Episode 23: Morgan Parker
Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)
English - March 15, 2017 10:00 - 2 hours - ★★★★★ - 206 ratingsArts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Rachel Zucker speaks with poet Morgan Parker (author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night and There are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé) in front of a LIVE audience at the KGB Red Room on February 27, 2017. Morgan reads new work, discusses what she’s working on, who she’s writing for, and her 13 husbands. They talk about confessional poetry, performance, blackness, whiteness, therapy, Beyoncé, authenticity, revision, therapy as reparations, and Nelly.
Rachel Zucker speaks with poet Morgan Parker (author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night and There are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé) in front of a LIVE audience at the KGB Red Room on February 27, 2017. Morgan reads new work, discusses what she’s working on, who she’s writing for, and her 13 husbands. They talk about confessional poetry, performance, blackness, whiteness, therapy, Beyoncé, authenticity, revision, therapy as reparations, and Nelly.
EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 23Books by Morgan Parker
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (Tin House, 2017)
Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback, 2015)
Other Books/Writers/Thinkers/Musicians MentionedOther Relevant Links“How to Stay Sane While Black” by Morgan Parker, published by the New York Times