Podcast appearances and mentions of Cynthia Cruz

Recorded by Cynthia Cruz for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on October 31, 2024. www.poets.org

Today's poem is The Way by Cynthia Cruz. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “This past spring like every spring many of my students graduated into the uncertainty of their futures. Their lives can take so many directions. I am curious as to what ultimately launches us as human beings with a purpose, or not. If ever we meet as new friends, I will likely ask what you do for a living. In some scenarios, my inquisitiveness can sound like prying. But what I am really asking is what makes you happy — to really live.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

In this episode, recorded downwind from an increasingly immolated Canada, we interview Alexander Billet, author of the book,  Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis from 1968 Press (2022). We discuss music, the city, cultural fragmentation and the accelerated alienation of neoliberal culture, the “blue note,” Fred Ho's concept of kreolization, the digital algorithm as capitalist standardization of music, sound as social control, music as a potential tool of social revolution, crackle and anachronism, acid communism, and getting “left behind” by the bourgeois rapture. Alexander Billet is a member of the Locust Collective who has written numerous articles and reviews for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Salvage, Jacobin, and the Radical Art Review.  Readings in this episode: “Feet Firmly Planted on the Earth,” by the late Iranian poet and Marxist Ahmad Shamlou, from the collection, Aida, Tree, Dagger, Memory (1963), republished in English in Locust Review 9 (2022), translated by Saman Sepheri; a selection from Sound, a serialized novella by Tish Turl, published over several issues of Locust Review (starting with Locust Review #2 in 2020).  Music featured in this episode: Enchanters, “Missing Mountains” and “Unlikely Windows” from Post-Harvest; Diamond Soul, “Screens,” from Maya-mi; and Omnia Sol, “Security to Section 3,” from X-Mas Miracle 2. Artists, art, musicians, books, and articles discussed in this episode: Theodor W. Adorno, “On Jazz,” Discourse Vol. 12, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 1989-90), 45-69; Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” (1936);   John Berger, Ways of Seeing (book, 1972), and Ways of Seeing (BBC documentary, 1972); Alexander Billet, Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis (London: 1968 Press, 2022); Cynthia Cruz, The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working-Class (London: Repeater, 2021); Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology, and Lost Futures  (London: Zero Books, 2014); Mark Fisher, “What is Hauntology?” Film Quarterly Vol 66. No. 1 (Fall 2012), 16-24 (University of California Press); Fred Ho (American jazz musician, composer and Marxist, 1957-2014); Henri Lefebve, The Right to the City (1996); Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844); Tish Turl, Sound (novella serialized in Locust Review, 2020-present); Tish Turl and Adam Turl, Born Again Labor Museum (conceptual art installation and project, 2019-present) Locust Radio is hosted by Tish Turl, Laura Fair-Schulz and Adam Turl. It is produced by Omnia Sol.

This week, Charif Shanahan speaks with Cynthia Cruz, who joins us from Berlin, Germany. Born on a US military base in Wiesbaden and raised in Northern California, she is currently pursuing a PhD at the European Graduate School where her research focuses on Hegel and madness. Cruz is the author of seven poetry collections, as well as two collections of critical work, including The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class. In the book, Cruz writes, “To be working-class in a middle-class world is to be a ghost,” and the book analyzes how the choice between assimilation or annihilation has played out in the lives of working-class musicians, artists, writers, and filmmakers. Her newest collection of poems, Back to the Woods (forthcoming from Four Way Books) was written alongside A Manifesto for the Working Class and shares references with it while also circulating around Freud's concept of the death drive. According to Cruz, “In its simplest iteration the death drive is an attempt to begin again through the act of self annihilation.” Today, we'll hear two poems from the new collection, including “Dark Register” from the May issue of Poetry.

Read by Juliet Prew Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

Cynthia Cruz joins us this week to share her journey about moving to Charlotte and all the great things she is doing for the community through her career paths.

Recorded by Cynthia Cruz for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 9, 2022. www.poets.org

In this episode, we have Cynthia Cruz who recently finished her diploma in digital marketing at Tamwood Campus. Cynthia was previously from Spain working in the hospitality industry but wanted to move to Canada and diversify her skillset. Tune in as we talk about why she chose Canada, her experience taking digital marketing at Tamwood Campus, along with her advice for those who also want to work and study in Canada FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL▶ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/tamwoodcareers▶ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tamwoodcareers SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST▶ Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/study-and-work-in-canada/id1613996974626▶ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/Tamvideos

Starting a little later than planned, but it's time for the fourth annual last-week-of-poetry-month Close Talking extravaganza! In past years Connor and Jack have talked about haiku, shared comforting poems, and investigated the sonnet. Now, they take on their grandest subject yet - the line break. They dig into why poets break lines, what makes line breaks so special, and even give examples ranging from Cynthia Cruz and Patrick Cotter to Gwendolyn Brooks. Find us on Facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking 
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Cynthia Cruz, author of 'The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class' joins Psychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi Hiroe to discuss the 'invisibility' of class, the cost of assimilation into the middle class, eating disorders, substance abuse and many other issues. 'To be working-class in a middle-class world is to be a ghost. Excluded, marginalised, and subjected to violence, the working class is also deemed by those in power to not exist. We are left with a choice between assimilation into middle-class values and culture, leaving our working-class origins behind, or total annihilation. In The Melancholia of Class, Cynthia Cruz analyses how this choice between assimilation or annihilation has played out in the lives of working-class musicians, artists, writers, and filmmakers — including Amy Winehouse, Ian Curtis, Jason Molina, Barbara Loden, and many more — and the resultant Freudian melancholia that ensues when the working-class subject leaves their origins to “become someone,” only to find that they lose themselves in the process.' Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-melancholia-of-class-a-manifesto-for-the-working-class/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support

Listen to the song. This episode our special guest is Cynthia Cruz, author of The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class, discussing the song "The N.W.R.A." with Hiram and Bob. There's probably a curse word. Contact: pgtfsg@gmail.com. The Annotated Fall lies here: http://annotatedfall.doomby.com/

In this episode, Christian Sorace speaks with poet and essayist Cynthia Cruz about her recent book The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Classon the artistic and affective struggles to reclaim working class identity and resist its erasure by middle-class fantasy.

Kate Wolf speaks with writer Kelefa Sanneh about his debut book, Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres. An exhaustive, enthralling breakdown of the last fifty years in music, Major Labels diagrams the American sonic landscape, Alfred Barr style, in the discrete yet overlapping categories of Rock, R&B, Country, Punk, Hip Hop, Dance and Pop; it also pays close attention to the proliferation of genres within genres, covering everything from thrash metal to glitter rock, quiet storm to hip hop soul, and many more. The book reveals what these divisions mean not only for the way music gets made, but how it's listened to, and by whom. In conversation, we learn what inspired, and continues to inspire, one of our leading music writers. Also, Cynthia Cruz, author of The Melancholia of Class, returns to recommend a collection of writings by the late Mark Fisher "Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology, and Lost Futures."

Kate Wolf speaks with writer Kelefa Sanneh about his debut book, Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres. An exhaustive, enthralling breakdown of the last fifty years in music, Major Labels diagrams the American sonic landscape, Alfred Barr style, in the discrete yet overlapping categories of Rock, R&B, Country, Punk, Hip Hop, Dance and Pop; it also pays close attention to the proliferation of genres within genres, covering everything from thrash metal to glitter rock, quiet storm to hip hop soul, and many more. The book reveals what these divisions mean not only for the way music gets made, but how it's listened to, and by whom. In conversation, we learn what inspired, and continues to inspire, one of our leading music writers. Also, Cynthia Cruz, author of The Melancholia of Class, returns to recommend a collection of writings by the late Mark Fisher "Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology, and Lost Futures."

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by author Cynthia Cruz to discuss The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class. A mix of memoir, cultural theory, and polemic, Cruz's latest work addresses the personal and social consequences of the marginalization of America's majority population, its working class. Cruz speaks about what inspired her to write the book and how she came to focus on the lives of certain famous working-class people, like musicians Amy Winehouse and Ian Curtis (who both died tragically in their 20s), and Jason Molina (who made it to 39), actress Barbara Loden, and others. How did they and Cynthia contend with the hegemonic “middle-class” culture's shaming of working-class characteristics? Denial and repression of working-class consciousness is encouraged in our society. This repression is seen as a precondition for success, but it mangles the soul and shreds the bonds of social solidarity that are the foundation of community and provide a sense of belonging. 173 years after Marx and Engels recast the working class as the protagonist of history in their Manifesto, Cruz does the same in hers. Also, Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century, returns to recommend Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights by Molly Smith and Juno Mac, who are both British sex workers.

Writer and Poet Cynthia Cruz joins Kate and Medaya to discuss The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class. A mix of memoir, cultural theory, and polemic, Cruz's latest work addresses the personal and social consequences of the marginalization of America's majority population, its working class. Cruz discusses what inspired her to write the book; and how she came to focus on the lives of certain famous working class people, like musicians Amy Winehouse, Ian Curtis (who both died tragically in their 20s), and Jason Molina (who made it to 39), actress Barbara Loden, and others. How did they and Cynthia contend with the hegemonic “middle class” culture's shaming of working class characteristics? Denial and repression of working class consciousness is encouraged in our society. This repression is seen as a precondition for success; but it mangles the soul and shreds the bonds of social solidarity that are the foundation of community and provide a sense of belonging. 173 after Marx and Engels did the trick in their Manifesto, Cruz does the same in hers: by casting the working class in its proper role, as the protagonist of history. Also, Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century, returns to recommend Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights by Molly Smith and Juno Mac, who are both British sex workers.

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by author Cynthia Cruz to discuss The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class. A mix of memoir, cultural theory, and polemic, Cruz's latest work addresses the personal and social consequences of the marginalization of America's majority population, its working class. Cruz speaks about what inspired her to write the book and how she came to focus on the lives of certain famous working-class people, like musicians Amy Winehouse and Ian Curtis (who both died tragically in their 20s), and Jason Molina (who made it to 39), actress Barbara Loden, and others. How did they and Cynthia contend with the hegemonic “middle-class” culture's shaming of working-class characteristics? Denial and repression of working-class consciousness is encouraged in our society. This repression is seen as a precondition for success, but it mangles the soul and shreds the bonds of social solidarity that are the foundation of community and provide a sense of belonging. 173 years after Marx and Engels recast the working class as the protagonist of history in their Manifesto, Cruz does the same in hers. Also, Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century, returns to recommend Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights by Molly Smith and Juno Mac, who are both British sex workers.

We are joined by writer and thinker Cynthia Cruz for a heartfelt and real conversation about the working class. Cynthia has written an incredible new book called The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class (Repeater Books, 2021). We discuss the experiences of being working class, of leaving one's class roots, alienation, working class artists and the current status of the working class in America.  As Cruz writes, "to be working-class in a middle-class world is to be a ghost. Excluded, marginalised, and subjected to violence, the working class is also deemed by those in power to not exist." This conversation is not to be missed!!  Music: Joy Division "The Eternal" 

We sat down with Cynthia Cruz, author of The Melancholia of Class, to discuss her latest book, Mod, and which type of monster the working class actually is. (Hint: It's more than one!) Get her latest book here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-melancholia-of-class-a-manifesto-for-the-working-class/ Follow us on Twitter to discuss the latest in gothic theory: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard You can support the show for less than the cost of actually just go buy Cynthia Cruz's new book trust us it's good on our Patreon page: www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Cynthia Cruz introduces poems that mingle “the everyday with the mystical, the unreasonable,” the poems' meaning and beauty transcending the words themselves. Cruz considers the urgency of the quotidian in Denis Johnson’s “The Monk’s Insomnia,” the magical life a poem can carry within itself in Jon Anderson’s “Fox,” and negation as a place of beginning in Orlando White’s “Ats'íísts'in.” To close, Cruz reads “Hotel Letters,” a poem from a forthcoming collection. Listen to the full recordings of Johnson, Anderson, and White reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:Denis Johnson (1993)Jon Anderson (1978)Orlando White, in a reading celebrating the anthology Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas (2011)

Entrevista con Cynthia Cruz, fundadora de Okidoc, una plataforma digital en la que cualquier persona puede recibir atención médica especializada mediante videoconsultas.Tiene una interfaz en la que los usuarios generan una cuenta y acceden a una amplia cartera de médicos con larga experiencia. Desde medicina general, gastroenterología, cardiología, pediatría u oftalmología para males físicos, como también terapeutas, psicólogos, tanatólogos, piscoterapeutas y coaches. Según explica Cynthia, a raíz de la explosión del Covid-19 Okidoc estableció en su plataforma consultas específicamente enfocadas para diagnosticar síntomas, detectar o desechar casos de la enfermedad y darles seguimiento por 270 pesos y así evitar riesgos de contagio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A day late but it's here! Connor and Jack explore the haunting poem, “Stammer,” by Cynthia Cruz. They delight in the incredible sounds of the poem, think about what makes this poem difficult, and consider how this poem shows one way of engaging with the traumatic or inexpressible. Read the poem below.

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 You can always send us an e-mail with thoughts on this or any of our previous podcasts, as well as suggestions for future shows, at closetalkingpoetry@gmail.com. Stammer By: Cynthia Cruz There is the story my mother used to tell. How she woke at three A.M. from a dream that her mother died. And she did. At three A.M. It’s like that: visceral and animal. The silver grammar of vanish. A soft violence pushing up against me— soundless, its static, satelliting music. Even now, it is there on the edge, on the periphery. When I stand in the light before the mirror it is overpowering. And always, without end.

It's our first birthday! Rose and Alice went to the Camden Art Centre to see shows by Jennifer Tee and Daniel Richter. Both shows run until September 17th - more info at https://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Jennifer Tee's RESIST STACK OF BOOKS: James Baldwin, Go Tell It On The Mountain (1953) Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962) Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899) Cynthia Cruz, The Glimmering Room (2012) Joan Didion, The White Album (1979) Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850) Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak (1999) Han Kang, The Vegetarian (2007) Mary Karr, The Liars Club (1995) Bill Knot, I Am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems (2017) Lucas de Lima, Wetland (2014) Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn (1978) Maggie Nelson, Bluets (2009) Arthur Miller, The Crucible (1953) Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970) Adrienne Rich, Diving into the wreck (1973) Rebecca Skloot, The immortal life of Henrieta Lacks (2010) Dane Smith, [INSERT] BOY (2014) Mai Der Vang, Afterland (2017) Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982) Ronaldo Wilson, Poems of the Black Object (2009) Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (1985) Monica Youn, Blackacre (2016) Contact me via theexhibitionist.org, facebook.com/exhibitionistpod and exhibitionistpod@gmail.com - and, as always, leave a rating and review on iTunes. It helps new listeners find us, and makes me feel loved.

Brooklyn Poets Yawp open mic, 1.11.16, featuring Prof. Cynthia Cruz. Poem of the Month winner: Chris Roberts, "Excerpt, 1992." For more info, go to brooklynpoets.org/events/yawp.

Cynthia Cruz's poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review and others. Her first collection of poems, RUIN, was published by Alice James Book and her second collection, “The Glimmering Room,” was published by Four Way Books in 2012. She has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. Her third collection of poems, Wunderkammer, is from Four Way Books in 2014. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 26024]

Cynthia Cruz’s poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review and others. Her first collection of poems, RUIN, was published by Alice James Book and her second collection, “The Glimmering Room,” was published by Four Way Books in 2012. She has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. Her third collection of poems, Wunderkammer, is from Four Way Books in 2014. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 26024]

Cynthia Cruz’s poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review and others. Her first collection of poems, RUIN, was published by Alice James Book and her second collection, “The Glimmering Room,” was published by Four Way Books in 2012. She has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. Her third collection of poems, Wunderkammer, is from Four Way Books in 2014. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 26024]

Cynthia Cruz's poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review and others. Her first collection of poems, RUIN, was published by Alice James Book and her second collection, “The Glimmering Room,” was published by Four Way Books in 2012. She has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. Her third collection of poems, Wunderkammer, is from Four Way Books in 2014. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 26024]

Cynthia Cruz’s poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review and others. Her first collection of poems, RUIN, was published by Alice James Book and her second collection, “The Glimmering Room,” was published by Four Way Books in 2012. She has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. Her third collection of poems, Wunderkammer, is from Four Way Books in 2014. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 26024]

Cynthia Cruz’s poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review and others. Her first collection of poems, RUIN, was published by Alice James Book and her second collection, “The Glimmering Room,” was published by Four Way Books in 2012. She has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. Her third collection of poems, Wunderkammer, is from Four Way Books in 2014. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 26024]