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The group gathers in the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Rae Armantrout's "Further Thought" and "Here I Go."
The queens prove that it's not the size of the ship but the motion etc etc in this episode devoted to short poems.Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Pretty Please with Aaron's cherry on top..... Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Poems we mention in the show include:A.R. Ammons's "Their Sex Life"Rae Armantrout's "Anti-Short Story" and "Custom"Mahogany L. Browne's "Marigold." Listen to it read here.Andrea Cohen's "After" and "Matinee" and "Flight Pattern" and "Ghosting"Robert Creeley, "The Answer"Jim Harrison's "Another Country" and "Barking"Jane Hirshfield's "Like Others" and to "The Woman, The Tiger." You can hear her read that poem here (at the 18:12 mark).Sandra Lim, "Just Disaster" and "At the Other End of the Wire" and "Endings"Listen to Sandra Lim read her poems (~40 minutes) with many short poems at the end. Samuel Menashe's "Adam Means Earth" and "Apotheosis"Harryette Mullen's "Way Opposite"Kay Ryan's "Winter Fear" Listen/watch the music video for Gilette's "Short, Short Man" here.
Rae Armantrout joins Kevin Young to read “Mother,” by Dorothea Lasky, and her own poem “Finally.” Armantrout's many books include “Go Figure,” “Finalists,” “Conjure,” and “Wobble.” Her collection “Versed” won a National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Pulitzer Prize winner reads from her new book GO FIGURE.
On tour in Oz! Show notes Rae Armantrout Modern & Contemporary American Poetry with Al Filreis Michael Farrell In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound Georgic by Kate Liley Lionel Fogarty Go Figure by Rae Armantrout Rae's poems The Way and Travelling through the Yard Travelling through the Dark by William Stafford Pam … Continue reading "Ep 282. Rae Armantrout: No arrow of time"
Recorded by Rae Armantrout for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 13, 2024. www.poets.org
Mary-Alice Daniel was born near the Niger/Nigeria border and raised in England and Tennessee. A cross-genre writer, she has published work in New England Review, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, The Yale Review, and several journals and anthologies. Mass for Shut-Ins, her first book of poetry, won the Yale Younger Poets Prize and was released in March 2023. Selecting her manuscript, Rae Armantrout called it “Flowers of Evil for the 21st century.” Daniel's transcontinental memoir, A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing (Ecco/HarperCollins 2022), was People's Book of the Week and one of Kirkus Review's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year. An alumna of Yale University and the University of Michigan's Writers' MFA, she turns to her third and fourth books, supported by fellowships from Brown University and Cave Canem. Holding a PhD from USC, she is recalled to California for the third time as the 2024 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Writing at Scripps College. In the 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Mary-Alice Daniel confronts culture shock and her curious placement within many worlds. African and Western mythic systems and modern rituals animate an ill-omened universe. Here, it is always night, grim night, under absurd moons. Venturing through dreamscapes, hellscapes, and lurid landscapes, the poems stray inside speculative fields of spiritual warfare. This collection is controlled chaos powered by nightmare fuel. It engineers an utterly odd organism: a cosmology cobbled with scripture, superstition, mass media, mad science. Horrid, holy, unholy—these pages overrun with the unhinged, intrusive thoughts that obsess us all late into nighttime.
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Wayne David Hubbard is an author of poetry, essays, and short stories. His literary works explore – both directly and abstractly – aspects of science, philosophy, history, and culture across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Synopsis: In his debut poetry collection, Death Throes of the Broken Clockwork Universe, Wayne David Hubbard illustrates journeys through physical space and abstract worlds of emotion. Combining choreological precision with playfulness, readers enter the mind's eye of a poet standing along the shoreline of powerful forces that shape all lives: time, place, and love. Written over a ten-year period, the collection calls to mind the poetry of Lorine Niedecker, Rae Armantrout, Larry Eigner, and Carl Phillips. Importantly, these poems resist thick, impenetrable themes, instead celebrating ordinal wonders of life that are hidden in open view. This spare book offers strong, memorable imagery and questions that will delight thoughtful readers. https://waynedavidhubbard.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Wayne-David-Hubbard/e/B096644MJG?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1669130464&sr=1-1
On tour in Australia from Finland, Nicholas Powell walks me through his new book, Trap Landscape. Joan Fleming's launch Reagan Sova's book trailer Ep 42. with Alan Wearne on Frank Stanford SLEERICKETS Ep 60: Too Many Manifestos My appearance on The Imposter Syndrome Club podcast Rae Armantrout's poem Our Days Archives Fine Books Ep 155. … Continue reading "Ep 182. Nicholas Powell on taking cheeky seriously"
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The first time Rae Armantrout came on the show, in 2017, we looked at her poetry through the lens of her interest in quantum physics. Now, five years later, with the release of this double collection of poems, we look at her career-long desire to cultivate a poetics that encourages life to interrupt and interject […] The post Rae Armantrout : Finalists appeared first on Tin House.
This week, Zohar is joined by acclaimed poet Rae Armantrout to talk about the meaning of influence, the importance of artistic community, how poetry is like prophecy, whether art guards against paranoia or induces it, and how to juggle aesthetic complexity with ethical commitment and political urgency. Meditations with Zohar is sponsored by Cometeer, an exceptional new coffee company using cutting-edge technology to preserve and deliver specialty coffee in its purest, most original form. Use the link cometeer.com/zohar to get $20 off your first order. Read more from Zohar at his Torah newsletter Etz Hasadeh or his philosophy newsletter What is Called Thinking. Meditations with Zohar is a production of SoulShop and Lyceum Studios.
This week, Zohar is joined by acclaimed poet Rae Armantrout to talk about the meaning of influence, the importance of artistic community, how poetry is like prophecy, whether art guards against paranoia or induces it, and how to juggle aesthetic complexity with ethical commitment and political urgency. Meditations with Zohar is sponsored by Cometeer, an exceptional new coffee company using cutting-edge technology to preserve and deliver specialty coffee in its purest, most original form. Use the link cometeer.com/zohar to get $20 off your first order. Read more from Zohar at his Torah newsletter Etz Hasadeh or his philosophy newsletter What is Called Thinking. Meditations with Zohar is a production of SoulShop and Lyceum Studios.
Connor and Jack conclude their exploration of poetic line breaks with a bit of a catch all episode looking at how line breaks can reveal information, play with time, and enhance surprise. They pull examples from Audre Lorde, Chris Tse, Rae Armantrout, and Emily Dickinson. There's even time for mentions of laminated dough and Indiana Jones. Episode 1 of Line Break Week - Why break lines?: https://soundcloud.com/close-talking/episode-157-why-break-a-line-line-break-week-ep-1 Episode 2 of Line Break Week - Drama: https://soundcloud.com/close-talking/episode-158-who-will-bring-the-drama-the-line-break-line-break-week-ep-2 Episode 3 of Line Break Week - Miming: https://soundcloud.com/close-talking/episode-159-dramas-silent-cousin-miming-with-line-breaks-line-break-week-ep-3 Episode 4 of Line Break Week - Emphasis: https://soundcloud.com/close-talking/episode-160-using-poetic-line-breaks-for-emphasis-line-break-week-ep-4 Episode 5 of Line Break Week - Rhythm: https://soundcloud.com/close-talking/episode-161-from-meters-to-measures-rhythm-in-line-breaks-line-break-week-ep-5 Episode 6 of Line Break Week - Ambiguity: https://soundcloud.com/close-talking/episode-162-ambiguity-in-line-breaks-line-break-week-ep-6 Find us on Facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking Find us on Twitter at: twitter.com/closetalking Find us on Instagram: @closetalkingpoetry 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.
On today's episode of Acid Horizon, we are joined by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rae Armantrout to discuss her most recent collection of poetry entitled Finalists. We discussed the often explicitly philosophical dimension of Rae's writing, particularly as it relates to notions of consciousness, cybernetics, and psychoanalysis. Finalists is now out from Wesleyan press. You can purchase the book using the link below.Buy Finalists: https://www.weslpress.org/9780819580672/finalists/Links for Zack: Buried Text (http://poeticsinstitute.com); philosophy twitch streams every M-F (http://twitch.tv/luminancebloom)Subscribe to Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comSubscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiZer0 Books YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Zer0BooksHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comDestratified (Matt's Blog): https://destratified.com/Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.comSplit Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast)
It's time for sexy lit crit, darlings!As always, buy from indies! We recommend Loyalty Bookstores, a Black-owned DC bookstore. Shop here!Tina Turner (born Nov. 26, 1939—Sagittarius) has sold over 100 MM records, received 12 Grammys, and been inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame twice. She is the 1st Black artist and 1st woman to grace Rolling Stone's cover. Watch her 2005 Kennedy Center Honors (with Oprah, Queen Latifah, Melissa Etheridge, and Beyonce) here. (~20 min)Ann Peebles wrote and sang the original version of "I Can't Stand the Rain." Listen here. Watch Camille Rankine read Shepherd's poem "Paradise" here. (-3 min) Rae Armantrout is an Aries (April 13). Read 11 of her poems here on Granta. Read Dorianne Laux's "Fast Gas" here. Watch Eula Biss read from and discuss No Man's Land here (~60 min).James L. White (b. March 26--Aries) wroteThe Salt Ecstasies (Graywolf, 1982). Read four of White's poems (including "Making Love to Myself," which we reference) here.Watch Tim Dlugos read his heartwrenching poem, "G-9" (~15 min) about the AIDS ward at Roosevelt Hospital. You can also read the poem here. If you haven't read TERFy Adrienne Rich's essay on Dickinson, "Vesuvius at Home," it's here. The Williams we quote is from "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"; an excerpt is here. You can hear Robert Frost read "The Road Not Taken" here (with music by Chris Coleman, ~ 2 min.)Listen to Marianne Moore read her poem "Bird-Witted" here. (~2 min.)Percy Bysse Shelley (b. Aug 4—Leo) was married to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. He wrote things too, including "Adonais," which you can watch Mick Jagger read here. You can listen to Plath (Scorpio) read her poems here (about an hour).William Wordsworth (b. April 17, 1770—Aries) wrote that "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings…." You can watch J'Kobe Wallace, 2015 North Dakota State Poetry Out Loud champ, recite "Daffodils" here. Watch Allen Ginsberg interviewed on Letterman here (~11 min).Horace (b. December 8, 65 BCE—Sagittarius) coined the term "carpe diem." Watch a really hot guy recite that ode in Latin here (with Spanish subtitles, ~1 min).Watch this iconic performance of Auden's poem "Funeral Blues" in Four Weddings and a Funeral (~2 min).Brenda Hillman, "Male Nipples" hereDucking
La doma de leones tiene como objetivo que pensemos que la ferocidad de los leones es ficticia. Que domemos leones tiene como objetivo parodiar la idea del dominio humano de la tierra. Claro que toda idea es un tanteo a ciegas. Pero un poema tiene como objeto volverse el contenido de esa idea. Una idea es un guiso que alguien cuida.
Mary & Wyatt do some breathing exercises, get grounded, and chat about anxiety. They talk about how humans evolved to be susceptible to stress and anxiety, how marginalized communities experience anxiety differently, and what we can do to treat our symptoms. Wyatt tells a cautionary tale about benzodiazepines and talks about the magical wonders of cognitive behavioral therapy. Also on the agenda: we answer Yahoo! Answers, Mary has a Christmas album coming out, our dog got injured again, and poems by Rae Armantrout and Nina Powles.
'Pretty Little' by Rae Armantrout. 'Pretty Little' will appear in Rae Armantrout's forthcoming collection, 'Conjure' to be published by Wesleyan University Press in September 2020. More from Rae Armantrout can be found at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rae-armantrout and https://poets.org/poet/rae-armantrout
On this episode, we read and discuss poetry from some of our favorites, including Tao Lin, Andrea Gibson, Rae Armantrout, Olivia Gatwood, and more! We also laugh out loud and get distracted. Enjoy! Got art? Suggestions? Comments? Email them to us at goodreadsbetterfriendspodcast@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/good-reads-better-friends/support
Recorded by Rae Armantrout for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on May 8, 2020. www.poets.org
Head on over to our website to see some visual poetry by Chrissy this week, in the style of e.e. cummings. Jacquie tackles the poetry of Rae Armantrout and apparently we hit sicko mode. Happy listening!
Two acclaimed award-winners join Rachael and Jack in the studio in our fourth episode of the second series: the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Rae Armantrout and the Scottish poet Don Paterson, twice winner of the T. S Eliot Prize and recipient of all three Forward Poetry Prizes, the Costa Poetry Prize and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. This episode also features audio postcards from Daljit Nagra, Sylvia Legris and Zeyar Lynn and ko ko thett. See here ( https://www.faber.co.uk/blog/the-faber-poetry-podcast-rae-armantrout-and-don-paterson) for the full show notes, author bios and links. Listen to this episode and subscribe to the podcast so you don’t miss forthcoming episodes from the new season and (should you be so inclined) please rate and review us so that other poetry-lovers can discover the show. Thank you for listening!
Connor and Jack talk about the poem "And" by Rae Armantrout. Connor asks, "Why is this a poem?" Jack expounds upon Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, and both burrow deep into the strange roots and meanings of words. Read the poem below. More on Rae Armantrout, here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rae-armantrout 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. And By: Rae Armantrout 1 Tense and tenuous grow from the same root as does tender in its several guises: the sour grass flower; the yellow moth. 2 I would not confuse the bogus with the spurious. The bogus is a sore thumb while the spurious pours forth as fish and circuses.
In which Joel and Basie talk about Rae Armantrout's "Yonder," first published in the 13 issue of Shiny. You can read the poem here: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/yonder If you want to read a whole bunch of postmodern poetry, check out the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, edited by Paul Hoover. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Email us at betweenoceansandgoldteeth@gmail.com. Subscribe if you never want to miss an episode, and please, tell your friends about us. Between Oceans and Gold Teeth is a product of Accordion Productions. It is hosted by Basie Cobine and Joel Watson. Sound engineering by Joel Watson, editing by Basie Cobine.
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“For nearly 40 years Armantrout has made a poetics of not finding the right words–of finding, in fact, the ‘wrong’ ones . . . Armantrout restores the strangeness of experiences we take for granted.”—Michael Robbins, Chicago Tribune “Hoopskirts, star jasmine, synchronized swimming, Russian icons, a ceramic fish face, electrons & photons: in these poems, everything […] The post Rae Armantrout : Partly – New & Selected Poems appeared first on Tin House.
In advance of our upcoming event Entanglements: Rae Armantrout and the Poetry of Physics, we have a bonus episode: a conversation between the inimitable poet Rae Armantrout and Clarke Center cosmologist Brian Keating. Enjoy! And join us April 13, 2016 at UC San Diego for a evening with Rae, Brian, the writer Brandon Som, and the critic Amelia Glaser in conversation on how Rae's poems mix the personal with the scientific and speculative, the process of interdisciplinary creativity, and what her poetic engagement with physics can teach those working in the physical sciences.
Separated by 1,200 years and half the globe, Armantrout and Li Po each address their own presence and absence
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Rae Armantrout, Laynie Browne, and Kerry Sherin Wright.
Laynie Browne, Rae Armantrout, and Kerry Sherin Wright join Al Filreis to discuss two short poems by Fanny Howe, "The Descent" and "The Source."
Rae Armantrout joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Susan Wheeler’s “The Split.”
Rae Armantrout is an American poet generally associated with Language Poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California but grew up in San Diego. She has published more than 10 books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies. Armantrout teaches at the University of California, San Diego, where she is Professor of Poetry and Poetics. Armantrout was awarded the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for her collection of poetry Versed, published by the Wesleyan University Press. The book later earned the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Armantrout's collection, Just Saying, was published in 2013. She is the recipient of numerous other awards for her poetry including an award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2007 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. We met in Ottawa to discuss her poetry, William Carlos Williams, place, and how to be a literary tourist in San Diego.
Rae Armantrout's poems apprehend the world as a place charged by the nonexistent supernatural. For her, the eerie thing is that ghosts don't exist.
Rae Armantrout, Laura Elrick and Rachel Blau DuPlessis joined Al Filreis to talk about Catherine Wagner's "This Is a Fucking Poem."
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Laura Elrick, Rae Armantrout, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis.
Rae Armantrout is the 2010 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for “Versed” (Wesleyan Poetry Press), which the Pulitzer committee cited as “a book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading.” The National Endowment for the Arts has funded publication of her work. Armantrout published her first book of poems, “Extremities,” in 1978. She is active in Southern California’s literary community and her other books include “The Invention of Hunger,” “Precedence,” “Necromance,” “Made to Seem,” “The Pretext” and “Veil: New and Selected Poems.” Poet Robert Creeley has said her work possesses a “clarity of syntax” that features “the calm solidness of words.” Armantrout lives in California.
Rae Armantrout, Linh Dinh, Tom Devaney, and Al Filreis discuss Kit Robinson's poem "Return on Word"
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. Rae Armantrout delivers a lecture as part of the "Poem Present" Series.
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. Rae Armantrout does a reading of her poetry as part of the "Poem Present" Series
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. Rae Armantrout does a reading of her poetry as part of the "Poem Present" Series
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. Rae Armantrout delivers a lecture as part of the "Poem Present" Series.
Versed (Wesleyan University Press)Rae Armantrout has been associated with the Language-centered poets of the eighties, a group often accused of overly cerebral poetry derived from theory. Now, her work is found in the most widely read magazines that publish poetry...
Prepare yourself for "transformative and ingenious" work from a highly original and beloved California poet, Rae Armantrout, with graduate poet Charity Ketz. Rae Armantrout?s poetry occupies a key position in contemporary traditions of experimental lyricism. Angular and ironic, unsettlingly humorous and precise, her work applies deft pressure to the idioms of everyday interaction, consumer culture, and dream. Armantrout?s poems are motivated by an ?activating desire for clarity," and yet it is a clarity that refuses easy certainties or disclosures. Instead, her rigorous lyricism works by way of acute juxtaposition and productive contradictions, creating a thrilling ?vertigo effect?** for its readers. Her most recent book, Next Life (Wesleyan UP), pushes through narrative surfaces to arrive at the unexpected complexities subtending both language and event. Her "truly philosophical poetry" consistently reveals a "force of mind that contests all assumptions" (NYT Book Review). Rae Armantrout has published nine books of poetry, including: Up to Speed (Wesleyan 2004), a finalist for the PEN USA Award in Poetry; Veil: New and Selected Poems (2001), also a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award, and The Pretext (2001). In 1998, Atelos Press published her prose memoir, True. She is a professor in the literature department at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches writing. Charity Ketz is a recent graduate of the MFA program at Cornell and the recipient of fellowships from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has published a chapbook, Locust in Bloom, through Poet's Corner Press, and has poems forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, New Orleans Review, and Artful Dodge.
Prepare yourself for "transformative and ingenious" work from a highly original and beloved California poet, Rae Armantrout, with graduate poet Charity Ketz. Rae Armantrout?s poetry occupies a key position in contemporary traditions of experimental lyricism. Angular and ironic, unsettlingly humorous and precise, her work applies deft pressure to the idioms of everyday interaction, consumer culture, and dream. Armantrout?s poems are motivated by an ?activating desire for clarity," and yet it is a clarity that refuses easy certainties or disclosures. Instead, her rigorous lyricism works by way of acute juxtaposition and productive contradictions, creating a thrilling ?vertigo effect?** for its readers. Her most recent book, Next Life (Wesleyan UP), pushes through narrative surfaces to arrive at the unexpected complexities subtending both language and event. Her "truly philosophical poetry" consistently reveals a "force of mind that contests all assumptions" (NYT Book Review). Rae Armantrout has published nine books of poetry, including: Up to Speed (Wesleyan 2004), a finalist for the PEN USA Award in Poetry; Veil: New and Selected Poems (2001), also a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award, and The Pretext (2001). In 1998, Atelos Press published her prose memoir, True. She is a professor in the literature department at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches writing. Charity Ketz is a recent graduate of the MFA program at Cornell and the recipient of fellowships from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has published a chapbook, Locust in Bloom, through Poet's Corner Press, and has poems forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, New Orleans Review, and Artful Dodge.
(c) 2007 Rae Armantrout. Distributed by PENNsound: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/
(c) 2007 Rae Armantrout. Distributed by PENNsound: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/
(c) 2006 Rae Armantrout. Distributed by PENNsound (http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound).