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Hope Wabuke

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New Books Network

New Books in Poetry

Haymarket Books Live

James Baldwin

Chuck Klosterman

Jane Eyre

Patti Smith

Emily Dickinson

Jeff Goins

Matt Bell

Tom Sleigh

Phillipa Chong

Seth Godin

Noam Chomsky

Marc Lamont Hill

James Franco

Paul Robeson

Walt Whitman

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Join Hope Wabuke and special guests Safia Elhillo and Ladan Osman for a celebration of Wabuke's new book The Body Family.The Body Family is a song of memory and revelation; it is the sublime unearthing of what has been hidden by silence and erasure. This lyrical and imagistic poetry collection tells the story of a family’s journey to flee the murderous reign of Uganda’s Idi Amin only to land in a racist American landscape. Wabuke excavates personal and ancestral history to bring these poems to wrenching life, articulating what it means to be a Black girl becoming a Black woman while navigating a diaspora haunted by British colonization and American enslavement.Get The Body Family from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1872-the-body-family---------------------------------------------------------------------Speakers:Hope Wabuke is a Ugandan American poet, essayist, and writer. She is the author of the forthcoming memoir Please Don’t Kill My Black Son Please. Hope has published in The Guardian, The Root, Los Angeles Review of Books, and NPR among others. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a founding board member and former Media &amp; Communications Director for the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction.Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House, 2021), and a forthcoming novel in verse (Make Me A World/Random House, 2021). Co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket, 2019), she is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University.Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden (2019), winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (2015), winner of the Sillerman Prize. A 2021 Whiting Award winner, she has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, Cave Canem, the Michener Center, and the Fine Arts Work Center.Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/XACbmEh1F8kBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.orgFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Join Hope Wabuke and special guests Safia Elhillo and Ladan Osman for a celebration of Wabuke's new book The Body Family. The Body Family is a song of memory and revelation; it is the sublime unearthing of what has been hidden by silence and erasure. This lyrical and imagistic poetry collection tells the story of a family’s journey to flee the murderous reign of Uganda’s Idi Amin only to land in a racist American landscape. Wabuke excavates personal and ancestral history to bring these poems to wrenching life, articulating what it means to be a Black girl becoming a Black woman while navigating a diaspora haunted by British colonization and American enslavement. Get The Body Family from Haymarket: <a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1872-the-body-family" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1872-the-body-family</a> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Hope Wabuke is a Ugandan American poet, essayist, and writer. She is the author of the forthcoming memoir Please Don’t Kill My Black Son Please. Hope has published in The Guardian, The Root, Los Angeles Review of Books, and NPR among others. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a founding board member and former Media &amp; Communications Director for the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction. Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House, 2021), and a forthcoming novel in verse (Make Me A World/Random House, 2021). Co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket, 2019), she is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden (2019), winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (2015), winner of the Sillerman Prize. A 2021 Whiting Award winner, she has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, Cave Canem, the Michener Center, and the Fine Arts Work Center. Watch the live event recording: <a href="https://youtu.be/XACbmEh1F8k" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/XACbmEh1F8k</a> Buy books from Haymarket: <a href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.haymarketbooks.org</a> Follow us on Soundcloud: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks</a>

Haymarket Poetry: The Body Family with Hope Wabuke and more

"I like to start from the present," says Hope Wabuke. "It's vibrant and visceral and has these questions that are lingering throughout time but we can access them." Let’s talk to Hope Wabuke this week for episode 87… She’s @hopewabuke on Twitter and at hopewabuke.com. Hope is a poet, though she knows it, and her essay “The Animal in the Yard” is one of six 2018 Pushcart nominations for Creative Nonfiction Magazine, no we’re not a couple, but our friends tells us we like each other. I had a real hard time cutting this interview down, something I do to all of them, because she is so wise and illuminating throughout, that I left it largely untouched.

"I like to start from the present," says Hope Wabuke. "It's vibrant and visceral and has these questions that are lingering throughout time but we can access them." Let’s talk to Hope Wabuke this week for episode 87… She’s @hopewabuke on Twitter and at <a href="http://hopewabuke.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hopewabuke.com</a>. Hope is a poet, though she knows it, and her essay “The Animal in the Yard” is one of six 2018 Pushcart nominations for Creative Nonfiction Magazine, no we’re not a couple, but our friends tells us we like each other. I had a real hard time cutting this interview down, something I do to all of them, because she is so wise and illuminating throughout, that I left it largely untouched.

Episode 87—Hope Wabuke on Empowering the Marginalized, Starting from the Present, and Finding Her Experience

The poem fragments in Hope Wabuke‘s Movement No. 1: Trains (Dancing Girl Press, 2015) function more as meditations than portions of a whole. They meditate on movement’s power over the body and mind. What are the vessels that carry our bodies through cities, from home to beyond? Who are the people inhabiting our thoughts, moving our mind from idea to emotion to dream?the city is color electric, neon; the humming static pulsingfurther away. and she understands the way a charge moves throughair in the meeting of two bodies, but she does not understand theafterwards, the pressing of a thing into the shape of something else.These poems appear gentle but do not be deceived by the calm voice. Trains shudder and jolt, tracks shift and bump. There is a recognition of longing present each time the beloved is invoked, and a reluctant understanding that when in motion, the familiar becomes foreign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry

The poem fragments in <a href="http://hopewabuke.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hope Wabuke</a>‘s <a href="http://dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/movement-no-1-trains-hope-wabuke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Movement No. 1: Trains</a> (Dancing Girl Press, 2015) function more as meditations than portions of a whole. They meditate on movement’s power over the body and mind. What are the vessels that carry our bodies through cities, from home to beyond? Who are the people inhabiting our thoughts, moving our mind from idea to emotion to dream? the city is color electric, neon; the humming static pulsing further away. and she understands the way a charge moves through air in the meeting of two bodies, but she does not understand the afterwards, the pressing of a thing into the shape of something else. These poems appear gentle but do not be deceived by the calm voice. Trains shudder and jolt, tracks shift and bump. There is a recognition of longing present each time the beloved is invoked, and a reluctant understanding that when in motion, the familiar becomes foreign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry</a>

Hope Wabuke,  “Movement No. 1: Trains” (Dancing Girl Press, 2015)