Post Poet Pop, Episode 25 features the poet Kristina Erny, the author of Elijah Fed By Ravens (Solum Literary Press, 2024). In her own words, Kristina Erny is a third culture person who was raised in Seoul and is always homesick for somewhere. She is a poet, a visual artist, a teacher, a wife, a mother, and a foreigner. We conducted this conversation via voice message letters, in which I was sending questions to Kristina that she would get in the morning and her answers would come in, to me, in the morning. We truly bridged time. Kristina writes, in the poem "In the Days Before" that "In the days before the actual end there were many smaller heartbreaks [...] A person used to be able to split through the husk and know there would be seeds." I think these two statements summarize the poetics of Elijah Fed By Ravens and our conversation quite well. Kristina is a magnetic person and I hope you will find a bit of sustenance you may need in this conversation.

Find out more about Kristina's work by visiting KristinaErny.com and you can buy a copy of Elijah Fed By Ravens from Solum Literary Press, and wherever books are sold.

All poems are performed by Kristina Erny and all the author’s poems discussed are published in Elijah Fed By Ravens (Solum Literary Press, 2024). 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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