On this episode, we break bread with two very special poet friends: Jess Rizkallah and John-Francis Quiñonez. We talk about tortillas, tarot, and traveling in other people's dreams.
On this episode, we break bread with two very special poet friends: Jess Rizkallah and John-Francis Quiñonez. We talk about tortillas, tarot, and traveling in other people's dreams.
Guest # 1: Jess Rizkallah, Book: the magic my body becomes, IG: @jessriz.art, Twitter: @jessriz, Website: www.jessrizkallah.com
Bio:Jess Rizkallah is a Lebanese-American writer and illustrator. Her book the magic my body becomes was a finalist for The Believer Poetry Award and won the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize as awarded by the Radius of Arab-American Writers and University of Arkansas Press. She is a 2022 Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow.
Guest #2: John-Francis Quiñonez, Book: Keep Your Little Lights Alive (Poems after Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love and others), IG: @q_buckaroo, Twitter: @q_buckaroo, Website: www.johnfrancisquinonez.com
Bio: John-Francis Quiñonez or Q (They/Them) is a Desert Flower & Current Resident of Providence, RI/a Queer Writer & Multimedia Artist/ Maker of ice creams & tamales/House Manager of the Columbus Theatre/Current Resident of the Queer.Archive.Work. project/has a Forthcoming collection of Poems with Write Bloody Publishing (‘22) entitled Keep Your Little Lights Alive (Poems After Kate Bush’s "Hounds of Love" & Others). You can find their work in Pigeon Pages, Ours Poetica, Voicemail Poems, Slamfind, Counterclock, Maps for Teeth, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, and as part of a playing card deck with Game Over Books.
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