02/20/2024
🌊Welcome to Season 5 of The Host Dispatch!! 🌊
We can’t think of a better way to kick off the new season than this conversation with Stephanie Niu—the most recent winner of the Host Publications Chapbook Prize! 🐚
Stephanie’s chapbook SURVIVED BY is a mesmerizing collection of poems, full of grief and wonder in equal measure. Niu’s work explores ecopoetics as we’ve never encountered before, maps and visual poems create a kind of “atlas of disappearance” centered around the species of Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, and the place of origin of many poems in this collection.
🐚 We talked about the shell wall at the American Museum of Natural History, the connections between poetic and scientific worldviews, what poetry as “atlas” might mean, and much, much more!
This conversation was dreamy, scholarly and enlightening, and through it we’ve come to love Stephanie and her chapbook in a whole new way 🥹💙
We hope you enjoy S. 5 Ep. 1: “In Conversation with Stephanie Niu” available now, wherever you listen 🎧
