The Daily Show
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on why he chose a Black woman protagonist and abolishing the prison system.
PBS Newshour
Deesha Philyaw shares her Brief But Spectacular take on Black women, sex, and the Black church. Watch here.
92NY
Subverting the obvious, an interview with LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs.
Poetry For All
Haleh Liza Gafori discusses the poetic constraints of the ghazal form and Rumi’s encounters with the divine.
New York Times
Maggie Smith on how she finds poetry and hard-won peace in a suburb east of Columbus.
Rumpus
Read this conversation with Elizabeth Acevedo: “I allow space for what isn’t said.”
The American Scholar
Tune in to listen as Carolyn Forché discusses the editing of a wartime anthology of Ukrainian poetry.
The Millions
Camille Dungy discusses Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden: “gardening offers me a space where I see patience pay off.”
NPR
Best-selling fiction writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah discusses his new novel Chain-Gang All-Stars.
McSweeney’s
A short conversation featuring Deborah Landau: “Deborah Landau is a poet of the urban body, the urbane.”