Listen to Craftwork Episode 20: Girlhood, Defamiliarization, & Poetic Excavation w/ Emily Banks.

In this interview, we chat with Emily Banks about posthumous publications, linguistic allergies, the atomic nuts and bolts of imagery, and so much more. 

Emily Banks is the author of Mother Water (Lynx House Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Plume, Copper Nickel, 32 Poems, The Rumpus, CutBank, Mid-American Review, and other journals. She publishes scholarship on American gothic literature, runs The Shirley Jackson Society, and is currently editing The Oxford Handbook of Shirley Jackson. She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. from Emory University. She lives in Indianapolis and teaches at Franklin College. 

Books, poems, and stories mentioned in this episode:

• “Filling Station”; “In the Waiting Room” – Elizabeth Bishop
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
• Turn Up the Ocean – Tony Hoagland
• “Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors”; Hangsaman; The Haunting of Hill House; We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
• Bliss Montage; Severance – Ling Ma
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy – Jenny Odell
• Middle Distance – Stanley Plumly
• Pamela – Samuel Richardson
• Modern Poetry – Diane Seuss