INTERVIEW: Robert Eric Shoemaker

EXTRA, EXTRA! EXTRA SPECIAL INTERVIEW!

This time Colin and Emily sit down and talk form, drama, poetry — what it is, what it does, and *why* —with Chicago multi-hyphenate writer, translator, performer and (in our professional opinion) hidden gem, Robert Eric Shoemaker!

NOTE: Recorded Nov. 2024.

GUEST BIO:Robert Eric Shoemaker (he/him) is a poet, translator, and interdisciplinary artist. His book, Magical Poetics: The Magic of Language and Real-World Effect Poetry, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He is the author of Ca’Venezia (Partial Press, 2021), an artist’s book of hybrid writing and visual art; We Knew No Mortality (Acta Publications, 2018), poetry and memoir; and the poetry chapbook 30 Days Dry (Thought Collection Publishing 2015).

CONTENT: Very brief and sensitive discussion of sexual trauma later on in discussing Eric’s ever-evolving Tiresias cycle. Approx. time stamp: 1h 30m.

WEBSITE: reshoemaker.com

NEW PLAY EXCHANGE: https://newplayexchange.org/users/95195/robert-shoemaker