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Craig Arnold, born November 16, 1967 was an American poet and professor. His first book of poems, Shells (1999), was selected by W.S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His many honors include the 2005 Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, and fellowships from the Fulbright Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, and MacDowell. He taught poetry at the University of Wyoming. His poems have appeared in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 1998 and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, and in literary journals including Poetry, The Paris Review, The Denver Quarterly, Barrow Street, The New Republic and The Yale Review. Arnold grew up in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Arnold's Made Flesh won the 2009 High Plains Book Award and the 2008 Utah Book Award.In 2009, Arnold traveled to Japan to research volcanoes for a planned book of poetry. In April of that year, he disappeared while hiking on the island of Kuchinoerabujima. In the New York Times, the poet David Orr mourned the loss of Arnold, but noted it would “be a mistake to think of him as a writer silenced before his prime... His shelf space may be smaller than one would wish, but he earned every bit of it.”-bio via Copper Canyon Press and Poetry Foundation Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Day 2: Eduardo C. Corral read the title poem of his 2020 collection Guillotine (Graywolf Press).  Eduardo C. Corral is the son of Mexican immigrants. He's the author of Guillotine, published by Graywolf Press, and Slow Lightning, which won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. He's the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University. Text of today's poem and more details about our program can be found at: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/ Find books from participating poets in our library's catalog.  Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language.  Queer Poem-a-Day is directed by poet and professor Lisa Hiton and Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the Deerfield Public Library. Music for this fourth year of our series is from the second movement of the “Geistinger Sonata,” Piano Sonata No. 2 in C sharp minor, by Ethel Smyth, performed by pianist Daniel Baer. Queer Poem-a-Day is supported by generous donations from the Friends of the Deerfield Public Library and the Deerfield Fine Arts Commission.   

Miko talks to us about how the vast forests and wide, empty roads of Suriname give rise to ghost stories, the reasons the ghosts in his paintings take classical Greek poses or animalistic positions, the fantasy of prosperity and whitewashing of historical paintings, how cultural signifiers in his paintings carry double meanings, and feeling alienated from art as a child. Plus, we ponder the prevalence of white clothing on ghosts and discuss the specific locations of ghosts in Indonesian folklore. To be enjoyed with a bowl of steaming hot saoto soup! -- Miko Veldkamp is a Suriname-born Dutch-Indonesian painter based in NYC. Combining elements of his personal life with folklore and ancestral themes, his works range from surreal landscapes to pseudo self-portraits. His paintings offer brightly layered narratives on identity, memory, space, and the multiplicity of perspectives rooted in his fluid identity and cross-cultural experiences. Miko has a BFA in video and sculpture from the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam and an MFA from Hunter College in New York. He was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and was awarded the Hodder Fellowship of Princeton University. His work has been exhibited around the world in group and solo exhibitions in Seoul, London, and New York. www.mikoveldkamp.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sugar-nutmeg/support

Tressie McMillan Cottom is the author of Thick and Other Essays, a columnist for the New York Times, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a 2020 McArthur Fellow. Tressie talks to Gabe about the kind of freedom she wants for all Black women. And how her mother was a member of the Black Panther Party in Winston Salem, NC. We learn about Tressie's 18 stages of essay writing. And why are white audiences more comfortable thinking about Black people in a historical context? Visit Tressie McMillan Cottom's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Read Tressie's column in New York Times Buy Tressie's nonfiction book Thick and Other Essays Watch Tressie on The Daily Show More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Diksha Basu (author of Destination Wedding) Qian Julie Wang (NYT's bestselling author of Beautiful Country) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Qian Julie Wang is the New York Times Bestselling author of Beautiful Country and a Yale-educated litigator. Qian Julie has one of the most incredible life stories you have ever heard. But Qian Julie's personal philosophy and inspired worldview may well be the most extraordinary thing about her. Qian Julie tells Gabe what it was like for her and her family to give up everything in China and move to Brooklyn when she was seven years old. Visit Qian Julie Wang's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Buy Julie's memoir Beautiful Country Read Qian Julie in New York Times Watch Qian Julie on YouTube More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Stephanie Land (NYT's bestselling author of Maid) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebecca Makkai is the author of 3 novels and her newest novel, I Have Some Questions for You, will be published in February. Rebecca's last novel The Great Believers, a novel set in Chicago at the height of the American AIDS epidemic, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Rebecca and Gabe talk about having ADHD, and the challenges of having a brain that's like Times Square. But also the ways in which ADHD can be a creative superpower. Rebecca talks about her impossibly glamorous grandmother who wrote 30 novels in Hungary. Visit Rebecca Makkai's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Buy Rebecca's novel I Have Some Questions for You Watch Rebecca on PBS Books Read about Rebecca in New York Times More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) Joe Hagan (author of Sticky Fingers: the Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone) Diksha Basu (author of Destination Wedding) Qian Julie Wang (NYT's bestselling author of Beautiful Country) Tod Goldberg (NYT's bestselling author of Gangster Nation) Gabe Hudson is the award-winning author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He taught at Princeton University, and currently teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephanie Land didn't take the traditional path to writing a New York Times Bestselling memoir (MAID: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive). And she didn't take the traditional path to having her memoir be adapted into a Netflix Emmy-nominated series (MAID). Stephanie and Gabe talk about her struggles as a single mother living in public housing with two children and her determination to become a writer. Produced by Lit Hub Visit Stephanie Land's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Buy Stephanie's nonfiction book Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive Read about Stephanie in New York Times Watch Stephanie on YouTube More episode resources and links Subscribe to Twitter Verse Rate/Review Twitter Verse Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) Joe Hagan (author of Sticky Fingers: the Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charles Yu is an author who has won the National Book Award. He's also a screenwriter who has written for Westworld. Charles gets real about the surge in hate crimes against Asian Americans in recent years and the psychic toll these attacks have had. Charles explains why it feels like something in our society is either broken or it was always there and has just been recently revealed. And how is the adaptation of Charles' novel Interior Chinatown (for Hulu) coming along? Visit Charles Yu's website and follow him on Twitter Buy Charle's novel Interior Chinatown Read about Charles in New York Times Watch Charles on The Daily Show More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) Stephanie Land (NYT's bestselling author of Maid) Qian Julie Wang (NYT's bestselling author of Beautiful Country) Rebecca Makkai (author of The Great Believers) About the Host Gabe Hudson: Gabe Hudson is the award-winning author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bethanne Patrick is a renowned book critic, host of the podcast Missing Pages, and author of the forthcoming memoir Life B: Overcoming Double Depression. Her work appears frequently in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NPR Books, and she sits on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Bethanne talks about overcoming her lifelong struggle with "double depression" and her dog Molly Bloom's "resting schnauzer face." Bethanne also tells Gabe what she loves about the writing community on Twitter. Visit Bethanne Patrick's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Buy Bethanne's memoir Plan B: Overcoming Double Depression Listen to Bethanne on Missing Pages Read Bethanne in Washington Post Watch Bethanne on YouTube Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Rebecca Makkai (author of The Great Believers) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rafia Zakaria is the Pakistani-American author of Against White Feminism, a columnist for The Baffler, and a human rights lawyer. She's also a former Director of Amnesty International. Rafia explains what happened when she wrote a column in The Baffler about how the New York Time's podcast Caliphate was filled with lies. Rafia and Gabe also talk about Angelina Jolie's activist posts on Instagram. Visit Rafia Zakaria's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Buy Rafia's nonfiction book Against White Feminism Read Rafia at The Baffler Read about Rafia in New York Times Watch Rafia on Democracy Now More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Elizabeth McCracken (author of The Hero of This Book) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elizabeth McCracken is the James A. Michener chaired professor in creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin and the award-winning author of 8 books. Her most recent novel The Hero of This Book was just named one of the 10 Best Books of 2022 by Time Magazine and People Magazine. Elizabeth tells the story of how the dedication page for her most recent novel just showed up in the mail one day. She talks about the time she flew from Provincetown to Austin with a salami in her pocket and the role that Twitter plays in her life. Visit Elizabeth McCracken's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram  But Elizabeth's novel The Hero of This Book Watch Elizabeth on PBS NewsHour Read about Elizabeth in New York Times More episodes resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Stephanie Land (NYT's bestselling author of Maid) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Keri Blakinger is the author of Corrections in Ink and an award-winning journalist at The Marshall Project. As a student at Cornell University in 2010, Keri was arrested in Ithaca for possession of heroin. She was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, after which she became an award-winning journalist who covers death row in the Texas prison system. Keri describes what it felt like to see her book on the shelf at The Harvard Coop Bookstore, where as an unhoused person she used to steal books in order to fund her heroin addiction. Visit Keri Blakinger's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram But Keri's memoir Corrections in Ink Watch Keri on YouTube Read Keri in New York Times Read Keri in Los Angeles Times More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Stephanie Land (NYT's bestselling author of Maid) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Melissa Lozada-Oliva is a young Latina superstar novelist and poet whose debut novel recently appeared on a billboard in Times Square. Melissa and Gabe talk about why West Side Story is so relatable for lonely Latinas who obsess over mediocre white guys. Melissa explains why every single woman writer need a big yellow couch. And what happened when Melissa ordered a yellow couch from the internet? Visit Melissa Lozada-Oliva's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Buy Melissa's book Dreaming of You Listen to Melissa on Say More Watch Melissa on YouTube More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tod Goldberg is the New York Times Bestselling author of over a dozen books and a beloved citizen of Literary Twitter. He is also the Director of the MFA program at the University of California, Riverside. Tod tells Gabe about what his grandfather, who just barely survived the pogroms in Ukraine, taught him about being Jewish. This interview is a portrait of the writer as a wild big-hearted force of nature. Visit Tod's website and follow him on Twitter and Instagram Buy Tod's novel Gangster Nation Read Tod Goldberg in Los Angeles Times Watch Tod on YouTube More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Rebecca Makkai (author of The Great Believers) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Soraya Nadia McDonald is the senior cultural critic for Andscape (formerly known as The Undefeated). She won the George Jean Nathan Prize for dramatic criticism, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. Soraya tells Gabe about her decision to go public with her cancer diagnosis and the bond she formed with her Twitter followers who are cancer survivors. Soraya also talks about Aretha Franklin's powerful artistry and how Aretha went from feeling like a revered celebrity to a family member. Read Soraya Nadia McDonald on Andscape Visit Soraya's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Watch Soraya on YouTube More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) Stephanie Land (NYT's bestselling author of Maid) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Diksha Basu is an award-winning novelist and journalist. Diksha generously cracks open her heart open so that she and Gabe can carefully examine the contents therein. And what they find is her fabulous grandmother as well as her squad of powerful and hilarious aunts: these women in Delhi have not just shaped who Diksha is but have armed her with invaluable tools to contend with the messiness of life. Read Diksha Basu in New York Times Follow Diksha on Twitter and Instagram Buy Diksha's novel Destination Wedding Watch Diksha on YouTube More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Elizabeth McCracken (author of The Hero of This Book) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Hagan is cohost of Vanity Fair's podcast Inside the Hive the author of the culture defining book Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone. Joe is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair. He has written in depth about some of the most significant figures of our time, including Beto O'Rourke, Hillary Clinton, the Bush family, Karl Rove, Henry Kissinger, and Dan Rather. This episode has big Gen X energy like you wouldn't believe. Read Joe Hagan at Vanity Fair Listen to Joe on Inside the Hive Visit Joe Hagan's website and follow him on Twitter and Instagram Buy Joe Hagan's nonfiction book Sticky Fingers: the Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine Watch Joe on CBS Mornings More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Rebecca Makkai (author of The Great Believers) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephanie Land didn't take the traditional path to writing a New York Times Bestselling memoir MAID: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive. And she didn't take the traditional path to having her memoir be adapted into a Netflix Emmy-nominated series MAID. Stephanie and Gabe talk about her struggles as a single mother living in public housing with two children and her determination to become a writer. Visit Stephanie Land's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Buy Stephanie's nonfiction book Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive Read about Stephanie in New York Times Watch Stephanie on YouTube More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) Rebecca Makkai (author of The Great Believers) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the award-winning author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He taught at Princeton University, and currently teaches at Columbia University.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the young New York Times Bestselling author of the story collection Friday Black and Chain Gang All Stars. But what experiences have shaped the brilliant mind behind this cutting edge work of fiction? Nana and Gabe discuss what it was like for him to grow up Ghanian-American with his family in Spring Valley, Rockland County, NY. Nana & Gabe talk about his rapping, including his song Nabokov, which he does on the show and even breaks down his lyrics. Visit Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's website and follow him on Twitter and Instagram Buy Nana's story collection Friday Black Read about Nana in New York Times Watch Nana on YouTube More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Elizabeth McCracken (author of The Hero of This Book) Rafia Zakaria (author of Against White Feminism) Rebecca Makkai (author of The Great Believers) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the award-winning author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Merve Emre is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, the author of many award-winning books, and a professor at the University of Oxford. Merve and Gabe chop it up about Merve's journey from Turkey to Brooklyn as a young child. What was it like for her family to live in Park Slope in the early 90's? How did she break her arm that one time as a kid, and how does that event inform who she is today? Read Merve Emre at The New Yorker Visit Merve's website and follow her on Twitter Buy Merve's nonfiction book The Personality Brokers Watch Merve on YouTube Read about Merve at The New York Review of Books More episode sources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) Stephanie Land (NYT's bestselling author of Maid) Joe Hagan (author of Sticky Fingers: the Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) About the Host Gabe Hudson: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tressie McMillan Cottom is the author of Thick and Other Essays, a columnist for the New York Times, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a 2020 McArthur Fellow. Tressie talks to Gabe about the kind of freedom she wants for all Black women. And how her mother was a member of the Black Panther Party. We learn about Tressie's 18 stages of essay writing. And why are white audiences more comfortable thinking about Black people in a historical context? Visit Tressie McMillan Cottom's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Read Tressie's column in New York Times Buy Tressie's nonfiction book Thick and Other Essays Watch Tressie on The Daily Show More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) Stephanie Land (NYT's bestselling author of Maid) Rebecca Makkai (author of The Great Believers) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the award-winning author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Molly Jong-Fast is a correspondent for Vanity Fair and host of the podcast Fast Politics. Molly sits down with Gabe to tell him what it felt like to do battle with Elon Musk out on the timeline. Molly explains why she loves Twitter and how she used it to sting Bill Maher. She gets into why a Tucker Carlson presidency is the ultimate doomsday scenario. And why does Molly think that Jon Stewart might be the only one who can stop Tucker Carlson? Read Molly Jong-Fast at Vanity Fair Listen to Molly's podcast Fast Politics Follow Molly on Twitter and Instagram Watch Molly on MSNBC Read about Molly in New York Times More episode sources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Elizabeth McCracken (author of The Hero of This Book) About the Host Gabe Hudson: Gabe Hudson is the award-winning author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Manguso is the author of eight books. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. Her work is regularly featured across The New York Times Magazine, O, and The New Yorker, among others. She grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in LA. Very Cold People is her first novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Manguso talks to Jordan about thinking she'd never write a novel, processing the place you come from, and the cold silence of whiteness. Mentioned: * the four-minute mile * Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Wallace Stevens * Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth * "A Boston Toast" by John Collins Bossidy Sarah Manguso is the author of eight books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, most recently the novel Very Cold People. Her nonfiction books are 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, and The Two Kinds of Decay, and her poetry collections are Siste Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. Born and raised in Massachusetts, she now lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches creative writing at Antioch University. For more Thresholds, visit us at www.thisisthresholds.com Be sure to rate/review/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joshua Sanchez's debut feature film 'Four' won the Best Performance Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival, the Best Feature Film Award at the Urbanworld Film Festival, and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. He was awarded the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts and the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Screenwriting. He's a member of the Writers Guild of America, East and teaches screenwriting at SSHH… in New York City. He's contributed to The Guardian, The Creative Independent, and Lambda Literary. Four from Wolfe Video on Vimeo. #23, Edmund from Joshua Sanchez on Vimeo.

I'm Jim McKeown , welcome to Likely Stories, a weekly review of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Katlyn Greenidge is a spectacular young woman just coming out of her first novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman . She has won a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, among other awards. Libertie is her second novel. Libertie Sampson is the story of the coming of age of a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn. Her mother is a practicing physician, and she hopes her daughter will follow in her footsteps. The story begins. Kaitlyn wrote, “I saw my mother raise a man from the dead. ‘It still didn't help him much my love,' she told me. But I saw her do it all the same. That's how I knew she was magic. / The time I saw Mama raise a man from the dead, it was close to dusk. Mama and her nurse, Lenore, were in her office—Mama with her little greasy glasses on the tip of her nose, balancing the books, Lenore banking the fire. That was the rule in Mama's office—the fire was kept

Feeling stressed? Anxious? or just need a moment to connect with yourself? Well—in this inaugural MICRODOSE episode of Clarity is King, Miller guides you through a breathing exercise to help you center yourself and bring calm to your day. Sit back or lay down, whichever you like and enjoy taking a moment to celebrate you! and if you enjoy this episode, feel free to come back to it when you need that moment to sit with yourself. Enjoy! Check Out Get Clear: A Mindfulness Workbook Get Clear: Your Mindfulness Journal About Brandon Brandon Webster is a Brooklyn-based Composer, Dramaturg & Storyteller working in Afro-futurism and Afro-Surrealism. His storytelling with music explores complex questions relating to Blackness, Masculinity, Queerness, and Community. Brandon is a 2021-2022 winner of the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University's Lewis Center For The Arts, part of the inaugural class of MAKERS at Musical Theatre Factory, The 2017 MCC Theater Artistic Fellow, and BMI Musical Theatre Workshop class of 2013. Contact info: Facebook: BrandonWebsterMusic IG Digital Portfolio: @BrandonWebsterMusic Linked In: linkedin.com/in/brandonwebstermusic Email: BrandonWebsterMusic@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/clarityisking/message

Jenny Johnson is the author of In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books, 2017). Her honors include a Whiting Award, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and a NEA Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, New England Review, Waxwing, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at West Virginia University, and she is on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University's low-residency MFA program. She lives in Pittsburgh. jennyjohnsonpoet.com "The Lone Palm" was previously published in the Harvard Review. Text of today's poem and more details about our program can be found at: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/ Queer Poem-a-Day is directed by poet and teacher Lisa Hiton and Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the Deerfield Public Library. Music for our series is from Excursions Op. 20, Movement 1, by Samuel Barber, performed by pianist Daniel Baer. Queer Poem-a-Day is supported by a generous donation from the Friends of the Deerfield Public Library. Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language.

Author BioNatalie Diaz was born and raised on the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2012. Her most recent collection, Postcolonial Love Poem,was published by Graywolf Press in 2020. She is 2018 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program.To Learn More:Visit us online at Freedom Reads and follow us on Twitter @million_book

Jenny Johnson is the author of In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books, 2017). Her honors include a Whiting Award, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and a NEA Fellowship. She has also received awards and scholarships from the Blue Mountain Center, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, New England Review, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, and elsewhere. After earning a BA/MT in English Education from the University of Virginia, she taught public school for several years in San Francisco, and she spent ten summers on the staff of the UVA Young Writer’s Workshop. She earned an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at West Virginia University, and she is on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University’s low-residency MFA program. For more about Jenny, please visit her website: https://www.jennyjohnsonpoet.com/

Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2012. Her most recent collection, Postcolonial Love Poem, was released this year and has been longlisted for the National Book Award. She is a 2018 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as being awarded a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canadian-American poet James Arthur is the author of The Suicide’s Son (Véhicule Press, 2019) and Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). His poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, and the London Review of Books. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to Northern Ireland, and a Visiting Fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford. Arthur lives in Baltimore, where he teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. George David Clark’s Reveille (Arkansas, 2015) won the Miller Williams Prize and his recent poems can be found in AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ecotone, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. The editor of 32 Poems, he teaches creative writing at Washington and Jefferson College and lives in western Pennsylvania with his wife and their four young children.Read "Wind" by James Arthur.Read "Black Igloo" by George David Clark.Recorded On: Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Canadian-American poet James Arthur is the author of The Suicide’s Son (Véhicule Press, 2019) and Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). His poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, and the London Review of Books. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to Northern Ireland, and a Visiting Fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford. Arthur lives in Baltimore, where he teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. George David Clark’s Reveille (Arkansas, 2015) won the Miller Williams Prize and his recent poems can be found in AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ecotone, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. The editor of 32 Poems, he teaches creative writing at Washington and Jefferson College and lives in western Pennsylvania with his wife and their four young children.Read "Wind" by James Arthur.Read "Black Igloo" by George David Clark.

Mary Jo Bang joins Kevin Young to to discuss her translation of Dante’s Purgatorio, excerpts of which are featured on newyorker.com. Bang is a poet who has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Hodder Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. Her latest book is “A Doll for Throwing.”

Episode 3 of City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast features City Theatre's Clare Drobot in conversation with Lauren Yee, whose play, Cambodian Rock Band, with music by Dengue Fever, premiered at South Coast Rep. and is now at City Theatre on Pittsburgh's Southside.Get your tickets here:  https://citytheatre.culturaldistrict.org/production/62854/cambodian-rock-band Lauren and Clare discuss life as a playwright, and how research and a trip to Cambodia inspired an incredible story.More about Lauren: Subsequent productions of Cambodian Rock Band have appeared at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Merrimack Rep, Signature Theatre, Portland Center Stage, and Jungle Theatre. Yee's play The Great Leap, has been produced at the Denver Center, Seattle Repertory, Atlantic Theatre, the Guthrie Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Arts Club, and InterAct Theatre, with future productions at Steppenwolf, Long Wharf, and Asolo Rep. Honors include the Doris Duke Artists Award, Whiting Award, Steinberg/ATCA Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters literature award, Horton Foote Prize, Kesselring Prize, Primus Prize, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, and the #1 and #2 plays on the 2017 Kilroys List. She’s a Residency 5 playwright at Signature Theatre, New Dramatists members, Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab member, and Playwrights Realm alumni playwright. TV credits include: PACHINKO (Apple) and SOUNDTRACK (Netflix). Current commissions include Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Second Stage, South Coast Rep. She received her bachelor's degree from Yale. MFA: UCSD. laurenyee.com

Painted Bride Quarterly presents another especially excellent episode of Slush Pile. This is of course because we are joined by Pushcart Prize winner and newly annointed #PeopleOfThePile BJ Ward! BJ Ward is an American poet. Ward is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize (Anthology XXVIII, 2004) for poetry and two Distinguished Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He has published three full books of poetry and has been featured in many journals including: Cerebellum, Edison Literary Review, Journal of Jersey Poets, Kimera, Lips, Long Shot, Maelstrom, Mid-American Review, Natural Bridge, Painted Bride Quarterly, Poetry, Puerto del Sol, Prairie Winds, Spitball, and TriQuarterly. His poem "For the Children of the World Trade Center Victims," is cast in bronze and featured at Grounds for Sculpture, an outdoor sculpture museum in Hamilton, New Jersey. Ward is an Assistant Professor of English at Warren County Community College and has served as University Distinguished Fellow at Syracuse University. BJ Ward is an active educator in a number of realms. He teaches writing workshops in the public school system throughout New Jersey, and his work there earns him yearly residencies in many school districts. After introductions, and Kathleen teasing a potential tale regarding flea killing solution, we dive into two pieces by James Arthur, On a Marble Portrait Bust in Worcester, Massachusetts and Study. James Arthur was born in Connecticut and grew up in Toronto. He is the author of The Suicide’s Son (Véhicule Press 2019) and Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press, 2012.) His poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, and The London Review of Books. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, and a Fulbright Scholarship. Arthur lives in Baltimore, where he teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. In 2019, he is Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, University of Oxford. Bj offers a masterful observation in his analysis of Study, which offers the reader a bit of an interesting existential question. After Marion is untimely raptured, and Tim’s emphatic urging for Ali to fight guests of the Podcast, the gang votes on the first piece before moving on to On a Marble Portrait Bust in Worcester, Massachusetts. The editors offer a gambit of opinions on the piece and eventually come to a final vote. After the poems are voted on Kathleen regales the listeners with a tale about CBD oil and Flea remover, in addition to praising the benefits of the substance. How did the poems do? Did they make the cut? Listen On and find out!

Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity and Some Say the Lark, which was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Nation, Poetry, and A Public Space, and she has published essays on poetry and poetics in The Los Angeles Review of Books, New England Review, and The Volta. She co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, an organization that supports Asian American writers, and teaches creative writing and literature at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.Jenny Johnson is the author of In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books, 2017). Her honors include a 2015 Whiting Award and a 2016-17 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, New England Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Rainier Writing Workshop's MFA Program. Read "Again a Solstice" by Jennifer Chang.Read "In the Dream" by Jenny Johnson.

Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity and Some Say the Lark, which was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Nation, Poetry, and A Public Space, and she has published essays on poetry and poetics in The Los Angeles Review of Books, New England Review, and The Volta. She co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, an organization that supports Asian American writers, and teaches creative writing and literature at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.Jenny Johnson is the author of In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books, 2017). Her honors include a 2015 Whiting Award and a 2016-17 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, New England Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Rainier Writing Workshop's MFA Program. Read "Again a Solstice" by Jennifer Chang.Read "In the Dream" by Jenny Johnson.Recorded On: Wednesday, June 13, 2018

James Arthur and Joseph Harrison read from and talk about their work.James Arthur’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and The American Poetry Review. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. His first book, Charms Against Lightning, was published by Copper Canyon Press. Arthur lives in Baltimore and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. During 2016 he will be the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at Queen’s University Belfast.Joseph Harrison is the author of Someone Else’s Name (2003), Identity Theft (2008), and Shakespeare’s Horse (2015), all published by Waywiser Press. Some of his early poems are anthologized in The Fly in the Ointment (20th anniversary edition, Syllabic Press, 2014). His honors include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellowship in poetry from the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the Senior American Editor for Waywiser Press, and the editor of The Hecht Prize Anthology (Waywiser, 2011). He lives in Baltimore.Read "The Land of Nod" and "A Local History" by James Arthur.Read "Shakespeare's Horse" and "Dr. Johnson Rolls Down a Hill" by Joseph Harrison.Recorded On: Wednesday, October 28, 2015

James Arthur and Joseph Harrison read from and talk about their work.James Arthur’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and The American Poetry Review. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. His first book, Charms Against Lightning, was published by Copper Canyon Press. Arthur lives in Baltimore and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. During 2016 he will be the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at Queen’s University Belfast.Joseph Harrison is the author of Someone Else’s Name (2003), Identity Theft (2008), and Shakespeare’s Horse (2015), all published by Waywiser Press. Some of his early poems are anthologized in The Fly in the Ointment (20th anniversary edition, Syllabic Press, 2014). His honors include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellowship in poetry from the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the Senior American Editor for Waywiser Press, and the editor of The Hecht Prize Anthology (Waywiser, 2011). He lives in Baltimore.Read "The Land of Nod" and "A Local History" by James Arthur.Read "Shakespeare's Horse" and "Dr. Johnson Rolls Down a Hill" by Joseph Harrison.

Off Course (Sarah Crichton Books) Skylight Books is proud to welcome two legendary authors for one legendary evening. "A bear climbs onto a cabin's deck, presses his nose to the sliding door. Inside, a young woman stands to face him. She comes closer, and closer yet, until only the glass stands between them . . ." The year is 1981, Reagan is in the White House, and the country is stalled in a recession. Cressida Hartley, a gifted Ph.D. student in economics, moves into her parents' shabby A-frame cabin in the Sierras to write her dissertation. In her most intimate and emotionally compelling novel to date, Michelle Huneven--author of Blame, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award--returns with her signature mix of fine-grained storytelling, unforgettable characters, and moral complexity. Cress, increasingly resistant to her topic (art in the marketplace), allows herself to be drawn into the social life of the small mountain community. The exuberant local lodge owner, Jakey Yates, with his big personality and great animal magnetism, is the first to blur Cress's focus. The builder Rick Garsh gives her a job driving up and down the mountain for supplies. And then there are the two Morrow brothers, skilled carpenters, who are witty, intriguing, and married. As Cress tells her best friend back home in Pasadena, being a single woman on the mountain amounts to a form of public service. Falling prey to her own perilous reasoning, she soon finds herself in dark new territory, subject to forces beyond her control from both within and without. In Off Course, Huneven introduces us to an intelligent young woman who discovers that love is the great distraction, and impossible love the greatest distraction of all. Michelle Huneven is the author of three previous novels—Blame, Jamesland, and Round Rock. Her nonfiction writing includes restaurant reviews for the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Weekly, other food journalism, and, with Bernadette Murphy, The Tao Gals Guide to Real Estate. She has received a General Electric Foundation Award for Younger Writers and a Whiting Writers' Award for fiction. Huneven lives in Altadena, California, with her husband, Jim Potter. Mona Simpson's novels include My Hollywood, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, The Lost Father and Anywhere But Here. Her books have won the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize, the Whiting Writer's Award and placed as finalist for the PEN/FAULKNER award. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University and a Lila Wallace Prize. Most recently, she was the recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and letters. Her short fiction has been published in Granta, Harpers, The Atlantic, McSweeney's and The Paris Review. Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, she lives in Santa Monica, California. Her new novel, Casebook, is on sale from Knopf in April, 2014.

Chris Abani' reads from his novel The Secret History of Las Vegas. Cristina García reads from her novel King of Cuba. The discussion took place on April 1, 2014, and was moderated by Elena Creef, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. Cristina García is the author of six novels: King of Cuba, The Lady Matador’s Hotel, A Handbook to Luck, Monkey Hunting, The Agüero Sisters, winner of the Janet Heidiger Kafka Prize; and Dreaming in Cuban, finalist for the National Book Award. García has edited two anthologies, Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a Literature(2006) and Cubanísimo: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature (2003). She is also the author of three works for young readers, Dreams of Significant Girls (2011), a young adult novel set in a Swiss boarding school in the 1970s; The Dog Who Loved the Moon, illustrated by Sebastia Serra, (Atheneum, 2008); and I Wanna Be Your Shoebox (Simon and Schuster, 2008). A collection of poetry, The Lesser Tragedy of Death (Akashic Books), was published in 2010. García holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Barnard College, and a Master's degree in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Her work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into 14 languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and an NEA grant, among others. García has been a Visiting Professor at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas-Austin and The University of Miami. She teaches part time at Texas Tech University and will serve as University Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University-San Marcos from 2012-14 Chris Abani's prose includes Song For Night, The Virgin of Flames,Becoming Abigail, GraceLand, and Masters of the Board. His poetry collections are Sanctificum, There Are No Names for Red, Feed Me The Sun - Collected Long Poems, Hands Washing Water, Dog Woman, Daphne's Lot, and Kalakuta Republic. He holds a BA in English (Nigeria), an MA in Gender and Culture (Birkbeck College, University of London), an MA in English and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing (University of Southern California). He is a Professor at the University of California, Riverside and the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award, the PEN Hemingway Book Prize & a Guggenheim Award. 

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]

García is the author of five novels: Dreaming in Cuban, The Agüero Sisters, Monkey Hunting, A Handbook to Luck and The Lady Matador’s Hotel. García has edited two anthologies, Cubanísimo: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature and Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a Literature. Two works for young readers, The Dog Who Loved the Moon and I Wanna Be Your Shoebox were published in 2008. A collection of poetry, The Lesser Tragedy of Death, was published in 2010. Her recent young adult novel, Dreams of Significant Girls, is set in a Swiss boarding school in the 1970s. Garcia’s forthcoming novel, to be published in May 2013, is King of Cuba, a darkly comic novel featuring a fictionalized Fidel Castro, an octogenarian Miami exile and a rabble of Cuban voices. García’s work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into fourteen languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and an NEA grant, among others. Recently, Garcia was a Visiting Professor at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas-Austin and teaches at Texas Tech University most spring semesters. This past fall, Garcia was a Visiting Professor at the University of Miami and is currently University Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University-San Marcos.

Matthew Dickman and Michael Dickman were the fifteenth poets in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series and read in 2011. Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem, winner of the 2009 Oregon Book Award for Poetry and the APR/Honnickman First Book Prize. His poems plum the ecstatic nature of life, where pop culture and sacred longing to hand in hand. Michael Dickman, author of The End of the West, writes poems that document the bright desires and all-too-common sufferings of modern times. His many honors include a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University and the James Laughlin Award for his collection Flies (2011).