Episode 122: Reading Nicole Sealey’s The Ferguson Report: an erasure
a “Reading with Rachel”/ Commonplace School creation
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Rachel speaks with poet and Commonplace producer Christine Larusso and then, a few weeks later, with Nicole Sealey at the live-virtual “Reading with Rachel” salon about Sealey’s recently published book-length erasure, The Ferguson Report: An Erasure. Sealey describes why, how and when she erased this document and how the erasure and lifted poems became a book.
Books by Nicole Sealey
Ordinary Beast (2017)
The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named: Poems (Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize) (2016)
Also Referenced in the Episode
Ross Gay’s “A Small Needful Fact”
Tracy K Smith’s poem “Declaration”
Bio
Nicole Sealey was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida. She received an MFA from New York University and an MLA in Africana studies from the University of South Florida. Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast (Ecco Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the PEN Open Book and Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards. Her chapbook, The Animal After Whom Other Animals are Named (Northwestern University Press, 2016), was the winner of the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize. In 2019, Sealey was named a 2019–20 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. She has received fellowships and awards from CantoMundo, the Cave Canem Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Elizabeth George Foundation, among others.
In honor of this episode our charitable partner will donate $250 to Furious Flower chosen by Nicole Sealey.
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