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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.
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
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
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'.
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
"I'll need a good time / You'll need a daydream / Helplessly helpless / "I am alive, can you hear me?" / Sleeping in motion / I love you Washington State" - Damien Jurado "I felt so happy I started sewing clothes for the moon." -Mary Ruefle LINKS: More on Damien here: http://damienjurado.com AND LISTEN TO THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1d1eobg9QY Buy Trances of the Blast by Mary Ruefle here: https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/trances-of-the-blast My favorite Nell Carter moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kONFkc1PwCc Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en
”Stad er ikkje viktig. Eg skriv for det meste i mitt eige hovud, som eg kan ta med meg kvar eg enn går”, uttala Mary Ruefle i eit intervju med The White Review. Ruefle har skrive ei rekke diktsamlingar og essay der ho igjen og igjen viser si evne til å bruke språket for å vri om på det som er forventa og skape nye, underfundige og djupe samanhengar. I denne samtalen med forfattar og kritikar Ida Lødemel Tvedt, snakkar ho om kvifor og korleis ho skriv. På engelsk. På Bergen internasjonale litteraturfestival for sakprosa og skjønnlitteratur (LitFestBergen) gir vi deg internasjonal og norsk litteratur på sitt aller beste. Her oppdagar du ny sakprosa og skjønnlitteratur frå alle verdsdelar.
Det er moglegvis berre eitt tema som er eit større kulturelt tabu enn kvinners menstruasjon: fråveret av den. Kvifor er overgangsalderen så stigmatisert? Meksikanske Gloria Gervitz og amerikanske Mary Ruefle skriv seg gjennom livet: I 40 år har Gervitz skrive på langdiktet Migrasjonar, mens Ruefle har gitt ut ei rekke essays og diktsamlingar. Dei skriv om barndom og alderdom, sex og onani, blod og overgangsalder - med djupt alvor og vill humor. Gervitz og Ruefle møter litteraturviter og kjønnsforskar Kari Jegerstedt til ein samtale om litterære heitetokter. På engelsk. På Bergen internasjonale litteraturfestival for sakprosa og skjønnlitteratur (LitFestBergen) gir vi deg internasjonal og norsk litteratur på sitt aller beste. Her oppdagar du ny sakprosa og skjønnlitteratur frå alle verdsdelar.
Perhaps only one subject carries a greater cultural taboo than female menstruation – its ending. Why should that be? Mexican Gloria Gervitz and American Mary Ruefle write their way through life. Gervitz has spent 40 years composing the long poem Migrations, while Ruefle has published a number of essays and poetry collections. They write about childhood and old age, sex and masturbation, blood and the menopause, with deep gravity or unrestrained humour. The pair meet literary scholar and gender researcher Kari Jegerstedt for a conversation on literary hot flushes. In English.
“Place isn’t important,” Mary Ruefle has declared in an interview with The White Review. “I tend to write in my head, which I can carry with me wherever I go.” She has produced a number of poetry collections and essays which demonstrate time and again her ability to use language to twist expectations and create new, subtle and deep connections. In this conversation with author and critic Ida Lødemel Tvedt, Ruefle talks about why and how she writes. English conversation.
READ TO ME is the Gateless Writing-inspired podcast where we listen for what we love. In this episode, we read a small piece of MADNESS, RACK, AND HONEY by Mary Ruefle. These collected lectures are about poetry (the writing, reading, and living of it), and here Ruefle writes about secrets. And opera. And Osage stories. And listening. How do you respond to work that is like the inside of a poem? You let it love you.
"Moonlight in the kitchen is a sign of God." - Anne Carson "The browning of tater tots in a barely-functioning oven is a sign of God." - Robyn O'Neil LINKS: Buy a ME READING STUFF shirt & support The Trevor Project!: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff Buy Anne Carson's Glass, Irony & God here: https://www.ndbooks.com/author/anne-carson/#glass-irony-and-god Buy The Horse Has Six Legs here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/horse-has-six-legs Buy Claudia Rankine's Citizen here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/citizen Buy Mary Ruefle's Most of It here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/citizen Buy Melody Beattie's Codependent No More here: http://melodybeattie.com/books/codependent-no-stop-controlling-others-start-caring/ Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en
For our third episode, Ryan talks to the American poet Mary Ruefle about finding the joy in the solitary act of writing poetry, the need to talk to yourself, and we hear Mary read from a selection of her incredibly distinctive work. And there’s more poetry sparks for you to try out, re-working found text with Tippex, and getting lost in language. Listeners to The Line Break can also join the The Line Break group on CAMPUS, the Poetry School’s free online community for poets. This episode is produced by Culture Laser Productions @culturelaser with thanks to the Scottish Poetry Library for their support.
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Beloved and critically-acclaimed poet, essayist, and erasure artist, Mary Ruefle talks about her life as an artist, her approach to poetry, the questions she comes back to, and the artists that influence her. Ruefle is the author of ten books of poetry, the collected lectures Madness, Rack & Honey, a book of prose, a comic […] The post Mary Ruefle : An Incarnation of the Now appeared first on Tin House.
Ryan chats with Vermont poet Mary Ruefle about craft, visual poetry and her approach to writing. She also reads a number of her poems. Presented by Ryan Van Winkle @rvwable. Produced by Colin Fraser @anonpoetry. Music by Ewen Maclean.