Figure of Speech: Jerika Marchan

Jerika joins us to share some of her work New Orleans-based poet Jerika Marchan was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the American South. She holds degrees from Louisiana State University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she taught creative writing. Her poem [A Crumb in the Cobblestone–Tell Me This Landscape Darkened Without You] was featured in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series on poets.org. Her debut SWOLE (Futurepoem, 2018) was the June 2018 poetry bestseller on Small Press Distribution and was named a Must-Read Race and Culture Book of the Summer by Colorlines magazine. She is a featured reader at the 2019 Delta Mouth Festival in Baton Rouge, LA. Originally aired on November 30th, 2019.