Today’s guest is brilliant poet Tiana Nobile whose recent collection of poems Cleave is an exceptional exploration of transnational adoption. Tiana shares her story with us from the deeply personal struggles to her in-depth research on the problematic history of adoption. Tiana also teaches us about contranyms and you’ll be in awe of the perfection of the title Cleave when she unpacks that for us.

Show Notes

Recommended Resources

Cleave by Tiana Nobile, Spirit of the Staircase by Tiana Nobile
Henry Goldkamp’s interview, “Disrupting Lexical Expectations in “Cleave”
Surviving the White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll
Find out more about Tiana’s upcoming workshops on her events page tiananobile.com/events
Tiana has requested we include a correction - “when talking about Operation Babylift, I said that 88 children died on the first flight, but it was actually 78 children”

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