Interview with Chase Berggrun

Waves Breaking

In this episode I got to speak to Chase Berggrun about their new book R E D (Birds, LLC, 2018). Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Pinwheel, PEN Poetry Series, Sixth Finch, Diagram, The Offing, Prelude, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. They received their MFA from New York University. They are Poetry Editor at Big Lucks.

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List of things and people mentioned in this episode:

• Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula

• Dodie Bellamy’s The Letters of Mina Harker

• Cathy Park Hong essay: “Delusion of Whiteness in the Avant-Garde”

• Joey De Jesus essay: “Goldsmith, Conceptualism & the Half-baked Rationalization of White Idiocy”

• Solamz Sharif essay “The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and Poetical: Erasure”

• Solmaz Sharif’s LOOK

• Matt Rasmussen’s Black Aperture

• Jos Charles’ feeld

• George Abraham: al youm: for yesterday & her inherited traumas

• Gala Mukomolova’s One Above, One Below: Positions and Lamentations

• Leslie Jameson’s The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

• Tommy Pico’s podcasts Food 4 Thot and Junk

• The Parent Trap starring Lindsay Lohan and Lindsay Lohan

• Spongebob asexually reproducing

Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz

Sound of Waves Breaking