Each Bring a Poem is a video series where Yael and a guest each pick one of their favorite poems to discuss in a joyful unpredictable conversation.
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Jubi’s pick is the poem Lucille Clifton’s wishes for sons. Yael’s pick is Ekphrasis by Julie Marie Wade from her collection Skirted. Jubi and I have a bit too much fun chatting about these poems, queerness, menopause, poetic line breaks, life, and everything in between.
JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY (he/him) is a Black homoflexible poet, storyteller, first-generation United Statesman and author of the poetry collection original kink (Sibling Rivalry Press), recipient of the 2021 Housatonic Book Award; his second collection, Bound, will be published by Persea Books in early 2024. You can find Jubi at Justjubi.com
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Join me for the inaugural conversation with Julie Marie Wade, a joyful, completely unwieldy, too-long poetry conversation. We nerd out, delve deep, and Virgo about two of our favorite Poems.
Julie’s pick is the poem Tenue at Forty is from the debut collection Bardo by Suzanne Paola. Yael’s pick is Two Miles Away by Margaret Atwood from her collection Two-Headed Poems.
Julie’s latest publication is “Fugue: An Aural History.” You can find Julie online at JulieMarieWade.com
Julie Marie Wade is a member of the creative writing faculty at Florida International University in Miami. A winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, her collections of poetry and prose include Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, Small Fires: Essays, Postage Due: Poems & Prose Poems, When I Was Straight, Same-Sexy Marriage: A Novella in Poems, Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing, and Skirted. Her collaborative titles include The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, written with Denise Duhamel, and Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, written with Brenda Miller. Wade makes her home in Dania Beach with her spouse Angie Griffin and their two cats. Her newest project is Fugue: An Aural History, out now from Diagram/New Michigan Press.
Yael Valencia Aldana 