Dayna Patterson is a poet, photographer, and textile artist based in the Pacific Northwest. The poems in her latest collection, O Lady, Speak Again, use the voices of the women characters from Shakespeare’s plays to talk about patriarchy, motherhood, sexuality, religion, heritage. In our conversation, Dayna and I discussed her creative process and how she finds her way into a poem, her use of persona in O Lady, Speak Again, and how and why she interrogates that same device within the collection. The in the second segment, we talked about play, and how it interacts with the creative process.

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Show Notes:

• Dayna Patterson
• Purchase O Lady, Speak Again: Village Books (Bellingham, WA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 120: Kazim Ali
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 137: Gabrielle Bates
• NaPoWriMo
• Othello, Act V, Scene ii
• Jorie Graham
• The Winter’s Tale
• Emily Dickinson - “Tell all the truth but tell it slant”
• Rachel Zucker - The Poetics of Wrongness
• Kristiana Kahakauwila
• Jehanne Dubrow
• Mike Sakasegawa - Sheets: A Love Letter
• Bruce Beasley - Prayershreds

Transcript

Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo