Episode 93: Julie L. Moore

In this episode, C. Christopher Smith, founding editor of ERB, chats with poet Julie Moore, who is also the new producer of this podcast. Chris and Julie offer a behind-the-scenes look at the podcast and discuss Julie's hopes for her work as producer. They also discuss Julie's brand collection of poems, Devil's Backbone, which arrives in bookstores this week.

A Best of the Net and eight-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Julie L. Moore is the author of five poetry collections, including, the brand new collection Devil's Backbone. Her previous collection, Full Worm Moon, won a 2018 Woodrow Hall Top Shelf Award and received honorable mention for the Conference on Christianity and Literature's 2018 Book of the Year Award. After directing two university Writing Centers for 20 years, Julie now lives in Indiana and works at Eastern University for its LifeFlex program as a Senior Online Advisor and First Year Composition Instructor.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

By Julie L. Moore :

• Devil’s Backbone (brand new!)
• Full Worm Moon
• Particular Scandals
• Slipping Out of Bloom

Other Books Mentioned

Poetry: 

• Kiki Petrosino, Bright: A Memoir
• Kiki Petrosino, White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia 
• Naomi Shihab Nye, The Tiny Journalist
• Claudia Rankine, Citizen 

Creative Nonfiction: 

• Susanna Childress, Extremely Yours

Nonfiction:

• Marilyn McIntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
• Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise
• Jemar Tisby, How to Fight Racism
• Jemar Tisby, The Spirit of Justice
• Willie James Jennings, The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race 
• Willie James Jennings,After Whiteness
• Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black
• James Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree