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This month’s guest is Aeon Ginsberg. We dug into their recently published book Greyhound and also talked about PoBiz/Big Lit, death, and teeth poetry. Aeon Ginsberg (they/them) is an agender transfeminine writer and performer from Baltimore City, MD. They are the author of Greyhound, the 2019 winner of the Noemi Press Poetry Prize, and their work has been published in various magazines in print and online. Aeon is a Taurus, a bartending, and a bitch. Aeon’s website Aeon’s Twitter account Go get Greyhound! Writers, news, books, events mentioned in this episode: Aeon’s previous chapbooks: Until the Cows Come Home (Elation Press, 2016) Loathe/Love/Lathe (Nostrovia! Press, 2017) Yanyi has written an excellent article regarding PoMag’s “trans issue” and critiquing special issues in general: “Counting Tokens: Special Issues and the Theatre of Delay.” #BeyondSpecialIssue folio organized by jayy dodd Roy Guzman on what happened after their close reading of Toby Martinez de las Rivas’s published and fascist work "Titan / All Is Still" in PoMag’s Nov 2018 issue. PoFound statement about how they plan to reorient themselves and dismantle white supremacist practice in their organization. “Exclusive: The Paris Review, the Cold War and the CIA,” in Salon speCt! books open letter to PoFound at the wake of the COVID-19 crisis “MICA professor resigns after former student alleges misconduct, says she informed college two years ago,” in The Baltimore Sun. Isobel Bess (sorry for accidentally using her previous name!) Jamie Berrout Marxist Poetry Podcast Magpie Killjoy's I Pity The Immortal RBG's personal trainer doing push-ups in front of her casket Chen Chen Shazia Hafiz Ramji David Davis Kayleb Candrilli Chris, a Christine and the Queens album “Hello -- A Greeting From Nowhere” Anne Boyer's What Resembles A Grave Peach Mag Fargo Tbakhi's 12 World's Interrupted By The Drone Aeon made a Spotify playlist of songs that are in conversation with their book Anne Carson quote: "If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it." The Sound of Waves Breaking is this video Aeon sent me of Vin Diesel singing Rhianna. Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz If you want to get in contact with me, you can email me at wavesbreakingshow@gmail.com and/or message me @WavesBreakPod on Twitter.