Podcast appearances and mentions of james longenbach

Katie and Tim crack open their college-era poems—complete with awkward workshop moments, zany titles, and even Tim's hilarious old pseudonym. From Katie's days at Florida State University with tutelage from Barbara Hamby and David Kirby, to Tim stumbling into an "Intro to Poetry" course with James Longenbach, this episode is fueled by memories. We rip apart our regretful diction, and explore just how far our poetry has come. Or at least, how far we hope it has!At the Table:Katie Dozier

Poet, critic, and professor James Longenbach wrote primarily on modernist and contemporary poetry. He is the author of the critical works Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats, and Modernism, Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things, Modern Poetry After Modernism, The Resistance to Poetry, The Art of the Poetic Line, The Virtues of Poetry, How Poems Get Made, and The Lyric Now. His poetry collections include Threshold, Fleet River, Draft of a Letter, The Iron Key, Earthling, and Forever. Longenbach died on July 29, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura van den Berg returns to discuss her brilliantly unsettling new novel, THE THIRD HOTEL. She and James discuss her three research trips to Havana, film adaptations, women in horror, crucial details, and her thought log, which is exactly what it sounds like. Then Marya Brennan talks about a Writing Blood Oath and her work as the NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program Director.  - Laura van den Berg: http://lauravandenberg.com/ Laura and James Discuss:  Jenny Halpert  Kate Sharp  THE BURNING SEASON  Naomi Watts  The Tribeca Film Festival  Claire McCarthy  ARRIVAL dir by Denis Villeneuve  "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang SCREAM dir by Wes Craven  THE BABADOOK dir by Jennifer Kent  A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT dir by Ana Lily Aminpour  VERTIGO dir by Alfred Hitchcock  THE SHINING dir by Stanley Kubrick  Shelley Duvall  PIANO by Jean Echenoz  James Longenbach  - Marya Brennan, NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program Director: https://ywp.nanowrimo.org/ Marya and James Discuss:  Annie Hartnett  Robbie!  Aimee Bender  DEEP WORK by Cal Newport  NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program  THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O'Brien Chris Baty  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

First Draft interview with James Longenbach, author of the poetry collection, Earthling.

James Longenbach is a poet and critic whose most recent collection of poems, Earthling is a meditation on the ways in which human beings inhabit their knowledge of impending mortality, ranging bemusement to panic.  His most recent critical work, Lyric Knowledge: How Poems Get Made is an account of how English-language poems, ranging from the 8th to the 21st century, are constructed from the most basic elements of their medium (diction, syntax, rhythm, figuration, and so on).  He has also written widely about modern and postmodern poetry, sometimes emphasizing the historicity of poetic language (Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things) but also exploring the ways in which poems resist their historical location (The Resistance to Poetry). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Longenbach‘s The Virtues of Poetry (Graywolf Press, 2013) is not interested in the vices or failures found in some poems, so his concerns are not necessarily moral ones, but instead, as the title of the book suggests, he is interested in understanding what makes a particular poem (and poet for that matter) flourish, and therefore what makes a reader flourish. And it is this relationship – the one between reader and poem – that James Longenbach’s book honors through his ingenuity of reading poetry through the framework of virtues, such as boldness, compression, dilation, excess, restraint, and shyness to name just a few he identifies, and he unearths these virtues by focusing on a poem’s prosody and diction and syntax and even the poet’s life – apprehended through letters – as well. The Virtues of Poetry is a joyous book of criticism, written by a poet and critic who does not seek to reprimand poems – which is usually the result of someone mired in taste – but to identify why certain poems can be considered achievements and also to celebrate the paradoxical nature of poetry itself – that poems, no matter when they are written, embody the impulse to clarify the world, while also wrestling with the world’s unsettling mysteries. During our chat, we discuss how poetry found him, the creative similarities between writing poetry and prose, and of course, the virtues of poetry and so much more. I hope you enjoy our discussion as much as I did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Longenbach‘s The Virtues of Poetry (Graywolf Press, 2013) is not interested in the vices or failures found in some poems, so his concerns are not necessarily moral ones, but instead, as the title of the book suggests, he is interested in understanding what makes a particular poem (and poet for that matter) flourish, and therefore what makes a reader flourish. And it is this relationship – the one between reader and poem – that James Longenbach’s book honors through his ingenuity of reading poetry through the framework of virtues, such as boldness, compression, dilation, excess, restraint, and shyness to name just a few he identifies, and he unearths these virtues by focusing on a poem’s prosody and diction and syntax and even the poet’s life – apprehended through letters – as well. The Virtues of Poetry is a joyous book of criticism, written by a poet and critic who does not seek to reprimand poems – which is usually the result of someone mired in taste – but to identify why certain poems can be considered achievements and also to celebrate the paradoxical nature of poetry itself – that poems, no matter when they are written, embody the impulse to clarify the world, while also wrestling with the world’s unsettling mysteries. During our chat, we discuss how poetry found him, the creative similarities between writing poetry and prose, and of course, the virtues of poetry and so much more. I hope you enjoy our discussion as much as I did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, poet and critic James Longenbach reads from his work. Part of the fourteenth Modernist Studies Association conference, the event was held October 18, 2012 at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Longenbach is introduced by poet and UNLV English Professor Donald Revell.