Noticing, observing and keeping disability as erotic: a reading with Dr. Therí Pickens

Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. In this episode, Dr. Therí Pickens reads three works from her poetry collection, What Had Happened Was: "On Losing; A Hypothesis," "Potential Ode or Elegy Out My Window," and "I meet a man with a stutter."  Dr. Therí A. Pickens received her undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and her PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA. She is a poet-scholar who focuses on Arab American Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature and Disability Studies. Dr. Pickens is currently the Charles A Dana Professor of English & Africana at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. In her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Therí A. Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling.  Learn more at: www.tpickens.org This podcast is hosted and produced by John Gillespie. Check out our website or Simplecast podcast feed for more episodes. Listen and subscribe to Poetry Medicine for the Soul in Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more and get in touch: poetrymedicineforthesoul.com