Episode 93: Julie L. Moore

In this episode, C. Christopher Smith, founding editor of ERB, chats with poet Julie L. Moore, who is also the new producer of this podcast. Chris and Julie offer a behind-the-scenes look at the podcast and discuss Julie's hopes for her work as producer. They also discuss Julie's brand new collection of poems, Devil's Backbone, which arrives in bookstores this week.A Best of the Net and eight-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Julie L. Moore is the author of five poetry collections, including, the brand new collection Devil's Backbone. Her previous collection, Full Worm Moon, won a 2018 Woodrow Hall Top Shelf Award and received honorable mention for the Conference on Christianity and Literature's 2018 Book of the Year Award. After directing two university Writing Centers for 20 years, Julie now lives in Indiana and works at Eastern University for its LifeFlex program as a Senior Online Advisor and First Year Composition Instructor.If you’d like to order any of the following books, we encourage you to do so from Hearts and Minds Books (an independent bookstore in Dallastown, PA, run by Byron and Beth Borger)Books Mentioned in this Episode:By Julie L. Moore :Devil’s Backbone (brand new!)Full Worm MoonParticular ScandalsSlipping Out of BloomOther Books MentionedPoetry: Kiki Petrosino, Bright: A MemoirKiki Petrosino, White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia Naomi Shihab Nye, The Tiny JournalistClaudia Rankine, Citizen Creative Nonfiction: Susanna Childress, Extremely YoursNonfiction:Marilyn McIntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of LiesJemar Tisby, The Color of CompromiseJemar Tisby, How to Fight RacismJemar Tisby, The Spirit of JusticeWillie James Jennings, The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race Willie James Jennings,After WhitenessEsau McCaulley, Reading While BlackJames Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree