Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)
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Episode 121: Fred Moten and Ronaldo Wilson - Part 2
December 28, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 85.2 MBIn this two-part episode, Rachel Zucker speaks with Ronaldo V. Wilson and Fred Moten about poetry as performance, influences and teachers, open field poetics, finding space for listeners and audience to feel welcome, how to define the limits—or lack thereof— of a book and, specifically, the performance they gave the night before at the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church on May 24, 2023. Part one (ep 120) is a conversation about the performance. Part two (ep 121) is a recording of that perform...
Episode 120: Fred Moten and Ronaldo V. Wilson
December 27, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 85.8 MBIn this two-part episode, Rachel Zucker speaks with Ronaldo V. Wilson and Fred Moten about poetry as performance, influences and teachers, open field poetics, finding space for listeners and audience to feel welcome, how to define the limits—or lack thereof— of a book and, specifically, the performance they gave the night before at the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church on May 24, 2023. Part one (ep 120) is a conversation about the performance. Part two (ep 121) is a recording of that perform...
Episode 119: Eugenia Leigh's Bianca (KTCO feed drop)
December 07, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 92.2 MBIn this second Keep the Channel Open feed drop (check out our first, episode 113!), Rachel and Mike Sakasegawa discuss Bianca by Eugenia Leigh.
Episode 118: Laurel Snyder
November 20, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBRachel talks with long time friend and writer for children, Laurel Snyder. They talk about the Iowa Writers Workshop, Laurel’s path from poet to children’s book author, money, the novice brain, labor, being “messy and extra but not totally batshit,” the relationship between poetry and picture books, the experimental nature of picture books, world building, getting things out rather than getting things down.
Episode 117: Charif Shanahan & Safia Elhillo with Isaac Ginsberg Miller
October 30, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 81.6 MBPoets Safia Elhillo and Charif Shanahan talk to Isaac Ginsberg Miller, a poet and PhD candidate in African American Studies at Northwestern, about their friendship, kinship, seeing and being seen by others, their intended audiences and ideal readers, inherited/received forms, experimentalism, the instability of racialized experience for many Black Southwest Asians and North Africans.
Episode 116: The Gathered Congregation
October 16, 2023 17:48 - 75.9 MBPoets Jason Schneiderman, Cate Marvin, R. A. Villanueva, Lynn Xu and Rachel Zucker consider the pleasures, challenges, eccentricities and value of live, in-person poetry readings. These musings are followed by excerpts of the June 6, 2023 reading in Bryant Park (hosted by Jason and featuring Cate, Ron, Lynn and Rachel) and comments from the audience. PODCAST: PLAY IN NEW WINDOW | TRANSCRIPT SUBSCRIBE: APPLE PODCASTS | GOOGLE PODCASTS | AMAZON PODCASTS SUPPORT: PATREON | VENMO: @Ra...
Episode 115: Moheb Soliman
September 08, 2023 17:53 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBLinks, Bios & Support Info Books & Selected Projects by Moheb Soliman HOMES (Coffee House Press, 2021) We’re Back! Also Referenced Lorine Niedecker Gabrielle Octavia Rucker Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang David Byrne Walt Whitman Etheridge Knight Moheb Soliman is an interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest who's presented work at literary, art, and public spaces in the US, Canada, and abroad with support from the Joyce Foundation, Banff Centre, Minnesota State Arts Board,...
Episode 114: Live & Embodied
August 28, 2023 11:47 - 90.7 MBLinks, Bios & Support Info Hope Mohr Hope Mohr’s Horizon Stanzas Alyssa Harad Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bridge by Alyssa Harad The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer MOTHERs by Rachel Zucker Alice Notley reading books 1 and 2 of Descent of Alette Alice Notley reads books 3 and 4 of Descent of Alette Sharon Bridgforth Omi Osun Joni L. Jones Leaving the Atocha Statio...
113: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
August 07, 2023 12:30 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBLinks and resources Episode 143 of Keep the Channel Open: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Mike Sakasegawa LikeWise Fiction Keep the Channel Open on Twitter Keep the Channel Open on Insta Keep the Channel Open on YouTube Information and sign up for new class “Reading with Rachel”
Episode 112: Gabrielle Octavia Rucker with V Conaty
June 14, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBBOOKS & SELECTED WORK BY GABRIELLE OCTAVIA RUCKER Dereliction (The Song Cave, 2022) “Practice for My Birthday” in The Recluse (2021) ALSO REFERENCED Roosevelt University Auditorium Theater Joffrey Ballet Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Christkindlmarket, Chicago Paper Source National Book Foundation International Center of Photography The Poetry Project School for Poetic Computation The Warman Project L. A. Warman Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics Animal Planet History Channe...
Episode 111: The Confessional Episode
May 16, 2023 22:00 - 79.9 MBThe second of five episodes featuring the lectures that became Rachel Zucker’s newest book, The Poetics of Wrongness. This episode contains audio of “What We Talk About When We Talk About the Confessional and What We Should Be Talking About,” presented at the University of Arizona Poetry Center (Tucson) on January 28, 2016. It also includes a new introduction by Rachel and a conversation recorded in April, 2023 with the founder and host of the Keep the Channel Open podcast, Mike Sakasegawa. ...
Episode 110: The Poetics of Wrongness
April 20, 2023 22:30 - 1 hour - 91.6 MBRachel Zucker releases the first of her five lectures written for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series. This episode “The Poetics of Wrongness,” is the title lecture of her new book, now out from Wave. Within the framework of feminism, motherhood, and politics, the lecture challenges long-held rules and perceptions of what poetry and art can be or should be, offering up new modes of generating a personal aesthetic, poetry, and discourse. This episode includes audio of the lecture given at Seattle...
Episode 109: Joy Harjo
April 10, 2023 22:01 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBBooks and Selected Other Work by Joy Harjo POETRY Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: 50 Poems for 50 Years (W.W. Norton, 2022) An American Sunrise (W. W. Norton, 2019) Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (W. W. Norton, 2015) How We Became Human New & Selected Poems: 1975-2001 (W. W. Norton, 2004) A Map to the Next World (W. W. Norton, 2000) The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (W. W. Norton, 1994) In Mad Love & War (Wesleyan University Press, 1990) Secrets from the Center of the World, ...
Episode 108: Saeed Jones
March 28, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 98.4 MBBooks and Selected Other Work by Saeed Jones Alive at the End of the World (Coffee House Press, 2022) How We Fight For Our Lives (Simon & Schuster, 2019) Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press, 2014) Also Referenced Open Books: A Poem Emporium V Conaty Christine Larusso Commonplace Goes to Taiwan, Episodes 1 and 2 Pema Chödrön Jorge Luis Borges Roger Reeves Roxane Gay Claudia Rankine Morgan Parker Alexander Chee Frank B. Wilderson III Katelyn Hale Wood Adrienne Rich Prince,...
Episode 107: Eileen Myles
January 31, 2023 18:34 - 2 hours - 123 MBBooks and Selected Other Work by Eileen Myles Pathetic Literature, ed. (Grove Press, 2022) For Now (Yale University Press, 2020) evolution (Grove Press, 2018) Afterglow: A Dog Memoir (Grove Press, 2017) I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, 1975-2014 (Ecco Press, 2015) Snowflake/Different Streets (Wave Books, 2012) Inferno: A Poet's Novel (OR Books, 2010) The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (Semiotexte, 2009) Sorry, Tree (Wave Books, 2007) Tow, with Artist...
Episode 106: S. Yarberry with V Conaty
December 20, 2022 18:00 - 86.8 MBBooks and Selected Other Work by S. Yarberry A Boy in the City (Deep Vellum, 2021 Also Referenced Rachel Zucker Kathryn Davis Aphrodite Charon, boatkeeper of the underworld CAConrad William Blake The Odyssey Icarus John Keats Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches, “The Uses of the Erotic” Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, "The Ballad of Sexual Optimism" Jose Esteban Munoz Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure Samuel L. Delany, Times S...
Episode 105: Carl Phillips
November 09, 2022 18:03 - 101 MBBooks and Selected Other Work by Carl Phillips POETRY Then The War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022) Pale Colors in a Tall Field (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) Star Map With Action Figures (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019) Wild Is the Wind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018) Reconnaissance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015) The Art of Daring (Graywolf Press, 2014) Silverchest (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013) Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)...
Episode 104: The Critical Response Process with Liz Lerman & John Borstel
September 21, 2022 20:30 - 89.8 MBSelected Work Critique Is Creative: The Critical Response Process in Theory & Practice (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), Liz Lerman and John Borstel Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer (Wesleyan University Press, 2011), Liz Lerman Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process (Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, 2003), Liz Lerman and John Borstel Also Referenced Erika Meitner Jason Schneiderman Washington Post Cristóbal Martínez Postcommodity Colorado Dance Festival Alternati...
Episode 103: Cody-Rose Clevidence with Valentine Conaty
August 22, 2022 20:15 - 1 hour - 101 MBBooks Aux Arc / Trypt Ich: Poppycock & Assphodel; Winter; A Night of Dark Trees (Nightboat Books, 2021) Listen My Friend, This is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night (The Song Cave, 2021) FLUNG THRONE (Ahsata Press, 2018) BEAST FEAST (Ahsata Press, 2014) Selected chapbooks DEARTH & Gods Green Mirth (Fonograph, 2022) “BEHOLD A MAN!” (Auric Press, 2020) Perverse, All Monstrous (Nion Editions, 2017) Also Referenced Golden spike Michel de Montaigne Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature Caspar Davi...
Episode 102: Rebekah Wolkstein
August 02, 2022 18:40 - 150 MBSelected Work Payadora Tango Ensemble “Adios Muchachos/I Get Ideas,” (by Julio César Sanders) violinist and vocalist, with Payadora Tango Ensemble “La Perdida,” violinist and songwriter, with Payadora Tango Ensemble Tango in the Dark, with PointeTango Venuti String Quartet “Like My Sister,” violinist, vocalist, and songwriter, with family band “Years from Today,” violinist, vocalist, and songwriter, with family band Watch the full feature-length film Tango in the Dark here! Also R...
Episode 101: Prageeta Sharma
June 10, 2022 17:12 - 104 MBRachel speaks with poet, scholar, and Thinking Its Presence conference founder Prageeta Sharma about her book Grief Sequence and creating a platform for BIPOC writers and scholars with the settlement from her discrimination lawsuit. The conversation touches on grief, racism and misogyny, attachment to problematic objects, second chances at love, the abject lyric, false friends, and how to support each other with vibrancy. PODCAST: PLAY IN NEW WINDOW | READ TRANSCRIPT SUBSCRIBE: APPLE...
Episode 100: Doreen Wang
May 18, 2022 18:09 - 143 MBADDITIONAL INFO Selected Work by Doreen Wang with Rachel Zucker et al., “Commonplace goes to Taiwan,” Part 1 and Part 2. with Mish Liang Hsu, 一年的告白/ Dos Salidas. “The roadmap of regret, curiosity and sound: How I decided to make a podcast with my dying mother,” CommonWealth Magazine. “The Kundiman 2018 Series, Pt. 1,” Racist Sandwich. "The Analects," Angels Flight: Literary West. Also Referenced Ghost Island Media V Conaty Katie Fernelius Arielle Greenberg Natalie Diaz and Roger ...
Episode 99: Douglas Kearney
April 06, 2022 13:24 - 115 MBBooks and Selected Other Work by Douglas Kearney BOOKS / COMPOSITIONS Sho (poetry, Wave Books, 2021) Fodder, with Val Jeanty (poetry LP, Fonograf Editions, 2021) Starts Spinning (poetry Chapbook, Rain Taxi, 2020) Buck Studies (poetry, Fence Books, 2016) Someone Took They Tongues. 3 Operas (libretti, Subito Press, 2016) Mess and Mess and (poetry and essays, Noemi Press, 2015) Patter (poetry, Red Hen Press, 2014) The Black Automaton (poetry, Fence Books, 2009) LECTURES Douglas Kear...
Episode 98: Torrey Peters
March 11, 2022 19:30 - 1 hour - 122 MBBooks by Torrey Peters Detransition, Baby (One World, 2021) Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones (self-published, 2016; revised edition forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2022) The Masker (self-published, 2016; revised edition forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2022) Also Referenced Topside Press The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, ed. Tom Leger and Riley MacLeod (Topside Press) Imogen Binnie, Nevada (Topside Press) Casey Plett Iowa Writers Workshop T...
Episode 97: Camille Dungy
February 01, 2022 17:15 - 1 hour - 82.3 MBADDITIONAL INFO Books and Selected Other Work by Camille Dungy POETRY Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press, 2017) Smith Blue (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011) Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010) What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006) NON-FICTION Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (W. W. Norton, 2017) ANTHOLOGIES & EDITORIAL WORK Ed., Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nat...
Episode 96: Judy Grahn
November 02, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 100 MBADDITIONAL INFO Books and Selected Other Work by Judy Grahn POETRY Hanging on Our Own Bones (Red Hen Press, 2017) Love Belongs to Those Who Do the Feeling: New & Selected Poems (1966-2006) (Red Hen Press, 2008) The Queen of Swords (Beacon Press, 1987) The Queens of Wands (Crossing Press, 1982) The Work of a Common Woman: Collected Poetry (1964–1977) (St. Martin's Press, 1982) She Who (Women's Press Collective/Diana Press, 1977) A Woman is Talking to Death (Women's Press Collective,...
Episode 95: Jason Schneiderman
June 22, 2021 21:44 - 127 MBBooks and Selected Other Work by Jason Schneiderman Hold Me Tight (Red Hen Press, 2020) Primary Source (Red Hen Press, 2016) Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press, 2016) Striking Surface: Poems (Ashland Poetry Press, 2010) Sublimation Point (Four Way Books, 2004) “Nothingism: A Poetry Manifesto” in The American Poetry Review (April 2019) “How the Sonnet Turns: From a Fold to a Helix” in The American Poetry Review (June 2020) Also Referenced Sarah Polley D.A. Powell ...
Episode 94: Jennifer Block
May 26, 2021 13:56 - 127 MBBooks and Projects Everything Below the Waist: Why Healthcare Needs a Feminist Revolution (2019) Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care (2008) Our Bodies Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era (2005), Contributing Editor Ms. Magazine (founded 1972), former Editor Other Texts & People Mentioned in the Episode Heather Corinna, What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You (2021) Susun S. Weed, New Menopausal Years, Volume 3:...
Episode 93: Arielle Greenberg
May 05, 2021 15:03 - 2 hours - 140 MBArielle Greenberg writes and teaches poetry, creative nonfiction and cultural studies. Her most recent books are I Live in the Country & Other Dirty Poems (Four Way, 2020) and the creative nonfiction book Locally Made Panties (Ricochet Editions, 2016); her fifth collection of poetry, Come Along with Me to the Pasture Now, is forthcoming. She is co-editor of three literary anthologies, including Gurlesque (Saturnalia Books), based on a theory of Third Wave feminist avant-garde poetics Arielle...
Episode 92: Behind the Scenes
April 12, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 157 MBBooks and Projects Rachel Zucker, SoundMachine Christine Larusso, There Will Be No More Daughters SoundMachine (audio project) Other Texts & People Mentioned in the Episode Emily Skillings Claudia Rankine, Just Us Poets House harassment and retaliatory firing Small Press Distribution harassment and wage theft Jay Hammond Katie Fernelius Doreen Wang NYU Creative Writing Program Antioch Low-Residency MFA Program Jennifer Block, Everything Below the Waist: Why Healthcare Needs a F...
Episode 91: Nate Marshall
March 01, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBBooks and Projects by/with Nate Marshall Finna (One World, 2020) Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) Breakbeat Poets (Haymarket Books, 2015) Blood Percussion (Button Poetry, 2014) 1989, The Number (Haymarket Books, 2016) Free download! No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks Daily Lyrical Product Dark Noise Collective Bruh Rabbit Crescendo Literary Other Texts & People Mentioned in the Episode Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men (Harper Perennial) Gwendoly...
Episode 90: Makenna Goodman
December 27, 2020 15:36 - 1 hour - 99.8 MBBooks by Makenna Goodman The Shame (Milkweed, 2020) Other Texts, Artists, and Authors Mentioned in This Episode Amelie Nothomb's Strike Your Heart (Europa Editions, 2018) Angela Davis' Women Race and Class (Vintage, 1983) Sheila Heti’s Motherhood (Picador, 2019) Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste (Random House, 2020) Angela Davis' Women Race and Class (Vintage, 1983) Toni Morrison’s Beloved (Vintage, 2004) Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) Robert A. Johnson’s Owning Your O...
Episode 89: The Ladder Out of the Hole
December 09, 2020 13:51 - 1 hour - 94 MBFeatured in Episode 89: David Naimon Between the Covers podcast Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing by Ursula K. Le Guin & David Naimon
Episode 88: Global Roll Call, Part 3
June 04, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 98.1 MBCommonplace guests as they appear in this episode: Molly Peacock is a poet, biographer, essayist, and short fiction writer. Her most recent book is The Analyst: poems. Alicia Jo Rabins is a writer, musician, composer, performer and Torah teacher. She creates multi-genre works of experimental beauty which explore the intersection of ancient wisdom texts with everyday life. Her most recent book is Fruit Geode. D. A. Powell’s books include Cocktails and Chronic, as well as Useless Landscape,...
Episode 87: Global Roll Call, Part 2
May 22, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate and the author of the memoir Children of the Land. Jennifer Croft is an American author, critic and translator who works from Polish, Ukrainian and Argentine Spanish. She is also the author of Homesick. Nick Flynn is an American writer, playwright, and poet. He has two books out this year: This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire and Stay: Threads, Conversations, Collaborations. Sabrina Orah Mark is th...
Episode 86: Global Roll Call, Part 1
May 13, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBDavid Trinidad is the author of numerous poetry collections, most recently Swinging on a Star. He teaches poetry and creative writing at Columbia College and lives in Chicago. Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry. She lives in Paris. Cathy Park Hong’s latest book is Minor Feelings. She is poetry editor of the New Republic and is a professor at Rutgers-Newark University. John Murillo is the author of Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. He is an assistant p...
Episode 85: The Craft of the Literary Interview
April 09, 2020 23:52 - 2 hours - 113 MBMike Sakasegawa, host of Keep the Channel Open, was scheduled to moderate a panel at this year’s annual AWP Conference called “The Craft of the Literary Podcast Interview,” featuring Rachel Zucker of Commonplace, Dujie Tahat of The Poet Salon, and David Naimon of Between the Covers. Due to the coronavirus, Mike and the panelists ended up having to cancel their appearance at the conference, which makes it all the sweeter to be able to bring you this podcast version of our panel. In this wide-r...
Episode 84: M. NourbeSe Philip
March 25, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBBooks by M. NourbeSe Philip Blank: Essays and Interviews (Book*hug, 2017) She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (Wesleyan University Press, 2015) Zong! (Wesleyan University Press, 2011) A Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays (Mercury Press, 1998) Frontiers: Selected Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture 1984-1992 (Mercury Press, 1992) Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (Mercury Press, 1991) Other Texts and Writers Featured in the Episode Kamau Brathwaite...
Episode 83: Darcey Steinke
March 04, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 75.9 MBBooks by Darcey Steinke Flash Point Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life (Sarah Crichton Books, 2019) Jesus Saves (Grove Press, 2019) Easter Everywhere (Bloomsbury, 2007) Milk (Bloomsbury, 2005) Up Through the Water (Grove Press, 2000) Suicide Blond (Grove Press, 2000) John-KJV (Grove Press, 1999) Other Writers and Texts Mentioned in the Episode Maud Casey The Testosterone Files by Max Wolf Valerio (Seal Press, 2006) Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques (Verso, 2016) ...
Episode 82: Maggie Nelson
February 13, 2020 00:06 - 1 hour - 95.9 MBBooks by Maggie Nelson Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull, 2018) The Argonauts (Graywolf, 2015) The Latest Winter (Zed Books, 2018) Shiner (Zed Books, 2018) The Art of Cruelty (W.W. Norton, 2012) Women, The New York School and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2011) Bluets (Wave Books, 2009) The Red Parts (Graywolf, 2007) Jane (Soft Skull, 2005) Other Authors and Texts Mentioned in the Episode Avital Ronell’s Crack Wars (University of Illinois Press, 2004) ...
Episode 81: Commonplace goes to Taiwan, Part 2
January 27, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBPeople, Places, and Events Featured in this Episode: Brilliant Time Bookstore (Feature on Mr. CHANG Cheng and his partner, Ms. LIAO Yun-chan) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own FemBooks est. 1994 Witch House (located in the same building as FemBooks) Peng Wan-Ru Foundation (located in the same building as FemBooks) KANG Min Jay National Taiwan University’s Graduate Institute of Building and Planning WenRooTin Cultural Area Eslite Bookstore (More on Eslite’s cultural significance...
Episode 80: Commonplace goes to Taiwan, Part 1
January 21, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 86.7 MBRelevant Links from Rachel’s Story “Diane Wolkstein, Children’s Author Who Spurred a Storytelling Revival, Dies at 70” via the New York Times Rachel on The Longest Shortest Time Audio of Diane Wolkstein performing “The Monkey King” Relevant Links from Doreen’s Story Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender Haunani Kay Trask (University of Hawaii) Daniel Kim (professor at Brown) Lois Ann Yamanaka R. Zamora Linmark Saigon Grill picket of 2008 Audre Lorde Project Rockefeller Brothers...
Episode 79: Christine Larusso
December 18, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBBooks by Christine Larusso There Will Be No More Daughters (&Now/Lake Forest College Press, 2019) Other Texts and Writers Mentioned in the Episode Morgan Parker Anne Boyer Rachel Zucker Home/Birth Kimiko Hahn Carmen Giménez Smith Ada Limón Victoria Chang’s twitter Tommy Pico Jakob Vala (designer) Shira Erlichman Sharon Olds Juliana Spahr Other Relevant Links Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Prize at Lake Forest (currently on hiatus)
Episode 78: Anne Boyer
November 27, 2019 11:00 - 2 hours - 111 MBEpisode transcripts available here. Books by Anne Boyer The Undying (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019) A Handbook of Disappointed Fate (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) Garments Against Women (Ahsahta, 2015) The Romance of Happy Workers (Coffee House Press, 2008) Other Texts and Writers Mentioned in the Episode Cassandra Gillig Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies (Scribner, 2011) Bernadette Mayer Patricia Lennox Boyd Claudia Rankine’s Citizen (Graywolf, 2014) Maggie Nels...
Episode 77: Tina Chang
November 18, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 98.4 MBBooks by Tina Chang Hybrida (W.W. Norton, 2019) Of Gods & Strangers (Four Way, 2011) Language for a New Century [Editor, alongside Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar] (W.W. Norton, 2008) Half-Lit Houses (Four Way, 2004) Other Texts and Writers Mentioned in this Episode Kimiko Hahn Aracelis Girmay sam sax Agha Shahid Ali Mira Jacob Toni Morrison lucille clifton Brenda Shaughnessy Carolyn Forché Michael Cunningham’s The Hours (Picador, 2000) Edwidge Danticat “With the Birth of M...
Episode 76: Ada Limón
October 29, 2019 12:56 - 1 hour - 96.4 MBRachel Zucker speaks with poet Ada Limón about her life as a poet, especially her two most recent books, The Carrying and Bright Dead Things. Limón speaks openly about contests and prizes, money, taboos around performance, her decision to stop trying to have children, writing about secrets, the privilege of being a writer, leaning toward gratitude, pinning the dragon of the mind to the page, writing as a shareable space and a form of connection and so much more. Books by Ada Limón The Carr...
Episode 75: Victoria Chang
October 04, 2019 15:35 - 1 hour - 101 MBBooks by Victoria Chang Barbie Chang (Copper Canyon, 2017) Is Mommy? (With Marla Frazee) (Beach Lane, 2015) The Boss (McSweeney’s, 2013) Salvinia Molesta (University of Georgia Press, 2008) Circle (Crab Orchard/Southern Illinois University Press, 2005) Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (Editor) (University of Illinois Press, 2004) Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the Episode Chen Chen Kristin Chang Fatimah Asghar Paige Lewis Kaveh Akbar Cathy Park Hong Mary Ruefle ...
Episode 74: Rachel Zucker's SoundMachine
September 17, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 142 MBBooks/Projects by Rachel Zucker SoundMachine (Wave, 2019) The Pedestrians (Wave, 2014) Mothers (Counterpoint, 2013) Museum of Accidents (Wave, 2009) The Bad Wife Handbook (Wesleyan University Press, 2008) The Last Clear Narrative (Wesleyan University Press, 2004) Eating in the Underworld (Wesleyan University Press, 2003) Home/birth: a poemic with Arielle Greenberg ( 2011) Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections with Arielle Greenberg (University of Iowa Press, 2008) Start...
Episode 73: Jennifer Croft (Translation Series Ep. 3)
September 04, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBEpisode 3 of Commonplace’s special series on translation. Jennifer Croft is a writer, translator and critic. She was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2018 and a National Book Award Finalist for her translation from Polish of Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is the recipient of Fulbright, PEN, MacDowell, and National Endowment for the Arts grants and fellowships, as well as the inaugural Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation and a Tin House Workshop Scholarship for her memoir H...
Episode 72: Ilya Kaminsky
July 25, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBEXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 72 Books by Ilya Kaminsky Poetry Collections: Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019) Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004) Anthologies: The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (co-editors Susan Harris, Ecco, 2010) In the Shape of a Human I Am Visiting the Earth: Poems from Far and Wide (co-editors Dominic Luxford and Jesse Nathan, McSweeney’s, 2017) Gossip and Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poems and Prose (co-editors Katie Farris and Valzhyna Mort, Tupelo Pre...