Isn’t that what we are all doing in persona? Flaubert said, “Madame Bovary, c’est moi.” It’s hard to understand our own experience. We get at it sideways, through imagination. There are always voices conspiring against us, urging us to distrust what we know. Imagination is a place to be free and also a place to hunt for what’s true.
Jessica Cuello
Poet and translator Philip Metres interviews Jessica for The Rumpus
DMQ Review Salon: Cuello reads a selection of poems from Yours, Creature
JackLeg Press Spring Reading with Dorianne Laux, Brittney Corrigan, and Rita Mookerjee
Jessica Cuello: Does the Lyrical “I” Lie?
On Hunger and Silence: A Conversation Between Jessica Cuello and Shanta Lee: Dec. 2022.
Harbor Review
Phosphorescence Poetry Reading Series: Sept. 2022
Tell It Slant Poetry Festival
Of Poetry
Jessica Cuello is interviewed by fellow poet Han VanderHart for the Of Poetry podcast.
Caffè Lena Reading, Nov. 2021
Cuello reads from Liar live at the famous Caffè Lena.
Interview with Nancy Chen Long
A 2015 interview about My Father’s Bargain with Nancy Chen Long.
Writers on Writing
A conversation between Jessica Cuello and Jenna Le on craft and whales.
Jessica interviewed by The Hive Collective
Reading with Mark Doty for Café Muse
Interview on My Bad Poetry Podcast
Bad Mouth Reading Series April 2023
People and Their Poems
The Notebooks Collective
Discussion and Reading with poet Jan Beatty
Hudson Valley Writers Center, Sept. 2021
Cuello reads from LIAR alongside Major Jackson and Peter Filkins for Hudson Valley Writers Center.
The Campbell Conversations
Cuello, along with Christopher Citro, Georgia Popoff, and Arthur Flowers, reads on WRVO’s Campbell Conversations in May 2020.
Wells Visiting Writers
Cuello reads from Pricking at Wells College in 2016. Video here.
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