Podcast appearances and mentions of Maureen N Mclane

Christmas is coming and we're feeling blissed out.... or are we?  The title of Jack Underwood's collection Happiness makes Robin happy, but so do Christmas carols, and nothing is ever as it seems on the surface. Meanwhile Peter gets all lyrical about lights and the seasonal slow boat to Guernsey, and in an extended book reviews segment we chew over some of our favourite collections this year including John McCullough's Reckless Paper Birds, Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic, Maureen N. McLane's What I'm Looking For and Caleb Femi's Poor.

Across five collections, Maureen N. McLane's poetry has won admirers for its distinctive mix of the humourous and the cerebral, a voice the London Review of Books described as ‘Somewhere between teenage fangirl and Wordsworth professor.’ The best of those five collections is now gathered in her first selected, What I'm Looking For (Penguin).McLane was at the shop to read from and discuss her work with poet and critic Sarah Howe, whose collection Loop of Jade won the 2015 T.S. Eliot prize. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Recorded by Maureen N. McLane for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on May 5, 2020. www.poets.org

What to do axe throwing, fire rabbits, and hair chokers have in common? Marguerite and Emily talk about all three of them on this week’s episode! If none of that sparks your interest, some other great topics you can look forward to include jewish witches, the President of Brooklyn (which Emily is announcing her candidacy for), and Bunnicula. So kick back, hit play, and dive in to the weekend with your two favorite poetry nerds— because yes, they do bring it all back to poetry one way or another. Featured Poets: Maureen N. McLane, Gala Mukomolova, Tina Chang Special thanks to Zach Adkins for the intro and outro music. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mps-podcast/support

Maureen N. McLane reads from her book My Poets. My Poets begins its first chapter ‘proem, in the form of a Q&A’, which is what you hear at the beginning of the recording. The second part of the recording is from ‘My Elizabeth Bishop / My Gertrude Stein’, the fourth chapter in the book,

Public Conversations: Uses of Poetry is the eighteenth episode of the Podcast for Social Research and features poet, scholar, and divagator Maureen N. McLane, author of Mz N: the Serial, among other works of poetry and criticism, along with BISR faculty member Rebecca Ariel Porte. Maureen and Rebecca talk art in a time of crisis, what it means to be contemporary, how poems happen, hybrid forms, the genesis of Mz N, lyric theory, and what, in the first place, poetry is for. Recorded live at Berg'n, this episode was moderated by Christine Smallwood, a founding BISR faculty member, and marks the first event of BISR's Public Conversations program, a series that puts members of the Institute faculty in dialogue with artists, writers, scientists, and other luminaries. Notations for this episode may be found here.