The Gathering of Voices Becomes a Place: A Conversation with Anna West

Authors

Vincent A. Cellucci
TU Delft Library, University Corporate Office, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0685-2832
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59490/mt.215.49

Synopsis

This interview excavates the place of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and its complex bearing of youth identity, public education, power, and poetry. Conceptually mapping the intersections of systemic racial injustice, environmental degradation, and urban planning, this conversation reveals the ways in which spaces and poetry are both shaped by and resist capitalism and racism. As co-founder of Humanities Amped, Dr. West offers a nuanced understanding of the experiences of educators and young people in urban literacy education movements.

Author Biography

Vincent A. Cellucci, TU Delft Library, University Corporate Office, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Vincent A. Cellucci wrote Absence Like Sun (Lavender Ink, 2019) and An Easy Place / To Die (CityLit Press, 2011). He also has three collaborative poetry titles: come back river (Finishing Line Press, 2014); _ a ship on the line (Unlikely Books, 2014), which was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award; and the most recently released ~getting away with everything (Unlikely Books, 2021). Vincent performed Diamonds in Dystopia, an interactive poetry web app at sxsw in 2017, and the poem was anthologized in Best American Experimental Writing 2018. He works at the TU Delft Library and combines technology and poetry at Leiden University.

Image of an overgrown stairwell

Volume

Poetics of Place

Pages

151-158

Published

December 31, 2025

Categories

Copyright (c) 2025 Klaske Havik, Angeliki Sioli, Vincent A. Cellucci, Jeremy Allan Hawkins

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Cellucci, V. A. (2025). The Gathering of Voices Becomes a Place: A Conversation with Anna West. In K. Havik, A. Sioli, V. A. Cellucci, & J. A. Hawkins (Eds.), Poetics of Place (pp. 151-158). TU Delft OPEN Books. https://doi.org/10.59490/mt.215.49