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Niela Orr is a culture writer and editor who has published in The Baffler, The Believer, and The Organist, among others. Since 2022 she has worked as an editor at the New York Times Magazine. In conversation with Sky Goodden, Orr discusses her editing as being rooted in service, and her abiding sense of responsibility to the writers that she works with. Orr foregrounds this conversation with a reading from Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007; Wave Books, 2024), by Tisa Bryant, a former mentor of hers. She also talks about the profound pleasure and significance of reading fiction and poetry. “If I'm not reading poetry, I feel like I'm losing access to possibility,” she says. And in turn, Orr says, “I write for patient readers.”Momus: The Podcast is edited by Jacob Irish, with production assistance from Chris Andrews. Many thanks to this episode's sponsors, the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation (feat. The Rabkin Interviews), the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, and Waddington's.

A new 'Craftwork' episode about how to write a poem. My guest is Matthew Zapruder, author of the poetry collection I Love Hearing Your Dreams, available from Scribner. Zapruder is the author of six collections of poetry, including Come on All You Ghosts, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Father's Day; Why Poetry; and Story of a Poem, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship. His poetry has been adapted and performed by Gabriel Kahane and Brooklyn Rider and Attacca Quartet at Carnegie Hall and San Francisco Performances and was the libretto for Vespers for a New Dark Age, a piece by Missy Mazzoli commissioned for the Ecstatic Music Festival at Carnegie Hall. He was Guest Editor of Best American Poetry 2022, and from 2016 to 2017, he held the annually rotating position of Editor of the weekly Poetry Column for TheNew York Times Magazine. He lives with his wife and son in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is editor at large at Wave Books, and teaches in the MFA in creative writing program at Saint Mary's College of California. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram  TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the third and final episode of Season Ten of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Srikanth Reddy during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2015. Srikanth Reddy's series of lectures consider a range of questions concerning poetry and visual art, including theories of likeness, ekphrasis, and wonder. Today's talk, entitled “The 'O' of Wonder: A Syzygy,” traces a history of wonder in the western poetic tradition from Homer to Milton to Ronald Johnson. It was recorded and presented in partnership with Counterpath at the University of Denver, September 18, 2015. To view a gallery of works referenced in this talk, visit the ⁠Bagley Wright Lecture Series website⁠ or click ⁠here⁠. Reddy's book based on his BWLS lectures, ⁠⁠The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures⁠⁠, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available ⁠⁠here⁠⁠. Visit us at our website, ⁠bagleywrightlectures.org⁠, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Music: "⁠⁠I Recall⁠⁠" by ⁠⁠Blue Dot Sessions⁠⁠ from the ⁠⁠Free Music Archive⁠⁠ CC BY NC

Welcome to the second episode of Season Ten of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.   Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Srikanth Reddy during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2015. Srikanth Reddy's series of lectures consider a range of questions concerning poetry and visual art, including theories of likeness, ekphrasis, and wonder. Today, we'll hear "Like a Very Strange Likeness and Pink," recorded at Seattle Arts and Lectures, December 1, 2015. This lecture examines the question of likeness in Emily Dickinson's similes and Gertrude Stein's portraits as a way of thinking about social identity and difference in modern American poetry. To view a gallery of works referenced in this talk, visit the BWLS website.   Reddy's book based on his BWLS lectures, ⁠The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures⁠, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available ⁠here⁠.  Visit us at our website, bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Music: "⁠I Recall⁠" by ⁠Blue Dot Sessions⁠ from the ⁠Free Music Archive⁠ CC BY NC

Welcome to the first episode of Season Ten of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Srikanth Reddy during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2015. Srikanth Reddy's series of lectures consider a range of questions concerning poetry and visual art, including theories of likeness, ekphrasis, and wonder. Today, we'll hear a recording of “The Unsignificant,” given October 2, 2015 at New York University.  This lecture considers W. H. Auden's poem “Musee des Beaux Arts” in relation to Peter Brueghel's painting “The Fall of Icarus,” and references a number of artworks. To view a gallery of these works, visit the Bagley Wright Lecture Series website or click here. Reddy's book based on his BWLS lectures, ⁠The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures⁠, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available ⁠here⁠. Visit us at our website, bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Music: "⁠I Recall⁠" by ⁠Blue Dot Sessions⁠ from the ⁠Free Music Archive⁠ CC BY NC

Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired July 30th, 2024) featuring returning guest - the remarkable poet, teacher and editor, Geoffrey Nutter, who'll read from his work and share with us his erudition and passion about the Haiku form.  Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet's intrepid Poet-at-Large is also featured on the show.  Visit: Sharonisraelpoet.com. Visit: Geoffrey Nutter Wallson Glass Visit: Pamela Manche Pearce Geoffrey Nutter is originally from Sacramento, California, but has lived in New York City for many years. He is the author of Giant Moth Perishes (Wave Books, 2021), A Summer Evening (winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize), Water's Leaves & Other Poems (Winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize), Christopher Sunset (winner of the 2011 Sheila Motton Book Award), The Rose of January (Wave Books, 2013), and Cities at Dawn (Wave Books, 2016). He has taught poetry at several schools, including Princeton, Columbia, University of Iowa, NYU, and the New School; and currently teaches Greek and Latin Classics at Queens College. He runs the Wallson Glass Poetry Seminars in New York City, where he conducts day-long writing sessions for people from all over the world, and also does private consultations. from Wave Books on Giant Moth Perishes:With exquisite detail and humble sensibilities, Geoffrey Nutter's sixth collection of poetry offers myriad delights in language and the imagination. In cityscapes, nature, books, and color, we find respite in the complexities of the commonplace—from clocks to teardrops to moths. Here are poems that teach us how to live in the world with curious attention. And at the heart of this daydreaming is a spectacular earnestness, firmly embedded in the idea that the landscape of poetry is limitless and wild.

Kit Schluter celebrates the publication of "Cartoons," (City Lights) & Garrett Caples celebrates the publication of "Proses: Incomparable Parables! Fabulous Fables! Cruel Tales!" (Wave Books). Purchase "Cartoons:" https://citylights.com/city-lights-published/cartoons/ Purchase "Proses:" https://citylights.com/general-fiction/proses-incomparable-parables-fabulous/ About "Cartoons:" Set in the uncanny valley between Bugs Bunny & Franz Kafka, "Cartoons" is an explosive series of outrageous, absurdist tales. "Cartoons" proposes itself as a genre of imaginary writing in opposition to the realism of most contemporary U.S. fiction, aligning itself with the French symbolism & Latin American fabulism its author is known to translate. A giant cricket with a tiny Kit Schluter in a jar, an umbrella who confuses the words porpoise and purpose in its quest for self-fulfillment, a pair of slugs go on a bender, these are just a few denizens of its pages, suffused with a fairy tale-like animism. A microwave oven decries microaggressions. A beer bottle is filled with regret. An escalator mechanic's shoe conceals a terrible secret. Kit Schluter's recent work has appeared in Boston Review, BOMB, & Brooklyn Rail. He is author of the poetry collection "Pierrot's Fingernails" (Canarium Books) as well as numerous chapbooks & artist editions of poems & stories. Schluter is included in the latest edition of "Best American Experimental Writing" (Wesleyan UP, 2020), edited by Carmen Maria Machado, Joyelle McSweeney, Jesse Damiani & Seth Abramson. He has translated widely from French & Spanish, including works by Rafael Bernal (New Directions), Marcel Schwob (Wakefield Press), & Olivia Tapiero (Nightboat Books). He recently illustrated Sebastian Castillo's novel "SALMON." Kit coordinates production & design for Nightboat Books and lives in Mexico City. About "Proses:" In the grand tradition of poet's fiction, "Proses: Incomparable Parables! Fabulous Fables! Cruel Tales!" is a collection of nine phantasmagorical stories by poet & City Lights editor, Garrett Caples. Turning its back on the ethos of traditional narrative, "Proses" draws on Marcel Schwob, magical realism, & speculative fiction for inspiration, projecting worlds dominated by dream logic & impossible dimensions. Spectral nuns, xenobots, explosive phraseology, & even Ringo Starr are some of the unexpected dilemmas confronting the various protagonists. Poets such as Andrew Joron, Kit Schluter, & Claude Grind make cameo appearances. While each story is a standalone, the collection amounts to an intricate whole, as themes, objects, & characters recur, encouraging readers to enjoy the book sequentially. Regardless of how it's enjoyed, "Proses" is both a satire of the world of contemporary poetry & a celebration of that world's fantastic, infinite imagination. Garrett Caples is the author of "Lovers of Today" (Wave Books, 2021), "Power Ballads" (Wave Books, 2016), "Complications" (2007), & "The Garrett Caples Reader" (1999), a collection of outtakes, "The Rise & Fall of Johnny Volume" (2020), & a bilingual selection, "Noches Apátridas" (Unstated Nights, 2019). He's also written a book of essays, "Retrievals" (2014), & a pamphlet, "Quintessence of the Minor" (2010). He's the editor of Philip Lamantia's "Preserving Fire: Selected Prose" (2018), Samuel Greenberg's "Poems from the Greenberg MSS" (2019), & Michael McClure's "Mule Kick Blues and Last Poems" (2021), as well as the co-editor of "The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia" (2013), "Particulars of Place" (2015) by Richard O. Moore, "Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems" (2016) by Frank Lima, & "Arcana: A Stephen Jonas Reader" (2019). He is an editor at City Lights Books, where he curates the Spotlight Poetry Series. Originally broadcast from City Lights' Poetry Room on Thursday, May 22, 2024. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation. citylights.com/foundation

Matthew Zapruder is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently I Love Hearing Your Dreams, forthcoming from Scribner in September 2024, as well as two books of prose: Why Poetry (Ecco, 2017) and Story of a Poem (Unnamed, 2023). He is editor at large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations. From 2016-7 he held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine, and was the Editor of Best American Poetry 2022. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary's College of California.-bio via the poet's website Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the fourth and final episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Lisa Jarnot's autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip' and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth. Today we'll hear “Is That A Real Poem Or Did You Just Make It Up?” given December 9, 2021, in partnership with Portland Literary Arts, via Zoom. Jarnot's book based on her BWLS lectures, titled, Four Lectures, is outMay 7 from Wave Books, and is available here. Visit us at our website, bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. This podcast was produced by me, Ellen Welcker. Thank you to Portland Literary Arts for partnering with us on this event, and thank you for listening. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the third episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Lisa Jarnot's autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip' and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth. Today we'll hear “Epistle to the Summer Writing Program (On the Metaphysics of Deep Gossip),” given June 24, 2021, in partnership with the Naropa University, via Zoom. Jarnot's book based on her BWLS lectures, titled, Four Lectures, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available here. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. This podcast was produced by me, Ellen Welcker. Thank you to Naropa University for partnering with us on this event, and thank you for listening. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the second episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Lisa Jarnot's autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege, and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip' and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth. Today we'll hear "Abandon the Creeping Meatball: an Anarcho-Spiritual Treatise,” given February 18, 2021, in partnership with the University of Buffalo, via Zoom. Click here to view the Bruce Kurland paintings discussed in this talk. Lisa Jarnot's book based on her BWLS lectures, Four Lectures, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available here. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the first episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Lisa Jarnot's autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip' and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth. Today we'll hear “White Whales, White Males, Whitehead,” given October 7, 2020, in partnership with The Poetry Project, via Zoom. There are two brief moments where the recording goes fuzzy. Transcriptions of those moments are below: ~40.18: "I was the perfect candidate to catalogue that collection." ~54:00 "'Whoever swears by the sanctuary is bound to nothing, but whoever swears by the gold of the sanctuary is bound by the oath.'" Lisa Jarnot's book based on her BWLS lectures, Four Lectures, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available here. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Sheena Patel, writer of “I'm a Fan”, her first novel published by Rough Trade Books in 2022, and soon to be published in French by Gallimard. In her novel, Sheena Patel explores the blurred lines between reality and the online world through the involvement of an unnamed female character in an unequal romantic relationship. Through this conversation with Erica Wagner, Sheena Patel talks about her desire to capture the spirit of her time. They also evoke “Four Brown Girls Who Write”, a collective of women writers created with her friends to support each other in their writing processes.As part of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon], the podcast "les Rencontres" highlights the birth of a writer in a series imagined by CHANEL and House ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi.Sheena Patel, I'm a fan, © Sheena Patel, 2022. Cover © Granta Books, 2023.© Rough Trade Books.Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., published byBallantine Books, copyright © 1992, 1955 by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.Minor Feelings : An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong, Random House, 2020.Martine Syms, Shame Space, 2020. © Martine Syms. Published by Primary Information.Martine Syms, The African Desperate, © Dominica Publishing, 2022Maggie Nelson, Bluets, © Copyright 2009 by Maggie Nelson, Wave Books, 2009The Argonauts © 2015 by Maggie Nelson. First published by Graywolf Press, Minneapolis.© Guardian News & Media Ltd 2024.Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School, © Grove Press, 1984.Celia Dale, A Spring of Love, © Daunt Books, 2024.© The British Book Awards.© The Women's Prize.© Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize.© Jhalak Prize.© Foyles. All Rights Reserved.© Los Angeles Times. All Rights Reserved.Sheena Patel, I'm a fan, Translated into French by French novelist and translator Marie Darrieussecq, © Éditions Gallimard, 2025.Juan Carlos Medina, The Limehouse Golem, ©New Sparta Films, 2016.Roshni Goyate, Sharan Hunjan, Sunnah Khan, Sheena Patel, 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE, © Rough Trade Books, 2020.© 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE

Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Sheena Patel, writer of “I'm a Fan”, her first novel published by Rough Trade Books in 2022, and soon to be published in French by Gallimard. In her novel, Sheena Patel explores the blurred lines between reality and the online world through the involvement of an unnamed female character in an unequal romantic relationship. Through this conversation with Erica Wagner, Sheena Patel talks about her desire to capture the spirit of her time. They also evoke “Four Brown Girls Who Write”, a collective of women writers created with her friends to support each other in their writing processes.As part of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon], the podcast "les Rencontres" highlights the birth of a writer in a series imagined by CHANEL and House ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi.Sheena Patel, I'm a fan, © Sheena Patel, 2022. Cover © Granta Books, 2023. © Rough Trade Books. Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., published by Ballantine Books, copyright © 1992, 1955 by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. Minor Feelings : An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong, Random House, 2020. Martine Syms, Shame Space, 2020. © Martine Syms. Published by Primary Information. Martine Syms, The African Desperate, © Dominica Publishing, 2022 Maggie Nelson, Bluets, © Copyright 2009 by Maggie Nelson, Wave Books, 2009 The Argonauts © 2015 by Maggie Nelson. First published by Graywolf Press, Minneapolis. © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2024. Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School, © Grove Press, 1984. Celia Dale's A Spring Love is available from Daunt Books Publishing.© The British Book Awards. © The Women's Prize. © Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize. © Jhalak Prize. © Foyles. All Rights Reserved. © Los Angeles Times. Sheena Patel, I'm a fan, Translated into French by French novelist and translator Marie Darrieussecq, © Éditions Gallimard, 2025. Juan Carlos Medina, The Limehouse Golem, © New Sparta Films, 2016. Roshni Goyate, Sharan Hunjan, Sunnah Khan, Sheena Patel, 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE, © Rough Trade Books, 2020. © 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 308, my conversation with poet Michael Earl Craig. This episode first aired on August 31, 2014. Craig is originally from Dayton, Ohio. He is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Iggy Horse, which was published by Wave Books this past spring. His other collections include Woods and Clouds Interchangeable (Wave Books, 2019), Talkativeness (Wave Books, 2014), Thin Kimono (Wave Books, 2010), Yes, Master (Fence Books, 2006), Can You Relax in My House, (Fence Books, 2002), and the chapbook Jombang Jet (Factory Hollow Press, 2012). He lives in the Shields Valley, near Livingston, Montana, where he runs a full-time farrier practice. He was the 2015-2017 Poet Laureate of Montana. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dorothea Lasky reads “A Lion” and “Self-Portrait in the Hotel” from her poetry collection The Shining, published by Wave Books in October 2023.

Today's guest is Aaron Kunin, Professor of English at Pomona College. We will discuss two books Aaron published in 2019: the first is Character as Form (Bloomsbury), a re-examination of the early modern understanding of “character” as stereotype, generalization, and convention. In Character as Form, Aaron braids together close readings of furniture in Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine, a reflection on the concept of negative anthropology from Raul Ruiz's Three Lives and Only One Death, and insight into formalism and anti-formalist views of fictive personhood. The second we discuss is Love Three: A Study of a Poem by George Herbert (Wave Books), a “reading diary” that takes a seventeenth-century poem as a springboard for a meditation on love, sexual experience, and power. Herbert's poem is a fraught dialogue between a speaker and Love, which is unfolded to touch on the politics of eating, the allure of rhetorical power, and the nature of crowds. Aaron's research focuses on English Renaissance literature. In addition to his scholarship, he is the author of five books, including Cold Genius: A Book of Poems (2014), The Mandarin (2008), and Folding Ruler Star: Poems (2005), all from Fence Books. John Yargo is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Boston College. He earned a PhD in English literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, specializing in the environmental humanities and early modern culture. In 2023, his dissertation won the J. Leeds Barroll Prize, given by the Shakespeare Association of America. His peer-reviewed articles have been published or are forthcoming in the Journal for Early Modern Culture Studies, Early Theatre, Studies in Philology, and Shakespeare Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Today's guest is Aaron Kunin, Professor of English at Pomona College. We will discuss two books Aaron published in 2019: the first is Character as Form (Bloomsbury), a re-examination of the early modern understanding of “character” as stereotype, generalization, and convention. In Character as Form, Aaron braids together close readings of furniture in Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine, a reflection on the concept of negative anthropology from Raul Ruiz's Three Lives and Only One Death, and insight into formalism and anti-formalist views of fictive personhood. The second we discuss is Love Three: A Study of a Poem by George Herbert (Wave Books), a “reading diary” that takes a seventeenth-century poem as a springboard for a meditation on love, sexual experience, and power. Herbert's poem is a fraught dialogue between a speaker and Love, which is unfolded to touch on the politics of eating, the allure of rhetorical power, and the nature of crowds. Aaron's research focuses on English Renaissance literature. In addition to his scholarship, he is the author of five books, including Cold Genius: A Book of Poems (2014), The Mandarin (2008), and Folding Ruler Star: Poems (2005), all from Fence Books. John Yargo is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Boston College. He earned a PhD in English literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, specializing in the environmental humanities and early modern culture. In 2023, his dissertation won the J. Leeds Barroll Prize, given by the Shakespeare Association of America. His peer-reviewed articles have been published or are forthcoming in the Journal for Early Modern Culture Studies, Early Theatre, Studies in Philology, and Shakespeare Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary Ruefle reads “The Effusive” from her prose collection The Book, published in September 2023 by Wave Books.

A potpourri of topics takes up our second hour with subjects ranging from our Vice President to the heat wave freakout to controversy in our schools plus much more.

How is poetry like skipping stones across the surface of a lake? How might a poem be like an undelivered letter or package? Matthew Zapruder joins the podcast to talk about James Tate's "Quabbin Reservoir," a poem that raises those and other questions—and does so with Tate's gorgeous ear for weird idiom, full of both humor and feeling. (For the backstory on the place this poem is—at least on its surface—about, see this story.)Matthew Zapruder is the author of five books of poems, including, most recently, Father's Day (Copper Canyon, 2019), and two books of prose: Why Poetry (Ecco, 2017) and Story of a Poem: A Memoir (Unnamed, 2023). He is editor at large at Wave Books and teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary's College of California. You can follow Matthew on Twitter.As ever, if you enjoy the episode, please follow, rate, and review the podcast. Share an episode with a friend! And subscribe to my Substack, where you'll get occasional updates on the pod and on my own writing.

Today we’re starting a new randomly occurring series on the podcast where we talk about–on top of whatever else–dreams. We start today with the poet and translator Ana Božičević, whose new book New Life came out this year from Wave Books. Ana Božičević is a poet, translator, teacher, and occasional singer. Ana grew up in […]

This week, Cindy Juyoung Ok speaks with Douglas Kearney, who joins from Saint Paul, Minnesota. Kearney is the author of eight books of poetry, prose, and libretti, and his poems are often highly distinctive both on and off the page. Today's conversation begins with spite and Scrabble, which Kearney writes about in his new essay in the July/August issue of Poetry, a continuation of the “Hard Feelings” series. They also talk about the changing topographies in Kearney's work, the “dintelligibility” of his new poems, and the vital importance of discomfort. Thanks to Douglas Kearney and Wave Books for permission to include Kearney's reading of “Sand Fire (or The Pool, 2016)” from his book Sho, and to Fonograf Editions for permission to include clips from Douglas Kearney and Val Jeanty's Fodder.

City Lights presents Evan Kennedy in conversation with Sophie Dahlin. Evan Kennedy celebrates the publication of his book “Metamorphoses: City Lights Spotlight No. 22” published by City Lights Books. This event took place in the City Lights Poetry Room and was moderated by Garrett Caples. You can purchase copies of “Metamorphoses” directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/metamorphoses-2/ Evan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist. He is the author of “I Am, Am I, to Trust the Joy That Joy Is No More or Less There Now Than Before” (Roof Books), “Jerusalem Notebook” (O'clock Press), “The Sissies” (Futurepoem), “Terra Firmament” (Krupskaya), “Shoo-Ins to Ruin” (Gold Wake Press), and “Us Them Poems” (Book*hug). He runs the occasional press, Dirty Swan Projects, and was born in Beacon, New York, in 1983. He lives in San Francisco, California. Sophia Dahlin is a poet in Berkeley. She leads generative poetry workshops and teaches youth creative writing. With Jacob Kahn, she edits a small chapbook press called Eyelet. Her first book, “Natch,” was released in 2020 by City Lights Books. Garrett Caples is the poetry editor at City Lights and the curator of the Spotlight Poetry Series. He is also an acclaimed poet in his own right and has had numerous books published. Wave Books published his most recent book titled “Lovers of Today.” This event was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation

The second of five episodes featuring the lectures that became Rachel Zucker's newest book, The Poetics of Wrongness. This episode contains audio of “What We Talk About When We Talk About the Confessional and What We Should Be Talking About,” presented at the University of Arizona Poetry Center (Tucson) on January 28, 2016. It also includes a new introduction by Rachel and a conversation recorded in April, 2023 with the founder and host of the Keep the Channel Open podcast, Mike Sakasegawa. In this lecture, Rachel Zucker discusses the origin of the term Confessional as it came to be used for a specific group of poets, the legacy of confessional poetry, risk, shame, and questions of gender and privilege in relationship to confessional poetry. Many thanks to The University of Arizona Poetry Center, The Bagley Wright Poetry Lecture Series and the BWLS Podcast, Ellen Welcker, Heidi Broadhead, Charlie Wright and everyone at Wave Books. Here is a longer list of acknowledgments and a partial list of referenced sources for Rachel's lectures.

Rachel Zucker releases the first of her five lectures written for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series. This episode “The Poetics of Wrongness,” is the title lecture of her new book, now out from Wave. Within the framework of feminism, motherhood, and politics, the lecture challenges long-held rules and perceptions of what poetry and art can be or should be, offering up new modes of generating a personal aesthetic, poetry, and discourse. This episode includes audio of the lecture given at Seattle Arts and Lectures on November 29, 2016 as well as a conversation recorded in April, 2023 with her son Moses Goren about the lecture. Many thanks to Seattle Arts and Lectures, The Bagley Wright Poetry Lecture Series and the BWLS Podcast, Ellen Welcker, Heidi Broadhead, Charlie Wright and everyone at Wave Books. Commonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

Matthew Zapruder is the author of the memoir Story of a Poem, available from Unnamed Press. Zapruder is the author of five collections of poetry, including Come On All You Ghosts, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Father's Day (Copper Canyon, 2019), as well as Why Poetry, a book of prose. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary's College of California. Zapruder has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a William Carlos Williams Award, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship in Marfa, TX. His poetry has been adapted and performed at Carnegie Hall by Composer Gabriel Kahane and Brooklyn Rider, and was the libretto for "Vespers for a New Dark Age", a piece by composer Missy Mazzoli commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival. In 2000, he co-founded Verse Press, and is now editor at large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations. He was the founding Director of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series. From 2016-17 he held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine and Guest Editor of Best American Poetry 2022. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  YouTube TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The group gathers at the Writers House to discuss Hoa Nguyen's "Long Light," collected in Red Juice: Poems, 1998-2008 (Wave Books, 2014).

City Lights presents Douglas Kearney reading from his new book and in conversation with Tisa Bryant. Douglas Kearney celebrates his collection of lectures "Optic Subwoof" published by Wave Books. This virtual event was hosted by Peter Maravelis. You can purchase copies of "Optic Subwoof" directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/optic-subwoof/ Douglas Kearney has published seven poetry collections, including "Sho" (Wave 2021), which was a finalist for the National Book Award, PEN Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and "Buck Studies" (Fence Books, 2016), winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award, the CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry, and the California Book Award silver medal for poetry. M. NourbeSe Philip calls Kearney's collection of libretti, "Someone Took They Tongues" (Subito, 2016), “a seismic, polyphonic mash-up.” Kearney's "Mess and Mess and" (Noemi Press, 2015), was a Small Press Distribution Handpicked Selection that Publisher's Weekly called “an extraordinary book.” He has received a Whiting Writer's Award, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, residencies/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others. Kearney teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities and lives in St. Paul with his family. Tisa Bryant teaches fiction and non-fiction, mythologies, cross-cultural/cross-genre/hybrid writing, and much more at Calarts. She is the author of the book "Unexplained Presence" (Leon Works, 2007), her first full-length book, is a collection of original, hybrid essays that remix narratives from film, literature and visual arts and zoom in on the black presences operating within them. An excerpt from her novella, "[the curator]", was published by Belladonna Books in 2009, in a companion volume with writer Chris Kraus. She is also the author of the chapbook, "Tzimmes" (A+Bend Press, 2000), a prose poem collage of narratives including a Barbados genealogy, a Passover seder and a film by Yvonne Rainer. She is interested in archives, hybrid forms, mythologies, ethnicity and innovation, the interdependence of experimental and conventional fiction, cinematic novels and ekphrastic writing. Bryant's writing has appeared in "Evening Will Come", "Mandorla", "Mixed Blood", "in the ‘zine", "Universal Remote: Meditations on the Absence of Michael Jackson" and in the catalogues and solo shows of visual artists Laylah Ali, Jaime Cortez, Wura-Natasha Ogunji and Cauleen Smith. She is co-editor, with Ernest Hardy, of "War Diaries", an anthology of black gay male desire and survival, from AIDS Project Los Angeles, which was nominated Best LGBTQ anthology by the LAMBDA Literary Awards. She is also co-editor/publisher of the hardcover cross-referenced literary/arts series, "The Encyclopedia Project", which recently released Encyclopedia Vol. 2 F-K. This event was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation

Join Chris in conversation with author and educator, Dorothea Lasky, about passions, process, pitfalls, and Poetry! DOROTHEA LASKY: I am the author of five full-length collections of poetry and one book of prose. My newest book is Animal (Wave Books). I am also the author of ROME (Liveright/W.W. Norton) and Milk, Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE, all out from Wave Books. I co-wrote Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac (Flatiron Books, 2019) with the poet, Alex Dimitrov. I have also written several chapbooks, including Snakes (Tungsten Press, 2017) and Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Ducking Presse, 2010). My writing has appeared in POETRY, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and Boston Review, among other places. I am a co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney's, 2013) and the editor of the forthcoming Essays (Essay Press, 2021). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tpq20/support

"You hear so much talk about risk-taking in poetry. Lying is a form of risk-taking, but no one talks about that." - Mary Ruefle"The End." - Me______________________________________________LINKS:Buy Madness, Rack, and Honey at WAVE BOOKS.Buy a "ME READING STUFF" shirt or sweatshirt HERE. See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE.Get free shipping on all books in my SHOP! (use Coupon Code "BOOK")And here's my WEBSITE. Thank you so much for listening. 

What is a divinatory poetics? Can texts be haunted? This week, we return to Lauren‘s 2021 conversation with Toronto-based poet Hoa Nguyen, in which the two dive into the narratives that prompted and sit within Nguyen‘s new book of poetry, ‘A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure' (Wave Books).

What is a divinatory poetics? Can texts be haunted? This week, we return to Lauren‘s 2021 conversation with Toronto-based poet Hoa Nguyen, in which the two dive into the narratives that prompted and sit within Nguyen‘s new book of poetry, ‘A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure' (Wave Books).

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we are honored to have award-winning poet, critic, and educator Sandra Simonds, author of multiple books including TRIPTYCHS from Wave Books. We discuss her trip to Scotland with her sister's in-laws and a nice peaceful walk through a cemetary, a walk from which she brought home a dark companion that would remain attached to her for years.  #shadowfigure #attachment #cemetary #scotland #ghost

Books and Selected Other Work by Douglas KearneyBOOKS / COMPOSITIONSSho (poetry, Wave Books, 2021)Fodder, with Val Jeanty (poetry LP, Fonograf Editions, 2021) Starts Spinning (poetry Chapbook, Rain Taxi, 2020)Buck Studies (poetry, Fence Books, 2016)Someone Took They Tongues. 3 Operas (libretti, Subito Press, 2016)Mess and Mess and (poetry and essays, Noemi Press, 2015)Patter (poetry, Red Hen Press, 2014)The Black Automaton (poetry, Fence Books, 2009)LECTURESDouglas Kearney's Bagley Wright Lectures“I Killed, I Died: Banter, Self-Destruction, and the Poetry Reading” (The Yale Review, 2021)OTHER“Dear Editor——: An Open Letter from Douglas Kearney” (Cave Canem, 2020)Also ReferencedBagley Wright Lecture SeriesChristopher Titus, Born With a DefectTarik DobbsJennifer Holliday as Effie in Dream GirlsEllen WelckerRainer Maria Rilke, “The Archaic Torso of Apollo”James Wright, “A Blessing” and “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota”lucille cliftonVal Jeanty

Das "weiter lesen"-Team präsentiert einen bunt gemischten Büchertisch. Von Roman bis Lyrik zu Sachbuch, Graphic Novel und Bildband ist alles dabei. Auch thematisch sind unsere ganz persönlichen Büchertipps zur Weihnachtszeit so vielfältig wie das Leben selbst: Wir sprechen über den Fall Woyzeck, über die Generation Slim Fit in der Politik, über die erste große Liebe im Berlin der Achtziger Jahre, über die Neue Nationalgalerie und über den Dialog zwischen einem Tiefkühlschrank und einem Eiswürfel… Als "Special Guest" ist die Schweizer Lyrikerin Eva Maria Leuenberger dabei. Sie stellt literarische Entdeckungen aus dem englischsprachigen Raum vor. In dieser Sonderausgabe von "weiter lesen" – der Koproduktion von rbbKultur und dem Literarischen Colloquium Berlin – geht es auch um die schönste Nebensache der Welt: das Lesen natürlich! Natascha Freundel empfiehlt: Ulrich Peltzer: "Das bist du", S. Fischer Verlag, 288 Seiten, 22,00 Euro Adam Nicolson: "Der Ruf des Seevogels", Liebeskind 2021, 368 Seiten, 36,00 Euro Donatella Di Cesare: "Philosophie der Migration", Matthes & Seitz 2021, 343 Seiten, 26,00 Euro Thomas Geiger empfiehlt: Steve Sem-Sandberg: "W.", Klett Cotta 2021, 416 Seiten, 25,00 Euro Helmut Böttiger: "Die Jahre der wahren Empfindung", Wallstein Verlag 2021, 473 Seiten, 32,00 Euro Michael Wesely: "Neue Nationalgalerie 160401-201209", Hatje-Crantz 2021, 224 Seiten, 50,00 Euro Eva Maria Leuenberger empfiehlt: Doireann Ní Ghríofa: "Ghost in the Throat", Tramp Press 2020, 224 Seiten, 12,74 Euro Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: "The Freezer Door", Semiotext(e) 2020, 280 Seiten, Preis variiert CAConrad: "While Standing in Line for Death", Wave Books 2017, 160 S., 18,27 Euro Thorsten Dönges empfiehlt: Elias Hirschl: "Salonfähig", Roman, Zsolnay, 256 Seiten, 22,00 Euro Frédéric Ciriez/Romain Lamy: "Frantz Fanon", Graphic Novel, Hamburger Edition Mittelweg 36, 232 Seiten, vierfarbig, 25,00 Euro Ronya Othman: "Die Verbrechen", Gedichte, Hanser, 112 Seiten, 20,00 Euro Mehr Infos unter www.rbbkultur.de/weiterlesen

Kate Durbin is the author of the poetry collection Hoarders, available now from Wave Books. Durbin is a Los Angeles-based artist and author of four books of poetry. Her art and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Art Forum, Art in America, The Believer, BOMB, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the international 2017 Turn on Literature Prize for Electronic Literature for her poetry app, Abra. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Support the show on Patreon Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram  YouTube Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2017, Geoffrey Nutter gave a workshop & reading from his then-new collection, Cities at Dawn, (Wave Books, 2016) in Seattle at Hotel Sorrento, in partnership with The Hugo House. Please enjoy this short reading by the author, in celebration of his now-new collection, Giant Moth Perishes, (Wave Books, 2021). Nutter's essay, "A Note on Concordances," is here.

Kate Durbin is a visual artist, filmmaker, and writer from Los Angeles, California (USA), whose artworks are nervous, unnerving, and playful explorations of the human condition in a time of constant screens, globalism, and late capitalism. Her work draws on a wide-range of popular culture references: Disneyland, reality TV shows, fast food, horror movie characters, and Hello Kitty are just some of the recurring figures and references that populate her work. In Hoarders, her third book of poetry, Durbin deftly traces the associations between hoarding and collective US traumas rooted in consumerism and the environment. Each poem in the book is a prismatic portrait of a person and the beloved objects they hoard, from Barbies to snowglobes to vintage Las Vegas memorabilia to rotting fruit to plants. Using reality television as a medium, Durbin conjures an uncanny space of attachments that reflects a cultural moment back to the reader in ways that are surreal and tender and surprising.  Like Beckett or Kafka, in the absurdist tradition, Hoarders ultimately embraces with sympathy the difficulty and complexity of the human condition. Order Hoarders directly from Wave Books and enjoy 30% off by using the promo code WAKE_ISLAND --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wake-island/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wake-island/support

In Episode #2 of Translators Note, we take a closer look at three translated books published this past year, and the processes, trends, and intercultural dynamics at play as a translation project enters the world.Jack Jung, translator of Yi Sang: Selected Works (ed. Don Mee Choi, Wave Books 2020) and Lizzie Buehler, translator of The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun (Counterpoint Press 2020) join producer Abby Ryder-Huth to talk about their books and the particulars of working from Korean. Later, Kendall Storey, associate editor at Catapult, gives producer Julia Conrad a behind-the-scenes look at the publishing side, and talks about editing 2020 National Book Award finalist High as the Waters Rise, by Anja Kampmann and translated by Anne Posten. **If you have a translation project you think would be a good fit for Kendall, she is acquiring literary fiction (especially innovative works attentive to language) for Catapult Books, as well as for Soft Skull Press, which is known for its edgier and often humorous house aesthetic. You can reach her at kendall.storey@catapult.co.**Translators Note would like to thank everyone who makes our show possible! Nate Repasz made our fantastic theme music, and in this episode we also hear music by Daniel Birch, and "Ariel" by Bio Unit.PS: we're on Spotify and Apple Podcasts! Listen to us and subscribe there!

Fernando Codina, Periodista, escritor, poeta y blogger, son las palabras que mejor me definen. Llevo escribiendo de manera más o menos seria desde una madrugada del año 2009, aunque ha sido en los últimos dos años cuando he empezado a publicar. Si te atrae el terror, te invito a leer dos antologías: TE VEO Y OTRAS MIRADAS SIN VIDA, de la editorial Wave Books; y ENTRE MIS TINIEBLAS, con la editorial Maluma. También he participado en varias antologías colectivas, como la de Castle Rock Asylum, uno de cuyos relatos estás a punto de escuchar. Y en breve saldrán publicadas otras dos antologías, de las editoriales Vernacci y de Palabras de Agua... Por cierto, también escribo poesía... Ventajas de ser Géminis. Muchas gracias Fernando por cederme tu relato y con muchas ganas de seguir grabando los próximos relatos que tengo en mis manos... Twitter: @CodinaFernando Blogs de Fernando Codina: https://hdtesenciadeversos.blogspot.com/ https://hdtrelatososcuros.blogspot.com/ Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

'Gray' by Mary Ruefle read by Lorna Macintyre. 'Gray' appears in 'My Private Property' first published by Wave Books in 2016. A transcript can be found within the following review https://www.full-stop.net/2017/03/16/reviews/connor-stratton/my-private-property-mary-ruefle/ More from Lorna Macintyre can be found at https://www.lornamacintyre.com

Prageeta Sharma and Kate R. Morris' play ON THE ROOF, IN THE TOMBS is available to view virtually through September 30th. For more information visit https://burningcoal.org/the-19th-on-the-roof-in-the-tombs/ (https://burningcoal.org/the-19th-on-the-roof-in-the-tombs/). About the Guests Kate R. Morris is a playwright currently at large between Montana and Mexico. Her plays and performances have been hosted at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago’s RhinoFest, the Mid-America Theatre Conference, the Old Marquer Theater in New Orleans and with BetweenTheLines Theatre in Missoula, MT. Her writing can be read in Funny Looking Dog Quarterly, Present Tense Pamphlets (Northwestern University Press) and at Infinity’s Kitchen, among others. Prageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections https://wavepoetry.com/products/grief-sequence (Grief Sequence) (Wave Books, 2019), Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013), Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007), The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004), which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College. Hear what the other 19th Amendment Project playwrights have to say to RDU on Stage about this collective of plays. https://rduonstage.com/events/the-19th-amendment-project/ (Ep. 72: Hannah Benitez and Tamara Kissane) https://rduonstage.com/2020/08/18/ep-73-carrie-knowles/ (Ep. 73: Carrie Knowles) https://rduonstage.com/2020/08/19/ep-74-a-conversation-with-playwright-elaine-romero/ (Ep. 74: Elaine Romero) https://rduonstage.com/2020/08/23/ep-75-a-conversation-with-inalienable-rights-playwright-deb-margolin/ (Ep. 75: Deb Margolin) https://rduonstage.com/2020/08/24/ep-76-behold-colored-and-woman-inconceivable-a-conversation-with-mj-perrin/ (Ep. 76: MJ Perrin) https://rduonstage.com/2020/09/01/ep-77-light-upon-a-candlestick-a-conversation-with-ruth-margraff-and-kamala-sankaram/ (Ep. 77: Ruth Margraff and Kamala Sankaram) https://rduonstage.com/2020/09/07/ep-78-jennifer-natalya-fink-talks-bitter-flower/ (Ep. 78: Jennifer Natalya Fink) Ep. 80: Ariel Zetina NOTE: RDU on Stage producer, editor, and host Lauren Van Hemert has been nominated for Best Podcaster, Social Influencer, and Woman of the Year in WRAL Voters' Choice Awards. To nominate RDU on Stage or your favorite businesses and non-profits, visit: https://www.wral.com/voters-choice-awards/17382552/ (https://www.wral.com/voters-choice-awards/17382552/). Thank you for your support! Connect with Us Facebook – @rduonstage Twitter – @rduonstage Instagram – @rduonstage Web http://www.rduonstage.com/ (www.rduonstage.com) Support this podcast

'wish you were here you are' by Rachel Zucker read by D.A. Powell. 'wish you were here you are' fist appears in the collection 'The Pedestrians' published by Wave Books in 2014. A transcript can be found at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/poetry/weekly-poem-rachel-zucker-reads-wish More from D. A. Powell can be found at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/d-a-powell

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Don't be afraid of the wide world! Matthew Zapruder (1967) is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor. He is the author of four collections of poetry, his first book, American Linden (Tupelo Press, 2002) won the Tupelo Press Editor’s Prize and his second collection, The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), won the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. His numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was co-founder and editor-in-chief of Verse Press, which has since become Wave Books. He lives in Oakland, where he is an associate professor in the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA Program in Creative Writing, as well as editor at large for Wave Books.

Matthew Zapruder is the guest. His latest poetry collection, Father's Day, is available from Copper Canyon Press. This is his second time on the program. He first appeared in Episode 477 on August 9, 2017. He is a poet, translator, professor and editor. He earned a BA in Russian literature at Amherst College, an MA in Slavic languages and literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in poetry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he studied with Dara Wier, James Tate, and Agha Shahid Ali. He is the author most recently of Sun Bear, Copper Canyon, 2014, and Why Poetry, a book of prose about poetry, Ecco/Harper Collins, 2017. An Associate Professor in the MFA at Saint Mary’s College of California, he is also editor at large at Wave Books, and from 2016-7 held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Oakland, California. He also plays lead guitar in the rock band The Figments, a Western Massachusetts based band led by songwriter Thane Thomsen. Zapruder’s other collections of poetry include Come On All You Ghosts (2010), The Pajamaist (2006), and American Linden (2002). He collaborated with painter Chris Uphues on For You in Full Bloom (2009) and co-translated, with historian Radu Ioanid, Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu’s last collection, Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems (Coffee House, 2008). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beer: Athens to Athens Grist to Grist (a collaboration with Jackie O’s Brewery and Creatures Comfort Brewing Co.) Poetry: Eileen Myles in her book "Snowflake / different streets" (Wave Books, 2012) Episode 17 features the fabulous collaboration beer called Athens to Athens Grist to Grist and work by the famed Eileen Myles. Get ready for some laughs in this one. Cheers! *Eileen Myles goes by they/them/theirs pronouns, and we respect and celebrate this decision! Our deepest apologies for using the wrong pronoun, we were alerted to the fact after we published the episode. We will henceforth refer to Eileen by that set of pronouns. Thank you for your patience!*

Our debut episode! Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger welcome poet Devon Walker-Figueroa. Also discussed: - The National Book Award nominations for poetry - Wave Books' ten-year anniversary of Maggie Nelson's landmark Bluets The American Poetry Review is a RADIOKISMET podcast. For more: aprweb.org

This week in the pharmacy we have the poet SANDRA SIMONDS! Sandra Simonds is the author of six books of poetry: Orlando, (Wave Books, 2018), Further Problems with Pleasure, winner of the 2015 Akron Poetry Prize from the University of Akron Press, Steal It Back (Saturnalia Books, 2015), The Sonnets (Bloof Books, 2014), Mother Was a Tragic Girl (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012), and Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009). Her poems have been published in the New York Times, the Best American Poetry 2015 and 2014 and have appeared in many literary journals, including Poetry, the American Poetry Review, the Chicago Review, Granta, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Fence, Court Green, and Lana Turner. In 2013, she won a Readers’ Choice Award for her sonnet “Red Wand,” which was published on Poets.org, the Academy of American Poets website. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida and is an Associate professor of English and Humanities at Thomas University in Thomasville, Georgia. Here are the poems we discuss in the episode: I Know a Man by Robert Creeley https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42839/i-know-a-man Sonnet by Bernadette Mayer https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49729/sonnet-you-jerk-you-didnt-call-me-up

Relato de terror titulado PURGATORIO de Fernando Codina. Publicado en la I ANTOLOGÍA DE RELATOS DE TERROR CASTLE ROCK ASYLUM, coordinado por Tamara López y Rubén Giráldez. Espero que os guste tanto como a mí, hay momentos descriptivos maravillosos en este relato de terror, sobre todo el momento cumbre de ópera de Renaissance Man de Herb City. Dejo lista de reproducción de todos los relatos que he ficcionado hasta el momento de dicha antología: https://www.ivoox.com/relatos-terror-i-antologia-castle-rock-asylum_bk_list_605335_1.html Fernando Codina, periodista, escritor, poeta y blogger, son las palabras que mejor me definen. Llevo escribiendo de manera más o menos seria desde una madrugada del año 2009, aunque ha sido en los últimos dos años cuando he empezado a publicar. Si te atrae el terror, te invito a leer dos antologías: TE VEO Y OTRAS MIRADAS SIN VIDA, de la editorial Wave Books; y ENTRE MIS TINIEBLAS, con la editorial Maluma. También he participado en varias antologías colectivas, como la de Castle Rock Asylum, uno de cuyos relatos estás a punto de escuchar. Y en breve saldrán publicadas otras dos antologías, de las editoriales Vernacci y de Palabras de Agua... Por cierto, también escribo poesía... Ventajas de ser Géminis. FC. Twitter Fernando Codina: @CodinaFernando Twitter Historias para ser leídas: @hleidas Blogs de Fernando Codina: https://hdtesenciadeversos.blogspot.com/ https://hdtrelatososcuros.blogspot.com/ Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

In today's flash briefing poetry reading, Catherine Bresner is a guest reader. She reads Wallace Stevens' "A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts." We recorded in two different places and times, so the volume might jump around a bit, but it is worth it to hear Catherine's emotive reading style on this poem. More on Catherine -- Catherine Bresner is the author of the chapbook The Merriam Webster Series and the artist book Everyday Eros (Mount Analogue 2017). Her poetry has appeared in The Offing, Heavy Feather Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Passages North, The Pinch and elsewhere. Her book, the empty season, won the Diode Edition Book Prize in 2017 and she was a runner-up for the 2018 Rattle Poetry Prize. She has been the coordinating editor of the Seattle Review, and the publicity assistant for Wave Books. Currently, she is the managing editor for BOAAT Press. You can find more of her work at (www.catherinebresner.com). Transcript of the poem and more on Wallace Stevens: (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/21816/a-rabbit-as-king-of-the-ghosts) // (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wallace-stevens) ● The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community (youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1). Connect with us on Instagram (instagram.com/thepoetryvlog), Twitter (twitter.com/thepoetryvlog), Facebook (facebook.com/thepoetryvlog), and our website (thepoetryvlog.com).

In today's flash briefing poetry reading, Catherine Bresner is a guest reader. She reads Brenda Shaughnessy's poem, "It Never Happened." We recorded in two different places and times, so the volume might jump around a bit, but it is worth it to hear Catherine's emotive reading style on this poem. More on Catherine -- Catherine Bresner is the author of the chapbook The Merriam Webster Series and the artist book Everyday Eros (Mount Analogue 2017). Her poetry has appeared in The Offing, Heavy Feather Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Passages North, The Pinch and elsewhere. Her book, the empty season, won the Diode Edition Book Prize in 2017 and she was a runner-up for the 2018 Rattle Poetry Prize. She has been the coordinating editor of the Seattle Review, and the publicity assistant for Wave Books. Currently, she is the managing editor for BOAAT Press. You can find more of her work at (www.catherinebresner.com). More on Brenda Shaughnessy -- (https://www.brendashaughnessy.com/) ● The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community (youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1). Connect with us on Instagram (instagram.com/thepoetryvlog), Twitter (twitter.com/thepoetryvlog), Facebook (facebook.com/thepoetryvlog), and our website (thepoetryvlog.com).

Catherine Bresner, a Seattle poet and “tinkerer” in visual arts, discusses the need for a feminist language of experience. You will get a peek into Matthea Harvey's visual poetics book, “Of Lamb,” Renee Gladman's “Prose Architectures,” and Catherine's own visual poem, “American Sentence.” Catherine is an articulate teacher and writer, skilled at explaining her experiences in writing and being in a way that translates across multiple audiences. As she reads and shows poetry comics that I inspire her as well as her own, curl up with a spiced fall beverage of choice and join us! As always, you can always listen to the podcast version. However, this particular episode is on visual poetics — your experience will be enriched by watching :). More on Catherine -- Catherine Bresner is the author of the chapbook The Merriam Webster Series and the artist book Everyday Eros (Mount Analogue 2017). Her poetry has appeared in The Offing, Heavy Feather Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Passages North, The Pinch and elsewhere. Her book, the empty season, won the Diode Edition Book Prize in 2017 and she was a runner-up for the 2018 Rattle Poetry Prize. She has been the coordinating editor of the Seattle Review, and the publicity assistant for Wave Books. Currently, she is the managing editor for BOAAT Press. You can find more of her work at (www.catherinebresner.com). ● The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community (youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1). Connect with us on Instagram (instagram.com/thepoetryvlog), Twitter (twitter.com/thepoetryvlog), Facebook (facebook.com/thepoetryvlog), and our website (thepoetryvlog.com). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

in which Erin Dorney and i talk the wide world of erasure poetry, internal swiss cheese, and WHALE PROM!... where to find Erin: website - https://www.erindorney.com/ twitter - @edorney instagram - erindorney where to find I Am Not Famous Anymore - http://www.masonjarpress.xyz/chapbooks-1/i-am-not-famous-anymore Launch event June 17th/Baltimore - https://www.facebook.com/events/433903263733695/ Launch event June 21st/Philadelphia - https://www.facebook.com/events/1424782640955660/ other things referenced - Kim Birdgford - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Bridgford Jenny Hill - http://jenniferdunnhill.blogspot.com/ The Found Poetry Review - http://www.foundpoetryreview.com/ Nets by Jen Bervin - http://www.jenbervin.com/images/nets/about.html A Humument by Tom Phillips - http://www.tomphillips.co.uk/humument CAConrad - http://caconrad.blogspot.com/ Wave Books - https://www.wavepoetry.com/ Lydia Davis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Davis Louise Erdrich - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/louise-erdrich all this can be yours by Isobel O'Hare - https://university-of-hell-press.myshopify.com/products/all-this-can-be-yours-by-isobel-ohare RED by Chase Berggrun - http://www.birdsllc.com/catalog/red & THE GREEN by Amanda McCormick - http://www.inkpressproductions.com/product-page/the-green-by-amanda-mccormick

On the seventh episode of "From the Catbird Seat," Rob Casper goes behind the scenes with Matthew Zapruder, editor at large of Wave Books and the former director of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, about the six Bagley Wright lectures hosted at the Library of Congress between 2013 and 2016. The lecture series features leading mid-career poets as they explore, in-depth, their own thinking on the subject of poetry and poetics. We'll listen to three poets who delivered Bagley Wright lectures at the Library of Congress: Dorothea Lasky, Timothy Donnelly, and Terrance Hayes.

Matthew Zapruder is a poet, editor, translator, and professor. He earned a BA in Russian literature at Amherst College, an MA in Slavic languages and literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in poetry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Sun Bear (2014), Come On All You Ghosts (2010), The Pajamaist (2006), and American Linden (2002). His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. With Brian Henry, he co-founded Verse Press, which later became Wave Books. He is now an editor with the firm.  He's also a guitarist in the rock band The Figments and an associate professor in the Saint Mary's College of California MFA Program in Creative Writing.  His most recent book is Why Poetry (2017). We met in his office in Oakland, California to discuss it, and, among other things, Joseph Conrad, life expanding beyond the ordinary, the material of language, painters and paint, troubling representation, the absurdity of using inconsistency to critique a poem; surprise, truth and beauty; genre arguments; poetry being found in translation; strange worlds and words; clarity and the best of intentions; exploring things beyond the bounds of propriety; Terrance Hayes; Keats's 'To Autumn' and Tom Paulin's interpretation of it; sleepwalking and defamiliarization; revealing and making new meaning; Shakespeare; the scariness of silence; being heard and answered; the influence and talent of Frank O'Hara; poets as archivists of language; the vibration of words; the debatability of the colour green; literal reading; perfume advertisements; the death of those close to you; helping people to make their lives better; and making poems that are worth reading.  

Rachel Zucker speaks to poet, prose writer, professor, editor, publisher, Matthew Zapruder, an hour after his interview on Leonard Lopate Show, about Ai Weiwei, Tracey Ullman, and being a Commonplace listener. Zucker and Zapruder discuss their relationship as writer-editor, how Matthew appears in Rachel’s poems, power, sharing work with friends and trusted readers, the history of Wave Books, the Poetry Bus, why Matthew wrote Why Poetry?, Matthew’s relationship with his father and his father’s death, how to include not-knowingness, the kind of thinking you can only do in poems, having to say no to things, trying to do less and becoming less of a public person. Matthew reads from Why Poetry? and a new poem from an unpublished manuscript.

Rhode Island Poet Laureate, Tina Cane, and author Matthew Zapruder host a reading and discussion of poetry and its role in modern society lIve in front of an audience in the Woodman Center at the Moses Brown School in Providence, RI. Matthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry–his most recent, Come On All You Ghosts, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and his prose volume Why Poetry was released by Ecco Press/Harper Collins in August 2017. A 2011 Guggenheim fellow, Zapruder is also editor-at-large at Wave Books, and from 2016-7 held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine. In Why Poetry, Zapruder examines what poetry—and poetry alone—can do, and argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. He explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. In addition to serving as Poet Laureate of Rhode Island, Tina Cane is the founder and director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI. She is an instructor with the writing community, Frequency Providence. Cane is the author of The Fifth Thought (Other Painters Press, 2008), Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, poems with art by Esther Solondz (Skillman Avenue Press, 2016) and Once More With Feeling (Veliz Books, 2017). In 2016, Tina received the Fellowship Merit Award in Poetry, from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

We're celebrating the last episode of our first season with a special double feature, recorded live at Java River Cafe in Montevideo, Minnesota. Our guests are Chris Koza and Malena Handeen. Chris Koza is the frontman of the Americana rock band Rogue Valley. In this interview, he reads a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith that helped inspire his new side project, Nobody Kid. Malena Handeen is a painter, songwriter, and organic vegetable farmer based in Western Minnesota. In this episode, she reads a poem by Tyehimba Jess and discusses how the weather affects her creative life. Later on, members of our audience participate in our first ever live Haiku Hotline. "The Museum of Obsolescence" by Tracy K. Smith appears in the book Life on Mars, published by Graywolf Press. "What the Wind, Rain and Thunder Said to Tom" by Tyehimba Jess appears in the book Olio, published by Wave Books. Subscribe on RadioPublic, iTunes, or Stitcher.

Tyehimba Jess is the author of leadbelly and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Olio. leadbelly was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. Library Journal and Black Issues Book Review both named it one of the "Best Poetry Books of 2005." Jess's second book, Olio, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the 2017 Book Award for Poetry from the Society of Midland Authors. It was also a finalist for the 2016 National Books Critics Circle Award, 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Library Journal called it a "daring collection, which blends forthright, musically acute language with portraiture" and Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called it "Encyclopedic, ingenious, and abundant" and selected it as one of the five best poetry books of 2016. (Photo from Wave Books website, credit: John Midgley)

Patricia Lockwood is a poet and essayist. Her new book is Priestdaddy: A Memoir. “[Prose writing is] strange to me as a poet. I’m like, ‘Well I guess I’ll tell you just what happened then.’ But the humor has to be there as well. Because in my family household…the absurdity or the surrealism that we have is in reaction to the craziness of the household. So something like your underwear-clad father with his hand in a vat of pickles, sitting in a room full of $10,000 guitars and telling you that he can’t afford to send you to college—that’s bad. That’s a sad scene. But it’s also totally a lunatic scene. It’s, just the very fact of it, all these accoutrements, all the elements of the scene—they are funny.” Thanks to Audible and MailChimp for sponsoring this week's episode. @TriciaLockwood Lockwood on Longform [00:00] Stoner [01:00] Priestdaddy: A Memoir (Riverhead Books • 2017) [02:00] readthissummer.com [02:30] How To Be a Person in the World (Heather Havrilesky • Doubleday • 2016) [02:30] Heather Havrilesky on the Longform Podcast [09:15] Balloon Pop Outlaw Black (Octopus Books • 2012) [10:00] Wave Books [10:00] Octopus Books [10:15] Black Ocean [11:30] "The Dark Mystery of Emily Dickinson’s ‘Master’ Letters" (Nicholas Rombes • The Rumpus • May 2011) [12:00] Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (Penguin Poets • 2014) [20:15] Lockwood’s Jonathan Franzen Tweet [20:45] Lockwood’s Paris Review Tweet

“I like to read because it kills me.” -Mary Ruefle LINKS: Buy Mary Ruefle’s new book “My Private Property” at Wave Books here: http://www.wavepoetry.com/products/my-private-property NYC, come see me: http://www.inglettgallery.com/oneil-3-february-2017 LA, come see me: https://revisingloneliness.com/2017/01/09/i-present-two-at-echo-park-film-center/ Trailer for my film: https://vimeo.com/26486761 Echo Park Film Center: http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Wednesday Reading Series Garrett Caples is the author of three full-length poetry collections, including the brand-new Power Ballads (Wave Books, 2016). He has also written a book of essays, Retrievals (Wave, 2014), and a pamphlet, Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English (Wave, 2010). He co-edited Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems by Frank Lima (City Lights, 2016), Particulars of Place by Richard O. Moore (Omnidawn, 2015), and Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (California, 2013). A freelance writer, he is also an editor at City Lights, where he curates the Spotlight poetry series. He lives in San Francisco. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised in the Washington DC area, Hoa Nguyen currently makes her home in Toronto. Her poetry collections include As Long As Trees Last, Red Juice, Poems 1998-2008, and Violet Energy Ingots from Wave Books. Nguyen teaches at Ryerson University, for Miami University's low residency MFA program, for the Milton Avery School for Fine Arts at Bard College, and in a long-running, private poetics workshop. She can be found on the web at http://www.hoa-nguyen.com.

On this episode our guests are Mark Allen and Zut Lorz. Mark Allen is the founder and director of machine project which is a storefront space in Echo Park, Los Angeles. And It's so much more than that and you should go right now to MachineProject.com and watch the short animation on the home page there about “What is Machine Project.” It will give you a real sense of the space, but we can say that Machine Project is a project space that brings together fine art and performance with maker culture and community engagement and everything else in the universe. Zut Lorz is an archivist at machine project and has a history in performance work. She is currently working on developing the machine project archive into a comprehensive online history of the space. Later in the show we begin tapping into the vast machine project archive in a new segment of notes from the people to bring you a recording of Anthony McCann reading the first few poems from his recent book, Thing Music on Wave Books. And we close out this episode with a track called Wash, by ING one of the many musical acts that have been regulars at machine over the years. ING is Max Markowitz and John Wood and the piece you'll hear is from an immersive underwater sound installation they did in 2013 as part of Machine Project's Field Guide to LA Architecture. You can find out more about ING at INGisMaxandJohn.com and the name of the song is Wash

I interviewed Dale Smith and Hoa Nguyen at their home in Austin last August. The two studied poetry at the New University of California, and they started the Skanky Possum imprint together in the late '90s. Hoa's book Hecate Lochia came out in 2009, and her new collection As Long as Trees Last will be published by Wave Books in 2012. Dale's most recent book of poetry is Susquehanna, published in 2008, and his book Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960 will come out early next year. For more writing by Hoa Nguyen and information on her independent poetry workshops, visit Hoa-Nguyen.com. Dale Smith's blog is Possum Ego, and his anthology Slow Poetry: An Introduction nicely encapsulates his aesthetic interests. The couple and their two sons moved to Toronto this past summer, where Dale has taken a position in the English department at Ryerson University.

Tender Points (Timeless/Infinite Light)                                                The Argonauts (Graywolf Press)Tender Points is a narrative fractured by trauma. Named after the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia, the book-length lyric essay explores sexual violence, gendered illness, chronic pain, and patriarchy through the lenses of lived experience and pop culture (Twin Peaks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, noise music, etc.).Praise for Tender Points""Tender Points does precisely what people are always saying can't be done—it combines a moving, distilled, literary journey with advocacy and even pedagogy, here about trauma, chronic pain, patriarchy, and more. Call it "écriture féminine en homme," if you want (as Berkowitz does, with acid wit)—but whatever you call it, this is firm, high-stakes speech speaking truth to power, radiating beauty and fierceness from its inspiring insistence and persistence."—Maggie Nelson"'Trauma is nonlinear,' writes Berkowitz. I am impressed by the sensing form she makes. That has the day in it, as well as the night. The body, that is, in variable settings, frames and weathers. The stairs that 'climb up my arms and neck.' The 'I am bitterly jealous of people who can always go back to being a barista for a while.' This book is a kind of clutching and being there for real, and that is what I like. A book. That takes up. A visceral form."—Bhanu Kapil"Tender Points is one of those books that feels necessary. It takes on rape culture and cops and doctors, the whole long history of who gets to speak and how, who gets heard and who doesn't and why not. I wish this book wasn't as necessary as it is, but I'm so grateful to Amy for writing it."—Stephanie YoungAmy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2015). Her work has also appeared in Dusie, Textsound, Where Eagles Dare, and VIDA's Reports from the Field series. In 2014, she was a Writer in Residence at Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery. She lives in a rent-controlled apartment in San Francisco, where she is the founding editor of Mondo Bummer Books and the host of the Amy's Kitchen Organics reading series. , . . Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making. Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and child-rearing. Nelson's insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry of this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.Praise for The Argonauts"What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating. She invites us to 'pay homage to the transitive' and enjoy 'a becoming in which one never becomes.' Reading The Argonauts made me happier and freer." --Eula Biss"Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog." --Ben Lerner "There isn't another critic alive like Maggie Nelson--who writes with such passion, clarity, explicitness, fluidity, playfulness, and generosity that she redefines what thinking can do today. Indeed, I come away from The Argonauts with a heady, excited sensation of having seen unveiled a new era of embodied, soulful rumination. Her impeccable sentences destroy doxa and gleefully remake the body politic; her prose seems air-borne, like an Argus-eyed levitator in touch with the divine. Buoyant, Nelson soars through art and philosophy and her own experiences with reckless mastery and insurrectionary ease--a virtuosity born of deep reflection and fearless trust in what literature, at its best, can do." --Wayne Koestenbaum"In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart." --Kim Gordon"The Argonauts takes us on delicious journey into the real life intimacies and intricacies of queer love, sex, literature, and motherhood. Maggie Nelson's honesty, intelligence, humor and great writing transform what society might deem a radical, non-traditional lifestyle into the new desirable. A fucking gem of a book that touched and tickled all my sweet spots."--Annie Sprinkle"Once again, Maggie Nelson has created awe-inspiring work, one that smartly calls bullshit on the places culture--radical subcultures included--stigmatize and misunderstand both maternity and queer family-making. With a fiercely vulnerable intelligence, Nelson leaves no area un-investigated, including her own heart. I know of no other book like this, and I know how crucially the culture needs it." --Michelle Tea Maggie Nelson is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, many of which have become cult classics defying categorization. Her nonfiction titles include the New York Times bestseller The Argonauts (Graywolf Press, May 2015), The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Norton, 2011; named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Bluets (Wave Books, 2009; named by Bookforum as one of the top 10 best books of the past 20 years), The Red Parts: A Memoir (Free Press, 2007), and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (U of Iowa Press, 2007); her poetry titles includeSomething Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005; finalist for the PEN/ Martha Albrand Art of the Memoir). She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction, an NEA in Poetry, a Literature Fellowship from Creative Capital, and an Arts Writers Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and has taught literature and writing at the New School, Pratt Institute, and Wesleyan University. Since 2005 she has been on the faculty of the School of Critical Studies at CalArts. She lives in Los Angeles.

Sep. 4, 2014. As part of the ongoing Bagley Wright Lecture Series, poet and Wave Books editor Joshua Beckman gives a lecture on poetry. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6572

Michael Earl Craig is the guest. His latest book, Talkativeness, is available now from Wave Books.  Publishers Weekly says "Craig renders unsettling dreams and quotidian clutter with sparse language and a quiet, distant voice to conjure poems brimming with the bizarre. His knack for the disturbing materializes in images from Dick Cheney being wheeled in á la Dr. Strangelove to President Obama's inauguration, to a husband and wife witnessing 'dark turkeys' encroaching on their property, to a speaker declaring his penchant for vocational talent: 'I have just very carefully cut/ my best friend's wife's bangs.' Even the lighter elements of the book seem a bit foul, such as the quick cameo of Death from Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal. This is the work of a writer who lives 'in an experimental town' where the 17 on-duty cops can only say, 'That's the way the cookie crumbles.' If it's the qualities of the macabre that lure the reader in, then it's our inability to look away from the grotesque that drive us to continue reading. That inability to turn back, much like the advice Craig offers about catching horses, is what remains at the end of this read: 'you can't fake looking away, horses/ know when you are doing this./ You have to really look away./ Some horsemen never come out of this.'" Monologue topics: re-reading, Hunter S. Thompson, The Razor's Edge, my bad memory, melatonin, nightmares, fear, superstition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode #107! Featuring an interview with Andy Fitch, editor of 60 MORNING TALKS, and a review by David Campos of Matthew Zapruder's SUN BEAR! Music by El Amparito and Vic Chesnutt ("Flirted With You All My Life.") Andy Fitch's most recent book is Sixty Morning Talks. Ugly Duckling soon will release his Sixty Morning Walks and Sixty Morning Wlaks. With Cristiana Baik, he is currently assembling the Letter Machine Book of Interviews. He has collaborative books forthcoming from 1913 and Subito. He edits Essay Press and teaches in the University of Wyoming's MFA program. *** Matthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Come On All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon 2010), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Sun Bear (Copper Canyon, 2014), as well as a book of prose, Why Poetry, forthcoming from Ecco Press in 2015. He is also co-translator from Romanian, along with historian Radu Ioanid, of Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu (Coffee House Press, 2007). His poems, essays and translations have appeared in many publications, including Tin House, Paris Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Bomb, Slate, Poetry, and The Believer. He has received a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, a William Carlos Williams Award, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship in Marfa, TX. An Assistant Professor in the St. Mary's College of California MFA program and English Department, he is also Editor-at-Large at Wave Books. He lives in Oakland, CA.

Language Arts (Wave Books 2014) by Cedar Sigo is a departure and then reintroduction to form on avant garde’s terms. In addition to disparate explosions of imagery, Cedar trains the ear for surprise of sound and a prosody that was born of childhood prayer, exposure to native tongue, and an understanding of musical composition. You enter a foreign landscape and exit much wiser.     Kiss the lights and they change out over the Stardust Cities are huge machines for sorting poets Starting down the cellophane-enfolded hills Even cast off lines have their own pull and rhyme. (Excerpt from “After Self-Help”) His love of poetry extends far beyond his own written word. I was impressed by the wealth of knowledge he drew upon in our talk, let alone in the creation of his verse. There is a reverence that any listener would find endearing and ensures us that our art is in the hands of a master. And I tell you, the sonnet never looked so good. Just like his poems, our conversation was full of surprises and revelation. From identity poetics to poets in translation, Cedar was candid and engaging. He invites readers into his inner world via the page and keeps them there with twists and unexpected turns. He is effortless. I invite you to listen to our exchange, hear his work, and purchase Language Arts so that you may return to it time and time again, discovering something new with each read. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Language Arts (Wave Books 2014) by Cedar Sigo is a departure and then reintroduction to form on avant garde’s terms. In addition to disparate explosions of imagery, Cedar trains the ear for surprise of sound and a prosody that was born of childhood prayer, exposure to native tongue, and an understanding of musical composition. You enter a foreign landscape and exit much wiser.     Kiss the lights and they change out over the Stardust Cities are huge machines for sorting poets Starting down the cellophane-enfolded hills Even cast off lines have their own pull and rhyme. (Excerpt from “After Self-Help”) His love of poetry extends far beyond his own written word. I was impressed by the wealth of knowledge he drew upon in our talk, let alone in the creation of his verse. There is a reverence that any listener would find endearing and ensures us that our art is in the hands of a master. And I tell you, the sonnet never looked so good. Just like his poems, our conversation was full of surprises and revelation. From identity poetics to poets in translation, Cedar was candid and engaging. He invites readers into his inner world via the page and keeps them there with twists and unexpected turns. He is effortless. I invite you to listen to our exchange, hear his work, and purchase Language Arts so that you may return to it time and time again, discovering something new with each read. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary Ruefle‘s newest book of poems Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013) is brilliant. Her poems have the confidence of a poet who is utterly fearless, but wise enough to never come out and brag about it. Her poetry is honest, but dignified, thoughtful and bizarre, and with a fidelity to lived experience that is heartbreaking. During our chat we talk about childhood, the life and mind of the artist, her neighborhood in Vermont, and so much more. I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary Ruefle‘s newest book of poems Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013) is brilliant. Her poems have the confidence of a poet who is utterly fearless, but wise enough to never come out and brag about it. Her poetry is honest, but dignified, thoughtful and bizarre, and with a fidelity to lived experience that is heartbreaking. During our chat we talk about childhood, the life and mind of the artist, her neighborhood in Vermont, and so much more. I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Snowflake/Different Streets (Wave Books) Celebrated poet Eileen Myles visits Skylight Books to read and sign her highly anticipated new poetry collection Snowflake/Different Streets. "One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature—honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it." —Dennis Cooper "[Myles' writing] comes across simultaneously as effortless and utterly gorgeous. . . . To be able to write with such gentleness and force all at the same time is such a gift, and Myles is completely generous in how she uses this." —Ron Silliman Eileen Myles was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduated from U. Mass (Boston) in 1971, and moved to New York City in 1974 to be a poet. Snowflake/different streets, a double volume (of poems) will be out in 2012 from Wave Books. Eileen's Inferno: a poet's novel (2010) which details a female writer's coming of age was described by John Ashbery as "zingingly funny and melancholy." Alison Bechdel called Inferno "this shimmering document." She writes about books, art and culture for a wide variety of publications including Art Forum, Book Forum, and Parkett, and she blogs on Art in America and Harriet's sites. Please visit her at eileenmyles.com. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS MARCH 16, 2012.

The poet and translator Matthew Zapruder reads a few of his poems and discusses his views on poetry, including his own response to the Occupy Wall Street movement, 'Poem for Plutocrats'. Find the updated version here: http://occupywriters.com/works/by-matthew-zapruder They discuss Matthew's editorial work with Wave Books, including his anthology of political poetry and muse poets writing about being poets. We also get to find out the story behind his deceptively non-haiku poem, 'Haiku'. Presented by Ryan Van Winkle. Produced by Colin Fraser of Anon Poetry Magazine http://www.anonpoetry.co.uk Twitter: @anonpoetry and @byleaveswelive. Music by Ewen Maclean.

Selected Poems (Wave Books)When you hear Mary Ruefle reading her poems, you will quickly become entranced by their accessibility: they are funny and heartbreaking—simultaneously...

Sorry, Tree (Wave Books) and Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press) and Women, The New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press) Critic David Lehman has called the New York School of Poetry "the Last Avant Garde." Poet and critic Maggie Nelson suggests it might better be considered "one of the first gay avant gardes," since its original members included Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery and James Schuyler. We examine the role of women in the New York School: Barbara Guest, Alice Notley, Bernadette Mayer and Eileen Myles. How did these women pave the way for today's women poets, who, like Maggie Nelson, are conscious of gender and its effects on poetry?