Podcast appearances and mentions of Rowan Ricardo Phillips

In this episode, we delve into "The God of Stories," a poignant poem by Rowan Ricardo Phillips from his latest collection, Silver (2024). This piece captures the essence of creation myths and the search for meaning, offering a fresh perspective on how we, as humans, assign significance to gods and everyday achievements alike.I take a look at the layers of Phillips' verse, exploring themes of perception, identity, and the fluidity of meaning. From the intriguing opening lines to the dense, imagery, I note how Phillips navigates between symbolism and allegory, encouraging us to embrace the transformative power of storytelling.Discover how the poem's epiphanies and rich metaphors reflect a universal yearning for identity and understanding in a world that often feels void of concrete truths. This episode will guide you through the intricate interplay between seeing and hearing, truth and mystery, and the self-definition found through interpretation.This poem is a profound meditation on the nature of understanding, as we uncover the liberating potential of ambiguity and the continuous shaping of identity through the stories we tell.If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review and share it with fellow poetry enthusiasts.*In the interests of full disclosure I was sent a copy of Silver for review.The Music In This Week's Episode:'Echoes' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.auFollow the Podcast:****There is a slight delay to this epiosde's Substack link****Follow the Podcast On InstagramFollow the Podcast on X/TwitterFollow the Podcast on Tiktok Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Some travel tips for summer: Set price tracking alerts based on locations or dates, fly earlier in the day, and consider cargo pants/vests for extra storage space.  The White House says the latest Israeli airstrikes in Rafah didn't cross the red line, in spite of civilian casualties and the growing humanitarian crisis.  The French Open kicked off on Sunday. Rafael Nadal lost in the first round, Coco Gauff advanced, while Naomi Osaka fell to Iga Swiatek in an intense match. Decades worth of Negro League figures are now part of the Major League Baseball's record books. Poet, historian, and author Rowan Ricardo Phillips argues that MLB should do more. Chow down on cherries — dozens of varieties exist — while they're still in markets for the next few weeks. Use them in pudding, salads, pies, and more.

Have you ever had a private moment — perhaps in the middle of the night — in a large city? When it just seems like it's you and the great dreaming metropolis? Rowan Ricardo Phillips brings us into a memory he can't forget, complete with a Wu-Tang Clan soundtrack.Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a highly acclaimed, multi-award-winning poet, author, screenwriter, academic, journalist, and translator. His poetry collections include The Ground (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), Heaven (2015), Living Weapon (2020), and the forthcoming Silver (2024). He is also the author of When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness (a new, forthcoming edition from Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and the nonfiction book The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey (Picador, 2019). He has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, a Whiting Award, and the GLCA New Writers Award. Phillips is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, the president of the board of the New York Institute of the Humanities, and the poetry editor of The New Republic. Phillips received his doctoral degree in English literature from Brown University.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.We're pleased to offer Rowan Ricardo Phillips's poem, and invite you to connect with Poetry Unbound throughout this season.

Poetry Unbound with host Pádraig Ó Tuama is back on Monday, May 22. Featured poets in this season include Selina Nwulu, Wo Chan, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Mark Turcotte, and many more. New episodes released every Monday and Friday through July 28.Follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Overcast, or wherever you listen.

Discussion of Ruskin's pathetic fallacy; the metaphor of the villanelle in Rowan Ricardo Phillips; some villanelles, by AE Stallings, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop; Stevens's "Emperor of Ice Cream."

African American literature has a rich tradition of both using and discarding the classics. In the 20th century, the Black feminist poet Audre Lorde argued that, “[t]he master's tools will never dismantle the master's house,” and Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, was inspired by Black Arts Movement poets to de-colonize her artistic practice systematically by eschewing poetic forms and modes of European origin. In this talk, Prof. Chiyuma Elliott (Berkeley) will explore a different pole on that creative continuum: contemporary poets (herself included) for whom classical authors are key touchstones and interlocutors. She will focus on several contemporary poems about peace and violence that allude to Homer's epics in meaningful ways, including Yusef Komunyakaa's “Latitudes,” Rowan Ricardo Phillips's “Even Homer Nods,” and her own Black Lives Matter poem “Dear Ilium”. Her core argument is that exploring the different ways these poems are in sustained conversation with the classics tells us something about how contemporary authors are imagining Black selfhood, American history, and what it means to belong in this nation and on this planet.Chiyuma Elliott is Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. This lecture was presented at the Morningside Institute on November 10, 2021. The Morningside Institute brings scholars and students together to examine human life beyond the classroom and consider its deepest questions through the life of New York City. For more information about upcoming events, please visit https://www.morningsideinstitute.org.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips on his selection: The poem "This Lime-tree Bower my Prison'' was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the summer of 1797. He had been set to journey the Quantocks with a group of friends but burned his foot in an accident and thus was left behind, under a lime tree in the garden of a friend's home, while others––including William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Charles Lamb (to whom the poem is addressed)––embarked on the anticipated journey without him. Coleridge's poem nevertheless travels with them ("Beneath the wide wide Heaven") and in doing so makes something from nothing, pleasure from pain, and love from loneliness. I love the poem's own subtle journey from day to night unbowed by the encroaching dark. In light of recent times, Coleridge's dream of social connection from his position of isolation feels fitting and is a beautiful example of poetry's unique imaginative power. “This Lime-tree Bower my Prison,” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0

On this week's episode of SABRcast Rob Neyer is joined by poet and author Rowan Ricardo Phillips. The pair discuss Rowan's recent baseball-focused work along with an exciting new project just announced. Then SABR President Mark Armour pinch hits for Scott Bush to discuss who won the weekend. For show notes, extra content, and a list of what Rob's reading, visit the SABRcast website at https://sabr.org/sabrcast.

Major League Baseball elevated the statistics of the Negro leagues to “Major League status,” but it hasn’t fully addressed the history of segregation in professional baseball. Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a recipient of a PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and he joins host Krys Boyd to talk about why integrating batting averages and homeruns into the record books is only a small step forward in grappling with the sport’s racist past. His article “Justice for the Negro Leagues Will Mean More Than Just Stats” was published in The New York Times Magazine.

“Sometime in late 1991,” Don DeLillo told a Paris Review interviewer in 1993, “I started writing something new and didn't know what it would be—a novel, a short story, a long story. It was simply a piece of writing, and it gave me more pleasure than any other writing I've done.” The result was the novella “Pafko at the Wall,” first published as a Folio in the October 1992 issue of Harper's Magazine, making up a third of the issue's length. “Wherein the Giants clinch the pennant, Bruegel descends, a bomb explodes, Sinatra sulks, and a Harlem boy plays his own game,” read that month's cover. A slightly revised version would later become the prologue to Underworld, a novel often described as DeLillo's masterpiece. The story takes place during the National League playoff game of October 3, 1951, when Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants hit a pennant-winning home run over the head of Brooklyn Dodgers left fielder Andy Pafko—an event known to baseball fans as the “Shot Heard 'Round the World.” Here, though, the famous game serves mostly as background, its action serving to repeatedly bounce the reader's attention back into the stands. DeLillo, a writer who has always been fascinated by the mechanics of spectacle, wants us to watch the watchers—some of whom, such as Frank Sinatra, the radio announcer Russ Hodges, and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, are spectacle makers (and manipulators) themselves. Hovering over the proceedings, meanwhile, are suggestions of darker energy: the secret knowledge, possessed by only the paranoid Hoover, that the Soviets have just performed a successful nuclear-weapons test, and racial tensions, briefly transcended by fandom, that are unloosed in the scramble over a suddenly famous ball. In this episode of the podcast, we bring you excerpts of “Pafko at the Wall,” which was performed live at the 92nd Street Y by Billy Crudup, Zachary Levi, and Tony Shalhoub, interspersed with commentary by the novelist Jennifer Egan and the poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips. The full recording of the performance will be released on March 30 by Simon & Schuster Audio. A video of the performance will be available for two days at 92y.org/pafko beginning on Sunday, March 28, in anticipation of the audiobook's release. This episode was produced by Violet Lucca and Andrew Blevins.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the award-winning author of three books of poems (Heaven, The Ground, and Living Weapon) and two essay collections (The Circuit and When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness), as well as a professor at Princeton University and Williams College. During this episode, he shares his writing process for The Circuit and Living Weapon, his approach to writing poetry vs. prose, how he comes up with titles for his poems, and more! Current curiosities: Ben: 2020 NBA Playoffs Rowan: Empathy Follow us! Rowan Ricardo Phillips: @rowanricardophillips ( //instagram.com/rowanricardophillips ) How Do You Do? Podcast: @hdydpod ( https://www.instagram.com/hdydpod/ ) Ben: @benhannani ( https://www.instagram.com/benhannani/ ) Website: www.hdydpod.com ( https://www.hdydpod.com/ ) Our guests' jams can be found on the "HDYD Jams" playlist ( https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4tBdUz3kXb1T5im2CzSBUV?si=qc_DgVSCR1W65phsuv6vVQ ) on Spotify! [Rowan also his own awesome Spotify playlist: " The Rowan Tree ( https://open.spotify.com/user/rowanricardo/playlist/7FvKa4jrWH9zYdZVF5hvtg?si=US19gDLdRMOMh50t5UuNZw ) "]

Author of The Circuit and award-winning poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips joins Finn to talk about why he is not watching tennis right now.Phillips unpicks the ethics of tennis' return to his hometown, New York, and tells us why we should celebrate the sport's socially conscious players when tennis so often pretends disengagement from the world. He also reveals how he created his epic, a lyrical record of the bewildering and inspiring 2017 season, and describes what the events of that year - in tennis and the world - mean for him now. The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey won the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing and is available from Picador for $17.00.You can find Louisa Thomas' essay for The New Yorker here.Subscribe to The Grand Slam Tennis Podcast on Apple and Spotify and leave us a review. You can also find us on the podcast page of Grand Slam Tennis Online.Music by Drive Me Home See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a poet, writer and literary and art critic - and sports writer! - who was born and raised in New York City. He is the author of the poetry collections The Ground (2012), Heaven (2015; a finalist for the National Book Award), and Living Weapon (2019).  In addition to his collections of poetry, Phillips is author of the critical volume When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness (2010) where Uli has hosted him on his podcast on Great Books to talk about Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and African American poetry in general. He translated Salvador Espriu’s story collection Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth (2012) into English, and received a 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award, a PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Poetry, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. A contributing writer at Artforum, he has taught at Columbia University, Harvard, Princeton, and at SUNY-Stony Brook, where he’s served as director of the Poetry Center.  /////////////// Follow us: TWITTER - @ulibaer / @corklinedRoom INSTAGRAM - @ulinyc / @carolineweber2020 (PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE PODCAST) - @proust.questionnaire ROWAN RICARDO PHILLIPS - @rowanricardophillips //////////////// Listen to the Podcast on: APPLE PODCASTS - Proust Questionnaire Podcast SPOTIFY - Proust Questionnaire Podcast YOUTUBE: Ulrich Baer  //////////////// Thanks for listening! :) Uli Baer & Caroline Weber.

Entre montañas, lastimado, cayó para encontrarla. Ahí, entre alrededor de treinta y tres lápidas e innumerables tumbas sin marcar: Eurídice. Escaló de regreso el precipicio. Apisonó la tierra. La desenterró a paladas. Le sacó la moneda de la lengua. Aceptación. Depresión. Negociación. Rabia. Negó, lo negó todo. Ella se despertó toda de ámbar otra vez en un campo ambarino en el que acaba de picarla una serpiente pisoteada, el veneno se escurre de su suave y esbelta pantorrilla a los sacos de su origen. Ahora está a mitad de camino del prado donde ya llegó. Ahora está de nuevo en casa. Ahora se está casando. Ahora lo está viendo por primera vez. “Hola, me llamo Orfeo”, dice él. Después ya no.

In this episode of Poets at Work we talk with Rowan Ricardo Phillips about his newest collection, Living Weapon. For a transcript of this episode, email cgupodcasts at gmail.com and be sure to include the episode title. Our intro and outro music for this episode is Lee Rosevere's "Night Caves", licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/

"If we - and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks [...] do not falter in our duty now, we may be able [...] to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.” James Baldwin's appeal and admonition ring as true as they did in the 1960s, when the novelist became the nation's conscience - and also started to feel "like a broken record," repeating a message that white America refused to accept. The current revival of Baldwin in films, books, and documentaries such as Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me (2015), Raoul Peck's documentary based on Baldwin's writings, I Am Not Your Negro (2017), Jesmyn Ward's incisive collection of essays, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race"(2017), and Barry Jenkins's feature film, If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), and references by liberals and conservatives alike, signal that something is yet to be grasped in Baldwin's powerful words. Rich Blint is a scholar, writer and curator who teaches at the New School in New York City, and the author of a forthcoming book on Baldwin who has published, curated events, and participated in key academic events on Baldwin's unceasing relevance over the past several years. Rich explains what it means to take Baldwin seriously today — and why his work continues to be of such powerful relevance. Rich talks with me about Baldwin's powerful and indispensable 1961 novel, Another Country to show how Baldwin's vision can guide our actions today. He explains what it would mean to heed Baldwin's advice for the nation to finally leave its romantic adolescent delusions behind (including, I've learned in this conversation, its attachment to interracial buddy movies), and truly grow up. Special thanks to Rowan Ricardo Phillips, author of The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey and Heaven: Poems, for lending his voice to some of Baldwin's quotes. Uli Baer is a professor at New York University. He is also the host of the excellent podcast "Think About It" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

"If we - and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks [...] do not falter in our duty now, we may be able [...] to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.” James Baldwin's appeal and admonition ring as true as they did in the 1960s, when the novelist became the nation's conscience - and also started to feel "like a broken record," repeating a message that white America refused to accept. The current revival of Baldwin in films, books, and documentaries such as Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me (2015), Raoul Peck's documentary based on Baldwin’s writings, I Am Not Your Negro (2017), Jesmyn Ward's incisive collection of essays, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race"(2017), and Barry Jenkins's feature film, If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), and references by liberals and conservatives alike, signal that something is yet to be grasped in Baldwin's powerful words. Rich Blint is a scholar, writer and curator who teaches at the New School in New York City, and the author of a forthcoming book on Baldwin who has published, curated events, and participated in key academic events on Baldwin's unceasing relevance over the past several years. Rich explains what it means to take Baldwin seriously today — and why his work continues to be of such powerful relevance. Rich talks with me about Baldwin's powerful and indispensable 1961 novel, Another Country to show how Baldwin's vision can guide our actions today. He explains what it would mean to heed Baldwin's advice for the nation to finally leave its romantic adolescent delusions behind (including, I've learned in this conversation, its attachment to interracial buddy movies), and truly grow up. Special thanks to Rowan Ricardo Phillips, author of The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey and Heaven: Poems, for lending his voice to some of Baldwin’s quotes. Uli Baer is a professor at New York University. He is also the host of the excellent podcast "Think About It" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"If we - and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks [...] do not falter in our duty now, we may be able [...] to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.” James Baldwin's appeal and admonition ring as true as they did in the 1960s, when the novelist became the nation's conscience - and also started to feel "like a broken record," repeating a message that white America refused to accept. The current revival of Baldwin in films, books, and documentaries such as Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me (2015), Raoul Peck's documentary based on Baldwin’s writings, I Am Not Your Negro (2017), Jesmyn Ward's incisive collection of essays, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race"(2017), and Barry Jenkins's feature film, If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), and references by liberals and conservatives alike, signal that something is yet to be grasped in Baldwin's powerful words. Rich Blint is a scholar, writer and curator who teaches at the New School in New York City, and the author of a forthcoming book on Baldwin who has published, curated events, and participated in key academic events on Baldwin's unceasing relevance over the past several years. Rich explains what it means to take Baldwin seriously today — and why his work continues to be of such powerful relevance. Rich talks with me about Baldwin's powerful and indispensable 1961 novel, Another Country to show how Baldwin's vision can guide our actions today. He explains what it would mean to heed Baldwin's advice for the nation to finally leave its romantic adolescent delusions behind (including, I've learned in this conversation, its attachment to interracial buddy movies), and truly grow up. Special thanks to Rowan Ricardo Phillips, author of The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey and Heaven: Poems, for lending his voice to some of Baldwin’s quotes. Uli Baer is a professor at New York University. He is also the host of the excellent podcast "Think About It" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"If we - and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks [...] do not falter in our duty now, we may be able [...] to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.” James Baldwin's appeal and admonition ring as true as they did in the 1960s, when the novelist became the nation's conscience - and also started to feel "like a broken record," repeating a message that white America refused to accept. The current revival of Baldwin in films, books, and documentaries such as Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me (2015), Raoul Peck's documentary based on Baldwin’s writings, I Am Not Your Negro (2017), Jesmyn Ward's incisive collection of essays, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race"(2017), and Barry Jenkins's feature film, If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), and references by liberals and conservatives alike, signal that something is yet to be grasped in Baldwin's powerful words. Rich Blint is a scholar, writer and curator who teaches at the New School in New York City, and the author of a forthcoming book on Baldwin who has published, curated events, and participated in key academic events on Baldwin's unceasing relevance over the past several years. Rich explains what it means to take Baldwin seriously today — and why his work continues to be of such powerful relevance. Rich talks with me about Baldwin's powerful and indispensable 1961 novel, Another Country to show how Baldwin's vision can guide our actions today. He explains what it would mean to heed Baldwin's advice for the nation to finally leave its romantic adolescent delusions behind (including, I've learned in this conversation, its attachment to interracial buddy movies), and truly grow up. Special thanks to Rowan Ricardo Phillips, author of The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey and Heaven: Poems, for lending his voice to some of Baldwin’s quotes. Uli Baer is a professor at New York University. He is also the host of the excellent podcast "Think About It" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On February 11, 2019, three writers appeared at Gelf Magazine's Varsity Letters at The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge as part of an evening devoted to books about tennis—hosted by Racquet cofounder and publisher Caitlin Thompson. Speaking in Part II: Paris Review columnist Rowan Ricardo Phillips watched every single watchable match of the 2017 ATP season and brought us back The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, his literary tour of a historic season in men's tennis.

The human urge for self-expression is so powerful that it often challenges conventions that seem set in stone. The poetry of Phillis Wheatley is among the writers whose tremendous capacity to speak out in her own words upends a tradition and inaugurates something truly new. Wheatley is the first person of African descent to publish a book in the United States. She had been kidnapped as a child in Africa and sold into slavery to a family in Boston, Massachusetts in 1761 where she learned English, Latin, and Greek. She started writing and publishing poems at a young age. Wheatley's status as the first African-American person to publish a book of poetry in the US is of great importance, and yet it is an ambiguous matter to assign her this role of being 'the first.' It means that Wheatley is more often name-checked than read, and that her achievement is sometimes reduced to being a symbol rather than treated as a writer in her own right. The critic and poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips, whom Harold Bloom has called a singular voice of tremendous importance in American literature, talks about the significance of being "the first" in a conversation on Wheatley and the African-American tradition. Phillips explains what it means for Wheatley to be the first Black poet to publish a book, for Frederick Douglas to be the first Black man and a writer to become an Ambassador, for Paul Laurence Dunbar to be the first African-American to publish widely celebrated poems in both vernacular and standard English, for Langston Hughes to publish poetry which captures the genius of jazz. Rowan explains why discussions of the canon so often overlook poetry itself, and he asks what it means to talk of "the African-American tradition" as if it's a separate thing, and how to balance the critical need for recognition without isolating and side-lining some of the world's greatest writers from the claim of universal importance. Born and raised in New York City, poet, literary and art critic, and translator Rowan Ricardo Phillips earned a BA at Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. at Brown University. He is the author of the poetry collections The Ground (2012) and Heaven (2015), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. His poems engage the acts of post-9/11 memory and ruin, lingering in interrupted or merged landscapes of art, rhetoric, and marginalia. In addition to his collections of poetry, Phillips has written the critical volume When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness (2010) and translated Salvador Espriu’s story collection Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth (2012). Phillips received a 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award and has also received the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Poetry, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.

Ça nous intéresse avec Thomas Leblanc; La découverte du Libro de los Epitomes, du fils de Christophe Colomb. Entrevue avec Marie-France Hirigoyen, pour son essai Les Narcisse. Parlons sports avec Alexandre Gascon qui a lu The Circuit. A Tennis Odyssey, de Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Le livre à lire en ce moment selon Thomas Hellman; Notre-Dame de Paris, de Victor Hugo. Une entrevue avec David Homel pour Portrait d'un homme sur les décombres. Karoline Georges et François Lemay ont lu pour nous Born to be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey, de Mark Dery.

On this week's Beyond the Baseline episode, poet and writer Rowan Ricardo Phillips joins the podcast to talk about his Nov. 2018 book, The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, which chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its historic tennis season. Wertheim and Phillips discuss his inspiration behind the book, what he learned about tennis and himself through examining this particular season, how tennis touches the world in many ways and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode, poet and writer Rowan Ricardo Phillips joins the podcast to talk about his Nov. 2018 book, The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, which chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its historic tennis season. Wertheim and Phillips discuss his inspiration behind the book, what he learned about tennis and himself through examining this particular season, how tennis touches the world in many ways and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of the amazing tennis chronicle, THE CIRCUIT: A TENNIS ODYSSEY. Listen as Rowan and I talk tennis, poetry, writing and more! 

With the 2019 season upon us, Thirty Love takes a close look at the…2017 season. Writer Rowan Ricardo Phillips watched every ATP match he could and transformed his experience into the book The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey. He joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to describe the experience of studying the tour so closely, how he knew he had a book's worth of material, and what made 2017 special. Music by Lee Rosevere. Rowan's website: http://www.rowanricardophillips.com/ Rowan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RowanRicardo

The best of jazz is aural poetry. The best of poetry swings and grooves. So it's not surprising that jazz and poetry have had a long and fruitful synergy. We decided to explore intriguing collaborations between jazz musicians and poets, from the icons of the Beat Generation to Amiri Baraka, from Federico Garcia Lorca to Emily Dickinson. And we'll celebrate a poet of the jazz trumpet, Tomasz Stanko, which has left us too soon. The playlist includes music and verses by Tomasz Stanko, Matt Wilson, Roy Nathanson, Andrew Cyrille, Allen Ginsberg, Bill Frisell, Lenny Pickett, William Burroughs, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Hal Willner, Jack Kerouac, Mark Murphy, Kip Hanrahan, Ishmael Reed, Ralph Alessi, Piri Thomas, William Parker, Amiri Baraka, Alexis Cuadrado, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Steve Lacy, Frank Carlberg, Jane Ira Bloom, Emily Dickinson, Susanne Abbuehl Detailed playlist available at https://spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=rfb&month=Aug&year=2018&playlist=7363#here

A frat boy encounters the divine in Benjamin Nugent's story GOD, performed by Jesse Eisenberg; Rowan Ricardo Phillips examines the difference between heaven and paradise in his poem KINGDOM COME; and Kristin Dombek sends us a LETTER FROM WILLIAMSBURG.

André Aciman gives us a primer on W. G. Sebald, who blurred the line between memory and fiction; Rowan Ricardo Phillips talks about the biomechanics of poetry; and Julian Gewirtz unveils the travel itinerary of the least likely visitor to communist China you’d expect: Milton Friedman. Mentioned in this episode: • André Aciman on W. G. Sebald and “The Life Unlived” • “Halo,” a poem by Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Langdon Hammer’s introduction • Julian Gewirtz’s essay, “Milton Friedman’s Misadventures in China” Tune in every two weeks to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

André Aciman gives us a primer on W. G. Sebald, who blurred the line between memory and fiction; Rowan Ricardo Phillips talks about the biomechanics of poetry; and Julian Gewirtz unveils the travel itinerary of the least likely visitor to communist China you’d expect: Milton Friedman. Mentioned in this episode: • André Aciman on W. G. Sebald and “The Life Unlived” • “Halo,” a poem by Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Langdon Hammer’s introduction • Julian Gewirtz’s essay, “Milton Friedman’s Misadventures in China” Tune in every two weeks to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on...  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bobby speaks to George about signing with the Harrisburg City Islanders of the USL and the fresh challenges of joining a new club. They are then joined by poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips, who attempts to describe the artistry of Messi’s play and personality. Finally, George and Bobby briefly Tika-Talka about Tim Howard’s exit from Everton and fantasy soccer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode, I interview poet Erin Belieu, plus I share the Miami Book Fair International reading she participated in with Carl Phillips, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Kevin Young. TEXTS DISCUSSED Slant Six" target="_blank"> Reconnaissance Poems" target="_blank"> Heaven Poems" target="_blank"> Book of Hours" target="_blank"> NOTES Check out my first interview with Erin Belieu back on episode 44, when we talked about VIDA and the count. On Superbowl Sunday, February 7, 7 P.M., The Drunken Odyssey will be Super Balling at Writer's Atelier. More info is here. Get tickets for Litlando here.  

Interview with author Jesse Browner; Kay Ryan at Poets & Writers Live in San Francisco; a reading by poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips.

Rowan Ricardo Philips joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Nick Laird’s “Feel Free” and a poem of his own.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips, award-winning poet, literary and art critic, and translator reads to an audience at UC Berkeley. His first collection of poems, “The Ground: Poems” was published in 2013. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 28137]

Rowan Ricardo Phillips, award-winning poet, literary and art critic, and translator reads to an audience at UC Berkeley. His first collection of poems, “The Ground: Poems” was published in 2013. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 28137]

Rowan Ricardo Phillips, award-winning poet, literary and art critic, and translator reads to an audience at UC Berkeley. His first collection of poems, “The Ground: Poems” was published in 2013. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 28137]

Rowan Ricardo Phillips, award-winning poet, literary and art critic, and translator reads to an audience at UC Berkeley. His first collection of poems, “The Ground: Poems” was published in 2013. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 28137]

Rowan Ricardo Phillips, award-winning poet, literary and art critic, and translator reads to an audience at UC Berkeley. His first collection of poems, “The Ground: Poems” was published in 2013. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 28137]

Rowan Ricardo Phillips, award-winning poet, literary and art critic, and translator reads to an audience at UC Berkeley. His first collection of poems, “The Ground: Poems” was published in 2013. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 28137]