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Winner of the 2024 Canadian Book Club Awards for fiction, Susan Wadds, author of "What the Living Do", shares her inspiring journey from aspiring poet to published novelist. But we also discuss the power of community and connection in the creative process. Susan fosters safe communities for other creatives through her workshops and retreats while also creating additional revenue streams for herself and she shares with us just how she does that!This is a great episode for creatives who...⭐️ want to learn more about the value of creating safe spaces for other creatives in their niche ⭐️ want some insights on community-building among creatives ⭐️ are curious about the Amherst Writers and Artists method⭐️ are looking for practical advice for aspiring writers to pursue their passion⭐️ are curious about Susan and her novel "What the Living Do" This episode is brought to you by our Premium Subscriber Community on Patreon and BuzzsproutMENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: find Susan at writeyourwayin.ca, or on Instagram @deepamwadds, Facebook, YouTube, or SubstackWhat the Living Do on Indigo Amherst Writers and ArtistsCanadian Book Club AwardsYou can find Melissa at finelimedesigns.com, finelimeillustrations.com or on Instagram @finelimedesigns.Support the showYou can connect with the podcast on: Instagram at @andshelookedup Facebook YouTube Tik Tok at @AndSheLookedUp For a list of all available episodes, please visit:And She Looked Up Creative Hour PodcastEach week The And She Looked Up Podcast sits down with inspiring Canadian women who create for a living. We talk about their creative journeys and their best business tips, as well as the creative and business mindset issues all creative entrepreneurs struggle with. This podcast is for Canadian artists, makers and creators who want to find a way to make a living doing what they love. Your host, Melissa Hartfiel (@finelimedesigns), left a 20 year career in corporate retail and has been happily self-employed as a working creative since 2010. She's a graphic designer, writer and illustrator as well as the co-founder of a multi-six figure a year business in the digital content space. She resides just outside of Vancouver, BC.

Tara chats with Canadian Susan Wadds, author of What the Living Do.  Winner of the Writer's Union of Canada's Prose Contest in 2016, Susan's award-winning work has appeared in The Blood Pudding, Room, Quagmire, Waterwheel Review, Funicular, WOW--Women on Writing, and many more. The first two chapters of her debut novel, What the Living Do, (Regal House Publishing, 2024), won the Lazuli Group's Prose Contest, and were published in Azure Magazine. Susan is a certified Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) workshop facilitator.  She lives on a quiet river in South-Central Ontario with an odd assortment of humans and cats. https://www.instagram.com/deepamwadds/ https://writeyourwayin.ca/about-me/ https://regalhousepublishing.com/susan-wadds/ Reading Recommendations: Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano The Stones of Burren Bay by Emily de Angelis Unrest by Gwen Tuinman Tom Lake by Ann Patchett Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel by Lisa Cron  

We're snatching wigs in this one! The queens get real about bad poetry. If you'd like to 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.NOTESWatch the official lyric video for "But Daddy I Love Him" and read this article about what the pub The Black Dog (the titular pub from the Taylor Swift Song) s like.Read Mona van Dun's minimalist sonnet "Closure" here.If you hate your eyeballs and poetry, go read Helen Steiner Rice's "It Takes the Bitter and the Sweet" and her foundation's website. The article Aaron talks about is Vice's "Bad Poetry is Everywhere," which quotes Yasmin Belkhyr. It includes links to the receipts about the poet we note has been alleged to have plagiarized--and here's the Daily Beast article about that poet too.Javier O. Huerta in an essay for the Poetry Foundation named a few good bad poems, including Elizabeth Bishop's "Casabianca"Here is the first sonnet from Sonnets From the Portuguese.Read Wallace Stevens's "Anecdote of the Jar" Marie Howe's "What the Living Do" is the title poem from her 2nd collection. You can watch her read the poem here.

i wrote a whole thing but i deleted it. the words in your head feel so important one moment and so trivial the next. i’m going to try to spend my day outside. minimal words. and maybe i’ll come back to it another time. byeeee!DOWNLOAD/STREAM RECORDING00:00 (intro by omar)00:20 Cool Original “Never Stop Hanging Out” I Never Said I Didn’t Care03:25 Lomelda “Too Bright” They Can’t Sing Like Me06:11 VVD WNDWS “The Sad Poetry of Violence” Blue Landscape08:25 4th Curtis “Nonstop” Invisible Ax12:11 Dig Nitty “Angel Calling” Cold Gold15:31 Chain “Tiny” Chain17:00 Milk Flud “Control Freak” Supportive Nature20:09 American Grandma “Forrest” Superdog24:19 WET FRUIT “Water” WET FRUIT27:16 Ducks Unlimited “Get Bleak” Get Bleak30:18 Buffet Lunch “Hotel At The End Of The Universe” Snap EP33:00 Jetstream Pony “I Close My Eyes” I Close My Eyes / It’ll Take More Than a Friday35:29 Dragnet “Delicate” All Rise For Dragnet37:02 Shake the Baby Til the Love Comes Out “The Only Good Cop” Growth and Healing Through Bringing Others Down40:32 Lately Kind of Yeah “Star” Uncurse42:55 Brunch Club “Logan” Another Wasted Summer44:51 Scott & Charlene’s Wedding “Boundary Line” When in Rome, Carpe Diem48:44 The Finks “I’ll be your baby tonight” Affectations52:27 Special Moves “I Don’t Have Any Other Words” Everything Is Free53:47 Jon Bafus “Pit 9” PUSH / PULL55:59 Nesey Gallons “PATSY CLINE” BLACK MOUNTAIN RETURN59:24 Beverly Tender “Leaky, omnipresent voice in the sewers. An Instruction. A Recipe?” Little Curly/boy is a Bird62:42 Kolb “Long Coat” Going Places64:18 Woolen Men “Space Invader” Human To Human66:43 Fauvely “What the Living Do” This is What the Living Do

This month we are happy to share a selection from Jami Sieber and Kim Rosen's new album Feast of Losses. Their new album takes a deep dive into that sacred space where grief and gratitude meet. Their collaboration offers a transmission of such beauty that it stops the mind and opens the heart! This selection from the album features What the Living Do by Marie Howe, with music by Jami Sieber and spoken word by Kim Rosen. Read about their inspiration for this work on the Gangaji Commnuity Blog.  Purchase a download of the complete album at jamisieber.com/feast-of-losses

Episode 148 Notes and Links to Chen Chen's Work       On Episode 148 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Chen Chen, and the two discuss, among other topics, his experience as a teacher, his early relationships with reading, writing, and multilingualism, those writers and writing communities who continue to inspire and encourage him, muses in various arenas, etymology, and themes like family dynamics, racism, beauty, and anger that anchor his work.      Chen Chen is an author, teacher, & editor His second book of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, is out now from BOA Editions. The UK edition will be published by Bloodaxe Books (UK) in October. His debut, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA, 2017; Bloodaxe, 2019), was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. Chen is also the author of five chapbooks, including the forthcoming Explodingly Yours (Ghost City Press, 2023), and the forthcoming book of craft essays, In Cahoots with the Rabbit God (Noemi Press, 2024). His work appears in many publications, including Poetry, Poem-a-Day, and three editions of The Best American Poetry (2015, 2019, & 2021). He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, the National Endowment for the Arts, and United States Artists.    He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD from Texas Tech University. He has taught in UMass Boston's MFA program and at Brandeis University as the 2018-2022 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence. Currently he is core poetry faculty for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast. With a brilliant team, he edits the journal Underblong; with Gudetama the lazy egg, he edits the lickety~split. He lives in frequently snowy Rochester, NY with his partner, Jeff Gilbert and their pug, Mr. Rupert Giles. Buy Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency   Chen Chen's Website   Interview with Chen Chen: “Chinatown Presents: Finding Home with Chen Chen”    Interview with Poetry LA from 2017   By Andrew Sargus Klein for Kenyon Review-"On Chen Chen's When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities"               At about 9:15, Chen responds to Pete asking about how he stays so prolific and creative by describing his processes and the idea of any muses or inspirations    At about 11:00, Chen describes “shed[ding] expectations” is or isn't “worthy” of poetry   At about 13:10, The two discuss books on craft and Chen gives more background on his upcoming book of craft essays   At about 16:10, Chen gives background on the Taiwanese Rabbit God and how his upcoming book was influenced by the idea, especially as presented in Andrew Thomas Huang's Kiss of the Rabbit God   At about 18:25, Chen explains his interest in the epistolary form, and how his upcoming work is influenced by Victoria Chang's Dear Memory and Jennifer S. Chang “Dear Blank Space,”    At about 22:30, Chen gives background and history in a macro and micro way for the use of the word “queer” and his usage and knowledge of Mandarin    At about 26:50, Chen describes the sizable influence of Justin Chin on Chen's own work   At about 28:25, Chen describes his early relationship with languages and explores how Mandarin and his parents' Hokkien may influence his writing    At about 34:55, Chen outlines what he read and wrote as a kid, including K.A. Applegate and The Animorphs and Phillip Pullman   At about 37:50, Chen responds to questions about motivations in reading fantasy and other works   At about 38:55, Chen highlights “chill-inducing” works and writers, such as Cunningham's The Hours    At about 41:30, Chen shouts Mrs. Kish and other formative writing teachers and talks about his early writing and the importance of “the interior voice”   At about 42:45, Pete wonders about how Chen's teaching informs his writing and vice versa   At about 45:20, Chen cites Marie Howe's “What the Living Do” and Rick Barot's During the Pandemic as some of his go-to's for teaching in his college classes   At about 48:20, Chen responds to Pete's question about teaching his own work   At about 49:50, Pete and Chen discuss the idea of muses and the writing community energizing-the two cite Bhanu Kapil and Mary Ruefle and the ways in which their philosophies are centered on mutual communication/conversation   At about 55:30, Chen highlights Muriel Leung and an enriching conversation and her unique perspective that led to “I Invite My Parents…”   At about 57:45, The two begin discussing Chen's Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency and its seeds   At about 1:00:40, Pete cites grackles as a motif, and Chen recounts memories of his time at Texas Tech and the Trump Presidency    At about 1:02:45, The two discuss the powerful poem “The School of Fury” and the themes of rage and powerlessness and racism; Pete cites a profound insight from Neema Avashia   At about 1:06:45, Pete cites some powerful lines from Chen's work and Chen makes connections   At about 1:08:20, Pete rattles off one of the longest titles known to man, “After My White Friends Say…” and Chen discusses ideas of identity and his rationale for the poem's title and structure   At about 1:11:30, Chen talks about exercises he does in class with Mary Jean Chan's Flèche    At about 1:12:10, The two discuss craft and structure tools used in the collection   At about 1:14:25, The two talk about family dynamics and the speaker's mother and her relationship with the speaker's boyfriend     At about 1:18:50, Pete cites lines that were powerful for “leaving things unsaid” and Chen expands on ideas of innocence and willful ignorance in his work   At about 1:22:30, The two discuss ideas of mortality, including the Pulse tragedy, familial connections, and the series of poems titled “A Small Book of Questions”   At about 1:24:10, Ideas of beauty of discussed from Chen's work   At about 1:25:15, Chen reads “The School of Fury” and the two discuss it afterwards   At about 1:29:40, Chen gives contact info and recommends Boa Editions as a place to buy his book and support independent publishers, and another good organization in Writers and Books, featuring Ampersand Bookstore     You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. 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Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Marie Howe is the author of four volumes of poetry: Magdalene: Poems (W.W. Norton, 2017); The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (W.W. Norton, 2009); What the Living Do (1997); and The Good Thief (1988). She is also the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others.From http://www.mariehowe.com/home. For more information about Marie Howe:“What the Living Do”: https://wwnorton.com/books/What-the-Living-Do/“Marie Howe”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/marie-howe“Poet Marie Howe on ‘What the Living Do' After Loss”: https://www.npr.org/2014/04/25/306528499/poet-marie-howe-on-what-the-living-do-after-loss

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie is saying thank you. Here are the links to the poems mentioned in this episode: “What the Living Do” by Marie Howe “Meditations in an Emergency” by Cameron Awkward-Rich From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf's daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today's episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com.  A full transcript of today's episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.  Thank you again to this week's sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com. This week, Annie is reading Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. If you liked what you heard in today's episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you're so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff's weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We're so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here in the new year! Libro.FM: Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (Like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you'll be part of a different story -- one that supports the community. All you need is a smartphone and the free Libro.fm app. Right now, if you sign up for a new membership, you will get 2 audiobooks for the price of one. All you have to do is enter FRONTPORCH at checkout or follow this link: libro.fm/redeem/FRONTPORCH Flodesk: Do you receive a weekly or monthly newsletter from one of your favorite brands? Like maybe From the Front Porch (Or The Bookshelf)... Did you ever wonder, ‘how do they make such gorgeous emails?'  Flodesk is an email marketing service provider that's built for creators, by creators, and it's easy to use. We've been using it for a couple of years now, and I personally love it. And right now you can get 50% off your Flodesk subscription by going to: flodesk.com/c/THEFRONTPORCH

Welcome to Season 5 of Between the Worlds, in this episode we go deep into Winter Solstice, otherwise known as Yule, the witches' celebration of the darkness. Winter Solstice is the holiday where the new and old meet. It's both the holiday of the Ancient Crone, and the holiday that celebrates the conception and the birth of the divine child, the rebirth of the sun.We'll be talking about the astrology of the season, the mytho-poetics of the Yule, tarot correspondences, and rituals you can do to make sure your longest night a magical one.Join us! To find out more about our workshops either scroll down or visit our website. www.betweentheworldspodcast.com/shopTo register for Amanda's Solstice ritual, go to: https://bit.ly/3yxy9gqTo leave a review of the podcast on iTunes, open your Apple Podcasts APP and scroll down to the comments. Or you can try to click this link (sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't depending on your set up).Find us on Instagram at:Podcast: @BetweentheworldspodcastAmanda: @OracleofLACarolyn: @CarolynPennypackerRiggs REFERENCES FOR THIS EPISODE:H. Byron Ballard, a pagan book about the Wheel of the Year, “Seasons of a Magical Life.”Demetra George on “Planetary Joys,” https://demetra-george.com/blog/planetary-joy-moon-third-house/Tai Gooden, a great resource on the Yule holiday meaning. "The curious past and present day importance of Yule", https://nerdist.com/article/yule-curious-past-and-present-day-importance/Marie Howe, "What the Living Do" – the poem from the episode.Mark Snyder on Monarch Butterfly Migration. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/10/18/monarch-butterflies-california-migration-begins-hope-big-numbers/5864309001/Acyuta-bhava Das at Nightlight Astrology is a great resource on the meaning of the solstices in astrology. https://nightlightastrology.com/Joanna Macy and  Molly Young Brown, "Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World." For their work on Positive Disintegration and the ecological crisis.Starhawk's book, "The Spiral Dance," is the source for the Solstice chant Amanda used in the episode. This chant is from the work of the Reclaiming Collective. The chant goes: "_ is lost to the night.  _ is lost to the night... to fall and rise again....to die and be reborn. What more must we lose to the night? ... The light was born, And the light has died. I surrender this year to the night." (If you like this chant we highly recommend grabbing a copy of this book. *********************************GREAT WITCHY GIFTS:  OUR BTW WORKSHOPS  Between the Worlds workshops are available for download and make great gifts. We've got Candle Magick, we've got Empress Love Magick, we've got Ace of Swords protection magick and more. CLICK THIS LINK TO SHOPYou can also get your favorite witch a yearly subscription to our coven -- the gift that keeps on giving throughout the year, where you get workshops, monthly tarot studio classes, and lots of other goodies for a super reasonable price.Become a Between the Worlds Weird Circle Subscriber, click here. **********************************Learn More About Your Host Amanda Yates Garcia, & Buy Her BookTo sign up for Amanda's Solstice Ritual on 12/21/21 7pm PST or find out more CLICK HERE.To order Amanda's book, "Initiated: Memoir of a Witch" CLICK HERE.To sign up for Amanda's newsletter, CLICK HERE.Amanda's InstagramAmanda's FacebookTo book an appointment with Amanda go to www.oracleoflosangeles.com **********************************MIND YOUR PRACTICE PODCASTMind Your Practice - Carolyn's  podcast with arts consultant and author of Make Your Art No Matter What, Beth Pickens - is geared towards artists and writers looking for strategies and support to build their projects and practices (plus loving pep talks).There's even a club - “Homework Club” - which offers creative people support and strategies for keeping their projects and practices a priority with monthly webinars, worksheets, live QnA's, optional accountability pods, and ACTUAL HOMEWORK (that you'll never be graded on. Ever!)You can visit MindYourPractice.com for more details or listen wherever you stream Between the Worlds. **********************************Original MUSIC by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs**********************************Get in touch with sponsorship inquiries for Between the Worlds at betweentheworldspodcast@gmail.com.**CONTRIBUTORS:Amanda Yates Garcia (host) & Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs (producer, composer). The BTW logo collage was created by Maria Minnis (tinyparsnip.com / instagram.com/tinyparsnip ) with text designed by Leah Hayes.

“Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.” - Marie Howe“Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love… Life always says Yes and No simultaneously. Death (I implore you to believe) is the true Yea-sayer. It stands before eternity and says only: Yes.” - Rainer Maria RilkeLINKS:Buy Marie Howe's What the Living Do: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393318869Buy Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/154356/duino-elegies-and-the-sonnets-to-orpheus-by-rainer-maria-rilke-edited-and-translated-by-stephen-mitchell/Check out Tyler Bright Hilton's work here: https://www.tylerbrighthilton.com and here: https://www.instagram.com/tyler_bright_hilton/Caddis Reading Glasses who are PRO AGING - YAY!: https://caddislife.comSunglass Museum: https://www.sunglassmuseum.comPrive Revaux: https://priverevaux.comCheck out my website here: www.robynoneil.comShop my shop here: www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

After the death of a friend, it's the living ones who stagger around--dealing with plumbing problems, eating pie, and trying to make sense of it all. Here are two poems about that.  "What the Living Do" by Marie Howe "Ray" by Hayden Carruth  Hayden Carruth reads "Ray"

Happy New Year! It's been a few weeks, and we're dipping into 2021 tonight with a non-topical episode featuring updates, zines, and predictions for the New Year.Show Notes and LinksErasable Patreon404 Magazine on EtsyPencil Revolution on EtsySteve Earle's J.T.Ken Burns' Civil WarMarie Howe, What the Living DoMaggie Smith, Good BonesZen and the Art of ArcheryMaggie Smith the poet on TwitterFrom a Certain Point of ViewHalt and Catch Fire)Whatcha Mean, What's a ZineDogs of BerlinParker Jotter XL Brand Name PencilsAnother Evening at HomeBullet Journal 2.0Your HostsJohnny  GamberPencil Revolution@pencilutionAndy WelfleWoodclinched@awelfleTim Wasem@TimWasem

Patrick is joined by Katy Lemieux, the brains behind Actors Reading Outloud. We share a couple poems: Wordsworth's My Heart Leaps and Marie Howe's What the Living Do. We discuss the nascent idea for Actors Reading Outloud from her joint work with her husband on staging Auden's For the Time Being. We talk Steinbeck for a spell, especially The Red Pony (which I'm happy to see has a better cover in new editions.) Katy is also a writer-at-large on the arts for the Dallas area and we discuss her interview with David Lowery, Tom Stoppard, and so much more.

Marie Howe’s poem “My Mother’s Body” is wise about age. In the poem, Marie’s mother is young enough to be Marie’s own daughter, and in this imagination there is wonder, understanding, and even forgiveness. A question to reflect on after you listen: Are there things that you have found easier to understand — or even forgive — as you’ve gotten older?About the poet:Marie Howe is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She’s published four collections of poetry: What the Living Do, The Good Thief, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, and Magdalene. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Dartmouth College, and New York University.“My Mother’s Body” comes from Marie Howe’s book The Kingdom of Ordinary Time. Thank you to W.W. Norton, who published the book and gave us permission to use Marie’s poem. Read it on onbeing.org.Find the transcript for this episode at onbeing.org.The original music in this episode was composed by Gautam Srikishan.

November 7, 2019 at the Boston Athenæum. Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate, personal source for the urgency of these experiences. Poems get under our skin; they engage with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall—its title inspired by a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins—acclaimed poet Robert Pinsky gives us more than 130 poems that explore emotion at its most expansive, distinct, and profound. For this event, poet and professor Maggie Dietz will engage Pinsky in conversation on this remarkable anthology of poems. With seven illuminating chapters and succinct headnotes for each poem, Pinsky leads us through the book’s sweeping historical range. Each chapter, with contents chronologically presented from Shakespeare to Terrance Hayes, Dante to Patricia Lockwood, shows the persistence and variation in our states of mind. “The Sleep of Reason” explores sanity and the imagination, moving from William Cowper’s “Lines Written During a Time of Insanity” to Nicole Sealey’s “a violence.” “Grief” includes Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs last in the Door-yard Bloom’d” and Marie Howe’s “What the Living Do,” and “Manic Laughter” highlights both Lewis Carroll and Martín Espada. Each poem reveals something new about the vastness of human emotion; taken together they offer a sweeping ode to the power of poetry. Guided by “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (New York Times), The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall demonstrates how extreme feelings can be complementary and contradicting, and how poetry is not just an expression of emotion, but emotion itself.

Fauvely is the project of Chicago-based singer-guitarist Sophie Brochu, who creates deeply personal dream-pop music. The title of her debut EP, "Watch Me Overcomplicate This" speaks to the confessional tone of songs that range from delicately self-effacing to hauntingly sad. The band, which includes Dale Price, Dave Piscotti, Scott Cortez, & Chace Wall, has cultivated a strong presence in Chicago, sharing the stage with internationally acclaimed artists Stella Donnelly, Gemma Ray, Ryley Walker, Laura Veirs, and Ultimate Painting. "This is What the Living Do" will be released in May 2019 on Diversion Records. Featured Song Name: What the Living Do Free Monday: Fauvely (EP Release) / Uma Bloo / Star Tropics: https://www.facebook.com/events/2159208214169379/

On today’s episode, Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marie Howe, in a conversation with Micah Lott of Boston College, discuss the political possibilities of poetry: to bear witness, to inspire the moral imagination, and to provide perspective on our neighbors’ lives and the world around us. A poet, theologian, and group worker, Pádraig Ó Tuama is the leader of Corrymeela Community, an interdenominational church in Belfast dedicated to conflict transformation and church reconciliation. Ó Tuama has published and edited collections of poetry, essays, and theology, including Readings from the Book of Exile, Sorry for Your Troubles, and In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World. Working with groups in Ireland, Britain, Australia, and the United States, he leads workshops and retreats on storytelling, spirituality, and conflict resolution. The Poet Laureate of New York State from 2012 to 2014, Marie Howe has published four collections of verse. Her books include The Good Thief, which was chosen for the National Poetry Series by Margaret Atwood; What the Living Do, an elegy to her brother John, who died of an AIDS-related illness; The Kingdom of Ordinary Time; and Magdalene: Poems. Her poems have appeared in many publications, including the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Ploughshares, and the Partisan Review. Howe has received fellowships from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, and NYU. Rewrite Radio is a production of the Calvin Center for Faith and Writing, located on the campus of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. Theme music is June 11th by Andrew Starr. Additional sound design by Alejandra Crevier. You can find more information about the Center and its signature event, the Festival of Faith and Writing, online at ccfw.calvin.edu and festival.calvin.edu and on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Sunday, November 4, 2018. "What the Living Do," a sermon by Rev. Nathan Detering and Rev. Heather Concannon on All Souls Sunday.

The moral life, Marie Howe says, is lived out in what we say as much as what we do. She became known for her poetry collection “What the Living Do,” about her brother’s death at 28 from AIDS. Now she has a new book, “Magdalene.” Poetry is her exuberant and open-hearted way into the words and the silences we live by. She works and plays with a Catholic upbringing, the universal drama of family, the ordinary rituals that sustain us — and how language, again and again, has a power to save us. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Marie Howe — The Power of Words to Save Us.” Find more at onbeing.org.

The moral life, Marie Howe says, is lived out in what we say as much as what we do. She became known for her poetry collection “What the Living Do,” about her brother’s death at 28 from AIDS. Now she has a new book, “Magdalene.” Poetry is her exuberant and open-hearted way into the words and the silences we live by. She works and plays with a Catholic upbringing, the universal drama of family, the ordinary rituals that sustain us — and how language, again and again, has a power to save us.

After a few political episodes, Connor and Jack dig deep into a poem of loss and remembrance this week: Marie Howe's "What the Living Do" More on Marie Howe: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/marie-howe New episodes posted on the 2nd and 4th Friday of every month. Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/close-talking/id1185025517?mt=2 Find us on facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking Find us on twitter at: twitter.com/closetalking You can always send us an e-mail with thoughts on this or any of our previous podcasts, as well as suggestions for future shows, at closetalkingpoetry@gmail.com.

in which I ACTUALLY TO SOMEONE ELSE HOLY FUCK! WE EVEN READ POETRY AT EACH OTHER!!! twitter: @ASargusKlein Breezewood: http://asargusklein.wixsite.com/poetry kleinprince: https://kleinprince.bandcamp.com/ POEMS IN BIG LUCKS: https://www.biglucks.com/journal/andrew-sargus-klein A NOTE: Andrew talks about one of his favorite books, "Sara Or the Existence of Fire," but misnames the author, Moss Angel Witchmonstr (formerly Sarah June Woods). He deeply regrets the error. other things referenced: a suuuuper brief guide to the New York poets - https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/brief-guide-new-york-school Frank O'Hara - http://www.frankohara.org/writing.html Kenneth Koch - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/kenneth-koch Robert Creeley - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/robert-creeley some poems from Blood Dazzler by Patrica Smith - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96922274 A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman - http://www.dianeackerman.com/a-natural-history-of-the-senses-by-diane-ackerman Sara Or the Existence of Fire by Moss Angel Witchmonstr - http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/Default.aspx?bookid=9780982989692 short interview about Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers by Frank X. Walker - http://www.npr.org/2013/12/26/256869886/poetry-uncovers-legacy-of-medgar-evers-50-years-later interview with Marie Howe (What the Living Do) - http://www.npr.org/2014/04/25/306528499/poet-marie-howe-on-what-the-living-do-after-loss Song by Bridget Pegeen Kelly - https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/song Annals of the Former World by John McPhee - http://us.macmillan.com/annalsoftheformerworld/johnmcphee/9780374518738 Smells Like Content by The Books - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHNArEfBKdc

A Murder Over a Girl (Henry Holt & Company) On February 12, 2008, a beautiful morning in Oxnard, CA, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney and the rest of his eighth grade class walked to the computer lab with their teacher, Dawn Boldrin. As his classmates typed their history papers, Brandon quietly stood and shot 15-year-old Larry King—who for just two weeks had been wearing traditionally female accessories and identifying as “Leticia”—twice in the head.  Larry died in the hospital two days later. Psychologist and NYU professor Ken Corbett was unsettled by the media coverage that sidestepped the issues of gender identity and race, and went to California to attend the trial. In , A Murder Over a Girl, Corbett, a leading expert on gender and masculinity, details the case, and all the social issues still littering the American landscape eight years later.  The brutal murder begged the question: How this could happen? Ellen DeGeneres spoke out; Newsweek and The Advocateran cover stories. Once again, "a normal boy” like Brandon had taken a gun into a school and killed another student in cold blood. But others, still, wondered: How could this not happen?  In many ways this was a “perfect storm” of race, poverty, gun violence, and gender identity fueled by ignorance and fear. Brandon had been raised by drug-addicted parents. His mother shot his father days before their wedding, and his father later shot his mother in front of him. His home was a veritable culture of guns. Larry’s birth mother was a 15-year-old drug addicted prostitute. He had recently been removed from his adoptive parents’ home after reporting abuse. Larry identified as gay from the age of 10, and by 15 had realized he was a girl. He wore makeup and stilettos to school with his uniform and had asked the boy who would be his killer to be his valentine. Brandon says he was being sexually harassed by Larry and sought peace the only way he knew how. Nearly eight years later, we as a country are not on the same page on so many of the major issues at play: gender identity; sexual and racial equality; gun control; drug laws. Neither experts nor lawmakers nor voters can come to a consensus, and yet, teachers—most of whom have received no training in any of these areas—are thrust to the forefront in the classroom. Praise for A Murder Over A Girl: “Harrowing, humane, and utterly engaging, A Murder Over a Girl is a triumph of storytelling, delivering deep insight into gender and adolescence while drawing us into a fascinating narrative. It is a book very much of the moment, but at its heart it is a classic tale of human emotion.”—Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of The Orchid Thief “Ken Corbett was put on earth to write this stunning book, now, at a moment in our history when we need him to be our secret agent, our witness, our guide inside the maelstrom of this mad hatter court.”—PETER CAREY, Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The True History of the Kelly Gang “With great compassion, insight, and care, Ken Corbett takes us to the scene in which one transgendered child’s daring and vibrant bid to become a girl met with the murderous rage of a boy well taught in using a gun. A murdered girl is gone, a nearly undocumented life, yet her spectre lives on in this remarkable book, a narration that enters us into the minds of those who make hatred into a form of pernicious reasoning. A Murder Over a Girl is about youth culture, gender, school, and the failures of the legal system, about cunning reversals in argument whereby murderers are cast as victims, and the traces of the dead are nearly effaced. Corbett does justice to this death and to this life with a book both intelligent and loving, exposing a world tragically lacking in those very qualities, calling upon us all to intervene to halt gender violence before it begins.”—Judith Butler, author of Gender Trouble  “A Murder Over a Girl narrates a searing tragedy, meticulously laying out the aftermath of the crime, exposing the pathos not only of the victim, but also of the classmates, parents, jurors, lawyers, and others who had to grapple with the troubling nuance of the case. And in doing so Corbett unforgettably reveals the flaws of the American judicial system, the destructive influence of sensationalizing mass media, and the blindness of good intentions at the intersection of masculinity, grief, prejudice, and empathy.”—Andrew Solomon, New York Times bestselling author of Far from the Tree “I’ve never read a book like A Murder Over a Girl. It’s an account of a murder trial, the outcome of which is known; yet, the book is a hard-to-put-down page-turner. It achieves its extraordinary narrative intensity not through any sensationalizing of the facts, but rather through its author’s quiet authority, piercing insights, and his refusal to deliver hasty or easy judgments. Through patience, respect and empathy, Corbett allows us to see how dehumanization conceals a consequential and potentially fatal refusal to confront loss. And in confronting loss, this book renders justice, restoring to the memory of the victim her dignity, her vital subjectivity and her agency.  A Murder Over A Girl is magnificently written, shattering, original and immensely valuable."—Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America “There are events that break out of a culture as illness breaks out of a body. Ken Corbett has written an account of a crime yes, a trial yes, a tragedy, but he has also perceived a way for us to comprehend the gender dis-ease just below our cultural skin. This is a brilliant and necessary book.” —Marie Howe, author of What the Living Do and The Kingdom of Ordinary Time "One young teenager is dead. Another is a murderer. And all of our contemporary dividing lines--race, gender, class, orientation, homophobia, privilege, and fear of the unknown--are drawn in a California courtroom. Telling this devastating story with clarity, empathy, and insight, Ken Corbett brings his profound understanding of the minds of boys--their hopes, their dreams, their terrors, their longings--to bear in the service of making the unimaginable clear to us. This essential book will broaden your mind even as it breaks your heart." —Mark Harris, author of Pictures at A Revolution and Five Came Back  “Ken Corbett corrals the chaos and trauma of the King murder trial into a riveting story of the “cratered minds” that result from, and perpetrate, violence.  With an analyst’s attunement, he also takes us beyond the courtroom, imagining his way into the lives and minds of Brandon McInerney and Leticia King with nuance and tremendous compassion.  He gives a devastating account of the emotional landscapes of the school, the families, and the communities in which both murderer and victim were and were not held. Corbett’s determination that this crime be named and these lives be told results in a powerful and heartbreaking book.”—GAYLE SALAMON, author of Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality Ken Corbett is a clinical assistant professor at NYU in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy with a private practice in New York City. He is the author of Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities. Maggie Nelson is the author of The Argonauts, as well as an American poet, art critic, lyric essayist and nonfiction author of books such as The Red Parts: A Memoir, The Art of Cruelty, Bluets, and Jane: A Murder. The Art of Cruelty was a 2011 Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction. Jane: A Murder was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. Nelson has taught at the Graduate Writing Program of the New School, Wesleyan University, and the School of Art and Design at Pratt Institute; she currently teaches in the CalArts MFA writing program. She was awarded an Arts Writers grant in 2007 from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation. In 2011, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.

Marie Howe is the current Poet Laureate of New York State. She has published three volumes of poetry: The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, The Good Thief and What the Living Do. She is also co-editor of In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. Howe has been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Reviewand The Partisan Review. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.