Nhc Podcasts

Tsitsi Ella Jaji (NHC Fellow, 2017–18), Associate Professor of English, Duke University Zimbabwean poet and scholar Tsitsi Ella Jaji discusses and reads selections from “Mother Tongues: Poems,” her award-winning second book of verse, in which she explores our relationships with language, from the first words we learn to the vows we swear, examining how generations of love and loss are inscribed in our every utterance. Winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, 2018 Watch the full video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VOqFPca5AoI?t=12 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fresh-off-the-press-mother-tongues-poems/