Here are Professor Ellie Stanford’s responses to our four questions. (Sorry about the delay, Professor Stanford).
Courtesy of Bartram’s Garden
What is your current writing project? (Or do you have a link to a recent publication you’d like to share with our grad students?)
I’m currently working on poems that come out of my recent Fulbright experience in rural Bahia. Ostensibly the poems are about traditional midwifery–but they’re also about questions of marriage, the female body, birth, and death…with a few folk remedies for snakebite and toothache thrown in.
Here’s a link to a recently published (unrelated) poem:
http://subtropics.english.ufl.edu/eleanor-stanford-poetry/
What are you reading, for work or pleasure?
Poetry by Adrienne Su, Sarah Blake, Louise Gluck, and Pablo Neruda; essays by James Baldwin; Patti Smith’s new memoir, M Train.
What are you listening to (music/podcast/radio program)?
Music: Hank Williams, Gillian Welch, bossanova, Gilberto Gil, whatever jazz standards my kids are practicing (currently Night in Tunisia and Blue Monk)
Podcasts: This American Life, Radiolab, Longform, Dear Sugar
When you’re not on campus, where’s your happy place?
Before it gets too cold: at the park, playing frisbee and practicing handstands with my kids.
After it gets too cold: hot yoga studio!