Podcast appearances and mentions of Ann Lauterbach

Ann Lauterbach is the author of ten books of poetry and three books of essays, including The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience and The Given & The Chosen, her 2009 collection, Or To Begin Again, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Lauterbach's work has been recognized by fellowships from, among others, the Guggenheim Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is the Ruth and David Schwab II Professor of Languages and Literatures at Bard College. A native of New York City, she lives in Germantown, New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's poem is Fragment (Stone) by Ann Lauterbach.

Richard speaks with poet Ann Lauterbach about radical idealism, disobedient choices, the color of chaos, and living with groundhogs, as well as her list of eight talismanic books.

"Some Of Us" by Ann Lauterbach read by Gwenan Davies. "Some Of Us" appears in the collection "Spells" published by Penguin Books in 2018. A transcript can be found at https://twitter.com/hmvanderhart/status/1183369870651604992/photo/1 More from Gwenan Davies can be found at https://www.instagram.com/gwenandaviesstudio/

Los días son hermosos, los días son hermosos. Sé lo que son los días, lo demás es el clima. Ya sé lo qué es el clima, los días son hermosos. Las cosas son fortuitas. Alguien está llorando. Lloro por lo fortuito. Los días son hermosos. ¿En dónde está el mañana? Todos van a llorar. El mañana fue ayer. Los días son hermosos. El mañana fue ayer. El día de hoy es clima. El sonido del clima es el mundo que llora. Todos somos fortuitos. También todos lloramos. Las lágrimas de hoy se apagarán mañana. La lluvia son cenizas. Los días son hermosos. La lluvia está cayendo. También cae el sonido. El cielo es una nube. Los días son hermosos. El cielo es polvoriento. El clima es el ayer. El clima es el ayer. También llora el sonido. Este polvo, ¿qué es? Tampoco es nada el clima. Los días son hermosos. Las torres son ayeres. Las torres son fortuitas. ¿Qué son estas cenizas? Aquí está el odio que no viaja a ningún lado. Aquí están los vestidos con aroma de noche. Aquí están las palabras que vuelven a sus libros. Aquí están esas piedras que recién se aflojaron. Aquí mismo está el puente para cruzar las aguas. Aquí mismo, el lugar por donde salió el sol. Aquí hay una estación seca en la chimenea. Aquí están las cenizas. Los días son hermosos.

Te me aparecés en sueños todo el tiempo como un centavo que vale menos que los de antes pero brilla más. Me alegra sostenerte en la tibieza de mi mano y ponerte de cara, mirarte a los ojos que me miran. Hola, te digo, y vos me decís hola, como la gitana de la canción que al final desaparece. Juro nunca gastarte, ni siquiera en este campo de alegría no correspondida, con todas las persianas bajas.

"Jerusalem" has become a quintessentially middle-class and very English song, but it is held in the hearts and memories of people from different backgrounds and cultures. There is a bit of cricket - Aggers discusses England's stunning and unexpected victory in the 2005 Ashes. Jerusalem reminds of that extraordinary summer. We hear from Pamela Davenport, the daughter of a man who felt that the words of Jerusalem highlighted inequality in society; lack of money prevented him fulfilling his academic potential and he died in a care home that didn't care well enough for him. For the American poet, Ann Lauterbach, the unusual and little-known Paul Robeson version was the theme-tune to her escape from the difficult years of Nixon and Vietnam to 1960s London. The singer, Janet Shell, recalls the burial of her Great Uncle who was killed during World War One, but whose body was only discovered in 2009. Susanne Sklar - a scholar of William Blake - discusses the inspiration behind the words of the poem. Probably, she says, he wrote them while awaiting his trial for sedition; he was in trouble for fighting with a soldier who had urinated in his garden. The composer and writer, Paul Spicer, plays, sings and talks through the tune which was composed by Sir Hubert Parry. Producer: Karen Gregor.

A 9-minute excerpt from a November 2013 reading by Ann Lauterbach at the Kelly Writers House.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Ann Lauterbach, the David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature; Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College; and the University of Chicago's Sherry Poet-in-Residence, 2012-2013, reads her poetry as a part of the The Pearl Andelson Sherry Memorial Poetry Reading and Lecture series. Ann Lauterbach has published several volumes of poetry, including Many Times, but Then (1979), Before Recollection (1987), Clamor (1991), And, for Example (1994), On a Stair (1997), If in Time (2001), Hum (2005), and Or to Begin Again (2009), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. As described by Thomas Fink in the Boston Review: “Lauterbach has found new forms for expressing the continuousness of change: its ways of summoning and disrupting intimacy, of evoking and subverting the position of perceptions and the framing and decentering play of language itself.” In addition to poetry, Lauterbach has published a book of essays, The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (2005). She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. For more than 15 years, she has taught at Bard College and codirected the Writing Division of the MFA program. She has also taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Columbia University, Princeton University, and the University of Iowa.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Ann Lauterbach, the David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature; Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College; and the University of Chicago's Sherry Poet-in-Residence, 2012-2013, reads her poetry as a part of the The Pearl Andelson Sherry Memorial Poetry Reading and Lecture series. Ann Lauterbach has published several volumes of poetry, including Many Times, but Then (1979), Before Recollection (1987), Clamor (1991), And, for Example (1994), On a Stair (1997), If in Time (2001), Hum (2005), and Or to Begin Again (2009), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. As described by Thomas Fink in the Boston Review: “Lauterbach has found new forms for expressing the continuousness of change: its ways of summoning and disrupting intimacy, of evoking and subverting the position of perceptions and the framing and decentering play of language itself.” In addition to poetry, Lauterbach has published a book of essays, The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (2005). She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. For more than 15 years, she has taught at Bard College and codirected the Writing Division of the MFA program. She has also taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Columbia University, Princeton University, and the University of Iowa.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Ann Lauterbach, the David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature; Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College; and the University of Chicago's Sherry Poet-in-Residence, 2012-2013, gives a lecture on her poetry as a part of the The Pearl Andelson Sherry Memorial Poetry Reading and Lecture series. Ann Lauterbach has published several volumes of poetry, including Many Times, but Then (1979), Before Recollection (1987), Clamor (1991), And, for Example (1994), On a Stair (1997), If in Time (2001), Hum (2005), and Or to Begin Again (2009), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. As described by Thomas Fink in the Boston Review: “Lauterbach has found new forms for expressing the continuousness of change: its ways of summoning and disrupting intimacy, of evoking and subverting the position of perceptions and the framing and decentering play of language itself.” In addition to poetry, Lauterbach has published a book of essays, The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (2005). She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. For more than 15 years, she has taught at Bard College and codirected the Writing Division of the MFA program. She has also taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Columbia University, Princeton University, and the University of Iowa. Learn more at creativewriting.uchicago.edu/writers/sherry-memorial

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Ann Lauterbach, the David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature; Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College; and the University of Chicago's Sherry Poet-in-Residence, 2012-2013, gives a lecture on her poetry as a part of the The Pearl Andelson Sherry Memorial Poetry Reading and Lecture series. Ann Lauterbach has published several volumes of poetry, including Many Times, but Then (1979), Before Recollection (1987), Clamor (1991), And, for Example (1994), On a Stair (1997), If in Time (2001), Hum (2005), and Or to Begin Again (2009), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. As described by Thomas Fink in the Boston Review: “Lauterbach has found new forms for expressing the continuousness of change: its ways of summoning and disrupting intimacy, of evoking and subverting the position of perceptions and the framing and decentering play of language itself.” In addition to poetry, Lauterbach has published a book of essays, The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (2005). She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. For more than 15 years, she has taught at Bard College and codirected the Writing Division of the MFA program. She has also taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Columbia University, Princeton University, and the University of Iowa. Learn more at creativewriting.uchicago.edu/writers/sherry-memorial

ANN LAUTERBACH is the author of seven books of poems; her most recent book is The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience. She is a Professor at Bard College, where she co-directs the writing division of the MFA program.   http://holloway.english.berkeley.edu/

ANN LAUTERBACH is the author of seven books of poems; her most recent book is The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience. She is a Professor at Bard College, where she co-directs the writing division of the MFA program.   http://holloway.english.berkeley.edu/

If in Time, Collected Poems 1975-2000 (Penguin) Ann Lauterbach believes that one of the primary functions of poetry is the demystification of the world's cliches and the creation of new wonders...

Ann Sexton; Clamor   Diane Wood Middlebrook discusses Ann Sexton's life as revealed in her biography. Ann Lauterbach answers the Bookworm's questions about how to understand her poetry.