Donika Kelly and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Desire Paths, Therapy, and Pleasure

This week, new host Cindy Juyoung Ok speaks with Donika Kelly. The author of two poetry collections, The Renunciations and Bestiary, Kelly teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa. Rita Dove called The Renunciations , “poetry of the highest order,” and Nikki Finney, who selected Kelly’s first book for the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, wrote, “ Bestiary ’s lesson is complicated and also simple. Love can be hunted down.” Using erasures or Greek myths, writing from terror and travel, Kelly never approaches an event, state, or image in only one way. Today, we hear from a new sequence of poems featured in the June issue of Poetry , and Kelly also answers a question from the void. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Donika Kelly and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Desire Paths, Therapy, and Pleasure is an episode from The Poetry Magazine Podcast by Poetry Foundation.

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This episode was published on Jun 6, 2023.

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