Samantha Kolber
In the 46th episode of Truer Words, we speak with Samantha Kolber about poetry, motherhood, and indie bookselling in a pandemic. Samantha has received a Ruth Stone Poetry Prize and a Vermont Poetry Society prize, and her manuscript “Jewel Tones” was a semifinalist with the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry’s 2019 First Book Prize. She coordinates author events at Bear Pond Books and is the Poetry Series Editor at Rootstock Publishing. Her chapbook, “Birth of a Daughter,” is availabl now from Kelsay Books. Samantha can be found on Instagram @sampoetmfa and Twitter @Samanthakolber. Her website is SamanthaKolber.com.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Museum of the City of New York
Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner
The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
The Switch by Beth O’Leary
Our episode with Kerry Winfrey
“I've never been more convinced of the absolute necessity of art. Often, the best part of my day has to do with art of some kind, books, photos, music, movies, all of it; often, it's the only good part of my day. It's like my pandemic Popeye spinach & artists, I thank you.”
The Complications of Hilma af Klint lecture
The Parent Trap (1998 Lindsay Lohan version)
The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills version)
Julie and the Phantoms novel by Micol Ostow
Dick, the 1999 teen Watergate comedy, captures the enduring weirdness of political scandals by Alissa Wilkinson
What is a Chapbook? from Writer’s Digest
Keep This to Yourself by Kerrin McCadden
The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms by Ron Padgett
Fruit Rot by James R. Gapinsky
Hunger Mountain Journal for the Arts
To the Man in the Red Suit by Christina Fulton
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Poetry 180 ed. by Billy Collins
Best American Poetry 2019 ed. by Major Jackson
Please Excuse This Poem edited by Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (*I said “East Bay” but it’s about the Golden State Killer)
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark series
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Saving Ruby by Catherine Adel West
About Us:
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