Pushcart Prize nominee! Tara M. Stringfellow, MAGIC ENUFF: Poems
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Zibby is joined by two-time Pushcart Prize nominee Tara M. Stringfellow to discuss MAGIC ENUFF, an electrifying, glorious collection of poems that tells a universal tale of survival and revolution through the lens of Black femininity. Tara opens up about her identity as a Black woman and poet. She highlights specific poems, such as "Exodus," written in memory of Tyree Nichols, a Black artist from Memphis who was killed, and “This Woman,” which draws from her mother's experience of racial violence as a child during the Civil Rights Movement. Finally, she reflects on the success of MEMPHIS, which was a “Read With Jenna” pick.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:08.1 | I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank. |
| 0:14.2 | I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. |
| 0:21.8 | Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at Zivie Readers. |
| 0:31.1 | Tara M. Stringfellow is the author of Magic Enough poems, poet, former attorney, Northwestern University MFA graduate, and |
| 0:39.4 | semifinalist for this Fulbright Fellowship. Terest Jingfellow has written for Collective Unrest, |
| 0:45.5 | Minerva Rising, Jet Fuel Review, Women's Arts Quarterly Journal, and Apogee Journal, |
| 0:51.0 | among other publications. After having lived in Okinawa, Ghana, Chicago, Cuba, Spain, Italy, and Washington, D.C., she moved back home to Memphis, where she sits on her porch swing every evening with her hound, Huckleberry, listening to records and chatting with neighbors. Welcome, Tara. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss magic enough. |
| 1:11.4 | Oh, thank you much for having me. |
| 1:13.8 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 1:14.8 | What a beautiful, powerful book of poems, my gosh. |
| 1:19.1 | Oh, you. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, you're a superstar. |
| 1:23.5 | It's true. |
| 1:24.2 | I appreciate it. |
| 1:25.8 | No, I appreciate it. I'm rather nervous for this collection to come out. No, I appreciate it. |
| 1:27.7 | I'm rather nervous for this collection to come out. |
| 1:31.3 | Oh, well, somewhere I read you say, you know, you're a black and a woman and a poet and all of these things are true. |
| 1:38.5 | And you're just like leaning into this identity as well. |
| 1:41.1 | And I know it could be nerve-wracking. |
| 1:42.9 | But, you know, it's part of you right |
| 1:44.6 | no I always told folk I was born a poet yeah there you go it's a hobby so talk about how this |
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