat about Nobody's Magic by Destiny O. Birdsong. Following the lives of three Black women with albinism, this breathtaking novel is told in three parts and features compelling and unforgettable characters. We'll be discussing the nuance of each woman's story, the role the title plays in the novel, and all the ways in which this novel grasped at our emotions. Where to find us Donation of the Week: The Trevor Project, a non-profit dedicated to providing support and crisis intervention for LGBTQ youth.

Ashley speaks with Destiny O. Birdsong about her debut novel, NOBODY'S MAGIC. The conversation speaks on writing about Shreveport, sexuality, and intentionally writing about people with albinism.  Bookstores referenced Parnassus Books The Book Shop Kindred Stories    Books/short stories mentioned as Destiny's inspiration: I AM A KNIFE by Roxane Gay SULA by Toni Morrison THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin NECTAR IN A SIEVE by Kamala Markandaya  Follow and support our host and guest:   Follow Ashley: Website Follow Destiny: Twitter | Instagram | Linktree Beyond the Box: Our weekly round-up of blog and podcast content delivered directly to your inbox every Friday   This episode was edited by Sarah Hernandez and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.   Original music by @iam.onyxrose   Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.

Our guest today is author and poet Destiny O. Birdsong. Destiny's debut novel, Nobody's Magic, is about three Black women with Albinism in Shreveport, LA. We talk about the ways Destiny approached representation and nuance when writing about Albinism, her personal training ground for crafting dialogue, and the pressures people can feel around grief.You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2022/03/16/ep-206-destiny-o-birdsongThe Stacks Book Club selection for February is A Mercy by Toni Morrison, we will discuss the book on March 30th with Imani Perry.Connect with Destiny: Twitter | Instagram | WebsiteConnect with The Stacks: Instagram | Twitter | Shop | Patreon | Goodreads | SubscribeSUPPORT THE STACKSJoin The Stacks Pack on PatreonAthletic Greens - visit atheleticgreens.com/thestacks to get a free one-year supply of vitamin D and five free travel packs with your first purchase.Native - head to nativedeo.com/thestacks or use code THESTACKS to get 20% off your first order.Vegamour - go to vegamour.com/thestacks and use the code THESTACKS to get 20% off your first order.Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or Amazon earns The Stacks a small commission. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

BAPC x Destiny O. Birdsong Akili and Reggie talk to Destiny O. Birdsong about Nobody's Magic, the triptych novel, the myriad ways that love manifests itself and much more. Join The Fellowship—BAPC's Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/booksarepopculture Follow BAPC on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/booksarepopculture Shop BAPC's Bookshop: https://www.bookshop.org/shop/booksarepopculture

Episode 81. Rachel Barenbaum interviews Destiny O. Birdsong on the launch of her debut NOBODY'S MAGIC. Don't miss this interview or this amazing book!!

Nichole Perkins is a writer from Nashville, Tennessee who examines the intersections of pop culture, race, sex, gender, and relationships. She's a 2017 Audre Lorde Fellow at the inaugural Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat and a 2017 BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellow. Her debut essay collection is called Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be. This episode is brought to you by the House of CHANEL, creator of the iconic J12 sports watch. Always in motion, the J12 travels through time without ever losing its identity. Join New York Times #1 best-selling author George Saunders in conversation with author and professor Imani Perry for Humanities New York's third annual History and the American Imagination benefit. The live discussion will take place online on October 5th at 7 PM EASTERN. Purchase your tickets at humanitiesny.org and use code MARISREVIEW for half off membership tickets. Recommended Reading: Negotiations by Destiny O. Birdsong Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Negotiating the Love and Renouncing the Rest,” today's Tin House Live conversation between poets Destiny O. Birdsong & Donika Kelly, was recorded at the 2021 Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. Among many other things, they ask what it would mean to center yourself in your own work, in your own story. How would that look, […] The post Tin House Live : Negotiating the Love and Renouncing the Rest with Destiny O. Birdsong and Donika Kelly appeared first on Tin House.

Destiny O. Birdsong is happy to up to her elbows in the mess of life. The poet, essayist, and fiction writer talks about the joy of creating complex characters, writing auto-fiction, building books from a joke, and much more! NOTE: Make sure you rate us on Apple Podcasts and write us a review!

In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we take a look at the life and work of poet, essayist, and fiction writer, Destiny O. Birdsong.“failed avoidance of ‘the body' in a poem”your therapist wants to know wherein your body you most feel your anxiety. you tell her in the bonesbehind your face. they have their own music, like ptolemy's universe,and chirp like shuriken dancing in the road. your therapist saysyou hurt because there are things you've never been taught to do:how to hold yourself in sleep. how to drive. how to live with men.back when you were five—or maybe four— your father knelt before you for the lasttime, close enough that you could smell him, a zephyrof kool's filter kings and leaving. he pushed the tricycle toward you, purple and whitestreamers limp as hair on the handlebars. by the time you mounted the cranium-shapedseat, he was gone. your new goal is to learn to breathethrough bones, to make flutes of them. although, in reality, you are much more supple:a crooked fold of flesh that comes so quickly when called. you are the warm-belliedanimal on the shoulder, coated in sunscreen and your father's curiosity:white-haired possum with his green, green eyes. you're now the oldest you may ever be.you have never before been this afraid. there are no bodies bound to rush in the roomwhen your own becomes a bullet ringing the tiles. you know all about “love's austere and lonelyoffices”: checking your stools for blood. checking your breasts for lumps. checking your neckfor swelling nodes. checking the locks, the coffeepot, all the crackedeyes blinking fire on the kitchen stove. your own weep against a pillowcaseyou haven't washed, stiff with the miasma of your hair. you stareat pictures of the girlfriend grinning in sunlight. you feel bad for not being taken with yourself more,but your body is all asymptotes and fractals. your own skin splinters in the darkfrom your dense heat. the pieces come back together under a halo of prescriptionssteeping your head in yellow light. sometimes, while combing your hair, a sliver of cartilagelodges in your finger pad. you lick the glittering blood and spit out the shard.compared to your father, this is not unkind. somewhere between your skull and the skinthat swaddles it, all the songs you didn't know you needed to learn from him appearand vanish with the rhythm of your breathing.Support the show (https://getlit.org/donate/)

Recorded by Destiny O. Birdsong for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on May 5, 2021. www.poets.org

This week Kim chats with Destiny O. Birdsong, poet, fiction writer, essayist, and Johnny Gill enthusiast. Her debut poetry collection, Negotiations, is available now.

Negotiations by Destiny O. Birdsong by Poets & Writers

Negotiations by Destiny O. Birdsong by Poets & Writers