Episode 481: Hanif Abdurraqib
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Writing and Publishing Poems
I want to ask you about a topic that i know almost nothing about, which is a writing and publishing poetry. So some of the moments in your essays, particularly where you will often be deep in a historical rabbit hole. And then there'll be a hard cut to a very personal anecdote from your own life. What do those moments achieve for you? And what other parts of poetry do you feel like bring into your approach to writing? Well, i mean, i think those moments are just me paying homage to the ability to write as i would speak.
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