009 – Breaking It Down with S. Brook Corfman

S. Brook Corfman is the author of My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites, one of The New York Times’ Best Poetry Books of 2020, a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Trans & Gender-Variant Lit Award, and the winner of the Fordham University Press POL poetry prize judged by Cathy Park Hong. They are also the author of the collection Luxury, Blue Lace, chosen by Richard Siken for the 2018 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize, and the chapbooks Frames, Meteorites, and The Anima: Four Closet Dramas. Born and raised in Chicago, they now live in a turret in Pittsburgh.

We’ll be talking memory, absence, climate change, and the body as well as what we’re reading and some thoughts for the road. (GUEST HOSTED BY MARISSA JOHNSON-VALENZUELA with Adriana)

A quick summary of what to expect…

Intro/Welcome
Corfman’s Bio
Episode Summary
from the ARCHIVE: S. Brook Corfman reads at City of Asylum, April 2019
Marissa and Adriana discuss!
The rest of Corfman’s performance from City of Asylum
An interview between Adriana and Corfman (edited for length & clarity)
Marissa and Adriana debrief
What Are We Reading?
Goodbye and outro

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Many thanks to Luis Alfonso for the music in this episode. Image credit to City of Asylum.

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