Jasmine Gibson with Juliana Spahr: February 7, 2019

The Poetry Center presents Jasmine Gibson, reading and in conversation with Juliana Spahr. Jasmine Gibson read from her book, Don’t Let Them See Me Like This (Nightboat Books, 2018), as well as new unpublished work, followed by Juliana Spahr interviewing Gibson, before she converses with the audience. This event is the first of two in a double program, part of The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. PLEASE NOTE: The recording exists only for the conversation, which is joined in progress with Jasmine Gibson responding to a question from C.S. Giscombe, in the audience, regarding the effects of her work as a therapist and social worker on her work as a poet.

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DocFilm Institute
Location
SFSU Poetry Center
Date
02/07/2019
Total Run Time
00:24:56
Contributor
Steve Dickison, Juliana Spahr, C.S Giscombe
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Conversation (00:24:31)

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PLEASE NOTE: The conversation between Jasmine Gibson and Juliana Spahr, and with the audience, is joined in medias res, following responses to Spahr's questions dealing with Gibson's introduction into the world of writing poetry, the different mediums poetry takes on today, and Gibson's views on the relationship between poetry and communism, anarchism, and other left politics. From the audience Gibson fields a number of questions: on the effects of her work as a therapist and social worker on her writing poetry, on "the last book or movie that made [her] cry," on the Spotify playlist she made for her book Don't Let Them See Me Like This, on who as a writer she wants to reach as audience, and on the changes she made to her book prior to publishing, among others.

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