Jillian Weise's guest appearances

Jillian Weise

The Poetry Magazine Podcast

Campus Lectures, Interviews and Talks

Poem-a-Day

Sheryl Crow

David Brooks

Thurston Moore

Tom Ross

Jericho Brown

George Lucas

Fatimah Asghar

Naomi Shihab Nye

Daron Acemoglu

Edward Glaeser

Joyce Carol Oates

Xandria Phillips

José Olivarez

Paul Tran

Julian Randall

OwlTail

Recorded by The Cyborg Jillian Weise for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on July 10, 2023. www.poets.org

Recorded by The Cyborg Jillian Weise for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on July 10, 2023. <a href="https://www.poets.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.poets.org</a>

The Cyborg Jillian Weise: "Snow Globe of Denver"

Ishmael Reed

This week, The Cyborg Jillian Weise speaks with Ishmael Reed. Reed is a writer whose decades of work have been immensely influential to Weise. They’ve shared stages and pages as poets, performers, editors, and activists. They both wield humor and satire to seriously consider the violence of our governments, our literature, and the many other forms of erasure that are enacted on the lives and works of disabled people. Born 43 years apart, Reed in Tennessee in 1938, and Weise in Texas in 1981, they share a sort of poetic kinship. Today, they talk about smashing tokenism and the joy of making up new words and new paths.  The Cyborg Jillian Weise reads from the April 2021 issue of Poetry, and Ishmael Reed reads from his newest poetry collection, Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues, Poems 2007-2020.

This week, The Cyborg Jillian Weise speaks with Ishmael Reed. Reed is a writer whose decades of work have been immensely influential to Weise. They’ve shared stages and pages as poets, performers, editors, and activists. They both wield humor and satire to seriously consider the violence of our governments, our literature, and the many other forms of erasure that are enacted on the lives and works of disabled people. Born 43 years apart, Reed in Tennessee in 1938, and Weise in Texas in 1981, they share a sort of poetic kinship. Today, they talk about smashing tokenism and the joy of making up new words and new paths.  The Cyborg Jillian Weise reads from the April 2021 issue of Poetry, and Ishmael Reed reads from his newest poetry collection, Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues, Poems 2007-2020.

The Cyborg Jillian Weise and Ishmael Reed in Conversation

Prize-winning author and self-described cyborg Jillian Weise will read from her collections. Weise has two poetry collections, The Amputee’s Guide to Sex and The Book of Goodbyes (winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award) and a novel titled The Colony. Her work has appeared in Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability and Love Rise Up: Poems of Social Justice, Protest and Hope. She has been awarded fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Fulbright Program; she holds degrees from Florida State, UNC-Greensboro and the University of Cincinnati, and teaches at Clemson University. She identifies as a cyborg.