Click to hear Nidia Hernandez read her Spanish-language translation of “Migration” for La Maja Desnuda podcast.
Click to hear “Anxiety Checks Her Phone Again” on The Slowdown podcast.
Click to hear "Petition" on the Writer's Almanac.
Conversations:
“Poems and revision never happen the same way twice for me. It’s a process of remembering, every time I’m working on a poem or any piece of writing, that I don’t really know how to write a poem. It’s a process of trusting that if I keep returning to the words, saying them aloud, recopying a draft, something will happen, and it’ll turn into a thing. Maybe a poem. Over and over, I learn to play with language and make something new, and the process scares me, because I never know what might come of it. And the process also gives me surprise and joy and wonder––for the same reason.” (Click for more.)
“I'm working on a new book of poems that circle around ecological crisis and emergency while also being deeply attentive to particular temporal moments, and to sound, to song. I'm experimenting with form, poem to poem, from prose poems written the way I speak to poems that use meter and weirded syntax to create their emotional pitch. I want these new poems to come together to make a kind of Anthropocene song.” (Click for more.)
“I try to trust that a poem's music and movement and, ultimately, meaning, germinate in the darker, more intuitive part of the mind, and not through my well-intentioned planning. My better poems grow out of that trust.” (Click for more.)
“I still think that when I write, I want to feel the way I did when roaming around in those woods as a child—interested in discovery, open to it. And also clearheaded. Alive.” (Click for more.)
"Writing poetry helps me to ask questions and address conflicts or tensions that most of us (me, anyway) don’t get a chance to address in everyday conversation." (Click for more.)