Interview with Samuel Ace

It's been a minute! Thanks for your patience as I've slogged through life. In this episode I spoke with Samuel Ace about his book Our Weather Our Sea. Samuel Ace is a trans/genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author of several books, most recently Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish 2019), the newly re-issued Meet Me There: Normal Sex and Home in three days. Don't wash., (Belladonna* Germinal Texts 2019), and Stealth with poet Maureen Seaton. He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer Award and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry, as well as a two-time finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. Recent work can be found in Poetry, PEN America, Best American Experimental Poetry, Vinyl, and many other journals and anthologies. He currently teaches poetry and creative writing at Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts. Sam's website Buy Our Weather Our Sea Also buy Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don't wash. Books, poets, artists, etc mentioned in this episode: Ari Banias  Oliver Baez Bendorf  TC Tolbert's "Dear Melissa"  j/j hastain Julie Carr's Real Life: An Installation Ronaldo Wilson's Lucy 72 Douglas Kearney's Mess and Mess and  M. NourbeSe Philip's ZONG!  Ching-In Chen's recombinant  Sawako Nakayasu's Mouth Eats Color  Harmony Holiday a reading from 2015  LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs's Twerk Caroline Bergvall's sound installations  Cecilia Vicuña's New and Selected Poems Saborami (Chainlinks) Tracie Morris two poems Andrea Abi-Karam's EXTRATRANSMISSION  Orlando White LETTERRS  Maureen Seaton  Rickey Laurentiis  Philip B. Williams  Ocean Vuong  Farid Matuk  Kaveh Akbar  Angel Dominguez's D E S G R A C I A D O  Ariana Reines's A Sand Book  Trace Peterson's Since I Moved In  Go listen to my interview with Roy over at the Marxist Poetry Podcast The Sound of Waves Breaking: Samuel Ace's "These Nights"  Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz