Much of the work in Weary Kingdom is about the first 4 1/2 years living in New York City, about homemaking and what it means to sort of leave a place that you call home, just sort of start alone in New York City, another place that you will hopefully call home. Home is very important to me, as a transplant to the city from South Carolina 11 years ago. You travel again to confirm.” And your obsession makes me think of a line from Peter Turchi’s Maps of the Imagination: The Writer As Cartographer where he says, “To ask for a map is to say, “Tell me a story.” Have you used some of your obsessions as a map of your own imagination, dictating what you should write about?ĭéLana R.A. How, if one is to be a cartographer you must be able to say this road is here this neighborhood is here this train passes under your feet here. Their giving and withholding information. In a short essay you wrote about the poem, you say: “I am obsessed with maps. Michele Filgate: DéLana, you wrote a beautiful poem called Cartographer. The following is an edited transcript from May’s panel, “Obsession,” which featured Piper Weiss, Julie Buntin, Jessie Chaffee, Vanessa Mártir, and DéLana R.A. Red Ink is a quarterly series curated and hosted by Michele Filgate at powerHouse Arena, focusing on women writers, past and present. The next conversation, “ Denial,” will take place on November 8th at 7 pm, and feature Jennifer Baker ( Everyday People), Anna Godbersen ( When We Caught Fire), Chaya Bhuvaneswar ( White Dancing Elephants), Lilly Dancyger ( Narratively), and Alison Kinney ( Hood).
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