Dd. Spungin: In Her Own Write
With a nod of thanks to John Lennon
Interview by Wrexie Bardaglio
It is
5:15 pm on the east coast; the time I said I would telephone Spiracle’s first
featured poet. Although I have done plenty of interviews with people for other
publications, I have never conducted one as part of writing a profile for a
publication that is, well, more or less mine. This time, however, I am excited to
speak with her, this poet; we share a passion for the glory and energy and
urgent beauty that is the written word as poetry. No one has assigned a subject
to me. I do not have to do a cram course in physics, or airplane wing
construction, or the Peace Corps in Nepal. I get to talk to a woman whose work
I deeply admire, and already I know we want to talk about the same things.
I dial her number, and there she is, right in the room with me, nothing
awkward, and I think here we are, two women about to start gabbing. But first,
I really want to know about her name; with a name like mine, I have a different
sort of need to know. I ask her – are you “Dee,” “Dee-Dee” or “Doreen?” Why did
I think there would be an easy answer? “Well,” she says, “I write as Dd Spungin.”
Okay, got that. “Some of my friends call me D in our e-mail and online chats.”
Alright. “And when I am talking with someone on the phone, I am Doreen.” I was
in a muddle, trying to sort out what to call this poet and realize I had no
idea when I telephoned her. Doreen it is; lovely.... more
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