Ep. 13 | Poetry Corner: Marlanda Dekine
In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by special guest Marlanda Dekine.
Books Mentioned
Thresh & Hold by Marlanda Dekine
Motherworld: A Devotional for the Alter-Life by Destiny Hemphill
Cardinal by Tyree Daye
Gossypiin by Ra Malika Imhotep
Rice by Nikki Finney
Guest Info
(c) Nat Williams
Marlanda Dekine is a poet, a voice, and a presence. She is the author of Thresh & Hold (Hub City Press) and i am from a punch & a kiss. Her work has been anthologized in What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People and Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice in an Entangled World. She is a South Carolina Arts Commission Spoken Word/Slam Poetry fellow, Castle of our Skins Shirley Graham Dubois Creative in Residence, Tin House scholar, and Palm Beach Poetry Langston Hughes fellow. Her poems have been set to music by Omar Najmi and Douglas Boyce, sung by Kelley Hollis, and published by the Poetry Foundation, Orion Magazine, Oxford American, and elsewhere. She received a Governor’s Award from South Carolina Humanities and the New Southern Voices in Poetry Prize from Hub City Press.
