108. Lola Ridge with Terese Svoboda
Lola Ridge was once considered one of America's preeminent poets, on par with E.E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Jean Toomer, and Robert Frost. We discuss the radical life and career of this early 20th century modernist poet, anarchist, and literary editor with guest Terese Svoboda, whose 2018 biography of Ridge was described as “magisterial” in The Washington Post.
Discussed in this episode:
Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet by Terese Svoboda
The Ghetto, and Other Poems by Lola Ridge
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Heterodoxy with Joanna Scutts
Hilda Dolittle (H.D.)
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Nora May French with Catherine Prendergast
Others: A Magazine of New Verse