Sonya Vatomsky's guest appearances

Sonya Vatomsky

Pop Poetry Podcast

Town Hall Seattle Arts & Culture Series

Kyla Schuller

Siri Hustvedt

Ijeoma Oluo

Emily Dickinson

Alexis Coe

Allison Williams

Lori Gottlieb

Neil Patrick Harris

Sebastian Junger

Mo Rocca

Caitlin Doughty

Pepper Schwartz

Lidia Yuknavitch

Peter Sagal

Mary Norris

OwlTail

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living,” Marcus Tullius Cicero once wrote. Caitlin Doughty has spent her life around the dead. A mortician by trade, Doughty, in From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death travels the world to discover how other cultures care for their dead. She goes to Bolivia to see cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls; to Japan to watch relatives of the deceased use chopsticks to pluck their loved ones’ bones from cremation ashes; to Indonesia to watch a man dress his grandfather’s mummified body. Caitlin is joined in conversation with Sonya Vatomsky—Seattle-based author, journalist, and poet who writes about art and death. Together, and with a keen sense of wonder, Doughty and Vatomsky dig deep into death-care innovators who are practicing green burials and composting bodies. The life of the dead is alive, indeed. Caitlin Doughty is a mortician, activist, author, and founder of the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death, and the webseries “Ask a Mortician” which has led to features on NPR, BBC, The New Yorker, Vice, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Forbes. She is the author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes—a New York Times bestseller—as well as From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, which she will be discussing tonight. Sonya Vatomsky is a journalist, author, and poet living in Seattle. They are a staff writer about art and death at Haute Macabre, and have written for publications such as New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Slate, and more. Their book of poetry Salt is For Curing was published in 2015 and is currently on its 5th printing. Presented by Town Hall Seattle as part of the Arts &amp; Culture series. Recorded live at Summit by Town Hall Seattle Friday, October 6, 2017

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living,” Marcus Tullius Cicero once wrote. Caitlin Doughty has spent her life around the dead. A mortician by trade, Doughty, in From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death travels the world to discover how other cultures care for their dead. She goes to Bolivia to see cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls; to Japan to watch relatives of the deceased use chopsticks to pluck their loved ones’ bones from cremation ashes; to Indonesia to watch a man dress his grandfather’s mummified body. Caitlin is joined in conversation with Sonya Vatomsky—Seattle-based author, journalist, and poet who writes about art and death. Together, and with a keen sense of wonder, Doughty and Vatomsky dig deep into death-care innovators who are practicing green burials and composting bodies. The life of the dead is alive, indeed. Caitlin Doughty is a mortician, activist, author, and founder of the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death, and the webseries “Ask a Mortician” which has led to features on NPR, BBC, The New Yorker, Vice, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Forbes. She is the author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes—a New York Times bestseller—as well as From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, which she will be discussing tonight. Sonya Vatomsky is a journalist, author, and poet living in Seattle. They are a staff writer about art and death at Haute Macabre, and have written for publications such as New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Slate, and more. Their book of poetry Salt is For Curing was published in 2015 and is currently on its 5th printing. Presented by Town Hall Seattle as part of the <a href="https://townhallseattle.org/arts-culture/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arts &amp; Culture</a> series. Recorded live at Summit by Town Hall Seattle Friday, October 6, 2017

26: Caitlin Doughty with Sonya Vatomsky

Ken Baumann

Ken Baumann reads "Rhotic Asphyxiation" by Sonya Vatomsky.Buy Sonya's full length debut, "Salt is for Curing" here: http://sator.press/Rhotic Asphyxiationby Sonya VatomskyThe safest place to bury a bodyis in another body,is in your own body. Is your own dead bodyinside the one you present to the world, the one that still talksand walksacross Pangea because that is how old it is,that is how old faking is. You were born fake as your bodycame out another fake body; you drank amniotic fluid shotsin the belly of the body your mother swallowed when theworld told her soand you breathed true body breath thenand only then. A Russian girl can’t write a book withoutnesting dolls;burying ourselves in ourselves is in our blood, is in ourmother’s blood.We birth, we bury, we swallow tongues down the bodyburied inside the body. Tongue is a delicacyyou can serve at a funeral. The safest place to bury a body is at a funeral.

Ken Baumann reads "Rhotic Asphyxiation" by Sonya Vatomsky. Buy Sonya's full length debut, "Salt is for Curing" here: http://sator.press/ Rhotic Asphyxiation by Sonya Vatomsky The safest place to bury a body is in another body, is in your own body. Is your own dead body inside the one you present to the world, the one that still talks and walks across Pangea because that is how old it is, that is how old faking is. You were born fake as your body came out another fake body; you drank amniotic fluid shots in the belly of the body your mother swallowed when the world told her so and you breathed true body breath then and only then. A Russian girl can’t write a book without nesting dolls; burying ourselves in ourselves is in our blood, is in our mother’s blood. We birth, we bury, we swallow tongues down the body buried inside the body. Tongue is a delicacy you can serve at a funeral. The safest place to bury a body is at a funeral.

Ken Baumann "Rhotic Asphyxiation" by Sonya Vatomsky