Essex Hemphill's guest appearances

Essex Hemphill

Interesting People Reading Poetry

BlaQueer of Left Podcast

Ilhan Omar

Walt Whitman

Wallace Stevens

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Krista Tippett

Audre Lorde

Derek Walcott

Robert Alter

Alec Soth

Enrique Martínez Celaya

Chris Kraus

Roald Dahl

John Trudell

Dawn Davis

Amy Thielen

OwlTail

This episode is a poetic meditation on the week's events in Black and BlaQueer life; beginning with readings of historic Black poems. Here, we address the racial-sexual politics of policing as anti-Black violence; anti-immigration practices as afterlives of slavery; and Blackness and Queerness as inseperable, co-constituitive realities in BlaQueer life. Poems: Essex Hemphill (Occupied Territories), Margaret Walker (For My People), Gwendolyn Brooks (We Real Cool), Lucille Clifton (won't you celebrate with me) Topics: BlaQueerness, Liam Neeson and black fungibility; Jussie Smollet and BlaQueer testimony, racial-sexual terror; 21 Savage and anti-Black policing/unbelonging; whiteness as property and power to oppress.

This episode is a poetic meditation on the week's events in Black and BlaQueer life; beginning with readings of historic Black poems. Here, we address the racial-sexual politics of policing as anti-Black violence; anti-immigration practices as afterlives of slavery; and Blackness and Queerness as inseperable, co-constituitive realities in BlaQueer life. Poems: Essex Hemphill (Occupied Territories), Margaret Walker (For My People), Gwendolyn Brooks (We Real Cool), Lucille Clifton (won't you celebrate with me) Topics: BlaQueerness, Liam Neeson and black fungibility; Jussie Smollet and BlaQueer testimony, racial-sexual terror; 21 Savage and anti-Black policing/unbelonging; whiteness as property and power to oppress.

Ep 2: Poems of Resistance, Essex Hemphill, 21 Savage, BlaQueerness and Policing As Racial-Sexual Terror

David Rivers

In this episode, playwright Harrison David Rivers reads “For My Own Protection” by Essex Hemphill and discusses the use of the poem in his recent play, This Bitter Earth. Rivers is the recipient of fellowships from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations and is a core writer at the Playwright’s Center. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1prSuXPitknNPj26IItVnr “For My Own Protection” by Essex Hemphill appears in the collection Ceremonies, published by Plume. Keep up with Harrison David Rivers at harrisondavidrivers.com We feature one listener haiku at the end of every episode. To submit, call the Haiku Hotline at 612-440-0643 and read your poem after the beep. For the occasional prompt, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Subscribe on RadioPublic, iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher.

In this episode, playwright <a href="http://www.harrisondavidrivers.com/about/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Harrison David Rivers</a> reads “For My Own Protection” by Essex Hemphill and discusses the use of the poem in his recent play, <a href="http://www.harrisondavidrivers.com/this-bitter-earth/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">This Bitter Earth</a>. Rivers is the recipient of fellowships from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations and is a core writer at the Playwright’s Center. <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/1prSuXPitknNPj26IItVnr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/episode/1prSuXPitknNPj26IItVnr</a> “For My Own Protection” by Essex Hemphill appears in the collection <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ceremonies-Prose-Poetry-Essex-Hemphill/dp/0452268176" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Ceremonies</a>, published by Plume. Keep up with Harrison David Rivers at <a href="http://www.harrisondavidrivers.com/about/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">harrisondavidrivers.com</a> We feature one listener haiku at the end of every episode. To submit, call the Haiku Hotline at 612-440-0643 and read your poem after the beep. For the occasional prompt, follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/haikuhotline" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/haikuhotline/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/haikuhotline/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. Subscribe on <a href="https://radiopublic.com/interesting-people-reading-poetry-60aNDL" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">RadioPublic</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/interesting-people-reading-poetry/id1265729382?mt=2" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5QaSeDE4sAmOxZdWu5yN1M" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/interesting-people-reading-poetry" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.

Playwright Harrison David Rivers Reads Essex Hemphill