Hafizah Geter's guest appearances

Hafizah Geter

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Brad Parks

Evan Ratliff

Nicholson Baker

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Nikki Smith

Seth Godin

Jim Jones

Jeff Bezos

Chris Brogan

Michael Anderle

Lisa Unger

Kevin Kelly

Austin Kleon

Tim Harford

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Hafizah Geter (The Black Period) joins Jordan to discuss her family's influence on her work, the power of memory, being in conversation with the writers you love, and how all of us live in a mix of genres.MENTIONED: Goya's Black Paintings   "Fighting Erasure" by Parul Sehgal Toni Morrison's concept of rememory Fela Kuti, Yussef Lateef, Otis Redding Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian American writer, poet, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. She is the author of the poetry collection Un-American, an NAACP Image Award and PEN Open Book Award finalist. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Bomb, The Believer, The Paris Review, among many others. The poetry committee co-chair of the Brooklyn Literary Council, she is a Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless nonfiction fellow, a Cave Canem poetry fellow, and a 92Y Women inPower Fellow and holds an MFA in nonfiction from New York University, where she was an Axinn Fellow. Hafizah lives in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hafizah Geter (The Black Period) joins Jordan to discuss her family's influence on her work, the power of memory, being in conversation with the writers you love, and how all of us live in a mix of genres.MENTIONED:<ul> <li>Goya's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Paintings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Black Paintings</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/magazine/the-painful-consequences-of-erasure.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Fighting Erasure"</a> by Parul Sehgal</li> <li>Toni Morrison's concept of rememory</li> <li>Fela Kuti, Yussef Lateef, Otis Redding</li> </ul> Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian American writer, poet, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. She is the author of the poetry collection Un-American, an NAACP Image Award and PEN Open Book Award finalist. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Bomb, The Believer, The Paris Review, among many others. The poetry committee co-chair of the Brooklyn Literary Council, she is a Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless nonfiction fellow, a Cave Canem poetry fellow, and a 92Y Women inPower Fellow and holds an MFA in nonfiction from New York University, where she was an Axinn Fellow. Hafizah lives in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Hi there, Article Clubbers! This month, we’re reading and discussing “Theater of Forgiveness,” by Hafizah Geter, poet and author of Un-American. The article explores the intergenerational rage that emerges from our society’s expectation that Black people forgive the atrocities that white people commit.Last week, my friend and colleague Sarai Bordeaux and I got the chance to talk with Ms. Geter and ask her some of our questions. I hope you will take a listen!Most of all, I want to appreciate Ms. Geter for generously sharing her time and thoughtfulness with us. Also, thank you, Sarai, for facilitating the conversation.Here are just a few of my favorite moments:“I’m writing about and for Black and African people. How do we understand the narrative of ourselves in this place, when the narrative that has been written in the mass culture is one that is so dangerous, so toxic, and so deeply untrue?”“To be Black, you’re constantly on the stage, constantly having to perform a certain type of acceptability to be safe, and even then, you can’t even bird watch. How do you find your life again when you’ve lived in the performance the entire time?”“I would argue that Black happiness is what makes us so dangerous.”“Reading is the most important thing. People always say, Reading is a solitary activity, which I don’t understand. The first time you experience a book, someone is reading to you, so you can never ever be alone again. I think it’s so deeply important that people are reading the work of Black scholars, but especially Black trans activists, and disability justice activists, because the work has been done, and so much of what we do has just been reinventing the wheel. The more activists that I have read, it helps me remember my own life from outside of a white gaze.”After listening to the interview, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. Did anything surprise you or change your ideas about the article?Want to join next week’s discussion? We’re meeting Sunday, Nov. 22, 2-3 pm PT via Zoom. Read this for more information, then feel free to sign up!Article Club is a newish experiment in community reading. We read and discuss one outstanding article or book chapter every month. We invite the author to join our conversation, too. If you’re interested, sign up and check us out! Article Club is part of The Highlighter, a weekly newsletter featuring the best articles on race, education, and culture. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit articleclub.substack.com/subscribe

Hi there, Article Clubbers! This month, we’re reading and discussing “<a href="https://longreads.com/2018/11/02/theater-of-forgiveness/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Theater of Forgiveness</a>,” by <a href="https://www.hafizahgeter.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hafizah Geter</a>, poet and author of Un-American. The article explores the intergenerational rage that emerges from our society’s expectation that Black people forgive the atrocities that white people commit.Last week, my friend and colleague Sarai Bordeaux and I got the chance to talk with Ms. Geter and ask her some of our questions. I hope you will take a listen!Most of all, I want to appreciate Ms. Geter for generously sharing her time and thoughtfulness with us. Also, thank you, Sarai, for facilitating the conversation.Here are just a few of my favorite moments:“I’m writing about and for Black and African people. How do we understand the narrative of ourselves in this place, when the narrative that has been written in the mass culture is one that is so dangerous, so toxic, and so deeply untrue?”“To be Black, you’re constantly on the stage, constantly having to perform a certain type of acceptability to be safe, and even then, you can’t even bird watch. How do you find your life again when you’ve lived in the performance the entire time?”“I would argue that Black happiness is what makes us so dangerous.”“Reading is the most important thing. People always say, Reading is a solitary activity, which I don’t understand. The first time you experience a book, someone is reading to you, so you can never ever be alone again. I think it’s so deeply important that people are reading the work of Black scholars, but especially Black trans activists, and disability justice activists, because the work has been done, and so much of what we do has just been reinventing the wheel. The more activists that I have read, it helps me remember my own life from outside of a white gaze.”After listening to the interview, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. Did anything surprise you or change your ideas about the article?Want to join next week’s discussion? We’re meeting Sunday, Nov. 22, 2-3 pm PT via Zoom. <a href="http://hltr.co/theater1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read this </a>for more information, then feel free to <a href="http://highlighter.cc/discussion" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sign up</a>!Article Club is a newish experiment in community reading. We read and discuss one outstanding article or book chapter every month. We invite the author to join our conversation, too. If you’re interested, sign up and check us out! Article Club is part of The Highlighter, a weekly newsletter featuring the best articles on race, education, and culture. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://articleclub.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">articleclub.substack.com/subscribe</a>

A conversation with Hafizah Geter, author of “Theater of Forgiveness”

Hafizah Geter is a poet and writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Boston Review, Longreads, and McSweeneys Indelible in the Hippocampus. She's also an editor with Little A and TOPPLE Books, working on projects such as Bobi Conn's In The Shadow of the Valley and Melissa Faliveno's Tomboyland. But Hafizah stopped by the Jam Bunker to talk with Brad about her book Un-American, which is a memoir in poems about the challenges of the lives of her immigrant mother and her American father.So, join Brad and Hafizah as they discuss small town America, art, race, poetry, and the difficulty in keeping indoor plants alive in the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hafizah Geter is a poet and writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Boston Review, Longreads, and McSweeneys Indelible in the Hippocampus. She's also an editor with Little A and TOPPLE Books, working on projects such as Bobi Conn's In The Shadow of the Valley and Melissa Faliveno's Tomboyland. But Hafizah stopped by the Jam Bunker to talk with Brad about her book <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2848/9780819579805" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Un-American</a>, which is a memoir in poems about the challenges of the lives of her immigrant mother and her American father.So, join Brad and Hafizah as they discuss small town America, art, race, poetry, and the difficulty in keeping indoor plants alive in the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Editor at Little A Interview starts at 22:52 and ends at 44:24 “The trick with writing is a lot of times the more specific, the more universal something becomes. In taking care of a story, if there is something that I don’t quite understand, I’m not going to say, ‘Oh, that’s not related. We’ll take it out.’ I’m going to ask for more. Show me how this is all of us.” (Photo by Stephanie Land) News  Amazon press release on top 20 in HQ2 search - January 18, 2018  Recode on top 20 - January 18, 2018  “Amazon Chooses 20 Finalists for Second Headquarters” by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - January 18, 2018  “The Case for Ending Amazon’s Dominance” by Tim Harford at The Financial Times - January 19, 2018  “Jeff Bezos Donates $33 million to Dreamers Scholarship Fund” by Matt Shuham at Talking Points Memo - January 12, 2018 TheDream.US Tech Tip Translated skill for Alexa Interview with Hafizah Geter  Day One: A Literary Journal for the Digital Age Kindle Singles store Amazon Original Stories Children of the Salt Road by Lydia Fazio Theys When a Camel Breaks Your Heart (Kindle Single) by Kodi Scheer Midair: A Novel by Kodi Scheer The Mothers: A Novel by Brit Bennet Hafizah Geter  reading “The Break-In,” her poem published in  The New Yorker Soy Sauce for Beginners and Bury What We Cannot Take by Kirstin Chen Halsey Street by Naima Coster Feast: True Love In and Out of the Kitchen by Hannah Howard Take Your Shirt Off and Cry: A Memoir of Near-Fame Experiences by Nancy Balbirer Hell’s Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter Little A on Twitter Next Week’s Guest  Jon Fine, senior vice president and publisher of Open Road Integrated Media Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the  "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Editor at Little A Interview starts at 22:52 and ends at 44:24 “The trick with writing is a lot of times the more specific, the more universal something becomes. In taking care of a story, if there is something that I don’t quite understand, I’m not going to say, ‘Oh, that’s not related. We’ll take it out.’ I’m going to ask for more. Show me how this is all of us.” (Photo by Stephanie Land) News <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180118005771/en/Amazon-Announces-Candidates-HQ2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Amazon press release</a> on top 20 in HQ2 search - January 18, 2018 <a href="https://www.recode.net/2018/1/18/16905362/amazon-hq2-jeff-bezos-cities-finalist-compare" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Recode on top 20</a> - January 18, 2018 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/technology/amazon-finalists-headquarters.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> “Amazon Chooses 20 Finalists for Second Headquarters”</a> by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - January 18, 2018 <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/aba8d444-fb94-11e7-a492-2c9be7f3120a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> “The Case for Ending Amazon’s Dominance”</a> by Tim Harford at The Financial Times - January 19, 2018 <a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeff-bezos-donations-the-dream-scholarship" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> “Jeff Bezos Donates $33 million to Dreamers Scholarship Fund”</a> by Matt Shuham at Talking Points Memo - January 12, 2018 <a href="http://www.thedream.us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TheDream.US</a> Tech Tip <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Translated/dp/B01N9BZJPZ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Translated skill</a> for Alexa Interview with <a href="https://www.hafizahgeter.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hafizah Geter</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&amp;docId=1001224641" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Day One:</a> A Literary Journal for the Digital Age <a href="http://amzn.to/2DjWZTA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kindle Singles</a> store <a href="http://amzn.to/2DMsGpI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon Original Stories</a> <a href="http://amzn.to/2DOYme7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Children of the Salt Road</a> by Lydia Fazio Theys <a href="http://amzn.to/2DiZWDS" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">When a Camel Breaks Your Heart</a> (Kindle Single) by Kodi Scheer <a href="http://amzn.to/2FPRQVb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Midair: A Novel</a> by Kodi Scheer <a href="http://amzn.to/2DMJxbR" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Mothers: A Novel</a> by Brit Bennet Hafizah Geter <a href="http://downloads.newyorker.com/mp3/170306_geter_audio.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> reading “The Break-In,”</a> her poem published in <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/the-break-in" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The New Yorker</a> <a href="http://amzn.to/2DonQ4Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Soy Sauce for Beginners</a> and <a href="http://amzn.to/2DiEgIe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bury What We Cannot Take</a> by Kirstin Chen <a href="http://amzn.to/2EV9upg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Halsey Street</a> by Naima Coster <a href="http://amzn.to/2BcYAJ6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feast: True Love In and Out of the Kitchen</a> by Hannah Howard <a href="http://amzn.to/2DnonEt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Take Your Shirt Off and Cry: A Memoir of Near-Fame Experiences</a> by Nancy Balbirer <a href="http://amzn.to/2DqNx5f" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hell’s Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men</a> by Harold Schechter Little A on <a href="https://twitter.com/littleabooks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> Next Week’s Guest <a href="http://openroadintegratedmedia.com/jon-fine-joins-open-road-integrated-media-as-svp-and-publisher/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Jon Fine</a>, senior vice president and publisher of Open Road Integrated Media Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00185AA8S/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=httpthekicom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00185AA8S" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording"</a> CD. Please Join the <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/100106" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kindle Chronicles group</a> at Goodreads!