Podcasts about kiki petrosino

On this episode of the WPL Book Drop Podcast, Artist and Writer, Felicia Babb Cass, stops by to talk community, art, writing, and WPL's Author Seedbed Workshop Series, which she helped coordinate. Find more information on the workshop series here. Titles discussed on today's episode:  Seven Drafts: Self-edit like a Pro from Blank Page to Book by Allison K. Williams The Libby App Golden Record by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell Bright by Kiki Petrosino  

As Literary Hub observes July 4, we return to our archives for a 2017 episode that remains relevant today. We will return with a new episode July 11. In episode 6, V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell talk political betrayal past and present with novelist Jess Walter and poet Kiki Petrosino. Jess Walter once interviewed an ailing Mark Felt, aka "Deep Throat" of Watergate fame, and he gives us the skinny on the literary qualities of Nixon, Trump, Flynn, NY mobsters, and his 2005 novel Citizen Vince. Plus, would John Gotti have liked the president? On the eve of the release of her new book, Witch Wife, Kiki Petrosino talks to us about MacBeth's witches and how Shakespeare can help us decode our current age of political skulduggery. What Trump Administration officials would you cast in Macbeth? Readings: All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward; Citizen Vince by Jess Walter; Witch Wife by Kiki Petrosino; The Tragedy of Macbeth; The Tempest; The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In the Stacks: J.J. Cantrell interviews Annie Philbrick of Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT and Savoy Bookshop & Cafe in Westerly, Rhode Island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Summary:This episode looks at communities that have suffered neglect from official history, and the example of African American landmarks and burial grounds in Virginia. Some families and communities have pushed to reclaim their place and spaces, often using tools employed earlier by the Federal Writers' Project. Project workers often consulted landmarks and cemetery headstones to present a fuller picture of local history. In southern states, the Writers' Project encountered the Lost Cause, the effort emerging after the Civil War that aimed to rewrite the war's meaning and origins in slavery. The myth shaped the environment for white writers of the WPA Guide to Virginia, and it continues to hold influence even today. Yet the field research underlying the WPA guide – the details the federal writers uncovered in records, interviews and landmarks – as well as another Project publication, The Negro in Virginia, provide a way to untangle the Lost Cause myth. We probe that history with poet Kiki Petrosino as she researches her family's Virginia history, and with historians at the Library of Virginia, the Alexandria Black History Museum and the University of Richmond.Speakers:Audrey Davis, historianJulian Hayter, historianGregg Kimball, historianKiki Petrosino, poetAlton Darden, Helping Hand Cemetery trusteeMaurice Darden, Helping Hand Cemetery trusteeDolores Peterson, Helping Hand Cemetery trusteeLinks and Resources:Helping Hand Cemetery Club"Unmarked" documentaryPhoto Essay about East End Cemetery by Kiki Petrosino and Brian PalmerEncyclopedia Virginia entry on the Lost CauseAlexandria Black History MuseumLibrary of VirginiaFurther Reading: The Negro in Virginia by the Federal Writers' Project White Blood by Kiki PetrosinoRewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers' Project, edited by Sara RutkowskiHow the Word is Passed by Clint SmithThe Dream is Lost by Julian HayterAmerican City, Southern Place by Gregg Kimball Credits:Host: Chris HaleyDirector: Andrea KalinProducers: Andrea Kalin, David A. Taylor, James MirabelloWriter: David A. TaylorEditors: Ethan Oser and Julie ChalhoubStory Editor: Michael MayAdditional Voices: Skip Coblyn, James Mirabello, Jared Buggage, Jerry Ray and Danielle Nance Featuring music and archival material from: Pond5Library of CongressNational Archives and Records AdministrationNPRWUSA9ABC NewsNews2ShareFor additional content, visit peoplesrecorder.info or follow us on social media: @peoplesrecorderProduced with support from: National Endowment for the HumanitiesVirginia Humanities Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Summary:The Federal Writers' Project set out to create a series of books that held up a mirror to America, and chronicled communities that had long been ignored. Howard University professor Sterling Brown led the agency's effort to document African American history in a series of books. In Virginia, chemistry professor Roscoe Lewis led a small team to produce the first book in that national series, titled The Negro in Virginia. Lewis recruited a dozen Black writers and researchers across the state for a pioneering effort that recorded interviews with nearly 300 formerly enslaved people. They navigated a backlash from state editors and local officials. Against all odds, their book on Black life became a national Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and a milestone on the path to the Civil Rights movement.Speakers:Audrey Davis, historianJulian Hayter, historianGregg Kimball, historianKiki Petrosino, poetLinks and Resources:Photo essay about East End Cemetery by Kiki Petrosino and Brian Palmer in VQR“Unmarked” documentaryVirginia Humanities Q&A with David A. TaylorWashington Post article on Roscoe Lewis and The Negro in VirginiaAlexandria Black History MuseumReading List:The Negro in Virginia (Library of Virginia)White Blood by Kiki PetrosinoLong Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers' Project by Catherine A. StewartTo Walk About in Freedom by Carole EmbertonThe Dream is Lost by Julian Hayter Credits:Host: Chris HaleyDirector: Andrea KalinProducers: Andrea Kalin, David A. Taylor, James MirabelloWriter: David A. TaylorEditors: Ethan Oser and Julie ChalhoubStory Editor: Michael MayAdditional Voices: Skip Coblyn, Sherry Carter-Brownell, Robert Mirabello, James Mirabello and Danielle NanceFeaturing music and archival material from:Pond5Library of Congress National Archives For additional content, visit peoplesrecorder.info or follow us on social media: @peoplesrecorderProduced with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Virginia Humanities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Cindy Juyoung Ok speaks with Kiki Petrosino, who has published five elegant and remarkable books, all with Sarabande, including the memoir Bright (2022) and the poetry collection White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia (2020). Petrosino speaks about crestfallenness and her new essay in the October issue of Poetry, “On Crestfallenness: A Pilgrim, Not a Tractor,” which appeared as part of the Hard Feelings series. She also talks about having her mother join her for her research, teaching across languages, and her love of cookbooks and the stories they tell. With thanks to Danelle Cadena Deulen for the clip of her reading Brigit Pegeen Kelly's poem “Closing Time; Iskandariya” on the podcast Lit from the Basement.

Bright by Kiki Petrosino by Poets & Writers

Mary and Wyatt are pleased as punch to welcome Kat Eves to the pod! Kat Eves is a plus size celebrity stylist dedicated to ethical and sustainable, size-inclusive fashion. Her red carpet styling has made the best-dressed lists from Vogue to Guardian UK, and she's been published in Essence, Bust, and more. Her clients include The Daily Show's Dulcé Sloan, The Walking Dead's Pollyanna McIntosh, comedian Caleb Hearon, and of course, Mary Lambert, with a major recent highlight being dressing Dulcé for her guest appearance on Ru Paul's Drag Race. She is based in LA and sometimes Palm Springs, and is committed to helping the fashion industry step up to contribute to creating a more ethical, equitable, and inclusive world. Also on the agenda: Mary and Wyatt are addicted to family vloggers on YouTube; Wyatt talks some trash about Jeopardy!; and poems by Caitlyn Siehl and Kiki Petrosino. 

Poet Kiki Petrosino joins Andie and Larry for a look at Disney's take on the Dickensian classic, A Christmas Carol. Topics include casting choices, notes on screen adaptation following source material, and some wacky trivia in Game Time With Larry!

Good morning, RVA! It’s 51 °F, and today looks like a lovely, not-particularly-fall day with highs in the mid 70s. Enjoy it for a bit as rain could show up in the forecast later this week.Water coolerAs of this morning, the Virginia Department of Health reports 1,302↗️ new positive cases of the coronavirus in the Commonwealth and 3↘️ new deaths as a result of the virus. VDH reports 195↗️ new cases in and around Richmond (Chesterfield: 61, Henrico: 71, and Richmond: 63). Since this pandemic began, 439 people have died in the Richmond region. Over the weekend we saw our second day ever with upwards of 2,000 new reported cases. Also, percent positivity continues to creep upward statewide, hitting 6.0% yesterday. I mean! Seems like we need a change in behavior to see a change in some of these numbers, right?As far as schools go, VDH’s K–12 Schools Reporting Outbreaks of COVID-19 dashboard reports one outbreak in progress locally, at Chesterfield’s Bon Air Elementary. Related, the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s Jessica Nocera reports that Chesterfield will return their 6th–12th graders to in-person learning today. We’ll see if having 60,000 students in school buildings leads to a bunch more cases of COVID-19 or not. Nocera says 28,600 students are already back at the moment, and, as we saw on the aforelinked dashboard, the County has one outbreak in progress with fewer than five cases. 5/28,600 is a very small—yet non-zero!—number. This is a complex conversation, and, whatever you think about kids going back to school before we have a widely distributed vaccine, the context of our current conversation must be the local coronadata…which is trending in the wrong direction.Local election results! We don’t have 'em, but the registrar says we’ll learn more tomorrow. For what it’s worth, VPAP has updated City Council election data as of 10:19 PM last night, and has put winner check marks next to: Tavarris Spinks in the 2nd District, Ann Lambert in the 3rd District, and Reva Trammell in the 8th District. 8th District Candidate Amy Wentz hasn’t yet conceded, but the vibe of her Twitter leans in that direction, which makes me incredibly sad. Nationally, I don’t have much to add. Joe Biden won the Electoral College, the popular vote, and in just a couple of months we’ll have a Black woman serving as Vice President. Saturday felt pretty good!City Council meets today for their regularly schedule meeting. At the 4:00 PM informal session they’ll hear a “2020 CAFR Presentation” (PDF), which isn’t the actual Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, but a presentation about that report, which should be posted to the City’s website soon enough. I’m not a CAFR-reader, but I do celebrate its on-time delivery. Of note on Council’s formal session agenda (PDF), which, of course, can still change: ORD. 2020–222 which would allocate funding for building a safer pedestrian crossing on Grove Avenue near St. Catherine’s School, ORD. 2020–224 which would rename Confederate Avenue to Laburnum Park Boulevard, and ORD. 2020–103 the rezoning of properties around the Science Museum, Alison Street, and VCU/VUU Pulse Stations. The first two sit on the consent agenda and should pass with no issue, the latter I’m kind of surprised not to see continued until some future date—especially with a new 2nd District rep about to take over for Councilperson Gray (in whose district this rezoning takes place). Y’all already know how I feel about this rezoning and the opposition against it. If Council wants to wait until their newest members are seated to pass this ordinance, fine, but, regardless of who makes up City Council, increasing density around Broad Street in accordance with our adopted plans should be an easy vote. That it’s not speaks to the reality that our local legislative body is just not very progressive—despite 82.78% of the City voting for Joe Biden last week.I have two Richmond Public Library updates for you! First, city libraries will open back up today for limited use. Make sure you check your individual library’s page to see what’s exactly open and how the safety procedures will work. Second, RPL will host a conversation with National Book Award winner James McBride and poet Kiki Petrosino tonight at 7:00 PM. It’s free, sounds rad, and you need to sign up ahead of time!This morning’s longreadWhy Americans Have Turned to NestingFeel empowered to fix all of the little things that create a background radiation of annoyance in your life!Of all the things that I’ve done to better my apartment, soothe my anxieties, or occupy my time during the pandemic, nothing has worked quite as well as replacing my kitchen faucet. The project cost $75 and took about an hour—it would have been even faster if I hadn’t needed to learn some tricks for removing bolt covers with needle-nose pliers and loosening a seized nut with a lighter. But those roadblocks made it all the more satisfying. Not only does the more functional faucet make my now-constant dishwashing less of a slog, but installing it was a reminder that there are still some problems that can be solved by one person wielding the right tool—or even the wrong one, if you can figure out the magic combination of search terms to punch into Google.If you’d like your longread to show up here, go chip in a couple bucks on the ol’ Patreon.

Titled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome, The Voice of Sheila Chandra brings sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There's an honoring of not only survival, but of persistence, as this part research-based, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to move forward when the unimaginable holds you back. Author Kazim Ali is in conversation with fellow poet Kiki Petrosino.   ________________________________________________ Produced by Maddie Gobbo & Michael Kowaleski Theme: "I Love All My Friends," a new, unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.

In an effort to do a better job of amplifying voices that for so long have been muted or left out of conversations, Marguerite and Emily would like to use the platform they created with Millennial Poets Society to share the work of Black artists starting with segments from some of their previously recorded episodes. This segment is from Episode 30, published October 20, 2019. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mps-podcast/support

Recorded by Kiki Petrosino for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on May 4, 2020. www.poets.org

Perhaps this year more than in years past, poetry can help to sustain us spiritually and intellectually during the COVID-19 pandemic. To help us wrap-up National Poetry Month, renowned poet and teacher Kiki Petrosino was kind enough to join us to talk poetry, writing, pencils, and how literature heals the soul.Kiki's new book, White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia comes out May 5! Order it from her publisher, Sarabande Books.Show Notes & LinksKiki Petrosino (official site)Kiki Petrosino at the Academy of American PoetsKiki Petrosino at the Poetry FoundationPre-order White BloodPencil of the Month: The Viking SkoleblyantenStar Trek: PicardYacht Rock “channel” on PandoraThe Happiness TrapLight the DarkMidsomer MurdersMrs. AmericaJohn Prine: John Prine, The Missing Years, and The Tree of ForgivenessAnimal Crossing: New HorizonsAmerican SongwriterThe Show and Tell ShowHuge box of Arrowhead erasersBaron Fig Do WorkBaron Fig AdriftBaron Fig face masksMusgrave Harvest Pro“Thigh Gap” by Kiki PetrosinoOur GuestKiki PetrosinoWebsiteNew bookYour HostsJohnny GamberPencil Revolution@pencilutionAndy WelfleWoodclinched@awelfleTim Wasem@TimWasem

How are both our bodies and our creative work haunted by history's ghosts? How does place and historical geography transform the work we do in the classroom? How might poetry and other public intellectual work transform cultural diplomacy? In episode 99 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Pushcart Prize–winning poet Kiki Petrosino about the role of the racialized and gendered body in her newest book Witch Wife, how Kiki teaches her students to wrestle with the histories buried in the land they’re on, why culture and art are such powerful ways to do public intellectualism, and how building a world full of conversations is how Kiki imagines otherwise.   TRANSCRIPT AND SOW NOTES: https://ideasonfire.net/99-kiki-petrisino/

Paul talks with Kristin Hannah about her most recent novel The Great Alone. The novel, an epic love story and intimate family drama set in Alaska in the turbulent 1970's is a daring, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, the fight for survival and the wildness that lives in both nature and man. Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, which was named Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People's Choice award for best fiction in the same year Steve also speaks with Kaethe Schwehn about her debut novel The Rending and the Nest. Her memoir, Tailings, won the 2015 Minnesota Book Award for creative nonfiction and her chapbook of poems, TANKA & ME, was selected by Kiki Petrosino for the Mineral Point Chapbook Series. Schwehn is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently teaches at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Lauren Haldeman is the author of Instead of Dying (winner of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry, Center for Literary Publishing, 2017), Calenday (Rescue Press, 2014), and the artist book The Eccentricity is Zero (Digraph Press, 2014). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Colorado Review, Fence, The Iowa Review, and The Rumpus. A comic-book artist and poet, she has taught in the U.S. as well as internationally. She has been a recipient of the 2015 Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, and fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. You can find her online at http://laurenhaldeman.com.Kiki Petrosino is the author of three books of poetry: Witch Wife (2017), Hymn for the Black Terrific (2013), and Fort Red Border (2009), all from Sarabande Books. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, The Best American Poetry, The Nation, The New York Times, Fence, Gulf Coast, Jubilat, Tin House, and online at Ploughshares. She is founder and co-editor of Transom, an independent online poetry journal. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisville, where she directs the Creative Writing Program. She also teaches part-time in the brief-residency MFA program at Spalding University. Her awards include a residency at the Hermitage Artist Retreat and research fellowships from the University of Louisville's Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.Read "Nome, a Sonnet," by Lauren Haldeman.Read "A Guide to the Louisa County Free Negro & Slave Records, 1770–1865," by Kiki Petrosino.Recorded On: Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Lauren Haldeman is the author of Instead of Dying (winner of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry, Center for Literary Publishing, 2017), Calenday (Rescue Press, 2014), and the artist book The Eccentricity is Zero (Digraph Press, 2014). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Colorado Review, Fence, The Iowa Review, and The Rumpus. A comic-book artist and poet, she has taught in the U.S. as well as internationally. She has been a recipient of the 2015 Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, and fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. You can find her online at http://laurenhaldeman.com.Kiki Petrosino is the author of three books of poetry: Witch Wife (2017), Hymn for the Black Terrific (2013), and Fort Red Border (2009), all from Sarabande Books. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, The Best American Poetry, The Nation, The New York Times, Fence, Gulf Coast, Jubilat, Tin House, and online at Ploughshares. She is founder and co-editor of Transom, an independent online poetry journal. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisville, where she directs the Creative Writing Program. She also teaches part-time in the brief-residency MFA program at Spalding University. Her awards include a residency at the Hermitage Artist Retreat and research fellowships from the University of Louisville's Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.Read "Nome, a Sonnet," by Lauren Haldeman.Read "A Guide to the Louisa County Free Negro & Slave Records, 1770–1865," by Kiki Petrosino.

In episode 6, V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell talk political betrayal past and present with novelist Jess Walter and poet Kiki Petrosino. Jess Walter once interviewed an ailing Mark Felt, aka "Deep Throat" of Watergate fame, and he gives us the skinny on the literary qualities of Nixon, Trump, Flynn, NY mobsters, and his 2005 novel Citizen Vince. Plus, would John Gotti have liked the president? On the eve of the release of her new book, Witch Wife, Kiki Petrosino talks to us about MacBeth's witches and how Shakespeare can help us decode our current age of political skulduggery. What Trump Administration officials would you cast in Macbeth? Readings: All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward; Citizen Vince by Jess Walter; Witch Wife by Kiki Petrosino; The Tragedy of Macbeth; The Tempest; The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark In the Stacks: J.J. Cantrell interviews Annie Philbrick of Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT and Savoy Bookshop & Cafe in Westerly, Rhode Island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Sedaris reads from Theft by Finding; Clint Smith reads from his profile of Kevin Young; Kiki Petrosino reads from her poetry collection Witch Wife; Victoria Chang reads from her poetry collection Barbie Chang; and more.

Kiki Petrosino is afraid when she gets behind the wheel -- afraid that she will be killed by police in a routine traffic stop. In "Letter beginning, 'If My Body is a Text'", she tries to express this fear of being misunderstood by white authorities. This week, we speak with Petrosino about her work, and continue our series on remarkable, untold stories from black history -- this time, in the world of sports. Plus, we talk to a scholar who is mapping the history of the KKK -- despite descendants' efforts to erase records -- and trace the origin of revolutionary thinking.

This episode features new writing from both Kim Brooks and Kiki Petrosino. Find Kim's essay, "The Problem of Caring" here, and find the poem Kiki wrote for this project, entitled, "Letter Beginning: If My Body is a Text," here. Six years ago, Kim Brooks started going on "news fasts." She was struggling with parinatal depression at the time and the news of the world was often too much—too terrible—for her to absorb. So she got into the habit of taking time away from headlines and her Twitter feed to turn her focus inward.  During the week of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling's deaths, Kim was on one of these fasts. When she returned to her screen, she realized her break from the news was possible because of the color of her skin. Kim is white. She doesn't have to think about police brutality. According to Pew Research, there's a significant difference in how black and white adults use social media to talk about race-related content. About two-thirds of black social media users (68%) say at least some of the posts they see are about race or race relations. One-third of whites agree. And there's a similar racial gap when it comes to posting, too: among black social media users, 28% say most or some of what they post is about race or race relations. 8% of whites say the same. "This is one of the ugliest manifestations of my privilege that I can envision: the luxury of ignorance." Kiki Petrosino, a poet, professor, and a friend of Kim's, saw the internet as a necessary way to immerse herself in what was happening. Kiki is bi-racial, and while Kim was offline, Kiki noticed a striking paradox at the center of the storm of circulating images, video, and information on her feed. "On the one hand we're brought really front and center, because you can literally watch someone dying, which is probably the most intimate moment of a life. But we don't know that person. We can't touch them, we can't talk to their family. It really throws into question how to participate in community given all these technological advancements that we're making..."Videos of police shooting young, black men and a troubling election cycle, played out on social media, have made racism in this country more visible. How do we balance being informed people with being healthy? Kim and Kiki come up with a strategy for absorbing, understanding, and addressing the news—from places of fear, exhaustion, and privilege. Support Note to Self by becoming a member today at NotetoSelfRadio.org/donate.    

Kiki Petrosino: Letter to a Stranger - To the Stranger in My Family by Off Assignment

Poet TJ Jarrett, author of the two collections Ain't No Grave and Zion, reads a selection of poetry for the Axton Reading series. The reading is followed by a Q&A. Introduction by Prof. Kiki Petrosino. April 7th, 2016.

Mat Johnson reads from his novel Loving Day; followed by a Q&A. Introduction by Kiki Petrosino. February 19th, 2016.

Nick Greer reads from his Calvino prize-winning chapbook Glass City; followed by a Q&A. Introduction by Kiki Petrosino. February 19th, 2016.