E.G. Cunningham (Of Field, the Suburban Exclusion of the Wild, and the Potential of Abstracts)

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Of Poetry Podcast

Han VanderHart

80 episodes

2 weeks ago

Kitchen table conversations with poets, hosted by Han VanderHart.

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Kitchen table conversations with poets, hosted by Han VanderHart.

E.G. Cunningham (Of Field, the Suburban Exclusion of the Wild, and the Potential of Abstracts)

Of Poetry Podcast

50 minutes

3 months ago

E.G. Cunningham (Of Field, the Suburban Exclusion of the Wild, and the Potential of Abstracts)

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).

Purchase: Field Notes(River River Books, 2025)

E. G. Cunningham was born in South Carolina and grew up in Italy and Florida. Her poems, essays, stories, and hybrid pieces have appeared in or are forthcoming from a wide range of national and international publications, including The Abandoned Playground, Colorado Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Nation, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, Southern Humanities Review, and ZYZZYVA. Her most recent chapbook, Oranges for Venus, was selected as the 2023 1br/3bath Editor’s Choice from Tilted House Press. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Georgia. Read more about her writing and music at egcunningham.com.

Reading Recommendations

"What are the United States and why are there so many of them?" essay by Heriberto Yepéz

Sonia Sanchez's essay in Civil Disobediences: poetics and politics in actions (Coffee House Press, 2004)

Transnational Battle Field (Commune Editions, 2017) by Heriberto Yepéz

Poem for Difficult Children (Broken Sleep Books, 2022) by Daniele Pantano

The Gleaners and I (2001, film) by Agnes Varda (watch on The Internet Archive)

Whose Justice? Which Rationality?by Alasdair MacIntyre

The Southern Reach Series by Jeff VanderMeer