​​​​​​​Poems, Interviews, Articles


Outlook India: Author profile and three poems:

 https://www.outlookindia.com/author/zilka-joseph-3932


 The Bombay Literary Magazine: Three poems

https://bombaylitmag.com/sailor-storm/


Beltway Poetry Quarterly: Poems and Review of In Our Beautiful Bones

https://www.beltwaypoetry.com/poetry/poets/names/zilka-joseph/?fbclid=IwAR2gqpAmLYvYSam6-n6Vs6r7Jw5mKnk_vyiSyTtGnyCIAozQHAtosX4avTI


Culturico Podcast, hosted by Gerfried Ambrosh

https://culturico.com/2022/07/10/podcast-12-the-power-of-poetry-an-interview-with-zilka-joseph/

 

"In My Bones", essay in PB Daily, Jewish Book Council

https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/in-my-bones

 

Rattle Podcast, hosted by the editor, Timothy Green, Sunday February 13, noon EST. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVhV3DXTTjg
https://www.facebook.com/events/658960385246976/

 

Chaldean Cultural Center: Interview by author and film maker, Weam Namou

https://www.chaldeanculturalcenter.org/interview-with-indian-american-and-bene-israel-poet/

 

​​PULP: Arts Around Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor District Library

https://pulp.aadl.org/node/582075

 

Indi(e) Blue Press, An Author profile

https://indieblu.net/2022/02/21/authors-in-indie-blue-anthologies-zilka-joseph/

 

Short Edition and Michigan State University, Two Poems on the Theme of "Home." Home Anthology published by MSU

https://msu.short-edition.com/search?q=zilka+joseph

 

Desi Books, Five Faves Podcast https://desibooks.co/fivedesifaves-zilka-joseph/

 

Rattle https://www.rattle.com/gourami-fish-tale-by-zilka-joseph/

 

Joao-Roque Literary Journal

https://www.joaoroqueliteraryjournal.com/poetry/2021/11/9/4gqihe8b91hv2aun5256yixiyy7zmg

Beltway Poetry Review

https://www.beltwaypoetry.com/a-z-of-foreign-anguish-freedom-song-with-ginsberg-dylan-marley-prayer-zilka-joseph/

 

The Punch Magazine

https://thepunchmagazine.com/the-byword/poetry/the-scent-of-an-indian-and-other-poems

 

Poetry at Sangam

http://poetry.sangamhouse.org/2020/12/zilka-joseph/

Read the introduction and other featured poets here:

http://poetry.sangamhouse.org

 

Beltway Poetry Quarterly

https://www.beltwaypoetry.com/mama-whod-have-thought-zilka-joseph/

Read the current issue:

https://www.beltwaypoetry.com

 

Confluence, South Asian Perpectives (UK) Download pdf, Page 21

http://www.confluence.mobi/2021/02/confluence-february-2021-issue/

 

Ablucionistas
https://ablucionistas.com/she-is-gone-how-did-this-happen-zilka-joseph/

 

Poetry Daily, "For the Birds" from the Michigan Quarterly Review
http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17656

 

Poetry Magazine
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/90301

 

Frontier Poetry​
https://www.frontierpoetry.com/2018/05/04/poetry-zilka-joseph/

Kenyon Review Online (KRO)

Poems:
http://www.kenyonreview.org/writer/zilka-joseph/

Interview:
http://www.kenyonreview.org/writer/zilka-joseph/

 

Lucy Writer's Platform (UK)

http://lucywritersplatform.com/2020/05/26/three-notes-to-blue-jays-and-other-poems-by-zilka-joseph/

 

Ars Notoria (UK)

Contributor, So You Want to Be a Poet? https://arsnotoria.com/category/poetry/

 

Dragonfly (Issue 2020)

Pages 10 and 16

https://wearehopeworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Website-Version-HopeWorks-2020-Dragonfly-FINAL.pdf

 

Interviews/Articles:

Bengaluru Poetry Festival, 2023

https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/meet-the-poets-who-will-be-at-the-bengaluru-poetry-festival/article67142745.ece

https://www.indulgexpress.com/culture/books/2023/aug/02/rhyme-reason-six-poets-let-us-in-on-what-we-can-expect-from-bengaluru-poetry-festival-2023-51622.html


Center for the Education of Women, University of Michigan Podcast, May 2021

Tiffany Marra, Director of CEW interviews Zilka Joseph

https://soundcloud.com/tiffany-marra

 

Interview, Center for Stories (Australia)

https://centreforstories.com/story/zilka-joseph/

https://www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/blog/wall-of-poems?fbclid=IwAR0JdZq0OaSWbaXVyvgl6-Z2miNC7iv98HifsIfF_TesaS2Q7FXkmg08MY4

 

Stony Brook University Reading for the Matwaala Festival, October 2020

A video:https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/wang/events/#matwaala

 

"Desi" Poetry Reading, India Currents: https://ncc-zoom.zoom.us/rec/share/x8Msf4vp1EhLUonn7hHnW_UPA93faaa823Icq_tezU2uWXu8o8x382HGSukuAwIr

Password: 8p&1@29Q and "Desi Poetry Reading Hits Home" a review of the IC reading by Dr. Jyoti Bachani https://indiacurrents.com/desi-poetry-reading-hits-home/ 

Article in AWP's The Writers' Chronicle

https://www.awpwriter.org/magazine_media/writers_chronicle_issues/september_2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the museum of americana

https://themuseumofamericana.net/recreating-sue-poetry-by-zilka-joseph/

Poem "Recreating Sue" nominated for Best of the Net. 

Confluence Journal (UK)
Article on Matwaala South Asian Poetry Festival, NYC (Page 9), and poem "Slow Karma" (Page 19)
http://www.confluence.mobi/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Confluence-May-2019-issue.pdf

Kelly Fordon's Poetry Blog
Sparrows and Dust https://kellyfordon.com/2019/02/15/my-personal-favorite-zilka-joseph/

Cha, An Asian Literary Journal
​Mumbai Goddesses and Mama Your Eyes https://www.asiancha.com/wp/article/zilka-joseph/

 

COG 

https://www.cogzine.com/issues

scroll down for issue 8

https://www.cogzine.com/copy-of-cog-issue-8

https://www.cogzine.com/copy-of-joel-dias-porter

 

Asia Literary Review
http://www.asialiteraryreview.com/two-poems-2

 

More poems/videos/audio online below! Scroll down to read.

Video:

Author's Forum, University of Michigan: Video of Reading and Conversation with Lolita Hernandez, (author of Making Callaloo in Detroit) on Sharp Blue Search of Flame, Wayne State University Press, September 2017:
http://leccap.engin.umich.edu/leccap/viewer/r/ajOUiG

(From Minute 5:50 to 26:28)

 

Audio:

 

Wayne State University Press, Audio Recordings:
http://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/sharp-blue-search-flame

(Scroll down and click on tab for Multimedia)

 

 

Radio
 

​​Radio Interview with T. Hetzel about Sharp Blue Search of Flame on 4/20/2016:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/living-writers-2016-04-20/id121092869?i=367223921&mt=2

 

Radio Interview with T. Hetzel about Lands I Live In, WCBN, University of Michigan, 2009
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/living-writers-2016-04-20/id121092869?i=367223921&mt=2​
or
http://www.wcbn.org/livingwriters/
and click on Living Writers RSS Feed. Then click on the 11-26 broadcast file name (next to the headphone symbol). (See more info below--scroll to the end of the page).
 

 

List of Links to Poems Online:

 

Poetry Daily (MQR)

http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17656

 

​Frontier Poetry

https://www.frontierpoetry.com/2018/05/04/poetry-zilka-joseph/

 

COG

https://www.cogzine.com/copy-of-joel-dias-porter

Asia Literary Review
http://www.asialiteraryreview.com/two-poems-2
CHA
http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/2833/626/​
Solstice Magazine
http://solsticelitmag.org/author/zilka-joseph/


Kenyon Review Online

http://www.kenyonreview.org/writer/zilka-joseph/

 

Review Americana

http://www.americanpopularculture.com/review_americana/fall_2007/joseph.htm

 

Rattle

http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2013/04/waiting-inside-by-zilka-joseph/

 

 

http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2013/04/puzzle-by-zilka-joseph/

 

http://www.throughthe3rdeye.com/node/827

 

http://www.throughthe3rdeye.com/node/829

 

http://www.throughthe3rdeye.com/node/830

 

Available through JSTOR

 

http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-california-press/sommelier-SlvoYjRLqK

 

Audio:

On the pilot episode of The Living Room, Michigan Radio/NPR
http://www.michiganradio.org/post/living-room-explores-stories-migration
The Living Room is a one hour exploration of a theme through stories, song, and writing. In this episode, host, storyteller, and songwriter Allison Downey takes a look at how stories of migrations are interwoven into the lives of Michigan residents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poems Online

Zilka Joseph