Commonplace Podcast
Intimate and compelling interviews by Rachel Zucker with poets and other artists. Become a Patron & support our growing podcast! www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast
Episodes
Episode 132: The Hiatus Explained
Episode 131: Reading Sabrina Orah Mark’s Happily
Raised in Brooklyn, NY, Sabrina Orah Mark earned a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University. She also earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in English from the University of Georgia. She is the author of the poetry collectionsTsim Tsum,and The Babies. Her collection of stories,Wild Milk,won the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Short Story and was a finalist for the Towns
Episode 130: Lois Conner
The New York-based photographer Lois Conner has been traveling the world with a 7x17” banquet camera for nearly half a century. Through the elongated format of her work she has explored the landscape and the temper of our times; her art is both contemporary and, due to her vision, ‘a long view’ that captures the eternal in the moment, timeless. Conner’s work is that of the artist-artisan: every as
Episode 129: Reading Eugenia Leigh’s Bianca
Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including TIME, The Nation, Poetry, Ploughshares,Waxwing, and the Best of the Net anthology. Eugenia serves as a Poetry Editor at The Adroit Journal and as Valentines Editor at Honey Literary.Boo
KTCO Feed Drop: Hey, it’s Me
Mike Sakasegawa is a writer, photographer, book artist, and the host of the arts and literature podcast Keep the Channel Open, and the short fiction podcast LikeWise Fiction.His writing has appeared in Last Exit, Catapult, PetaPixel, and Don’t Take Pictures Magazine.His photographs have been featured on Lenscratch, A Photo Editor, and SD Voyager, and included in several group exhibitions. Original
Episode 127: Hanif Abdurraqib with Stuti Sharma
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Hanif’s newest release, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Random House, 2024) is a poignant, p
Episode 126: D. A. Powell
D. A. Powell teaches at University of San Francisco. His books include Repast, Chronic and Useless Landscape or a Guide for Boys, all published by Graywolf Press. He is also the author of chapbooks Atlas T and Low Hanging Fruit. He lives in San Francisco.
Episode 125: The Poetics of Motherhood
Books by Rachel ZuckerThe Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Poetry, 2023) SoundMachine (Wave Poetry, 2019) The Pedestrians (Wave Poetry, 2014) MOTHERs (2014) Museum of Accidents (Wave Poetry, 2009) The Bad Wife Handbook (Wesleyan University Press, 2007)The Last Clear Narrative (2004) Eating in the Underworld (2003) Books by Rachel Zucker and Arielle GreenbergHome/birth:
Episode 124: Reading Hafizah Augustus Geter’s The Black Period
Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, (Random House, 2022) is winner of the 2023 PEN Open Book Award, winner of a 2023 Lammy Award in LGBTQ+ Nonfiction from Lambda Literary, a New Yorker Magazine Best B
Episode 123: Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including The Book (Wave Books, 2023), Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, as well as a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. She is also the author of My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016), Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013), Ma
Episode 122: Reading Nicole Sealey’s The Ferguson Report: an erasure
Nicole Sealey was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida. She received an MFA from New York University and an MLA in Africana studies from the University of South Florida. Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast (Ecco Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the PEN Open Book and Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards. Her chapbook, The Animal After Whom Other Animals are Named (Nort
Episode 121: Fred Moten and Ronaldo V. Wilson (part 2)
Episode 120: Fred Moten and Ronaldo V. Wilson (part 1)
Episode 119: Eugenia Leigh's Bianca (KTCO feed drop)
Books by Eugenia LeighEugenia LeighBianca (Four Way Books, 2023)Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014)Other Relevant LinksMike SakasegawaLikeWise FictionKeep the Channel Open on TwitterKeep the Channel Open on Insta Keep the Channel Open on YouTubeBio:Eugenia Leigh (she/her) is a Korean-American poet and the author of two collections of poetry, Bianca and Blood, Sparrows and Spar
Episode 118: Laurel Snyder
Extra ResourcesBooks by Laurel SnyderThe Witch of Woodland (Walden Pond Press, 2023)Endlessly Ever After (Chronicle Books, 2022) Charlie & Mouse: Book 1 (Chronicle Books, 2019)Hungry Jim (Chronicle Books, 2019) My Jasper June (Walden Pond Press, 2019)Orphan Island (Walden Pond Press, 2018) Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Chronicle Books, 2015)Camp Wonderful Wild (Two L
Episode 117: Charif Shanahan & Safia Elhillo with Isaac Ginsberg Miller
Extra ResourcesBooks and Selected Other Work by Charif ShanahanPOETRYTrace Evidence (Tin House, 2023)Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing (SIU Press, 2017)Books and Selected Other Work by Safia ElhilloPOETRYGirls That Never Die (One World/Random House, 2022)The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017)“Indeterminacy” (Poets.org, 2023)FICTIONHome Is Not a Country (Make Me A World/Ran
Episode 116: The Gathered Congregation
Links, Bios, & Support InfoBryant Park Reading SeriesUniversity of MarylandLibrary of CongressWilliam MeredithKim NovakBMCCKGB reading seriesDavid LehmanStar BlackPaul RomeroSonia SanchezAllen Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra”Phllyis Levin Matt YeagerDavid LehmanWill Harris’s Brother PoemJosé Oliverez’s Promises of GoldMartha Graham CrackerJustin Vivian BondPatty LuPoneBridget EverettKGB Bar R
Episode 115: Moheb Soliman
Links, Bios & Support InfoBooks & Selected Projects by Moheb SolimanHOMES (Coffee House Press, 2021)We’re Back! Also ReferencedLorine NiedeckerGabrielle Octavia RuckerCecily Nicholson, Wayside SangDavid ByrneWalt WhitmanEtheridge KnightMoheb 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 a
Episode 114: Live & Embodied
Links, Bios & Support InfoHope MohrHope Mohr’s Horizon StanzasAlyssa HaradComing to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bridge by Alyssa HaradThe Descent of Alette by Alice NotleyInanna Queen of Heaven and Earth by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah KramerMOTHERs by Rachel ZuckerAlice Notley reading books 1 and 2 of Descent of AletteAlice Notley reads books 3 and 4 of Descent
Episode 113: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Links and resourcesEpisode 143 of Keep the Channel Open: Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahNana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahChain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahFriday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahMike SakasegawaLikeWise FictionKeep the Channel Open on TwitterKeep the Channel Open on Insta Keep the Channel Open on YouTubeInformation and sign up for new class “Reading with Rachel”
Episode 112: Gabrielle Octavia Rucker with V Conaty
BOOKS & SELECTED WORK BY GABRIELLE OCTAVIA RUCKERDereliction (The Song Cave, 2022)“Practice for My Birthday” in The Recluse (2021)ALSO REFERENCEDRoosevelt UniversityAuditorium TheaterJoffrey BalletAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterChristkindlmarket, ChicagoPaper SourceNational Book FoundationInternational Center of PhotographyThe Poetry ProjectSchool for Poetic ComputationThe Warman ProjectL.
Episode 111: The Confessional Episode
The 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
Episode 110: The Poetics of Wrongness
Episode 109: Joy Harjo
Books and Selected Other Work by Joy HarjoPOETRYWeaving 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
Episode 108: Saeed Jones
Books and Selected Other Work by Saeed JonesAlive 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 ReferencedOpen Books: A Poem EmporiumV ConatyChristine LarussoCommonplace Goes to Taiwan, Episodes 1 and 2Pema ChödrönJorge Luis BorgesRoger ReevesRoxane GayClaudia RankineMorgan ParkerAlexander C
Episode 107: Eileen Myles
Books and Selected Other Work by Eileen MylesPathetic 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: Trave
Episode 106: S. Yarberry with V Conaty
Books and Selected Other Work by S. YarberryA Boy in the City (Deep Vellum, 2021Also ReferencedRachel ZuckerKathryn DavisAphroditeCharon, boatkeeper of the underworldCAConradWilliam BlakeThe OdysseyIcarusJohn KeatsAudre 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 Mun
Episode 105: Carl Phillips
Books and Selected Other Work by Carl PhillipsPOETRYThen 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 (F
Episode 104: The Critical Response Process with Liz Lerman & John Borstel
Selected WorkCritique Is Creative: The Critical Response Process in Theory & Practice (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), Liz Lerman and John BorstelHiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer (Wesleyan University Press, 2011), Liz LermanLiz Lerman's Critical Response Process (Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, 2003), Liz Lerman and John BorstelAlso ReferencedErika MeitnerJason Schneiderman
Episode 103: Cody-Rose Clevidence with Valentine Conaty
BooksAux 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 chapbooksDEARTH & Gods Green Mirth (Fonograph, 2022)“BEHOLD A MAN!” (Auric Press, 2020)Perverse, All Monstrous (Nion Editions, 2017)Also R
Episode 102: Rebekah Wolkstein
Selected WorkPayadora 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 PointeTangoVenuti String Quartet “Like My Sister,” violinist, vocalist, and songwriter, with family band“Years from Today,” violinist, vocalist, and song
Episode 101: Prageeta Sharma
Episode 100: Doreen Wang
ADDITIONAL INFOSelected Work by Doreen Wangwith 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 ReferencedGhost Isl
Episode 99: Douglas Kearney
Books and Selected Other Work by Douglas KearneyBOOKS / COMPOSITIONSSho (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
Episode 98: Torrey Peters
Books by Torrey PetersDetransition, 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 ReferencedTopside PressThe Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, ed. Tom Leger and Riley MacLeod (Topside
Episode 97: Camille Dungy
ADDITIONAL INFOBooks and Selected Other Work by Camille DungyPOETRYTrophic 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-FICTIONGuidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (W. W. Norton, 2017)ANTHOLOGI
Episode 96: Judy Grahn
ADDITIONAL INFOBooks and Selected Other Work by Judy GrahnPOETRYHanging 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 Co
Episode 95: Jason Schneiderman
Books and Selected Other Work by Jason SchneidermanHold 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 Th
Episode 94: Jennifer Block
Books and ProjectsEverything 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 EditorMs. Magazine (founded 1972), former EditorOther Texts & People Mentioned in the EpisodeHeather Corinna, What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Meno
Episode 93: Arielle Greenberg
Arielle 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, includin
Episode 92: Behind the Scenes
Books and ProjectsRachel Zucker, SoundMachineChristine Larusso, There Will Be No More DaughtersSoundMachine (audio project)Other Texts & People Mentioned in the EpisodeEmily SkillingsClaudia Rankine, Just UsPoets House harassment and retaliatory firingSmall Press Distribution harassment and wage theftJay HammondKatie FerneliusDoreen WangNYU Creative Writing ProgramAntioch Low-Residency MFA Pro
Episode 91: Nate Marshall
Books and Projects by/with Nate MarshallFinna (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 BrooksDaily Lyrical ProductDark Noise CollectiveBruh RabbitCrescendo LiteraryOther Texts & People Mentioned i
Episode 90: Makenna Goodman
Books by Makenna GoodmanThe Shame (Milkweed, 2020)Other Texts, Artists, and Authors Mentioned in This EpisodeAmelie 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 Aust
Episode 89: The Ladder Out of the Hole
Featured in Episode 89: David NaimonBetween the Covers podcastUrsula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing by Ursula K. Le Guin & David Naimon
Episode 88: Global Roll Call, Part 3
Commonplace 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 Fru
Episode 87: Global Roll Call, Part 2
Marcelo 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 Hous
Episode 86: Global Roll Call, Part 1
David 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
Episode 85: The Craft of the Literary Interview
Episode 84: M. NourbeSe Philip
Books by M. NourbeSe PhilipBlank: 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 (Mer
Episode 83: Darcey Steinke
Books by Darcey SteinkeFlash 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 EpisodeMaud CaseyThe Testosterone Files by Max Wolf
Episode 82: Maggie Nelson
Books by Maggie NelsonSomething 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 th
Episode 81: Commonplace goes to Taiwan, Part 2
People, 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 OwnFemBooks est. 1994Witch House (located in the same building as FemBooks)Peng Wan-Ru Foundation (located in the same building as FemBooks)KANG Min JayNational Taiwan University’s Graduate Institute of Building and PlanningWenR
Episode 80: Commonplace goes to Taiwan, Part 1
Relevant Links from Rachel’s Story“Diane Wolkstein, Children’s Author Who Spurred a Storytelling Revival, Dies at 70” via the New York TimesRachel on The Longest Shortest TimeAudio of Diane Wolkstein performing “The Monkey King”Relevant Links from Doreen’s StorySarah Doyle Center for Women and GenderHaunani Kay Trask (University of Hawaii)Daniel Kim (professor at Brown)Lois Ann YamanakaR. Zamora L
Episode 79: Christine Larusso
Books by Christine LarussoThere Will Be No More Daughters (&Now/Lake Forest College Press, 2019)Other Texts and Writers Mentioned in the EpisodeMorgan ParkerAnne BoyerRachel ZuckerHome/BirthKimiko HahnCarmen Giménez SmithAda LimónVictoria Chang’s twitterTommy PicoJakob Vala (designer)Shira ErlichmanSharon OldsJuliana SpahrOther Relevant LinksMadeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Pri
Episode 78: Anne Boyer
Episode transcripts available here.Books by Anne BoyerThe 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 EpisodeCassandra GilligSiddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies (Scribner, 2011)Bernadette MayerP
Episode 77: Tina Chang
Books by Tina ChangHybrida (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 EpisodeKimiko HahnAracelis Girmaysam saxAgha Shahid AliMira JacobToni Morrisonlucille cliftonBrenda ShaughnessyCarolyn ForchéMichael Cunningh
Episode 76: Ada Limón
Books by Ada LimónThe Carrying (Milkweed, 2018)Bright Dead Things (Milkweed, 2015)Sharks in the Rivers (Milkweed, 2010)lucky wreck (Autumn House, 2006)This Big Fake World (Pearl Poetry Prize series, 2006)Other Relevant LinksThe theory and play of duende by LorcaAdrian Matejka’s One Big SmokeNyorican PoetryEpisode 16: Jericho BrownCD WrightBernadette Mayer’s conversation with Charles BernsteinEpiso
Episode 75: Victoria Chang
Books by Victoria ChangBarbie 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 EpisodeChen ChenKristin
Episode 74: Rachel Zucker's SoundMachine
Books/Projects by Rachel ZuckerSoundMachine (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
Episode 73: Jennifer Croft (Translation Series, Ep. 3)
Episode 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
Episode 72: Ilya Kaminsky
EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 72Books by Ilya KaminskyPoetry 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
Episode 71: Mira Jacob
Episode 70: Alicia Jo Rabins
Episode 69: Live Reading with Brown, Joseph, Meitner Parker, Pico, Tolbert, and Yanyi
Episode 68: Live Reading with Calvocoressi, Falkner, Gay and Mark
Episode 67: John Biewen
Episode 66: Sarah Gambito
Episode 65: Hillary Frank
Episode 64: John Keene
Episode 2 of Commonplace’s special series on translationJohn R. Keene is the author of Annotations and Counternarratives, both published by New Directions, as well as several other works, including the poetry collection Seismosis, with artist Christopher Stackhouse, and a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer. Born in St. Louis, Keene is a graduate of Harvard C
Episode 63: Juliana Spahr
Episode 62: Khadijah Queen
Episode 61: Rosa Alcalá
Episode 1 of Commonplace’s special series on translation.Rosa Alcalá is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, most recently, MyOTHER TONGUE (Futurepoem), and translator of several full-length translations including the recently released New and Selected Poems of Cecilia Vicuña (Kelsey Street Press) for which Alcalá received a translation fellowship from the National Endowment of t
Episode 60: Robin Coste Lewis
Episode 59: Alison S. M. Kobayashi
Episode 58: Cate Marvin
Episode 57: Dorothea Lasky
Episode 56: Jennifer Kronovet
Episode 55: Anne Waldman
Episode 54: Gerald Stern
Episode 53: Tommy Pico
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