VS Podcast: hosted by Danez Smith and Franny Choi
The poet and filmmaker talks about how she has traversed the complex and scarring world of the poetry industry, the ways that she pushed herself toward making different media, what she hopes for the poets emerging in her wake, and much more. Plus, some quality shoutouts to the bees and important postcolonial board game critiques. Producer: Daniel Kisslinger.
West Texas Talk: Interview and Reading
On this episode of “West Texas Talk,” Elise Pepple sits down with Lannan Resident Ladan Osman to talk about familial influence and heritage in her writing. Producer: Diana Nguyen.
Ladan Osman was born in Somalia and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She earned a BA from Otterbein University and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin's Michener Center for Writers. In 2014 her poetry collection The Kitchen Dweller's Testimony won the annual Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.
A Poem by Ladan Osman
Directed by C. S. DeBose
Canon C100