Courage, Imagination, & Boldness of Spirit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths on the Tender Business of Being Human
In this episode Susan talks with poet and multimedia artist Rachel Eliza Griffiths about her poetry, the universalities of the human experience that bring us together, and how she opens her toolbox to cope with life, loss, change, keep her art moving forward.
Meet This Episode's Guest
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a visual artist and author. Her most recent collection of poetry is Lighting the Shadow (Four Way Books 2015). Griffiths has received fellowships from Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Yaddo, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and others. Her work has appeared widely including The New Yorker, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tin House, Gulf Coast, and American Poetry Review. Griffiths lives in New York City.
Links:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/heart-of-darkness
https://www.vqronline.org/people/rachel-eliza-griffiths
https://www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/what-has-changed-essay-and-photographs/
Mar. 19 2015: poet and photographer Rachel Eliza Griffith at James Madison University. See more at http://www.jmu.edu/furiousflower/readings.shtml
Rachel Eliza Griffiths performs Disarming of Shadow, Arming of Light from her latest collection of poems, Lighting the Shadow. Photographed in Brooklyn. Winter 2015.
RESIDENCY 36: JANUARY 14-FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Rachel Eliza Griffiths explores relationships and rhythms between text and images. Her identities as poet, writer, painter, videographer, and photographer inform her practice and experimentation across multiple dimensions and genres. She constantly stitches, collapses, collages, and ruptures self-perception. She centers the notion and vehicle of the “lyric” at the core of her compositions. Often, her work blurs issues of narrative, body, memory, identity, trauma, and intimacy. Rachel Eliza lives and works in New York, NY. To learn more about Rachel Eliza, Visit: http://www.rachelelizagriffiths.com/