Podcast appearances and mentions of John Keene

In MB's first episode of 2025, Zack is joined by Serviceminder's new CEO, Berkley Simmons and their Founder & CTO, John Keene, to talk all things PE within home service. We discuss how technology plays a role in reaching your next stage of growth, predictions for how franchise technology will play a role in this second phase of PE investment, the right time to roll out a robust technology such as Serviceminder and the importance of recognizing franchising's uniqueness vs. other business models.

The conversation is in English, after a short introduction in Swedish. John Keene, en av den amerikanska litteraturens viktigaste gestalter, besökte Internationell författarscen. Efter två översatta prosaböcker utkommer nu John Keenes diktsamling "Punks” på svenska. Det är en lika storslagen som intim bok, som samlar dikter från mer än tjugo år. Här väver Keene samman historier om kärlek, lust och förlust. John Keene föddes 1965 och växte upp i St Louis. Han är verksam vid Rutgers University i New Jersey och har bland annat belönats med The MacArthur Genius Grant. Kortromanen "Marginalanteckningar" gavs ut 1995 och inledde ett sparsmakat men magnifikt författarskap. Både den och "Motberättelser" finns sedan tidigare på svenska. Athena Farrokhzad är tillsammans med Ida Linde programansvarig för litteraturen på Kulturhuset Stadsteatern. Hon är också verksam som översättare, dramatiker och författare. Hennes senaste bok är diktsamlingen "Åsnans år" (Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2022). I samarbete med Nirstedt/litteratur. Från 28 maj 2024 Jingel: Lucas Brar

Modrn Business welcomes franchise technologist and CEO of Serviceminder, John Keene, onto the show discuss all facets of the franchise technology world. Between PE in franchising, AI, point solutions vs. all-in-one and everything in between, this episode covers all of the major topics franchise brands grapple with when it comes to tech!

Sommaren 2024 bjuder Bögbibblan på sjutton queerlitterära samtal med författare och poeter som alla är aktuella i årets utgivning.I det sjuttonde och avslutnade avsnittet träffar vi den amerikanske poeten John Keene för ett samtal om hans diktsamling Punks (Nistedt/litteratur). Punks samlar poesi från hela John Keenes författarskap. Vi rör oss mellan amerikanska storstäder, från nattklubbar till gatupolitikens slagord, från svettiga sänglakan till dejtingappar och in i dikter som både tar fasta på den queera historien, både som identitet, indivuell erfarenhet och som större rörelse.Välkommen till Bögbibblan Podcast – Din skeva bokhylla!________________Gäst: John Keene.Programledare: Makz Bjuggfält.Producent, klippning och grafisk formgivning: Makz Bjuggfält.Musik: Anna Hed.Fotograf John Keene: Privat.Samtalet med John spelades in i Malmö i maj 2024._______________________Bögbibblan Podcast är en podd om queer litteratur. Du hittar Bögbibblan på bogbibblan.se och under namnet Bögbibblan på Spotify, Instagram och Facebook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Christina Sharpe (winner of a 2024 Windham Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction) joins Michael Kelleher to rave about 2018 Fiction prize-winner John Keene's Counternarratives. They discuss the pleasures of Keene's playful prose and his deep engagement with stirring questions of truth and history. Reading list:  Counternarratives by John Keene • Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain • James by Percival Everett • Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison • The Awakening by Kate Chopin For a full episode transcript, click here. Christina Sharpe is the Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto, Canada, as well as the author of three books of nonfiction: Ordinary Notes (2023), In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016), and Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (2010). Sharpe's writing has also appeared in many artist catalogues and journals. Ordinary Notes was a Finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction. The winner of the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Sharpe lives in Toronto.

In episode 3, season 2 of The Write Attention podcast Brittany and Jeannetta discuss style in light of Miciah Bay Gault's craft essay on style (link below) and the influence our real and adopted selves have on the form and content of the work we create. They jointly work on the exercise offered in Gault's essay to write on loss in the style of another writer.   Craft essay referenced in this episode is “I Craft Therefore I am Creating Persona Through Syntax and Style” by Miciah Bay Gault, accessible here: https://hungermtn.org/i-craft-therefore-i-am-creating-persona-through-syntax-and-style/ Kurt Vonnegut essay on style, https://kmh-lanl.hansonhub.com/pc-24-66-vonnegut.pdf  John Keene, https://lithub.com/john-keene-elements-of-literary-style/  Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon James Baldwin,  Giovanni's Room, Another Country George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain Poor Things, https://www.searchlightpictures.com/poor-things/  The Lobster, https://a24films.com/films/the-lobster  Lighthouse classes can be found here: The Earley Scale, check out more about it here: https://brevitymag.com/craft-essays/going-cold/ Mark Doty, The Art of Description: World into Word Donna Tartt  The Write Attention S2E2 with Amelia Ihshak, The Emerging Reader in All of Us, https://writeattention.podbean.com/e/the-emerging-reader-in-all-of-us/  Ward Farnsworth, Classical English Style, https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/49831663  William Carlos Williams Lidia Yuknavitch Corporeal Writing: https://www.corporealwriting.com/about-corporeal and https://youtu.be/o9pUjixyWI4?si=4u4VaF4gE_N3yYsT Toni Ann Johnson Jhumpa Lahiri, The Interpreter of Maladies

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 762, my conversation with author John Keene about his poetry collection Punks, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2022. The episode first aired on March 9, 2022. Keene is a writer, translator, professor, and artist who was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018. In 1989, Keene joined the Dark Room Writers Collective, and is a Graduate Fellow of the Cave Canem Writers Workshops. He 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. Keene is the recipient of many awards and fellowships--including the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Whiting Foundation Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and the American Book Award. He teaches at Rutgers University-Newark. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Keene (winner of a 2018 Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction) talks with Prize Director Michael Kelleher about Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's 2021 Prix Goncourt-winning novel The Most Secret Memory of Men, the joys of a shaggy dog story, the power of the sublime, and the limits of knowledge. Reading list:  The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, tr. by Laura Vergnaud • Blackouts by Justin Torres • Bound to Violence by Yambo Ouologuem • Roberto Bolaño • Clarice Lispector John Keene is a writer, translator, professor, and artist who was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018. His latest book, Punks: New and Selected Poems, won the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry. In 1989, Keene joined the Dark Room Writers Collective, and is a Graduate Fellow of the Cave Canem Writers Workshops. He 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. Keene is the recipient of many awards and fellowships—including the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Whiting Foundation Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and the American Book Award. He teaches at Rutgers University-Newark.

Today's poem is Alain Locke in Stoughton Hall by John Keene. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today's dramatic monologue reminds me that poets are also archivists, storytellers who celebrate the past. We go beyond our self as subject matter to become humanity's finest chroniclers.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

John Keene is the Founder and CEO of serviceminder, a platform for managing and operating home services brands. In this episode John and KJ highlight the importance of quick response times in securing sales and emphasizes the need for automation and cohesive tools in franchise businesses.   Key Takeaways: The importance of automating the production pipeline in franchise businesses Common challenges and opportunities in the service industry The benefits of franchising for service-based businesses How to onboard new franchisees simply and easily Quote of the Show (27:00): “We started to solve problems that franchisers were having by reducing the friction for them to onboard new franchisees.” – John Keene   Join our Anti-PR newsletter where we're keeping a watchful and clever eye on PR trends, PR fails, and interesting news in tech so you don't have to. You're welcome.   Want PR that actually matters? Get 30 minutes of expert advice in a fast-paced, zero-nonsense session from Karla Jo Helms, a veteran Crisis PR and Anti-PR Strategist who knows how to tell your story in the best possible light and get the exposure you need to disrupt your industry. Click here to book your call: https://info.jotopr.com/free-anti-pr-eval   Ways to connect with John Keene: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndkeene/    Twitter: https://twitter.com/dallasprsguy Company Website: https://serviceminder.io/ Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/serviceminderio/   How to get more Disruption/Interruption:  Amazon Music - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/eccda84d-4d5b-4c52-ba54-7fd8af3cbe87/disruption-interruption   Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/disruption-interruption/id1581985755  Google Play - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cub21ueWNvbnRlbnQuY29tL2QvcGxheWxpc3QvODE5NjRmY2EtYTQ5OC00NTAyLThjZjktYWI3YzAwMmRiZTM2LzNiZTZiNzJhLWEzODItNDhhNS04MDc5LWFmYTAwMTI2M2FiNi9kZDYzMGE4Mi04ZGI4LTQyMGUtOGNmYi1hZmEwMDEyNjNhZDkvcG9kY2FzdC5yc3M= Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6yGSwcSp8J354awJkCmJlD Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/show/disruption-interruptionSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good morning! Today I sit across the table from John Keene of Bowtreader, a family-owned and operated company all archery and the sport of taking down game with a bow and arrow. John will talk about how he found himself in this niche industry, the appeal of personalized bow-and-arrow kits compared to standard rifle hunting, the role of faith his his everyday decision-making, and a smattering of other topics! Come for the hunting talk, stay to see us cordially butt heads on the concept of workaholism!Thanks for tuning in! Let's get Up and Adam!Find more about Bowtreader here:https://bowtreader.com/https://www.facebook.com/bowtreader/https://www.instagram.com/bowtreader/?hl=enhttps://www.tiktok.com/@bowtreaderThe UKnowAdamTsang podcast spotlights both veteran and budding entrepreneurs -- especially those local to the Savannah/Statesboro region. We aim to inspire and educate business owners, those who are looking to turn their "side hustle" into something more, and those who simply want to peer into the minds of the adventurous risk-takers who have fun stories to share!Follow UKnowAdamTsang on Social!https://www.adamtsang.comhttps://www.instagram.com/uknowadamtsang/https://www.facebook.com/uknowadamtsang/https://www.linkedin.com/in/uknowadamtsang/https://open.spotify.com/show/3Z4FPVzEh3M9dBQ5YWMhAH?si=gec-DJCjSoiplCDM1veFWw

Get ready for IFA 2023 and other big events this spring! Abby Fogel of Unleashed Brands, Diane Phibbs of Franchise Update Media, Ali Kraus from Benetrends, and John Keene of Serviceminder join podcast host Jack Monson to discuss planning schedules, CFE, keynotes, swag, and "renting" a booth. Plus, we look ahead at other events on your calendar including the Multi-Unit Franchising Conference, FCXC, and more. And this crew shares their best travel tips on booking, having a great travel buddy, and just what's the deal with packing cubes?   Thanks AnswerConnect, Source, Northeast Color, and Hughes.

In this special episode, Connor and Jack discuss the 2022 National Book Awards — the long list, the finalists, and the winner "Punks: New and Selected Poems" by John Keene. They read and explore a marvelous poem from the collection, "Folks Are Right, My Nose Was Wide Open," which also appeared in BOMB Magazine. Listen to the National Book Awards Award Ceremony, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hNtsKasx5U&ab_channel=NationalBookFoundation Get Punks here: https://the-song-cave.com/products/punks-by-john-keene Folks Are Right, My Nose Was Wide Open By: John Keene Folks are right: my nose is wide open. I left one man and fell for this one, he's not the one, so what am I to do? I don't. Instead, I stand in the doorway of the New Age café on Newbury Street waiting for Kevin, because we're going to talk about poems. All the poems I haven't written, because I spend my waking hours talking about them, reading the work of others, trying to remake myself as Essex Hemphill or Neruda or Celan. For example, I can't write poems about this crazy dude I'm seeing, how he writhes in bed like a loose hose when he comes, how he stands for hours in front of the mirror admiring and caressing his muscles, saying nothing but “Looking good,” the yelps he serves up when I enter him. I don't write poems about how he silences me with certain looks, his lies about being from “Black money,” how he laughs at the serious things I say. How often when I'm with him I feel more alone than the hardest years of high school. Rather, I write down lines towards poems, abstract pronouncements about unhappiness and being scared and unknown and misunderstood and death, which makes me think I'm addressing the problem. Love is a dream where both of us are trying, at the same speed, without quitting. Then Kevin shows up, and I'm not so sure, because before I can get a word in about my plight, before I can pass today's halfstarts and failures across the table, he starts telling me about last night's fight with his girlfriend. Check out episodes of Close Talking on YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCCCSpjZcN1hIsG4aDrT3ouw Find us on Facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking 
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Today's guest Dionne Brand, to borrow the words of John Keene, “is without question one of the major living poets in the English language.” Kamau Brathwaite called Brand “our first major exile female poet.” Adrienne Rich described her as “a cultural critic of uncompromising courage, an artist in language and ideas, and an intellectual conscience […] The post Dionne Brand : Nomenclature — New and Collected Poems appeared first on Tin House.

John Keene is the founder of Serviceminder and joins the show today to discuss applying technology to your workflows and why it's more important for franchise systems than for any other kind of business. John also shares his thoughts how technology is beyond being “just for operations” but must be used for improving the customer experience and managing the brand experience. We'll also discuss trends in the home service industry and applying technology to solve current challenges like staffing, inflation, and travel costs. Social Geek Radio is a proud supporter of the International Franchise Association's VetFran!

In this exclusive interview with John Keene, Co-Founder of Service Minder, we discuss his home service platform, which helps businesses manage and operate franchises more effectively. He highlights how the platform helps businesses to communicate with clients more effectively, as well as helping them to schedule more appointments and close more deals, among other topics. Keep listening to learn more! Visit Service Minder Website: https://serviceminder.io/ Service Minder Contact Phone: 888.493.9995 Email: support@serviceminder.io Want to have a franchise specialist support you day-to-day in you franchise search/ analysis? Click here for more information: https://www.vettedbiz.com/franchise-search/ Tired of your job? Thinking of starting or buying a business? Take our Biz Quiz to filter through over 10,000 business opportunities today! https://www.vettedbiz.com/quiz-test/ 00:00 Introduction 00:34 Q&A – How did you get into the space of developing software for home service franchises? 05:28 Q&A – Did you raise capital or how were you surviving? 05:51 Q&A – How did you come across realizing that you were a franchisee once? 07:30 Q&A – How is your ideal first point of contact? 09:55 Q&A – Are you doing much benchmarking? 11:34 Q&A – Do you see any key traits of your top-performing clients? 15:20 Q&A – Is there another bucket? 16:21 Q&A – Are there any best practices that you would be comfortable sharing? 21:30 Benefit of a Franchise System 23:37 Benefits of Service Minder Platform for the Franchise Market 24:18 Q&A – Do you have a relationship at the owner level? 25:54 Q&A – How do the best franchisees get onboarded fast and really benefit from your platform? 27:51 Q&A – Do you work hand in hand with the franchisor's IT department? 30:58 Q&A – Any concluding thoughts for franchisors and franchise suppliers? #ServiceMinderFranchise #FranchiseFindings If you are looking for more information, you can connect with us through our networks: https://www.vettedbiz.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/vettedbiz/ https://www.facebook.com/vettedbiz

There's no better bowhunting practice than 3D archery, from learning how to accurately estimate yardage and understand shot angles to becoming more familiar with game-animal anatomy and handling high-pressure shots. In this episode, Brandon Waddell from Mountain Archery Fest and John Keene from the Bowtreader 3D Tour of Georgia join Editor Christian Berg to discuss the many benefits of 3D and highlight some unique shooting opportunities.

John Keene is the author of Punks: New & Selected Poems, available from The Song Cave. Keene is a writer, translator, professor, and artist who was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018. In 1989, Keene joined the Dark Room Writers Collective, and is a Graduate Fellow of the Cave Canem Writers Workshops. He 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.  Keene is the recipient of many awards and fellowships--including the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Whiting Foundation Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and the American Book Award. He teaches at Rutgers University-Newark. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  YouTube Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Punks: New & Selected Poems” is expansive poetry from John Keene, one of our time's most notable writers. Seven sections offer different perspectives on what poetry can be: queer and Black, and much more than that. He joins Bookworm to discuss the difference between his prose and poetry.

In this special episode Tech Spotlight episode Ryan sits down to chat with Service Minder CEO, John Keene.

Recorded by John Keene for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 24, 2021. www.poets.org

On this episode of VOICE, Stephanie Rodriguez speaks with John Keene, author of the award-winning collection Counternarratives and the forthcoming collection Punks. He is a translator of poetry, fiction, and essays from Portuguese, French, and Spanish. He chairs the Department of African American and African Studies, is Distinguished Professor of English and African American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. They discuss language as a superpower, John's unique process as an experimental writer that engages historical context, and the need for more translation of literary works by non-Anglophone black diaspora authors in English. John also shares a moving poetry reading!

Author, translator, professor and MacArthur Fellow John Keene joins the show to talk about how voices are found and how they're erased. We get into how Benedictine monks started him on the road to translation, which languages he wishes he had, the perils of knowing just enough of a language to get in trouble, and how translation trains one to let go of ego. We discuss his amazing but uncharacterizable fiction collection, Counternarratives (New Directions), along with his powerful essay, Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness, and how to explore Black representation across cultural boundaries. We also get into the performative aspects of BLM by corporations and institutions and would it would take to transform into real change, the impact of his MacArthur "genius" grant, why he's trying to move away from Counternarratives' narrative density in his new work, and more. Follow John on Twitter and Instagram and harass him about blogging more • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

Translated from the Portuguese by John Keene.A Poem A Day by Sudhanva Deshpande.Read on September 17, 2020.Art by Virkein Dhar.Signature tune by M.D. Pallavi.

Many of opera’s greatest and most overwhelming moments happen thanks to the chorus. Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean introduces many of the typical functions of the opera chorus, such as saluting a leader, singing in praise—or fear—of God, providing local color, intensifying the drama, and embodying the multitude. Musical excerpts from three decades of Seattle Opera productions feature the work of Seattle Opera Chorus Masters George Fiore, Beth Kirchoff, and John Keene, in Seattle Opera’s 2015 Nabucco, 2012 Turandot, 2000 Boris Godunov, 2015 Semele, 2007 Iphigénie en Tauride, 2019 Il trovatore, 2014 Tales of Hoffmann, 2013 La bohème, 2011 Porgy and Bess, 1998 Faust, 1994 Lohengrin, 1994 Norma, 2007 Flying Dutchman, 2012 Fidelio, 1989 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and 1990 War and Peace, plus a Decca recording of Die Entführung aus dem Serail conducted by Sir Georg Solti, the Leipzig Radio Chorus and Staatskapelle Dresden performing the Tannhäuser Pilgrims’ Chorus conducted by Silvio Varviso, and the Decca recording of Peter Grimes conducted by Benjamin Britten.

Christian Kiefer had great reservations about writing his beautiful new book, PHANTOMS. He tells James how he found the story, and the steps he took to tell it. They also talk about capturing bear consciousness, being haunted by one's own work, finding joy in music and writing, and those troublesome flugelhornists. And then our old friend Christopher Boucher discusses his new novel, BIG GIANT FLOATING HEAD.  - Christian Kiefer: https://www.facebook.com/christian.kiefer.9/ Buy PHANTOMS: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780871404817 Also by: THE INFINITE TIDES, THE ANIMALS, ONE DAY SOON TIME WILL HAVE NO PLACE LEFT TO HIDE.  Christian and James discuss:  Matt Salesses  MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA by Arthur Golden  SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson  Jamil Zaki  Deena Drewis  Nouvella Books  ORIENTALISM by Edward Said  CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM by Edward Said  NOTHING EVER DIES by Viet Thanh Nguyen  Vintage Contemporaries  Tobias Wolff  Robert Stone  Richard Ford  Tim O'Brien  SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron  ABSALOM, ABSALOM by William Faulkner  Henry James  Nathaniel Hawthorne  Emile Zola  Lauren Groff  San Francisco Zoo  GHOST TANTRAS by Michael McClure  Benjamin Percy  Ingmar Bergman  Andrei Tarkovsky  THE WHITE DEATH by Gabriel Urza THE LAST REPATRIATE by Matthew Salesses  THE SENSUALIST by Daniel Torday  HOW TO SHAKE THE OTHER MAN by Derek Palacio  IF YOU'RE NOT YET LIKE ME by Eden Lepucki  FLY-OVER STATE by Emma Straub  A FAMILIAR BEAST by Panio Gianopoulos Miles Davis  John Coltrane  WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS, Lawrence English Nicholas Brittell  THE DISINTEGRATION LOOPS, William Basinksi  Lyle Lovett  George Jones JESUS' SON by Denis Johnson PURE HOLLYWOOD by Christine Schutt  Barry Hannah  GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING (documentary)  John Keene  Magnolia Electric Company  Jason Molina  CANADA by Richard Ford  Sewanee  - Christopher Boucher: http://www.christopherboucher.net/ Buy BIG GIANT FLOATING HEAD: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781612197579 Also by: HOW TO KEEP YOUR VOLKSWAGEN ALIVE, GOLDEN DELICIOUS.  James and Christopher discuss:  Melville House  Kurt Vonnegut  THE PARIS REVIEW  Ben Greenman  Boston College  Oregon State  "People Like That Are The Only People Here" by Lorrie Moore  "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor  "Araby" by James Joyce  Looney Tunes  Elmer Fudd Bugs Bunny  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

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.

“I felt myself in translation all the time.” Podcast Editor Layla Benitez-James sits down via Google Hangouts with poet and translator Aaron Coleman in this third and final installment of interviews inspired by John Keene’s essay Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness. In October’s conversation with Keene and our previous podcast with Lawrence Schimel, we explored the more radical social possibilities of […]

Joanna Robinson and Richard Lawson discuss "Cherry" the sixth episode of the HBO original series Sharp Objects. The mystery deepens. John Keene gets taunted. Jackie is questioned. Camille and Amma spend some quality time together. This week's interview is actor Eliza Scanlen who discusses roller skating and making "nice girl Amma" different from rebellious Amma. Interview begins at 1 hour, 15 minutes. Spoilers begin at 1 hour, 40 minutes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“In Counternarratives, John Keene undertakes a kind of literary counterarchaeology, a series of fictions that challenge our notion of what constitutes ‘real’ or ‘accurate’ history. His writing is at turns playful and erudite, lyric and coldly diagnostic, but always completely absorbing. Counternarratives could easily be compared to Borges or Bolaño, Calvino or Kiš.”—Jess Row “Keene’s […] The post John Keene : Counternarratives, Playland, and Grind appeared first on Tin House.

In this week’s episode,  I am delighted to bring you my lively and engaging interview with the poet and novelist, John Keene. In this wide-ranging conversation we discuss his early artistic pursuits, encouraged by his parents, towards drawing, visual art, and writing, the writers who mentored him, and his long-standing fascination with African diasporic history. […] The post EP 07 Poet and Novelist John Keene appeared first on Contemporary Black Canvas.

Wednesday Reading Series Paolo Javier is the author of six chapbooks and four full-length collections of poetry, including Court of the Dragon (Nightboat Books, 2015). The former Queens Poet Laureate, he publishes 2ndavepoetry.com, and curates Queens Poet Lore, a roving series set across the borough. The (self-)translating author of more than twenty books, Nathanaël writes in English and French. Her recent works include an essay on untranslatability, Sotto l'immagine (2014), the bilingual score, Sisyphus, Outdone. Theatres of the Catastrophal (2012) and the book of polylingual talks, Asclepias: The Milkweeds (2015). The essay of correspondence, Absence Where As (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book) (2009) was first published in French as L'absence au lieu (2006). Nathanaël's work has been translated into Basque, Greek, Slovene, Spanish (Mexico), with book-length publications in Bulgarian and Portuguese (Brazil), including the imminent Cadernos do meio, after a cycle of French carnets, following their English-language iteration, The Middle Notebookes (2015). Nathanaël's extrinsic translations include works by Édouard Glissant, Catherine Mavrikakis, Danielle Collobert, Hervé Guibert and Hilda Hilst (the latter in collaboration with Rachel Gontijo Araújo). She has also translated a number of poets from the Americas into French, including Trish Salah, John Keene and Rachel Gontijo Araújo. The recipient of the Prix Alain- Grandbois, for …s'arrête? Je, Nathanaël's translation of Murder by Danielle Collobert was a finalist for a Best Translated Book Award. Her translation of The Mausoleum of Lovers by Hervé Guibert was recognized by fellowships from the PEN American Center and the Centre National du Livre de France. Having permanently relinquished her prior names (Nathalie and Stephens), Nathanaël lives in Chicago.

John Keene takes classic American narratives and stands them on their heads. In North and South American tales, he writes about the "others" (Indians, blacks, queers) to re-examine stories we think we know. 

Ranging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives' novellas and stories draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present.In "Rivers," a free Jim meets up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn. "An Outtake" chronicles an escaped slave's fate in the American Revolution. "On Brazil, or Denouement" burrows deep into slavery and sorcery in early colonial South America, and in "Blues" the great poets Langston Hughes and Xavier Villaurrutia meet in Depression-era New York and share more than secrets.John Keene is a former member of the Dark Room Writers Collective, a graduate fellow of Cave Canem, and the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including a Whiting Foundation Prize for fiction. He is associate professor of African American and African Studies at Rutgers University. Keene is the author of the award-winning novel Annotations.Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a generous grant from PNC Bank.

Ranging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives' novellas and stories draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present.In "Rivers," a free Jim meets up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn. "An Outtake" chronicles an escaped slave's fate in the American Revolution. "On Brazil, or Denouement" burrows deep into slavery and sorcery in early colonial South America, and in "Blues" the great poets Langston Hughes and Xavier Villaurrutia meet in Depression-era New York and share more than secrets.John Keene is a former member of the Dark Room Writers Collective, a graduate fellow of Cave Canem, and the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including a Whiting Foundation Prize for fiction. He is associate professor of African American and African Studies at Rutgers University. Keene is the author of the award-winning novel Annotations.Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a generous grant from PNC Bank.Recorded On: Wednesday, September 30, 2015