Episode 62: Khadijah Queen
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Rachel Zucker speaks with scholar, poet, playwright, professor, artist, mother Khadijah Queen about what she’s teaching, her doctoral studies, her memoir-in-progress, her newest book (I’m So Fine), her new, unpublished poems, simultaneity and happening-aliveness, emotion, emotion as knowledge, humor, healing, intuition, ancient traditions, fibromyalgia, gender violence, being single, the writing community in Denver, the patriarchy, wanting not only to begin but to continue, memes, and recognizing that not everything will turn out perfectly.
Books by Khadijah Queen
I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (YesYes Books, 2017)
Fearful Beloved (Argos Books, 2015)
Non-Sequitur (Litmus Press, 2015)
Black Peculiar (Noemi, 2011)
Conduit (Akashic, 2008)
Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the Episode
Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk:Ars Poetica in 59 Versos (Duke University Press, 2018)
Sydia Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 1997)
Sara Ahmed’s Living a Feminist Life (Duke University Press, 2017)
Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born (WW Norton, 1995)
Muriel Rukeyser’s The Life of Poetry (Wesleyan University Press, 1996)
Gwendolyn Brooks’ In the Mecca (Harper and Row, 1968)
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (Vintage Books, 1995)
Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself (University of Iowa Press, 2006)
Edward Hirsch’s Gabriel (Knopf, 2014)
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