Nat Raha's guest appearances

Nat Raha

Waves Breaking

Poem-a-Day

Chase Berggrun

Samuel Ace

Jarelle Johnson

Như Xuân Nguyễn

Kayleb Rae Candrilli

Anaïs Duplan

Kortney Morrow

Makalani Bandele

Margarita Cruz

Lauren K. Alleyne

Carrie Williams Clifford

Myra Viola Wilds

Ashley M. Jones

Leslie Pinckney Hill

Molly McGlennen

OwlTail

Recorded by Nat Raha for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on June 23, 2022. www.poets.org

Recorded by Nat Raha for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on June 23, 2022. <a href="https://www.poets.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.poets.org</a>

Nat Raha: "[subterranean / dreaming grace roots]"

This month(ish) I got to interview Nat Raha! Nat Raha is a poet and trans / queer activist, living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her poetry includes two collections countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013) and Octet (Veer Books, 2010); and numerous pamphlets including ‘de/compositions’ (Enjoy Your Homes Press, 2017), '£/€xtinctions' (sociopathetic distro, 2017), '[of sirens / body &amp; faultlines]' (Veer Books, 2015), 'radio / threat' (sociopathetic distro, 2014) and 'mute exterior intimate' (Oystercatcher Press, 2013). She's performed and published her work internationally. Nat co-edited the Radical Transfeminism zine, and is currently finishing PhD in on queer Marxism and contemporary poetry at the University of Sussex.  http://sociodistro.tumblr.com (if you go here, there's pdfs of £/€xtinctions, the first edition '[of sirens...], and 'radio/threat')  http://sociopatheticsemaphores.blogspot.com Ideas and writers discussed in this episode:  Psychogeography Situationism Guy Debord Ivan Chtcheglov Sonic Youth My Bloody Valentine early Austerity 2011 England:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme The New York School Sean Bonney "The Commons" Nat Raha's essay "Transfeminine Brokenness, Radical Transfeminism" https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article/116/3/632/129746/Transfeminine-Brokenness-Radical-Transfeminism  Lauren Berlant's idea of "slow death" found in her book "Cruel Optimism" Verity Spott, "Click Away Close Door Say" http://www.contrabandbooks.co.uk/verity-spott/ Linus Slug, Mendoza, Tommy Peeps, Insect Librarian: ninerrors http://ninerrors.blogspot.com Jay Bernard:  http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/19397/29/Jay-Bernard Nisha Ramayya Frances Kruk Vahni Capildeo, Measures of Expatriation  This episode was edited and social media managed by Mitchel Davidovitz The Sound of Waves Breaking is from CadereSounds, freesound.org

This month(ish) I got to interview Nat Raha! Nat Raha is a poet and trans / queer activist, living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her poetry includes two collections countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013) and Octet (Veer Books, 2010); and numerous pamphlets including ‘de/compositions’ (Enjoy Your Homes Press, 2017), '£/€xtinctions' (sociopathetic distro, 2017), '[of sirens / body &amp; faultlines]' (Veer Books, 2015), 'radio / threat' (sociopathetic distro, 2014) and 'mute exterior intimate' (Oystercatcher Press, 2013). She's performed and published her work internationally. Nat co-edited the Radical Transfeminism zine, and is currently finishing PhD in on queer Marxism and contemporary poetry at the University of Sussex. <a href="http://sociodistro.tumblr.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> http://sociodistro.tumblr.com</a> (if you go here, there's pdfs of £/€xtinctions, the first edition '[of sirens...], and 'radio/threat') <a href="http://sociopatheticsemaphores.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> http://sociopatheticsemaphores.blogspot.com</a> Ideas and writers discussed in this episode: <ul> <li>Psychogeography</li> <li>Situationism</li> <li>Guy Debord</li> <li>Ivan Chtcheglov</li> <li>Sonic Youth</li> <li>My Bloody Valentine</li> <li>early Austerity 2011 England: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme</a></li> <li>The New York School</li> <li>Sean Bonney "The Commons"</li> <li>Nat Raha's essay "Transfeminine Brokenness, Radical Transfeminism" <a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article/116/3/632/129746/Transfeminine-Brokenness-Radical-Transfeminism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article/116/3/632/129746/Transfeminine-Brokenness-Radical-Transfeminism</a> </li> <li>Lauren Berlant's idea of "slow death" found in her book "Cruel Optimism"</li> <li>Verity Spott, "Click Away Close Door Say" <a href="http://www.contrabandbooks.co.uk/verity-spott/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.contrabandbooks.co.uk/verity-spott/</a></li> <li>Linus Slug, Mendoza, Tommy Peeps, Insect Librarian: ninerrors <a href="http://ninerrors.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ninerrors.blogspot.com</a></li> <li>Jay Bernard: <a href="http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/19397/29/Jay-Bernard" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/19397/29/Jay-Bernard</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.nisharamayya.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Nisha Ramayya</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Kruk" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Frances Kruk</a></li> <li>Vahni Capildeo, Measures of Expatriation</li> </ul> This episode was edited and social media managed by Mitchel Davidovitz The Sound of Waves Breaking is from <a href="https://freesound.org/people/CadereSounds/sounds/221598/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CadereSounds, freesound.org</a>

Interview with Nat Raha