InTheNo 4B: Poet Teresa Leo, Part II
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In the second of a two-part conversation with award-winning poet Teresa Leo, we talk of love and basketball, as well as life among “The Big 8″ — work, sports, God, hunting, hairdressing, family, food, and Italy. We also discuss how Leo reflects back of her life experiences in her poetry, and her approach to the language of love, longing, and loss.
During the interview, we touch on several people, places, and publications, including:
Teresa Leo: homepage, Pew Fellowship web page
Field & Stream magazine
Encyclopedia Britannica
Bucknell University
The American Poetry Review
CrossConnect, the 21st Century Literary Review
Pew Fellowship in the Arts
Emily Dickinson, Poem CXXVI
Yoko Ono, “Ceiling Painting (Yes Painting)”
George Eliot, from The Lifted Veil
The myth of Narcissus
The onetime halo rule in NCAA football
Willis Reed in Game 7 of the 1970 NBA finals
Is there more to the relationship between sports and verse than “poetry in motion”? Settle into a front-row seat and find out.
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Articulate, funny, interesting. The interviewer was smart and keen, i.e. Springsteen and story tellers, and “I can hear the joy in that…”. And the question about the contradiction between yes and but. And smart to go back to this “yes, but.” The questions open-ended and a good mix of the prepared and the spontaneous: the Big 8.
I liked the poems opening and punctuating. I don’t understand poetry, but the poetry seemed permeable and possible to me. Meatballs I understand.
Jack Wheatcroft is god.
Her shot from the top of the key is way overrated, I hear.
“Yes, but” is not bad.
I can’t make sense of Narcissus, what’s with the gasoline and peonies?