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Chris and Courtney sit down with Danez Smith to talk about Passion, Process, Pitfalls, and Poetry!  Danez Smith is a Black, Queer, Poz writer & performer from St. Paul, MN. Danez is the author of “Homie” (Graywolf Press, 2020), "Don't Call Us Dead" (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award, and "[insert] boy" (YesYes Books, 2014), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. They are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Montalvo Arts Center, Cave Canem, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez's work has been featured widely including on Buzzfeed, The New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Best American Poetry, Poetry Magazine, and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez has been featured as part of Forbes' annual 30 Under 30 list and is the winner of a Pushcart Prize. They are a member of the Dark Noise Collective and is the co-host of VS with Franny Choi, a podcast sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Postloudness. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Oh there you are, lovely. Last week, we chopped it up with worldwide sensation Danez Smith on reading for the National Book Awards, joy, and the violence necessary to achieve utopia. For this week's episode, they brought in Franny Choi's "Introduction to Quantum Theory" for us to discuss, and spoiler alert: it's a banger. DANEZ SMITH is a Black, Queer, Poz writer & performer from St. Paul, MN. Danez is the author of Don't Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award, and [insert] boy (YesYes Books, 2014), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. They are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Montalvo Arts Center, Cave Canem, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez's work has been featured widely including on Buzzfeed, The New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Best American Poetry, Poetry Magazine, and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and is the co-host of VS with Franny Choi, a podcast sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Postloudness. Danez's third collection, Homie, will be published by Graywolf in Spring 2020. FRANNY CHOI is a writer, performer, and educator. She is the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody, 2014) and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). She has been a finalist for multiple national poetry slams, and her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, the New England Review, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman Fellow, Senior News Editor for Hyphen, co-host of the podcast VS, and member of the Dark Noise Collective. Her second collection, Soft Science, is forthcoming from Alice James Books

On this episode of Black Market Reads, the acclaimed poet Danez Smith. Smith is the author of two award-winning collections of poetry: 2014’s [insert] boy which was awarded the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry; and their most recent collection, Don’t Call Us Dead, published by Graywolf Press in 2017, which was winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award. Smith is the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Montalvo Arts Center, Cave Canem, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Smith is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and is the co-host of  VS, a podcast sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Postloudness. To learn more about Smith's work, visit their website: http://www.danezsmithpoet.com/

You're back, dear listener, and just in time to hear us fangirl over fangirling, We also interview American treasure Danez Smith while sipping Hot Daddies.  DANEZ SMITH is a Black, Queer, Poz writer & performer from St. Paul, MN. Danez is the author of Don't Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award, and [insert] boy (YesYes Books, 2014), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. They are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Montalvo Arts Center, Cave Canem, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez's work has been featured widely including on Buzzfeed, The New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Best American Poetry, Poetry Magazine, and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and is the co-host of VS with Franny Choi, a podcast sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Postloudness. Danez's third collection, Homie, will be published by Graywolf in Spring 2020.  THE HOT DADDY Fun fact! Langston Hughes's favorite cocktail was one he invented called the ‘Hard Daddy.' As described in a letter to a friend, the ‘Hard Daddy' = whiskey, maple syrup, lemon juice, and ice. For our recording sesh with Danez Smith, we decided to make a hot version of this intriguingly named cocktail, subbing hot water for the ice and serving it in a cozy mug. Go generous with the lemon and light on the syrup and your taste buds will be happy. Pairs perfectly with cold winter Mondays, Ezell's chicken, and this here episode.    INGREDIENTS: 2 oz Irish whiskey; fresh lemon; maple syrup; hot water  REFERENCES: 2018 National Book Award Poetry Finalists, The Fat Sonnets by Samantha Zighelboim, The Tradition by Jericho Brown, Youth Speaks Brave New Voices, "summer, somewhere", "Litany with Blood All Over" and "Not an Elegy" by Danez Smith; Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi; Heavy by Kiese Laymon

Postloudness and Sixty present South Side Stories: Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs, a podcast special exploring one of Chicago’s most influential figures. Dr. Burroughs was an artist, a writer, an educator, and a leader for black people—both in Chicago and across the globe—in the arts. In this two-part episode, our hosts—artist and educator Zakkiyyah Najeebah and writer and storyteller Britt Julious—will explore Dr. Burroughs’ work on the South Side of Chicago and how her initiatives influenced Black Chicagoans for decades. In part one, Najeebah and Julious introduce listeners to Dr. Burroughs and explain how she helped build the South Side Community Arts Center and the DuSable Museum, including memories and interviews from Patric McCoy (Co-Founder of Diasporal Rhythms), Masequa Meyers (Director of South Side Community Art Center), Faheem Majeed (artist, co-director of the Floating Museum), Skyla Hearn (Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at DuSable Museum), Tempestt Hazel (Curator and Writer, director of Sixty), and Rebecca Zorach (Curator of The Time Is Now!: Art Worlds of Chicago's South Side, 1960-1980). In part two, listeners will join the hosts as they view some of her work and the work of fellow artists in the Black Arts Movements through Art Design Chicago exhibitions such as The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity, and Politics at the Museum of Contemporary Photography and The Time Is Now!: Art Worlds of Chicago's South Side, 1960-1980, and learn how their legacy continues to influence Chicago today. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org postloudness.com __ This podcast is presented in collaboration with Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago’s art and design legacy through more than 30 exhibitions, as well as hundreds of talks, tours and special events in 2018. www.ArtDesignChicago.org. Image Credit: Faces (Faces á la Picasso) by Margaret T. Burroughs (1917-2010), Printed and signed in 1993, block carved circa 1960s, Linoleum block print, Private collection. Courtesy of the Smart Museum of Art.

The Stitch Gawd is here. Emma Mckee is a cross-stitch artist whose work has blessed the sleeves and jackets of pretty much every rapper and singer you know and love from the city of Chicago. She breaks down her craft, talks getting kicked out of Canada, her love for Pivot Gang, North Korea vs. Mormons, and more. She has a mixtape featuring many of the hottest acts in the city coming soon. Recorded 7/5/17 at Postloudness in Chicago, IL Music from this week's show: Bang Bang - Kardinal Offishall

James T. Green is a coder, designer, podcaster, and all around creative type whose generalized anxiety has driven his work habits for his entire career. He has recently had to explore how his anxiety effects the way he can ennact social justice. As someone who doesn't feel comfortable or useful in a march, rally, or protest setting, he has learned to use his skills as a creative to raise money and awareness for the Black Lives Matter movement and amplify the voices of other marginalized groups. James spoke of his experience as a young black man in modern America, his relationship with social media, and some habits he uses to manage his anxiety on a daily basis. Check out the shows on the podcast collective James cofounded with past guests Alex Cox and Cher Vincent, Postloudness and the BLM shirt he designed and sells to support Black Lives Matter's Chicago chapter. Thanks to Cards Against Humanity and Board Game Bento (use code NERDS for $5 off a box subscription) for sponsoring this episode as well as the Chicago Podcast Cooperative for coordinating sponsorships and building a podcasting community.

Cher has loved Thom York's Radiohead since she heard a track from Kid A on a joy ride with her dad during a difficult time in middle school. She built out her collection of their early albums thanks to the cashier at her local record store in Hyde Park, IL, giving her recommendations upon her purchasing Kid A, and she's now seen Radiohead (or Thom York solo) a followed-a-band-on-tour number of times and touts a tattoo of the Modified Bear. We talk her emotional attachment to their work, how internet culture has changed how fans of a band interact, and being a fan of something as an atypical member of its demographic. Check out Cher's podcast collective Postloudness, which includes shows she cohosts Gossip Girls and Open Ended. Open Ended is a fellow member of the Chicago Podcast Cooperative.

A couple weeks ago, when we put on We 'Go Vol 2: A Chicago Showcase and Celebration, we were fortunate enough to have the good folks over at Postloudness come through and record the show in its entirety. On this week's episode we share the audio from the exciting, soul-restoring evening, including performances by AirGo alumni E'mon Lauren, Fati Asghar, Kevin Coval, @defcee, @LAVanGogh, @deathViaLove, and @jamilawoods. Recorded live 6/30/16 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago Thanks to Postloudness for recording the live event and providing the audio.

Honduran hunk Vernon Mina has been living a Hispanic family life his whole life... because... it's... his family. But there's way more to it than that! From entertaining his uncles as a young boy with bits borrowed from his Latino entertainment heroes (Don Francisco anyone?) to meeting his wonderful Mexican wife in high school and accidentally enrolling in a military school to follow her out of state to starting a family of his own and choosing to speak Spanish at home with his son, so much of Vernon's life on stage and off is influenced by his background. Heck, he wouldn't have even found comedy if it weren't for his siblings signing him up for classes and helping pay his way. This was a lovely, world-broadening chat, and I encourage everyone to enjoy Vernon's warm outlook on bringing his culture into his characters as a reflection on his life and the importance of representation. Thanks to Basecamp for sponsoring and the Chicago Podcast Cooperative for sponsorship coordination and community-building. Check out fellow CPC member Open Ended and the rest of the Postloudness lineup for more POC, female, and queer-identified voices in podcasting.