Podcast appearances and mentions of mary jo bang

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Day 20: Mary Jo Bang reads her poem “Mary Jo in the Time of Sappho.” We are honored to be the original publication of this poem. Mary Jo Bang is the author of nine books of poems—including A Film in Which I Play Everyone, which was nominated for a Lammy Award, A Doll for Throwing, and Elegy, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has published translations of Dante's Inferno, illustrated by Henrik Drescher, and Purgatorio. Her translation of Paradiso is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2025. She is also the translator of Colonies of Paradise: Poems by Matthias Göritz and co-translator, with Yuki Tanaka, of A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi, forthcoming in 2024 from the Princeton University Press Lockert Poetry in Translation Series. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. Text of today's poem and more details about our program can be found at: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/ Find books from participating poets in our library's catalog.  Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language.  Queer Poem-a-Day is directed by poet and professor Lisa Hiton and Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the Deerfield Public Library. Music for this fourth year of our series is from the second movement of the “Geistinger Sonata,” Piano Sonata No. 2 in C sharp minor, by Ethel Smyth, performed by pianist Daniel Baer. Queer Poem-a-Day is supported by generous donations from the Friends of the Deerfield Public Library and the Deerfield Fine Arts Commission.  

Mary Jo Bang is an award-winning poet and professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. After finishing her sociology degree at Northwestern, she took a winding road to becoming a poet, working in medicine and photography before her first teaching job. Her path to poetry paid off: she's now published eight books of poetry, earned fellowships from Princeton University and the Guggenheim Foundation, and featured in The New Yorker and other publications. Join us as Professor Bang discusses her unique career trajectory and how she produced one of her most recognizable works, a pop-culture laden translation of Dante's Inferno.

By Gerard Manley Hopkins (read by Mary Jo Bang)

Related to acrostic, a poem in which the first letter of each line or stanza follows sequentially through the alphabet. See Jessica Greenbaum, “A Poem for S.” Tom Disch's “Abecedary” adapts the principles of an abecedarian poem, while Matthea Harvey's “The Future of Terror/The Terror of Future” sequence also uses the alphabet as an organizing principle. Poets who have used the abecedarian across whole collections include Mary Jo Bang, in The Bride of E, and Harryette Mullen, in Sleeping with the Dictionary.

Host Maggie Lam engages poet Paul Tran in a discussion about the intentionalities behind writing about trauma, their process of self-inquiry as poetic investigation, and what freedom / survival means to them. Paul shares stories from their roots in spoken word poetry, anecdotes of being in community with queer poets of color, and lessons passed down from mentors such as Rigoberto Gonzalez, Carl Philips, and Mary Jo Bang. Paul reads “Lipstick Elegy”, recently featured in The New York Times, from their debut collection All the Flowers Kneeling.

Smack and Gabi cover a lot of reading ground from March and April. Smack gives a teaser about her faves (further discussion pending Gabi catching up…some day); Gabi waxes poetic about feathered dragons, Faustian bargains, violin prodigies, and donut-selling aliens; and we both gush about a gross and incredible werewolf horror novel. Smack's been listening to a lot of popcorn audiobooks while Gabi pre-gamed for Book Crawl. We finish by reminiscing about nice dragons - one of our all-time favorites! Main books discussed include: The Light at the Bottom of the World by London Shah Stealing Thunder (#1) and Gifting Fire (#2) by Alina Boyden Fae Games trilogy by Karen Lynch Inferno by Dante Alighieri (translated by Mary Jo Bang, illustrations by Henrik Drescher) Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki Mongrels by Stephen Graham-Jones Impact Winter by Travis Beacham Rylee Adamson series by Shannon Mayer Hunt the Stars (Starlight's Shadow #1) by Jessie Mihalik Mr. Wrong Number by Lynn Painter Scorpica by G.R. Macallister So This is Ever After by F.T. Lukens DFZ trilogy by Rachel Aaron Heartstrikers (a.k.a. Nice Dragons) series by Rachel Aaron

S. Yarberry is a trans poet and writer. They currently serve as the Poetry Editor of The Spectacle. S. has their MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and is now a PhD candidate in literature at Northwestern University. S. is also the author of a new book of poetry A Boy in The City. A Boy in the City interrogates how our bodies both seduce and elude. Told through the lens of an intimate partnership, Yarberry explores the way we inhabit and are simultaneously distanced from our bodies–our loose seams, our disappearances and infinities, our longing among the brilliance and mundanity of the “streets and lights and strangers” of our cities. The collection feels like an easy Sunday morning a few months after a break-up; a raw nerve, romantic and splintered. Carl Phillips calls Yarberry a “defiant new voice” who “writes past the ‘festoonery' of gender and easy binaries.” Mary Jo Bang says the poems in A Boy in the City are, “incisive, erotic, artfully antiro- mantic and Paul Tran says, “Yarberry's gift to us is that we can become anything, too.” S. Yarberry Pronouns: they/them  Website: https://syarberry.com/

Celebrating the debut full-length poetry collection, Afterfeast, by poet Lisa Hiton. Lisa Hiton grew up in Deerfield and recently collaborated with the Deerfield Public Library Podcast as the founder and co-director of our Queer Poem-a-Day project. Selected by the poet Mary Jo Bang as the winner of the Dorset Prize for Poetry, Afterfeast is published by Tupelo Press.  Lisa will be doing a reading from her book Saturday November 13th at 1pm Central. You can sign up for in person or online attendance through Zoom.  The poems in Afterfeast often take as their subject trips to Greece, the legacy of the Holocaust, and queer identity (not to mention more mysterious metaphysical states), in an original and daring voice. This heartfelt and profound conversation, which includes readings from Afterfeast, explores how Hiton creates poems that dramatize the “immersion, then pain” of the process of entering into the space of poetry itself.  You can check out Afterfeast at the Deerfield Public Library, or find out more information about Lisa Hiton on her website: lisahiton.com.  We welcome your comments and feedback--please send to: podcast@deerfieldlibrary.org. More info at: http://deerfieldlibrary.org/podcast Follow us: Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube 

By Gerard Manley Hopkins (read by Mary Jo Bang)

Mary Jo Bang on her 15-year long translation effort to remake Dante's Divine Comedy for the modern ear. 

This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Ghost Forest, Sword Stone Table, The Final Girl Support Group, and more great books. Pick up an All the Books! shirt, sticker, and more right here. Follow All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices by Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot 1) by Becky Chambers  The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean  The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb M, King's Bodyguard by Niall Leonard  WHAT WE'RE READING: The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: ParaNorthern and the Chaos Bunny A-hop-calypse by Stephanie Cooke, Mari Costa The Stone Face by William Gardner Smith The Great Big One by J.C. Geiger The Letters of Shirley Jackson by Shirley Jackson , Laurence Jackson Hyman The Rules of Arrangement by Anisha Bhatia Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation by John Lewis The Director: My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover by Paul Letersky and Gordon L. Dillow It's Elemental: The Hidden Chemistry in Everything by Kate Biberdorf Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering by Scott A. Small Tall Men, Short Shorts: The 1969 NBA Finals: Wilt, Russ, Lakers, Celtics, and a Very Young Sports Reporter by Leigh Montville Awakening: #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women's Rights by Rachel B. Vogelstein, Meighan Stone Grand Dishes: Recipes and stories from grandmothers of the world by Iska Lupton and Anastasia Miari  Faking Reality by Sara Fujimura  Radha & Jai's Recipe for Romance by Nisha Sharma When All the Girls Are Sleeping by Emily Arsenault  Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise by Laura Silverman Prepare Her: Stories by Genevieve Plunkett Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body by Savala Nolan Trepczynski Secrets of the Force The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Wars by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman  Born Into This by Adam Thompson Such a Quiet Place by Megan Miranda All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle Stereo(TYPE): Poems by Jonah Mixon-Webster Always On: Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era by Rory Cellan-Jones A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan  The Lost and Found Necklace by Louisa Leaman Magma by Thóra Hjörleifsdóttir Embassy Wife by Katie Crouch The Therapist by B. A. Paris A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri, Mary Jo Bang (translator) The Mythic Koda Rose by Jennifer Nissley The Rehearsals by Annette Christie While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory  It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey The Verdigris Pawn by Alysa Wishingrad What Is a Dog?: A Memoir by Chloe Shaw Yoga Pant Nation by Laurie Gelman Appleseed by Matt Bell  The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration by Sarah Everts The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam Midnight, Water City (The Water City Trilogy) by Chris Mckinney Journey Beyond the Burrow by Rina Heisel T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us by Carole Hooven The Comfort of Monsters by Willa C Richards Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training by Adam Stern Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World by Giles Milton  Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge, Jeremy Tiang (Translator) I Couldn't Love You More by Esther Freud Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light: Essays by Helen Ellis To Walk Alone in the Crowd by Antonio Muñoz Molina, Guillermo Bleichmar (translator) The Freedom Race by Lucinda Roy The Right Side of Reckless by Whitney D. Grandison Love Lockdown: Dating, Sex, and Marriage in America's Prisons by Elizabeth Greenwood Look What You Made Me Do by Elaine Murphy  Margie Kelly Breaks the Dress Code by Bridget Farr Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night by Morgan Parker See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Mary Jo Bang joins us! We learn about the Bauhaus movement and an influential photographer named Lucia Moholy, whose works were largely stolen during her lifetime. Mary Jo Bang's collection, A Doll for Throwing uses ekphrastic prose poetry throughout to delve into the riches of the Bauhaus movement which flourished in Germany between the world wars and had longlasting consequences for modern art. With Mary Jo Bang's poem this week, we explore both ekphrasis (poetry about an image) and prose poetry (poetry with no line breaks). For the full text of the "Head of the Dancer," please see here (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/the-head-of-a-dancer). For the image by Lotte Jacobi about which this poem is written, please see here (https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/12067/). For more on Lucia Moholy, please see the MoMA here. (https://www.moma.org/artists/6922). For more on Mary Jo Bang, please see the Poetry Foundation here (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-jo-bang).

This episode explores new research, which has used ancient clams to reveal how days were half an hour shorter 70 million years ago. --- Read this episode's science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘An Autopsy of an Era' by Mary Jo Bang here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: sam.illingworth@gmail.com   Twitter: @samillingworth 

Recorded by Mary Jo Bang for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on March 16, 2020. www.poets.org

Mary Jo Bang joins Kevin Young to to discuss her translation of Dante’s Purgatorio, excerpts of which are featured on newyorker.com. Bang is a poet who has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Hodder Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. Her latest book is “A Doll for Throwing.”

Join Rachel Lousie Atkin and I as we discuss translations and The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (translated by Lucia Graves) Mentioned in this episode;Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda (translated by Martha Tennent)Behind the Critic blogBret Easton EllisAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisAlbert CamusJean-Paul SartreA Horse Walked into a Bar by David Grossman (translated by Jessica Cohen)Nausa by Jean-Paul Sartre (translated by Robert Baldick)The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Hugh Aplin)Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Jessie Coulson) Judas by Amos Oz (translated by Nicholas De Lange)The Vegetarian by Han Kang (translated by Deborah Smith)Inferno by Dante Alighieri (translated by Robin Kirkpatrick)Inferno (Illustrated Edition) by Dante Alighieri (translated by Mary Jo Bang and illustrated by Henrik Drescher)MacBeth by Jo Nesbø (translated by Don Bartlett)Penguins European Writers seriesThe Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (translated by Lucia Graves)The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFrankenstein by Mary ShelleyThe New York Trilogy by Paul AusterThe Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (translated by Lucia Graves)The Prisoners of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (translated by Lucia Graves) The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (translated by Lucia Graves)Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan CalifornicationGod Hates Us All by Hank MoodyYoungerMarriage Vacation by Pauline BrooksNadja by André Breton (translated by Richard Howard)Manifestoes of Surrealism by André Breton (translated by Helen Lane and Richard Seaver)The Skeleton’s Holiday by Leonora CarringtonThe Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Hugh Aplin)The DoubleAfrican Psycho by Alain Mabanckou (translated by Christine Schwartz Hartley) Find Rachel Lousie Atken online YouTube: Rachel Louise AtkinTwitter: rachelatkin_Instagram: rachelatkin_   Support the show via Patreon Social Media links Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.comTwitter: @translationspodInstagram: translationspodLitsy: @translationspodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/

May 19, 2016. Poet Mary Jo Bang discusses her work with Ron Charles, editor of The Washington Post's Book World. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7499

Rescheduled from Feb. 5: The Beck Series welcomes Maggie Glover '05 and Page Starzinger. Glover ‘05 is originally from Pittsburgh, PA. She received her BA in English Literature (Creative Writing) from Denison University and an MFA in poetry from West Virginia University, where she received the Russ MacDonald Graduate Award for Poetry in 2007. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Glover’s poetry has appeared in Verse Daily, Ninth Letter, Smartish Pace, The Journal, 32 Poems and other literary journals. Her debut collection of poems, How I Went Red, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2014. She lives in San Francisco, CA. Starzinger lives in Manhattan and has worked for thirty years in New York as copy director at Vogue and Estée Lauder. She is currently creative director for copy at Aveda. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Kenyon Review,TriQuarterly, Pleiades, Literary Imagination, Volt, and many others. In 2008, her chapbook, Un-Shelter, was selected by Mary Jo Bang as winner of the Noemi Contest. Her first book of poems, Vestigial, won the 2012 Barrow Street Poetry Book Contest, and will be published in May 2013.

Mary Jo Bang, poet and professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, reads Canto 3 from her work "Inferno: A New Translation"

In literature classes, we often turn back to study "classics" that are hundreds of years old, and while the core message of these works remain intact, the once-contemporary references to politics, the snide remarks about rivals, and the nuances of a word that has since taken on another meaning can go whizzing past our heads unless we are given notes and annotations to explain. How, then, can we make these texts as funny and engaging for modern audiences as they were for the original readers? Or should we allow these texts to become literary artifacts? Mary Jo Bang, poet and professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, explores the process she undertook in her recent translation of Dante Alighieri's Inferno, while Jessica Rosenfeld, medievalist and associate professor of English, explains why the Middle Ages are the origins of literature as we know it. In addition to the interview, you can find a reading selection from "Inferno: A New Translation" in a second podcast

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A lecture by Mary Jo Bang as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A poetry reading by Mary Jo Bang as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.