EPISODE · Aug 22, 2023 · 1H 2M
Justice Questions, Questions of Meaning - Alyse Knorr on Poetry and Teaching
from Bookwarm Games · host Wesley Schantz
A conversation with Alyse Knorr, 'achiever' (to cite her Super Mario Bros 3, where I first encountered her work and reviewed it for The Pixels). In which we discuss: - Sweetbitter Podcast, with new episodes coming soon about Mary Magdalen and a fourth season in the works - Switchback Books, which she edits with her wife - Regis University, where she teaches alongside colleagues such as Russ Arnold - her poetry, research, and the novel she's writing - Annotated Glass and Sappho fragment 31 - 'Bright Star,' Keats, Eliot, Carson's Autobiography of Red; Gilgamesh and Enheduanna - 'Anatomy Exam' - Ardor, a book of eco-queer domestic life and love - Every Last Thing, a book of tantrums and embarrassed apologies - Micaela Tore's MA thesis on Copper Mother (and around here you'll get a musical interlude from moonbowmusic) - Topophilia: Elizabeth Bishop's 'The Map'; Henry Jenkins' 'Complete Freedom of Movement'; Sean Fenty's nostalgia piece in Playing the Past. - her new class on Video Games and Meaning: topics, problems, persuasion and social justice: Hair Nah and microaggressions; Oregon Trail and colonialism; Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin; Passage; citizen science; This War of Mine; Papers, Please; Train; Anna Anthropy's Dys4ia, Queers in Love at End of World, and ZZT. - Her new novel (agents, check it out), a postapocalyptic story of love and a journey in a world with too much stuff, not enough people Alyse also recommends Merlin for birdwatching; "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock," by TS Eliot; "Married," "Alone," "In Dispraise of Poetry," and "Failing and Flying," by Jack Gilbert. Thank you for reading and listening! from the Video Game Academy
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A conversation with Alyse Knorr, 'achiever' (to cite her Super Mario Bros 3, where I first encountered her work and reviewed it for The Pixels). In which we discuss: - Sweetbitter Podcast, with new episodes coming soon about Mary Magdalen and a fourth season in the works - Switchback Books, which she edits with her wife - Regis University, where she teaches alongside colleagues such as Russ Arnold - her poetry, research, and the novel she's writing - Annotated Glass and Sappho fragment 31 - 'Bright Star,' Keats, Eliot, Carson's Autobiography of Red; Gilgamesh and Enheduanna - 'Anatomy Exam' - Ardor, a book of eco-queer domestic life and love - Every Last Thing, a book of tantrums and embarrassed apologies - Micaela Tore's MA thesis on Copper Mother (and around here you'll get a musical interlude from moonbowmusic) - Topophilia: Elizabeth Bishop's 'The Map'; Henry Jenkins' 'Complete Freedom of Movement'; Sean Fenty's nostalgia piece in Playing the Past. - her new class on Video Games and Meaning: topics, problems, persuasion and social justice: Hair Nah and microaggressions; Oregon Trail and colonialism; Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin; Passage; citizen science; This War of Mine; Papers, Please; Train; Anna Anthropy's Dys4ia, Queers in Love at End of World, and ZZT. - Her new novel (agents, check it out), a postapocalyptic story of love and a journey in a world with too much stuff, not enough people Alyse also recommends Merlin for birdwatching; "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock," by TS Eliot; "Married," "Alone," "In Dispraise of Poetry," and "Failing and Flying," by Jack Gilbert. Thank you for reading and listening! from the Video Game Academy
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