Alison C. Rollins's guest appearances

Alison C. Rollins

The Poetry Magazine Podcast

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Poetry Moment

Poem-a-Day

Naomi Shihab Nye

Eloisa Amezcua

Jericho Brown

Paul Tran

Tarfia Faizullah

Richard Siken

Victoria Chang

Franny Choi

Danez Smith

Jane Hirshfield

Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Ellen Bass

Mary Ruefle

Carl Phillips

Tiana Clark

OwlTail

At Least a Dozen Bluets, by Alison C. Rollins

Kathryn Smith

Kathryn Smith is the author of the poetry collections Self-Portrait with Cephalopod (Milkweed Editions, 2021) and Book of Exodus (Scablands Books, 2017), and the chapbook Chosen Companions of the Goblin (Open Country Press, 2019). She lives in Spokane.

Kathryn Smith Reads "Elephants Born Without Tusks" by Alison C. Rollins

Recorded by Alison C. Rollins for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 18, 2021. www.poets.org

Recorded by Alison C. Rollins for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 18, 2021. <a href="http://www.poets.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.poets.org</a>

Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"  

Latria Graham

Poet Alison C. Rollins recently finished her first outdoor survival training program. Part of her preparation was to read Latria Graham’s essays about the experience of being a Black woman in the outdoors. Graham is a journalist and fifth-generation farmer living in South Carolina. In “Out There, Nobody Can Hear You Scream,” published in Outside Magazine, Graham describes a moment when—right before leaving for the Great Smoky Mountains—her mother handed her the gun of her late father for protection. Rollins had a very similar experience. Her mother’s first question, when hearing of her daughter's desire to journey into the outdoors, was, “How are you going to protect yourself?” This moment of recognition led Rollins and Graham together, to talk about writing, survival, and, as Rollins calls it, “Black nature joy.”

Poet Alison C. Rollins recently finished her first outdoor survival training program. Part of her preparation was to read Latria Graham’s essays about the experience of being a Black woman in the outdoors. Graham is a journalist and fifth-generation farmer living in South Carolina. In “Out There, Nobody Can Hear You Scream,” published in Outside Magazine, Graham describes a moment when—right before leaving for the Great Smoky Mountains—her mother handed her the gun of her late father for protection. Rollins had a very similar experience. Her mother’s first question, when hearing of her daughter's desire to journey into the outdoors, was, “How are you going to protect yourself?” This moment of recognition led Rollins and Graham together, to talk about writing, survival, and, as Rollins calls it, “Black nature joy.”

Alison C. Rollins and Latria Graham in Conversation