Zilka Joseph
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Zilka Joseph was nominated twice for a Pushcart. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Poetry Daily, Michigan Quarterly Review, Frontier Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, Mantis, Review Americana, Quiddity, and in anthologies such as Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women, and Uncommon Core from Neutral Zone. Lands I Live In (Mayapple Press) and What Dread (Finishing Line Press), her chapbooks, were nominated for a PEN America award and a Pushcart respectively. Her book of poems Sharp Blue Search of Flame was published by Wayne State University Press and was a finalist for the Forward Indie Book Award. She was awarded a Zell Fellowship, the Michael S. Guterman prize and the Elsie Choy Lee Scholarship (CEW) from the University of Michigan. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan, an MA in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, and a BA and BEd from Calcutta University. She teaches creative writing workshops in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is a freelance editor and manuscript coach. www.zilkajoseph.com
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Interviews:
http://leccap.engin.umich.edu/leccap/viewer/r/ajOUiG
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/living-writers-2016-04-20/id121092869?i=367223921&mt=2
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/living-writers-2016-04-20/id121092869?i=367223921&mt=2
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Mini Interview (2019)
Your poetics?
Poetry is art. I look for the kernel of truth or feel where “ the heat” lies in pages of unfettered, unabashed writing, distill it, shape it, layer it into a poem with a sharp eye and ear for craft, language, form, tone, voice, effect, etc., and work toward transforming it into something beautiful so it can lift off the page and shine.
Your influences?
Vikram Seth, Nissim Ezekiel, Tagore. Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Lorna Goodison, Nikki Finney, Natalie Diaz, Laura Kasischke, Linda Gregerson, Marge Piercy, W.S Merwin, Allen Ginsberg, the English Metaphysical, Romantic, and Victorian poets, Shakespeare. To name a few!
Why is the Matwaala fest and collective relevant and needed?
We need to celebrate South Asian poetry in all its forms and variety and give it a larger and more significant platform. Our work needs to be recognized and included in the world of American poetry.
Poetry is art. I look for the kernel of truth or feel where “ the heat” lies in pages of unfettered, unabashed writing, distill it, shape it, layer it into a poem with a sharp eye and ear for craft, language, form, tone, voice, effect, etc., and work toward transforming it into something beautiful so it can lift off the page and shine.
Your influences?
Vikram Seth, Nissim Ezekiel, Tagore. Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Lorna Goodison, Nikki Finney, Natalie Diaz, Laura Kasischke, Linda Gregerson, Marge Piercy, W.S Merwin, Allen Ginsberg, the English Metaphysical, Romantic, and Victorian poets, Shakespeare. To name a few!
Why is the Matwaala fest and collective relevant and needed?
We need to celebrate South Asian poetry in all its forms and variety and give it a larger and more significant platform. Our work needs to be recognized and included in the world of American poetry.