Podcast appearances and mentions of daniel borzutzky

The second in a series of conversations about the poet Alice Notley, who passed away on May 19, 2025. The poet and critic Joyelle McSweeney joins the podcast to talk about selections from Notley's epic The Descent of Alette. (A brief note on audio quality: we listen to three recordings of Notley reading from her book during this episode. The volume on playback of those recordings seems somewhat low to me—sorry!—but hopefully listeners will be able to adjust the volume on their devices so as to hear Notley well enough.)Guggenheim Fellow Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books of poetry, drama and prose, a well-known critic, and a vital publisher of international literature in translation. McSweeney's latest book, Death Styles, appeared from Nightboat Books in Spring 2024; her previous title, Toxicon and Arachne (2020), was called "frightening and brilliant" by Dan Chiasson in the New Yorker and earned her the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her 2014 essay collection, The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, is widely regarded as a visionary work of eco-criticism. Her debut poetry volume, The Red Bird, inaugurated the Fence Modern Poets Series in 2001. With Johannes Göransson, she co-edits the international press Action Books, which has built readerships for a diverse array of US and international authors from Griffin Prize winners Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi to Daniel Borzutzky and Raúl Zurita. She lives in South Bend, Indiana and teaches at the University of Notre Dame.You can see Alice Notley read the entirety of The Descent of Alette in a series of recordings made over two nights at The Poetry Center at SFSU. Please follow the podcast if you like what you hear, and leave a rating and review. Share an episode with a friend! (Post it to your social media feeds?) You can also subscribe to my Substack, which I haven't used in a while, but may again. I'm also on Bluesky, now and then.

Daniel Borzutzky in conversation with Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, celebrating the publication of "The Murmuring Grief of the Americas" by Daniel Borzutzky, published by Coffee House Press You can purchase copies of "The Murmuring Grief of the Americas" directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/murmuring-grief-of-the-americas/ Originally broadcast via Zoom on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. This event was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation

Today's poem is The Devouring Economy of Nature by Daniel Borzutzky. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “I know there is no easy solution to economic inequality. I do wish that we channeled greater energy into figuring out the wealth gap, how to provide sustainable wages to working people. One of the corrupting aspects of our economic system is that it forces us to accept conditions that reduce people and nature.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Recorded by Daniel Borzutzky for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 3, 2024. www.poets.org

The Murmuring Grief of the Americas by Daniel Borzutzky by Poets & Writers

La Ceremonia de Premios Literarios de PEN America 2023 regresó al Ayuntamiento de Nueva York para celebrar las voces excepcionales en la literatura de ese país, desde autores primerizos hasta leyendas vivientes. Con cautivadores anuncios de ganadores, la dirección musical de Ulysses Owens, Jr. y lecturas dramáticas de obras seleccionadas, fue una celebración imperdible de la literatura más resonante de este año. La ceremonia de entrega de premios del 2023 fue presentada por el aclamado actor, autor y exasesor de la Casa Blanca de Obama, Kal Penn, con Tina Fey, nueve veces ganadora del premio Emmy y una de las mejores escritoras de comedia de su generación, que recibirá el premio PEN/Mike Nichols Writing 2023. por el Premio a la Actuación. Este año, PEN America presentó 11 premios de libros que reconocen la mejor ficción, no ficción, poesía, biografía, ensayo, escritura científica, traducción y más publicados en 2022. El libro ganador del Premio a la traducción en poesía fue The Loose Pearl, la traducción del poemario de Paula Ilabaca Nuñez traducido al inglés por Daniel Borzutzky editado por Coimpress. La entrega de los Pen Awards son de una espectacularidad muy inusual para nosotros los chilenos. La periodista Vivian Lavín conversa con la poeta y escritora Paula Ilabaca sobre cómo vivió la transmisión en vivo desde el Town Hall en Nueva York y cómo llegó este libro a las manos del traductor Daniel Borzutzky. La periodista Vivian Lavín conversó la poeta y escritora Paula Ilabaca Núñez en Vuelan las Plumas

Daniel Borzutzky is the author of Lake Michigan, finalist for the 2019 Griffin International Poetry Prize; The Performance of Becoming Human, which received the 2016 National Book Award. His other books include In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (2015); Memories of my Overdevelopment (2015); and The Book of Interfering Bodies (2011). He teaches in the English and Latin American and Latino Studies Departments at the University of Illinois at Chicago. We'll start with a Daniel Borzutzky's March 2021 performance at City of Asylum, then we'll transition to an interview we just did with Borzutzky, some conversation from us, and finally what we're reading and some thoughts for the road. We're talking joy, the love that survives, and how our country became used to massacre. 

Noah & Ross sit down with poet, translator, editor, & teacher Ruben Quesada to talk about his new substack PROMOTION FOR POETS. Links of interest from this episode:Ruben Quesada website Be sure to sign up for Promotions for Poets (substack)Revelations (Sibling Rivalry Press) by Ruben Quesada Charles Olson essay on Projectice VerseHeadwaters (WW Norton) by Ellen Bryant Voigt The Art of Syntax (Graywolf) by Ellen Bryant VoigtRuben Quesada is a neurodivergent, gay, Latinx poet. A native Angeleno, Ruben was raised by Costa Rican immigrant parents. He is the author of Revelations, Next Extinct Mammal, and translator of Exiled from the Throne of Night: Selected Translations of Luis Cernuda. He is a recipient of an Individual Artist grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events at the City of Chicago. He is producing a short documentary film on Latinx poetry.  After receiving a PhD in English, Ruben moved to Illinois in 2012. Soon after, with the mentorship of founding members from Canto Mundo Poetry, Macondo, and the Institute of Latino Letters | Letras Latinas, Ruben founded the Latinx Caucus at the AWP (Association of Writing & Writing Programs) Conference. Since 2015, the Latinx Caucus has been led by a leadership team of poets and writers who represent intersectional identities from the Americas.                 In 2015, Ruben moved to Chicago to launch the Logan's Run Readings series. This series was the nation's only Latinx literary salon and featured poets and writers including Daniel Borzutzky, Erika L. Sanchez, David Campos, Wendy C. Ortiz, and Diego Báez. For the past 15 years, Ruben has taught literature and creative writing. He's taught at Vermont College of Fine Arts, University of California-Riverside, The School of the Art Institute, Columbia College Chicago, Northwestern University, and UCLA Writers' Program. He teaches as an Associate Teaching Fellow at the Attic Institute. Ruben has written for Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The Rumpus, Cobalt, and Chicago Review of Books. Recently, he worked as poetry editor at AGNI and guest editor at PANK. In his spare time, he manages Mercy Street Readings, a live, literary broadcast. He is editing a special folio of LGBTQIA+ poetry for the spring 2022 issue of Pleiades magazine. Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

In this week's episode, Bob and Chris read poems dealing with sleep. Bob talks anxiety while reading "Dream Song #17" by Daniel Borzutzky, Chris talks childcare while reading "Chicago is a chorus of barking dogs" by Eve Ewing. Then the two reminiscence on NBA teams worth staying up for.

Recorded by Daniel Borzutzky for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on October 23, 2020. www.poets.org

My program today is the third of several programs that focus on poems written by poets living in the various regions of the United States.  In my last two programs, I read poems by writers living in the Southwest and more widely in the South.  In today’s program, I read poems by poets from the Midwest. They are Timothy Murphy, Fatimah Asghar, Daniel Borzutzky, Steven Schroeder, Hart Crane, and James Wright.

@YouKnowFargo returns to talk about his show My Father, My Martyr, and Me and Solmaz Sharif's LOOK. We also talked at length about Lake Michigan by Daniel Borzutzky, The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser, A Theory of Birds by Zaina Alsous, All This Burning Earth by Sean Bonney, White Blight by Athena Farrokhzad, and Excess - The Factory by Leslie Kaplan in the context of discussing LOOK. Book Fargo to perform in your town!

Daniel Borzutzky isn’t afraid of the fire–he’s determined to call it what it is. The poet, professor, and translator talks about the links between Chicago and Chile, the desert as a site of incarceration, how translating shapes his poetry, and facing the violence of our moment head-on.

Episode 2 of Commonplace’s special series on translationJohn R. Keene is the author of Annotations and Counternarratives, both published by New Directions, as well as several other works, including the poetry collection Seismosis, with artist Christopher Stackhouse, and a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer. Born in St. Louis, Keene is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University, where he was a New York Times Fellow. He is the recipient of many awards and fellowships—including a MacArthur Genius Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and the Whiting Foundation Prize for fiction. He teaches at Rutgers University-Newark. (Bio adapted from New Directions.)John Keene talks to Commonplace host Rachel Zucker about his experiences—starting as early as middle school—with translation, why he believes translation is so important, and how his work as a poet and fiction writer is informed by his work as a translator. Keene, who primarily translates from Portuguese, French and Spanish, speaks about his article “Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness,” and how the dearth of translations of non-Anglophone black diasporic writers into English compounds problem of the lack of representation in media and literature. Keene also discusses the whiteness of the publishing industry, the unique challenges of translating LGBTQ+ literature across cultures, and more.Liner Notes:03 John Keene reads (in Portuguese and English) a recent translation of “Black Eye” by Cristiane Sobral that he translated (with input from Erik M. B. Becker) for the special issue on Afro-Brazilian writing they co-edited for Words without Borders.9:12 Keene reads his recent translation of “I Won’t Wash the Dishes Anymore” by Cristiane Sobral (also for the Afro-Brazilian issue of Words without Borders).16:25 Keene reads the final paragraph of his translation of Letters from a Seducer by Hilda Hilst (written in Portuguese).20:28 Keene reads an excerpt of his article, “Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness” written for Thinking Its Presence conference and posted on Poetry Foundation website, Harriet, for the special translation issue edited by Daniel Borzutzky.32:06 Keene reads from his book (a collaboration with Nicholas Muellner) Grind.Keene reads “Anna vê Alice / Anna Sees Alice” by Paulo Leminski in Portuguese and English and his own English translation.All recordings were made by Rachel Zucker of John Keene in New York City on December 17, 2018.

On this week's episode, National Book Award Winner Daniel Borzutsky, discusses his new book, Lake Michigan, with Chicago poet Nate Marshall. They also talk politics, education, violence, and the state. Then we talk with historian Robert Darnton about the revolutionary potential of poetry in 18th Century France.

Poet Daniel Borzutzky discusses Chicago and Latin American politics, and how they influenced his book, The Performance of Becoming Human, which won the National Book Award for poetry in 2016.

An introduction to poet Daniel Borzutzky; Chicago's Homan Square; and a reading of his poem "Lake Michigan Merges into the Bay of Valparaiso, Chile"

Chapbookapalooza 2014 Daniel Borzutzky Bedtime Stories for the End of the World Bloof Books, 2014 This is a collection in which the synaptic leaps have their own synaptic leaps. In direct confrontation with neoliberalism, Borzutzky holds nothing back. His verse levels the page like a chainsaw, leaving the surreal, bloodied and bare. “At times like this he thinks: I can say just about anything right now. This is, after all, a bedtime story for the end of the world. I am moving beneath ground and not sleeping and trying to cross the border from one sick part of the world to another” Prepare to be altered by these poems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chapbookapalooza 2014 Daniel Borzutzky Bedtime Stories for the End of the World Bloof Books, 2014 This is a collection in which the synaptic leaps have their own synaptic leaps. In direct confrontation with neoliberalism, Borzutzky holds nothing back. His verse levels the page like a chainsaw, leaving the surreal, bloodied and bare. “At times like this he thinks: I can say just about anything right now. This is, after all, a bedtime story for the end of the world. I am moving beneath ground and not sleeping and trying to cross the border from one sick part of the world to another” Prepare to be altered by these poems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

20 shows! Wow! I think back to my initial conversations with Duncan in a bar downtown and I doubt we ever expected to get an audience as large as we now have (which has doubled in the last month), the number of great, brilliant people working with us around the world, and the wonderful feedback we have been getting, thanks to you all! We continue to look at Bad at Sports as an open resource, so let us know what you think. If you want to contribute (particularly if you are somewhere other than Chicago), let us know! We are here as a public resource. Thanks! Also, curious minds are still waiting to hear a good explanation of why, without permission from the artist, UIC took the Death by Design piece down off of the Temporary Allegiance flag pole at Gallery 400. Someone please enlighten us. Check out the cool pictures of us Duncan posted: http://www.badatsports.com/pages/about.htm Lane Relyea purportedly thinks we are cool. THIS WEEK: We interview Mark Booth--artist, teacher, and curator of the forthcoming “an incomplete map of everything�? festival at Links Hall. Per the Links Hall press release: “an incomplete map of everything is a fragmentary atlas of an imaginary world. The festival is comprised of co-existing “landforms�? of an experimental nature; the Goldsmith archipelago, the Bök atoll, the plateaus of Goulish, the Bervin Sea, the isthmus of Mallozzi, and the fjord of Ross. There are other topographical features as well, both familiar and unfamiliar; emerging glaciers, new volcanoes, and uncharted estuaries. If there is one thing these artists have in common apart from their shared commitment to experimentation and investigative exploration it is their interest in probing the minimal elements that form the materiality of human experience.�? Mark also talks about being mistaken for a spaceman. Richard and Amanda apologize to Duncan for creating confusion over the name Middle Management. Duncan and Amanda fight TO THE DEATH over whether or not it is acceptable to curate yourself into a show. And, finally, Richard insists you bow down to the genius of Patti Smith’s first record! Names dropped:Tiny Hairs, Terri Kapsalis, Libby the cat, Christian Bök, Judd Morrissey, Relaxation Record, Jesse Seldess, Luc Tuymans, Leonie Weber, Ben Brown, Meg Nafziger, Jeff Kowalkowski, Michael Workman, NOVA, Lou Mallozzi, Björn Ross, Fessenden, Institute of Failure, Trent Smith, Petrova, Jen Bervin, Lilli Carré, Erin Tikovitch, Tony Rosati, The 6 Ghosts of Fear, Ginger Krebs, Erin Moore, Kenneth Goldsmith, Ken Fandell, Matthew Goulish, Justin Cooper, Christopher Lavery, Daniel Borzutzky, CJ Mitchell, Goat Island, James Rondeau, Jimi Hendrix, Patti Smith, Open End Gallery, and last, but not least, Furries. NEXT WEEK: Barbara Koenen, fabulous overlord of the Chicago Artist Resource site, talks about how artists can make the most of what Chicago has to offer, and so much more.