Podcast appearances and mentions of Brenda Hillman

The queens talk literary confidantes; then we discuss the pros and pitfalls of poetic friendships.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:Check out Toni Morrison's  1987 eulogy for James Baldwin in the New York Times.We read from Fran Lebowitz's remembrance of her friend Toni Morrison, printed in the Paris Review.If you haven't already, read Brenda Hillman's "Male Nipples" Read "The Curious Friendship of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell" from The Atlantic.Check out this exploration of the dynamics in literary friendships published in Esquire. 

Recorded by Brenda Hillman for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on March 27, 2025. www.poets.org

This episode explores new research, which has investigated bacteria that can eat forever chemicals. --- Read this episode's science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Triple Moments of Light and Industry' by Brenda Hillman here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: https://linktr.ee/sam.illingworth This episode explores new research, which has investigated bacteria that can eat forever chemicals. If you want to find out more about the scientific study featured in this episode, or read any of the poems in full, then please visit the show notes at scipoetry.podbean.com.

The queens discuss gay icon status with Brenda Hillman--and then launch in to a revisit of several of her poems, including her fabulous "Male Nipples."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. You can see readings by Brenda Hillman here (one poem, ~4 min, 2020), here (20min, 2012), and here (2024, poetry and conversation with Jesse Nathan).For a review and discussion of Hillman's new book, Three Talks, check out this episode of The Only Property. (~30 min).(Re)read Wallace Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"Learn more about Kathleen Fraser here. Discover more about Barbara Guest and her 9 collections of poetry here.If you'd like to know more about Kelsey Street Press's mission and history, it's a fascinating journey that you can start here.A basic introduction to gnosticism can be had here. Learn more about the Black Mountain Poets here.Read about Objectivist Poetics here.

The queens get all Brenda on that Brenda, you Brenda? Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.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:Read more about Brenda Coultas here. Watch Coultas read with Alice Notley here (1 hour). And read this conversation between Coultas and Stacy Szymaszek. Watch the best of Brenda Walsh's outfits from Season 3 of Beverly Hills, 90210You can find Brenda Hillman's website here. Hear her read “Species Prepare to Exist After Money." Read Jesse Nathan's conversation with Hillman (in his “Short Conversations with Poets” series) here in McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Follow Brenda K. Starr on Instagram @officialbrendakstarr. Watch Mariah Carey recall singing backup with Starr here. And here is Mariah's official video for “I Still Believe” (covering BKS).Visit Brenda Shaughnessy's website. Hear her read from her newest book, Tanya. And read Hilton Als's essay, “Brenda Shaughnessy's Ferocious Mother Poems” in the New Yorker here.Watch Brenda Blethyn get humped by her dog during a This Morning television interview.For the craziest trip, visit Brenda Walsh Ministries online at https://brendawalsh.com  

"Over the past decade or so, nobody has done more for the Pacific Northwest than Paul Nelson." --Sam Hamill. Paul E. Nelson talks with Roxi Power about his forthcoming book, DaySong Miracle (Past 62) from Carbonation Press. The two poet friends laugh, talk, and even sing some of Nelson's lyrical lines in his long investigative and spiritual poems. Ever the teacher and professional interviewer, Paul elegantly unpacks how his poetic ancestors--"antepesados"--from Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, and Brenda Hillman--among the many poets he has interviewed, have influenced his Projective, Organic, and Poetic Cosmology involving Spiritual Ecology, bioregionalism, and connection to place. Poet/interviewer Paul E. Nelson is the son of a labor activist father and Cuban immigrant mother. He founded the Cascadia Poetics LAB & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Books include Cascadian Prophets (Interviews 1999-2023) (2024),  Haibun de la Serna (2022), A Time Before Slaughter/Pig War: & Other Songs of Cascadia (2020) American Prophets (interviews 1994-2012) (2018) & American Sentences (2015, 2021). Co-Editor of Cascadian Zen Volume I: Bioregional Writings on Cascadia Here and Now (2023, Watershed Press), Make it True meets Medusario (2019) (Spanish & English) and other anthologies. He's Literary Executor for the late poet Sam Hamill and lives in Rainier Beach, alongside dəxʷwuqʷed Creek. https://paulenelson.com/ https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/ Image by Roberta Hoffman

Dion O'Reilly chats with Roxi Power about her new book, The Songs that Objects Would Sing, diving deep into a work that that “is aflame, both with the literal wildfires ravaging the American West and with the slower smolder of personal grief.  Power's response to loss and disaster is a quirky plangent song…shot through with humor and underpinned by a rippling ostinato of lyric power” (Mark Scroggins).  With ease and humor, Dion and Roxi draw on postmodern and Buddhist theories, debating whether the presences that sing within the objects of Power's lines are “essences.”  “I feel you in the glint of objects sometimes.  That's all I know.” The white "ghost piano" on the book's cover, painted by her sister Sky Power, summons her mother's musical influence within the titular elegiacal poem. Power conjures and “unpaints” the psycho-geography of Texas and Wyoming, filled with the "ghost-scratchings" of memory that, like de Kooning's paintings, peak through to the surface of the “cinematic fictions she sews from scratch." She bends time in poems such as "The Aftermath of Future" where “Now is just one fold in the snake skin of time.”  Dion and Roxi discuss Power's trans-genre work and why she has been drawn to recombinant forms since her MFA work at Cornell University that include music, visual art, and film. Power has taught for 25 years at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she founded and edits the trans-genre anthology, Viz. Inter-Arts. Her next book is forthcoming from Carbonation Press in 2024. Power organizes national “Trans-Genre Cabarets,” and her own trans-genre work includes Live Film Narration (Neo-Benshi) performances of original scripts across the country, including the Tennessee Williams Festival, the New Orleans Poetry Festival, REDCAT, and St. Mark's Poetry Project.  Her next Neo-Benshi performance is Feb. 22 at Satori in Santa Cruz.   Power organizes events and makes podcasts for The Hive Poetry Collective.  Her most recent podcast is with Brenda Hillman. Farnaz Fatemi writes: “With both musical and emotional intelligence, not to mention a linguistic virtuosity, Power conjures hope amid her sonic discoveries—while still bearing lucid witness to personal and community grief.” C.S. Giscombe writes, “The first line of Roxi Power's incredible burst of poems lays down the law with one hand and sets things in motion with another—that is, she writes as if to remark on the coming noise made by fire, death, love…The many motions of this music, of these songs that objects would sing, will brush the reader with a difficult and worthy and joy. You can order her book here.    

Recorded by Brenda Hillman for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 26, 2023. www.poets.org

The queens play "Just Jane!" featuring a jackpot of J. Kenyon and J. Mead poems. James just can't jank a jackdaw but refuses to be jaded.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Kenyon published four volumes of poetry during her life: From Room to Room (1978), The Boat of Quiet Hours (1986), Let Evening Come (1990), and Constance (1993), and, as translator, Twenty Poems of Anna Akmatova (1985). A fifth book, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, appeared in 1996.Jane Mead was the author of five collections of poetry: The Lord and the General Din of the World (1996), The House of Poured-Out Waters (2001), The Usable Field (2008), Money Money Money Water Water Water (2014), World of Made and Unmade (2016), and To the Wren: Collected and New Poems (2019).Here are the Kenyon poems we discuss:Having It Out with MelancholyPrivate BeachClimbThe ShirtOtherwiseYou can listen to Jane Kenyon read "Otherwise" here.Here are the Kenyon poems we discuss:The Argument Against UsThe MemoryIn the Parking Lot at the Junior College on the Eve of a Presidential ElectionPassing a Truck Full of Chickens at Night on Highway EightyIf you need a refresher on Brenda Hillman's "Male Nipples"Read Amy Thatcher's poem "Road Kill" in SWWIM. 

Roxi Power talks with Brenda Hillman, winner this month of the Northern California Book Reviewers' Fred Cody Award  for Lifetime Achievement, about her 11th book of poetry with Wesleyan University Press, In a Few Minutes Before Later.   We discuss her new trans-genre tetralogy about time: how to find calm during the Anthropocene by being in time in multiple ways: sinking into the micro-minutes; performing micro-activism; and celebrating the microbiome. We explore her influences–from Blake to Bergson, Clare to Baudelaire, as well as the less celebrated moss, owls, and wood rats that appear frequently in her eco-poetry.  Alive with humor, witness, creative design and punctuation–what Forrest Gander calls “typographical expressionism”--Hillman's poetry teaches us how to abide in crisis from Covid to California fires, living in paradox as a way to transcend despair. Brenda Hillman shares the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award with with Isabel Allende, Daniel Ellsberg, Michael Pollan, Ishmael Reed, Gary Snyder, Robert Duncan, Alice Walker and others. Winner of the William Carlos Williams Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the International Griffin Poetry Prize (for Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, 2013), the Northern California Book Award (for Extra Hidden Life, among the Days, 2018) and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Academy of American Poets, Brenda Hillman was born in Tucson, Arizona and has been an active part of the Bay Area literary community since 1975.   She has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson's poems for Shambhala Press, and co-edited and co-translated several books.  She is director of the Poetry Program at the Community of Writers in Olympic Valley and is on the regular poetry staff ad Napa Valley Writers Conference. Hillman just retired from teaching in the MFA Program at St. Mary's College in Moraga, CA.  She has worked as an activist for social and environmental justice. She is a mother, grandmother, and is married to poet, Robert Hass.  Photograph by Robert Hass.

in which Ann Marie Brokmeier, Tyler Mendelsohn, and i talk grief, poetry, and their intersections! where to find Ann Marie: instagram - @annmariebrok where to find Tyler: website - https://tylerkmendelsohn.com/ instagram - @tyler_k_m other things referenced: Ada Limón - https://www.adalimon.net/ Ada Limón Bomb Magazine interview - https://bombmagazine.org/articles/ada-lim%C3%B3n/#:~:text=AL%20I%20think%20poetry%20is,it%20out%20into%20the%20sky After the Fire by Ada Limón - https://scalar.fas.harvard.edu/resources-for-loss/after-the-fire-by-ada-limn The Uses of Sorrow by Mary Oliver - https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/zn67zr/the_uses_of_sorrow_mary_oliver_poem/ The Art of Losing, edited by Kevin Young - https://kevinyoungpoetry.com/the-art-of-losing.html Grief by Stephen Dobyns - https://www.poemist.com/stephen-dobyns/grief Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams - https://poets.org/poem/landscape-fall-icarus Final Notations by Adrienne Rich - https://genius.com/Adrienne-rich-final-notations-annotated Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Is Not Breaking by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - https://braidedway.org/watching-my-friend-pretend-her-heart-isnt-breaking/ Life After Death: IV by Laura Gilpin - https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/xmlp33/poem_life_after_death_by_laura_gilpin/ What's Your Grief - https://whatsyourgrief.com/ other things i meant to reference: Death Tractates by Brenda Hillman - https://www.weslpress.org/9780819512024/death-tractates/

Hablar de María Gómez de León nos llena de gran orgullo, por ser una joven escritora de origen mexicano que ha logrado entrar y ser parte de uno de los programas de escritura creativa más difíciles y demandantes de los Estados Unidos: el Michener Center for Writers. Poeta y traductora, ha sido parte de la Fundación para las Letras Mexicana, del Community of Writers y del Banff International Literary Translation Center y de Gendered Modernisms, proyecto Resistencias. Historia y Pensamiento Crítico: Literatura, Arte y Cine del Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas. Su pasión ha sido la literatura en inglés y ha traducido a Brenda Hillman y se puede leeer su trabajo en Novísimas: Reunión de Poetas Mexicanas Vol II en 2021 que coordina Zel Cabrera. Este es un podcast de celebración, de orgullo y de inspiración.

Brenda Hillman interviewed on her 2022 book In A Few Minutes Before Later by Paul E Nelson for the Cascadian Prophets podcast

Recorded by Brenda Hillman for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 26, 2022. www.poets.org

The queens get stately in this episode devoted to poetic queries and statements.Please consider supporting the poets we mention by buying their books at an indie bookstore. We can recommend Loyalty Books, a black-owned DC-area bookseller.The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry is edited by Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux. It's essential reading.You can read the entire  Linda McCarriston poem, “Healing the Mare” here.Read Chen Chen's “for i will do/undo what was done/undone to me” (first published in Pank) here. Chen's book When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions), won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize (selected by Jericho Brown) and was longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry. Follow him on Twitter @chenchenwrites and visit his official website.Read “Effort at Speech Between Two People” by Muriel Rukeyser here.Watch Erika Meitner, Victoria Redel, and Patricia Smith here (~90 min)Cortney Lamar Charleston's book Dopplegangbangers is his second book, published by Haymarket Books in 2021. His first book is Telepathologies, winner of the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Visit his website here.Read  Larry Levis's poem “In the City of Light"  here.Read Jennifer L. Knox's poem “Old Women Talking About Death” here. Another of her great poems: “how to manage your adult adhd” appears here in American Poetry Review. Visit Knox's website here. Brenda Hillman's website can be visited here.  You can read “First Thought” (from the book Bright Existence)  here.  And watch her read from multiple books in this 2013 reading here (~17 min).Mark Doty writes about the class he shared with Brenda Hillman on his blog here. 

In this episode, conference director Matthew Biberman talks with the celebrated feminist poet Brenda Hillman, who read at the LCLC in February 2022 as the creative keynote for its 49th annual conference. Brenda Hillman teaches at Saint Mary College of California. She is the Poetry Director of Community of Writers as well as Chancellor emerita of The Academy of American Poets and has authored 11 books of poetry (all from Wesleyan University Press). She has edited or translated (either alone or as part of a team) over 20 books. Her next collection of poetry is titled IN A FEW MINUTES BEFORE LATER. This episode will be of special interest to fans of contemporary poetry and poetics (with extended discussion of C. D. Wright, Joni Mitchell, Tom Sleigh and William Shakespeare's Tempest).

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

Today's poem is [chiasmus with all the other animals] by Brenda Hillman.

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

It's time for sexy lit crit, darlings!As always, buy from indies! We recommend Loyalty Bookstores, a Black-owned DC bookstore. Shop here!Tina Turner (born Nov. 26, 1939—Sagittarius) has sold over 100 MM records, received 12 Grammys, and been inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame twice. She is the 1st Black artist and 1st woman to grace Rolling Stone's cover. Watch her 2005 Kennedy Center Honors (with Oprah, Queen Latifah, Melissa Etheridge, and Beyonce) here. (~20 min)Ann Peebles wrote and sang the original version of "I Can't Stand the Rain." Listen here. Watch Camille Rankine read Shepherd's poem "Paradise" here. (-3 min) Rae Armantrout is an Aries (April 13). Read 11 of her poems here on Granta. Read Dorianne Laux's "Fast Gas" here. Watch Eula Biss read from and discuss No Man's Land here (~60 min).James L. White (b. March 26--Aries) wroteThe Salt Ecstasies (Graywolf, 1982). Read four of White's poems (including "Making Love to Myself," which we reference) here.Watch Tim Dlugos read his heartwrenching poem, "G-9" (~15 min) about the AIDS ward at Roosevelt Hospital. You can also read the poem here. If you haven't read TERFy Adrienne Rich's essay on Dickinson, "Vesuvius at Home," it's  here. The Williams we quote is from "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"; an excerpt is  here. You can hear Robert Frost read "The Road Not Taken" here (with music by Chris Coleman, ~ 2 min.)Listen to Marianne Moore read her poem "Bird-Witted" here. (~2 min.)Percy Bysse Shelley (b. Aug 4—Leo) was married to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. He wrote things too, including "Adonais," which you can watch Mick Jagger read  here.  You can listen to Plath (Scorpio) read her poems here (about an hour).William Wordsworth (b. April 17, 1770—Aries)  wrote that "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings…." You can watch J'Kobe Wallace, 2015 North Dakota State Poetry Out Loud champ, recite "Daffodils" here. Watch Allen Ginsberg interviewed on Letterman here (~11 min).Horace (b. December 8, 65 BCE—Sagittarius) coined the term "carpe diem." Watch a really hot guy recite that ode in Latin here (with Spanish subtitles, ~1 min).Watch this iconic performance of Auden's poem "Funeral Blues" in Four Weddings and a Funeral (~2 min).Brenda Hillman, "Male Nipples" hereDucking

Jordan is joined by Pulitzer-winning poet and memoirist Gregory Pardlo — currently teaching at NYU in Abu Dhabi — to talk about sobriety, understanding the stories of one's life, and answering the self-imposed question “What god are you serving, Pardlo, when you write X?” Gregory Pardlo was born in Philadelphia in 1968. He is the author of Air Traffic (Knopf, 2018), a memoir in essays, and the poetry collections Digest (Four Way Books, 2014), which received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and was shortlisted for the 2015 NAACP Image Award, and Totem (American Poetry Review), which was selected by Brenda Hillman for the American Poetry Review/Honickman Prize in 2007. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, among others. He is the poetry editor of Virginia Quarterly Review and is currently teaching at NYU in Abu Dhabi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, guest K. Austin Collins joins hosts Elisa Gabbert and Catherine Nichols to talk about Louise Gluck's 1985 poem "Mock Orange" and through it, her work in general. Some topics are the unfashionable somberness and simplicity of Gluck's work, Gluck's extraordinary personal letter to her friend Brenda Hillman, and Gluck's near-fatal anorexia. Also discussed is Gabbert's recent review of Gluck's most recent collection in the New York Times. K. Austin Collins is a film critic for Rolling Stone, and formerly film critic for Vanity Fair and The Ringer. He was also the host of the film podcast Flashback for Slate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From its initial poetry gathering in the Sierra to its annual series of writers’ workshops, the Community of Writers celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2021. Instructors and attendees are inspired by the magic of the Olympic Valley. They share insights about their craft. They listen to each others’ stories. They exchange wisdom about the publishing industry. But mostly, they write. The majority of each day is devoted to making magical connections between words. To celebrate this monumental anniversary of the poetry program, the Community of Writers published an anthology entitled “Why To These Rocks.” It includes the work of instructors and attendees from throughout the history of the workshops. Brenda Hillman did not attend the first meeting of poets, but she has been to many of the subsequent gatherings. She now serves as Director of the Poetry Program for the Community of Writers. Blas Falconer first came to the sessions as a participant, and returned as a leader. Hillman and Falconer both teach poetry at the university level throughout the year and meet with other published poets in the Olympic Valley every summer.

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Necesitan usar todas sus fuerzas la nena & la mamá que sostiene el cuchillo para cortar el pollo navideño. En la asadera flotan copos de sopa de cebollas Lipton. Un poco de perejil irreverente recuerda la creencia en que las plantas tienen sentimientos. El padre lee a Camus junto a la chimenea. Todos los libros son una Belén. El pesebre tiene un arco en el que se demora la violencia. Rodea la galaxia adolescente una aureola de materia oscura Cerca de ahí en el desierto hierro & silicona Entre las dimensiones en la obediencia de un sueño que se curva unos querubines regordetes afirman su derecho a existir dado que son más coherentes que McNamara hablando de los comunistas Los estampados flotan de manera independiente en el delantal de la nena. Mr. Postman de las Marvelettes. Como Deméter, la mamá es muy hábil con las sobras, & la hija descubre su talento para hacer revivir viejos fragmentos. Me. duele. el. corazón. & un. soñoliento. torpor. Los hermanos juegan al ajedrez: pum, pum, muñecos con polleras de madera sobre óvalos de pana verde.

Parece que las bacterias se comunican en colores. Se mandan advertencias con verdes azulados o con grises verdosos & los humanos interpretan que se sienten en peligro o que el deseo las embarga. La rata maderera hace un nido de haches. Acapara los siete silencios diminutos. Los cuervos en el pino pueden contar las caras con exactitud como los escritores que se sienten ninguneados en su arte. Mi papá se pasó toda la vida pensando en el dinero aunque sabía que es la causa de casi toda esta violencia estúpida, & me tenía por una persona sensata; tenés el químico de la sensatez, decía. No hubo tragedia entre nosotros, a diferencia de lo que el pobre Joyce escribió sobre su hija: que le corrió la cara a ese chofer maltrecho que es el mundo yo no le corrí la cara porque no sé dónde está, está por todas partes, & cuando da la sensación de que la pura nada sobrevino, sé que otro animal ya se prepara sin nación, insensato; pensar en eso me consuela un poco–

The theme for this week's poetry is Kindness.

...in which i review Red Bird by Mary Oliver...but preface it with some discussion of gender and intended spaces and privilege... other things referenced: Red Bird by Mary Oliver - http://www.beacon.org/Red-Bird-P661.aspx MOLLY Malone Cook (i don't know why i always think her first name is "Mallory") - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Malone_Cook Dream Work by Mary Oliver - https://groveatlantic.com/book/dream-work/ House of Light by Mary Oliver - http://www.beacon.org/House-of-Light-P367.aspx Death Tractates by Brenda Hillman - https://www.amazon.com/Tractates-Wesleyan-Poetry-Brenda-Hillman/dp/0819512028

Back in April, Litquake celebrated National Poetry Month by hosting a group of esteemed poets at one of San Francisco’s famous landmarks. This event was hosted by D.A. Powell, whose honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and featured incredible poets like Robert Hass, former Poet Laureate of the United States and winner of a Pulitzer prize; Brenda Hillman, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets; Henri Cole, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Barbara Jane Reyes; Paola Capo-Garcia; and Marcello Hernandez Castillo. Our newest Lit Cast Episode features readings from these fantastic poets on a very special occasion that brought the power of poetry into the historic walls of Grace Cathedral. Litquake's 20th anniversary festival will take place October 10-19, 2019. For all the latest updates, follow us @litquake on Facebook and Twitter! This event was recorded live at Grace Cathedral on April 13th, 2019.

"The Rat" by Brenda Hillman read by Quinn Latimer. "The Rat" appears in the collection "Bright Existence" published by Wesleyan University in 1993. A transcript can be found at https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bsMGNPNc90AC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=%22the+rat%22+brenda+hillman&source=bl&ots=QUmNv4SjLH&sig=ACfU3U3RV9lmS0zdCgSv28Hg7QMAxkijjg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY3ZLU5oHhAhUIUBUIHQeQALMQ6AEwAXoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22the%20rat%22%20brenda%20hillman&f=false More from Quinn Latimer can be found at http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1754&l=en&bookId=647&sort=year%20DESC,month%20DESC

What's good friends. This week we get down with getting back into the swing of "the poetry world." We also sat down with Rick Barot and got taken all the way to school. He dropped so much knowledge on art and the body and the state of contemporary American poetry. Hurry up and listen already! RICK BAROT was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and The Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002); Want (2008); and Chord (2015), which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and received the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. Barot is the poetry editor of New England Review.  He lives in Tacoma, Washington and teaches at Pacific Lutheran University.  He is also the director of The Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at PLU. His fourth book of poems, The Galleons, will be published by Milkweed Editions in Spring 2020. THOSE WINTER GIN AND TONICS:  What did we know, what did we know of a gin and tonic's potential to be a winter cocktail? Nothing! (Until we invented this version). The addition of Amaro Averna and fresh blood orange give the refreshing G&T you know and love some deeper bitter notes and a blink more sweetness. The title of the drink alludes to the famous, heartbreaking sonnet “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. Ingredients: Gin (we used Seattle-based Big Gin), Tonic Water, Amaro Averna, Blood Orange REFERENCES: "Archaic torso of Apollo" by Rainer Maria Rilke; "Ode to a Grecian Urn" by John Keats; “Styrofoam Cup” by Brenda Hillman; Las Meninas by Diego Veláquez; "An A to Z of Theory: Roland Barthes and Semiotics" by Andrew Robinson; The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics; "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop; VIDA

Brenda Hillman explores the many nuances of human emotions and articulates the moment before a feeling comes into being. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Editor Jeremy Flick sat down with Pulitzer Prize winner Gregory Pardlo to talk about his new book "Air Traffic", his poetry, and other interesting things. Original music composed by Evan Flick. Gregory Pardlo's ​collection​ Digest (Four Way Books) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other honors​ include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; his first collection Totem was selected by Brenda Hillman for the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007. He is Poetry Editor of Virginia Quarterly Review. Air Traffic, a memoir in essays, was released by Knopf in April 2018.

What is the role of creative political resistance in a time of ascendant fascism? From the elegy to the love poem, from the individual to the collective, these poets will explore how words give us strength.

In his new book Why Poetry, the poet Matthew Zapruder has issued "an impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for its accessibility to all readers." The poet Robert Hass says, "Zapruder on poetry is pure pleasure. His prose is so direct that you have the impression, sentence by sentence, that you are being told simple things about a simple subject and by the end of each essay you come to understand that you've been on a very rich, very subtle tour of what's aesthetically and psychologically amazing about the art of poetry."  In this episode, Matthew Zapruder joins Jacke for a discussion on why poetry is often misunderstood, and how readers can clear away the misconceptions and return to an appreciation for the charms and power of poetry. Along the way, they discuss poems by W.H. Auden, Brenda Hillman, and John Keats, and the views of critics like Harold Bloom, Giambattista Vico, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Paul Valery. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. Learn more about the show at historyofliterature.com or facebook.com/historyofliterature. Contact the host at jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com or via our new Twitter handle, @thejackewilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rachel Zucker talks to acclaimed, award winning poet Sharon Olds about dope, talking nicely to yourself when you’re alone, noticing one’s tiniest thoughts, the advantages of being an “ordinary enough” person, Brenda Hillman and Community of Writers (formerly known as Squaw Valley), teaching, the rhythm of writing, Odes, sharing poems, being truthful, Galway Kinnell, how to deal with bad reviews, how to deal with praise, envy, talent, self-esteem, jealousy, heteromania, eros, intimacy, anger, dancing, parent-child separation and so much more.

Host Linda Rez and cohost, Barbara Davis, from Books, So Many Books, have an in-depth conversation with former National Poet Laureate Robert Hass about his life and poetry.Robert Hass was born in San Francisco in 1941. He attended St. Mary's College and Stanford University. His books of poetry include Time and Materials, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 and the National Book Award in 2008; Sun Under Wood, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996; Human Wishes; Praise, for which he received the William Carlos Williams Award in 1979; and Field Guide, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series.Hass also worked with Czeslaw Milosz to translate a dozen volumes of Milosz's poetry, including the book-length Treatise on Poetry and, most recently, A Second Space. His translations of the Japanese haiku masters have been collected in The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa. His books of essays include Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 1984, and Now and Then: The Poet's Choice Columns, 1997-2000.From 1995 to 1997 he served as poet laureate of the United States. He lives in northern California with his wife, the poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches English at the University of California at Berkeley. 

Host Linda Rez and cohost, Barbara Davis, from Books, So Many Books, have an in-depth conversation with former National Poet Laureate Robert Hass about his life and poetry.Robert Hass was born in San Francisco in 1941. He attended St. Mary's College and Stanford University. His books of poetry include Time and Materials, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 and the National Book Award in 2008; Sun Under Wood, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996; Human Wishes; Praise, for which he received the William Carlos Williams Award in 1979; and Field Guide, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series.Hass also worked with Czeslaw Milosz to translate a dozen volumes of Milosz's poetry, including the book-length Treatise on Poetry and, most recently, A Second Space. His translations of the Japanese haiku masters have been collected in The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa. His books of essays include Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 1984, and Now and Then: The Poet's Choice Columns, 1997-2000.From 1995 to 1997 he served as poet laureate of the United States. He lives in northern California with his wife, the poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches English at the University of California at Berkeley. 

Brian discusses Site Map and Candy reviews Brenda Hillman

Robert Hass is the author of many books of poetry, including The Apple Trees at Olema; Time and Materials, which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; Sun Under Wood; Human Wishes; Praise; and Field Guide, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has co-translated several volumes of poetry with Czeslaw Milosz, most recently Facing the River, and is author or editor of several other collections of essays and translation. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, whom you may find in our podcast archive, and he teaches at UC Berkeley.Hass read from his work on October 20, 2011, in Cornell’s Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place earlier the same day.

River of Words (ROW) is a California-based nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting literacy, creative expression and community awareness of our most critical environmental concern: water. River of Words was co-founded by U.S. Poet Laureate (1995-1997) Robert Hass and writer Pamela Michael to help young people make a personal and lasting connection to the environment. Speaker Biography: Robert Hass was born in San Francisco on March 1, 1941. He attended St. Mary's College in Moraga, California and received both an MA and Ph.D. in English from Stanford University. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems (Ecco Press, 2010); Time and Materials (2007), which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; Sun Under Wood: New Poems (1996); Human Wishes (1989); Praise (1979); and Field Guide (1973), which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series.Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

Brenda Hillman delivers a 2006 talk entitled "Cracks in the Oracle Bone: Teaching Certain Contemporary Poems" at the Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lectures on The Teaching of Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley. Audio courtesy of the Bancroft Library at Berkeley.

Practical Water ( Wesleyan) Brenda Hillman's work has been described as difficult and experimental, but we beg to disagree. Here, we hear some of her most accessible poems; discuss her work with Code Pink, a feminist activist group; and try to describe the way to read a so-called "difficult" poem. The live broadcast of this interview will be pre-empted by special holiday programming, but will be available in the KCRW archives.

Brenda Hillman has published seven collections of poetry: White Dress (1985), Fortress (1989), Death Tractates (1992), Bright Existence (1993), Loose Sugar (1997), Cascadia (2001), and Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005), all from Wesleyan University Press, and three chapbooks: Coffee, 3 A.M. (Penumbra Press, 1982), Autumn Sojourn (Em Press, 1995), and The Firecage (a+bend press, 2000). She has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson’s poetry for Shambhala Publications, and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, co-edited The Grand Permisson: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003). She teaches poetry at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California.Hillman read from her work on November 6, 2008, in Cornell’s Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place the following day.