Khadijah Queen: Keywords
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Khadijah Queen homes in on her selections by following three keywords through the archive: disobedience, Detroit, and joy. She introduces Rachel Zucker\\u2019s lecture on the confessional mode in poetry (\\u201cWhat We Talk About When We Talk About the Confessional and What We Should Be Talking About\\u201d), francine j. harris\\u2019s lyric dense with complicated emotions (\\u201ckatherine with the lazy eye. short. and not a good poet.\\u201d), and Monica Sok\\u2019s poem of gentle power in the face of trauma (\\u201cThe Woman Who Was Small, Not Because the World Expanded\\u201d). Queen closes by reading \\u201cDeclination,\\u201d which approaches her chosen keywords through the lens of making art.
\\xa0Watch the full recordings of Zucker, harris, and Sok reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:
Rachel Zucker, lecture (2016)
francine j. harris (2015)
Monica Sok (2020)
You can also find a reading by Khadijah Queen on Voca, which was given in 2016.
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