BONUS: Poetry That Pays Attention with Patricia Smith

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🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Through her poetry, Patricia Smith generously, skillfully puts language around what can be seen both in the present and deliberately looking back at oneself. We are excited to offer this conversation between Pádraig and Patricia, recorded during the 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, New Jersey. Together, they explore how memory, persona, and a practice of curiosity inform Patricia’s work, and the ways writing a poem is like writing a piece of music.

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0:00.0	Hi friends, thanks very much for listening to Poetry on Bound. Season 7 is finished and
0:06.6	season 8 is going to be coming out in the winter and in the meanwhile in between these
0:11.4	seasons we're going to be releasing a few interviews that I did last year at the 2022
0:17.0	Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark in New Jersey in the States. It was a great time to be there.
0:22.6	Thanks very much to Martin Farrowell and everybody else involved in that festival for the invitation
0:27.1	and the warm welcome. I know you'll enjoy these interviews. It was a thrill to make them.
0:31.7	This interview is with Patricia Smith, Queen of Poetry on the page and the stage and everything
0:37.6	in between. If you want to keep in touch with things Poetry on Bound you can sign up for the weekly
0:42.3	free soft stack. I write a reflection on a poem and offer a question and people respond to that
0:47.1	every week on a Sunday. So keep in touch and looking forward to season 8 and all the best.
0:57.4	Good afternoon and welcome to Poetry on Bound at the Geraldine or Dodge Poetry Festival.
1:07.2	We're very lucky today to have Padre Gautuma, the host of that program and Patricia Smith
1:14.1	together. If you don't know the podcast, Poetry on Bound, when you leave here today you should
1:21.4	subscribe to it and include some of the most thoughtful, meditative discussions, explorations
1:26.9	of contemporary poetry that you're going to hear anywhere. They're really quite beautiful.
1:32.8	Because this is being recorded for a podcast we're asking you to be extra careful to make sure
1:37.4	your phones are off or silenced on airplane mode. That if you have papers or aluminum cans or
1:46.3	things that make noise that you put them down, put them away and don't ruffle through potato
1:50.1	chip bags or anything like that. So please help me welcome Padre Gautuma and Patricia Smith.
2:01.6	Thank you very much Martin and thanks to everybody involved in Dodge for the warm welcome and the
2:07.2	opportunity for us to be here today. By way of introducing Patricia Smith, I want to quote some of your
2:12.9	words back to you. This is from a poem called Look at Them Go for your granddaughter Michaela. I know
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