36 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (April 2022)

April 2022’s Dante’s Old South In this episode we interview the winners of the Southern Collective Experience’s Asian American chapbook contest: 1st Place: Monica Kim is a queer writer and organizer. Born in South Korea, she now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She won the inaugural Jane Kenyon Chapbook Prize Award for her series of multiverse poems and her writing has been published in A Velvet Giant, Pollux Journal, The Account, and others. You can find her on Twitter at @kimmonjoo. 2nd Place: Kailee Pedersen is the author of essays, poetry, and speculative fiction. She graduated from Columbia University in 2017 with a B.A. in Classics, specializing in Ancient Greek and was adopted from Nanning in 1996. Her poetry has appeared in Arcturus, Muse/A Journal, Sonora Review, and is forthcoming in They Rise Like A Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets. She is a two-time Pushcart nominee and the recipient of a 2015 Individual Artist Fellowship in Nonfiction from the Nebraska Arts Council, among other awards. https://www.kaileepedersen.com/ 3rd Place Betsy Aoki is a poet and video game producer whose debut poetry collection, Breakpoint was a National Poetry Series finalist and winner of the Patricia Bibby First Book Award. Music: “Heat Waves” Glass Animals “Where is My Mind” The Pixies “The Force” Lettuce Special Thanks Goes to: Woodbridge Inn: www.woodbridgeinnjasper.com Autism Speaks: www.autismspeaks.org Mostly Mutts: www.mostlymutts.org Meadowbrook Inn: www.meadowbrook-inn.com The Red Phone Booth: www.redphonebooth.com The host, Clifford Brooks, The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics and Athena Departs are available everywhere books are sold. His chapbook, Exiles of Eden, is only available through my website. To find them all, please reach out to him at: [email protected] Check out his Teachable courses on thriving with autism and creative writing as a profession here: www.brooks-sessions.teachable.com