Welcome to our final installment of our special summer series, F***ing Shakespeare’s Shorts, where we interviewed the very tired but always brilliant souls who had books coming out in the time of the pandemic. For this final shorts episode, we spoke with poet Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers who shares with us the beautiful queering of poetic form in her book, The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons, which came out this February from Acre Books. Elizabeth tells us about the dichotomy of her past publishing nightmares and the wonder of having a one-year-old bopping around the house, and we make fun of her for living in D.C. Ultimately, we all agree that The Tilt is truly a book for our times, as the poems explore the nature of solitude and forces of colonization. Plus, we all learn that Jessica is a top-notch social media stalker. You can book her any time for that quarantine-edition social media prowling that we’re all doing since we’re not seeing each other in person. (Obviously, we’re mostly kidding.) We hope you enjoy this final episode of our shorts series, and we’ll see you again soon for the next full season of the podcast!

Instead of social media stalking your exes, pick up a copy of The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasonsand read some really good poetry. You can also find more from Elizabeth at her website or by following her on Twitter.

Born and raised in North Carolina, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers was educated in the public schools and trained as both a dancer and musician. She received her B.A. from Oberlin College in Creative Writing and Dance and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Cornell University. She was an Oberlin Shansi Fellow from 2007-2009 at Shanxi Agricutural University (山西农业大学) in Taigu, China, where she taught English and dance. Rogers received the two-year fellowship at The Kenyon Review, and has held teaching positions in community settings and at multiple universities and colleges across the nation. Most recently, Rogers was the Murphy Visiting Fellow in English-Creative Writing at Hendrix College from 2016-2019, where she taught creative writing and mentored students in the Murphy Scholars Program. She is a Contributing Editor at The Kenyon Review and a volunteer for the Veterans' Writing Project. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her wife and baby.