Conversations in Atlantic Theory is a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theory to the black Atlantic to sites of indigenous resistance and self-articulation, as well as the complex geography of thinking between traditions, inside traditions, and from positions of insurgency, critique, and counter-narrative.

A discussion with Diane Exavier, a writer, theater-maker, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY, about her new poetry collection The Math of Saint Felix, published in November 2021 by The 3rd Thing Press. Diane works across genres and geographies in this collection, making sense of what she calls the 4L’s: love, loss, legacy, and land. Her poetry, theater snippets, and thought pieces have appeared in The Atlas Review, The Racial Imaginary: Black Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind, and other publications, and in 2017 she published the chapbook Teaches of Peaches. In our conversation that follows, we discuss the origins of the project The Math of Saint Felix, its composition in sound and word, and the place of grief, mourning, remembrance, and beauty in poetry and poetics.