Justice Questions, Questions of Meaning - Alyse Knorr on Poetry and Teaching

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A conversation with Alyse Knorr, 'achiever' (to cite her Super Mario Bros 3, where I first encountered her work and reviewed it for The Pixels). In which we discuss:

- Sweetbitter Podcast, with new episodes coming soon about Mary Magdalen and a fourth season in the works

- Switchback Books, which she edits with her wife

- Regis University, where she teaches alongside colleagues such as Russ Arnold

- her poetry, research, and the novel she's writing

- Annotated Glass and Sappho fragment 31

- 'Bright Star,' Keats, Eliot, Carson's Autobiography of Red; Gilgamesh and Enheduanna

- 'Anatomy Exam'

- Ardor, a book of eco-queer domestic life and love

- Every Last Thing, a book of tantrums and embarrassed apologies

- Micaela Tore's MA thesis on Copper Mother

(and around here you'll get a musical interlude from moonbowmusic)

- Topophilia: Elizabeth Bishop's 'The Map'; Henry Jenkins' 'Complete Freedom of Movement'; Sean Fenty's nostalgia piece in Playing the Past.

- her new class on Video Games and Meaning: topics, problems, persuasion and social justice: Hair Nah and microaggressions; Oregon Trail and colonialism; Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin; Passage; citizen science; This War of Mine; Papers, Please; Train; Anna Anthropy's Dys4ia, Queers in Love at End of World, and ZZT.

- Her new novel (agents, check it out), a postapocalyptic story of love and a journey in a world with too much stuff, not enough people

Alyse also recommends Merlin for birdwatching; "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock," by TS Eliot; "Married," "Alone," "In Dispraise of Poetry," and "Failing and Flying," by Jack Gilbert.

Thank you for reading and listening! from the Video Game Academy