Interviews & Book Reviews
“Entrevista com a professora Amy Shimshon-Santo” com Ana Rita SantiagoTatiana Pequeno; Corpos, gêneros e literatura de autoria feminina, Pontos de Interrogação, Revista de Crítica Cultural.
“A autora pensa no que deseja para fazer a sua imaginação material. Cultivamos imaginações abundantes, fortes, éticas e sem limites.”
“Poetry is a Small Vessel, But it Can be a Freedom Vessel” Libretto Magazine, Nigeria
“We all have poetic roots. Poetry flows through song, prayer, rhythm, dance, image, and movement.”
Book Review: “A Mother’s Resistance Poetry: A Review of Catastrophic Molting by Diane Gottlieb for Literary Mama.
“Catastrophic Molting, is a brilliant, impassioned, and urgent collection.”
Interview with Àkpà Árinzèchukwu of Muqabalal and A’bena Awuku Larbi about The Ocean Between Us.
“I see the world as a pluriverse where multiple worlds fit together. This notion lends itself to rich cultural and linguistic experiences.”
Interview by Janet Rodriguez of The Rumpus
This was a fun conversation about eco-poetics, planetary justice, and Catastrophic Molting.
Interview by Cindy Huser of Book Woman
“I spent years prioritizing everyone else’s needs, wants, and dreams over my own. Writing helps me redirect this tendency and focus inward like I should. Inward is also outward. It’s just an ‘outward’ where I am included in the story and not made to be invisible.”
Book Review with Washington Independent Book Review by Angela Maria Spring
Catastrophic Molting “captures all the messy dichotomies of a profound, definitive moment on our lifetimes.” The poems read as “both a prayer and a benediction, blessing the poet and the reader…”
Interview with IOPN
"What are communities creating when they feel free, inspired, and empowered? This book invites readers to reimagine arts administration and management as radical practices of cultivation and care."
Interview with ShoutOutLA
“Culture is my medium. The task of a creative is to reimagine the past while making room inside oneself — and the social imaginary — for realities that are yet to be born.
Interview with Unsolicited Press
“Stepping up to the page is like accepting a dance with the eldest salsero on the dance floor, and knowing you have to fully commit to keep up.”
Interview with Capsule Stories
“Time is flat, except the sky changes color. Everything is a mashup. Work. Not work. Wake. Sleep. I bang around in my little glass jar of a life.”
Digital Book Tour with Frontier Poetry: New Books by Gigi Bella and Amy
“Poetry is medicinal. I wrote to become visible to myself, to give voice to my life as a human. Poetry is my bulletproof vest.”
Notes on the power of poetry for The Poetry Question (@poetryquestion)
“Writing is an index finger pointing — look. It’s a way to gain authority over your experience. A trick to overcoming trouble has been listening to myself, or seeing what wanted to be written.”
Interview with Wombwell
“I write poems every morning, and whether they are ‘good’ or not, they’re my medicine for living...They help me know myself, and seek freedom despite whatever may be limiting me in the material world.”
Interview with LunchTicket. LitDish: Adrian Cepeda, Amy Shimshon-Santo, Mireya Vela interviewed by Andrea Auten.
“Three successful Los Angeles-based writers have found a path toward community through shared passions and mutual respect.”
Videos
Poetry Time reading with Amy and Nana Asaase facilitated by Dr. Martin Egblewogbe for Writer’s Project Ghana & the Goethe Institut Accra
Diálogo de poesía plurilingüe. Traducción y Tiempo, UAM
Reading from Even the Milky Way is Undocumented with Gayle Brandeis, SMOL Book Fair
On the Page with Amy Shimshon-Santo, Claremont Graduate University
Even the Milky Way is Undocumented Book Trailer
Book Launch Event with the Autry Museum archived here
Audio & Podcasts
Podcast with Poets at Work “Relaxing Into Myself”
“English-only is like looking at a rainbow of color and saying — only you, red. Just red. That’s it.”
Manuela Garcia SoundScape / Paisaje Sonora de Manuela Garcia for Versos y Besos: The Anthrophony of Manuela Garcia, The Autry Museum
Tree of Lemon, commissioned by Invertigo Dance Theatre
Hemispheric Practices with Michaela Paulette Shirley of Indigenous Design and Planning Institute at UNM and Chike C. Nwoffiah of the Silicon Valley African Film Festival. Moderated by Amy and engineered by Avila Santo (www.avilasanto.com) for CREO.
Podcast with Amy Shimshon-Santo and Brittany Fields from the Imagining America podcast series #IA Shares on iTunes, GooglePlay, or Stitcher.
Listen to “No (No. 10)” on SoundCloud. The poem has been used to teach consent.
Amy reads Barbara Ras’ poem “Letting go of Land” for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards.
