Beginnings

Join the  queens as they go spelunking in some of their favorite openings. You can buy books mentioned in the show at Loyalty Books, a Black-owned indie bookstore in Washington, Dc. Watch Louise Glück read "The Wild Iris" here (~2 min)A terrific interview between Glück and Peter Streckfus can be found here (they also read together; scroll down for that) (~30 min) Watch Hanif Abdurraqib read from A Fortune for Your Disaster here (~10 min) Olena Kalytiak Davis "A Few Words for the Visitor in the Parlor" from And Her Soul Out of Nothing. You can watch Eloisa Amezcua read "The Unbosoming" from OKD's 2nd book, Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities. (~3 min) Watch Jane Mead give a reading at Texas State U here, which begins with the poem Aaron mentions, "Concerning That Prayer I Cannot Make" from The Lord and the General Din of the World, here (~40 min) Listen to Brigit Pegeen Kelly read "Dead Doe" from Song here Watch an interview with (with interspersed readings by) Irene McKinney here (~25 min). A longer celebration of Dr. McKinney was recorded in 2013, and you can watch that here (~1 hour) Watch Diane Seuss read from Frank: sonnets, including the opening poem here (~20 min).  You can read an interview with Reginald Shepherd here.  Watch Shane McCrae read Brock-Broido's "Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements" here (~5 min)  Nicanor Parra reads "Hombre Imaginario" to an adoring crowd here (~3 min), Watch Eduardo C. Corral read at the 2021 Sewanee Writers' Conference (with Arhm Choi Wild; ~30 min total) here. You can view Tino Rodriguez's piece Our Completion: oil on wood 5"x7" here (note: directs to artist's website; piece has a different title there).