Episode 154: Rachel Edelman

In the opening poem of Rachel Edelman's debut collection, Dear Memphis , the speaker returns to their home city after a long time away, traversing a landscape that is both familiar and foreign, a place to which she belongs but also doesn't. Over the course of the collection, Edelman asks questions about heritage and inheritance; about exile, diaspora, and migration; about home; about marginalization and privilege, oppression and complicity. In our conversation, we talked about acts of care, the importance of self-criticality, what poems do, and the necessary and the possible. Then for the second segment, we talked about corresponding via hand-written letters. (Recorded June 28, 2024)

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Episode 154: Rachel Edelman is an episode from Keep the Channel Open by Mike Sakasegawa.

This episode is 01:27:05 long.

This episode was published on Sep 25, 2024.

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