Barbara Tran is interviewed by Evangeline Graham on the Multiverse Poetry Podcast! Listen in! And just in time for Asian Heritage Month!
“The river Ocean was said to enclose the world in a perfect circle, yet no one had ever seen it. Herodotus grumbled: “The name Ocean was, I suppose, invented by some ancient poet or other, and inserted into his poetry.”
In Episode 14 of Multi-Verse, poet Barbara Tran chats with host Evangeline Graham about how water encircles her poem “Loon Song.” Tran’s river Ocean is not inserted but rising around the poet; feverish, Tran envisions herself adrift on the raft of her bed, her feet dangling as if dropping off the far edge of a flat earth. She envisions a loon stuck in a too-small pond. She isn’t sure, in this state, if she’s fit to map her surroundings.
“Loon Song” can be found in Tran’s debut collection, Precedented Parroting (Palimpsest Press, 2024).”
