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Sunday Pick: 20th Anniversary celebration with renowned poets Eileen Myles, Elizabeth Alexander, Sarah Kay, and Amber Tamblyn | from Design Matters

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Sunday Pick: 20th Anniversary celebration with renowned poets Eileen Myles, Elizabeth Alexander, Sarah Kay, and Amber Tamblyn | from Design Matters mentions Chelsea Girls, For Love by Robert Creeley, The Venus Hottentot, and I Must Be Living Twice with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.

Chelsea Girls For Love The Venus Hottentot I Must Be Living Twice

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Chelsea Girls

In 1994, you published your first collection of short stories, Chelsea Girls, and last year HarperCollins reprinted it. Paris Review described Chelse…

For Love

Robert Creeley

He's got a very famous book of poems called For Love. And it's really good.

The Venus Hottentot

It is from your first book of poems, The Venus Hottentot, published in 1990. And the poem is called Boston.

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For the 20th anniversary of Design Matters, Debbie Millman revisits conversations with renowned poets Eileen Myles, Elizabeth Alexander, Sarah Kay, and Amber Tamblyn. These excerpts reflect on language, identity, memory, and the lived experience that fuels their work. Together, they reveal poetry as an intimate practice that resonates beyond the page. Learn more about our flagship conference happening this April at attend.ted.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Chelsea Girls

In 1994, you published your first collection of short stories, Chelsea Girls, and last year HarperCollins reprinted i…

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For Love

Robert Creeley

He's got a very famous book of poems called For Love. And it's really good.

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The Venus Hottentot

It is from your first book of poems, The Venus Hottentot, published in 1990. And the poem is called Boston.

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I Must Be Living Twice

Would you consider reading one of your poems from I Must Be Living Twice? Yes, I would consider that.

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Dark Sparkler

I think around the time I was writing Dark Sparkler, which really, really was a kind of exorcism for me.

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American Sublime

In your 2005 book of poetry, American Sublime, you wrote a poem titled Tina Green.

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Free Stallion

The Simon & Schuster book that I wrote, Free Stallion, was poems written age 11 to 21.

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Chelsea Girls

“In 1994, you published your first collection of short stories, Chelsea Girls, and last year HarperCollins reprinted it. Paris Review described Chelsea Girls as a nonfiction novel or fictional nonfiction.”