Uindy's Potluck Podcast

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, English major Lindsey Henderson interviews poet Jessica Rae Bergamino, winner of the 2019 Whirling Prize in Poetry, which is an annual international literary prize that recognizes books of distinction in response to a theme selected by students. The 2019 theme was Space. Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing our podcast’s Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major John Miley for editing this episode’s audio. Jessica Rae Bergamino is the author of Unmanned, winner of Noemi Press’ 2017 Poetry Prize, as well as the chapbooks The Desiring Object or Voyager Two Explains to the Gathering of the Stars How She Came to Glow Among Them (Sundress Publications), The Mermaid, Singing (dancing girl press), and Blue in All Things: a Ghost Story (dancing girl publications). Individual poems have appeared in publications such as Third Coast, Black Warrior Review, The Journal, and Gulf Coast. She is a doctoral candid