Podcasts about Monica Youn

Following the cancellation of PEN America's annual literary awards ceremony as well as its World Voices Festival, acclaimed poet Monica Youn joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about political protests and literary prizes. Youn recounts the sequence of events that led her and eight other finalists for PEN's $75,000 Jean Stein Book Award—as well as a number of nominees in other categories—to withdraw their work from consideration in protest of PEN's position on Gaza. She explains how PEN's efforts regarding Gaza and Palestine have failed to match its advocacy for writers in danger in other places, like Ukraine, and discusses whether the organization is living up to its mission to protect free expression. She also describes the situation for student protesters on her own campus, the University of California, Irvine. Youn reads from her most recent collection, From From. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Monica Youn From From Blackacre Ignatz Barter Others: "PEN America calls off awards ceremony amid criticism over its response to Israel-Hamas war," by Hillel Italie |AP News "The PEN Awards and World Voices Festival Are on the Brink of Collapse," by Dan Sheehan | Literary Hub "A Leading Free Expression Group Is Roiled by Dissent Over Gaza," by Jennifer Schuessler | The New York Times American Writers Against the Vietnam War | Wikipedia Fiction/Non/Fiction: Season 5, Episode 10: “‘How on Earth Do You Judge Books?' Susan Choi and Oscar Villalon on the Story Behind Literary Awards” Anthony Cody Mai Der Vang  Suzanne Nossel Natalie Diaz “PEN Union Cries Foul in Contract Talks as Criticism of PEN America Intensifies,” by Jill Milliot and Sophia Stewart | Publishers Weekly  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Librarians with Lattes, we're joined by returning guest Melody Palmer, library ambassador, and newcomer Stephanie Burt, Professor of English at Harvard University and author of We Are Mermaids: Poems. Tune in as we chat about transgender identity, D&D, poetry, Taylor Swift, and more! *This interview was recorded in March 2024* Music Credit: bensounds.com Discussion links From From by Monica Youn: https://bit.ly/4dcnQT1 She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan: https://bit.ly/3w2cuAq First Trans Poem by Amy Marvin: https://bit.ly/3WieAXE We Are Mermaids - Poems by Stephanie Burt: https://bit.ly/44g6mkq My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage by Susan Stryker: https://bit.ly/3QmuXOP Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems by Stephanie Burt https://bit.ly/44j6ShN Dimension 20: https://bit.ly/3UBJ9G8 Magpie Games Discord: https://bit.ly/4bdHxrA The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics by Ramzi Fawaz https://bit.ly/3xMhGZt Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men: https://www.xplainthexmen.com/ Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White https://bit.ly/3UAwymM The Handyman Method by Nick Cutter & Andrew F. Sullivan https://bit.ly/49XI5B3

Recorded by Monica Youn for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on April 20, 2024. www.poets.org

In Episode 11 of Multi-Verse, poet Monica Youn reads and discusses “Study of Two Figures (Agave / Pentheus).” In a conversation with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham, Youn explores representations of Asian identity in Greek myth and the immigrant family sitcom—"Euripides meets Margaret Cho." “Study of Two Figures (Agave / Pentheus)” can be found in Youn's collection “From From” (Graywolf, 2023), available here: www.graywolfpress.org/books/from-from

In today's conversation with poet Monica Youn we explore what it means to write from a poetics of difference rather than of authenticity, a poetics of deracination rather than identity. Youn's latest poetry collection From From engages with the history of anti-Asian violence in the United States but is always conscious of the ways this […] The post Monica Youn : From From appeared first on Tin House.

This week experience a hunger that harrows the body and soul and reminisce about that almost-was with eyes trained toward Italia. *** “Venice, Unaccompanied” copyright © 2003 by Monica Youn. From Barter, published by Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. All rights reserved. Venice, Unaccompanied *** Purchase Sonbol e-book or paperback. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Subscribe via Google Play. Support via Patreon Subscribe via Stitcher. Subscribe via RSS Feed. Check out the official Prose website. Follow on Instagram.

George Saunders, in an excerpt from his Art of Fiction interview, explains how his teenage job delivering fast food prepared him to write fiction; Monica Youn reads her poem “Goldacre,” which tells the truth about Twinkies; Molly McCully Brown reads her essay “If You Are Permanently Lost,” in which she confesses that “space makes no sense”; and Venita Blackburn reads “Fam,” a very short story about self-love and social media. This episode was sound designed and mixed by Helena de Groot, and mastered by Justin Shturtz. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Monica Youn reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in 2019 in Madrid, Spain. Monica Youn is a lawyer-turned-poet whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and many others. Her 2016 book "Blackacre" was long-listed for the National Book Award and was named one of the New York Times Book Reviews best poetry collections of 2016. This reading was part of an evening celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Civitella Ranieri retreat program. Hear a discussion of Youn's poem "Ersatz Ignatz" on the Close Talking podcast, here: https://soundcloud.com/close-talking/episode-022-ersatz-ignatz SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

The celebrated podcast returns for its third season! Join us on an audio odyssey through the pages of The Paris Review, featuring the best fiction, poetry, interviews, and archival recordings, from the world's most legendary literary quarterly. This season features fiction by Yohanca Delgado, Venita Blackburn, Bud Smith, Allan Gurganus, and Edward P Jones. Poetry from Monica Youn, Deborah Landau, Jericho Brown, Antonella Anedda, and Natalie Scenters-Zapico. Plus excerpts of interviews with Joan Didion, Robert Frost, Rachel Cusk, and George Saunders. This season includes the voices of Phoebe Bridgers, Connor Ratliff, Jessica Hecht, and Amber Gray. Check out this trailer for a preview of the upcoming season, and subscribe now to hear the first episode on October 27th, 2021. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recorded by Monica Youn for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 22, 2021. www.poets.org

In this episode, I have the privilege and joy of discussing art study rituals with the talented art historian and home Ed mum of three, Rebecca Jemmett of @meet.the.artists.family. Rebecca and I not only her rituals and practices around cultivating the love of art and artist study at home but; as with all my guests, we also delve into her why home educate journey as well as take a sneak look at some of thevhabits and passion that make her such a well balanced home-ed mum. Drawing from her vast wealth of knowledge, personal Home Ed practice and her recently launched series of comprehensive and diverse range of weekly art study resources, Rebecca lays a banquent of tips, insights and practical how-tos to spark the flames of a vibrant and creative art-loving home atmosphere. So, if you've ever wondered how art connoisseurs encourage art and creativity in their homes, then this episode is definitely for you! Do grab your favorite drink and notepads, find comfy seat as we serve yet another a delicious feast of artist/art study gems in today's episode. You can find more information and a detailed list of tips from this episode on the corresponding blog here: https://homegrownsonshine.co.uk/blog/ I would love to hear your thoughts. Join the discussion via our Facebook group: A Liturgy Of Love Morning Time Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/765110780907740 Other ways to connect: • Instagram https://www.instagram.com/homegrown.sonshine/ • Website https://homegrownsonshine.co.uk/blog/ • Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/homegrownsonsh1 Resources from this episode Rebecca's current range of four artist study courses can be found at https://www.meettheartistsfamily.co.uk/courses Other art study resources mentioned include: Homegrown Sonshine's A Liturgy of Love Morning Time Resource -Artist Study Guide- https://homegrownsonshine.co.uk/a-liturgy-of-love-alol-2/ Michael Bird's Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories: A Children's History of Art: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178067614X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_FZKHQYZDVE0K1RBTH882?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 James Mayhew's Katie Art book series- James Mayhew Katie 10 Books Bundle Collection Set: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/9444468453/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_5VETYPQATNZJGRK87MSE Poem 1: Stealing The Scream: by Monica Youn, Read by Leah Jemmett Backing Track Music: Reveller, Little Night Thoughts, by Dee Van Kay, Courtesy of FMA Poem 2: Ozymandias: by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Read by Kainan Awoonor-Renner Backing Track Music: Laare, by Salam, Senegalese band, Courtesy of FMA Theme music: by Kainan Awoonor-Renner All backing tracks:  Courtesy of FMA

In a special episode of the Poetry Podcast, Kimiko Hahn, Monica Youn, Paul Tran, and Megan Fernandes join Kevin Young to read their work, and to discuss Asian-American poetics and the role of poetry in our tumultuous times. Kimiko Hahn, a distinguished professor at Queens College, City University of New York, has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has published ten books of poems, including, most recently, “Foreign Bodies.” Monica Youn, a former lawyer and a member of the Racial Imaginary Institute, teaches at Princeton. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, she will publish a new book of poems, “From From,” in 2023. Paul Tran, a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, has received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and a 92Y Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Their debut poetry collection, “All the Flowers Kneeling,” will be published in 2022. Megan Fernandes is an assistant professor of English and writer-in-residence at Lafayette College. A finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize and the Saturnalia Book Prize, her most recent poetry collection is “Good Boys.”

Summer Weather report featuring a poem by Monica Youn

A Parking Lot in West Houston by Monica Youn

Guest host acclaimed author and poet IRENE O'GARDEN IN CONVERSATION with poet Rosalie Moffett, part of the Authors on the Air support for the 2019 Miami Book Fair. GUEST POET: Rosalie Moffett is the author of Nervous System, winner of the National Poetry Series, chosen by Monica Youn, forthcoming from Ecco press. She is also the author of June in Eden, winner of the Ohio State University Press/The Journal prize. She has been awarded the "Discovery"/Boston Review prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University, and scholarships from the Tin House and Bread Loaf writing workshops. Her poems and essays have appeared in Tin House, The Believer, FIELD, Narrative, Kenyon Review, Agni, Ploughshares, and other magazines, as well as in the anthology "Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets." She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Southern Indiana. GUEST HOST: IRENE O’GARDEN has won or been nominated for prizes in nearly every writing category from stage to e-screen, hardcovers, children’s books as well as literary magazines and anthologies.

Guest host acclaimed author and poet IRENE O'GARDEN IN CONVERSATION with poet Rosalie Moffett, part of the Authors on the Air support for the 2019 Miami Book Fair. GUEST POET: Rosalie Moffett is the author of Nervous System, winner of the National Poetry Series, chosen by Monica Youn, forthcoming from Ecco press. She is also the author of June in Eden, winner of the Ohio State University Press/The Journal prize. She has been awarded the "Discovery"/Boston Review prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University, and scholarships from the Tin House and Bread Loaf writing workshops. Her poems and essays have appeared in Tin House, The Believer, FIELD, Narrative, Kenyon Review, Agni, Ploughshares, and other magazines, as well as in the anthology "Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets." She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Southern Indiana. GUEST HOST: IRENE O’GARDEN has won or been nominated for prizes in nearly every writing category from stage to e-screen, hardcovers, children’s books as well as literary magazines and anthologies.

The editors discuss Monica Youn’s poem “Study of Two Figures (Pasiphaë/Sado)” from the February 2019 issue of Poetry.

It has been two years since Connor and Jack launched Close Talking! After 50 episodes, they decided to commemorate the occasion by looking back on an episode they particularly enjoyed on Monica Youn's "Ersatz Ignatz" To read the poem, go here or below: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53591/ersatz-ignatz For more on Youn: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/monica-youn To check out the collection Ignatz: www.powells.com/book/ignatz-9781935536017/61-0 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. POEM: Ersatz Ignatz The clockwork saguaros sprout extra faces like planaria stroked by a razor. Chug say the sparrows, emitting fluffs of steam. Chug chug say the piston-powered ground squirrels. The tumbleweeds circle on retrofitted tracks, but the blue pasteboard welkin is much dented by little winds. The yuccas pulse softly under the grow-light sconces. Here is the door he will paint on the rock. Here is the glass floor of the cliff. He’ll enter from the west, backlit in orange isinglass, pyrite pendants glinting from the fringes of his voice.

Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky joined poet Monica Youn to share recent work and exchange ideas, along with moderator Elizabeth Bradfield, local poet and naturalist on June 9, 2018 in the Hawthorne Barn. Robert Pinsky‘s recent book is At the Foundling Hospital, nominated for the Nation Book Critics Award in poetry. As Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-2000), he founded the Favorite Poem Project, featuring the videos at www.favoritepoem.org. His best-selling translation The Inferno of Dante received the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Harold Morton Landon translation prize. His other awards include the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Korean Manhae Prize, the Italian Premio Capri and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pen American Center. He performs with pianist Laurence Hobgood on CDs PoemJazz and House Hour, from Circumstantial Productions. Monica Youn is the author of Blackacre (Graywolf Press 2016), which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award, longlisted for the National Book Award, and named one of the best poetry books of 2016 by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and BuzzFeed. Her previous book Ignatz(Four Way Books 2010) was a finalist for the National Book Award. A former lawyer, she currently teaches at Princeton University and in the Sarah Lawrence and Columbia University MFA programs. Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of the poetry collections Once Removed, Approaching Ice, Interpretive Work and the forthcoming Toward Antarctica. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, West Branch, Orion and her awards include a Stegner Fellowship and the Audre Lorde Prize. Founder and editor-in-chief of Broadsided Press, she lives on Cape Cod, works as a naturalist locally as well as on ships around the globe, and teaches creative writing at Brandeis University.

When Claudia Rankine was recognized by the MacArthur Foundation in 2016, she used her $625,000 award to build an extraordinary Interdisciplinary Cultural Library to provide a platform for artists and scholars to explore the idea of race. Two curators for The Racial Imaginary Institute—essayist and painter, LeRonn P. Brooks, Ph.D. and renowned poet and lawyer Monica Youn—will lead a discussion of this new model of art curation, collaboration, and its role in lifting voices that are otherwise unheard through galleries and museums.

Connor and Jack discuss Monica Youn's "Ersatz Ignatz" To read the poem, go here or below: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53591/ersatz-ignatz For more on Youn: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/monica-youn To check out the collection Ignatz: http://www.powells.com/book/ignatz-9781935536017/61-0 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. POEM: Ersatz Ignatz The clockwork saguaros sprout extra faces like planaria stroked by a razor. Chug say the sparrows, emitting fluffs of steam. Chug chug say the piston-powered ground squirrels. The tumbleweeds circle on retrofitted tracks, but the blue pasteboard welkin is much dented by little winds. The yuccas pulse softly under the grow-light sconces. Here is the door he will paint on the rock. Here is the glass floor of the cliff. He’ll enter from the west, backlit in orange isinglass, pyrite pendants glinting from the fringes of his voice.

It's our first birthday! Rose and Alice went to the Camden Art Centre to see shows by Jennifer Tee and Daniel Richter. Both shows run until September 17th - more info at https://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Jennifer Tee's RESIST STACK OF BOOKS: James Baldwin, Go Tell It On The Mountain (1953) Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962) Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899) Cynthia Cruz, The Glimmering Room (2012) Joan Didion, The White Album (1979) Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850) Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak (1999) Han Kang, The Vegetarian (2007) Mary Karr, The Liars Club (1995) Bill Knot, I Am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems (2017) Lucas de Lima, Wetland (2014) Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn (1978) Maggie Nelson, Bluets (2009) Arthur Miller, The Crucible (1953) Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970) Adrienne Rich, Diving into the wreck (1973) Rebecca Skloot, The immortal life of Henrieta Lacks (2010) Dane Smith, [INSERT] BOY (2014) Mai Der Vang, Afterland (2017) Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982) Ronaldo Wilson, Poems of the Black Object (2009) Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (1985) Monica Youn, Blackacre (2016) Contact me via theexhibitionist.org, facebook.com/exhibitionistpod and exhibitionistpod@gmail.com - and, as always, leave a rating and review on iTunes. It helps new listeners find us, and makes me feel loved.

Monica Youn joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Afaa Michael Weaver's "Passing Through Indian Territory," and her own poem “Goldacre.”

Are America's elections now up for sale? The JOURNAl explores what the Supreme Court's decision means for campaign finance reform and the future of our democracy with progressive legal experts Monica Youn and Zephyr Teachout. Monica Youn directs the campaign finance reform/money in politics project at NYU's Brennan Center for law and Justice and Zephyr Teachout teaches law and politics at Fordham University's School of law. Then, America's workers need jobs, and AFl-CIO president Richard Trumka is calling on them to stand up and fight. Trumka joins Bill Moyers to offer his perspective on President Obama's first State of the Union address and on whether organized labor can grow and generate jobs in the 21st century. Trumka has previously worked as a coal miner, a lawyer, and president of the United Mine Workers of America. And, Bill Moyers remembers historian Howard Zinn.

Are America's elections now up for sale? The JOURNAL explores what the Supreme Court's decision means for campaign finance reform and the future of our democracy with progressive legal experts Monica Youn and Zephyr Teachout. Monica Youn directs the campaign finance reform/money in politics project at NYU's Brennan Center for Law and Justice and Zephyr Teachout teaches law and politics at Fordham University's School of Law.