Podcasts about jorie graham

The Breaking Form broads recount their poetic travels abroad in this Season 3 opener.Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.NOTES:The David Hockney retrospective in Paris is on view until August 31. For more about his painting "Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy," click here.For more about Hockney and the Muse, read "David Hockney's Literary Influences" For a map that names the regions comprising Italy, go here. Jorie Graham's poem "San Sepolcro" first appeared in Erosion, and it concerns Piero della Francesca's iconic fresco "Madonna del Porto," on view at the Musei Civici Madonna del Parto, in the tiny Umbrian village of Monterchi, Italy. (In fact, the only work on view at the museum is the Madonna, which is worth the trip).For more about Civitella Ranieri, visit https://civitella.org, and follow them on Instagram @civitellaranieri or on Facebook. Civitella livestreams presentations by these world-class artists on IG Live.

Não seria mau se, em vez de João e Maria, na lista dos nomes mais populares dados aos recém-nascidos surgissem nos próximos anos Greta e Luigi, em honra a essas figuras capazes de nos despertar para o escândalo do nosso modo de vida. Antes que nos seja possível reconhecer a necessidade do regresso da vingança como parte activa e meio de restituição do “princípio de coesão íntima do mundo” (Goethe), devemos começar por reconhecer como fomos expropriados dos elementos mediais, como não somos hoje capazes de produzir nem ecos nem reflexos, de obter uma representação da nossa experiência, configurando as virtudes e os modelos de existência humana que nos parecem adequados a habitarmos a terra de forma digna. “Há uma razão para vivermos encarnados”, como assinala a poeta Jorie Graham. “Aquilo  que identificamos como o entorpecimento da vida quotidiana talvez não seja mais da nossa sensação de incapacidade de formarmos experiências a partir das vidas que levamos, uma vez que estas em grande medida contornam o uso da panóplia de sentidos a que chamamos corpo, viciados como estamos nos ecrãs e nos atalhos sensoriais, nessas simplificações excessivas e que são próprias da realidade virtual. Não há nenhuma ideia cuja veracidade possa ser aferida se não passar pelos sentidos. Referimo-nos amiúde àquilo que mais nos une numa experiência partilhada como o nosso “senso comum”. Este era ou foi o nosso detector de mentiras.” Hoje sentimo-nos a viver existências degradadas ou demasiado parciais porque passamos a vida a tentar filtrar presunções fraudulentas, simulacros que induzem em nós esse estado de confusão e compram a nossa passividade por meio de vantagens materiais. Neste contexto, a própria moral é uma falsificação, pelo que aquilo que se exige de nós são todos os actos possíveis e imaginários de traição, em que cada instante significa um instante fatal, uma contradição activa no sentido que lhe dá Sarte, e que institui o tempo do rapto, da passagem, desse movimento do que se recusa a criar uma imagem fixa da vida. “Trair deriva do termo latim Tradere, que significa entregar, fazer passar, que, por acréscimo, veio a designar: abandonar, denunciar, desertar. Uma deslocação que implica uma fractura na ordem de pertença, uma ruptura no tempo.” Quando tudo ao nosso redor contribui para a estigmatização de actos de rebeldia, até de autodefesa, cumpre-nos corporizar essa expressão monstruosa que manifesta um repúdio inequívoco pelos aparelhos repressivos cada vez mais omnipresentes, e desde logo por superar todos esses impedimentos feitos de inércia, tabus e conformismo, recuperando a dignidade e a memória das lutas passadas, ao mesmo tempo que criamos “as nossas próprias leituras e narrativas, independentes daquelas ditadas pelas instituições e pelos meios de comunicação” (Rolando D'Alessandro). A partir do momento em que constatamos que vivemos hoje subjugados a esse impiedoso estado de excepção regulado de acordo com as necessidades dos mercados, num processo de financeirização coerciva de todos os planos da existência, somos levados a reconhecer que as situações político-morais que enfrentamos foram inteiramente deslegitimadas. E, como nos diz Sloterdjik, chegado esse momento, o que se chama existente deve ser sujeito a uma profunda revisão e, eventualmente, demolição. “Assim sendo, haveria que traduzir algo diferentemente a fórmula militante de Sartre para o século XX, ‘on a raison de se révolter': quem tem razão não é aquele que se revolta contra a ordem existente, mas o que se vinga dela.” “No que diz respeito às implicações dos estados de excepção vingadores, o nosso estudo deve começar pela questão de saber de que maneira se pode pensar a transformação da cólera agura em vingança aplicada”, adianta o filósofo alemão. Agora sim era preciso que cada um de nós se solidarizasse com Magione no momento em este apertou o gatilho para sacudir deste mundo o CEO da UnitedHealthcare. “Os nossos carrascos  criaram-nos maus costumes”, eis uma constatação desgostosa de Grachus Babeus de que se serve Simone de Beauvoir parareconhecer o elemento de degradação moral a que os franceses se viram conduzidos durante o período da ocupação. “Também nós, em face dos traidores que eram seus cúmplices, vimos brotar nos nossos corações sentimentos venenosos, de que nunca tínhamos saboreado o gosto. No ensaio “Olho por olho”, ela frisa que a partir do momento em que um homem se aplica a degradar de forma deliberada outro, tratando-o como uma coisa, e fazendo-o para seu proveito, “faz rebentar na terra um escândalo que nada pode compensar; é o único pecado contra o homem, mas desde que se cometeu nenhuma indulgência é permitida e pertence a qualquer homem o direito de o punir”. E noutro momento, acrescenta: “É necessário punir sem ódio, dizem-nos. Mas eu creio que é precisamente aí que reside o erra da justiça oficial. A morte é um acontecimento real e concreto e não a realização de um rito. (…) Renunciando à vingança, a sociedade renuncia a ligar por um liame concreto o crime ao castigo e este só aparece então como um tributo arbitrariamente imposto.” Neste episódio, Luhuna Carvalho abandonou o seu retiro na montanha para se juntar a nós num esforço de forma a reconhecermos como este velho mundo voltou a rasgar os seus caminhos para a cólera, devolvendo-nos um exemplo que denunciar a forma como continuamos a defender-nos do culto dos heróis à antiga, servindo-nos do efeito esterilizador das aspas da cultura histórica.

"I am a frequency, current flies through." – Jorie Graham, "Ebbtide", 2001

Snap INTO it, girlarina! The queens re-cast Cher movies with poets.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.SHOW NOTES:Read Patricia Smith's "Incendiary Art."Here's Cher's cover of “Shoop Shoop (It's in His Kiss)." And here's Merry Clayton's version.Cher starred in the movie Mask, which was released in 1985. Mask won the Academy Award for Best Makeup at the 58th ceremony, while Cher and Stoltz received Golden Globe Award nominations for their performances. Watch the scene where Rusty Dennis (Cher) barges into a high school to fight for her son. The director, when asked a question about the most difficult actor he'd worked with, replied it was Cher. If you haven't read Mary Oliver's "The Summer Day," go here.For more about the Future Library, read an article here. One of Jorie Graham's poems that make James cry is "At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body." Read Marie Ponsot's poem "Language Acquisition"You can read Jericho Brown's iconic poem "Track 5: Summertime" here. Or watch a video of him reading it here.Here's the trailer for The Witches of Eastwick, which is also a 1984 novel by John Updike.Read Sandra Beasley's blog here. Listen to Beasley read her poem "Peaches" (first published in Cherry Tree).Read more about Rigoberto González here. Cher was just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Watch her induction speech and a live performance of "Believe" here. 

Chopsy Gutowski talks with Roxi Power about her powerful poems freshly submitted for her MFA thesis. As friends who have been writing together in Santa Cruz for years, Chopsy and Roxi laugh and dig in, plumbing the lyrical depths of Gutowski's eco-poetry, elegies, and political poetry. Mining the difficult moves in Jorie Graham's book,To 2040, Gutowski invites us to inhabit the present moment, however painful, to find healing and joy. She believes poems have a life of their own with a potential to honor and change the course of our lives as they conjure what is possible for our future. Chopsy Gutowski is a poet, improv artist, and early childhood specialist who is completing her MFA in Creative Writing at Pacific University. She lives in Santa Cruz in the midst of redwoods and seasonal visits from Swainson's thrushes. In the past month, she has read for the Poetry and Music in the Parks series in Santa Cruz County and the annual Santa Cruz "In Celebration of the Muse" reading. Her muse instructs her: “excavate what's hidden beneath the everyday, peer into things until they give up their ghosts, then go further.”

He's a poet, art critic, curator, translator, cultural theorist -- and someone who helps make sense of our world. Ranjit Hoskote joins Amit Varma in episode 363 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about his life, his times and his work. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Ranjit Hoskote on Twitter, Instagram and Amazon. 2. Jonahwhale -- Ranjit Hoskote. 3. Hunchprose -- Ranjit Hoskote. 4. I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Dĕd -- Translated by Ranjit Hoskote. 5. Poet's nightmare -- Ranjit Hoskote. 6. State of enrichment -- Ranjit Hoskote. 7. Nissim Ezekiel, AK Ramanujan, Arun Kolatkar, Keki Daruwalla, Dom Moraes, Dilip Chitre, Gieve Patel, Vilas Sarang, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Agha Shahid Ali, Mani Rao, Mustansir Dalvi, Jerry Pinto, Sampurna Chattarji, Vivek Narayanan and Arundhathi Subramaniam. 8. Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, Sharon Olds, Louise Glück, Jorie Graham and Rita Dove. 9. The Life and Times of Shanta Gokhale — Episode 311 of The Seen and the Unseen. 10. The Life and Times of Jerry Pinto — Episode 314 of The Seen and the Unseen. 11. कुँवर नारायण, केदारनाथ सिंह, अशोक वाजपेयी and नागार्जुन. 12. Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Bismillah Khan, Igor Straviksky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Steve Reich and Terry Riley. 13. Palgrave's Golden Treasury: From Shakespeare to the Present. 14. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 15. Sara Rai Inhales Literature — Episode 255 of The Seen and the Unseen. 16. The Art of Translation — Episode 168 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Arunava Sinha). 17. Arun Khopkar, Mani Kaul and Clement Greenberg. 18. Stalker -- Andrei Tarkovsky. 19. The Sacrifice -- Andrei Tarkovsky. 20. Ivan's Childhood -- Andrei Tarkovsky. 21. The Color of Pomegranates -- Sergei Parajanov. 22. Ranjit Hoskote's tribute on Instagram to Gieve Patel. 23. Father Returning Home -- Dilip Chitre. 24. Jejuri -- Arun Kolatkar. 25. Modern Poetry in Translation -- Magazine and publisher founded by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort. 26. On Exactitude in Science — Jorge Luis Borges. 27. How Music Works — David Byrne. 28. CBGB. 29. New York -- Lou Reed. 30. How This Nobel Has Redefined Literature — Amit Varma on Dylan winning the Nobel Prize. 31. The Fire and the Rain -- Girish Karnad. 32. Vanraj Bhatia on Wikipedia and IMDb. 33. Amit Varma's tweet thread on Jonahwhale. 34. Magic Fruit: A Poetic Trip -- Vaishnav Vyas. 35. Glenn Gould on Spotify. 36. Danish Husain and the Multiverse of Culture -- Episode 359 of The Seen and the Unseen. 37. Steven Fowler. 38. Serious Noticing -- James Wood. 39. How Fiction Works -- James Wood. 40. The Spirit of Indian Painting -- BN Goswamy. 41. Conversations -- BN Goswamy. 42. BN Goswamy on Wikipedia and Amazon. 43. BN Goswamy (1933-2023): Sage and Sensitivity -- Ranjit Hoskote. 44. Joseph Fasano's thread on his writing exercises. 45. Narayan Surve on Wikipedia and Amazon. 46. Steven Van Zandt: Springsteen, the death of rock and Van Morrison on Covid — Richard Purden. 47. 1000 True Fans — Kevin Kelly. 48. 1000 True Fans? Try 100 — Li Jin. 49. Future Shock -- Alvin Toffler. 50. The Third Wave -- Alvin Toffler. 51. The Long Tail -- Chris Anderson. 52. Ranjit Hoskote's resignation letter from the panel of Documenta. 53. Liquid Modernity -- Zygmunt Bauman. 54. Rahul Matthan Seeks the Protocol -- Episode 360 of The Seen and the Unseen. 55. Panopticon. 56. Tron -- Steven Lisberger. 57. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul. 58. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul). 59. Ramchandra Gandhi on Wikipedia and Amazon. 60. Majma-ul-Bahrain (also known as Samudra Sangam Grantha) -- Dara Shikoh. 61. Early Indians — Tony Joseph. 62. Tony Joseph's episode on The Seen and the Unseen. 63. Who We Are and How We Got Here — David Reich. 64. पुराण स्थल. 65. The Indianness of Indian Food — Episode 95 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vikram Doctor). 66. The Refreshing Audacity of Vinay Singhal — Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen. 67. The Speaking Tree: A Study of Indian Culture and Society -- Richard Lannoy. 68. Clifford Geertz, John Berger and Arthur C Danto. 69. The Ascent of Man (book) (series) -- Jacob Bronowski. 70. Civilization (book) (series) -- Kenneth Clark. 71. Cosmos (book) (series) -- Carl Sagan. 72. Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, Stephen Jay Gould and Oliver Sacks. 73. Raag Darbari (Hindi) (English) — Shrilal Shukla.. 74. Raag Darbari on Storytel. 75. Krishnamurti's Notebook -- J Krishnamurty. 76. Shame -- Salman Rushdie. 77. Marcovaldo -- Italo Calvino. 78. Metropolis -- Fritz Lang. 79. Mahanagar -- Satyajit Ray. 80. A Momentary Lapse of Reason -- Pink Floyd. 81. Learning to Fly -- Pink Floyd, 82. Collected poems -- Mark Strand. Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new video podcast. Check out Everything is Everything on YouTube. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! Episode art: ‘Dancing in Chains' by Simahina.

Peripheries Journal: A Journal of Word, Image, and Sound is celebrating the release of Issue 6. This 2024 edition includes work from Victoria Chang, Angie Estes, Aracelis Girmay, Joanna Klink, Sam Messer, Geoffrey Nutter, Sharon Olds, Alice Oswald, Rowan Ricardo Philips, Tracy K. Smith and many more. General pages are joined by a folio, “Anti-Letters,” that comprises the “personal” writings (ephemera, letters, lists, notes, recordings, photographs etc.) of poets such as Cody-Rose Clevidence, David Grubbs, Susan Howe, Jill Magi, and Jane Miller, among others. This year's publication featured readings from Victoria Chang, Jorie Graham, and Alice Oswald. This event took place November 30, 2023. For more information, https://hds.harvard.edu/ A transcript is forthcoming.

Write with the Breaking Form queens before we play a game of poetry homonyms.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. You can read more about and poems by Thomas Centolella here. The poems we mention in "Homonyms" are:"Yellowjackets" by Kimiko Hahn"Nothing Gentle Will Remain" by CA Conrad "Disillusion" by Langston Hughes"Peach" by D.H. Lawrence "Forgiveness, Perhaps" by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello. At the link, you can also read my favorite of Marci's poem "Even America's Dearest Underdog." Visit her website to read more of her fabulous work!"Reading to My Father" by Jorie Graham"What It Look Like" by Terrance HayesJames references the movie Desperado in his poem "Villain" in Romantic Comedy.The Todd Haynes quote we reference in tandem with Terrance Hayes's poem, is from I'm Not There, written by the director. 

The queens leave you breathless in antici....pation with this crafty episode focused on enjambed lines.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie bookselling cooperative.Read Susan Mitchell's poem "The Dead" which is indeed in her first book, The Water Inside the Water (Wesleyan, 1983 and reprinted by Harper Perennial, 1994).Here's the text of "Wake" by Tess Gallagher. You can watch her read the poem and a few others here (she reads "Wake" around the 11:10 mark)Carl Phillips's poem "The Gods Leaving" is in his book Pastoral (Graywolf, 2002)For the receipts regarding Miley Cyrus and Vickie Lawrence, or to read more from that interview, go here. Read the start of Jorie Graham's essay "Some Notes on Silence" which James quotes in the episode.You can read Andrea Cohen's poem "Ghosting" in the Atlantic if the spirit moves you.Here's a link to read Jane Mead's "In Need of a World" (from The Lord and the General Din of the World)Jean Valentine's poem "This Side" appears in her book Little Boat. 

This week, Cindy Juyoung Ok speaks with Kimiko Hahn, who won the 2023 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and who is featured in the October 2023 issue of Poetry. Hahn talks about how her work has changed over the years, including her current love of form, and how she's been mentoring her younger self while putting together her forthcoming new and selected, The Ghost Forest (W.W. Norton). She also discusses being wrong about Elizabeth Bishop, not getting an MFA, and what it was like studying at the University of Iowa as an undergraduate while the graduate program was filled with now-canonical poets like Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, Tess Gallagher, and others. Hahn shares two of her incredible poems from the October issue with listeners.

Get vasodilated with the queens in this episode filled with heady poetry games.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit Hub, Rebecca Morgan Frank says the poems have "a gift for telling stories . . .  in acts of queer survival." Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie bookselling cooperative.Watch fabulously messy Willam Belli, from RuPaul's Drag Race and host of the popular game "Poppers Slap," review poppers here.Read this appreciation of Gwendolyn Brooks by Christian Wiman.Watch Sharon Olds at the National Book Awards 2022 finalist reading (~5 min). Louise Glück's most recent book is Marigold and Rose: A Fiction, a 64-page fablesque novella publishedin 2022 by FSG. Read a review of it here.Carl Phillips reads Linda Gregg's poem “It Is the Rising I Love” from The Paris Review (~2 min). Listen to Jorie Graham read “Why” from To 2040.If you want to read Jack Kerouac's haiku, check them out here.Angelo Nikolopoulos's website is https://www.angelonikolopoulos.com. Catch a reading with Angelo, Jameson Fitzpatrick, and Monica McClure here.

Jorie Graham's first appearance on the show in 2021, to discuss her collection Runaway, is one of the most relistened to episodes in the show's history, a conversation that, with each revisitation, seems to reveal something new about how to will oneself into presence as an artist and as a human. And it is a […] The post Jorie Graham : To 2040 appeared first on Tin House.

Today's poem is Poem by Jorie Graham. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “As readers of poetry, we get to engage with and listen to the mind of a poet who, in the normal course of a day, we might not casually encounter. For this reason, I treasure the anonymity of the page. We meet the speaker in the poem on their own terms without any preconceived notions.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Hello to you listening in Columbia, South Carolina!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga.I want to give a shout out to Tania Marien of TalaTerra  and all the many global folks behind The Carbon Almanac effort on their 1 year anniversary. You can easily access all the goodness, the book, the resources and more with a link in the Episode Notes.]Meanwhile, here are the opening lines of a poem by Jorie Graham reminding us it's not too late - if we pay attention and act:The earth saidremember me.      The earth saiddon't let go, said it one daywhen I wasaccidentallylistening, I heard it, I felt itlike temperature,all said in awhisper—build to- morrow, make right be-fall, you are notfree, other scenesare not taking place, time is not filled,time is not late, there isa thing the emptinessneeds as you need emptiness, itshrinks from light again &again, although all thingsare present, a fact a day abird that warps thearithmetic of per-fection with its arc, passing again &again in the eveningair, in the pre-vailing wind, making no mistake—yr in-difference is yrprincipal beautythe mind says all the time—I hear it—Ihear it every-where. The earthsaid remember me. I am theearth it said. Re-member me. " (~ Jorie Graham; Source Poetry January 2020)You're invited: “Come for the stories - stay for the magic!” Speaking of magic, would you subscribe, share a 5-star rating + nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, and join us next time!Meanwhile, stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website to:✓ Check out What I Offer,✓ Arrange your free Story Start-up Session,✓ Opt In to my monthly Newsletter for your Bonus gift, valuable tips & techniques to enhance your story work, and✓ Stay current with Diane and on LinkedIn.Stories From Women Who Walk Production TeamPodcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 to Present: for credit & attribution Quarter Moon Story Arts

The queens get beachy, play f*ck marry kill with a Pulitzer winner, and fabricate some fab poets' drag names.Support Breaking Form, the spirit so moves you:Review Breaking Form on Apple Podcasts here.  Buy our books:Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Watch Carl Phillips read from Then the War: and Selected Poems, 2007-2020, winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, here (~1 hour).Poets we mention in this extravaganza include:Denise Duhamel, Queen for a DayFrank O'Hara, Lunch PoemsDavid Trinidad, Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera ; Swinging on a StarFranny Choi, Soft Sciencesam sax, MadnessDanez Smith, HomieYou can read a short excerpt of Nin Andrews's The Book of Orgasms at her website here. Jennifer L. Knox, Crushing ItCamille Guthrie, Diamonds                               Michael Dumanis, My Soviet Union Louise GluckYou can watch Jorie Graham's book launch for her newest collection, To 2040, online here (~1 hour).Rita Dove's latest book is Playlist for the Apocalypse. Amy ClampittEmily DickinsonEdgar Allen PoeRobert Lowelle.e. cummingsHenry Wadsworth LongfellowGertrude SteinJohn Donne's reputation as a major poet is now cemented, but it wasn't always so. Donne fell out of fashion for much of the 18th and 19th centuries. Read more about that in Adam Kirsch's review of Katherine Rundell's biography of Donne in the New Yorker, here. Ezra PoundSara Teasdale, whom you can read more about here. Hart CraneRobert FrostWalt WhitmanLucille CliftonThomas HardyJohn KeatsMarilyn Chin's sixth book of poetry, Sage, was released by Norton in May 2023.Mark DotyPatrick Phillips, whose most recent book is Song of the Closing Doors (Knopf, 2022),. Visit Phillips's website.

Ian McMillan presents the first in a series of Verb visits to the future, asking whether we need new words, new plots and new genres to help us think about it creatively. The BBC has signed up to a climate pledge which presents an exciting opportunity for new writing (it is pledging to make sure its visions of the future aren't simply dystopian ones, to recognise other visions, fair and balanced ones, sustainable and informed by the science ). To explore this opportunity we are first joined by the ecological philosopher and green activist Rupert Read to discuss 'thrutopianism', and by the writer and artist Alistair Gentry who has brought his flying saucer along to the studio. In the second half of this show we do a deep time dive into the work of one of America's greatest visionary poets – Jorie Graham - and hear new poetry from her collection 'To 2040' (Carcanet) BBC Climate Change Pledge https://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/news/climate-content-pledge/ Rupert Read https://rupertread.net/ Alistair Gentry https://alistairgentry.net/performance/british-fusion-2022/

The queens get quick (and dirty), summarizing a poet's oeuvre in one sentence.If you'd like to support Breaking Form, please consider buying Aaron's and James's  books (both 2023):Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.When James says that Aaron makes a "Stuck the Landing" flourish, he means the kind of gesture made over and over in this montage of gymnasts sticking the landing!Watch an Elizabeth Bishop documentary here (including interviews with  Bidart,  Strand, Howard Moss, Mary McCarthy, and James Merrill). ~56 min.Watch John Ashbery accept, in delightfully odd fashion, a lifetime achievement award at the 2011 National Book Award here. (~10 min).Here's a 40-min documentary on Robert Frost that's worth watching. Watch this interview with Gwendolyn Brooks (~30 min), courtesy of Maryland's Howard County Poetry and Literature Society (HoCoPoLitSo).Listen to this ~2min recording of Jorie Graham reading her poem "Why" from To 2040 (Copper Canyon Press) here.Watch James Merrill read Bishop's "One Art" and his own "Developers at Crystal River" at the San Francisco Poetry Center in 1980. (~5 min)Watch this interview with Stanley Kunitz, on the occasion of his becoming  Poet Laureate (~20 min).Read Anthony Hecht's poem "More Light! More Light!" which deals centrally with Nazi executions in the Holocaust, or listen to him read the poem (3.5 min) here. We mention two articles about Cummings's anti-Semitism. The review of Susan Cheever's biography is here. The article Aaron mentions is available through J-Stor here. The article (and lost poem) that The Awl published about Cummings can be read here. Eloise Klein Healy's most recent book is A Brilliant Loss, published in 2022 by Red Hen Press and available here. She is the author of 10 books of poetry. Check out her website: https://www.eloisekleinhealy.com. You can read the poem that Celeste Gainey recites on the show, "Asking About You," here. Celese Gainey is the author of The Gaffer, published by Arktoi Books, an imprint of Red Hen Press. You can read more about her and her poetry on her website here.In 1974, Gainey was the first woman to be admitted as a gaffer to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E.). In addition to lighting dozens of documentaries, she worked for such programs as 60 Minutes, ABC Close-Up, and 20/20, as well as on feature films like Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver, and The Wiz.

This session of the radio show shares my conversation with Ted McIntyre, Franklin resident and climate activist via the Zoom conference bridge Thursday, April 6, 2023. In this episode we covered the following topics: Steve & Ted exchange greetingsSteve reads a recent poem he wrote partly in response to the IPCC reportHealy appoints new DPUOil hides behind whales to oppose windHow to be involved locally This discussion continues our journey understanding the MA roadmap toward net zero and while it helps me “make sense of climate”, we hope it helps with your understanding as well. If you have climate questions or Franklin specific climate questions, send them in and we'll try to answer them in a future session. Our recording runs about 49 minutes. Let's listen to my conversation with Ted --------------Links to articles referencedLink to the Jorie Graham article that got me to read my own poemhttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/jorie-graham-poet-to-2040-book/673493/Steve's poem “This Branch” https://www.quietpoet.com/2023/03/this-branch.html What does IPCC mean for MA? https://blog.greenenergyconsumers.org/blog/the-latest-ipcc-report-what-it-means-for-massachusetts-rhode-island Healy appoints new DPUhttps://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/17/science/with-new-commissioners-healey-aims-reshape-an-agency-seen-critical-climate-reforms/ Oil uses astroturf groups to oppose wind https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/05/metro/whale-tales/ “Ministry for the Future” book link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future Miles Howard links as mentionedhttps://massclimateaction.podbean.com/e/day-lighting-a-river-is-good-for-the-city-and-the-soul-the-climate-minute/https://massclimateaction.podbean.com/e/urban-hiking-on-the-frontiers-of-climate-change-the-climate-minute/https://www.bostontrails.org/about.htmlJustin Bean link https://www.justincbean.com/Grid impact of Green hydrogenhttps://static1.squarespace.com/static/634abba43f1e2f4dfd5e07dc/t/6400f4e00845db41f84ddc36/1677784292826/GridImpactofGreenHydrogen+-+3-6-2023.pdfrewilding

by Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham is the subject of the new Nothing But The Poem podcast. The SPL's regular podcast host, Sam Tongue, takes a deep dive into two of Jorie Graham's poems which were discussed at the online monthly meet-up of the Nothing But The Poem group. Jorie Graham and her poetry are difficult to classify. To get some idea of her thinking and poetic process this illuminating interview should help: Jorie Graham Takes The Long View Among many things she's an eco-poet of tremendous power. She's the author of 15 poetry collections, four of which were collected together as [To] The Last [Be] Human. The poems in these 4 books address the ongoing tragedy of humanity's destruction of the natural world and, potentially, our own species. The two poems discussed in this podcast – Full Fathom and Prayer – can both be found in [To] The Last [Be] Humananthology or can be read here on the Poetry Foundation website.

In this short solo episode (ep 141), Adam Williams reflects on a line poet Jorie Graham gave in a recent interview in The New Yorker and digs into his own mission of self-expression. Read and listen to more at humanitou.com.

The queens play The Poetry Pyramid!Pyramid is the collective name of a series of American television game shows that has aired several versions domestically and internationally. The original series was The $10,000 Pyramid, and it debuted on March 26, 1973. You can read  Jorie Graham's poem “San Sepolcro” (the first poem in her second book, Erosion) here.  Read more about Flesh-plastique by Denis Hinrichsen and published by Green Linden Press.For more about Sally Mann's Body Farm  project here.  The Body Farm refers to the Forensic Anthropology Center at the University of Tennessee--Knoxville. Read more about the Center here. Read Dorianne Laux's poem “Trying to Raise the Dead” here, first published in the Spring 1998 edition of Ploughshares.

Frankly, our dears, all we want is boundless love for Frank O'Hara. We also discuss radical poetic embodiment, and ponder whether or not Dickinson's "Wild Nights" (269) is a fisting poem.Please consider supporting the poets we mention in today's show! If you need a good indie bookstore, we recommend Loyalty Bookstores, a DC-area Black-owned bookshop.Frank O'Hara was born Francis Russell O'Hara in Baltimore, MD, but grew up near Worcester, MA. As a kid, he studied music in hopes of being a concert pianist. After a stint in the navy (shocking!) he went to Harvard, where Edward Gorey was his roommate. Imagine what those bunk sessions were like.Watch Jenny Xie read “My Heart” here (~1.5 min).Read O'Hara's “Ave Maria” here, and “you will have made the little tykes/ so happy....”There's a film called "Wild Nights with Emily" (watch a 10 minute clip here), starring Molly Shannon as Emily Dickinson. The film's description says it is informed by Dickinson's private letters and is a "timely critique of how women's history is rewritten." Watch Ruth Stone read her poem "Where I Came From" here (~2 min). For more about Beverly Pepper's work, watch this brief (2 min) video. Pepper died in 2020. We reference an Instagram video post that Jorie Graham made about Pepper (her mother) making art. The post is captioned thusly: "My mother beginning to draw again with a partly mended broken arm. She holds one arm with the other for a moment, as if her wounded arm is a tool. Certainly she knew enough to know her wound was always her tool. She is so comfortable because Greg Whitmore is behind the camera, but, after a point, she is gone from us—all of us—I can see it as it happens—because she totally enters the work. It used to scare me as a child when she disappeared from this realm, and went into that one. It was strange to realize that there WAS an other realm into which one could go. Into which I could lose her. Of course, years later, I realized it was one of the greatest gifts she gave me. When she would leave me “alone” in this world knowing I had to find the other world in this one & find my way to it. Which is one's fate. And one's journey." You can see the post here. The video in the post was made in 2014 and can also be watched online here. 

Poetry, promiscuity, philosophy: maybe you should ask your next question!Thom Gunn was born on August 29, 1929 and died on April 25, 2004. He was born in Gravesend, England to parents who were both journalists. Jorie Graham (born May 9, 1950—Taurus) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1996 for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994. Since 1999, she has been Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric at Harvard—and she is the first woman to hold the Boylston professorship. She has received many honors and awards for her work. Her newest book is Runaway (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2020). Watch Graham read "Studies in Secrecy" at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival here (under 5 min). Jesus was born….just kidding!We mention Jorie Graham's poem "Praying  (Attempt of 6 June '03)" – the one in which the speaker adopts a cat with feline HIV. It was first published in the London Review of Books in January, 2005, and later included in her book Overlord. You can read that poem here. Graham's poem "Evolution" first appeared in The New York Times Magazine and can be read here.  The cathedral mentioned in Jorie Graham's poem is St Patrick's Cathedral Armagh in Ireland.Watch Thom Gunn reading at the Berkeley Art Center here (~25 min)The article Aaron references regarding Thom Gunn (aka "promiscuous poet") can be read here. The How to Be Amazing podcast interview with Tim Gunn can be found here. Watch Thom Gunn reading at the Berkeley Art Center here (~25 min)You can read "A Feather for Voltaire" from Hybrids of Plantas and of Ghosts here. You can hear Allen Ginsberg read "Please Master" here (~5 min)

Strap in! We're going boldly into interplanetary space -- and returning to see our own planet through alien eyes.  J.O. Morgan tells us about his lates poetry collection The Martian's Regress from Cape Poetry -- an epic, gripping sequence about a martian and his pale companion investigating a dead and sterile earth. Next... Time travel. We'll whisk you back to those passionate Victorians, with Robin sampling the obsessive melancholy of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's long poem In Memoriam A.H.H.  And Peter continues his quest into American poetry, and finds huge amounts to admire in the poem 'Prayer' from Jorie Graham's vibrant collection Never published by Carcanet in 2002.

The swampy Americana songwriter, singer, and guitarist, covered by Keith Richards, Irma Thomas, and Sonny Burgess, has traveled a twisted road from juke joints in Monroe, La., and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop to his Nashville home. Out on a string of dates with the Iguanas, he joins the band on a night off to issue a communiqué from the tour, in the first installment of a two-part episode. As KG says, they’re just trying to get to Memphis. Topics include a Midwestern tour, a procedure, solo acts, West Monroe, South Omaha, West Memphis, “Jungle Boogie,” a band director, marching bands, Jorie Graham, poetry, the punk ethos, an Elvis impersonation, live performance, Bo Ramsey and the Sliders, Freddie King records, meeting X, John Doe’s beer, Todd Rundgren’s cake, and much more. Intro music: “The Trucker Takes A Wife” by Styler/Coman Outro music: “Deuce and a Quarter” from “Down to the Well” by Kevin Gordon Support the podcast: Paypal or Venmo Join the Patreon page here. Shop for Troubled Men’s Wear here. Subscribe, review, and rate (5 stars) on Apple Podcasts or any podcast source. Follow on social media, share with friends, and spread the Troubled Word. Troubled Men Podcast Facebook Troubled Men Podcast Instagram Big Island Jazz and Blues Festival Iguanas Tour Dates René Coman Facebook Kevin Gordon Facebook Kevin Gordon Instagram Kevin Gordon Homepage

This week's discussion, with Laleh Khalili, will be out on Thursday. In the meantime, here's Jorie Graham reading her latest poem for the LRB. Find more readings of poems and pieces here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/lrb-readings See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

SummaryThis week on the Tragedy Academy podcast, Jay rolls out a very big welcome for the talented multi-disciplinary artist, Katie Chonacas (aka KYRIAKI). Not only has Katie acted in numerous productions with A-list stars, but she also recently released a book of poetry and her debut album, Dreamland 1111. Jay and Katie dive deep into her musical inspirations, her revolutionary work creating NFTs and the future of art in the blockchain. Be sure you don't miss out on this episode, and don't forget to check out Katie's podcast, She's All Over The Place!Key Points

It's the Thunderdome of Poetry: two books (from the same poet) enter. Only one book leaves. We've got the books up on Instagram if you want to play along! @breakingformpod Buy books authored by the poets we've referred to at Loyalty Books, a terrific Black-owned bookstore.Check out Ada Limón's website here. The website has the correct publishing order of her fabulous books.You can view Tracy K. Smith's poem "History" here, in its journal of first publication, Callaloo, Vol. 27, No. 4, Contemporary African-American Poetry: A New Wave (Autumn, 2004), pp. 876-882 (7 pages).Poet Sun Signs:Aries:Ada LimónJericho BrownTracy K. SmithTaurus:Louise Glück.Jorie Graham      Carolyn ForchéGeminis:Denise Duhamel Anne Carson is most likely a Gemini (June 21).Amy ClampittLeosCarl Phillips Rita DoveMark DotyJohn AshberyLi-Young LeeVirgos:Natalie DiazLinda GreggScorpio:Terrance HayesSharon OldsSylvia PlathSagittarians:Lynda HullCapricornsDavid SedarisDorianne Laux (Her book Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected was a finalist for the Pulitzer in 2020, when Jericho Brown's The Tradition won. The other finalist was Mary Ruefle's Dunce).Aquarians:Elizabeth BishopNone of the authors we listed were Libras, Cancers, or Pisceans. 

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– My recent appearance on Poetry Says– My class at the Redbud Writing Project– Good writer Jonathan Farmer– The 2021 Chess World Championship– Yeats' poem Adam's Curse– The Touch-Move Rule– Good writer Shane McCrae– Frederick Seidel's poem Victory Parade– Jay Wright– Austin Allen's essay Hard Line Politics: On the Myth of Free Verse– Lyn Hejinian, Jorie Graham, Ishion Hutchinson, Martin Corless-Smith– Anthony Hecht's poem A Letter– Oh, no, more Bad Art Friend– The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man– Nietzsche's whole God Is Dead thing– Karl Jasper's book Man in the Modern Age– Philosopher and Nazi Martin Heidegger– Auden's poem In Memory of W. B. Yeats– The Poetic EddaMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

A full reading of the poet Jorie Graham's Self-Portrait as the Gesture Between Them: "The gesture like a fruit torn from a limb, torn swiftly...The rip in the fabric where the action begins, the opening of the narrow passage...But what else could they have done, these two, sick of beginning, revolving in place like a thing seen...as the apple builds inside the limb, as rain builds in the atmosphere, as the lateness accumulates until it finally is, as the meaning of the story builds...scribbling at the edges of her body until it must be told...so that she had to turn and touch him to give it away...a new direction, an offshoot, the limb going on elsewhere, and liking that error, a feeling of being capable because an error, of being wrong perhaps altogether wrong...and loving that error...that break from perfection...out of nowhere to share the day." - Jorie Graham.

by Jorie Graham

Today’s guest is poet Jorie Graham. We speak about her fifteenth book of poetry, Runaway. This latest book, along with the three that precede it—Sea Change, Place, and Fast—confronts our accelerating trajectory toward climate disaster. But as Lidija Haas says for Harper’s Magazine, Graham “in her poems remakes a world you can inhabit, one in […] The post Jorie Graham : Runaway appeared first on Tin House.

This incredible array of guests speak to how this moment has changed our sense of time, the healing we will need as we move forward from the pandemic, the opportunities that may come next, and much more in a fascinating reminder of where the past year has taken us. From dire to hopeful to funny, these clips reflect the best of one year of The Quarantine Tapes. Symphony of Voices Part 2 features the following Quarantine Tapes Guests:Derek Delgaudio, Lena Herzog, Rachel Kushner, Jorie Graham, Julie Mehretu, Christopher Knight, William Kentridge, David Rieff, Etgar Keret, Calvin Trillin, Andy Borowitz, Abraham Verghese, George Prochnik, and Jerry Saltz.

In this extra episode, Jorie Graham reads her poem ‘To 2040’, published in the latest issue of the LRB.You can listen to Jorie Graham reading twelve more of her poems from the LRB on our website here: https://lrb.me/grahamSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

by Jorie Graham

Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Jorie Graham on episode 139 of The Quarantine Tapes.A celebrated poet and educator, Jorie talks with Paul about the current state of the world, and how the memory of history impacts our future.Paul and Jorie take the time to go in depth in this conversation; Jorie tells stories of her childhood in Europe and her coming of age in the street protests in Paris, and her current life while existing in these confines of the pandemic. They talk of poetry, extinction, oblivion, and how our present is giving new meanings to old words. The pair also unpacks the politics and problems of mob consciousness, and how the future is defined by the human gift of imagination and honoring the past. Their conversation picks up with a look at how the technologies of social media and the internet are shaping people’s beliefs and our sense of agency. Jorie expresses her fears of our society’s amnesia, worrying that when this pandemic ends, we will act as though it never happened and try to move on without learning anything.Then, Jorie takes a look at the letter left by George H. W. Bush for incoming president Bill Clinton. In a fascinating close reading, she compares that hand-off of power to this year’s election, shining a light at what has changed politically at the level of language. Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950, the daughter of a journalist and a sculptor. She was raised in Rome, Italy and educated in French schools. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris before attending New York University as an undergraduate, where she studied filmmaking. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa.Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Sea Change (Ecco, 2008), Never (2002), Swarm (2000), and The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.  Graham has also edited two anthologies, Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language (1996) and The Best American Poetry 1990.Her many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.She has taught at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. She served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003.

by Jorie Graham

Rasa explains our place in the universe. Jeremy asks a vexing question about cookies. In between, they discuss "The Surface" by Jorie Graham.

Host Victoria Chang engages poet Dana Levin in a discussion about poetry: those who have been an influence, such as Louise Glück, Jorie Graham, and Anne Carson, teaching craft, having readers who do not share your aesthetic, negative space and the field of the page, endings, and poetry in the modern era of social media. Levin reads “Ars Poetica” and “The Point of the Needle” from published works. This episode was produced and mastered by Amy Mills Klipstine.

Today, we’re shaking up the language of powering down. We spend so much time in a particular relation to language—at work it’s the language of technicality and expertise. Yet another way language can work is in a completely different mode—to capture the allusive, metaphorical, ineffable aspects of life that don’t submit easily to metrics and outcomes. The powering down today is about shifting your attention—and brain activity—using language from the poet Jorie Graham.

Four weeks into our collective Great Pause, the Bafflers examine “Red Shift,” Ted Berrigan’s iconic New York School poem. This close reading – distinguished in part by our own Sparrow having been Berrigan’s student - proceeds from the astrophysical definition of “redshift” to speculations into what attributive meanings to which Berrigan might allude. This includes a broad look into the nature of time as surfaced in the poem and in part depth charged in Berrigan situating the poem “at 8:08 p.m.” (the Eight-Fold Path, I-Ching and Hubble’s insights into an exploding universe). We touch on his forebearers – Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery - as well as Berrigan’s friends and allies, including Joe Brainard, Dick Gallup and Ron Padgett (including a nod to the latter’s memoir TED). We look to his nineteenth-century antecedents in the Transcendentalists and Whitman as well as how Berrigan self-identified as a late Beatnik. We touch on the role the song “California Dreaming” plays in the work and Berrigan’s working-class poetics, among other ruminative forays, including the Esopus River, the poets Jorie Graham, Bernadette Mayer, Lewis Warsh and Robinson Jeffers, as well as what existential insight might be disguised in a Harris Tweed jacket. SPECIAL FEATURE: We embed a recording of Berrigan reading the work at Naropa University, 1982, from EXACT CHANGE Yearbook 1995 no. 1 (Ed. Peter Gizzi). ADDENDUM: 1. The chronological early publishing history of THE SONNETS is correctly listed below: C Press — c1963. Mimeograph edition Grove Press — c1967 United Artists — 1982 (With seven additional sonnets not in original) 2. This podcast includes speculation around Berrigan's financial straits and schemes as well as the circumstances around his death. We regret and ask forgiveness for any inaccuracies, and please listen with an open heart.

In our on-going inquiry into the nature of the Great Pause, this third QUARANTINE session trains itself on John Ashbery’s much ballyhooed poem “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” an ekphrasis composition taking its frame and flame from the painting of the same name by Italian Renaissance artist Francesco Parmigianino (1503-1540). Without wandering too far from the work, we cite and sometimes linger on Raymond Roussel, Lisa Jarnot, Charles North, Kenneth Koch, the soul and its shapes, the appearance of “sequestered,” Walt Whitman, Jonathan Swift, W.B. Yeats, “The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner,” the word “speculum,” Wallace Stevens, Jorie Graham and, once more with feeling, The Tetragammaton.

Jorie Graham on Linda Gregg: Reading Linda Gregg’s poems is a unique experience because not only does one hear Linda’s voice in one’s head—if one ever heard her read it was unforgettable—but the voice is actually inscribed into the lines, the syntax, the rhythm, tone, tempo. This is the sign of tremendous formal skill—that one controls the audible voice of the poem right down to its minutest modulations. This is also the signature of a poem which is a lived experience—not the record of one, or the report of one. If there ever were, as Stevens puts it in “On Modern Poetry,” those urgent poems “of the mind in the act of finding/ What will suffice” they are the adamant, fierce, brave, poems of Linda Gregg. It is hard to describe poems which appear to carry true visionary experience in their marrow. They are, to a certain extent, disincarnate, icy, terse, as-if-dictated. Vision uses abstraction as if it were its natural integument. Vision would seem to use the poet, the poet’s body and voice, as a vessel to get itself expressed, forcibly pressed from the invisible into the visible, from the unknowable into the knowable or the transmittable. And these are certainly characteristics of Gregg’s poems. And yet they are also so deeply poems of the body’s unique knowledge—its intimations, forebodings, fears, lusts and loves. Her poems seem to do it all. It would appear quite impossible for the incarnate to shine so visibly carnate before us—and in so few words. But there she is, as Gregg would say, seeing the vision stand before her. Finally her poems exhibit a fearlessness, a recklessness which seems to be shared by both a way of living and a way of writing—a numinous incandescence, which has to do with searching for the limits of not just what life can be, but also of what language can hold—which might indeed be Too Bright To See. Not any self-indulgent or thrill-seeking recklessness, but recklessness in the name of a deeper reckoning. Until indeed, here she is, always blazing, always alive, Linda Gregg. Robert Hass on Linda Gregg: The first poem of Linda's that I read was "We Manage Most When We Manage Small." I think I read it twice. A couple of days later I realized that I had it more or less memorized, from that startling first line—"What things are steadfast? Not the birds." Her music certainly had to do with the way she used questions and declarative sentences and her feel for the relation of sentence to line, which is very strong and very often very simple. She wanted to make poems that were plain and radiant like the chunks of thousand-year-old marble she would occasionally turn up on the island of Santorini when, as a young woman, she was living there with Jack Gilbert and learning to write. Her aesthetic, I noticed, when I came to know her, was frugal and like the way she lived the practical parts of life. I remember her describing her relation to shopping and to the objects of desire in a consumer culture. She said she liked to go downtown, to Union Square in San Francisco or uptown to Madison Avenue in New York and hunt down the very best and most beautiful version of the thing she had desired and study it for a while and walk away. It reminded me of Richard Wilbur's wonderful phrase about Emily Dickinson's poetry. He said she traded in "sumptuous destitution." Something like that seems to account for the light Linda's poems give off. "We Manage Most When We Manage Small" "The Poet Goes About Her Business"  "Eurydice" "The Girl I Call Alma" "Too Bright to See" "The Apparent" "There She Is"

Mary and Wyatt curl up next to the fireplace with mugs of coffee at 2 am, because time doesn't mean anything anymore. After discussing what it means for a dynamic to be toxic and trying to unpacking that buzzword, they chat about what leads to unhealthy relationships and how two healthy people can create one. Later, they put on waders and enter the toxic sludge dump that is Yahoo! Answers. Also on the docket: geocaching, Mary and Wyatt's intergalactic travel plans, and poems by Danusha Laméris and Jorie Graham.

Ben Purkert joins Kevin Young to read “Notes on the Reality of the Self,” by Jorie Graham, and his own poem “News.” Purkert began contributing poetry to The New Yorker in 2012, and his début poetry collection, “For the Love of Endings,” was published in 2018. 

Garrett J. Brown's first book of poems, Manna Sifting, won the Liam Rector First Book Prize from Briery Creek Press in 2009, and his chapbook, Cubicles, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2014. His other awards include first place in the Poetry Center of Chicago's Juried Reading, judged by Jorie Graham; runner-up in the Maryland Emerging Voices competition; and a Creative Writing Fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Black Warrior Review, Poetry East, TriQuarterly, Natural Bridge, The Account, and Passages North. He makes his home in Baltimore and is an Associate Professor at Anne Arundel Community College.

A brief treatment of disturbing themes in Jorie Graham's poems; her notion of simple empirical or sensual knowledge of objects and the implication for human relations.

The editors discuss Jorie Graham’s poem “Overheard in the Herd” from the January 2019 issue of Poetry.

Winner of the 2018 Bobbitt Prize from The Library fo Congress for her book, "FAST," Graham is one of America's foremost poets and holds the Chair for Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University.

in which Jasmine V. Bailey and i talk about the intersection of poetry and lyric essays/creative non-fiction, gush about Anne Carson and Charles Wright, and dive deep into the mechanics of translation... where to find Jasmine: https://jasminevbailey.com/ https://facebook.com/jvbailey https://facebook.com/ironhorsereview/ other things referenced: Curtis Bauer - http://curtisbauer.net/ Silvina López Medin - https://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/about/participants/silvina-lopez-medin/ Anne Carson - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anne-carson Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/24642/autobiography-of-red-by-anne-carson/ The Glass Essay by Anne Carson - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48636/the-glass-essay The Gender of Sound by Anne Carson - https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Anne-Carson-The-Gender-of-Sound.pdf Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson - https://press.princeton.edu/titles/2406.html Lisa Russ Spaar - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lisa-russ-spaar Charles Wright - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/charles-wright Bruce Smith - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/bruce-smith Jim Harrison - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jim-harrison Cyrus Cassells - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/cyrus-cassells Erosion by Jorie Graham - https://press.princeton.edu/titles/1057.html Nightbook by Steve Matanle - https://squareup.com/store/passager/item/nightbook?square_lead=item_embed excerpts from Nightbook - https://facultyvoiceumd.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/the-poems-of-steve-matanle/ "two autumns" haiku + minor controversy - http://www.ahundredgourds.com/ahg41/exposition01.html

Today's Flash Briefing poetry reading is guest hosted by Abi Pollokoff, who reads Jorie Graham's "Tennessee June." You can go back to July and listen to the full interview with Abi via the podcast or vlog! The Flash Briefings are 2 minutes or less "flash" readings for you to jumpstart your weekdays. They are published M - F. Feel free to comment, request, or chat with me via the links below. ● The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community (youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1). Connect with us on Instagram (instagram.com/thepoetryvlog), Twitter (twitter.com/thepoetryvlog), Facebook (facebook.com/thepoetryvlog), and our website (thepoetryvlog.com). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's an all-out poetry extravaganza! Sarah Holland-Batt (THE HAZARDS) talks to James about creating a collection, poems as river stones, inadvertent plagiarism, waterproof editions of her books, and The Childbearing Hips. Plus Rebecca Morgan Frank discusses editing the fantastic online journal MEMORIOUS.      James and Sarah Discuss:  W.H. Auden  Philip Larkin  Derek Walcott  Les Murray  FAUVERIE by Pascale Petit  Homer  STAG'S LEAP by Sharon Olds  Elizabeth Bishop  "The Fish"  Jorie Graham  THE WASTELAND by T.S. Eliot  THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK by T.S. Eliot  Harold Bloom  Geoffrey Hill  Wallace Stevens  Sappho  Bronwyn Lea  Tori Amos Nirvana  Walt Whitman  Emily Dickinson    James and Morgan discuss:  Emerson College  Rob Arnold  The Beacon Street Review  Redivider  Ploughshares  The Believer  McSweeney's  Agni  Katy Didden  Joanna Luloff  Brian Trapp  Matt McBride  Jean Valentine  Rick Barot  Tarfia Faizullah Chloe Honum   

To the tunes of Chet Baker, Bob Marley, Billie Holiday, Joni Mitchell, and the Happy Wanderer, guest host Emily Dickinson helps us welcome March, along with e.e. cummings, William and Kim Stafford, Derek Walcott, Jorie Graham, Leigh Hunt, Elizabeth Bishop, … Continue reading → The post EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME (Chet Baker): THE EMERGENCY OF BEING ALIVE (William Stafford): A REVISIT TO POETRY AS BRAIN ROADS– AND ALTERNATIVE LIFE ROUTES, SCENIC ROUTES, EVACUATION ROUTES, EXALTATION ROUTES, PRAISE, IN JUST SPRING first appeared on Dr. Barbara Mossberg » Poetry Slowdown.

For $75 a month, I rented a house that didn't laugh at me. And I'll be happy to make your decisions for you. Also, we ate so much spaghetti back then. I taught Trent what a colander was, and he showed me Hieronymus Bosch. I'm exhausted, Robyn This poem can be found in this anthology: http://www.amazon.com/Solitude-Poems-Everymans-Library-Pocket/dp/1400044235 And here's my friend Trent: http://www.jamescohan.com/artists/trenton-doyle-hancock/

William and Kim Stafford, Emily Dickinson, Derek Walcott, Jorie Graham, Leigh Hunt, Elizabeth Bishop, Luis Montero, David Wright, Gerald Stern, Judith Viorst, Philip Larkin, Seneca, Rumi, Hafiz, Stephen Grellett, C. K. Williams, Eleanor Lerman, Mark Doty, Hilarie Jones, Marilyn Nelson, … Continue reading → The post THE EMERGENCY OF BEING ALIVE (William Stafford): –POETRY AS BRAIN ROADS THE DOCTOR CALLS FOR– ENGINEERING ALTERNATIVE LIFE ROUTES, SCENIC ROUTES, EVACUATION ROUTES first appeared on Dr. Barbara Mossberg » Poetry Slowdown.

Archival recordings of poet Jorie Graham, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in 1995 and 1998 at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Swarm (Ecco, Harper Collins) In an unprecedented impulse to clarify, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham offers an elaborate interpretation of her stunning new book-length poem.