Episode 275: Erin Hoover

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Poet and professor Erin Hoover self-identifies as "the parent of a donor-conceived child," and if you're wondering how she came to use that specific terminology, the thread of its evolution runs all the way through her recently-released collection, "No Spare People." Erin is currently based in Tennessee, and has lived in a number of places we might not think of as particularly "queer-friendly." Add to that the fact that she's chosen to parent on her own, and...let's just say she encounters a lot of personal questions. Erin shares how being queer is "a mode of existence...that has influenced every part of my life," and reads several poems from "No Spare People" as the events that inspired them come up in her story. Plus: '90s Dyke Drama (TM) at Sarah Lawrence!

(TW: discussion of sexual assault, but nothing descriptive)

The best way to find all things Erin is to go to her Linktree at linktr.ee/erinhoover. From there, you can access her website for more of her poetry and a list of upcoming events, find out where to purchase "No Spare People," and read the Daily Beast article we discussed in this episode! You can also follow Erin on Twitter and Bluesky at @erinhoover, and on Instagram at @theerinhoover.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to coming out pod. Okay, today's queer root shoutout is another one that is
0:13.2	sort of personal to me. Shout out to you, if your queer root is Liesel in the Sound of Music,
0:20.9	a family movie often watched around the holidays, but maybe it made you feel feelings.
0:26.0	Also, I just want you to know.
0:28.9	I know the song is 16 going on 17.
0:31.1	She was older than 16.
0:33.8	So hypothetically, if you're like, oh, no, is this weird?
0:37.0	No, I did the work for you i googled
0:39.8	how old she was during filming so it's okay if you had a question on leisle it's not inappropriate
0:45.9	uh shout out to you shout out to charmie and car the actress who played leasel can you tell
0:52.2	someone had a crush and did her research? And that's
0:54.6	someone is me. Okay, y'all, I'm I'm thrilled to have today's guest. We have not had on the
1:03.4	podcast too many poets. But we do today. I am here with poet and professor at Tennessee Tech
1:10.7	University, Aaron Hoover. Hi, Aaron.
1:14.5	Hi. Thank you so much for being here. So Aaron has a recently released collection of poetry
1:22.3	called No Spare People, which is truly really, really beautiful. I teared up reading several poems, which is a
1:31.7	big accomplishment because I am not the most, I don't know, emotionally in touch with my feelings
1:37.7	person ever. But yeah, I really, I love what I read. I'm so thrilled to talk to you um and yeah is there is there
1:46.7	anything that you would like to say about uh uh uh you just in general before we sort of dive into
1:54.4	the nitty gritty of it all well in terms of how I identify... Oh, sure.
2:01.1	Yeah.
2:02.1	I do...
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