Hosts Zoe, Kaitlin, and Gee welcome you to Canon Fire, a podcast dedicated to the stories, creations, and histories of literary figures too red-hot for the Western literary canon.
From the beginning of her life, Audre Lorde challenged standard meanings of what it meant to be a woman, what it meant to be a lover, what it meant to...
Warning: This episode contains mention and frank discussion of rape, racism, and violent murder. Writing during the Civil Rights Movement, the AIDS cr...
In this episode we discuss Audre Lorde, a lesbian woman of color who was as bold as she was unapologetic. As a black lesbian woman near-sighted almost...
Intentionally ignored by her contemporaries and largely forgotten by history, Aemelia Lanyer demonstrates the invisible influence that women, minoriti...
Writing in the same period as Western canonical greats like Shakespeare, Donne, and Jonson, Aemelia Lanyer was consistently overlooked by her contempo...
Working to reclaim her heritage, traditions, and identity amidst the tumultuous changes that indigenous American populations were forced to deal with ...
Critically acclaimed but academically overlooked, Joy Harjo's poetry, music, and performance showcase her experience of her Muscogee (Creek) culture. ...
Writing about Jewish communities post-Holocaust forced Chaim Potok to reckon with a painful, traumatic cultural history that colored the experience of...
Jewish novelist Chaim Potok devoted his career as an author to understanding the human condition. Even while his community was wracked by the fallout ...
Anna Akhmatova was forced into obscurity following the Bolshevik Revolution, but even personal threat by Joseph Stalin could not prevent her from prod...