Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)

In 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 performance. This reading took place at the Poetry Project at St Mark's Church in New York City on May 24, 2023 and was recorded by the Poetry Project. (Audience audio was recorded on the same night and in the same location by Rachel Zucker.) Mixing and Mastering by Stephen Becker

In 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 performance.

In this second Keep the Channel Open feed drop (check out our first, episode 113!), Rachel and Mike Sakasegawa discuss Bianca by Eugenia Leigh.

Rachel 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. 

Poets 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.

Poets 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 PODCASTSSUPPORT: PATREON | VENMO: @Rachel_ZuckerLinks, 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 ReadingRichard McCann Kinokuniya BookstoreWillam Blake's “Ah! Sun-flower” June Jordan's “Sunflower Sonnet Number 1"June Jordan's “Sunflower Sonnet Number 2"Bios, in order of appearance:Jason Schneiderman is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Hold Me Tight (Red Hen, 2020). He is Professor of English at CUNY's BMCC and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. His next collection, Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire, will be published by Red Hen Press in 2024. Cate Marvin's latest book of poems is Event Horizon (Copper Canyon Press, 2022). She teaches at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York and resides in Southern Maine. Her poems have recently appeared in The Kenyon Review.R. A. Villanueva is the author of Reliquaria, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. New work has been featured by the Academy of American Poets, Ploughshares, Poetry, and National Public Radio—and his writing appears widely in international publications such as Poetry London and The Poetry Review. His honors include commendations from the Forward Prizes and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and Kundiman. Born in New Jersey, he lives in Brooklyn.Born in Shanghai, Lynn Xu is the author of And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight (Wave, 2022) and Debts & Lessons (Omnidawn, 2013) and the chapbooks: June (Corollary Press, 2006) and Tournesol (Compline, 2021). She has performed cross-disciplinary works at the MOCA Tucson, Guggenheim Museum, The Renaissance Society, Rising Tide Projects, and 300 S. Kelly Street. She teaches at Columbia University, coedits Canarium Books, and lives with her family in New York City and West Texas. Rachel Zucker is the author of a bunch of books, including, most recently, The Poetics of Wrongness. She is the founder and host of Commonplace and directrix of the Commonplace School of Embodied Poetics. She lives in Washington Heights, NY and Scarborough, ME and is mother to three sons.Please support Commonplace by becoming a patron here!Sign up for “Reading with Rachel,” the newest course in The Commonplace School for Embodied Poetics.

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 abroad with support from the Joyce Foundation, Banff Centre, Minnesota State Arts Board, and diverse other institutions. He has degrees from The New School for Social Research and University of Toronto and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was Program Director for the Arab American lit and film organization Mizna before receiving a multi-year Tulsa Artist Fellowship and this year a Milkweed Editions fellowship. His debut poetry collection HOMES (Coffee House Press, 2021), explores nature, modernity, identity, belonging, and sublimity through the site of the Great Lakes bioregion / borderland. Moheb has been a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards, Heartland Booksellers Award, and others, and was showcased in Ecotone's annual indie press shortlist and the Poets & Writers annual 10 debut poets feature. See more of his work at www.mohebsoliman.info.In honor of this episode, Commonplace's partner org will donate $250 to the Alliance for the Great Lakes, chosen by Moheb Soliman. The Alliance for the Great lakes is a nonpartisan nonprofit working across the region to protect our most precious resource: the fresh, clean, and natural waters of the Great Lakes.Please support Commonplace by becoming a patron here!Sign up for “Reading with Rachel” the newest course in The Commonplace School for Embodied Poetics.

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 of AletteSharon Bridgforth Omi Osun Joni L. Jones Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben LernerBridge Live ArtsCherie HillKarla QuinteroShifting Cultural Power by Hope MohrNew Commonplace School Course: “Reading with Rachel”Support Commonplace!Transcript (to come)

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”

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. A. WarmanSeminary of Ecstatic PoeticsAnimal PlanetHistory ChannelJoseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal GrowthCody-Rose ClevidenceThe Book of GenesisThe Book of RevelationThe Great Courses, GnosticismDavid BrakkeYaldabaothAimé CésaireWalker EvansWhitfield LovellSimon L. Lewis & Mark Maslin, The Human Planet: How We Created the AnthropoceneJeff MillsMetropolisArthur SchopenhauerChanel Adams, "The Right to Rest in Peace"Dorianne Laux, "Life is Beautiful"Sims 4Robin Coste LewisAmina CainClarice LispectorClaire Louise Bennett, PondMetta SámaEd Roberson, "Q, or the night traffic symbols"Edgar Garcia, Boundary LootSuzanne Césaire, The Great Camouflage: Writings of DissentBeverly BuchanonAugusta Savage, "Satyr"The Song CaveCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

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 in April, 2023 with the founder and host of the Keep the Channel Open podcast, Mike Sakasegawa. In this lecture, Rachel Zucker discusses the origin of the term Confessional as it came to be used for a specific group of poets, the legacy of confessional poetry, risk, shame, and questions of gender and privilege in relationship to confessional poetry. Many thanks to The University of Arizona Poetry Center, The Bagley Wright Poetry Lecture Series and the BWLS Podcast, Ellen Welcker, Heidi Broadhead, Charlie Wright and everyone at Wave Books. Here is a longer list of acknowledgments and a partial list of referenced sources for Rachel's lectures.

Rachel 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 Arts and Lectures on November 29, 2016 as well as a conversation recorded in April, 2023 with her son Moses Goren about the lecture. Many thanks to Seattle Arts and Lectures, The Bagley Wright Poetry Lecture Series and the BWLS Podcast, Ellen Welcker, Heidi Broadhead, Charlie Wright and everyone at Wave Books. Commonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

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 Love & War (Wesleyan University Press, 1990)Secrets from the Center of the World, w. Stephen Strom (University of Arizona Press, 1989)She Had Some Horses (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983)NONFICTIONCatching the Light (Why I Write Series, Yale University Press, 2022)Poet Warrior (W. W. Norton, 2021)Crazy Brave (W. W. Norton, 2012)Soul Talk, Song Language: Conversations with Joy Harjo, w. Tanaya Winder (Wesleyan University Press, 2011)The Spiral of Memory: Interviews (Poets on Poetry, University of Michigan Press, 1995)PLAYSWings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light: A Play by Joy Harjo and a Circle of Responses (Wesleyan University Press, 2019)CHILDREN'S BOOKSRemember, w. Michaela Goade (Penguin Random House, 2023)For a Girl Becoming, w. Mercedes McDonald (University of Arizona Press, 2009)The Good Luck Cat, w. Paul Lee (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000)Remember (Strawberry Press, 1981)EDITORIALLiving Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2021)When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2020)Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America, w. Gloria Bird (W.W. Norton, 1998)ALBUMSI Pray For My Enemies (2021)This America (2011)Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears (2010)Winding Through the Milky Way (2008)She Had Some Horses (2006)Native Joy for Real (2004)Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century (2003)Also ReferencedAudre LordeJill BialoskyJohn BenedictSandra CisnerosUniversity of IowaBob Dylan CenterUniversity of Tennessee, KnoxvilleDenison UniversityUniversity of New MexicoPoets in SchoolsHarvard UniversityUniversity of California Los AngelesInstitute of American Indian ArtsBureau of Indian AffairsUniversity of ArizonaUniversity of New MexicoUniversity of Colorado, BoulderUniversity of MontanaPaula Vogul, Bard at the GatePaula Vogul, IndecentCongo SquareTheater SquaredJohn Coltrane Alice ColtraneJim PepperCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

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 CheeFrank B. Wilderson IIIKatelyn Hale WoodAdrienne RichPrince, "I Wanna Be Your Lover"YanyiTorrey PetersMatthew ShepardKenneth GoldsmithSaidiya HartmanRigoberto GonzalezCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

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: Travel Essays in Art (Semiotexte, 2009)Sorry, Tree (Wave Books, 2007)Tow, with Artist Larry R. Collins (Lospecchio Press, 2005)Skies (Black Sparrow Press, 2001)On My Way (Faux Press, 2001)Cool For You (Soft Skull Press, 2000)School of Fish (Black Sparrow Press, 1997)Maxfield Parrish: Early & New Poems (Black Sparrow Press, 1995)The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotexte, 1995), ed. with Liz KotzChelsea Girls (Black Sparrow Press, 1994)Not Me (Semiotexte, 1991)Also ReferencedPatchin PlaceVilla AlbertineConstance DebréGrove PressMarfa, TexasHenry MillerFranz KafkaSimone WeilThe New YorkerLaurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, GentlemanZinc BarCAConradJack HalberstamKarl Ove KnausgårdBagley Wright LecturesWave BooksGraywolf PressJulie CarrCounterpath PressDiane WolksteinMonkey KingDiane Wolkstein & Samual Noah Kramer, Inanna, Queen of Heaven and EarthAnselm BerriganAlice Notley, The Descent of AletteJorie GrahamBernadette MayerSei Shōnagon, The Pillow BookThomas Pynchon, Gravity's RainbowDavid Foster Wallace, Infinite JestMoyra DaveyPeter HujarRebecca SolnitPatti SmithMaxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among GhostsDavid AntinTabboo!Marley FreemanHannah BeermanDjuna BarnesAmber HollibaughBruce SpringsteinAndy WarholJoseph BueysNew JournalismTom WolfeJoan DidionGertrude SteinAllen GinsbergJack PearsonJohnnie RaeAlex KatzGuggenheim FellowshipWilliam Carlos WilliamsRobert MapplethorpeThe Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale UniversityLewis WarshJames SchuylerWayne KoestenbaumC. D. WrightPoetry Project NewsletterSegue Reading SeriesNew York UniversityLisa CholodenkoMacArthur Genius GrantThe (Paris) Thanksgiving ManifestoChantal AkermanGus Van SantRobert FrankTanya WexlerCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

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 MunozJack Halberstam, The Queer Art of FailureSamuel L. Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square BlueCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

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 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)Speak Low (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986–2006 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)Riding Westward (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)The Rest of Love (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)Rock Harbor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)The Tether (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)Pastoral (Graywolf Press, 2000)From the Devotions (Graywolf Press, 1998)Cortège (Graywolf Press, 1995)In the Blood (Northeastern University Press, 1992)NONFICTIONMy Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022)Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Art and Life of Poetry (Graywolf Press, 2004)TRANSLATIONSophocles's Philoctetes (Oxford University Press, 2003)SELECTED OTHER WORKFirsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets, ed. Carl Phillips (Yale University Press, 2019)“What I See Is the Light Falling All Around Us,” T Magazine (2015)Cooking With Carl on InstagramAlso ReferencedBrooklyn Book FestivalHafizah JeterR. Erika DoyleAngelos MichalopoulosWashington University at St. LouisT MagazineOmnidawn PublishingLayli LongsoldierVictoria ChangAssociation of Writers and Writing ProgramsRoe v. WadeJulia ChildWhitney HoustonBreadloaf Writers ConferenceThe New York TimesMichael PalmerErnest HemingwayCarcanet BooksEmergence MagazineRobert Lowell, Life StudiesRon Charles and Carl Phillips Firing Line with William F Buckley Allen Ginsberg Rachel HadasPrageeta Sharma, Grief SequenceGeorge Eliot, MiddlemarchJohn UpdikeJ.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye and Nine StoriesCarly SimonThe Go-GosHadrianEmily DickinsonYale Younger PrizeEduardo C. CorralMuriel RukeyserJorie GrahamBrigit Pegeen KellyLinda Gregg, Too Bright To SeeFrank O'HaraGerard Manley HopkinsRobert HaydenDavid WojahnThom GunnPoetry MagazineWilliam Shakespeare, Sonnet 73Many thanks to Rickey Laurentiis, Erin Belieu, Dawn Lundy Martin, Justin Phillip Reed and the Association of Writing Programs Conference for granting me permission to record and share “Radiance Versus Ordinary Light: A Tribute to Carl Phillips,” March 28, 2019.Commonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

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 SchneidermanWashington PostCristóbal MartínezPostcommodityColorado Dance FestivalAlternative RoutesNew York Theater WorkshopYale UniversityIowa Writers WorkshopDoulas of North AmericaErika R. MooreIsaac GomezCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

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 ReferencedGolden spikeMichel de MontaigneRalph Waldo Emerson, NatureCaspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of FogWaves Breaking with Avren KeatingSei Shōnagon, The Pillow BookFall of CivilizationsContrapoints, “Envy”Sylvia PlathRobert Sapolsky, Stanford LecturesJaak Panksepp, The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human EmotionsJohann Sebastian BachAlan FelsenthalDouglas KearneyBagley Wright Lecture SeriesCarl SaganEmile Durkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious LifeBook of RevelationNeopaganism Quaker meetingToni MorrisonLinda Stone, Kinship & Gender: An IntroductionBruce Bagemihl, Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality & Natural DiversityAdam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (An Inquiry Into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations)Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad RūmīJean Giorno, Joy of Man's DesiringH.D. (Hilda Doolittle)Robin BlaserDerek WalcottWallace StevensKamau BrathwaiteCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

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 songwriter, with family bandWatch the full feature-length film Tango in the Dark here!Also ReferencedDrew JurekaDiane WolksteinSheila HetiJudah GorenCleveland Institute of MusicCleveland OrchestraItzhak Perlman, In the Fiddler's HouseMariah CareyWhitney HoustonTed GupThe Plain DealerConnie SchultzPaul HindemithJohannes BrahmsJeff Healey's Jazz WizardsGlenn Gould School, The Royal Conservatory of MusicToronto Symphony OrchestraThe National Ballet of CanadaThe Canadian Opera CompanyJill BarberViva Mexico Toronto Mariachi BandAstor PiazzollaAlexander GlazunovJean SibeliusNathaniel WolksteinShirley TempleThe Legend of Carau (Argentina)PointeTango Dance CompanySoundMachineYiddish Glory

Selected Work by Doreen WangGrief Sequence (Wave, 2020)Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013)Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007)The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004)Bliss to Fill (Subpress, 2000)“A One Won” and “Friendship and Racial Furniture: An Address” in Harp & Altar, Issue 11, Winter 2022Also ReferencedKaty LedererAlice NotleyThe Descent of InannaDouglas KearneyMark StrandDorothy Wong, Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Asian American PoetryJames Kyung-jin Lee, Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model MinorityLauren Berlant, Cruel OptimismPauline Chen, Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on MortalityValorie ThomasThe Beatles, Let it BeBarnett NewmanBrenda ShaughnessySandra LimDivya Victor, Curb and KithCathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American ReckoningJorie GrahamSienne Ngai, Ugly FeelingsKeelah TompkinsCherene Sherrard-JohnsonAmaud Jamaul JohnsonJonathan LethamClaudia Rankine, CitizenRoland Barthes, Grief SequencePresumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia, ed. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. Gonzalez and Angela P. HarrisMatthew Salasses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

Rachel 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. Selected Work by Prageeta SharmaGrief Sequence (Wave, 2020)Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013)Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007)The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004)Bliss to Fill (Subpress, 2000)“A One Won” and “Friendship and Racial Furniture: An Address” in Harp & Altar, Issue 11, Winter 2022Also ReferencedKaty LedererAlice NotleyThe Descent of InannaDouglas KearneyMark StrandDorothy Wang, Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Asian American PoetryJames Kyung-jin Lee, Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model MinorityLauren Berlant, Cruel OptimismPauline Chen, Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on MortalityValorie ThomasThe Beatles, Let it BeBarnett NewmanBrenda ShaughnessySandra LimDivya Victor, Curb and KithCathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American ReckoningJorie GrahamSianne Ngai, Ugly FeelingsKyla TompkinsCherene Sherrard-JohnsonAmaud Jamaul JohnsonJonathan LethemClaudia Rankine, CitizenRoland Barthes, Grief SequencePresumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia, ed. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. Gonzalez and Angela P. HarrisMatthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and WorkshoppingCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast Prageeta Sharma and Dorothy Wang at the Thinking Its Presence conference.

Selected Work by Doreen WangGrief Sequence (Wave, 2020)Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013)Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007)The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004)Bliss to Fill (Subpress, 2000)“A One Won” and “Friendship and Racial Furniture: An Address” in Harp & Altar, Issue 11, Winter 2022Also ReferencedKaty LedererAlice NotleyThe Descent of InannaDouglas KearneyMark StrandDorothy Wong, Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Asian American PoetryJames Kyung-jin Lee, Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model MinorityLauren Berlant, Cruel OptimismPauline Chen, Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on MortalityValorie ThomasThe Beatles, Let it BeBarnett NewmanBrenda ShaughnessySandra LimDivya Victor, Curb and KithCathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American ReckoningJorie GrahamSienne Ngai, Ugly FeelingsKeelah TompkinsCherene Sherrard-JohnsonAmaud Jamaul JohnsonJonathan LethamClaudia Rankine, CitizenRoland Barthes, Grief SequencePresumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia, ed. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. Gonzalez and Angela P. HarrisMatthew Salasses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

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 Island MediaV ConatyKatie FerneliusArielle GreenbergNatalie Diaz and Roger ReevesGinsbyrgTorrey PetersDouglas KearneyDavid NaimanKaren BrodyBrenda Lin (author of The Wealth Ribbon)Dianne Wolkstein, Rachel's motherOedipusJesusSigmund FreudThe Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, ed. Brenda Hillman and Patricia DienstfreyYanyiIsaac Ginsberg-MillerHeidi BroadheadD. A. PowellLaurel SnyderRecommended by ChrisSharon OldsCathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American ReckoningCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

ADDITIONAL INFOSelected Work by Doreen Wangwith Rachel Zucker et al., Commonplace goes to Taiwan, Part 1 and Part 2with 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 MagazineAlso ReferencedV ConatyKatie FerneliusArielle GreenbergNatalie Diaz and Roger ReevesGinsbyrgTorrey PetersDouglas KearneyDavid NaimanKaren BrodyBrenda Lin (author of The Wealth Ribbon)Dianne Wolkstein, Rachel's motherOedipusJesusSigmund FreudThe Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, ed. Brenda Hillman and Patricia DienstfreyYanyiIsaac Ginsberg-MillerHeidi BroadheadD. A. PowellLaurel SnyderRecommended by ChrisSharon OldsCathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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 Press, 2014)The Black Automaton (poetry, Fence Books, 2009)LECTURESDouglas Kearney's Bagley Wright Lectures“I Killed, I Died: Banter, Self-Destruction, and the Poetry Reading” (The Yale Review, 2021)OTHER“Dear Editor——: An Open Letter from Douglas Kearney” (Cave Canem, 2020)Also ReferencedBagley Wright Lecture SeriesChristopher Titus, Born With a DefectTarik DobbsJennifer Holliday as Effie in Dream GirlsEllen WelckerRainer Maria Rilke, “The Archaic Torso of Apollo”James Wright, “A Blessing” and “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota”lucille cliftonVal Jeanty

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 Press)Imogen Binnie, Nevada (Topside Press)Casey PlettIowa Writers WorkshopT. Fleishman, Time is a Thing The Body Moves Through (Coffee House Press) and Syzygy, Beauty (Sarabande Books)Darcey SteinkeDarcey Steinke, Flash Count Diary: Menopause and Vindication of Natural Life (Macmillan)FleabagThe First Wives ClubElena Ferrante, Neapolitan Novels (Europa Editions)Rachel Cusk, Outline Trilogy (Macmillan) and Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (Picador)Jenny OffillSusan Sontag, Illness as a Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (Picador)Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Atlantic)Zoe WhittalAlexander CheeKristen Roupenian, “Cat Person” (The New Yorker)Sylvia PlathVirginia WoolfKate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)Dave ChappelleE. M. Forster, Maurice (written 1913-1914, published 1971)Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality (1897)Jane the VirginSex in the CityFriendsSeinfeldThe SimpsonsCathy Park HongCathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian-American Reckoning (One World)

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)ANTHOLOGIES & EDITORIAL WORKEd., Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (University of Georgia Press, 2009)Ed. with Matt O'Donnell & Jeffrey Thomson, From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea Books, 2009)Also ReferencedGuggenheim FellowshipAnne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First YearSusan SontagDorothea LangeToi Derricotte, Natural BirthMatt O'DonnellFrom the FishhouseSharon OldsKimiko HahnBrenda HillmanThe Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, ed. Brenda Hillman & Patricia DienstfreyWomen Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, ed. Arielle Greenberg & Rachel ZuckerPoets HouseEmory University Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, curated by Kevin YoungLangston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”Lucille CliftonYusef Komunyakaa, Magic CityEd RobersonMarilyn NelsonTiffany Han podcast

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 Collective/Diana Press, 1977)A Woman is Talking to Death (Women's Press Collective, 1974)Edward the Dyke and Other Poems (Women's Press Collective, 1971)The Common Woman Poems (Women's Press Collective, 1970)NONFICTIONEruptions of Inanna: Justice, Gender, and Erotic Power (Nightboat Books, 2021)Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit: Living in a Sentient World (Red Hen Press, 2021)A Simple Revolution: the Making of an Activist Poet (Aunt Lute Books, 2012)with Lisa Maria Hogeland, The Judy Grahn Reader (Aunt Lute Books, 2009)Descent to the Roses of a Family: A Poet's Journey into Anti-Racism and Personal Social Healing (Independently Published, 1986; reprinted 2021)Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds (Beacon Press, 1984)Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World (Beacon Press, 1993)FURTHER READINGMetaformia – A Journal of Menstruation and Culture“The Emergence of Metaformic Consiousness” (Metaformia - A Journal of Menstruation and Culture, 2005)“Are Wars Metaformic” (Metaformia - A Journal of Menstruation and Culture, 2005)Also ReferencedLisa Maria HoglandDiane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer, Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth (1983)Joy Katz Mattachine SocietyFrank KamenyHelen of Troy and MenelausThe Descent of InannaEcofeminismSecond-Wave FeminismTiktok activismACT UPStarhawkMetaformic theoryThe Politics of Women's Spirituality, ed. Charlene SpretnakGeorge LakoffEnheduannaAdrienne RichScheherazadeVashtiEstherDivorce Support Group with Emma Cooper SeberCommonality InstituteGregory GajusAudre LordeTranspersonal psychologyDianne Jennett

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 The American Poetry Review (June 2020)Also ReferencedSarah PolleyD.A. PowellSylvia RiveraAndrew SullivanDavid BrooksSue Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love (2008)Tom SleighWalt WhitmanOscar Wilde, “The Portrait of W.H.” (1889)Anne Carson, Eros: The Bittersweet (1986)Jacques Lacan, mirror stageSigmund Freud, melancholyLeo Bersani, "Is the Rectum a Grave" (1987)Andrea Dworkin and Catherine McKinnenFrank O'HaraThe Hanky CodeEmily DickinsonErika MeitnerTilda SwintonDerek JarmanJorie GrahamJames GalvinAnn Pelligrini, ed. Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (2003)Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905)Rachel Zucker & Arielle Greenberg, Home/Birth: A Poemic (2011)Ellen BassDouglas ManuelJoni MitchellKiki PetrazinoJudith Liz HermanEllen Bryant VoightCarl PhillipsThe Little Red Riding HoodRussell EdsonWisława SzymborskaSylvia PlathFranz KafkaWayne KoestenbaumRachel Zucker, MOTHERs (2014)Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (1987)Gaeton DugasDouglas CrimpJames Frey, A Million Little Pieces (2003)David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (2010)Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face (1994)The New CriticismJacques DerridaHomer, The Illiad (c. 8th Century BC)Unknown Author, The Somonyng of Everyman (c. 1516)William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1603)Charles DarwinKarl MarxAlbert EinsteinSigmund FreudFerdinand de SaussureArthur DantoJ.K. Rowling, Harry Potter series (1997-2007)Daniel Radcliffe, acknowledged author of the Harry Potter seriesGremlins (1984)George Orwell, 1984 (1949) and edition edited by “Moira Propriety”William Carlos Williams, Spring & All (1923)Jennifer L. KnoxDavid TrinidadDennis CooperPaul AusterJane AustenMichel FoucaultUSC Shoah FoundationGeorge Eliot, Middlemarch (1871)Marie Kondo, the concept of "sparks joy"Music by Judah Goren [Transcript TK]

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, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You (2021)Susun S. Weed, New Menopausal Years, Volume 3: Alternative Approaches for Women 30-90 (2002)Our Bodies Ourselves (series, 1970-present)Federation of Feminist Women's Health Center, A New View of a Woman's Body: A Fully Illustrated Guide (1981)Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English, For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women (1978)Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English, Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A History of Women Healers (1973) Shulamith FirestoneAdrienne RichJerilynn PriorLaura Eldridge, In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices For Women (2010)*Holly Grigg-Spall, Sweetening the Pill: Or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control (2013)Cynthia GrahamPlanned ParenthoodAmerican College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)Lyn Paltrow, founder of National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW)Rinat Dray case and decisionFirst-Wave FeminismSecond-Wave Feminism*misnamed as Ashley Eldridge in the episode[transcript to come]

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, including Gurlesque (Saturnalia Books), based on a theory of Third Wave feminist avant-garde poetics Arielle developed. Her work has been featured in many anthologies, including the Best American Poetry, and she wrote a column on contemporary poetics for the American Poetry Review and edited a nonfiction column for The Rumpus called (K)ink: Writing While Deviant. She holds an MFA from Syracuse University and is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship and a Saltonstall Individual Artist Grant. A former tenured professor in poetry at Columbia College Chicago, she teaches at Maine Media Workshop, the College of the Atlantic and elsewhere in the community and does other writing and editorial work. She lives in Belfast, Maine.Arielle Greenberg’s Books & ProjectsBooksI Live in the Country and Other Dirty Poems (Four Way Books, 2020)Locally Made Panties (Ricochet Editions, 2016)Slice (Coconut Books, 2015)Shake Her (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012)Home/Birth: A Poemic (with Rachel Zucker)Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America (Longman, 2006)My Kafka Century (Action Books, 2005) Farther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials (New Michigan, 2003)Given (Verse, 2002) Anthologies & Editorial WorkStarting Today: Poems from Obama’s First 100 Days (Iowa, 2010) with Lara GlenumWomen Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (Iowa, 2008) with Rachel ZuckerGurlesque (Saturnalia, 2010) with Lara Glenum(K)ink: Writing while Deviant (The Rumpus)Column on Contemporary Poetry for American Poetry Review Other Texts & People Mentioned in the EpisodeAndrea DworkinCatherine MacKinnonRachel Zucker, MOTHERs (2013)Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965)Maggie NelsonRoss GayStar WarsKristin Wiig SNL skit "I got a robe!"The CrownFrank O’Hara, “My Heart”Vladimir NabokovJames Joyce, Ulysses and DublinersD.H. LawrenceJim HarrisonShampoo (1975)Californication (2007)Anne Waldman, OutriderThe Olsen TwinsRodarteJoan DidionSusan SontagAudre Lordebell hooksAnn Patchett, “These Precious Days”[transcript to come]

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 ProgramJennifer Block, Everything Below the Waist: Why Healthcare Needs a Feminist RevolutionArielle GreenbergMarriage Story (2019)Daring to RestKaren BrodyTwyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life (2006)Amang’s newest collection, Raised By Wolves [transcript to come]

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 in the EpisodeZora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men (Harper Perennial)Gwendolyn BrooksChance the RapperRichard WrightMargaret WalkerLangston HughesBoondocks (animated series)“Mrs Officer” by Lil WayneScandalDark Noise Collective: Aaron SamuelsFatimah Ashgar Danez SmithJamila WoodsFranny ChoiFollow Nate Marshall on Twitter and Instagram or sign up for his Substack to know more about his books, readings and events.[transcript to come]

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 Austin’s Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)Robert A. Johnson’s Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche (HarperOne, 2009)Virginia WoolfAgnès VardaChantal AckermanPedro AlmodóvarD'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths (Delacorte, 1992)Julie BuntinPhilip RothKarl Ove Knausgaard Ben LernerOther Relevant LinksThe Mountain SchoolCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

Featured in Episode 89: David NaimonBetween the Covers podcastUrsula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing by Ursula K. Le Guin & David Naimon

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 Fruit Geode.D. A. Powell’s books include Cocktails and Chronic, as well as Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys. He recently published a chapbook with Rescue Press, called Atlas T; all proceeds from the sale of Atlas T will be donated to Youth Speaks in San Francisco.Rosa Alcalá is the author of three books of poetry: Undocumentaries, The Lust of Unsentimental Waters, and MyOTHER TONGUE. She is a Professor in the Bilingual MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.Bernadette Mayer is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including Midwinter Day and Poetry State Forest.Laynie Browne is the author of numerous collections of poetry and one novel. Her publications include A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet’s Novel (editor) and The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters.John Biewen directs the audio program at the Center for Documentary Studies, where he teaches and produces/hosts the podcast Scene on Radio.Darcey Steinke has written five novels as well as a memoir, Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life.Stephanie Burt is a poet, literary critic, and professor. Her most recent book is Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems.Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995 and as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Her most recent book is The Darker Face of the Earth.New Books Written by and/or authors/texts recommended/mentioned byMolly Peacock:The Analyst (W.W. Norton, 2017)James Joyce scholar Michael Groden (Molly Peacock’s husband)Cartoon Fundamentals with New Yorker cartoonist Maggie Larsen online at the 92nd St. YAlicia Jo Rabins:Fruit Geode (Augury, 2018)Alicia Jo’s Instagram (where you can find her bathtub poems)Alicia Jo’s weekly Kabbalat Shabat (through Kveller)D. A. Powell:Atlas T (Rescue Press, 2020)Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin, 2015)Hugh Martin’s In Country (BOA Editions, 2018)A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos By Tim Dlugos, David Trinidad (Editor) (Nightboat, 2011)Derrick Austin’s Trouble the Water (BOA Editions, 2016)Akira Kirosowa's DreamsTJ DiFrancesco (manuscript in progress)“Gratitude” by Cornelius Eady“Good Bones” by Maggie Smith“What the End is For” by Jorie GrahamEmily DickinsonJudy GrahnRobert DuncanRosa Alcalá:Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann (Zephyr, 2006)Bernadette Mayer:Works and Days (New Directions, 2016)Memory (Siglio, 2020)Sonnets (Tender Buttons Press)Lee Ann BrownLaynie Browne:A Forest on Many Stems (Nightboat, 2020)Poetry and Art at the Rail ParkSylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (Penguin Modern Classics, 2020)Lisa Robertson’s The Baudelaire Fractal (Coach House Books, 2020)Collaborator Brent WahlPrageeta SharmaCD WrightHarmony HolidayDivya VictorJohn Biewen:The newest series of Scene on Radio is The Land that Never Has Been YetDarcey Steinke:Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life (Sarah Crichton Books, 2019)The Last Man by Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press)Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (Grand Central, 2019)Severance by Ling Ma (Picador, 2019)Cormack McCarthy’s The Road (Vintage, 2007)A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel DefoeSamuel Pepys’ Diary of the PlagueAlison Hagy’s Scribe (Graywolf, 2018)Rachel CarsonFredrick Law OlmsteadWilliam Miller (7th Day Adventist)“Understanding the Book of Revelation” by L. Michael WhiteKristin Prevallet:Flying Rolls of the Golden DawnStephanie Burt:After Callimachus: Poems (Princeton University Press, 2020)Don’t Read Poetry (Basic Books, 2019)Andy Slavitt (Twitter)Jeremy Konyndyk (Twitter)Juliette Kayyem (Twitter)Commonplace Videos are HEREPlease support Commonplace & BECOME A PATRON!A list of bail funds, sorted by city, can be found here.

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 House Will Catch Fire and Stay: Threads, Conversations, Collaborations.Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of two books of poetry and one book of short stories. For The Paris Review she writes a monthly column on fairytales and motherhood entitled HAPPILY.Erika Meitner is the author of five books of poems, most recently Holy Moly Carry Me.Alicia Ostriker, a poet and critic, has published sixteen volumes of poetry.Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish Nobel laureate writer, activist, and public intellectual.New Books Written by and Author/Texts Recommended by Nick FlynnNick Flynn's This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire (W.W. Norton, 2020)Nick Flynn’s Stay: Threads, Conversations, Collaborations (ZE Books, 2020)New Books Written by and Author/Texts Recommended by Erika MeitnerHoly Moly Carry Me by Erika MeitnerBallerz 2K20, An Anthology (O, Miami, 2020)Poet Rebecca Gayle HowellNew Books Written by and Recommended by Sabrina Orah MarkWild Milk by Sabrina Orah MarkSound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey (Algonquin, 2016)New Books Written by and Recommended by Marcelo Hernandez CastilloChildren of the Land (Harper Collins, 2020)New Books Written by and Recommended by Alicia OstrikerThe Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019 (Pitt Poetry Series)Ideas of Order and Disorder (Ghostbird Press, 2020)New Books Written by and Recommended by Jennifer CroftHomesick (Unnamed Press, 2019)New Books Written by and Recommended by Olga TokarczukFlights (Riverhead, 2019)Commonplace’s compendium of COVID-19 resourcesPlease support Commonplace & BECOME A PATRON![Transcript to come]

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 is the author of Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. He is an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University and also teaches in the low residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.Tina Chang is a poet, teacher, and editor. In 2010, she was named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn (the first woman to hold this title).Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program, and the online and summer programs for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet and writer and lawyer who lives in the City of Toronto. She was born in Tobago and now lives in Canada.New Books Written by and Author/Texts Recommended by David TrinidadPunk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems of Ed Smith [Editor] (Turtle Point Press, 2019)Eula BissRobyn SchiffEmily DickinsonAlice NotleyWilliam Carlos WilliamsWalt WhitmanSylvia PlathNew Books Written by and Recommended by Tina ChangCathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings (One World, 2020)Monica Sok's A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon, 2020)Kimiko Hahn’s Foreign Bodies (W.W. Norton, 2020)“The Slur I Never Expected to Hear in 2020,” by Cathy Park Hong for the New York TimesNew Books Written by and Recommended by John MurilloKontemporary Amerikan Poetry (Four Way Books, 2020)New Books Written by and Recommended by Alice NotleyFor the Ride (Penguin, 2020)The New York Times review of For the RideThe New Yorker review of For the RideNew Books Written by and Recommended by Ada LimónThe Carrying (Milkweed, 2018)Loving Kindness by Sharon Salzberg (Shambhala, 2002)Sharon SalzbergNew Books Written by and Recommended by M. NourbeSe PhilipZong! (Wesleyan 2011)New Books Written by and Author/Texts Recommended by Cathy Park HongMinor Feelings (One World, 2020)https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

Mike 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-ranging conversation, Rachel, Dujie, David, and Mike talk all about the “hows” and the “whys” of interviewing, including the importance of establishing rapport with our guests, questions about the ethics of interviewing, and what the role of the host ought to be. Podcasts by the Panelists Keep the Channel Open Between the Covers The Poet Salon

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 (Mercury Press, 1991)Other Texts and Writers Featured in the EpisodeKamau BrathwaiteNathaniel (Nate) Mackey and his lecture, “Breath and Precarity”Phillis WheatleyGeorge Lamming’s In The Castle of My Skin (University of Michigan Press, 1992)George Lamming’s The Pleasures of Exile (University of Michigan Press, 1991)Claire HarrisDionne BrandHarold Sonny Ladoo’s No Pain Like this Body (House of Anansi, 2013)Austin Clarke (fiction writer)George Elliot Clarke’s argument about Nova Scotia preachers’ sermonsNgũgĩ wa Thiong'oAdrienne Rich’s Of Woman BornDerek Walcott’s Ti-Jean and His BrothersOther Relevant LinksSawubonaShonaHeinemann African SeriesTabebuia or Poui Trees of Trinidad and TobagoLionheart (movie)Kikuyu people of KenyaMalinke people (colonized by the French)Afro-futurism

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 Valerio (Seal Press, 2006)Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques (Verso, 2016)Speedboat by Renata Adler (NYRB Books, 2013)Branwell by Douglas A. MartinSarah Manguso (ep. 37)Maggie Nelson (ep. 82)Fanny HoweNick CaveWomen’s Writing Festival in Sydney, AustraliaOther Relevant LinksMike W. Hudsonhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/opinion/reading-writing-stuttering.html

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 the EpisodeAvital Ronell’s Crack Wars (University of Illinois Press, 2004)Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Eraby Paul B. Preciado and Bruce Benderson (Feminist Press, 2013)The Road of Excess: A History of Writer’s on Drugs by Marcus Boon (Harvard University Press, 2005)Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019)Black and Blur by Fred Moten (Duke University Press, 2017)Eileen MylesLauren SandersFrank O’HaraClaudia Rankine (Ep 4)Wayne Kostenbaum (Ep 9)Christina CrosbyEve SedgwickAnne CarsonSherrilyn IfillBenjamin MoserSusan SontagSylvia PlathFranco “Bifo” BerardiHannah ArendtDonald WinnicottMaggie Nelson and Sarah Lucas at the Hammer MuseumElaine RetholtzJohn CageEthan NosowskyOther Relevant LinksCritical ResistanceMaggie Nelson and Wayne Koestenbaum on Clarity and Cruelty (NY Public Library podcast)Hilton Als on Maggie Nelson in the New YorkerMaggie Nelson in The Guardian

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 PlanningWenRooTin Cultural AreaEslite Bookstore(More on Eslite’s cultural significance and future)Treasure HillKANG Min Jay’s speech “Altered Space: Squatting and Legitimizing Treasure Hill, Taipei” presented at Cultural Development Network’s 2006 Forum, “Artivism: The Role of Arts in Regeneration”Public art project at Taipower Spider TreeTonsan Bookstore est. 1982 (the leftist bookstore referred to by KANG Min Jay)GinGin Books est. 1999 (the gay bookstore referred to by KANG Min Jay)(More on GinGin’s founder, LAI Jeng-jer 賴正哲)Taiwanese poet CHEN Kehua’s poem, “Anal Subjectivity”(Note: This webpage from Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture has a different translation of the poem’s title. Google also translates differently as “The Need for Anal Sex.”)Taiwan’s 2018 ReferendumMusic“Monday Spirit”長笛Flute/作曲Composition：張瑛蘭 Ing Lan CHANG人聲Vocal/ 作詞 Lyrics：喜辰晨 XI Chenchen吉他Guitar：林華勁 Gin LINOther Relevant Links:Selected patrons will receive copies of Salsa by Taiwanese poet Hsia Yu translated by Steven Bradbury, courtesy of Zephyr Press.(More translations by Steven Bradbury)書店裡的影像詩 Video Poems Inside a Bookstore: 2016 Web Documentary Series Profiling 40 Different Independent Bookstores in Taiwan友善書業合作社 Taiwan's Independent Bookstore Culture AssociationDuring their trip, Rachel and Doreen also visited the Beitou Museum exhibit: “Stories Told Through Mother’s Hands: Children’s Textile & Embroidery Arts” guided by its curator Brenda Lin, who also serves as Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Les Enphants Co and is the author of Wealth Ribbon.The exhibit showcased items from Brenda’s mother, Christi Lan Lin’s, collection of traditional Asian textiles made by mothers for their children.Brenda’s forthcoming essay, “Things,” will be published Feminist Press’ WSQ in May 2020.Liner Notes:01:08 Doreen provides a brief overview of Taiwan’s history.09:55 Rachel and Doreen speak with CHANG Cheng, one of the co-founders of Brilliant Time Bookstore.19:28 Rachel and Doreen speak with YAO Yuting (Analeigh), a staff member of Brilliant Time Bookstore.25:50 Rachel and Doreen speak with LI Xiumei (Sophie), manager of FemBooks.28:35 Rachel and Doreen speak with KANG Min Jay, a professor at National Taiwan University’s Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, one of the activists behind the creation of the WenRooTin Cultural Area where FemBooks is located.1:00:29 Our gratitude to the many people who were involved with the making of this episode!

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 LinmarkSaigon Grill picket of 2008Audre Lorde ProjectRockefeller Brothers FundNaomi Jackson (friend)Sound Up BootcampBetty Dodson’s female sexuality classKundimanMuseum of Chinese in AmericaBOOK CLUBHsia Yu’s SALSA (Zephyr Press)Rachel Zucker’s MOTHERs (Counterpath)Brenda Lin’s THE WEALTH RIBBON (courtesy of the author)

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 Prize at Lake Forest (currently on hiatus)

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 MayerPatricia Lennox BoydClaudia Rankine’s Citizen (Graywolf, 2014)Maggie NelsonArthur RimbaudOcean VuongElizabeth Barrett BrowningJanet HolmesLeo TolstoyOther Relevant LinksExcerpt of Anne Boyer’s The Undying in The New YorkerFergusonCoupdizzleBreast Cancer ActionAshata PressJeremy CorbynBernie SandersElizabeth Warren

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 Cunningham’s The Hours (Picador, 2000)Edwidge Danticat“With the Birth of My Son, I Stopped Hiding”—Tina Chang’s Modern Love ColumnOther Relevant LinksSarah Lawrence Poetry FestivalNapa Valley Writer’s ConferenceThe Case of Loving V. Virginia

Rachel 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 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 BernsteinEpisode 60: Robin Coste LewisRobin Coste Lewis’ acceptance speech for NBAAda Limon’s acceptance speech for NBCCAOne Art by Elizabeth BishopFaint Music by Robert Hass

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 ChangFatimah AsgharPaige LewisKaveh AkbarCathy Park HongMary RuefleLouise GlückJorie GrahamAnne CarsonTerrance HayesIlya KaminskyOther Relevant LinksCommonplace interview with Richard SikenCommonplace interview with Ilya KaminskyVictoria Chang at McSweeney’sCopper Canyon PressAntioch UniversityCalArts School of Critical Studies

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 and Affections with Arielle Greenberg (University of Iowa Press, 2008)Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First One Hundred Days with Arielle GreenbergSoundMachine, the audio projectBooks by Guest InterviewersSharon OldsArias (Knopf, 2019)Odes (Knopf, 2016)Stag’s Leap (Knopf, 2012)One Secret Thing (Knopf, 2008)Strike Sparks (Knopf, 2004)The Unswept Room (Knopf, 2002)Blood, Tin, Straw (Knopf, 1999)The Wellspring (Knopf, 1996)The Father (Knopf, 1992)Gold Cell (Knopf, 1987)The Dead and the Living (Knopf, 1984)Satan Says (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980)Wayne KoestenbaumCircus (Soft Skull, 2019)Camp Marmalade (Nightboat, 2019)Double Talk (Routledge, 2018)Notes on Glaze (Cabinet, 2016)Andy Warhol (Open Road, 2015)The Pink Trance Notebooks (Nightboat, 2015)My 1980s and Other Essays (FSG, 2013)The Anatomy of Harpo Marx (UC Press, 2012)Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background (Turtle Point, 2012)Humiliation (Picador, 2011)Jackie Under My Skin (Picador, 2009)Hotel Theory (Soft Skull, 2007)Best-selling Jewish Porn Films (Turtle Point, 2006)Model Homes (BOA Editions, 2004)Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes (Soft Skull, 2004)The Queen’s Throat (De Capo, 2001)The Milk of Inquiry (Persea, 1999)Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender (George Brazillier, 1995)Ode to Anna Moffo (Persea, 1991)Cathy Park HongMinor Feelings (One World, 2020)Engine Empire (WW Norton, 2013)Dance Dance Revolution (WW Norton, 2008)Translating Mo’um (Hanging Loose, 2002)Craig Morgan TeicherWe Begin in Gladness (Graywolf, 2018)The Trembling Answers (BOA Editions, 2017)To Keep Love Blurry (BOA Editions, 2012)Cradle Book (BOA Editions, 2010)Brenda Is In the Room (Center for Literary Publishing, 2008)Liner notes03:08 Introduction to episode08:45 Conversation with Josh Goren13:40 Conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum35:35 Conversation with Sharon Olds43:40 Conversation with Craig Morgan Teicher55:35 Conversation with Cathy Park Hong1:15:30 Conversation with Josh Goren1:23:19 Excerpt from “The Moon is in Her Caul Tonight”1:41:17 Outro to the episodeAll audio was recorded by Rachel Zucker.TRANSCRIPT TO COME