Jehanne Dubrow [Host: Lena Crown]

On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Lena Crown interviews Jehanne Dubrow.

Jehanne Dubrow is the author of nine books of poems, including most recently, Wild Kingdom (Louisiana State University Press, 2021), and three books of creative nonfiction, throughsmoke: an essay in notes (New Rivers Press, 2019), Taste: A Book of Small Bites (Columbia University Press, 2022), and Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity (University of New Mexico Press, 2023).

Lena Crown is a book editor for us at Autofocus Books. Her essays are published or forthcoming in The Rumpus, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Narratively, North American Review, The Offing, and elsewhere, and her poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, The Boiler, Poet Lore, No Contact, and Variant Lit.

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Full conversation topics include:

-- writing routines and book juggling

-- switching modes of writing/thinking

-- teaching trauma writing

-- starting as an encouraged visual artist

-- Rothko

-- writing young 

-- working on Taste: A Book of Small Bites and then Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity

--  the research process for a braided essay

-- rendering place and many different countries

-- the "snapshots" and "galleries" in the book

-- ekphrasis

-- using the body and becoming a surface

-- finding (and using) different forms

-- the problem of beauty

-- possession and dispossession

-- discomfort

-- fact and pathos

-- organization and ordering

-- flash/prose poem form

-- her next book Civilians

-- frivolity

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Podcast theme music  by Mike Nagel, author of Duplex and Culdesac. Here's his music project: Yeah Yeah Cool Cool.

The Lives of Writers is edited and produced by Michael Wheaton, author of Home Movies.

Episode and show artwork by Amy Wheaton.