Podcast appearances and mentions of lucie brock broido

The queens swear to tell the hole truth, and nothing butt the truth to commemorate the 100th episode of Breaking Form.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. Read Carl Phillips's "As from a Quiver of Arrows." Or see Summit Chakraborty read it here (~3 min).If you want to know more about Bruce Weigl, check out the Breaking Form Episode "The Impossible."  You can also read "Song of Napalm" here or watch Weigl read it here (~3 min).Ellen Bryant Voigt's newest book is Collected Poems (WW Norton).The poet Ed Smith took his own life in 2005 at age 48; before that, he published two books, “Fantasyland” and “Tim's Bunnies” (1988). David Trinidad edited the book “Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith." Trinidad wrote a remembrance of Smith here. And David Ulin wrote a retrospective of Ed Smith's work for the LA Times.Watch this World AIDS Day commemoration that celebrates the works of Walta Borawski and Robert Ferro (recorded December 1, 2022)You can learn more about the incredible poet Christopher Gilbert here. We particularly recommend you stop your day and read his poem "How the Stars Understand Us"Read Thomas James's bio and peruse some of his poems here.  I've always really loved this essay on James's work by Lucie Brock-Broido and can't recommend it enough to you.You can read Aaron's poem "After All These Years You Know They Were Wrong about the Sadness of Men Who Love Men" as well as a little essay about the poem here on the Poetry Society of America's website. Also, go read Aaron's poem "Sissy" that James mentions loving. You can read James's poem "A Fact Which Occurred in America" here (though imagine it in tercets) and view the George Dawe painting referenced in the poem here. Explore Jill Alexander Essbaum's fabulous work here. Watch the fight scene in Mommie Dearest here if you don't get the "I am not one of your fans" reference. It's 3.5 minutes of high (but violent) camp.

The queens bust out their microscopes and examine poetic DNA. 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. "Romantic Comedy," writes Diane Seuss in her judge's citation, "is a masterpiece of queer self-creation."Some of the writers discussed include:Terrance Hayes (who'll join us for the Breaking Form interview next week!), author of So to Speak, which will be out July 18 and is available for pre-order.Listen to Etheridge Knight read "Hard Rock Returns To Prison From The Hospital For The Criminal Insane" & "The Idea Of Ancestry" here (~6 min). Galway Kinnell reads his poem "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps" here (~2 min).Read more about Herbert Morris here, and read his fabulous poem "Thinking of Darwin" here.Read Thomas James's title poem "Letters to a Stranger." Then read this beautiful reconsideration of the poet by Lucie Brock-Broido, who used to photocopy James's poems and give them to her classes at Columbia, before Graywolf republished Letters to a Stranger in 2008.Watch Gary Jackson read Lynda Hull's poem "Magical Thinking" (~3 minutes).Stanley Kunitz reads his poem "The Portrait" here (~2 minutes).If you haven't read Anne Carson's "The Gender of Sound," it is worthwhile & contains a crazy-ass story about Hemingway deciding to dissolve his friendship with Gertrude Stein.Read Lynn Emmanuel's "Inside Gertrude Stein" here.Read Anna Akhmatova's "Lot's Wife" here. Read Osip Mandelstam's "I was washing at night out in the yard" here. Watch Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon read her poem "Solace" and then discuss how her poem draws inspiration from science. Jennifer Michael Hecht's poem "Funny Strange" from her book Funny can be read from here. Manuel Muñoz is the author of  the short story collectionThe Consequences (Graywolf, 2022). He reads Gary Soto's poem "The Morning They Shot Tony Lopez, Barber and Pusher Who Went Too Far 1958" from Soto's 1977 volume The Elements of San Joaquin. You can read a tiny essay Muñoz published about Soto in West Branch, in a folio edited by poet Shara Lessley.

Bongani Kona asks poet Charif Shanahan about his latest collection Trace Evidence: poems (Tin House, 2023). Charif reflects on his family background, the intricacies of mixed-race identity in America, Morocco, the meaning of home, his education as a poet, love, shame and the worth of poetry. He reads ‘Colonialism' and ‘ “Mulatto” :: “Quadroon” ' from Trace Evidence. Bongani Kona is a writer, editor and lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the Western Cape He is a member of the board of PEN South Africa.   Charif Shanahan is the author of two collections of poetry: Trace Evidence: poems (Tin House, 2023) and Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry/SIU Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and in various other publications. He is the guest editor of the summer 2023 issues of Poetry Magazine. Charif lives in Chicago, Illinois and is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Northwestern University.  In this episode we are in solidarity with imprisoned Rwandan journalist Dieudonné Niyonsenga, who also goes by the name Hassan Cyuma. We call for his freedom. You can read more about his case here: https://cpj.org/data/people/dieudonne-niyonsenga/. As a tribute to Dieudonné, Charif reads Lucie Brock-Broido's poem “The American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act”. This podcast series is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Embassy in South Africa to promote open conversation and highlight shared histories.

We talk defiance, joy, and Dolly Parton's closet in Part 1 of our interview with poet and memoirist Lynn Melnick.  Buy Lynn's books here! Lynn Melnick is the author of the memoir, I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton, from the University of Texas Press's American Music Series/Spiegel & Grau Audio (October 2022).  She is also the author of three poetry collections, Refusenik(2022), Landscape with Sex and Violence (2017), and If I Should Say I Have Hope (2012), all with YesYes Books. She co-edited the volume Please Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets for the Next Generation (Viking, 2015). Check out her website here. Dolly Parton starred alongside Sylvester Stallone in the movie Rhinestone (1984), a musical based on the 1975 hit song "Rhinestone Cowboy" written by Larry Weiss. Although a critical and financial failure, the film spawned two top 10 country hits for Parton.Read more about Lucie Brock-Broido on her website here, at the Poetry Foundation here, or read her poem "Domestic Mysticism" here. Watch  the clip of Reese Witherspoon / Dolly Parton's tea-and-closet moment referenced in the show (and in Lynn's book).Learn more (and donate to) the Sex Workers Project, a national organization advocating for the human rights of sex workers and others, at https://swp.urbanjustice.org 

The queens spin into a frosty finish with poet and figure-skating stan Jacques J. Rancourt! What a way to celebrate our 50th episode!Please support the poets mentioned in today's episode by buying their books. Shop indie if you can; we recommend Loyalty Bookstores, a Black-owned bookseller in DC. You can buy Jacques's Brocken Spectre here.  Find Jacques J. Rancourt's website here. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @jj_rancourt. Read Jacques's “Golden Gate Park” from Brocken Spectre on Poetry Daily here. Writing for the Los Angeles Review Erica Charis-Molling says this of Rancourt's Brocken Spectre: “Much like the phenomenon after which the collection is titled, the search for answers is part ghost hunt and part investigation of an illusion. Through the eyes of these post-AIDS-epidemic poems, we thoughtfully look at the ways the virus is both a thing of the past and very much present.” Read the whole  review here. If you want to know more about what Tonya Harding (who was banned for life from the US Figure Skating Association) is up to these days, here's a pretty great article. Short answer: she's chopping wood, sending Cameo vids, and raising a son with her 3rd husband. Watch Harding become the 2nd woman (and first American) to land a triple axel in competition (1991 US Nationals) here around the 0:50 mark. You can read several poems by Adélia Prado here, courtesy of the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College.If you're into incredible jumps, you've got to see Surya Bonali's infamous backflip at the Nagano Olympics. (3:45 mark)Geri Doran's first book, Resin, won the Walt Whitman Award and was published in 2005 by LSU. Her second book, Sanderlings, was published by Tupelo in 2011. Doran's third book, Epistle, Osprey was published in 2019 (also by Tupelo) -- and we are sorry not to have gotten that right before the fact check! (Thanks, Katy Didden, for the help!)  Read "Tonight is a Night Without Birds" from Resin here. Watch Carolina Kostner's 2014 spellbinding “Ave Maria” performance here.  James's favorite Lucie Brock-Broido book is Trouble in Mind.  Read "Leaflet on Wooing" from that book here.  Watch Brock-Broido read "Freedom of Speech" here, dedicated to Liam Rector.Hear Lisel Mueller (1924-2020) read "Monet Refuses the Operation" here (~2.5 min).Check out Aaron Smith's latest book of poems, The Book of Daniel,  and James Allen Hall's book of lyric essays, I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well. Because it's Breaking Form, we'd be remiss if we didn't include at least one scholarly resource. Here's this article titled “Shirtless Figure Skaters: 14 Hot Hunky Men on Ice.”

You don't have to be good. You just have to be here.Please remember to shop indie and support poetry! We recommend Loyalty Bookstores, a great Black-owned bookstore if you are in need. Poets we talk about this episode include:See Prof. Harryette Mullen read some of her tanka diary poems from Urban Tumbleweed here (~15 minute video).You can see the fabulous Laura Kasischke read her poem "A is for Almost" here.  (~2 min)Miguel Murphy was interviewed on Breaking Form back in February. Check out Miguel reading with Sandra Lim and Randall Mann here.  (~58 min)C. Dale Young reads at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in this 5-minute clip here.Lucie Brock-Broido reads her poem “You Have Harnessed Yourself Ridiculously to This World” here. The poem is from Stay, Illusion , which was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award.You can see Randall Mann read his poem "Stalking Points" here. (~2 min)Frank O'Hara's book is Lunch Poems. You can see cutie patootie Frank read "Having a Coke with You" here. (~2 min.)Tim Liu presents 4 poems here (~10 min)Elizabeth Bishop, A Cold Spring. You can read "Crusoe in England" here. Paul Monette, Love Alone: 18 Elegies for Rog. The text of one of those elegies, "No Goodbyes," can be found here. Watch Mary Oliver read "Wild Geese" here. Aaron references a cover of Robyn's hit "Dancing On My Own" by Kings of Leon. You can watch that here. Also, if you haven't seen one of the most iconic performances on Ru Paul's Drag Race -- when Raven and Jujubee's lip synced for their lives against each other to this song -- it's worth finding (here's a clip that's good for now).Say Yes to the Dress returned in 2019 to help us through the pandemic.Elizabeth Bishop poems we mention the titles of can be found in her Complete Poems. You can read various Bishop poems as well as other writers' critical essays on her work on the Modern American Poetry website here. 

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Dion O'Reilly interviews Guggenheim Fellow Mark Wunderlich. He reads a poem by his friend and mentor Lucie Brock-Broido. He reads a poem by his friend and mentor Lucie-Brock Broido and from his latest book God of Nothingness

Mark Wunderlich was born in Winona, Minnesota and grew up in rural Fountain City, Wisconsin. He attended Concordia College's Institut für Deutsche Studien, and later the University of Wisconsin from which he received a BA in German Literature and English. Wunderlich earned a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University's School of the Arts Writing Division where he studied poetry with J.D. McClatchy, William Matthews and Lucie Brock-Broido, among others, and translation with William Weaver and Frank MacShane. His poetry collections include The Anchorage, Voluntary Servitude, The Earth Avails, and God of Nothingness.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's poem is Still Life with Aspirin by Lucie Brock-Broido.

When Lucie Brock-Broido, poet of the witching hour, sadly passed away in March 2018, we released audio of her reading "Infinite Riches in the Smallest Room," a title that's an apt description of her entire body of work. In our latest episode of SAL/on air, we are delighted to share her SAL reading in its entirety, which took place on April 2015 at Chihuly Garden and Glass. At the time of Brock-Broido’s visit, she had produced four astonishing collections of poetry: A Hunger, The Master Letters, Trouble in Mind, and Stay, Illusion, a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Books Critics Circle Award. "You have harnessed yourself ridiculously to this world," she read, words that ring true hearing her now.

For more on The Poetry Vlog, check out ChelseaGrimmer.com. Today's quick reading is from a book that influenced my work like no other: "The Master Letters," by Lucie Brock-Broido. I read her poem, "Asylum" from the larger collection, briefly touching on how this book and her life-work influenced my own. Hear her read her own work: (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/76656/extreme-wisteria) ● 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).

Marie Howe joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Lucie Brock-Broido's poem "The American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act" and her own poem "The Star Market."

For our October Narrative Medicine Rounds, we celebrate the work of the late poet Max Ritvo (1990-2016), whose acclaimed book of poems Four Reincarnations (Milkweed Edition, 2016) was written in New York and Los Angeles over the course of a long battle with cancer. We use the word "presence" in the title because the goal is to bring Max Ritvo into the room—not just through his poetry, but through his presence, so movingly captured in videos and audio recordings that allow him to read his own poetry for the audience. Poet Lucie Brock-Broido, who is Director of Poetry in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, will introduce the poet's work, providing context and connecting the many facets of Ritvo's work and world. The idea of "presence" also comes into play because the essence of his poetry is a presence-ing, a bringing near and being present in spite of any journeying off and going far. He is a poet of exquisite embodiment, a fact that is crucial to his essence and especially relevant for Narrative Medicine, which concerns itself with the power of the embodied presence, in spite of illness and even in the face of death. Ritvo's poetry and presence are death-defying, as expressed in Ritvo's own words: "Let room mean death or room mean life, but let the room always be full." Max Ritvo was also the author of the chapbook AEONS, chosen by Jean Valentine to receive the Poetry Society of American Chapbook Fellowship in 2014. Ritvo's poetry has appeared in the The New Yorker, Poetry, and the Boston Review, and as a Poem-a-Day for Poets.org. His prose and interviews have appeared in publications such as Lit Hub, Huffington Post, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Three of his poems will appear in the next issue of Parnassus; A Public Space has one of his poems in a forthcoming issue as well. Milkweed Editions has announced the 2018 publication of Letters from Max, a book of his correspondence with playwright Sarah Ruhl, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Lucie Brock-Broido is a poet, whose most recent book of poems, Stay, Illusion (Alfred A. Knopf), was a Finalist in Poetry for the 2013 National Book Award, 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her previous collections include Trouble in Mind, The Master Letters, and A Hunger. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, Best American Poetry, and The New Yorker. Brock-Broido has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Awards. She is Director of Poetry in the School of the Arts at Columbia University. Narrative Medicine Rounds: Speaking of Heaven: The Poetry and Presence of Max Ritvo. October 4, 2017 5-7PM Location: Faculty Club of Columbia University Medical Center, Physicians & Surgeons Building, 630 W. 168th St., 4th Floor, New York, NY

The prize-wining American poet Jane Yeh, author of Marabou and The Ninjas (both Carcanet) talks to Sarah Howe, co-editor of the winter issue of The Poetry Review. They discuss Yeh's use of dramatic monologue and the often fantastical personas she adopts (ninjas, rabbits, androids) to hilarious effect. “I think of Oscar Wilde's phrase, ‘the truth of masks' – how when you wear a mask it reveals your identity in a way,” Yeh explains. They also discuss contemporary art, installations and film and influences such as Amy Woolard, Stephen Burt, Lucie Brock-Broido and the work of fellow-writers Safiya Sinclair, Ocean Vuong and Timothy Donnelly. Yeh reads her poems ‘Rabbit Empire' and ‘A Short History of Patience', first published in The Poetry Review. To connect with more poetry, visit poetrysociety.org.uk

Lucie Brock-Broido reads and discusses with host Paul Muldoon a poem by Franz Wright and poem of her own.

Jennifer Michael Hecht reads Lucie Brock-Broido.

Sanjay S. Mehta (M.S., Ph.D., University of North Texas) is Professor and award winning educator and scholar of Marketing at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX.  He has presented and/or published over 150 articles at refereed conferences and in peer reviewed academic journals. His work has been published in numerous journal including: Journal of Asian Business, The Cornell H.R.A. Quarterly, Journal of Professional Services Marketing, Health Marketing Quarterly, Journal of Customers Services in Marketing and Management, Journal of Business Strategies, and Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship.  Harold Augenbraum is Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards. He has published seven books on Latino literature of the United States, including Growing Up Latino (1993, with Ilan Stavans), The Latino Reader (1997, with Margarite Fernández-Olmos), U.S. Latino Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers (2000, with Margarite Fernández-Olmos), the Encyclopedia Latina (2006, with Ilan Stavans), Lengua Fresca (2006, with Ilan Stavans) and, with five colleagues, the Norton Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature (2010). For Penguin Classics he translated Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition (2002), and the Filipino novelist José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere (2006) and El Filibusterismo (2011).   His most recent book was an historical edition of the Narrative of the Narváez Expedition, published in December by Lakeside Classics.  He will bring National Book Awards on Campus to Sam Houston State on March 31st, featuring writers Lucie Brock-Broido, Téa Obreht, and Gene Luen Yang.  

Trouble in Mind: Poems (Knopf) The ecstatic and ghoulish poetry of Lucie Brock-Broido is stitched together from fragments of poetic history. In this case, she writes a whole suite of poems from titles that Wallace Stevens listed in a notebook but never used. How does she arrive at her very original voice when quotation and appropriation are her constant strategies?