Podcast appearances and mentions of Mary Ruefle

We are so excited to chat with photo director/visual cultural commentator/incredible Instagram follow Emily Keegin about her Thingies! Also: some thoughts on where to get your gift guides this year, should you not be overwhelmed with them already. Thank you for respecting our decision not to do 2024 gift guides! If you want past installments, we have five year's worth here. For the freshest stuff, check out Helen Rosner's for the New Yorker, Goop (the modern Neiman Marcus catalog?), Caroline Moss of Gee Thanks!, Alisha Ramos of Downtime, T mag, The Strategist's searchable Gift Scout, and a roundup of Substack gift guides from last year (that'll point you toward this year's too, certainly).  Emily's Thingies include Thomas Tallis polychoral music from the 1500s (Fifty Shades–coded?), spraying perfume or hand sanitizer on your armpits and vodka on your clothes, passionfruit, Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle, and scrolling through someone else's Instagram feed. What are your Thingies lately? Please share with us at podcast@athingortwohq.com, @athingortwohq, our Geneva, or our Substack comments! Hire with Indeed and get a $75 sponsored job credit when you use our link. Learn from the best with MasterClass and get up to 50% off when you use our link. YAY.  

Poet Jessica Traynor talks about The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Linda Gregg's All of it Singing, and Mary Ruefle as she explores growing as an artist, a time of loss, and the joy of mystery in poetry as she tells Ruth McKee which books she'd save if her house was on fire.   Jessica Traynor is the author of Liffey Swim (Dedalus Press), The Quick (Dedalus Press), and Pit Lullabies (Bloodaxe Books), and is the poetry editor of Banshee. Her forthcoming collection is New Arcana, which will be published by Bloodaxe Books.

Who holds up a mirror to you? We're all on our journeys forward, trying to figure things out and understand our destination, and it's really hard to do that alone. So, travel with people. Travel with someone. Travel with a group of people. Now, one of those people, I think, should be someone who can say, this is who I think you are right now. This is where I think you are right now. It's the same person who can then say, look how far you've come. Look how you're a different person. They can see the growth and they can celebrate the change to find that person. Also, be that person for someone. Travel with them and speak what you see. Today's guest is Lauren Crux, a multifaceted individual with a diverse range of talents and experiences. As a psychotherapist, author, photographer, and performer, she brings a unique perspective to her work. She embodies the essence of self-discovery and growth, inspiring others to explore their own paths with courage and curiosity. Get book links and resources at http://2pageswithmbs.com and subscribe to the 2 Pages newsletter at https://2pageswithmbs.substack.com. Lauren reads two pages from The Book by Mary Ruefle. [reading begins at 17:16] Hear us discuss: "The far horizon has become the near one. So what do you do when you're looking over the edge? What becomes important?" [01:38] | "I just continue to learn and do my best to figure out how to love life even though I suffer a lot, you know, that sort of thing." [02:07] | "I love the wit and the humor and the absurdity. She uses this formal form of ‘one would, one doesn't.' These phrases, “I am of the surest that you would be…” It's ridiculous." [23:02] | "I love the ordinary everyday that becomes magical. And sometimes it just remains mundane." [24:43] | “I do a lot of fertilizing and a lot of watering and replanting. And I work at it. It's easy work, but I do work at it." [32:11]

This episode is a love letter to Mary Ruefle, as we reflect on a great reading of hers (available on YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=227__gQc8s4), from her book Madness, Rack, and Honey (https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/madness-rack-and-honey).

Close friend of Michael Silverblatt's and Bookworm editor for 30 years, Alan Howard guest hosts this episode on grief and loss. When the two met more than 33 years ago, Michael's first words were, “What are you reading?” It was a question that brought Howard back to literature. Over the years, Michael did the same for thousands of listeners. With Bookworm, he was determined to return literary fiction and poetry to the center of the zeitgeist. In the process, he faced the realities of loss and grief. In conversation after conversation with writers he was forging collegial friendships with, loss itself was a frequent topic of those friendships and conversations. We'll hear from Marilynne Robinson, Joan Didion, Jim Krusoe, Steve Erickson, Dave Eggers, and Mary Ruefle.

Today's poem is Crackerbell by Mary Ruefle. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Shira Erlichman writes… “Today's poem confronts the fork in the road where we are pushed to change. And though this push is ruthless and confusing and total, the speaker humbly persists. I learn a lot from that persistence, which could also be called self-love.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Mary Ruefle reads “The Effusive” from her prose collection The Book, published in September 2023 by Wave Books.

by Mary Ruefle

Host Mikaela Lefrak speaks with Mary Ruefle, Vermont's poet laureate, about patience, persistence and poetry.

The queens return to the Poetry Gay Bar and talk mixers & pretty dicks.f you want to support Breaking Form, please consider buying James and Aaron's new books.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.See Spencer Reese read "The Upper Room" from The Road to Emmaus here (~3.5 min)Watch the poet Ai read "The Good Shepherd" here (~3.5 min).A terrific ee cummings documentary can be seen here (~40 min). Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often written in all lowercase as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. Watch dame Judy Grahn read "I Have Come to Claim" (aka the Marilyn Monroe poem) here (~3:45 min). Hear Randall Jarrell read from his work at the 92nd Y (no video; ~40 min).Watch Ruth Stone give a full-length reading (~70 min) here. Watch Anne Hathaway read Dorothy Parker (~6.5 min) here.  (And remember to spell Anne's name right.)The Gallery of Beautiful Dicks:Pablo Neruda: watch a documentary on Neruda here (~46 min)Alexander Pope: watch a BBC episode on the genius of Pope here (~50 min). Rita Dove (listen to her on The Achiever podcast here)Claudia Rankine: watch her talk about Just Us at the International Literature Festival in Berlin here (~1 hour).Maggie Nelson: watch Nelson in conversation with Judith Butler here (~90 min).Mary Ruefle: watch Ruefle give a lecture about poetry here (~90 min).WS Merwin:  watch Merwin read here (~29 min). John Ashbery: listen to him read "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" (30 min) here. Gertrude Stein: Listen to Stein read "If I had Told Him" here.  Read Robinson Jeffers's poem "Birds and Fishes" here. The Trevi Fountain in Rome is an 18th century fountain designed by Nicola Salvi. You can watch a bit about it here. 

097 - On being in more than one place at a time as well as not following the news. What if the first bird I see outside my window becomes the headline of my day? On this detour into 'not being there', I give you Mary Ruefle's 'Receiving News of the Devastation of My Mind' from her book Trances of the Blast. I also share my latest draft, two sections of a longer poem excavated from past attempts at surrealist, plotless fiction. This is Atom Alicia C. I don't know how I got here but I thank you for holding space for my process.

Do good people make for good novels? In this episode, the author Lydia Millet, best known for The Children's Bible, a National Book Award Finalist, talks about her latest novel, Dinosaurs,  the story of Gil, an unambiguously good man who is determined to make the world a better place.  “I think books should have an agenda, but I don't think you should be able to deliver a one-liner about what that agenda is,” she has said. “It should be an agenda felt by the reader, sensed by the reader, but not fully known. In my work, often there's a sort of agenda of empathy.” Later in the show we'll discuss what agenda might be lurking between the lines of two of Lydia Millet's favorite books - the short, tight prose pieces in Mary Ruefle's collection, The Most of It, and in Mary Robinson's 2001 novel, Why Did I Ever. And we'll hear from Mary Ruefle herself, as she reads from one of the pieces in The Most It.

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. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.  This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.  Please check out my Patreon page at www.patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl to read about benefits offered to members and to sign up to help me continue to produce high-quality content, and a lot of it. The coming months are bringing standout writers like Justin Tinsley, Jose Antonio Vargas, Robert Jones, Jr., Allegra Hyde, Laura Warrell, and Elizabeth Williamson. 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Cindy Veach is the author of Her Kind, (CavanKerry Press), a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal, Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press), named a Paterson Poetry Prize finalist and a Massachusetts Center for the Book 'Must Read' and the chapbook, Innocents (Nixes Mate Press). Her poems have appeared in The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Series, AGNI, Chicago Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Her poem, "This Patch Where the Light Cannot Reach," was selected by Mary Ruefle for the Philip Booth Poetry Prize (Salt Hill Journal). Her sonnet crown, "Witch Kitsch," was selected by Marilyn Nelson for the Samuel Washington Allen Prize (New England Poetry Club). Cindy received an MFA from the University of Oregon where she was a Graduate Teaching Fellow and an assistant poetry editor for Northwest Review. She is co-poetry editor of Mom Egg Review. Find the book and much more here: https://www.cindyveach.com/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a poem about a landmark in your area. Next Week's Prompt: Write a spooky poem for Halloween. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Though poet and essayist Mary Ruefle was born outside Pittsburgh, she spent her youth moving around the United States and Europe with her military family. She has published over a dozen books of poetry, including Dunce (2019), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, My Private Property (2016), Indeed I Was Pleased with the World (2007), and The Adamant (1989), which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. She is also the author of the essay collection Madness, Rack, and Honey (2012) and the work of fiction The Most of It (2008). A Little White Shadow (2006), her book of erasures—found texts in which all but a few words have been erased from the page—reveals what Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called “haiku-like minifables, sideways aphorisms, and hauntingly perplexing koans.” Ruefle's erasures are available to view on her website; a full-color facsimile of her erasure Incarnation of Now was published in a limited edition by See Double Press.Ruefle's free-verse poetry is at once funny and dark, domestic and wild. Reviewing Post Meridian (2000), critic Lisa Beskin of the Boston Review observed, “Like John Ashbery and James Tate, Mary Ruefle investigates the multiplicities and frailties of being with an associative inventiveness and a lightness of touch; the purposefulness of her enquiry never eclipses the remarkable beauty of her work.”Ruefle earned a BA from Bennington College. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as a Whiting Writers' Award, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems (2003), American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006), and The Next American Essay (2002). Ruefle has taught at Vermont College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives in Vermont.From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-ruefle. For more information about Mary Ruefle:“28 Short Lectures: Mary Ruefle”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=227__gQc8s4Madness, Rack, and Honey: https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/madness-rack-and-honey“Becoming Invisible: An Interview with Mary Ruefle”: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/12/12/becoming-invisible-an-interview-with-mary-ruefle/“Mary Ruefle”: https://www.maryruefle.com

"You hear so much talk about risk-taking in poetry. Lying is a form of risk-taking, but no one talks about that." - Mary Ruefle"The End." - Me______________________________________________LINKS:Buy Madness, Rack, and Honey at WAVE BOOKS.Buy a "ME READING STUFF" shirt or sweatshirt HERE. See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE.Get free shipping on all books in my SHOP! (use Coupon Code "BOOK")And here's my WEBSITE. Thank you so much for listening. 

in today's episode, we explore the astrology of July 2022. this includes mars squaring pluto, mars + mercury leaving their home signs, the full moon in capricorn, venus entering cancer, the sun entering Leo, Jupiter stationing retrograde, and the new moon in leo.As opposed to the social butterfly, overbooking energy we had in June, this month things become more concentrated. Fewer decisions, fewer information streams. More tides, more connection, more internal + more quiet.we discuss —Mars squaring PlutoMars entering Taurus with the North Node + UranusMercury entering CancerFull moon in CapricornMercury cazimiMercury + the Sun opposing PlutoVenus entering CancerMercury entering LeoSun entering LeoMercury squaring MarsJupiter stationing retrogradeNew moon in LeoLINKSMentioned in the episode—Learn more about the Cosmic Calendar here!home—body newsletterWe read the poem “Magnificat” by Mary Ruefle on today's episode.Share what you'd like to hear in our next podcast season! Email us at hi@mgallerdice.comFree Resources —Watch the ReWild Self Care replayGet the 12 Houses of Astrology cheat sheet + learn more on the 12 Houses blog post hereStay Connected —Subscribe to the home—body podcast wherever you get your listens.join our free home—body PortalMary Grace's websiteLearn more about 1:1 sessionsThis podcast is produced by Softer Sounds. ✨Support the show

in which poet Dara Barrois/Dixon (formerly Wier) and i talk poetic process, poetic experience, and the difference between real and true... where to find Dara: instagram - darabarroisdixon twitter - @darawier Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina - https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/tolstoy-killed-anna-karenina other things referenced: Mary Ruefle - http://www.maryruefle.com/menu.html James Tate - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-tate Hyperallergic - https://hyperallergic.com/ Haiku: The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series edited by Peter Washington - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/186005/haiku-by-edited-by-peter-washington/ The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316841/the-poetics-of-space-by-gaston-bachelard/ First Cow - https://a24films.com/films/first-cow The Ruth Stone House Poetry Podcast - https://podcast.ruthstonehouse.org/

by Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle: "Mein Privatbesitz". Prosaminiaturen | Übers.: Esther Kinsky | Suhrkamp Verlag 2022 | Preis: 18,-- Euro

Gäste der Sendung sind diesmal der Sänger der Band "Zugezogen Maskulin", die hierzulande noch wenig bekannte Titanin der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur, Mary Ruefle, und ein Pfarrer, der regelmäßig Gottesdienste mit literarischen Werken wie z.B. Christian Kracht gestaltet. | Bücherliste und Themen: Hendrik Bolz, Sänger von "Zugezogen Maskulin", im Gespräch über sein Buch "Nullerjahre", Mary Ruefles "Mein Privatbesitz", Kristof Magnusson über Volker Kitz' "Konzentration", Thomas Böhm über Abud Saaed "Die ganze Geschichte". Außerdem gibt es die radioeins-Bücherliste, kommentiert von Thomas Gralla (Buchlokal, Ossietzky-Straße, Berlin-Pankow), ein Gespräch mit Pfarrer Jörg Egbert Vogel über seine Literaturgottesdienste in der Evangelische Hoffnungskirche in Berlin-Tegel und radioeins-Moderatorin Meili Scheidemann empfiehlt das Jugendbuch "Paule Glück: Das Jahrhundert in Geschichten" von Klaus Kordon.

Aus der Bestenliste-Jury diskutieren die Literaturkritiker*innen Julia Schröder, Gerrit Bartels und Michael Braun über Bücher von Damon Galgut, Mary Ruefle, Monika Helfer und Alois Hotschnig.

Kurztexte, Gedankensprünge. 2020 war Mary Ruefle für den Pulitzer Prize nominiert; in Deutschland ist sie so gut wie unbekannt. Charakteristisch für ihre Prosa ist vor allem der Umstand, dass sie ihre Leser jederzeit zu überraschen vermag.

Gäste der Sendung sind diesmal der Sänger der Band "Zugezogen Maskulin", die hierzulande noch wenig bekannte Titanin der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur, Mary Ruefle, und ein Pfarrer, der regelmäßig Gottesdienste mit literarischen Werken wie z.B. Christian Kracht gestaltet. | Bücherliste und Themen: Hendrik Bolz, Sänger von "Zugezogen Maskulin", im Gespräch über sein Buch "Nullerjahre", Mary Ruefles "Mein Privatbesitz", Kristof Magnusson über Volker Kitz' "Konzentration", Thomas Böhm über Abud Saaed "Die ganze Geschichte". Außerdem gibt es die radioeins-Bücherliste, kommentiert von Thomas Gralla (Buchlokal, Ossietzky-Straße, Berlin-Pankow), ein Gespräch mit Pfarrer Jörg Egbert Vogel über seine Literaturgottesdienste in der Evangelische Hoffnungskirche in Berlin-Tegel und radioeins-Moderatorin Meili Scheidemann empfiehlt das Jugendbuch "Paule Glück: Das Jahrhundert in Geschichten" von Klaus Kordon.

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Though poet and essayist Mary Ruefle was born outside Pittsburgh, she spent her youth moving around the United States and Europe with her military family. She has published over a dozen books of poetry, including Dunce (2019), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, My Private Property (2016), Indeed I Was Pleased with the World (2007), and The Adamant (1989), which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. She is also the author of the essay collection Madness, Rack, and Honey (2012) and the work of fiction The Most of It (2008). A Little White Shadow (2006), her book of erasures—found texts in which all but a few words have been erased from the page—reveals what Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called “haiku-like minifables, sideways aphorisms, and hauntingly perplexing koans.” Ruefle's erasures are available to view on her website; a full-color facsimile of her erasure Incarnation of Now was published in a limited edition by See Double Press.Ruefle's free-verse poetry is at once funny and dark, domestic and wild. Reviewing Post Meridian (2000), critic Lisa Beskin of the Boston Review observed, “Like John Ashbery and James Tate, Mary Ruefle investigates the multiplicities and frailties of being with an associative inventiveness and a lightness of touch; the purposefulness of her enquiry never eclipses the remarkable beauty of her work.”Ruefle earned a BA from Bennington College. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as a Whiting Writers' Award, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems (2003), American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006), and The Next American Essay (2002). Ruefle has taught at Vermont College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives in Vermont.From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-ruefle. For more information about Mary Ruefle:My Private Property by Mary Ruefle: https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/my-private-property“Becoming Invisible: An Interview with Mary Ruefle”: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/12/12/becoming-invisible-an-interview-with-mary-ruefle/“Mary Ruefle”: https://www.maryruefle.com

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. 

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In Mary Ruefles Prosaminiaturen wird das Profane, werden Obsessionen, Sehnsüchte und widersprüchliche Neigungen zum Katalysator von Erkenntnis. Es geht um die Banalität, wie auch um das Glück im Alltäglichen, aber auch um die Traurigkeit und die Vergeblichkeit menschlichen Tuns.  Von Angela Gutzeitwww.deutschlandfunk.de, BüchermarktDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

2020 stand die US-amerikanische Autorin und Dichterin Mary Ruefle auf der Shortlist für den Pulitzer Preis. Ihr jüngster Lyrikband war für den National Book Award in Poetry nominiert. Zum ersten Mal erscheint nun ein Werk von ihr in deutscher Übersetzung. "Mein Privatbesitz“, so heißt der Band, der 41 Prosaminiaturen versammelt. Gerrit Bartels stellt ihn vor.

Zum ersten Mal erscheint ein Buch der US-amerikanischen Autorin Mary Ruefle in deutscher Übersetzung. Ganz schön spät meint Rezensentin Shirin Sojitrawalla. „Mein Privatbesitz“ versammelt Prosaminiaturen über die Schönheit und Vergeblichkeit des Lebens. | Suhrkamp Verlag, 127 Seiten, 18 Euro | ISBN: 978-3518225271

Das neue Jahr startet mit zwei literarischen Schwergewichten: Der französische Starautor Michel Houellebecq veröffentlicht sein neues Buch fast gleichzeitig in Frankreich und Deutschland. Es spielt 2027 und heißt martialisch: "Vernichtung". "Zum Paradies" dagegen heißt das neue Buch von Hanya Yanagihara und auch das spielt zur Hälfte in der Zukunft - nämlich 2093. Eine virengeplagte Menschheit, in der gleichgeschlechtliche Liebe völlige Normalität ist (und vielleicht die einzige Freiheit, die geblieben ist). Außerdem bewundern wir das kleine Buch "Mein Privatbesitz" von Mary Ruefle und stellen einen neuen Roman von Ronja von Rönne vor. Musik hat der vielleicht größte Leser unter den größten Popstars geschrieben: David Bowie zum 75. Seine Hits hat Seu Jorge eingespielt. Michel Houellebecq - Vernichtung DuMont Verlag, 624 Seiten, 28 Euro ISBN 978-3-8321-8193-2  (Rezension von Wolfgang Schneider)      Hanya Yanagihara - Zum Paradies Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Stephan Kleiner Claassen Verlag, 896 Seiten, 30 Euro ISBN: 9783546100519   (Gespräch mit Beate Tröger)     Mary Ruefle - Mein Privatbesitz Suhrkamp Verlag, 127 Seiten, 18 Euro ISBN: 978-3518225271 (Rezension von Shirin Sojitrawalla)     Ronja von Rönne - Ende in Sicht dtv, 256 Seiten, 22 Euro ISBN: 978-3-423-28291-8 (Rezension von Carsten Otte)  David Bowie zu Geburtstag und Todestag DAVID BOWIE. Stardust Interviews Ein Leben in Gesprächen Zusammengestellt von Cornelia Künne und Juliane Noßack Kampa Verlag, 184 Seiten, 20 Euro ISBN 978 3 311 14005 4 (Gespräch mit Daniel Kampa) John O'Connell - Bowies Bücher. Literatur, die sein Leben veränderte Kiepenheuer&Witsch Verlag, 384 Seiten, 16 Euro ISBN: 9783462053524 Musik: Seu Jorge - The life aquatic Studio Sessions featuring

Today's poem is Tangerine Peel by Mary Ruefle.

Samples of Mary Ruefle, Lach, Dave Deporis, and more.

Im Jahr 1951 wurden die ersten sechs Bände der Bibliothek Suhrkamp veröffentlicht. Zum Jubiläum stellen wir drei aktuelle Bücher aus dem Herbstprogramm der Reihe vor. Für alle, die in diesem Jahr nicht zur Frankfurter Buchmesse fahren, präsentieren wir ausgewählte Bücher unseres aktuellen Herbstprogramms in einem zwölfteiligen »Suhrkamp espresso«-Spezial. Alle Bücher zur Folge: »Mensch Gott!« von Wolf Biermann: http://shrk.vg/MenschGott-P »Das Ereignis« von Annie Ernaux: http://shrk.vg/DasEreignis-P »Schwarze Spiegel« von Nicolas Mahler und Arno Schmidt: http://shrk.vg/SchwarzeSpiegel-P »Mein Privatbesitz« von Mary Ruefle: http://shrk.vg/MeinPrivatbesitz-P

Libri:..Tahar Ben Jelloun, Dolore e luce del mondo (trad. C. Caliò, Nave di Teseo)..Sam Shepard, Attraverso il paradiso (trad. A. Buzzi, Il Saggiatore)..Mary Ruefle, La mia proprietà privata (trad. G. Guerzoni, NN Editore)..Musica:..Bigazzi, Falagiani, L'arrivo, Il tempo passa, Stelle sull'Egeo, Tema di Vassilissa (Mediterraneo, colonna sonora)..Tinariwen, Nànnuflày (Elwan)..Calexico, Gypsy's Curse, Fake Fur, The Black Light, Missing (The Black Light)..Grant Lee Buffalo, Honey Don't Think (Mighty Joe Moon)..Keith Jarret, I Loves You Porgy, I Got it Bad and that Ain't Good, Don't Ever Leave Me, Someone to Watch Over Me, My Wild Irish Rose (The Melody at Night with You)..REM, E-bow, the Letter (New Adventures in hi-fi)..Puccini, Un bel dì vedremo (Madama Butterfly, atto II)..Canali, Lezioni di poesia (Nostra signora della dinamite)

In their funny and thought-provoking conversation by telephone, celebrated American poet Mary Ruefle and Review editor Emily Berry discuss starting poems and first lines; working to commission and no longer facing the blank page; writing letters, writing prose, humour and sadness and not being afraid of the latter; pins, paper clips, swimming and getting comfortable with what we don't know... Poetry is to be experienced as a phenomenon on earth, Ruefle says, “[it] is not be understood… it's a little scary but it's a matter of letting go”. She gives wonderful readings of her poems in the Review summer 2021 issue: ‘Lament', ‘Conflict', ‘My Life as a Scholar' and ‘Empathy of Cod'.

We read a selection from one of Mary Ruefle's beguiling essays, "TK NAME." Then we love the craft of it using the principles of Gateless Writing. If I offered you a space where you could write and read your writing within a safe community, a space where you could grow as a writer, a space where you could break through your creative blocks, would you join me? If you're tired of working in a bubble, then you're ready for Read To Me Gateless Writing Salons. Join at readtomepod.com.

Jordan visits with poet Mary Ruefle at her home in Vermont for a conversation about the passage of time, the both-sides-ness of thresholds, memory -- and the best way to cook an egg. Mary Ruefle is the author Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize and the 2019 LA Times Book Prize and was long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award and the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. She's also written many other books including My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016), Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013), Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has also published a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed! (Pilot Books/Orange Table Comics, 2007), and is an erasure artist, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries and published in A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006). Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Robert Creeley Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington, Vermont. This episode is brought to you by the House of CHANEL, creator of the iconic J12 sports watch. Always in motion, the J12 travels through time without ever losing its identity. For more Thresholds, visit us at www.thisisthresholds.com Be sure to subscribe and leave us a review! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://better-read.com/2021/06/21/ep-99-ash-davida-jane/ Ash reads both poems at the start of this podcast but you can read ‘Kiss of the Sun' by Mary Ruefle here https://www.ronnowpoetry.com/contents/ruefle/KissoftheSun.html And ‘pool party' is in Ash's collection How to Live with Mammal is published by VUP Some of the things we talk about are: Heather Christle's The Crying Book Intan Paramaditha's choose your own adventure novel The Wandering Vivian Gornick's The Situation and the Story Here is an interview with David Wallace-Wells who wrote The Uninhabitable Earth: A story of the future

This is a series that offers you the opportunity to delve into the work of various poets. This episode features Miller Williams, Leroy v. Quintana, Mary Ruefle, Dan brown and Tom wayman. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/robin-norgren/support

by Mary Ruefle

Host editors Claire Bowman and Annar Veröld discuss their experience of quarantine, and share some poetry they've turned to during the pandemic, including poems by Mary Ruefle and Dulce María Loynaz. 

Tonight I'm taking you to bed with a little bit of poetry from writers you may know and writers you should know. Enjoy! Writers in order: - Momo I ig: moologist - Zhanel Speaks I ig: zhanelspeaks - Almost Blue and Starmarker by Beloved I ig: khxlil_ - Wine & Honey, Maybe, and A Prayer by Caesar I ig: saysahr - a cachoeria lullaby and the day before. by Doriana Diaz I ig: bydorianadiaz - (Untitled)(both) by Mia Marion I ig: wipmia - when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story by Gwendolyn Brooks - "I loved you first: but afterwards your love" by Christina Rossetti - The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel - I'll Walk the Tightrope and Garnishing the Aviary by Margaret Danner - Standing Furthest and Kiss of the Sun by Mary Ruefle [tips are always welcome! cashapp/venmo $anghc]

Dunce, by Mary Ruefle, finds meaning everywhere.

In three segments, this Hive episode is dripping with fresh nectar, and chock full of an exploration of what poetry can mean. Lisa Allen Ortiz introduces a new segment called “Prosetry.” Her subject this episode is Mary Ruefle. Farnaz Fatemi is joined by the visual artist Marnie Briggs on her segment, “Poetry In The World.” Armando Alcaraz and Danusha Laméris read poems in Spanish and English by Luis Cernuda. Mentioned in the show: http://maryruefle.com https://marniebriggs.com Marnie Briggs on Instagram: @mar_nie

Mary Ruefle reads the entirety of her glorious and gruesome essay about shrunken heads, the title essay in her book My Private Property.

Mary Ruefle brings refreshment and beauty to basic instincts and, in the process, creating mystery, surprise and, well, yes, poetry.

Selected Poems (Wave Books)When you hear Mary Ruefle reading her poems, you will quickly become entranced by their accessibility: they are funny and heartbreaking—simultaneously...