Post Poet Pop, Episode 23 features the poet Kristi Maxwell and her 2023 Wishing Jewel Prize winning book, Goners, with poems set in lipogram form and organized around the names of endangered or extinct species. In the opening essay in the collection, Kristi writes: In The New Poetics of Climate Change, Matthew Griffiths asks, “Must poetry of climate change belong in the tradition of the pastoral or the elegy? … What alternative models or approaches might there be?” And, later: "What I stress now: I’m not writing about endangered species; I’m writing without them—attempting to imagine in a linguistic landscape the ways that loss would be registered and felt or fail to be Kristi is the author of 8 books of poetry, an associate professor of English at the University of Louisville, and holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona. We, of course, talk about animals, but also we speak about her process for Goners and the uncanny and much more.

Find out more about Kristi's work at KristiMaxwellPoetry.com and grab a copy of Goners from Green Linden Press right away.

All poems are performed by Kristi Maxwell, and all the author’s poems discussed are published in Goners (Green Linden Press, 2023) . The poems are the property of the author and the publisher(s) listed. The song played during the introduction is “Sunday Afternoon” and is performed by The True Loves. Please support their work.

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