Podcast appearances and mentions of shane mccrae

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or hereFor more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chatLeave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it's easier). Thanks!Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:Versecraft starter episodes: Elijah's interview with Tim Steele and his episode on Shane McCrae's Eurydice On the Art of PoetryUncut Gems (2019)The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)"The Four Horsemen" roundtable with Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher HitchensBen ShapiroJoe RoganJordan PetersonYou are not serious peopleDoes God Exist? William Lane Craig vs. Christopher HitchensMatthew's poem Creed for AtheistsBertrand RussellTopic of Cancer by Christopher HitchensSpinozaBill HicksFrequently mentioned names:– Joshua Mehigan– Shane McCrae– A. E. Stallings– Ryan Wilson– Morri Creech– Austin Allen– Jonathan Farmer– Zara Raab– Amit Majmudar– Ethan McGuire– Coleman Glenn– Chris Childers– Alexis Sears– JP Gritton– Alex Pepple– Ernie Hilbert– Joanna PearsonOther Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry Says by Alice AllanI Hate Matt Wall by Matt WallVersecraft by Elijah BlumovRatbag Poetics By David Jalal MotamedAlice: Poetry SaysBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] comMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

NB: After I recorded the intro and edited the three parts together, Squarespace informed me that it couldn't host the entire interview in one post, or even in two, so I'm breaking it back up into three pieces, which I'm posting here together.I'm reading with George David Clark and Ryan Wilson at Loganberry Books on June 13, at 6:00 pm, hosted by Elijah Blumov.My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or hereFor more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chatLeave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it's easier). Thanks!Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae– Cain Named the Animal by Shane McCrae– Stalker and Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky– Patti Smith– Wilfred Owen– That time Elijah and I tried to scan a line– Timothy Steele– The Dream Songs by John Berryman– The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire– My most recent conversation with Alexis Sears– Wallace Stevens– The mini-issue of West Branch that Shane edited– Richard Howard– Ernest Hilbert– Liturgy– Eternal Champion– Metallica– Of the Scythians by Katha Pollitt– Beowulf– That time Jesus drove the moneychangers out of the Temple– The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot– Coleman Glenn– Anthony Hecht– Juvenal– Horace– James Merrill– Alexander Pope– John Dryden– John Donne– Ethan McGuire– The Madness of Hercules by Seneca, trans. Dana Gioia– Letters from a Stoic by Seneca– One Art by Elizabeth Bishop– High Windows by Philip Larkin– Done on This Side by Joshua Mehigan– Grendel by John Gardner– Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath– That time Abraham smashed a bunch of icons– That time the Taliban blew up a UNESCO World Heritage Site– Pulling the Chariot of the Sun by Shane McCrae– The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae– The SLRCKTS ep about the Toby Martinez de las Rivas controversy– From Titan/All Is Still by Toby Martinez de las Rivas– Black Sun by Toby Martinez de las Rivas– Floodmeadow by Toby Martinez de las Rivas– Cornel West– Christian Wiman– Jay Wright– Elizabeth Jennings– Simone WeilFrequently mentioned names:– Joshua Mehigan– Shane McCrae– A. E. Stallings– Ryan Wilson– Morri Creech– Austin Allen– Jonathan Farmer– Zara Raab– Amit Majmudar– Ethan McGuire– Coleman Glenn– Alexis Sears– JP Gritton– Alex Pepple– Ernie Hilbert– Joanna PearsonOther Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry Says by Alice AllanI Hate Matt Wall by Matt WallVersecraft by Elijah BlumovRatbag Poetics By David Jalal MotamedAlice: Poetry SaysBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] comMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

NB: After I recorded the intro and edited the three parts together, Squarespace informed me that it couldn't host the entire interview in one post, or even in two, so I'm breaking it back up into three pieces, which I'm posting here together.I'm reading with George David Clark and Ryan Wilson at Loganberry Books on June 13, at 6:00 pm, hosted by Elijah Blumov.My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or hereFor more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chatLeave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it's easier). Thanks!Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae– Cain Named the Animal by Shane McCrae– Stalker and Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky– Patti Smith– Wilfred Owen– That time Elijah and I tried to scan a line– Timothy Steele– The Dream Songs by John Berryman– The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire– My most recent conversation with Alexis Sears– Wallace Stevens– The mini-issue of West Branch that Shane edited– Richard Howard– Ernest Hilbert– Liturgy– Eternal Champion– Metallica– Of the Scythians by Katha Pollitt– Beowulf– That time Jesus drove the moneychangers out of the Temple– The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot– Coleman Glenn– Anthony Hecht– Juvenal– Horace– James Merrill– Alexander Pope– John Dryden– John Donne– Ethan McGuire– The Madness of Hercules by Seneca, trans. Dana Gioia– Letters from a Stoic by Seneca– One Art by Elizabeth Bishop– High Windows by Philip Larkin– Done on This Side by Joshua Mehigan– Grendel by John Gardner– Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath– That time Abraham smashed a bunch of icons– That time the Taliban blew up a UNESCO World Heritage Site– Pulling the Chariot of the Sun by Shane McCrae– The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae– The SLRCKTS ep about the Toby Martinez de las Rivas controversy– From Titan/All Is Still by Toby Martinez de las Rivas– Black Sun by Toby Martinez de las Rivas– Floodmeadow by Toby Martinez de las Rivas– Cornel West– Christian Wiman– Jay Wright– Elizabeth Jennings– Simone WeilFrequently mentioned names:– Joshua Mehigan– Shane McCrae– A. E. Stallings– Ryan Wilson– Morri Creech– Austin Allen– Jonathan Farmer– Zara Raab– Amit Majmudar– Ethan McGuire– Coleman Glenn– Alexis Sears– JP Gritton– Alex Pepple– Ernie Hilbert– Joanna PearsonOther Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry Says by Alice AllanI Hate Matt Wall by Matt WallVersecraft by Elijah BlumovRatbag Poetics By David Jalal MotamedAlice: Poetry SaysBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] comMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

NB: After I recorded the intro and edited the three parts together, Squarespace informed me that it couldn't host the entire interview in one post, or even in two, so I'm breaking it back up into three pieces, which I'm posting here together.I'm reading with George David Clark and Ryan Wilson at Loganberry Books on June 13, at 6:00 pm, hosted by Elijah Blumov.My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or hereFor more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chatLeave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it's easier). Thanks!Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae– Cain Named the Animal by Shane McCrae– Stalker and Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky– Patti Smith– Wilfred Owen– That time Elijah and I tried to scan a line– Timothy Steele– The Dream Songs by John Berryman– The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire– My most recent conversation with Alexis Sears– Wallace Stevens– The mini-issue of West Branch that Shane edited– Richard Howard– Ernest Hilbert– Liturgy– Eternal Champion– Metallica– Of the Scythians by Katha Pollitt– Beowulf– That time Jesus drove the moneychangers out of the Temple– The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot– Coleman Glenn– Anthony Hecht– Juvenal– Horace– James Merrill– Alexander Pope– John Dryden– John Donne– Ethan McGuire– The Madness of Hercules by Seneca, trans. Dana Gioia– Letters from a Stoic by Seneca– One Art by Elizabeth Bishop– High Windows by Philip Larkin– Done on This Side by Joshua Mehigan– Grendel by John Gardner– Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath– That time Abraham smashed a bunch of icons– That time the Taliban blew up a UNESCO World Heritage Site– Pulling the Chariot of the Sun by Shane McCrae– The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae– The SLRCKTS ep about the Toby Martinez de las Rivas controversy– From Titan/All Is Still by Toby Martinez de las Rivas– Black Sun by Toby Martinez de las Rivas– Floodmeadow by Toby Martinez de las Rivas– Cornel West– Christian Wiman– Jay Wright– Elizabeth Jennings– Simone WeilFrequently mentioned names:– Joshua Mehigan– Shane McCrae– A. E. Stallings– Ryan Wilson– Morri Creech– Austin Allen– Jonathan Farmer– Zara Raab– Amit Majmudar– Ethan McGuire– Coleman Glenn– Alexis Sears– JP Gritton– Alex Pepple– Ernie Hilbert– Joanna PearsonOther Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry Says by Alice AllanI Hate Matt Wall by Matt WallVersecraft by Elijah BlumovRatbag Poetics By David Jalal MotamedAlice: Poetry SaysBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] comMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

Fi is back (sort of)! She joins Jane via Zoom from home. They cover non-noisy fruit, middle aged online dating and earliest memories. Plus, Jane speaks to American poet Shane McCrae to discuss memory and his memoir 'Pulling the Chariot of the Sun'. She also speaks to Professor Catherine Loveday about memory and why we might misremember events. If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radio Follow us on Instagram! @janeandfi Assistant Producer: Eve Salusbury Times Radio Producer: Kate Lee Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Zibby and award-winning poet Shane McCrae discuss his unforgettable memoir Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, which details the harrowing experience of being kidnapped at the age of four from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. McCrae delves into the long-term emotional impact of this event and his journey to understand and write about it. McCrae's narrative is noted to have a poetic quality, which he harnessed to express the often painful memories of his past. Lastly, he shares his best advice for aspiring authors and poets.Purchase on Bookshop: https://bit.ly/493PrUaShare, rate, & review the podcast, and follow Zibby on Instagram @zibbyowens! Now there's more! Subscribe to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books on Acast+ and get ad-free episodes. https://plus.acast.com/s/moms-dont-have-time-to-read-books. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“The weird thing about growing up kidnapped,” Shane McCrae, the 47-year-old American poet, told me in his melodious, reedy voice one rainy afternoon in May, “is if it happens early enough, there's a way in which you kind of don't know.”There was no reason for McCrae to have known. What unfolded in McCrae's childhood — between a day in June 1979 when his white grandmother took him from his Black father and disappeared, and another day, 13 years later, when McCrae opened a phone book in Salem, Ore., found a name he hoped was his father's and placed a call — is both an unambiguous story of abduction and a convoluted story of complicity. It loops through the American landscape, from Oregon to Texas to California to Oregon again, and, even now, wends through the vaster emotional country of a child and his parents. And because so much of what happened to McCrae happened in homes where he was beaten and lied to and threatened, where he was made to understand that Black people were inferior to whites, where he was taught to hail Hitler, where he was told that his dark skin meant he tanned easily but, no, not that he was Black, it's a story that's been hard for McCrae to piece together.McCrae's new book, the memoir “Pulling the Chariot of the Sun,” is his attempt to construct, at a remove of four decades, an understanding of what happened and what it has come to mean. The memoir takes the reader through McCrae's childhood, from his earliest memories after being taken from his father to when, at 16, he found him again.his story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.

Shane McCrae reads from the opening of his memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping published in August 2023 by Scribner.

When poet and author Shane McCrae was young, his white grandparents kidnapped him from his Black father and raised him themselves as a white boy, denying his biracial identity. Only years later did McCrae realize something was wrong, and he sought to find the truth. McCrae joins us to discuss his new memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun.  

For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat!Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– Cain Named the Animal by Shane McCrae– Stalker and Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky– Patti Smith– Wilfred Owen– That time Elijah and I tried to scan a line– Timothy Steele– The Dream Songs by John Berryman– The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire– My most recent conversation with Alexis Sears– Wallace Stevens– The mini-issue of West Branch that Shane edited– Richard Howard– Ernest Hilbert– Liturgy– Eternal Champion– Metallica– Of the Scythians by Katha Pollitt– Beowulf– That time Jesus drove the moneychangers out of the Temple– The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot– Coleman Glenn– Anthony Hecht– Juvenal– Horace– James Merrill– Alexander Pope– John Dryden– John Donne– Ethan McGuireAlice: Poetry SaysBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] comMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander SmithFrequent topics:– Joshua Mehigan– Shane McCrae– A. E. Stallings– Ryan Wilson– Austin AllenMore Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry SaysI Hate Matt WallVersecraft

For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat!Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!– The Newburyport Literary Festival– Zara Raab– Send me your questions for Shane McCrae!– The NYT article in question– The Twits by Roald Dahl– Rudyard Kipling– Joseph Conrad– One Cent, Two Cents, Old Cent, New Cent by Not Dr. Seuss– The lesbian romance my wife loved– The inscrutable Super Mario Bros. MovieAlice: Poetry SaysBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] comMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander SmithMore Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry SaysI Hate Matt WallVersecraft

Here we go again, blazing through the vast firmaments... We go all starry and stripy this week as we meet Shane McCrae - one of the US's most celebrated new poets - to be awed by the Miltonic vastness of an imagination that electrifies his collections  Cain Named The Animal and Sometimes I Never Suffered.Meanwhile Robin continues the epic theme in St Lucia, by embarking on Omeros by Derek Walcott, and Peter, enervated after a house move  is re-enthused about poetry as a whole thanks to On Poetry: Reading, Writing & Working with Poems by Jackie Wills. 

Spend 30 engrossing minutes in the company of the award-winning US poet Shane McCrae and Review editor Emily Berry as they discuss Sylvia Plath's ‘Lady Lazarus' as the trigger, when he was just 15, of McCrae's poetry career; John Keats and the Gothic; George Herbert; and McCrae's conversion from free verse to metrical verse. ‘I can only recommend that everyone abandon the way they've been writing and see what happens if they write in a different way,' he says. Fascinating on the ‘productive panic' of building a collection, McCrae also gives wonderful readings of his poems published in the autumn 2021 issue of The Poetry Review: 'Explaining My Appearance in Certain Pictures', 'The Fungus Called Dead Man's Fingers' and 'The Dead Negro in the Modernist Long Poem'.

Pop Culture Thursdays arrive! We discuss Divas, 90s TV, and why Elycia can go f*ck herself.Anita Baker is an Aquarius.Gladys Knight is a Gemini.Gloria Estefan is a Virgo. Gloria remembers the bus accident here.Bette Middler is a Sagittarius. Siskel and Ebert gave Beaches 2.5 stars, calling it mechanical and sentimental. Watch Middler sing "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today" here. Cher is a Taurus. Aaron was referencing "not.com.mercial," which showcased Cher's writing and was released through her website. She took the songs to the studio in 1994, but they wouldn't release it (saying it wasn't commercial).  Whitney Houston is a Leo. We reference her performance of "I Loves You, Porgy" along with "And I Am Telling You" plus "I Have Nothing" at the 1994 American Music Awards. Watch that here. Mariah Carey is an Aries.  Dolly Parton is a Capricorn. See her performance of "Does He Love You" with Reba here. Adele is a Taurus. ____ Dionne Warwick hosted the first season of Solid Gold, aided by comedian Marty Cohen, with veteran Los Angeles DJ Robert W. Morgan announcing. After Warwick left the series, singers Andy Gibb and Marilyn McCoo were brought in as co-hosts and puppeteer Wayland Flowers joined the series as a secondary comedic act with his puppet Madame. Gibb left Solid Gold in 1982 and Rex Smith replaced him, but he too would leave after one season. Following a season where McCoo hosted by herself, she left in 1984 and Rick Dees of the Weekly Top 40 radio show was hired. Arsenio Hall joined the series during this time as the in-house comedian in place of Marty Cohen. At the midway point of the 1984–85 season, Dees left Solid Gold and a series of guests were used in the interim. Original host Dionne Warwick returned toward the end of the 1984–85 season and stayed on through the following season, finally leaving the program for good in 1986. Susan Hallock Dey (born December 10, 1952) is a retired American actress, known for her television roles as Laurie Partridge on the sitcom The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1974, and as Grace Van Owen on the drama series L.A. Law from 1986 to 1992. A three-time Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee, she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series for L.A. Law in 1988.James references a scene with Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter) reading another woman who'd maligned her younger sister, Suzanne Sugarbaker (Delta Burke) to FILTH. (Designing Women.)James's poem, "Four Letters from SPC Elycia Loveis Fine" was first published in the spring 2005 issue of the Hiram Poetry Review under J. Allen Hall (cringe!) – and you can access that issue here. There's a really good Shane McCrae poem in the issue called "Immunity."

Recorded by Shane McCrae for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 1, 2021. www.poets.org

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– The four types of poetry podcasts– A recent episode of Alice Allan's podcast Poetry Says– Alice's book The Empty Show– Red Scare and The Garret– George Orwell's essay “Poetry and the Microphone”– Mark Strand– Bonny Cassidy– Finding your voice as a poet– Shane McCrae's essay “My War with John Ashbery”– David Shurman Wallace's essay “Dead Poet Anxiety”– Extremely online poets– Alan Shapiro– Shane McCrae's poem “Jim Limber on Continuity in Heaven”– Harold Bloom's book The Anxiety of Influence– Instagram poet Kate Baer– Famous nonexistent Australian poet Ern Malley– Nobody wants to write reviews– Ben Marcus' book Notable American Women– Kaveh Akbar's bad blurb for the inaccurately titled Best Poems of Jane Kenyon– John Ashbery's poem “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror”– John Ashbery's poem “The Instruction Manual”– John Ashbery's poem “Some Trees”Please rate, review, and subscribe! Or just recommend the show to a friend!Send questions, comments, and suggestions to sleerickets@gmail.com. Music by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

Kerpow! Planet Poetry is back for a second season, replete with box-fresh poetical guests, an assortment of musings on the muses – and even a new intro tune.We whiz across the Atlantic to meet Kim Addonizio and hear about her Vulcan mind meld with Shakespeare and Dante - and we can guarantee she will transform how you think about Florida forever. Kim's poems are featured in her Bloodaxe collection Wild Nights.  Fresh from a damp sojourn in Wales, Peter talks about being thunderstruck by R.S. Thomas and reads a poem from The Collected Later Poems. While Robin admires Shane McCrae's collection Sometimes I Never Suffered.  It's great to be back. We missed you!

In episode 119 of Berkeley Talks, Shane McCrae, a poet born in Portland, Oregon, who was kidnapped by his maternal grandparents at age 3, reads new works about his experience as a child growing up with his captors. The April 1 reading was part of the UC Berkeley Library's monthly event, Lunch Poems. Listen to the episode and read the transcript on Berkeley News. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On February 9, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Shane McCrae and Vievee Francis. Introductions by Lannan Fellows Joshua Kim and Renny Simone. Moderated by Carolyn Forché.Shane McCrae is the author of seven books of poetry, including Sometimes I Never Suffered (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020); In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and The Animal Too Big to Kill (Persea Books, 2015), winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.Vievee Francis was born in West Texas. She earned an MFA from the University of Michigan in 2009, and she received a Rona Jaffe Award the same year. She is the author of Forest Primeval (TriQuarterly Books, 2015), winner of the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Award; Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012), winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize; and Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University Press, 2006). The poet Adrian Matejka describes her poems as “revelations—of memory, of dust, of the cotton and marginalia strung together to make a history.” The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and the Kresge Foundation, Francis currently serves as an editor for Callaloo and teaches English and creative writing at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

American poet, Shane McCrae, joins Sara-Jayne on Weekend Breakfast to talk about his life as a black child growing up in a white, racist family. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shane McCrae is an award-winning African-American poet and writer whose work often addresses the black experience in the US. Poetry for him was a way of making sense of his difficult and abusive upbringing. As a child, Shane was raised by his white maternal grandparents in a deeply racist household. His grandmother taught him the Nazi salute, told him that he “tanned very easily” and that he was living with her because his black father didn’t want him. But when Shane was a teenager, he would learn the truth about the racial prejudice and deception that divided him from his father Stanley. Shane's latest collections of poetry are called Sometimes I Never Suffered and The Gilded Auction Block. Any comments please email us on outlook@bbc.com Presenter: Emily Webb Producer: Maryam Maruf Picture: Shane McCrae as a child Credit: Courtesy Shane McCrae

Today's poem is The Hastily Assembled Angel Falls at the Beginning of the World by Shane McCrae.

Today's poem is The Hastily Assembled Angel Falls at the Beginning of the World by Shane McCrae.

The Miami singer Gloria Estefan discusses her Cuban roots and the musical and cultural links the country shares with Brazil, as she releases her new album Brazil305. The singer also remembers the sadness she faced as a child when her father returned from Vietnam, contracting multiple sclerosis as a result of the military’s use of Agent Orange. A new film version of Pinocchio has just been released. And if you’re hoping for a wholesome remake of the 1940 Disney film, you’ll be in for quite a surprise. 80 years on from the all-singing version telling the story of a loveable boy puppet who wants to become a REAL boy, this latest Italian language version takes a less sentimental approach. It’s a story which has been translated into over 300 languages, which apparently makes it the most translated non-religious book in the world and one of the best-selling books ever published, To review this and to take a look at other cultural highlights of their weeks, I’m joined down the line from Edinburgh by the poet Don Paterson and by the theatre critic for The Scotsman newspaper Joyce McMillan When Shane McCrae was three he was taken from his black father and brought up by his grandmother as a white supremacist so, in effect, to hate himself. Today McCrae is an acclaimed American poet, a finalist for the National Book Award and author of seven collections. His poems are this month being published in the UK for the first time , with two books, Sometimes I Never Suffered and The Gilded Auction Block, coming out simultaneously. His poetry is totally engaged with the present, with references to Donald Trump, yet is deeply informed by the forms and prosody of the canon of English poetry, in which he is steeped. In his first UK interview he talks to Kirsty Lang about his life, and reads his powerful work. Classical guitarist Sean Shibe discusses the impact of Julian Bream, the British guitarist and lutenist who has died aged 87.

Recorded by  Shane McCrae for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on May 28, 2020. www.poets.org

Shane McCrae joins Kevin Young to to discuss his poetry sequence “Jim Limber in Heaven,” featured on newyorker.com. McCrae is a poet whose whose work has received such honors as a Whiting Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and a Lannan Literary Award. He was also a finalist for the National Book Award.

On this episode, we're marking National Poetry month by featuring conversations with three wonderful writers. Our associate editor Matthew Sitman talks with Alice Quinn about her work and her time as poetry editor with the New Yorker magazine. Our literary editor Anthony Domestico speaks with Shane McCrae, whose collection "The Gilded Auction Block" has just been published. And Nicole-Ann Lobo, our Garvey Writing Fellow, sits down with the poet and human rights activist Carolyn Forché, to discuss her most recent book "What You Have heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness & Resistance". And make sure to stick around until the end, when our senior editor Matthew Boudway steps in with a special reading of a poem by Les Murray. 

Dan and Eric discuss the Ian Parker tale of writer/editor Dan Mallory's fascinating trail of deception; TC Boyle's short story in which he envisions a future with all self-driving cars; Margaret Talbot's take on what the Dems should do next; and Dan Chiasson's thoughts about poet Shane McCrae's most recent book, "The Gilded Auction Block." 

One day at school in the early 1990s, Shane McCrae watched a TV movie about teen suicide. The first half was all exactly what you would have expected: cheesy platitudes, heroic teachers, and feathery haircuts. Then, a character quoted the poetry of Sylvia Plath. “I don't want to be hyperbolic, but it did feel like a kind of an electric shock,” McCrae remembers. “I had never heard anything like it. I never had a feeling like that.” That day, he wrote eight poems at school. Then he took the bus home and wrote some more. From there, McCrae dived deeper into Plath’s life, checking out a book of her poems from the library and never returning it. Today, McCrae is a professional poet. And even though Plath is no longer his “central poet,” she remains his emotional and creative bedrock. We talked to McCrae to learn how a long-dead, white, East Coast writer known for her depressing verse gave purpose and uplift to a young black teenager living in suburban Oregon. This podcast was produced by Justin Glanville for Studio 360. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One day at school in the early 1990s, Shane McCrae watched a TV movie about teen suicide. The first half was all exactly what you would have expected: cheesy platitudes, heroic teachers, and feathery haircuts. Then, a character quoted the poetry of Sylvia Plath. “I don't want to be hyperbolic, but it did feel like a kind of an electric shock,” McCrae remembers. “I had never heard anything like it. I never had a feeling like that.” That day, he wrote eight poems at school. Then he took the bus home and wrote some more. From there, McCrae dived deeper into Plath’s life, checking out a book of her poems from the library and never returning it. Today, McCrae is a professional poet. And even though Plath is no longer his “central poet,” she remains his emotional and creative bedrock. We talked to McCrae to learn how a long-dead, white, East Coast writer known for her depressing verse gave purpose and uplift to a young black teenager living in suburban Oregon. This podcast was produced by Justin Glanville for Studio 360. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 8 of Rewrite Radio features Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas on Black Lives Matter and the Justice of God at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. The Susan D. Morgan Distinguished Professor of Religion at Goucher College, Rev. Dr. Douglas has served as a priest in the Episcopal Church for over 20 years and is currently the Canon Theologian at the National Cathedral. She writes about racial reconciliation, sexuality and the black church, and womanist theology. Her most recent book is STAND YOUR GROUND: BLACK BODIES AND THE JUSTICE OF GOD. Poet Shane McCrae helps to introduce the session. A fellow featured speaker at the 2016 Festival, McCrae is the author of several poetry collections including THE ANIMAL TOO BIG TO KILL, FORGIVENESS FORGIVENESS, and most recently IN THE LANGUAGE OF MY CAPTOR, a collection of historical persona poems with a prose memoir at the center that addresses the illusory freedom of both black and white Americans. McCrae was the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Award, and in 2013 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He’s on faculty at both Oberlin College and Spalding University. Special thanks to Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas. Thanks also to Shane McCrae who can be found on Twitter @akasomeguy.

Rachel Zucker speaks with Shane McCrae, professor and author of five books, about his poetic process, what he’s working on, and the current political climate. The two discuss the limitations of the term “confessional poetry,” the difficulties of writing about tragedies in the immediate wake of their occurrences, the impulse to witness humiliation in popular culture, the American anxiety of the long poem post-Eliot, and how one might curate an “overwhelming sadness” through art. Shane McCrae reads “In the Language” from his new book In the Language of My Captor, and “Forgiveness in America” from Forgiveness Forgiveness. An audio excerpt from Shane’s newest book-length poem and two hand-picked playlists are available to Patreon subscribers of Commonplace.