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Greetings! in this episode I read the poetry of Anne Sexton and the wisdom of Krishnamurti from his book Total Freedom. Thanks so much for listening!! Peace, Stone
For this episode, Elizabeth is joined by writer Kathryn Good-Shiff, author of the new Meat For Tea Press book Love Letters to Ghosts. They talk about writing, surrealism in poetry, a fish elevator, and much, much more. Do tuck in!Referenced in this conversation:Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton, by Gail CrowtherBlonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir, by Ernestine HayesStatue of Artemis of Ephesus https://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-review/statue-of-artemis-of-ephesus-by-kathryn-good-schiff Find out more at https://www.kathryngoodschiff.comand https://meatfortea.com/books.htm
Mark and Kenny continue the Season of the Bitch w/ this bratty lost demo from the Rebel Heart era. Topics include Natalia Kills, Rosalind Shays, STDs, Anne Sexton, Brahim Zaibat, Nicole Winhoffer, the allure of vindictive cleverness, hooking up in a sauna, knowledge as power, Orville Peck, Khloe Kardashian's podcast, Paul Mescal, French theatergoers and Tennessee Williams, not applauding Cate Blanchett, karmic betrayal, Mark's neighbor Florinda, and whether or not there is a ‘no fraternization' policy in the Inner Circle. Plus, Kenny has a bathroom emergency at BAM and Mark calls out a basic bitch in the audience at AStreetcar Named Desire. “This is a special time.”f you want more Shadow Season Episodes, join the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/c/alliwant2doistalkaboutmadonna
Ola! In this episode I read the chapter Coming Home from Derrick Jensen's book, The Culture of Make Believe. And I read the poetry of Anne Sexton. Also, sing an original song, Trim Tab. Thanks for stopping by! Peace, Stone
Join the thirsty queens for a gin & Sextonic, in this tribute to the iconic work of Anne Sexton.Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.NOTES:Click here for a pdf from the Poetry Society that includes a folio of essays about Sexton's life and work by David Trinidad, Lois Ames, and Maggie Nelson. (Originally published in Crossroads, fall 2001.)Trinidad talks about Anne Sexton on the podcast here.And, lastly, we'd be remiss if we did not link to this dishy, well-researched article--again by the fabulous David Trinidad--about the palace intrigue behind Sexton's winning the Pulitzer for Live or Die.Want to read more about Sexton, faith, and love? Your wait is over. Curious about Anne Sexton's houses? Click here! Here's an hour of Sexton reading some of her most iconic poems. Anne Sexton gave her last public reading at Goucher College in October 1974, three days before she completed suicide. You can find the reading here.Here are links to some of the poems we mention:"The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator""Menstruation at Forty""Her Kind""Sylvia's Death""The Fury of Cocks""Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women"
Mark and Kenny begin Season Seven: Defending the Crown with a detailed discussion of Madonna's most politically urgent (and last - for now!) film project, in collaboration with Steven Klein as well as the debut of a now oft-covered Elliott Smith song. Topics include channeling the source and upping security, Instagram, VICE and BitTorrent, cutting edge lingerie, Danny Tull, troublesome rollouts and surprise drops, the illusions of the mid-2010s, the Daddy Syndrome, Jean-Luc Goddard, The Night Porter, David Lynch's influences, rebirth and performance, Anne Sexton, Ariana Grande, the Gagosian Gallery, Rocco Ritchie, Anderson Cooper and the GLAAD Awards, the importance of props, Amnesty International, Pussy Riot and the continuing struggle and fight to protect human rights and the freedom of speech - globally. Madonna's in the kitchen getting dragged across the floor and getting sued for one million dollars! Thank you - as always - for listening. We are so excited to be resuming our conversations with each and every one of you. It's a Revolution of Love!
Get out your UV lights & swabs--the queens play a game that fuses poems, then guess the poetic DNA samples. Then we spark up a fusion of a different strain!Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Pretty Please.....Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.SHOW NOTES:Watch Jools Lebron get mindful and demure here, divaDon't soak tampons in vodka. Poems we discuss in the episode include:Philip Levine's "Bitterness"Laura Kasischke's "Champagne"Kay Ryan's "Shark's Teeth"Kenneth Koch's "One Train May Hide Another"Annie Finch's "Wild Yeasts"Dorothea Lasky's "Toast to my friend or why Friendship is the best kind of Love"Danusha Laméris's "Bonfire Opera"Marie Ponsot's "Among Women"Tina Chang's "God Country"Campbell McGrath's "Sunset, Route 90, Brewster County, Texas"Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish"W.B. Yeats's "Leda and the Swan"Gerard Manley Hopkins's "The Windhover"Anne Sexton's "Jesus Awake" & "Wanting to Die" Langston Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" & "I, Too"Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps" And Beyonce's "You Won't Break My Soul [Queens Remix]," in which she sampled Madonna's song "Vogue," returning it to the culture where it rightly belongs.
In this episode of This is not a Poem, Sabine Huynh and EK Bartlett explore the great women writers who shaped Sabine Huynh's writing, notably Anne Sexton, and how translation shapes our practice as writers. A book shouldn't be judged by its cover, but it was indeed the cover of Anne Sexton's collected poems and her sandaled feet, that captured Sabine's attention in a little bookstore in Harvard Square in 1999. Now, 25 years later, Sabine has translated nearly all of this iconic American poet's work. Sabine is a Saigon-born French poet, novelist and literary translator Sabine Huynh grew up in Lyon, France, holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics and is the author of a dozen books, and of many translations. Notably, she has translated Anne Sexton, Ada Limón, Gwendolyn Brooks, Diane Seuss and Ilya Kaminsky. Winner of the 2023 Jean-Jacques-Rousseau award, and the 2023 Des racines et des mots Prize for Exile Literature, among others, she is working on her third novel.
This week, writer and researcher Gail Crowther discusses her new book Dorothy Parker in Hollywood, an expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker's life and legacy in Hollywood. Crowther is interviewed by Allison Sansone, Program Director at the American Writers Museum. This conversation originally took place January 21, 2025 and was recorded live via Zoom.We hope you enjoy entering the Mind of a Writer.AWM PODCAST NETWORK HOMEMore about Dorothy Parker in Hollywood:The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this fresh new biography of Dorothy Parker—from leaving New York City to work on numerous classic screenplays such as the 1937 A Star Is Born to the devastation of alcoholism, a miscarriage, and her husband's suicide. Parker's involvement with anti-fascist and anti-racist groups, which led to her ultimate blacklisting, and her early work in the civil rights movement that inspired her to leave her entire estate to the NAACP are also explored as never before.Just as she did with her "deliriously fast-paced and erudite" (Library Journal) dual biography of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, Gail Crowther brings Parker back to life on the page in all her wit, grit, and brilliance.GAIL CROWTHER is a writer, researcher, and academic. She is the author of Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton, The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath, and the coauthor of Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning and These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath. Gail divides her time between the North of England and London. As a feminist vegan she engages with politics concerning gender, power, and animal rights.
Kimberlyn and Leilani weigh in on online stories of witchy issues and relationships.Their check-ins: Kimberlyn shares the aspects of long-distance driving with a companion; Leilani gives a shout out to the humorous sides of the internet.Mentioned in the episode: r/TwoHotTakes, r/relationship_advice, r/AmItheAsshole, Anne Sexton's poem, The Witches Life.Get exclusive content and support us on Patreon:http://www.patreon.com/WitchyWit Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/WitchyWitPodcast Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/Witchy_Wit Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/3azUkFVlECTlTZQVX5jl1X?si=8WufnXueQrugGDIYWbgc3A Apple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/witchy-wit/id1533482466 Pandora:https://pandora.app.link/nNsuNrSKneb Google Podcast:Witchy Wit (google.com)
Daniela Musini"Vite incendiarie"Amori proibiti e anime dannateEdizioni Piemmewww.edizpiemme.itUn viaggio appassionato e travolgente nella vita di ventuno personaggi straordinari, uomini e donne fuori dal comune per talento, fragilità, spregiudicatezza. Storie intense e incandescenti, raccontate con la maestria di chi sa andare oltre la superficie: storie che, se non facessero capo a eventi storici ben delineati, farebbero pensare al dominio del romanzo e della finzione, più che alla realtà. La tragica poesia di Marina Cvetaeva, la vita tormentata di Edgar Allan Poe, l'arte dirompente e oscura di Picasso, vampiro di anime. E ancora: le braci demoniache di Rasputin, la vita sregolata di Antonio Ligabue, il tragico epilogo dell'angelo Kurt Cobain, l'inarrivabile carisma di Marlon Brando. Ogni figura emerge dalle pagine con forza, rivelandosi nelle sue ombre, nei suoi eccessi, nella sua ricerca disperata di assoluto. Ma c'è spazio anche per l'incanto della Venezia libertina di Casanova e per gli scintillanti anni Venti di Rodolfo Valentino e Josephine Baker, contrapposti alla tormentata anima di Judy Garland e ai demoni poetici di Anne Sexton. Vite fuori dagli schemi, in bilico tra genialità e perdizione, tra luce e ombra. Con la sua penna elegante e calibrata, Daniela Musini restituisce l'essenza più profonda e autentica di queste anime irrequiete, componendo un mosaico di vite che non si dimentica facilmente. Un libro che affascina e cattura, testimoniando un amore smisurato per lo studio e una grande passione per il ritratto letterario.Daniela MusiniNata a Roseto degli Abruzzi, è scrittrice, pianista, attrice e autrice teatrale ed è conosciuta come una delle più acclamate interpreti dell'opera di Gabriele d'Annunzio. Ha allestito i suoi recital/concert e i suoi monologhi, dedicati a Eleonora Duse e Maria Callas, in Italia, Russia, Giappone, Francia, Bielorussia, Germania, Polonia, Turchia, Stati Uniti e Cuba. Oltre alla stesura di testi teatrali, ha al suo attivo saggi e biografie, e con Piemme ha pubblicato con successo la trilogia: Le Magnifiche. 33 vite di donne che hanno fatto la storia d'Italia, Le Indomabili. 33 donne che hanno stupito il mondo, Le Incantatrici.33 donne che hanno sedotto il mondo. Per la sua versatile attività artistica e per i prestigiosi traguardi raggiunti le sono stati conferiti 39 premi letterari nazionali ed internazionali e 20 premi alla carriera.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.
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Back from a little sojourn, Andy is live with more of his Groovy Soul on this his 284th for The Face Radio. Kicking off with Tower of Power and a taste of the Supremes and Four Tops, he motors through belters from amongst others Edwin Starr, Sam & Dave, Anne Sexton, Loleatta Holloway, James Brown and The Famous Flames and Aretha. He pays tribute to the legendary Kris Kristofferson who passed away last weekend and there's new ones from Jalen Ngonda, The Allergies and Derya Yildirum & Group Simsek. Grab yourself a taste of honey!!For more info and tracklisting, visit :https://thefaceradio.com/groovy-soulTune into new broadcasts of Groovy Soul, LIVE, Sundays 12 - 2 PM EST / 5 - 7 PM GMT.https://thefaceradio.com/archives/groovy-soul//Dig this show? Please consider supporting The Face Radio: http://support.thefaceradio.com Support The Face Radio with PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thefaceradio. Join the family at https://plus.acast.com/s/thefaceradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Als Anne Sexton wegen ihrer psychischen Probleme einen Therapeuten aufsuchte, riet er ihr, zu schreiben. Aus der verzweifelten Hausfrau und Mutter wurde eine der meistgeehrten Dichterinnen Amerikas. Vor 50 Jahren nahm sich die Lyrikerin das Leben. Oelze, Sabine www.deutschlandfunk.de, Kalenderblatt
A peek at my "map scrap" for NEVER THE ROSES, updates on ARCs, and endorsement quotes as another new-to-me term. Also, not taking other people so seriously and the internet as a weapon against loneliness.The preorder links for RELUCTANT WIZARD, out August 27, are here https://www.jeffekennedy.com/reluctant-wizardThe posture-correcting sports bra I love almost more than life itself is here https://forme.therave.co/37FY6Z5MTJAUKQGAYou can buy tickets for Wild & Windy in Phoenix (February 2025) here https://www.wildandwindybookevent.com/phoenix-authorsJoin my Patreon and Discord for mentoring, coaching, and conversation with me! Find it at https://www.patreon.com/JeffesClosetYou can always buy print copies of my books from my local indie, Beastly Books! https://www.beastlybooks.com/If you want to support me and the podcast, click on the little heart or follow this link (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jeffekennedy).Sign up for my newsletter here! (https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/r2y4b9)You can watch this podcast on video via YouTube https://youtu.be/dre_-yH49vcSupport the Show.Contact Jeffe!Tweet me at @JeffeKennedyVisit my website https://jeffekennedy.comFollow me on Amazon or BookBubSign up for my Newsletter!Find me on Instagram and TikTok!Thanks for listening!
A note about the work “Once I Was Beautiful Now I Am Myself” from Leila Chatti for the Michigan Quarterly Review's Summer 2024 issue: First, the poem's title is a line borrowed from an Anne Sexton poem. I wrote this poem in a period when I thought I wasn't writing; rather, I felt I was reacting, or perhaps channeling. I was at a point in my life where I felt both very sad and very powerless. Because I felt I had little control over my life, I became accustomed to letting myself be carried along, and then I began to write that way—carried on a current of the subconscious. This felt strangely freeing. I was turning into someone I didn't recognize, in those years, or maybe, more truthfully, into someone I didn't want to recognize. The self I'd been avoiding, the uglier parts in all this disruption dislodged and brought to the surface. This poem arose from the mix of wonder and horror I experienced trying to really look at myself, without looking away.
When the adults in your life are this reckless and dangerous, what do you do? Today we meet Rex Ogle and we're talking about the book that saved his life: Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs.Rex Ogle is an award-winning author and the writer of nearly a hundred children's books, comics, graphic novels, and memoirs—most notably Free Lunch, which won the ALA/YALSA award for Excellence in Non-Fiction. He has written under several pseudonyms, including Trey King and Honest Lee, but is currently focused on reimagining classic literature as modern or fantastical graphic novels as REY TERCIERO, under which he penned bestselling Meg, Jo, Beth, & Amy, as well as Northranger, nominated for both a Harvey and GLAAD Media Award.Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules, there was no school. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer, and Valium was eaten like Pez. And when things got dull, there was always the vintage electroshock therapy machine under the stairs.Connect with Rexwebsite: rexogle.cominstagram: @thirdrexsubstack: substack.com/@thirdrexOur BookshopVisit our Bookshop for new releases, current bestsellers, banned books, critically acclaimed LGBTQ books, or peruse the books featured on our podcasts: bookshop.org/shop/thisqueerbookTo purchase Running With Scissors visit: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9780312422271To purchase Free Lunch visit: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9781324016946Become an Associate Producer!Become an Associate Producer of our podcast through a $20/month sponsorship on Patreon! A professionally recognized credit, you can gain access to Associate Producer meetings to help guide our podcast into the future! Get started today: patreon.com/thisqueerbookCreditsHost/Founder: J.P. Der BoghossianExecutive Producer: Jim PoundsAssociate Producers: Archie Arnold, K Jason Bryan and David Rephan, Natalie Cruz, Jonathan Fried, Paul Kaefer, Nicole Olila, Joe Perazzo, Bill Shay, and Sean SmithPatreon Subscribers: Stephen D., Stephen Flamm, Ida Göteburg, Thomas Michna, and Gary Nygaard.Creative and Accounting support provided by: Gordy EricksonMusic and SFX credits: visit thiqueerbook.com/musicQuatrefoil LibraryQuatrefoil has created a curated lending library made up of the books featured on our podcast! If you can't buy these books, then borrow them! Link: https://libbyapp.com/library/quatrefoil/curated-1404336/page-1Support the Show.
In this episode, Anna Deem, a high school English teacher in Chicago, and I discuss how seasons of life change our reading habits, her love of poetry, and our definitive shared overrated book. We also discuss the influence of the Beat generation on her writing and end with some excellent recommendations for books she enjoys with her 4-year-old daughter. Books mentioned in this episode: What Betsy's reading: Dune by Frank Herbert The Nix by Nathan Hill Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina Books Highlighted by Anna: The Stranger by Albert Camus Native Son by Richard Wright The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Jr. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Just Kids: An Autobiography by Patti Smith Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann Howl by Alan Ginsberg Other Books Mentioned in the Episode: All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page. Fast Times and Ridgemont High by Cameron Crowe (out of print) The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman Junky by William S. Burroughs Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Promises of Gold by José Olivarez The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop edited by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall Selected Poems of Anne Sexton by Anne Sexton The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath Very Good Hats by Emma Straub and Blanca Gómez Dress-Up Day by Blanca Gómez Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography by Wendy Loggia and Elisa Chavarri
This Sunday, we explore how ordinary people can create extraordinary change. Retelling the stories of Norbert Čapek and Waitstill and Martha Sharp, as well as the village of Le Chambon, we'll reflect on the profound impact of simple acts of courage and compassion. By examining historical and modern examples of collective action and resilience, we'll see how our community can support and inspire each other in the face of challenges. Join us to deepen our commitment to justice and compassion, to realize the extraordinary potential within each of us. Worship Leaders: Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout, Katherine Harrell, Rev. Jen Crow, Rev. Ashley Harness Opening Hymn- We Rise (:22) Words of Welcome (3:09) Call to Worship (9:51) Singing Together- We Are Building a New Way (15:50) Prayers and Cycle of Life (18:54) Offering (28:24) Reading- Courage by Anne Sexton (32:53) Anthem- If I Can Help Somebody by Mahalia Jackson (34:30) Message- Stop in the Name of Love (37:12) Singing Together- Woyaya (59:45) Benediction (1:01:32)
Ao vivo na Casa de Francisca para o Festival Feminino em 21 maio de 2024 Com Patricia Palumbo, Felipe Catto e Assucena. Uma performance poética a partir da perspectiva e do olhar da mulher sobre seu próprio corpo, seu estar no mundo e a liberdade de ser o que é. Uma seleção de textos e poemas sobre o desejo e o erotismo. O padrão como discurso de poder. Manifesto Corpo Liberto - Assucena Poemas de Hilda Hilst, Maria Isabel, Ana Cristina Cesar, Safo, Angélica Freitas, Fernando Pessoa, Lana Del Rey, Rupi Kaur, Ricardo Domeneck, Anne Sexton, Maya Angelou. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/peixe-voador/message
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The great-grandchild of eight Irish immigrants, poet Julie Kane was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up in Massachusetts, upstate New York, and New Jersey, graduating from Cornell University with a B.A. in English and winning first prize in the Mademoiselle Magazine College Poetry Competition, judged by Anne Sexton and James Merrill. That led her to graduate school in creative writing at Boston University, where she was one of Sexton's students at the time of her death. Since 1999 she has lived in Natchitoches, where she is Professor of English Emeritus at Northwestern State University and winner of the Excellence in Teaching Award, Mildred Hart Bailey Faculty Research Award, and Dr. Jean D'Amato-Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award. During 2002 she was a Fulbright Scholar to Lithuania, teaching at Vilnius Pedagogical University. She won the National Poetry Series, judged by Maxine Kumin, in 2002 and the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, judged by David Mason, in 2009. From 2011-2013 she served as the Louisiana Poet Laureate. In 2018 she joined the poetry faculty of the Western Colorado University low-residency MFA program. Find more on Julie and her books here: https://www.juliekanepoet.com/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Find a partner and write a collaborative poem in some kind of form. Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem using a regular meter of some kind that references your ancestral home. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.
Poema de Anne Sexton.El Saltillo y su capitán Mikel Lejarza con Javier Sánchez Beaskoetxea.Planificando viajes con Xabier Bañuelos.Malpensando en la mala prensa.Biografía de María Dolores Pradera "Déjame Que Te Cuente".Aparcar con Mario García. Ozempic y ahora Wegovy según el Dr. Olaizola.Kenari Orbe aborda las deportaciones a Ruanda y el juicio a Daniel Sancho.Juan Flahn y el fenómeno Fomo. Notis. Alicia San Juan presenta novedades discográficas....
Su aspecto de poemario lo delata: pocas páginas, tapa blanda, en apariencia fácil de leer. Pero en sus páginas está el testimonio de una de las poetas más profundas e intensas del siglo XX estadounidense. Julio lee, subraya, dibuja y sobre todo dialoga con esta autora de compromiso incondicional con la vida, la búsqueda del yo y el amor. Lee sus versos la poeta mexicana Rocío Cerón.
Gretchen Cherington joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about complicated family legacies and processing sexual abuse, confronting the public view of a loved one we're writing about, protecting manuscripts before we have book contracts, corralling information and organizing heaps of material, reading broadly, building relationships and being above board with sources, and her true crime, investigative, family memoir The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy. -Visit the Let's Talk Memoir Merch store: https://www.zazzle.com/store/letstalkmemoir -Take the Let's Talk Memoir survey: https://forms.gle/mctvsv9MGvzDRn8D6 Help shape upcoming Let's Talk Memoir content - a brief survey: https://forms.gle/ueQVu8YyaHNKui2Z9 Also in this episode: -discovering an organizing principle -knowing what material to cut -reading like a memoirist Books mentioned in this episode: Searching for Mercy Street by Linda Gray Sexton Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever Small Fry by Lisa Jobs Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn Just Kids by Patti Smith Heavy by Kiese Laymon Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson Are You My Mother by Alison Bechdel Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir by Maureen Burdock Gretchen Cherington grew up the daughter of Pulitzer Prize–winning and U.S. poet laureate, Richard Eberhart. Her childhood homes were filled with literary greats from Robert Frost to Anne Sexton to James Dickey, a life she captured in her award-winning memoir, Poetic License. But like the paternal grandfather she never knew, Cherington chose a career in business where she coached hundreds of powerful men on how to change their companies and themselves. Her second book, The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy – a true crime, investigative, family memoir – is an exploration of the first twenty years of the meatpacking giant, Hormel Foods, as she pieces together her grandfather's role—if he had one?—in a national embezzlement scandal that nearly brought the company to its knees in 1921. Cherington served as adjunct faculty in executive programs at Harvard, Dartmouth, and Columbia and on twenty boards of directors including a multibillion-dollar B-corporation bank. Cherington's essays have appeared widely, in Huffington Post, Covey Club, Lit Hub, The Millions, Yankee, Electric Lit, Hippocampus, Quartz, and others. Her essay “Maine Roustabout” was nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize. Gretchen splits her time between Portland, Maine, and an eighty-year old cottage on Penobscot Bay. Connect with Gretchen: Website: www.gretchencherington.com X: https://twitter.com/ge_cherington Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gretchencheringtonauthor/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gretchencheringtonauthor/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gretchen-cherington-612b3b7/ Get Gretchen's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Butcher-Embezzler-Fall-Guy-Industry/dp/1647420830/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3QYT2DHA753BP&keywords=the+butcher%2C+the+embezzler%2C+and+the+fall+guy&qid=1673298988&sprefix=The+Butcher%2C+the+Embezz%2Caps%2C81&sr=8-1 Huffington Post: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-eberhart-father-me-too_n_64068645e4b0c78bb74484e6 — Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories. She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and lives in Seattle with her family where she teaches memoir workshops and is working on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Sign up for monthly podcast and writing updates: https://bit.ly/33nyTKd Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://twitter.com/RonitPlank https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank Background photo credit: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll's Fingers
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell was a fascinating listen on Audible.I thought I was going to learn how to talk to new people, which is a great skill to nurture as a military spouse. But what it turned out to be was a case study in how we get it wrong.Malcolm talks about stories from Chamberlin meeting with Hitler to the infiltration of the CIA from Cuban spies to the suicides of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. From the Bernie Madoff scheme to the Sandusky trial. How do we get it so wrong sometimes?I give you my abbreviated version and biggest take-aways from reading. Take a listen and let me know what you thought! themilspousepodcast@gmail.comTODAY, January 8, 2024 is the deadline to enter the 100th episode contest!! You can enter HEREhttps://view.flodesk.com/pages/63e17c34781752946ff2b424 Support the showI so appreciate you listening to the show!If you wouldn't mind leaving a rating and review I would really appreciate it!!Check out The Ultimate Do It Yourself or DITY guide for FREE!Podcasting is a labor of love for sure! I would love your support! Subscribe to the show HERE! To get in touch with Alison with questions or potential topics or guests please email themilspousepodcast@gmail.com Follow us on IG @themilspousepodcast And please check out our website! www.themilspousepodcast.com
durée : 00:29:14 - Poésie et ainsi de suite - par : Manou Farine - "Je n'ai pas réussi à être spectatrice" écrivait Anna Akhmatova. Elles sont quinze, parmi lesquelles Marina Tsvetaïeva, Ingeborg Bachmann, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton... quinze poétesses qui ont traversé l'histoire et été traversées par elle. Cécile A. Holdban leur prête sa voix.
Dorianne Laux is the author of several collections of poetry, including What We Carry (1994), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Smoke (2000); Facts about the Moon (2005), chosen by the poet Ai as winner of the Oregon Book Award and also a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; The Book of Men (2011), which was awarded the Paterson Prize; and Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected (2019). She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been a Pushcart Prize winner. Laux's free-verse poems are sensual and grounded, and they reveal the poet as a compassionate witness to the everyday. She observed in an interview for the website Readwritepoem, “Poems keep us conscious of the importance of our individual lives ... personal witness of a singular life, seen cleanly and with the concomitant well-chosen particulars, is one of the most powerful ways to do this.” Speaking of the qualities she admires most in poetry, Laux added, “Craft is important, a skill to be learned, but it's not the beginning and end of the story. I want the muddled middle to be filled with the gristle of the living.” She was first inspired to write after hearing a poem by Pablo Neruda. Other influences include Sharon Olds, Lucille Clifton, Anne Sexton, and Adrienne Rich.Laux has taught creative writing at the University of Oregon, Pacific University, and North Carolina State University; she has also led summer workshops at Esalen in Big Sur. She is the co-author, with Kim Addonizio, of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (1997). She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, poet Joseph Millar.-bio via Poetry Foundation Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Rocky and Winky are back for Crash of Moons (or Crash of the Moons, if you like). But as Chris and Charlotte try to escape their trajectory, they talk about old news, rogue planets, happy leaders, bizarre tv shows, and broken guitars.Featuring another General Hospital short!Show Notes.MST3K Wiki. IMDb. UnMSTed.Turkey Day 2023 host segments, if you missed it.The fundraising campaign didn't make it.Support us on Patreon if you want to hear a long off-topic interview with Chris (and one a few months ago with Charlotte).Rogue planets.Update: Paired rogue planets are totally a thing.Changing the moon's trajectory.Kurzgesagt also did a video about this.Update: Dr. Spock's approach to dealing with crying babies was complicated and changed over time.John Banner and Hollingsworth Morse.H.R. Pufnstuf.Marty Krofft obituary. RIP.Vladimir Horowitz.Horowitz in Moscow.Grit.Anne Sexton.Dan Hill: Sometimes When We Touch.Naomi Wolf: The Beauty Myth.Naomi Klien: Doppelganger.Pigs in Space. Fan compilations are probably available at your local YouTube.Support us on Patreon and you can hear bonus bits and hang out with us in a friendly little Discord.
Amanda Holmes reads Anne Sexton's “Her Kind.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you'll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman. This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
HR Recordings releases The Weary Blues, an exciting new recording of songs resulting from a long and wonderful collaboration between American composer Drew Hemenger and soprano Adrienne Danrich. This first collaborative recording features a set of songs written for Adrienne based on Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, along with a gripping and sometimes harrowing song cycle, “Which Way Home?” on poems of Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, Anne Sexton. The artists explore a contrast of styles demanded by the diverse texts.Help support our show by purchasing this album at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber and Apple Classical. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber#AppleClassical Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com This album is broadcasted with the permission of Crossover Media Music Promotion (Zachary Swanson and Amanda Bloom).
Dr. Anamika is a prominent contemporary Indian poet, social worker and novelist writing in Hindi, and a critic writing in English. She has eight collections of poetry, five novels and four works of criticism in her credit. Currently, she is Reader at the Department of English, Satyawati College, University of Delhi. Anamika was born on 17 August 1961 in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Her father Shyamnandan Kishore was a Hindi poet and her "first teacher in poetry". Anamika describes herself as a very lonely child who led a very isolated life in a huge household. Her only companions were the books from her father's library. She says reading these books, living a life of imagination and listening to her "aunts, classmates, other women, women in distress," their stories and their pain shaped her understanding of women, whose socially-constructed femininity she learnt to deconstruct and question after studying the work of poets like Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Marge Piercy, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Anamika studied at the Universities of Bihar, Muzaffarpur, Lucknow and Delhi. Her PhD thesis was on "Donne Criticism through the Ages" and her post-doctoral research on "The Treatment of Love and Death in Post-war American Women Poets". Her current topic of research as a fellow at Teen Murti Bhawan, Delhi is "A Comparative Study of Women in Contemporary British and Hindi poetry".
Un libro che parla di amicizia, in particolare di amicizia femminile. Amicizie dell'infanzia e quindi assolute, amicizie come innamoramento, amicizie invece nate in età adulta e dunque più legate a luoghi e circostanze. In "La via delle sorelle" (Bompiani) Gaia Manzini intreccia esperienze personali e amicizie famose, le storie intime si rispecchiano nei legami di grandi donne della letteratura, che diventano quindi spunto di riflessione sul proprio vissuto. Ci sono fra le altre Catherine Mansfield con Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath e il suo legame con Anne Sexton, Natalia Ginzburg con Angela Zucconi.
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1969 - Viaja a leer, firmar y lanzar poemas, la guapísima y atormentada Sexton y en abril del mismo año en que publica Poemas de Amor, mientras viaja de ciudad en ciudad, a bordo de un avión, le escribe a su hija una carta. Un espacio de Bárbara Espejo.
We look at the poem, "45 Mercy Street" which inspired the song "Mercy Street" by artist Peter Gabriel from his album "So".We also look at the complicated and profound story of the author of the poem, Anne Sexton, and her struggle with family, society and her own inner demons in her cotnious "awful rowing towards God".
"¡Hala Madrid! ...y nada más" means "Go Madrid and nothing more!" During the course of this interview a smile started to slowly etch itself into our very souls. Some people are built different. Some people hide themselves away, only revealing who they are little by little. Then, over the desert course, possibly after uncorking another bottle of wine, they mention the unmentionable and blow your fucking mind. That's our guest today, Carmen Yagüe. You could say Russell sort of circled her, with his sense of humour, like a hammer head shark wondering where the comedy would be. Carmen you'll see is quiet, composed, and poised, she sits back taking it all in. But, what we didn't know is that she's also someone that thinks about death. Muerte. Like us, she thinks about it all the time. And, we find that delicious. Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath found that the unifying dimension to their friendship. They understood the immediacy of its appeal, the finality of its solution. The way death winds around us and presents to us as a kind of rising whistling cobra. We know you'll enjoy this episode as spinning gravitational bodies slowly come to observe one another within the same orbit. Carmen Yagüe is an authorized teacher of Ashtanga yoga by Sharath R. Jois with close to 15 years of experience in the method. Ashtanga yoga's systematic, gradual approach appealed to her from the beginning, and she's experienced the transformative power of the practice within her body, mind, and approach to life. Carmen supports her student's practice from a space of dedicated perseverance, integrity, and self-confidence. Come practice with me in Madrid September 27 - October 1, 2023! FIND OUT MORE - https://myogashala.com/product/la-armonia-del-balance/ DONATE $5 and doTERRA will MATCH the funds so it becomes $10! All money goes to YOGA GIVES BACK Plus you'll be invited to join me June 25 for a special online class! Girls Scholarship for Higher Education with Digital Access in India - yogagivesback.info/givetogirls Listen to Carmen's PODCAST: https://youtube.com/@vocesdelyoga For more information about Carmen Yagüe Website - http://carmenyagueashtanga.com/ IG - @carmenyagueashtanga LinkedIn - https://es.linkedin.com/in/carmenyague YouTube - https://youtube.com/@yogishelpinyogis A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from around the world, who've generously supported this podcast through your comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you've enjoyed today's podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support. Make A Donation - harmonyslater.com/donate Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review! ❤ Give us a 5★ rating! Opening and closing music by Nick Evans from his album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify Here. Purchase your own copy Here.
In this week's episode, Kayla and Taylor discuss Sylvia Plath's 1963 novel The Bell Jar. Topics include Sylvia/Esther's thoughts on sex and marriage, the humor (?) in trying to kill yourself, and the makings of a great sandwich. This week's drink: The Pink Lady via liquor.comINGREDIENTS:1 ½ oz London dry gin½ oz applejack (apple brandy)¾ oz lemon juice, freshly squeezed¼ oz grenadine1 egg whiteGarnish: brandied cherryINSTRUCTIONS:Add all ingredients to a shaker and vigorously dry-shake (without ice)Add ice and shake again until well-chilledStrain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a brandied cherryCurrent Reads and Recommendations: Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton by Gail CrowtherThe Collected Poems of Sylvia PlathRed Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather ClarkThe Golden Spoon by Jessa MaxwellFollow us on Instagram @literatureandlibationspod.Visit our website: literatureandlibationspod.com to submit feedback, questions, or your own takes on what we are reading. You can also see what we are reading for future episodes! You can email us at literatureandlibationspod@gmail.com.Please leave us a review and/or rating! It really helps others find our podcast…and it makes us happy!Purchase books via bookshop.org or check them out from your local public library. Join us next time as we discuss two Montana-set novellas: A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean and Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison.For this episode, pour a glass of your favorite whiskey or bourbon, on the rocks. Kayla will be drinking Blackfoot River Bourbon from Montana Whiskey Co.
Season 5's Poetry Gals continues with the Gal Pals honoring National Poetry Month. with guest Barb Conlin. Barb's choice? Anne Sexton, who wrote confessional poetry.
Olivier Norek è autore di polizieschi e gialli molto famoso in Francia, creatore del personaggio di Victor Coste, un poliziotto a capo del Dipartimento 93 a Parigi, protagonista di una trilogia. Ma Coste è ora anche al centro del romanzo "Il pesatore di anime" (Rizzoli - traduz. Maurizio Ferrara). Coste ha lasciato Parigi da sei anni dopo un'indagine che l'aveva distrutto psicologicamente e si trova a Saint-Pierre, una piccola isola francese situata fra il Canada e l'Isola di Terranova. Qui gestisce una residenza protetta dove vengono inviate per brevi periodi le persone sottoposte al programma di protezione testimoni. Un giorno in questa residenza protetta arriva Anna, una ragazza che per dieci anni è stata tenuta segregata in una gabbia da un maniaco che nel frattempo aveva ucciso altre nove ragazze. Coste ha il compito di capire come Anna sia sopravvissuta, nel tentativo di ricavare indizi preziosi per la cattura del serial killer. Nella seconda parte parliamo di "La via delle sorelle" diGaia Manzini (Bompiani), un libro che parla di amicizia, in particolare di amicizia femminile. Amicizie dell'infanzia e quindi assolute, amicizie come innamoramento, amicizie invece nate in età adulta e dunque più legate a luoghi e circostanze. Gaia Manzini intreccia esperienze personali e amicizie famose, le storie intime si rispecchiano nei legami di grandi donne della letteratura, che diventano quindi spunto di riflessione sul proprio vissuto. Ci sono fra le altre Catherine Mansfield con Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath e il suo legame con Anne Sexton, Natalia Ginzburg con Angela Zucconi.
Inner city life in Chicago's Bronzeville and the experiences of ordinary people inspired the first poetry collection published by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1945 and she followed this with a sequence of poems Annie Allen and a novella Maud Martha depicting Black women entering adulthood. Chicago based poet Peter Kahn, editor of an anthology of modern poets responding to the writing of Brooks, and poets Malika Booker and Keith Jarrett join Shahidha Bari to discuss the themes and textures in Gwendolyn Brooks' writing and what it means to write a Golden Shovel poem, whilst literature scholar Sarah Parker and pattern maker Gesa Werner talk about putting on an exhibition about fashion and poetry which features a poem by Brooks. Producer: Robyn Read Poets in Vogue curated by Sophie Oliver, Sarah Parker and Gesa Werner runs Feb 17th to June 25th 2023. It includes a skirt that belonged to Sylvia Plath, a reconstruction of Anne Sexton's red ‘reading dress', creative interpretations of Audre Lorde's, Edith Sitwell's and Stevie Smith's signature looks, a fabric-adaptation of a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks and the clothes-performances of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Peter Kahn edited The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks. His own poetry collection Little Kings is published by Nine Arches Press. In the Free Thinking archives you can find Noreen Masud on the aphorisms of Stevie Smith https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000srj1 A discussion Landmark: Audre Lorde hearing from her children, Jackie Kay and Selina Thompson https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004my0 and during February's Queer History month on BBC Sounds - a Words and Music episode celebrates Audre Lorde's writing https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ql9k Sophie Oliver discusses Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000
Ellen Bass talks about her experience having Ann Sexton as a teacher in the '70s at Boston University. Then, Francesca Bell zooms in, and we read and discuss a few of Sexton's poems. I mention Sexton's fabulous biography by Diane Middlebrook. If you are interested in reading Sexton's poems, a good place to start is her collected poems or also her selected poems.
Anne Sexton once said "Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn." Lucky for you, Flatbush Misdemeanors and Chatz: A Television Podcast are here to save you from that fate. As Biggie Smalls would say, we're spreading love because "it's the Brooklyn way."In this discussion, we spoil various parts of the season. Here are timestamps for those spoilers. 0:00:00 - General Thoughts0:08:30 - Spoilers for the pilot begin here0:28:30 - Spoilers for Season 1 begin here.0:51:30 - Spoilers for Season 2 begin here.Check out chatzpod.com for all things Chatzpod.TwitterRedditTwitchEmail: chatzpod@gmail.comOur main podcast feed art was done by Camilla Franklin, whose work can be found at https://camillafranklin.myportfolio.com/
Aaron and James correct history and re-award the Pulitzer Prize. Hindsight is 20/20 and we definitely are hind-oglers.Support the poets we mention by buying their books. We recommend Loyalty Bookstores, a Black-owned indie bookseller in the DC area.Read David Trinidad's dishy and detailed account of how Anne Sexton got her Pulitzer here. More/other insight into the Pulitzers can be had in reading this July 1957 article by Arthur Mizener that appeared in The Atlantic. After Forest Gander won the Pulitzer, he gave a 5-book recommended reading list that included C.D. Wright's last book. (Wright and Gander were married; Gander's prizewinning collection Be With is largely elegiac.) You can read his recommendations here. if you haven't listened to Jericho Brown's interview with the On Being Project, do yourself a favor and listen here. (The interview discusses sexual violence.) Brown won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (for his book The Tradition).Adrienne Rich was a 3-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Before winning in 1998 for Black Zodiac, Charles Wright was a finalist for the prize four times.
Subscribe to HYST on Patreon and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Tim and Jen scratch their heads over an incest-filled nightmare of a David Cronenberg movie, Maps to the Stars!Hey remember that Mysteries and Scandals show on E!? They did an episode about Jon-Erik Hexum!(Whatever happened to A.J. Benza?)The poem by John Cooper Clarke that so moved Tim, “Evidently Chickentown,” may be heard here. Jen pointed out a mention of another poet, Anne Sexton, in the movie. Interestingly, while Sexton's daughter reported credibly in her memoir Looking For Mercy Street and elsewhere that her mother sexually abused her, Sexton's own memories of abuse have been called into question due to the methods her psychiatrist used to unearth them.However, Sexton's history of dissociation, psychotic breaks, and eventual suicide seem to point to some kind of trauma.Finally, if you missed our Crash episode, listen to it here! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
I'm just a girl... all pretty and petite... discussing the confessional poetry of Anne Sexton and confessional Frankenstein female suffering of Gwen Stefani from the trenches of the Harajuku Holocaust to the frying pan massacre of Orange County: Jo appears with Chi Chi to synthesize the woman's world of micro tragedies into something more luxurious, more unhinged, more archetypal. TRAGIC KINGDOM, RETURN OF SATURN, LOVE. ANGEL. MUSIC. BABY. Judaism, Japonism, Black Peopleism (?) all thrust into a melt so this gorgeous woman with a bindi on her head and pink hair dye in her locks can ascend to the holy levels of heaven. Follow Jo on Twitter: twitter.com/junker_jo And the I'M SO POPULAR account: twitter.com/imsopopularpod And check out an especially fabulous bonus after show SIRENS episode only on Patreon, singing the new gospel of drag kids, Lady Gaga, 4Chan and more: patreon.com/imsopopular (S2.E04 原宿ホロコースト)
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQX-nWBQWKL3lnx52f3AuCwFOLLOW JENNY:WEBSITE: https://www.photoartbyjennyaltshuler.com/TWITTER: https://twitter.com/jennyaltshuler1INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/photoartbyjennyaltshuler/FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/jenny.altshuler JENNY'S AUTHOR INTERVIEWS:Jean Hanff Korelitz author of The Plot https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xoevJ_Ht0vx94LQUKupwYd752ZSog63S/view?usp=sharingAuthors Heather Clark and Maggie Doherty: Parallel Lives, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton:https://youtu.be/CZTcXzfZaws Brattleboro Literary Festival 2021: https://brattleborolitfest.orgFOLLOW ME ON…GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/58041478-iliketoreadpodINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/iliketoreadpod/TWITTER: https://twitter.com/rpolansky77FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/iliketoreadpodMEDIA MAVEN BLOG: https://rpolansky77.wixsite.com/website
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week's show, I speak with Rachael Tillman about the poetry and practice of Anne Sexton.
Our intrepid hosts investigate poetry reading cliches and surmise which poets of the past (and present) would have committed these heinous crimes -- and in broad daylight, too!Poets we mention include:1) Read a fabulous essay by Emily Wilson on Sappho here. 2) Many of (Sagittarius) William Blake's artworks can be viewed online through the National Gallery of Victoria here.3) Catullus's manuscripts are viewable online here; you'll need to be able to read Latin.4) Aaron references James Wright's "The Sumac in Ohio," which ends:"Before June begins, the sap and coal smoke and soot from Wheeling steel, wafted down the Ohio by some curious gentleness in the Appalachians, will gather all over the trunk. The skin will turn aside hatchets and knife blades. You cannot even carve a girl's name on the sumac. It is viciously determined to live and die alone, and you can go straight to hell." Wright was a Sagittarius. 5) The poem we reference by Maxine Kumin about wearing the clothes she traded with Anne Sexton can be found here (navigate to the poem on the left side of the website). Kumin is a June 6 Gemini (like Aaron). 6) H.D. (Virgo) is primarily a poet, but she also wrote prose and translated from the Greek. 7) Go watch Louise Glück talk about making poems here, particularly about her poem "Landscape" in Averno (first published in Threepenny Review). You'll thank me for showing this to you. Glück is a Taurus. 8) Terrance Hayes is a Scorpio. Visit his website here. 9) The National Portrait Gallery had a terrific show on Gertrude Stein (Aquarius) in 2011. You can view much of the show online here. And of course there's a story that Anne Carson recounts in her book, Glass, Irony and Godabout why Hemingway friend-broke-up with Stein (in the essay "The Gender of Sound") that we recommend. (The story will not improve anyone's opinion of Hemingway.) 10) Joyce Carol Oates (Gemini) issued an apology after railing against the use of singular they/them pronouns. You can read a recap of the ugly mess here. 11) Ezra Pound was a Scorpio as well as a poet, translator, and critic. His "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste" is instructive advice for poets. Louis Menand wrote an essay for the New Yorker about Pound's rabid antisemitism ("The Pound Error," June 16, 2008). 12) Allen Ginsberg was a Gemini. You can read a collaborative poem called "Pull My Daisy" here. Kerouac adapted that into a film starring Ginsberg and others in their circle; Pull My Daisy can be watched here. 13) Read more about Christina Rossetti on the Victorian Web, one of the best online resources about writers in the long 19th century. Rossetti is a Sagittarius. 14) More about John Keats can be found here. Aaron and James also recommend Anahid Nersessian's terrific book Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse.&
Not many people go to the graveyard to buy books, but not many people are Ken Gloss. He stopped by Boston's Forest Hills Cemetery the other day to pick up a collection of works by some of the cemetery's permanent residents: Anne Sexton, E. E. Cummings, Eugene O'Neill, and William Lloyd Garrison. Inspired by Mount. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Forest Hills is a garden cemetery, a lavishly landscaped, park-like setting, built to provide not only a resting place for the dead but a surprisingly pleasant place for the living to bird-watch, stroll, or simply reflect. In addition to its illustrious occupants and sylvan setting, Forest Hills boasts memorial sculptures by Daniel Chester French, Martin Milmore, Thomas Ball, and many others. Join us today as we talk tombs, tomes, books, and bones on a hauntingly interesting #brattlecast.