Diamond Forde
Poet and professor whose collection The Book of Alice (Scribner, 2026) reimagines her grandmother's life through the language and form of the King James Bible; winner of the 2025 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.
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Feb 28, 2026 • 51min
Diamond Forde, "The Book of Alice" (Scribner, 2026)
Diamond Forde, poet and professor who reimagines her grandmother's life in The Book of Alice. She discusses inheriting the family Bible and reshaping the King James language into imagined psalms. The conversation covers recipes as archives, choir-driven voice and musical performance, multimodal page design, and using red-letter text to mark spoken memory.
