Podcast appearances and mentions of Lauren K Alleyne

Content Note: descriptions of what happens with human remains after death.Adrianne Briere (she/her) believes that talking openly about death shouldn't be taboo. She candidly shares how the remains of fat people are handled, including medical donations and funeral arrangements, and addresses the myths and misinformation about what happens after we die.Adrianne Briere is a fat-positive, licensed funeral director who helps families of all races, religions, belief systems and size through the most emotional and vulnerable time in their lives. This episode's poem is called “How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter,” by Lauren K. Alleyne.You can connect with Fat Joy on the website, Instagram, Fat Joy newsletter, and YouTube (full video episodes here!). Want to share some fattie love? Please rate this podcast and give it a joyful review. Our thanks to Chris Jones and AR Media for keeping this podcast looking and sounding joyful.

Lauren K. Alleyne lived the first part of her life in Trinidad and then moved to America at 18 and has been there since. Her poems explore what it's like to have one foot in Trinidad and one in America. Home, she says, is her poetry. And: Alexia Arthurs award-winning short story collection is called How To Love A Jamaican. She says she wrote the collection while she was in the Midwest as a way to feel closer to her cultural home. Later in the show: The themes of a coming-of-age story are universal: independence, disillusionment, purpose, power. But it's the particulars, whether Dickens' England or Baldwin's Harlem that make a story stick with us. Maggie Marangione's novel Across the Blue Ridge Mountains roots coming-of-age in the Appalachian communities of Shenandoah. Plus: Solomon Isekeije says his art is all about mixing, just like his identity. He grew up in Lagos, Nigeria with a mix of languages and backgrounds all around him. Now Isekeiji makes art that grapples with the different parts of who he is.

Do you ever conjure up the voices of those you love and loved? Do you wonder where they are, now that they are no longer here on earth? Does their laughter echo in your heart?Words by Winter: Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it's rough out there, and we have to help each other through.Original theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese. Additional music by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's poem, How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter, by Lauren K. Alleyne, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. You can find more information about her, including more of her gorgeous poems, on her website: https://laurenkalleyne.com/Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Recorded by Lauren K. Alleyne for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on July 6, 2022. www.poets.org

A conversation with Kris Sealey about her 2020 book Creolizing the Nation, which addresses the cultural, political, and historical significance of creolization for thinking about the lived-experience of migration, movement, culture mixing, and cultural production in the Americas.Kris Sealey teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. She has published widely in European philosophy, philosophy of race, philosophical questions arising from racialized experience in the Americas, and anti- and de-colonial theory in the black Atlantic. Her first book, Moments of Disruption: Levinas, Sartre, and the Question of Transcendence was published in 2013 by State University of New York Press, and her second book, which is the topic of this conversation, was published in 2020 by Northwestern University Press and is titled Creolizing the Nation.The opening poem "Nothing to Declare," read by Kris Sealey, was written Lauren K. Alleyne. Many thanks to the poet for permission to include this reading of her gorgeous, evocative poem.

In this fifth episode poet and presenter Malika Booker converses with Trinidadian-born British novelist Monique Roffey in their office at Manchester Metropolitan University. They speak about Roffey’s prize winning novel, Mermaid of Black Conch (Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2020) then the writer shares an excerpt from her enchanting novel. We then travel to Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival to hear Trinidadian poet Lauren K. Alleyne reading from her collection Honeyfish. The New Caribbean voices podcast celebrates the best of Caribbean and black British literature and culture. Produced by Melody Triumph for Peepal Tree Press, Artwork featured `Rainbow` is by Stanley Greaves. Music by Chris Campbell. With special thanks to Arts Council England and the Clarissa Luard Award.

Recorded by Lauren K. Alleyne for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 12, 2021. www.poets.org

Recorded by Lauren K. Alleyne for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 14, 2020. www.poets.org

Today's poem is Variations in Blue by Lauren K. Alleyne. This episode originally aired on July 15, 2019.

Lauren K. Alleyne is the author of two collections of poetry, Difficult Fruit (Peepal Tree Press 2014), and Honeyfish (New Issues & Peepal Tree, 2019). Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Ms. Muse, Women?s Studies Quarterly, Interviewing the Caribbean, The Crab Orchard Review, among many others. Recent honors for her work include a 2017 Phillip Freund Alumni Prize for Excellence in Publishing (Cornell University), the 2016 Split This Rock Poetry Prize, and a Picador Guest Professorship in Literature (University of Leipzig, Germany, 2015). She is currently Assistant Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center and an Associate Professor of English at James Madison University.

Today's poem is Variations in Blue by Lauren K. Alleyne.