Ep. 258 Long-Suffering Basketball Fans with José Olivarez
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Today we're joined by poet, writer and educator José Olivarez to discuss his new book Promises of Gold, a collection of poems exploring all forms of love, including friendship, romantic and cultural. We find out why José had someone else translate his collection into Spanish when Spanish is his first language. We also discuss how he thinks about organizing his poems on the page and in the book, and why balance in a collection is so important.
The Stacks Book Club selection for March is Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. We will discuss the book on March 29th with Shanita Hubbard.
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| 0:00.0 | You guys, the live and the stacks tour is underway. |
| 0:03.8 | We had an incredible night in Oakland filled with bookish conversations, hot takes, games, |
| 0:08.8 | cocktails. If you missed it, I'm sorry, but don't worry, it's not too late to see the stacks live |
| 0:15.3 | in one of our next four stops. Join me in Chicago with Samantha Erby on August 27th |
| 0:21.6 | in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th in New York City with KSA |
| 0:26.9 | layman on September 25th and in LA on October 18th with some extra special guests that we will be |
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| 0:52.7 | Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today we are joined by Jose Oliveres. |
| 1:00.2 | Jose is an educator award-winning poet and author of a brand new poetry collection called |
| 1:04.9 | Promises of Gold. I absolutely loved this poetry collection that started as a series of love |
| 1:10.7 | poems to his homies and then grew to include the scope of a world dealing with mortality, grief, |
| 1:15.9 | and tenderness in the face of COVID-19. We talked today about language and translation, |
| 1:20.9 | love poems, and so much more. Remember our March Book Club pick is the essay collection Bad |
| 1:26.4 | Feminist by Roxanne Gay. We will be back on March 29th with Shanita Hubbard for that discussion. |
| 1:32.7 | Everything we talk about on each episode of the stacks can be found in the link in the show notes. |
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