Eboni Hogan

Eboni Hogan is an award-winning performance poet, author, and teaching artist, who often moonlights as a Vargas girl, albeit a heavily tattooed one. Born in the Bronx to an emcee and a choir girl, Hogan studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is the 2010 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, 2010 Underground Indies Slam Champion, the 2008 Urbana Grand Slam Champion, and a two-time representative of the Nuyorican Slam Team. She has performed and facilitated workshops in over thirty US cities, as well as abroad in Ghana and Germany. She is the author of Grits, a collection of poetry that was nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize. She believes in the healing properties of bargain shopping, globe-trotting, and good whiskey. What follows is a transcript of her recent chat with poet Andrea Henchey
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Rachel Shukert

Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting comedy writer Rachel Shukert, the witty contributing editor of Tablet. She's also published two critically acclaimed memoirs, her latest, Everything is Going to be Great. In between bites of breakfast at Café Mogador, Shukert discussed a few things, like why she can't seem to grocery shop, and the ongoing argument of why women can be funny...regardless of what those boys say.

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