Podcast appearances and mentions of Layli Long Soldier

For this live taping of the literary podcast Between the Covers—recorded at Jewish Currents's daylong event on September 15th and presented in partnership with On the Nose—host David Naimon convened a conversation with renowned writers Dionne Brand and Adania Shibli about contesting colonial narratives. Rooted in their long-standing literary practice and in the demands of this moment of genocide, they discuss the vexed meanings of home, how to recover the everydayness of life erased by empire, and what it means to imagine togetherness beyond the nation-state.This episode was produced by David Naimon, with music by Alicia Jo Rabins. Thanks also to Jesse Brenneman for additional editing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).Texts Mentioned and Additional Resources:Minor Detail by Adania ShibliA Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging by Dionne BrandCivil Service by Claire SchwartzThe Blue Clerk by Dionne BrandAdania Shibli in conversation with Hisham Matar at the 2024 Hay FestivalAdania Shibli in conversation with Madeleine Thien and Layli Long Soldier at the Barnard Center for Research on Women“Writing Against Tyranny and Toward Liberation,” Dionne Brand“Dionne Brand: Nomenclature — New and Collected Poems,” Between the Covers“Adania Shibli: Minor Detail,” Between the Covers“prologue for now - Gaza,” Dionne Brand, Jewish Currents“Duty,” Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Review of Books“A Lesson in Arabic Grammar by Toni Morrison,” Adania Shibli, Jewish CurrentsInventory by Dionne BrandRecognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad“Isabella Hammad: Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative,” Between the...

For this KTCO Book Club conversation, poet Amorak Huey joins me to discuss Layli Long Soldier's 2017 poetry collection, Whereas. In our conversation, we talked about the way the poems confront language, what language means in the context of forced assimilation, and how the poems engage with both history and contemporary reality. (Recorded March 26, 2024) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Amorak Huey Purchase Whereas: Gathering Volumes (Parisburg, OH) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Purchase Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy Congressional Resolution of Apology to Native Americans Between the Covers - Layli Long Soldier : Whereas R. F. Kuang - Babel Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Layli Long Soldier. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the full-length collection Whereas (2017). She has been a contributing editor to Drunken Boat and poetry editor at Kore Press; in 2012, her participatory installation, Whereas We Respond, was featured on the Pine Ridge Reservation. SourceThis episode includes a reading of her poem, “Resolution (6)”  featured in our 2023 Get Lit Anthology.“Resolution (6)”I too urge the President to acknowledge the wrongs of the United States against Indian tribes in the history of the United States in order to bring healing to this land although healing this land is not dependent never has been upon this President meaning tribal nations and the people themselves are healing this land its waters with or without Presidential acknowledgement they act upon this right without apology–                                  To speak to law enforcementthese Direct Action Principles                                  be really clear always askhave been painstakingly drafted                                  who what when where whyat behest of the local leadership                                  e.g. Officer, my name is _________from Standing Rock                                  please explainand are the guidelines                                  the probable cause for stopping mefor the Oceti Sakowin camp                                  you may askI acknowledge a plurality of ways                                  does that seem reasonable to youto resist oppression                                  don't give any further info*                                  People ask why do you bring upwe are Protectors                                  so many other issues it's becausewe are peaceful and prayerful                                  these issues have been ongoing...Read more in our Get Lit Anthology at www.getlitanthology.org .                                                        Support the Show.Support the show

What is National Poetry Writing Month?Welcome, art enthusiasts and wordsmiths alike, to another episode of Create Art Podcast! We are diving headfirst into the enchanting world of poetry as we celebrate National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). This annual event, which takes place every April, encourages poets and aspiring writers around the globe to embrace their creativity and commit to writing a poem each day for the entire month.The Beauty of National Poetry Writing Month:NaPoWriMo, similar to its prose-centric counterpart National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), is a celebration of the written word and the boundless creativity that can flow when one dedicates themselves to a daily practice. Poets of all levels of expertise are invited to take part, from seasoned wordsmiths to those just dipping their toes into the vast ocean of verse.Create Art Podcast has always been a haven for artists to share their creative processes, and NaPoWriMo offers a unique opportunity for poets to reflect on their craft. With a daily commitment to producing poetry, participants discover new facets of their writing style, experiment with various forms, and explore uncharted emotional territories.Prompt for todayToday's (optional) prompt asks you to write a poem of at least ten lines in which each line begins with the same word (e.g., “Because,” “Forget,” “Not,” “If”). This technique of beginning multiple lines with the same word or phrase is called anaphora, and has long been used to give poems a driving rhythm and/or a sense of puzzlebox mystery. To give you more context, here's an essay by Rebecca Hazelton on her students' “adventures in anaphora,” and a contemporary poem that uses anaphora to great effect: Layli Long Soldier's “Whereas.”Poem for TodayListless Is How 14 April 24 Listless is how I wake Looking at my goals of the day What I need to accomplish Needless chores each and every day Actions that won't be remembered in perpetuity Listless is how I feel As the motions that are meaningless begin to take shape Looking at all the things I want to fill this hole in my soul Watching the dust pile up I can't even keep up with cataloging the objects that I once thought I desired Listless is how I live my life Without interest in the outcome Without passion that used to drive me on Without the interest in learning new things Without challenging the status quo Listless is how I move through the day Pushing through the fog that is comprised of mental strain Pushing through the obstacles I place in front of me Pushing through the mud that becomes paintings Pushing through the words on the page Listless is how I sleep Never getting the rest that I find is required Never inspired by what I see in dreams Never recharging myself and taking naps that pushes me farther behind Never catching up and going ahead of where I want to be Listless is how I never wanted to be Avoiding the trap of thinking none of this...

In this episode, I sat down with Layli Long Soldier in her Albuquerque studio to talk about her upbringing. I spoke with the Oglala Lakota poet, writer, artist, and activist about some of the history of broken treaties experienced by Native peoples. We discussed the 2022 documentary "Lakota Nation vs. United States," a film in which she plays a major role, and her response to the 2009 U.S. Congressional apology to all Native peoples. We talk about the craft of poetry and her approach to writing. Lastly, we discuss her latest book of poetry, titled "Whereas."

dg nanouk okpik (winner of a 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry) joins Windham-Campbell Prizes director Michael Kelleher for a deep-dive into Layli Long Soldier's 2017 collection Whereas, examining the historical potency of poetry, the depth of an artistic friendship, and an appearance by a cat named Blue. Reading List: "Eyes of a Blue Dog" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo S.J.Res.14 Blood Snow by dg nanouk okpik For a full episode transcript, click here.   dg nanouk okpik is an Iñupiaq-Inuit poet from south-central Alaska. Her debut collection of poetry, Corpse Whale (2012), received the American Book Award (2013) and her 2022 collection Blow Snow was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has been published in several anthologies, including New Poets of Native Nations (2018) and the forthcoming Infinite Constellations: An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions (2023). The recipient of the May Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2022), okpik lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she is a Lannan Foundation Fellow at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Poet Layli Long Soldier joins Mira to talk about her transformation during pregnancy, learning to open up to the possibilities of the world, and how she makes a space for ease in order to make a space for creativity. MENTIONED: The Indigenous Language Institute The Real Housewives S.J. Res 14 (111th Congress) Layli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard College. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the full-length collection Whereas (2017), which won the National Books Critics Circle award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been a contributing editor to Drunken Boat and poetry editor at Kore Press; in 2012, her participatory installation, Whereas We Respond, was featured on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In 2015, Long Soldier was awarded a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. She was awarded a Whiting Writer's Award in 2016. Long Soldier is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For more Thresholds, visit us at www.thisisthresholds.com Be sure to subscribe and to leave a review of the show on your favorite podcast platform! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greetings! I thought I'd mention that in mulling over the current Twitter debacle, for the time being, Pushing The Envelope will continue it's primary presence on that site, until a viable alternative makes itself known.  That being said, a broad range of goodies are on today's program with a highlight featuring two compositions from the Borderlands Ensemble's 2021 tour-de-force, "the space in which to see". Enjoy! Joel   e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1      11-5-22 PTE Playlist   Crossing The Rubicon - Randi Pontoppidan & Povl Kristian  - Life In Life - Chant Records (2022) https://randipontoppidanpovlkristian.bandcamp.com/album/life-in-life   Rain - Masahiko Togashi with Don Cherry & Charlie Haden - Song of Soil - Wewantsounds (1979/2022) https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/masahiko-togashi-with-don-cherry-charlie-haden-song-of-soil-cd-edition   Vapor Capture - guitar & modular synth: Bartolo / tenor sax: Pedro Sousa / drums: Gabriel Ferrandini - BASFE - Chant Records (2022) https://bart-olo.bandcamp.com/album/basfe   It's Like They Never Existed At All - worriedaboutsatan (Gavin Miller) - Glass Infinites - digital self-release (2022) https://worriedaboutsatan.bandcamp.com/album/glass-infinites   Corridors of Time - Michael Stearns - Chronos — 2022 Remaster, Original X​-​86 Ambisonics Mix - Projekt Records (2022) https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chronos-2022-remaster-original-x-86-ambisonics-mix   Endless Journey - Ant-Bee (Billy James) feat. Peter Banks - Electronic Church Muzik - Barking Moondog Records (2011)    avian reduction (2022 remix) - Joel Krutt - "Melt : Minnesota Remixed" - Wandering Ear (2006) https://soundcloud.com/the-envelope-pusher/avian-reduction   True Finders - Rent Romus, Heikki Koskinen, Life's Blood Ensemble - Manala - Edgetone Records (2020) https://edgetonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/manala   the space in which to see - Borderlands Ensemble / composer: Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti - text: Layli Long Soldier / the space in which to see - New Focus Recordings (2021) https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/borderlands-ensemble-the-space-in-which-to-see/   Tête et Queue du Dragon/Head and Tail of the Dragon - Luc Ferrari - Early Modulations: Vintage Volts -  Caipirinha Productions (2000) http://lucferrari.com/en/analyses-reflexion/tete-et-queue-du-dragon/   Passing Ships - Borderlands Ensemble / composer: Jay Vosk / the space in which to see - New Focus Recordings (2021) https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/borderlands-ensemble-the-space-in-which-to-see/   Cetacean Somnolence - Yannick Dauby - Belly of the Whale (compilation) - Important Records (2006)   https://importantrecords.com/products/imprec098   Angels (featuring Stu Hamm) - Alberto Rigoni & Michael Manring - Grains of Sand - self-release (2022) https://albertorigoni.bandcamp.com/   Cerulean Cathedral - Cymbalic Encounters - Cerulean Cathedral - digital self-release (2022) https://cymbalicencounters.bandcamp.com/album/cerulean-cathedral   Mexican Puppets - Dallas Perkins - Experimental Truth - D-Mania Records (2022) https://www.dallasperkins.com/

Sara Borjas introduces poems that focus on the connections between a particular, collective ‘us'—people connected by lineage or language, by place, or by the acts of writing and reading. She shares Layli Long Soldier's exploration of wholeness and mother-daughter relationships (“WHEREAS her birth signaled…”), Juan Felipe Herrera's centering of people and complexity (“Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way”), and Richard Siken's breaking of the fourth wall to implicate the reader (“Planet of Love”). To close, Borjas reads her poem “Narcissus Complicates an Old Plot,” a celebration of mothers and daughters, language, and community rooted in place.Watch the full recordings of Long Soldier, Herrera, and Siken reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:Layli Long Soldier (2017)Juan Felipe Herrera (2009)Richard Siken (2002)Transcripts for each episode are available here. Click on the episode title, then click on the transcript tab at the bottom of the player. Poems are transcribed as read and do not represent the published work.

Episode 99 Notes and Links to Sara Borjas' Work        On Episode 99 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Sara Borjas, and the two talk about, among other topics, Sara's relationship with language, bilingualism and identity, pochismo, formative and transformative writers and teachers, and themes and ideas from Sara's standout collection, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff.        SARA BORJAS is a Xicanx pocha, is from the Americas before it was stolen and its people were colonized, and is a Fresno poet. George Floyd. Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez. Lorenzo Perez. Xiaojie Tan. Say their names. Joyce Echaquan. Her debut collection of poetry, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff was published by Noemi Press in 2019 and won a 2020 American Book Award. Juanito Falcon. Breonna Taylor. Daoyou Feng. Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz. Sara was named one of Poets & Writers 2019 Debut Poets, is a 2017 CantoMundo Fellow, and the recipient of the 2014 Blue Mesa Poetry Prize. Hyun Jung Grant. Ahmaud Arbery. Suncha Kim. Her work can be found in Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Poem-a-Day by The Academy of American Poets, Alta and The Offing, amongst others. Sandra Bland. Soon Chung Park. Yong Ae Yue. She teaches innovative undergraduates at UC Riverside, believes that all Black lives matter and will resist white supremacy until Black liberation is realized, lives in Los Angeles, and stays rooted in Fresno. Say their names. Justice for George Floyd and the countless others. She digs oldiez, outer space, aromatics, and tiny prints, is about decentering whiteness in literature, creative writing, and daily life.    Buy Sara Borjas' Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff   From The Rumpus:"A CLEANSING TORNADO: HEART LIKE A WINDOW, MOUTH LIKE A CLIFF BY SARA BORJAS" The Georgia Review Review of Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff   “Pocha and Proud: An Interview with Sara Borjas” from Los Angeles Review of Books At about 2:30, Sara talks about her relationship with language growing up, particularly her relationship with Spanish and bilingualism    At about 6:00, Sara explains the “pocho lecture” and how speaking Spanish was punished in her parents' lives   At about 9:10, Pete asks Sara what she was reading as a kid, and if she “saw herself” in what she read   At about 11:10, Sara talks about her first exposure to writers of color, guided by Professors Alex Espinoza and Sameeta Najmee, and reading greats like Helena Maria Viramontes and Marisela Norte   At about 12:15, Pete and Sara talk about their shared admiration for Marisela Norte and Sara's work connecting to that of Moffat Takadiwa   At about 13:00, Sara talks about Tomás Rivera and his background and connections to UIC Riverside where she teaches   At about 14:00, Sara muses on the void that existed in her reading that “aligned with whiteness” and how it affected her    At about 15:50, Pete and Sara discuss “pocho” and its implications; Sara talks about reclaiming its meaning   At about 20:00, Sara describes the ways in which people of color, her parents included, have been innovative in escaping prejudice and oversimplified narratives   At about 20:45, Pete asks Sara about “pocho” in work that has come in recent years, including by innovators like Alan Chazaro, Episode 92 guest   At about 23:20, Sara shouts out writers who have and continue to have an effect on her through their chill-inducing work, including Marwa Helal, Aria Aber, Layli Long Soldier, Anthony Cody, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Roque Dalton, Bob Kaufman, Alejandra Pizarnik, and some standout students of hers   At about 26:25, Pete asks Sara how she explains to her students about “language to assert power,” including how Marwa Helal flips the script   At about 28:30, Pete wonders about Sara's thoughts on “decoding” her poetry, and poetry “having one answers”   At about 31:30, Pete asks Sara about the idea of reciting poetry from memory, and she talks about the “power” that comes from memorizing, including how she talked to Tongo Eisen-Martin about memorization   At about 33:20, Sara describes how she grew into becoming a poet, including some incredible mentorship and encouragement from Juan Luis Guzmán, and transitions into ways in which she and other women have been made to feel like they need to be quiet   At about 37:30, Sara meditates on her evolving attitude towards her missions and work over the years   At about 39:10, Pete wonders how Sara seeks out and pumps up students who are like she was when she was in school   At about 41:50, Pete and Sara have a discussion about Sara's ideas of prose and other formas, as done in Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff; she also describes some probing and helpful questions from Carmen Gimenez Smith that led to writing ideas   At about 46:35, Sara details the inspiration she received from Anish Kapoor's installation, and how it served as a muse for Sara's poem “We are Too Big for This House”   At about 49:35, Pete asks Sara about poem titles and their connection to the poems themselves    At about 50:55, Sara gives her thoughts on translation in her poems   At about 52:20, Sara answers Pete's question regarding if Sara is the narrator/protagonist of her poems   At about 53:50, Sara talks about the importance of creative expression and the power and beauty of poems, as exemplified by Michael Torres and The Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop   At about 55:20, Pete asks Sara about her collection using powerful words from Audre Lorde and Cherie Moraga as epigraphs   At about 59:00, Sara describes identity as seen in her work, including Aztlan's significance in the collection's first poem and in society as a whole; she describes it as a “marker” and a “tool for transformation”   At about 1:02:00, Pete recounts some brilliant and profound lines about identity from poems in the collection, including ones about women's liberation     At about 1:04:45, Pete cites “Los de Abajo” and asks Sara about her ideas of rasquachismo and its importance in her work; she shouts out creative art as seen at Tío's Tacos in Riverside   At about 1:06:55, Sara and Pete discuss the “mother and daughter' relationships” as an overriding theme in her collection; Sara shouts out Rachel McKibbens as another inspiration   At about 1:10:20, Sara and Pete converse about intergenerational trauma and machismo in Sara's work   At about 1:12:45, Pete wonders about Narcissus and the multiple appearances in Sara's work; she mentions inspiration coming from a class taken with Reza Aslan   At about 1:16:10, Sara talks about conceptions of gender as seen in her work   At about 1:18:00, Sara gives background on “Mexican Bingo” and reads the poem   At about 1:22:30, Pete asks about Sara's future projects, including her penchant for writing skits and music   At about 1:24:00, Sara gives out contact info and encourages people to buy her book from Noemi Press or on Bookshop You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.  This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form. The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com. You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.  This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form. The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com. I'm looking forward to sharing Episode 100 (WHOA) with Susan Muaddi Darraj, teacher, writer of the groundbreaking Farrah Rocks middle-grade series, and winner of the AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. The episode airs on January 17.    

The pandemic memoirs began almost immediately, and now comes another kind of offering — a searching look at the meaning of the racial catharsis to which the pandemic in some sense gave birth and voice and life. Tracy K. Smith co-edited the stunning book, There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis, a collection of 40 pieces that span an array of BIPOC voices from Edwidge Danticat to Reginald Dwayne Betts, from Layli Long Soldier to Ross Gay to Julia Alvarez. Tracy and Michael Kleber-Diggs, who also contributed an essay, join Krista for a conversation that is quiet and fierce and wise. They reflect inward and outward, backwards and forwards, from inside the Black experience of this pivotal time to be alive.Tracy K. Smith — is a professor of creative writing at Princeton University and the former Poet Laureate of the United States. Her poetry collections include Life on Mars, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Duende, and Wade in the Water. Her memoir is Ordinary Light. She’s the co-editor of the book, There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis.Michael Kleber-Diggs — teaches creative writing through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and at colleges and high schools in Minnesota. He’s a contributor to the book, There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis. His debut collection, Worldly Things, has been awarded the 2021 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

The pandemic memoirs began almost immediately, and now comes another kind of offering — a searching look at the meaning of the racial catharsis to which the pandemic in some sense gave birth and voice and life. Tracy K. Smith co-edited the stunning book, There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis, a collection of 40 pieces that span an array of BIPOC voices from Edwidge Danticat to Reginald Dwayne Betts, from Layli Long Soldier to Ross Gay to Julia Alvarez. Tracy and Michael Kleber-Diggs, who also contributed an essay, join Krista for a conversation that is quiet and fierce and wise. They reflect inward and outward, backwards and forwards, from inside the Black experience of this pivotal time to be alive.Tracy K. Smith — is a professor of creative writing at Princeton University and the former Poet Laureate of the United States. Her poetry collections include Life on Mars, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Duende, and Wade in the Water. Her memoir is Ordinary Light. She’s the co-editor of the book, There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis.Michael Kleber-Diggs — teaches creative writing through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and at colleges and high schools in Minnesota. He’s a contributor to the book, There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis. His debut collection, Worldly Things, has been awarded the 2021 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize.This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Tracy K. Smith and Michael Kleber-Diggs — ‘History is upon us... its hand against our back.’Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.

May 5, 2021We discuss Orthodox Easter, the Mt. Meron tragedy, the new Human Rights Watch report on crimes against humanity in Israel/Palestine, Rick Santorum and the stories of our nation’s history, and how to hold competing truths in tension. Read the Principles and Practices of PeacemakingSubscribe to the Telos Newsletter Follow Telos on Instagram @thetelosgroupResources mentioned:Layli Long Soldier on OnBeing, and her book of poetry, Whereas: Poems Consider supporting the work of peace and our ability to host conversations like these through a tax-deductible donation. Telos exists because of the generosity of those in our community. Help us form peacemakers and transform conflict by donating today!  

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A special bonus episode of The Paris Review Podcast celebrating N. Scott Momaday, the winner of the Review’s 2021 Hadada Award, which recognizes a distinguished member of the writing community who has made a strong and unique contribution to literature. What you are about to hear is an exclusive excerpt of the first step in the process of conducting Momaday’s Writers at Work interview, a bit of the very first call between Momaday and his interviewer, the poet Layli Long Soldier. They discuss the importance of oral tradition to literature, especially to the Native American tradition. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Layli Long Soldier is a writer, a mother, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She has a way of opening up this part of her life, and of American life, to inspire self-searching and tenderness. Her award-winning first book of poetry, WHEREAS, is a response to the U.S. government’s official apology to Native peoples in 2009, which was done so quietly, with no ceremony, that it was practically a secret. Layli Long Soldier offers entry points for us all — to events that are not merely about the past, and to the freedom real apologies might bring.Layli Long Soldier is the author of WHEREAS, a winner of multiple awards including the Whiting Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award. She is the recipient of a 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry and a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Layli Long Soldier — The Freedom of Real Apologies ." Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.This show originally aired March 30, 2017.

Layli Long Soldier is a writer, a mother, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She has a way of opening up this part of her life, and of American life, to inspire self-searching and tenderness. Her award-winning first book of poetry, WHEREAS, is a response to the U.S. government’s official apology to Native peoples in 2009, which was done so quietly, with no ceremony, that it was practically a secret. Layli Long Soldier offers entry points for us all — to events that are not merely about the past, and to the freedom real apologies might bring.Layli Long Soldier is the author of WHEREAS, a winner of multiple awards including the Whiting Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award. She is the recipient of a 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry and a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.This show originally aired March 30, 2017.

Bojan Louis shares poems that embody deep listening and engagement with particular realities. He introduces Alan Dugan’s grasp of each moment’s truth (“Love Song: I and Thou”); Layli Long Soldier’s poetry of image, witness, and ways of being (“WHEREAS her birth signaled…”); and Angel Nafis’s critical song that speaks to community (“Ghazal to Open Cages”). Louis closes with a recently published ghazal (“Ghazal VI”) of his own.Listen to the full recordings of Dugan, Long Soldier, and Nafis reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:Alan Dugan (1966)Layli Long Solider (2017)Angel Nafis (2019) Listen to a 2019 reading by Bojan Louis on Voca.

Our National Poetry Month celebrations continue with indigenous poets Layli Long Soldier, Mark Turcotte, and Tanaya Winder who read from and discuss the recent book When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. This program took place November 19th, 2020 and was recorded live [...]

Our National Poetry Month celebrations continue with indigenous poets Layli Long Soldier, Mark Turcotte, and Tanaya Winder who read from and discuss the recent book When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. This program took place November 19th, 2021 and was recorded live [...]

As Black History month comes to a close and Women’s History month is about to begin, Nicole shares what she believes to be failures in her own History education and how that can affect her writing. In this episode, Nicole discusses what responsibilities she believes writers have to fill the “in-betweens” in their own education and exposure providing some resources to get started.    To Sign Up for the TRY BEFORE YOU BUY Happy Campers Club, click below: https://mailchi.mp/1ca0869f6fa1/try-before-you-buy-happy-campers-spring-2021   To SIGN UP FOR THE SPRING 2021 HAPPY CAMPERS CLUB, CLICK BELOW: https://mailchi.mp/0b8e3a8f3361/ww08nq2oag    Sign up to receive Friday Night Writes emails, including the link to the monthly Writing Prompt Party! https://mailchi.mp/cc1507dc3fbd/friday-night-writes   Mentioned in this episode: Previous episodes about this topic: Episode 72: The Single Story Cure https://stopwritingalone.com/2020/06/04/episode-72-the-single-story-cure/  Books on Writing by Walter Mosley ELEMENTS OF FICTION https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9780802147639  THIS YEAR YOU WRITE YOUR NOVEL https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9780316065498 Robert Fleming THE AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS HANDBOOK https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9780345423276  Angela Benson TELLING THE TALE: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FICTION WRITER’S GUIDE https://www.amazon.com/Telling-Tale-African-American-Fiction-Writers/dp/0425170543/ref=sr_1_16?dchild=1&keywords=angela+benson&qid=1614235711&sr=8-16  Walter Dean Myers JUST WRITE! HERE’S HOW https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9780062203908 INVISIBLE QUEEN by Stephanie E. Myers http://myerspublishing.com/  RECKLESS by Selena Montgomery https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9780061376030 BLACK BUCK by Mateo Askaripor https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9780358380887 THE CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE by Tomi Adeyemi https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9781250170972  THE BODY IS NOT AN APOLOGY by Sonya Renee Taylor https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9781523090990  WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier https://bookshop.org/a/10928/9781555977672  Introduction to Friday Night Writes with Stop Writing Alone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2syi6s1pDYs&t=1s  Join the Stop Writing Alone with Nicole Rivera FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2205774733034348/ Stop Writing Alone Bookshop https://bookshop.org/shop/Stopwritingalone  NV Rivera YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpPlp1EVzQhDFPdGp5w2KoQ?view_as=subscriber  Stay connected to learn about all Stop Writing Alone stuff -- get on Nicole’s email list: https://mailchi.mp/ff8df93e57dc/penpals  Buy Nicole a coffee (AKA support the podcast!) https://ko-fi.com/stopwritingalone   Places to connect to the STOP WRITING ALONE community and introduce yourself: Stop Writing Alone FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/stopwritingalone/ Join the Stop Writing Alone with Nicole Rivera FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2205774733034348/ Stop Writing Alone website: https://stopwritingalone.com/ Join the Stop Writing Alone email list: https://mailchi.mp/ff8df93e57dc/penpals  Stop Writing Alone Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/stopwritingalone/  Nicole’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/nv_rivera  The Stop Writing Alone voice number (call to introduce yourself!): (646) 907-9607    When you find a group of people who lift you up on a daily basis, it is important to share their awesome. Here are links to the women in Nicole’s Mastermind group (currently going by the name The Voxer Vixens!). Please support these women who do so much to support Nicole on a daily basis! Kim A. Flodin https://www.kelekilove.com/  Lisa Murray https://ihavedreamsdammit.com/ Claire Oldham West https://slimmingstories.podbean.com/ Johanna Jaquez-Peralta https://www.instagram.com/latina_livin_keto/ Emma Isaacs https://www.instagram.com/emmaisaacsdesign/ 

In this episode, the first page of three books of poetry will be read:WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier,drawing the line by Lawson Fusao Inada, andTalking Dirty to the Gods by Yusef Komunyakaa

When you feel like crying, do you cry? Or do you stifle it? Why? The U.S. Congress 2009 “Joint resolution to acknowledge a long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies by the Federal Government regarding Indian tribes” stated “Whereas the arrival of Europeans in North America opened a new chapter in the history of Native Peoples.” Layli Long Soldier wrote poems in response to this resolution and its non-consultative process. In this poem, she speaks of the need to let griefs and laments be heard and acknowledged.Layli Long Soldier – is the recipient of the 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry and a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Her first book of poetry, WHEREAS, won the Whiting Award and was named a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

Joel Waters interviews Oglala Lakota author Layli Long Soldier about her collection of poetry Whereas More info: https://www.oaklakewriterssociety.com/nativereads-podcast-series #NativeReads: https://www.firstnations.org/nativereads/

Poetry Unbound with host Pádraig Ó Tuama is back on Monday, Sept. 28. Featured poets in this season include Lucille Clifton, James Wright, Natasha Trethewey, Christian Wiman, Layli Long Soldier and more. New episodes released every Monday and Friday through the fall. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Overcast, or wherever you listen.

This version of Hillary Watson's sermon, What will you put in your vessel for the future, is preceded by Elena Tsai's reading of Layli Long Soldier's poem 38, and Trevor Bechtel's pastoral prayer from our August 23rd worship service

In this episode, we get to chat (and giggle and lose all sense of time) with an old friend, Ayokunle Falomo, whose first incendiary chapbook entitled African, American has been published. He has promised us that it will be available for purchase from New Delta Review as soon as COVID insanity ends! We talk with Ayo about the many steps of working on a decade-long project, and we tackle the age old question of writing between the personal and the political, the body of a nation and the body of an individual. Not to mention that he gives us chills with his reading. Now, please excuse us, as we take Ayo’s ultimate quarantine advice to just go and take a nap.Keep an eye out on the New Delta Review website for the availability of African, American. In the meantime, be sure to check out his other short collections, kin.DREAD and thread, this wordweaver must!Honorable Mentions:Solmaz Sharif / check out her first full collection, Look: Poems.Layli Long Soldier / check out her first full collection, Whereas: Poems.Marwa Helal / check out her most recent collection, Invasive Species.Selah Saterstrom / check out her novel Slab and Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics.Loyce Gayo / explore her work here.Ariana Brown / check out her collection of spoken word poetry put on the page, Sana Sana.Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa / check out their collected, Becoming//Black.Ayokunle Falomo is: a Nigerian, a poet who uses his pen as a shovel to unearth those things that make us human, a TEDx speaker, an American, and the author of kin.DREAD & thread, this wordweaver must! He and his work have been featured a number of publications in print (Local Houston magazine, Glass Mountain) and online (The New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Hive Society, Squawk Back, Pressure Gauge Press). His work has also led to venues and stages around & outside of Texas. He enjoys walking & talking to himself (a lot) and sometimes, he is fortunate enough to have other people there to listen.Learn more about Ayo’s author site for more of his his work. Adding an extra photo of our bud because we really love this one :)

Earlier this summer, the Mellon Foundation — the largest humanities philanthropy in the United States — announced it was shifting its mission to focus more on social justice. It backed up that announcement with a $5.3 million grant to fund a collection of books to be placed in 1,000 prisons and juvenile detention centers across all 50 states. The Million Book Project was dreamed up by poet and legal scholar Reginald Dwayne Betts. It intends to curate a capsule collection of 500 books — Betts calls them “freedom libraries” — that will include literature, history, poetry and social thought, with an emphasis on books by Black writers and thinkers. Thursday morning, MPR News host Kerri Miller spoke with Betts and Mellon Foundation president Elizabeth Alexander about the project and what they hope to accomplish. Here’s a list of books and authors suggested by Miller, listeners and our guests: Fiction: “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood; “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison; “The Round House” by Louise Erdrich; “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” (The Dark Star Trilogy) by Marlon James; “The Ox-Bow Incident” by Walter Van Tilburg Clark; “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown; “The Luminaries” by Eleanor Catton;  “On the Road” by Cormac McCarthy; “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez; “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel García Márquez; “Hopscotch” by Julio Cortázar; “Peace From Broken Pieces” by Iyanla Vanzant; “My Ántonia” by Willa Cather; “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values” by Robert M. Pirsig; “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” by the Brothers Grimm; “The Redwall” series by Brian Jacques; "News of the World" by Paulette Jiles; “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel; “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway; “The All Souls Trilogy” by Deborah Harkness; “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston; “The Ranger’s Apprentice” series by John Flanagan;; “A Door Into Ocean” by Joan Slonczewski; “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas; “The Ocean at the End of the Lane” by Neil Gaiman; The works of Octavia E. Butler; The works of JD Robb; The works of Ilona Andrews; The works of N.K. Jemisin; The works of Franz Kafka; The works of Rick Riordan; The works of Ivan Doig; The works of J.R. Ward. Nonfiction: “Not by the Sword: How a Cantor and His Family Transformed a Klansman” by Kathryn Watterson; “March” series by Congressman John Lewis; “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking; “Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions” by Johann Hari; “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction” by Gabor Maté; “The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg; “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma” by Bessel van der Kolk; “The Souls of Black Folk” by W.E.B DuBois; “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson; “The Fifth Agreement” by don Jose Ruiz, don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills. Poetry: The works of Langston Hughes; The works of Emily Dickinson;  The works of Layli Long Soldier;  The works of Robert Frost The works of William Faulkner;  The works of Etheridge Knight; The works of Lucille Clifton. Guests: Elizabeth Alexander, poet and president of Mellon Foundation  Reginald Dwyane Betts, formerly incarcerated poet and legal scholar To listen to the full conversation you can use the audio player above. Correction (Aug. 8, 2020): “The Fifth Agreement” was originally listed under the fiction section. However, it is a work of nonfiction and has been moved to the correct section of the list.

We reflect on poetry as an act of justice in Layli Long Soldier’s poem, “38.” The excerpt is found in the collection Whereas, published by Graywolf Press in 2017 in Minneapolis, on pgs. 51-53.

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.

Today's poem is Talent by Layli Long Soldier.

Responsibilities and Obligations: Understanding Mitákuye Oyásʼiŋ features work by Clementine Bordeaux, Mary V. Bordeaux, and Layli Long Soldier from Racing Magpie Gallery in Rapid City, South Dakota. Andy Maus of the Plains Art Museum says that this exhibit is one that needs to be taken in as a whole instead of piece by piece. Audio is also incorporated into the exhibition which runs through August. The exhibition provides an opportunity to share the Lakota language and build understanding among the Titonwan communities of the region and the Native and non-Native populations in the Fargo Moorhead area through arts and culture. www.plainsart.org

Layli Long Soldier on the sacred and the useful.

Episode Notes [“Coffee” Theme by Cambo]Gabriel Firmo: Alright, so welcome back to State of the Arts, a podcast by two idiots on NBN. My name is Gabriel Firmo.Lucas Bezerra: And I'm Lucas Bezerra. And Happy 2020!Gabriel: Yeah, welcome back. It was surprisingly quick, the break.Lucas: It was extremely quick. Well, the break was quick, but traveling back was not. I think you took a direct flight from Brazil.Gabriel: Yes, it is the worst.Lucas: I did not. It's not the worst for you. I mean, jumping around on airplanes wasn't fun. But we're back. We're here recording our third episode of State of the Arts.Gabriel: Yeah. And so what is the...? We have a pretty traditional question to start the year?Lucas: Yeah I mean, I figured we'd just do a little recap of 2019 and our favorite arts-related thing that we did. It could be like, one in Northwestern, one out of Northwestern.Gabriel: That we did or that we consumed?Lucas: That we did, that we consumed, I guess is a better way to put it. That we saw, experienced.Gabriel: Okay, okay, that makes more sense. Yeah. Do you have one like right off the bat?Lucas: I've got one for my Northwestern.Gabriel: Okay, go for it!Lucas: It isn't really at Northwestern. But yeah, it was during my time here; as soon as I got here, basically. So the MCA last year had a Virgil Abloh Expo. And that Expo was really cool. It really showed like his sort of vision of what design and what art is, and he's got a lot of--Gabriel: That was out here at Northwestern?Lucas: No, that was in the MCA, like in Chicago.Gabriel: Oh, okay. Okay, okay. Okay. Yeah,Lucas: But it was while I was here, I guess this could be my not Northwestern.Gabriel: I mean, I guess that kind of counts for it? There's no hard and fast rule.Lucas: No, but I kind of want to showcase something from Northwestern. Gabriel: Okay, sure. Lucas: So let's leave that as my not Northwestern-related.Gabriel: Yeah. This year I went to--so Giovana, my girlfriend, she surprised me with tickets to Next to Normal, which is my favorite musical of all time. Lucas: Just to be clear, not Next to Normal at Northwestern.Gabriel: No, no--That was also amazing.Lucas: That was really good.Gabriel: But there was one that was playing in a nearby town. And I was surprised with tickets and we went, and it was like it brought me to tears on like two different, three different occasions. Just like throughout the runthrough. And that was just like crazy. I had never seen any of my favorite musicals live before and Next to Normal, it's just like so near and dear to me. So it was crazy good. Definitely highlight of my 2019. Next to Normal at Northwestern, also very good,Lucas: Also very good, yeah.Gabriel: But it would be kind of terrible if both of my highlights Northwestern and non-Northwestern were both Next to Normal.Lucas: Yeah. Next to Normal was the first thing that I did here, arts-related. Well, that I went to. But I have to say maybe my highlight was going to--So our guest on the second episode, Joe, his band, another Northwestern-based band and a third Chicagoland group had a performance. They had a gig, North Side of Chicago. It was a little bit after we interviewed Joe. So, he told me about it, and I went, and both his band was great, but also the other Northwestern band. So I'm just gonna, I'm gonna shout them out again. So Joe's band is called Morning Dew and the other band is called Honey Butter. And they're both really good.Gabriel: Damn, I really need to go to one of these.Lucas: You really do.Gabriel: I did not manage to go last quarter.Lucas: It was a lot of fun. And it was full of Northwestern students and just good energy, you know?Gabriel: Yeah, I mean, that sounds--I'm not a big concert person so I always get a little bit "eh," but for music on like the smaller scale where it's not the enormous super packed concerts I feel like it'd be more fun just in general. For my Northwestern thing, I think Dolphin Show 2019 was Hello Dolly. And I remember Hello Dolly being so extraordinary--and like both of mine are musical theatre.Gabriel: Man, Hello Dolly was so good it made me want to write stuff again and sing again. I hadn't written in a good while, and I hadn't performed any music for a very long time because I had stopped taking classes when I came here. And I remember I came out of Hello Dolly and I turned to one of my friends and was like we need to start some project together because I am so inspired.Lucas: Yeah.Gabriel: Because, for a student musical that thing was--not even for student musical just completely even out of its context it would be one of the best shows I've ever seen. It was so, so, so, so good.Gabriel: So actually our guest for this week, because we have a guest every week is Elynnor Sandefer. She is someone I'm super excited to interview. She's an old friend of mine at the school, but also just kind of someone that I met tangentially through my creative writing classes. She was one of the most unique writers there. Like, there are a lot of very good writers at Northwestern, and for sure, Elynnor is one of them. But specifically, like her style and her choice of topics was always one thing that was just so out of left field that makes her a very, very unique writer, and she was actually one of the first people I suggested when we start with the show.Lucas: Yeah, so I'm excited. I met her today, didn't really get a chance to talk to her that much. I’m excited for this.Gabriel: Yeah. Let’s go to that now!Gabriel: Ok so, we are here now with our guest, Elynnor.Elynnor Sandefer: Hello!Gabriel: Would you like to kinda introduce yourself, say what you do that’s artsy...Lucas: Why do you think we asked you here, I guess?Elynnor: I'm Elynnor, I put words together and make them do things. Optimistically, good things. I'm here because Gabriel has had some writing classes with me and thinks that my work is weird.Gabriel: Yeah. I think it's good, also. Like, disclaimer.Elynnor: That can be the same thing.Gabriel: But very weird.Elynnor: Yeah. Thank you.Gabriel: Like, that is...I mean, we'll get into that in a bit. I think like the standard first question that we ask everyone here, which is that like, necessarily, if you're doing art on a university campus, like you're pre-validation, essentially, like you're not getting any external validation most of the time. Especially for writers more than any other profession. So, with that in mind, why do you do it? Like when no one is in your corner, why do you still do it? Elynnor: Well, the work that I do is mostly writing. And for me, a lot of that starts with journaling. So I do it for my own brain before anybody else's brain. And in that sense, validation has never been that significant. Okay, that sounds wrong. It sounds like I don't take criticism. But everything I make is usually first for myself, which I find works for me. When I write things it is because I'm driven there by some kind of personal urgency. So to that extent, I don't really care if other people want to read it. I also haven't started trying to publish yet so that may change, will change, definitely will change.Gabriel: Okay. Yeah.Lucas: Yeah. I mean it from what I've heard about you and what you write... When I met you today, I mean, you asked me about my opinion on melons?Elynnor: I sure did.Lucas: And I've heard that you wrote an essay on whether boba is a soup.Elynnor: I sure did.Lucas: So you've got a wide range of topics, although they do seem to revolve around food somehow.Elynnor: Yeah, that's been pointed out to me. I don't know what to make of that. I don't eat that much.Lucas: So I guess like, where does the inspiration for this kind of stuff come from? Like, what are you trying...Where does it, how does it work in your brain? I guess.Elynnor: Um, well, I have a tendency to hyper fixate on things, often objects. So the cereal being soup is something I fixated on for a while last year. Melons are something I just find personally interesting right now because people don't seem to think that they have strong opinions. But if you ask them for an opinion, they almost always have one. Except for when they don't know what a melon is...like some people.Gabriel: Is that a call-out? I think that’s a call-out. ’Cause she asked me what a cantaloupe was, and I was just like, I blanked on it. I only know fruit names in Portuguese.Lucas: Not gonna lie, same. I mean, she asked me specifically about cantaloupes and I... No images came to mind. So...Gabriel: But like, I have read a little bit of your stuff, and so this is a really interesting thing is that you talk about these hyper fixations, which are some kind of like oddball ideas, but you do take them somewhere, right? You're not just writing about melons or just writing about, "Is boba a soup or is cereal a soup?" You do something in the nature of all nonfiction, which is something more profound out of like kind of surrealist or just kind of out of nowhere topics. So, what is exactly that process like? Because at least from my perspective, I also do a fair bit of writing and a lot of your topics I can't even really imagine inroads into that range, you know?Elynnor: Well, for cantaloupe, it was that my roommate was cutting a cantaloupe, and I realized I had forgotten about fruit, and I just hadn't eaten fruit in a long time. I started getting worried about scurvy because like citrus or something. But I don't know, I was watching her cut a cantaloupe. And it occurred to me that it just, I don't know, it would never occur to me to buy a cantaloupe. And I thought that was really interesting, because they've been a part of my life for a long time. They have them in dining halls, they're terrible in the dining halls and just generally average. So I use them in an essay I was already writing at the time as just like a joke about the realm of averageness. But yeah, I don't really know what the cantaloupes mean, except for maybe the fact that there are objects that are in everyone's life that no one really notices, but we care about...Elynnor: What do you think literature is?Gabriel: Oh God, you can’t drop that on me. This actually came up in one of my classes recently with a teacher who asked I think that exact question. And they disregarded genre fiction out of hand. So horror, sci-fi...Elynnor: That's not literature?Gabriel: That sort of stuff.Elynnor: That's a...yikes. That's a hot take.Gabriel: I think they were doing it like as a sort of, like, “Oh, it's the beginning of class and I'm going to do this to spur discussion.” Because it doesn't seem like that's their opinion, necessarily. But I was immediately as a genre fiction fan, like, "Ahh." Because fantasy is generally considered not literature.Elynnor: Okay, but I've read amazing works of literature that are fantasy in nature, and I'm angry at this person whose name I don't know.Gabriel: But so you are just like, "Anything is literature".Elynnor: Well, I think that art more broadly speaking is anything whose existence is conditional upon a very particular arrangement of human choice. And I think that, within that it's very difficult to differentiate between different kinds of art. Like if you've read the poem “38” by Layli Long Soldier, this is not in that book I mentioned earlier, but it's a great poem that you should read. And in it, she is referring to a specific action/event as a poem, and that is like one of her main claims. And I think that there's a lot of power in that and saying that, well, I guess in naming what you're making or naming something, something other than it is.Gabriel: Yeah, I guess it becomes just, if it's intentional, it's art that sort of almost, that level of simplification. Which I would get, like, crucified by some of my philosophy teachers for that, but I think that is a pretty good...I mean, you're the philosophy major.Lucas: I mean, it's almost in the like, I think of the “this is not a pipe” painting. Elynnor: Ah yes, The Fault in Our Stars.Lucas: I'm not sure... Yeah, I mean, it's just this sort of idea that the objects and the things that we conceive of as being what they are...Gabriel: Are totally a construction?Lucas: Yeah.Gabriel: So you can just say anything is anything.Lucas: I wouldn't go... I wouldn't say that.Lucas: But that's an idea. I guess.Elynnor: Sometimes it's fun to.Lucas: Sometimes it’s fun to.Gabriel: I mean, in that case, then I'll just say boba is soup.Elynnor: It obviously is!Lucas: I mean, she walked in here and called this podcast art.Gabriel: Yeah. That was, that was quite surprising.Elynnor: To be fair, I have not listened to it. No offense, I'm sure it's great. I just didn’t know about it.Lucas: Yeah, I think we're running out of time. We always end our episodes by asking our guests to plug something on campus that they are excited for related to the arts. Could be anything, I guess. So tell us what you're thinking.Elynnor: Well, I'm not involved with any publications or performance groups or anything like that, but my roommate and best friend is on the staff of Helicon, which is a literary and arts magazine. And you should submit to that because they want you to submit to that.Gabriel: I've read a good deal of Helicon, occasionally. I always forget about Helicon. And then I just, their book comes out, and I'll just see it around and be like "Oh!" I'll flip through it. It's really cool, what people do.Lucas: I've never heard of it.Gabriel: You should! There's very avant garde stuff in Helicon which is fun.Elynnor: If you're a visual artist, especially, you should submit to Helicon because I think visual artists forget about it. Because I think it's mainly marketed to writers.Lucas: Interesting.Elynnor: Yeah.Lucas: I like that.Gabriel: Yeah. Well...Elynnor: They publish anything. There's like a digital game thing on their website.Gabriel: Yeah. And their physical copies should be coming around soon, because it's winter, right?Elynnor: Yeah.Gabriel: Yeah. So it'll be up soon. That's really cool. Thank you for coming by. Thanks for talking to us.Elynnor: You're welcome. I hate talking to you.Gabriel: For listeners, thanks for listening and hopefully join us in two weeks. If we can manage to edit this in our regular time frame, and we'll be back with another guest and another question as per usual, so anything left to say Lucas?Lucas: No, thanks for listening. We'll see you in two weeks. All right.Elynnor: Google images of hairless cats!This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This panel discussion took place during the Portland Book Festival in 2018. The Portland Book Festival 2019 schedule has just been announced! The Festival will take place on November 9 in downtown Portland. For more information about the author line up, schedule, and tickets visit: literary-arts.org

Layli Long Soldier is the author of our book for June 2019, Whereas, winner of the National Book Critics Circle award, and finalist for the National Book Award. She is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Whereas in response to an "apology" to Native Americans which was buried in a department of defense appropriations bill during the Obama administration. It is a stunning use of language to build and re-build America, the land of the Plains Indians as others before the colonizers.  The book is at turns devastating, celebratory, adept, clever, playful and always unique.  Apologies for our terrible attempts at Lakota, while we tried to find proper pronunciation we failed. Our failure is another record of the violence perpetrated in our name again our Native brothers and sisters.  David Sloane and Deborah Natoli join host Aubrey Hicks in discussion of this work by Layli Long Soldier, Lakota and American.   

We know that literature - like all culture - is biased, but can books also be a way of recognising and combating stereotypes? Our guest, Dr Jennifer Eberhardt, is widely considered one of the world’s leading experts on racial bias, and her new book Biased is a comprehensive look at the science of unconscious bias and how it affects our society. With this show, we’re continuing our conversation about race and literature that we started with Reni Eddo-Lodge and Kishani Widyaratna in 2017 (you can find that show in our archive). Specifically, we're looking at racial bias: what it is, how it damages our society, and if there's anything we can do about it. So, join us for the next hour as we try to further decolonise our minds. Email us: litfriction@gmail.com Tweet us and find us on Instagram: @litfriction Recommendations on the theme, The Science of Bias: Octavia: Swing Time by Zadie Smith https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/565/56513/swing-time/9780141036601.html Carrie: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2016/invisible-man-by-ralph-ellison/ General Recommendations: Octavia: Whereas by Layli Long Soldier https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/layli-long-soldier/whereas/9781529012804 Carrie: Three Women by Lisa Taddeo https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/lisa-taddeo/work/three-women Jennifer: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/224792/just-mercy-by-bryan-stevenson/9780812984965/

Poet and editor Heid E. Erdrich moderates a conversation between native poets Trevino L. Brings Plenty, Laura Da', and Layli Long Soldier, all of whom are featured in the new anthology New Poets of Native Nations.

“Long Soldier reminds readers of their physical and linguistic bodies as they are returned to language through their mouths and eyes and tongues across the fields of her poems.”—Natalie Diaz for The New York Times Book Review “Layli Long Soldier’s movement between collective and personal makes this book intimate and urgent. She has charted new […] The post Layli Long Soldier : Whereas appeared first on Tin House.

The Oglala Lakota poet. “I wanted as much as possible to avoid this nostalgic portraiture of a Native life.” The reward and joy of patience. The difference between guilt, shame, and freedom from denial. When apologies are done well. Layli Long Soldier is a writer, a mother, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She has a way of opening up this part of her life, and of American life, to inspire self-searching and tenderness. Her award-winning first book of poetry, WHEREAS, is a response to the U.S. government’s official apology to Native peoples in 2009, which was done so quietly, with no ceremony, that it was practically a secret. Layli Long Soldier offers entry points for us all — to events that are not merely about the past, and to the freedom real apologies might bring. Layli Long Soldier is the recipient of the 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry and a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Her first book of poetry, WHEREAS, is a winner of the multiple awards including the Whiting Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

The Oglala Lakota poet. “I wanted as much as possible to avoid this nostalgic portraiture of a Native life.” The reward and joy of patience. The difference between guilt, shame, and freedom from denial. When apologies are done well. Layli Long Soldier is a writer, a mother, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She has a way of opening up this part of her life, and of American life, to inspire self-searching and tenderness. Her award-winning first book of poetry, WHEREAS, is a response to the U.S. government’s official apology to Native peoples in 2009, which was done so quietly, with no ceremony, that it was practically a secret. Layli Long Soldier offers entry points for us all — to events that are not merely about the past, and to the freedom real apologies might bring. Layli Long Soldier is the recipient of the 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry and a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Her first book of poetry, WHEREAS, is a winner of the multiple awards including the Whiting Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

Tommy Orange’s There There is an extraordinary portrait of America like we’ve never seen before. Orange, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma who grew up in Oakland, brings an exhilaratingly fresh, urgent, and poetic voice to the disorienting experiences of urban Indians who struggle with the paradoxes of inhabiting traditions in the absence of a homeland, living both inside and outside of history. In his debut bestselling novel, a cast of 12 Native American characters each contending with their own demons converge and collide on the occasion of the Big Oakland Powwow. Orange visits the ALOUD stage following recent Indigenous authors Layli Long Soldier, Natalie Diaz, and Terese Marie Mailhot who are collectively redefining not only contemporary Native American writing, but the entire canon of American literature as we know it. 

In this larger episode, Connor and Jack explore an excerpt of Layli Long Soldier’s sequence “Whereas Statements,” which responds to the Congressional Resolution of Apology to Native Americans that US President Barack Obama signed on Saturday, December 19, 2009. They discuss how Long Soldier interrogates and writes against the language of the Apology, the effects of her syntactical experimentation, the surprising commonalities of legal and poetic language, and how indigenous writers are often read reductively as only their indigeneity. Read the poem below. Read a long excerpt from the sequence here: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/magazine/from-whereas-statements.html More on Long Soldier: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/layli-long-soldier Check out Long Soldier’s collection, Whereas, here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/whereas Check out the full text of the Congressional Apology here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/14/text Read the referenced review of Whereas by Natalie Diaz here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/books/review/whereas-layli-long-soldier.html Read the referenced review on Divedapper between Long Soldier and Kaveh Akbar here: https://www.divedapper.com/interview/layli-long-soldier/ Find us on facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking Find us on twitter at: twitter.com/closetalking You can always send us an e-mail with thoughts on this or any of our previous podcasts, as well as suggestions for future shows, at closetalkingpoetry@gmail.com. From “Whereas Statements” By: Layli Long Soldier WHEREAS my eyes land on the shoreline of “the arrival of Europeans in North America opened a new chapter in the history of Native Peoples.” Because in others, I hate the act of laughing when hurt injured or in cases of danger. That bitter hiding. My daughter picks up new habits from friends. She’d been running, tripped, slid on knees and palms onto asphalt. They carried her into the kitchen, she just fell, she’s bleeding! Deep red streams down her arms and legs, trails on white tile. I looked at her face. A smile quivered her. A laugh, a nervous. Doing as her friends do, she braved new behavior, feigned a grin — I couldn’t name it but I could spot it. Stop, my girl. If you’re hurting, cry. Like that. She let it out, a flood from living room to bathroom. Then a soft water pour I washed carefully light touch clean cotton to bandage. I faced her I reminded, In our home in our family we are ourselves, real feelings. Be true. Yet I’m serious when I say I laugh reading the phrase, “opened a new chapter.” I can’t help my body. I shake. The realization that it took this phrase to show. My daughter’s quiver isn’t new — but a deep practice very old she’s watching me;

We end our month featuring poetry by discussing Whereas by Layli Long Soldier and Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai. Listener Survey | We're now on Spotify! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. A special thanks to our patrons Amy B., Jennifer P., Carley T., and Stephanie W. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai (Harper)Whereas by Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf Press) Our Sponsor This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders! In honor of Insiders’ first anniversary, Book Riot is running a special promotion from April 15-30. Get a two-week free trial of Insiders Novel Monthly or Annual! There’s no special code required, just sign up for Novel Monthly or Annual to start your trial. Head over to the Insiders' website for more info! CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music “Reading Women” Composed and Recorded by Isaac and Sarah Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Poets Kaveh Akbar, Eve Ewing, and Layli Long Soldier read from their debut books; Jane Hirshfield on reconnecting to your writing; Steve Almond on unlikable characters; Jay Baron Nicorvo on writing and post-traumatic stress disorder; and more.

Join San Francisco poet Brynn Saito for a conversation with Layli Long Soldier about her journey creating her latest collection of poetry WHEREAS, which she wrote as a response to the congressional resolution “Apology to Native Peoples.”

This program was conducted in both Spanish and English. Join us for an evening celebrating indigenous poetry from the United States and Mexico with three major poets—Natalie Diaz (member of the Mojave and Pima Indian tribes, winner of the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, language activist and educator), Layli Long Soldier (an Oglala Lakota poet, writer, and artist whose debut poetry collection WHEREAS is short-listed for the National Book Award), and Natalia Toledo (a Mexican poet and translator who writes in Spanish and Zapotec and won the Nezhualcóyotl Prize, Mexico’s highest honor for indigenous-language literature). Each poet will read from their distinctive work that moves across many languages and lands, exploring what it means to be an indigenous woman writer in today’s world. This special program will also feature a performance by Cahuilla Bird singing master Michael Mirelez and company, who are part of a long, inter-generational tradition of culture bearers within the local California Indian community. Simultaneous interpretation was provided by Antena Los Ángeles. This program was produced as part of The Getty's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative.