Zaina Alsous's guest appearances

Zaina Alsous

The Poetry Magazine Podcast

Getting to the Root of it with Venus Roots

Poem-a-Day

Sheryl Crow

Thurston Moore

Jericho Brown

Fatimah Asghar

Naomi Shihab Nye

Joyce Carol Oates

Xandria Phillips

José Olivarez

Paul Tran

Julian Randall

Gerald Stern

Marilyn Nelson

Christian Wiman

Cathy Linh Che

Ilya Kaminsky

OwlTail

Recorded by Zaina Alsous for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on June 27, 2023. www.poets.org

Recorded by Zaina Alsous for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on June 27, 2023. <a href="https://www.poets.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.poets.org</a>

Zaina Alsous: "Subjunctive"

The editors discuss Zaina Alsous’s poem “Description de l’Égypte” from the October 2019 issue of Poetry.

The editors discuss Zaina Alsous’s poem “Description de l’Égypte” from the October 2019 issue of Poetry.

Zaina Alsous reads “Description de l’Égypte”

In this episode, Niki interviews Zaina Alsous, a Palestinian, abolitionist poet, and movement worker in Miami. Processing the urgency of the current carceral and climate crisis, they discuss potential interventions to resist and disrupt fascism, within an analysis of settler colonialism, and the power of new language as a means to world-making and envisioning social and political possibilities.Zaina's work has been published in the Boston Review, Bitch Magazine, the New Inquiry, Mask Magazine, Adroit, and elsewhere. She edits for Scalawag Magazine, a publication dedicated to unsettling dominant narratives of the U.S. South. Her first full-length collection A Theory of Birds won the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, and will be published by the University of Arkansas Press in fall of 2019. Pre-order it here.Music courtesy of Magic City Hippies.www.venusroots.com@venusroots  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ 

In this episode, Niki interviews <a href="https://zainaalsous.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Zaina Alsous</a>, a Palestinian, abolitionist poet, and movement worker in Miami. Processing the urgency of the current carceral and climate crisis, they discuss potential interventions to resist and disrupt fascism, within an analysis of settler colonialism, and the power of new language as a means to world-making and envisioning social and political possibilities.Zaina's work has been published in the Boston Review, Bitch Magazine, the New Inquiry, Mask Magazine, Adroit, and elsewhere. She edits for <a href="https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scalawag Magazine</a>, a publication dedicated to unsettling dominant narratives of the U.S. South. Her first full-length collection A Theory of Birds won <a href="https://news.uark.edu/articles/42421/zaina-alsous-named-winner-of-2019-etel-adnan-poetry-prize" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize</a>, and will be published by the University of Arkansas Press in fall of 2019. <a href="https://www.uapress.com/product/a-theory-of-birds/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pre-order it here</a>. Music courtesy of <a href="https://www.magiccityhippies.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Magic City Hippies</a>.<a href="http://www.venusroots.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.venusroots.com</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/venusroots/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@venusroots</a> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/venusroots" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★</a>

Art and Organizing as World-Making, with Zaina Alsous