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Get ready for the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference with Danielle. In this episode, we'll master outfit planning, travel tips, and your conference schedule. Whether you want to score great deals at the bookfair or attend inspiring off-sites, we've got you covered, friend. You can even engage virtually if you're not traveling to the conference this year. Danielle's most important rule for AWP? With an overwhelming array of events, panels, readings, and parties it's hard to choose your own adventure, so remember: wherever you end up is where you're meant to be. The Poetry Lab Podcast is produced by Lori Walker and Danielle Mitchell. Our managing editor is Marilyn Isabel Ramirez, with writing and collaboration from Jessica June Cato and Kelsey Bryan-Zwick. Theme song: "Simply Upbeat" by Christian Telford, Kenneth Edward Belcher, and Saki Furuya Visit thepoetrylab.com/podcast for more information.
Books and Selected Other Work by Carl PhillipsPOETRYThen The War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022)Pale Colors in a Tall Field (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020)Star Map With Action Figures (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019)Wild Is the Wind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018)Reconnaissance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015)The Art of Daring (Graywolf Press, 2014)Silverchest (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)Speak Low (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986–2006 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)Riding Westward (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)The Rest of Love (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)Rock Harbor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)The Tether (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)Pastoral (Graywolf Press, 2000)From the Devotions (Graywolf Press, 1998)Cortège (Graywolf Press, 1995)In the Blood (Northeastern University Press, 1992)NONFICTIONMy Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022)Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Art and Life of Poetry (Graywolf Press, 2004)TRANSLATIONSophocles's Philoctetes (Oxford University Press, 2003)SELECTED OTHER WORKFirsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets, ed. Carl Phillips (Yale University Press, 2019)“What I See Is the Light Falling All Around Us,” T Magazine (2015)Cooking With Carl on InstagramAlso ReferencedBrooklyn Book FestivalHafizah JeterR. Erika DoyleAngelos MichalopoulosWashington University at St. LouisT MagazineOmnidawn PublishingLayli LongsoldierVictoria ChangAssociation of Writers and Writing ProgramsRoe v. WadeJulia ChildWhitney HoustonBreadloaf Writers ConferenceThe New York TimesMichael PalmerErnest HemingwayCarcanet BooksEmergence MagazineRobert Lowell, Life StudiesRon Charles and Carl Phillips Firing Line with William F Buckley Allen Ginsberg Rachel HadasPrageeta Sharma, Grief SequenceGeorge Eliot, MiddlemarchJohn UpdikeJ.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye and Nine StoriesCarly SimonThe Go-GosHadrianEmily DickinsonYale Younger PrizeEduardo C. CorralMuriel RukeyserJorie GrahamBrigit Pegeen KellyLinda Gregg, Too Bright To SeeFrank O'HaraGerard Manley HopkinsRobert HaydenDavid WojahnThom GunnPoetry MagazineWilliam Shakespeare, Sonnet 73Many thanks to Rickey Laurentiis, Erin Belieu, Dawn Lundy Martin, Justin Phillip Reed and the Association of Writing Programs Conference for granting me permission to record and share “Radiance Versus Ordinary Light: A Tribute to Carl Phillips,” March 28, 2019.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
Noah & Ross sit down with poet, translator, editor, & teacher Ruben Quesada to talk about his new substack PROMOTION FOR POETS. Links of interest from this episode:Ruben Quesada website Be sure to sign up for Promotions for Poets (substack)Revelations (Sibling Rivalry Press) by Ruben Quesada Charles Olson essay on Projectice VerseHeadwaters (WW Norton) by Ellen Bryant Voigt The Art of Syntax (Graywolf) by Ellen Bryant VoigtRuben Quesada is a neurodivergent, gay, Latinx poet. A native Angeleno, Ruben was raised by Costa Rican immigrant parents. He is the author of Revelations, Next Extinct Mammal, and translator of Exiled from the Throne of Night: Selected Translations of Luis Cernuda. He is a recipient of an Individual Artist grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events at the City of Chicago. He is producing a short documentary film on Latinx poetry. After receiving a PhD in English, Ruben moved to Illinois in 2012. Soon after, with the mentorship of founding members from Canto Mundo Poetry, Macondo, and the Institute of Latino Letters | Letras Latinas, Ruben founded the Latinx Caucus at the AWP (Association of Writing & Writing Programs) Conference. Since 2015, the Latinx Caucus has been led by a leadership team of poets and writers who represent intersectional identities from the Americas. In 2015, Ruben moved to Chicago to launch the Logan's Run Readings series. This series was the nation's only Latinx literary salon and featured poets and writers including Daniel Borzutzky, Erika L. Sanchez, David Campos, Wendy C. Ortiz, and Diego Báez. For the past 15 years, Ruben has taught literature and creative writing. He's taught at Vermont College of Fine Arts, University of California-Riverside, The School of the Art Institute, Columbia College Chicago, Northwestern University, and UCLA Writers' Program. He teaches as an Associate Teaching Fellow at the Attic Institute. Ruben has written for Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The Rumpus, Cobalt, and Chicago Review of Books. Recently, he worked as poetry editor at AGNI and guest editor at PANK. In his spare time, he manages Mercy Street Readings, a live, literary broadcast. He is editing a special folio of LGBTQIA+ poetry for the spring 2022 issue of Pleiades magazine. Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress
Hello friends, We are thrilled to present the work of MJ Fievre! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, M.J. Fievre moved to the United States in 2002. She currently writes from Winter Garden, FL. M.J.'s publishing career began as a teenager in Haiti. At nineteen years-old, she signed her first book contract with Hachette-Deschamps, in Haiti, for the publication of a Young Adult book titled La Statuette Maléfique. Since then, M.J. has authored nine books in French that are widely read in Europe and the French Antilles. In 2013, One Moore Book released M.J.'s first children's book, I Am Riding, written in three languages: English, French, and Haitian Creole. In 2015, Beating Windward Press published M.J.'s memoir, A Sky the Color of Chaos, about her childhood in Haiti during the brutal regime of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. M.J. Fievre is the author of the Badass Black Girl series. She helps others write their way through trauma, build community and create social change. She works with veterans, disenfranchised youth, cancer patients and survivors, victims of domestic and sexual violence, minorities, the elderly, those with chronic illness or going through transition and any underserved population in need of writing as a form of therapy—even if they don't realize that they need writing or therapy. A long-time educator and frequent keynote speaker (Tufts University, Massachusetts; Howard University, Washington, D.C.; the University of Miami, Florida; and Michael College, Vermont; and a panelist at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, AWP), M.J. is available for book club meetings, podcast presentations, interviews and other author events. SUPPORT THE AUTHOR HERE: Check out her books and additional content at: https://www.badassblackgirl.com/ Badass Black Girl: https://mango.bz/books/badass-black-girl-by-mj-fievre-799-b Empowered Black Girl: https://mango.bz/books/empowered-black-girl-by-mj-fievre-1600-b Pre-order MJ's upcoming book, Resilient Black Girl: https://mango.bz/books/resilient-black-girl-by-mj-fievre-1873-b -- Read by Brenda Zamora | Produced by J. Alejandro Creative Drive is an international podcast produced by J. Alejandro to bring visibility to poets and writers from all walks of life. If you have a sec, please SUBSCRIBE AND REVIEW this labor of love, and don't forget to tell your writer friends! For more information, visit https://cruzfolio.com/creative-drive-podcast/ Find out more at https://creativedrive.pinecast.co
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, M.J. Fievre moved to the United States in 2002. She currently writes from Miami. M.J.’s publishing career began as a teenager in Haiti. At nineteen-years-old, she signed her first book contract with Hachette-Deschamps, in Haiti, for the publication of a Young Adult book titled La Statuette Maléfique. Since then, M.J. has authored nine books in French that are widely read in Europe and the French Antilles. In 2013, One Moore Book released M.J.’s first children’s book, I Am Riding, written in three languages: English, French, and Haitian Creole. In 2015, Beating Windward Press published M.J.’s memoir, A Sky the Color of Chaos, about her childhood in Haiti during the brutal regime of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. M.J. Fievre is the author of Happy, Okay? Poems about Anxiety, Depression, Hope, and Survival (Books & Books Press, 2019) and Badass Black Girl: Questions, Quotes, and Affirmations for Teens (Mango Publishing, 2020). She helps others write their way through trauma, build community, and create social change. She works with veterans, disenfranchised youth, cancer patients and survivors, victims of domestic and sexual violence, minorities, the elderly, those with chronic illness or going through a transition, and any underserved population in need of writing as a form of therapy—even if they don’t realize that they need writing or therapy. A long-time educator and frequent keynote speaker (Tufts University, Massachusetts; Howard University, Washington, D.C.; the University of Miami, Florida; and Michael College, Vermont; and a panelist at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, AWP), M.J. is available for book club meetings, podcast presentations, interviews, and other author events. If you would like to learn more about M.J. Fievre or Badass Black Girl, you can reach her at www.badassblackgirl.com If you would like to be on Worldly Church Girl, click the link below, and let's see what we can do with that thing! https://worldlychurchgirl.com/contact/
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and Whiting Award recipient Mitchell Jackson in conversation at the 2019 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, sponsored by Literary Arts and Lyceum Agency.
Live reading featuring Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Adam Falkner, Ross Gay and Sabrina Orah Mark hosted by Rachel Zucker at the Association of Writing Programs Conference in Portland, OR, on March 29, 2019. Includes a brief update on the state of the podcast and an invitation to leave a message on (347) 762-3405 with your comment, question, suggestion or friendly provocation about Commonplace.
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and Whiting Award recipient Mitchell Jackson in conversation at the 2019 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, sponsored by Literary Arts and Lyceum Agency.
The Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference features some of the biggest and best names in Poetry and Literary fiction. So where do Comics fit into that world? Enjoy a series of panels that discuss this very question. First, enjoy a panel sponsored by Drawn & Quarterly featuring award winning Cartoonists Craig Thompson (Blankets/Habibi), Rina Ayuyang (Blame This On The Boogie), James Sturm (Market Day), and Peter Bagge (HATE/Weird Magazine). Then we join a panel of professors who are teaching the craft of comics creation in their Creative Writing programs. Listen in as Sara Leavitt, Jennifer Mervin, and Sandy Longhorn describe their methodologies in the comics classroom.
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I met Jessica Handler one night as I was walking through a restaurant in Washington, D.C. with my brother, Peter Conners. Peter was in D.C. to attend the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference and to speak on a panel about the relationships between authors and editors – he is both. Afterwards we decided to head out to dinner at a place where you would naturally expect to find writers…a restaurant called Busboys and Poets. It was there that I connected with Jessica and her cousin, Erika Goldman, Publisher of Bellevue Literary Press. Jessica's memoir, Invisible Sisters, is her story of growing up with two sisters, Susie and Sarah, who both had fatal medical conditions, and how her family did their best to cope. Through this book, Jessica honors their memory and the challenges that her parents experienced. Her second book, Braving the Fire, is a guide to writing about grief and loss. Jessica now uses her experiences, wisdom, and talents to help others heal through writing. In our discussion Jessica reads passages from her books, shares her incredible life journey, and discusses the craft of writing. Jessica is married to a writer and shares what it's like to have two writers in the same house. If you're considering a life or career transition, you may be interested in my Discover What’s Next coaching program. Send me an email at Lisa@EverBetterU.com and we will schedule a 1-hour complimentary consultation. Key Takeaways: [5:36] Living with two writers in one house. [10:46] Transparent to the client is a purified way to say blood, sweat and tears. [11:22] The memoir, Invisible Sisters, is about how Jessica learned to live sister-less. [18:02] Braving the Fire: Acceptance and the Miracle Ticket. [29:29] The act of taking the chaos of life, and making it into the order which is life. [34:36] Get out your journal, or pull out an index card and just write! [44:56] Jessica reads the end of Invisible Sisters. [52:24] Decatur Book Festival. [55:46] Be a good literary citizen. Mentioned in This Episode: Jessica Handler Association of Writers and Writer’s Program BOA Editions Bellevue Literary Press Discover What’s Next Coaching Lisa@EverBetterU.com @EverBetterU on Twitter
Last week, Painted Bride Quarterly made its way down to the 2017 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Washington D.C along with an estimated 12,000 individuals and 800 presses, journals, and literary organizations. AWP is always the highlight of our year… Last week, Painted Bride Quarterly made its way down to the 2017 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Washington D.C along with an estimated 12,000 individuals and 800 presses, journals, and literary organizations. AWP is always the highlight of our year as we release our latest Print Annual to the public and more importantly, get to meet so many of our talented and diligent writers and readers. Each time we handed a book to one of the authors we got to be as excited and thrilled as they were. Check out our Instagram feed if you want to see for yourself. No matter where AWP is, it’s more than amazing to surround ourselves with like-minded, lovely people. The AWP lifestyle is not one we can sustain for too long, but we’d still like to start a movement to hold two conferences a year! Check out the thoughts of our editors, Marion and Kathy, in this episode. Listen in on conversations they had at their booth with busy and brilliant authors. Tell us about your AWP experience on our facebook event page or on Twitter with #AWP17 Read on! Present at the Editorial Table: Kathleen Volk Miller Marion Wrenn Engineering Producer: Joe Zang
LARB law editor Don Franzen talks about the career of the late supreme court justice Antonin Scalia and whether his unique legal theories will survive him. We're also joined by Daniel Olivas and Ruben Rodriguez, co-editors of an upcoming anthology of Los Angeles poetry, "The Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of Los Angeles", from Tia Chucha Press. "The Coiled Serpent" publishes on April 15, 2016, and Tia Chucha Press will host a launch party for the book during the AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Conference, on March 30, at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Featuring Tom Lutz, Laurie Winer, and Seth Greenland. Produced by Jerry Gorin. The LARB Radio Hour airs Thursdays at 2:30pm on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles.
Ben & Daniel talk to writers who attended the 2013 AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Conference & Bookfair, which took place this past March in Boston, MA. In this 2nd of 3 AWP shows, Ben & Daniel talk to a number of writers: Rich Villar talks about his latest projects; M. Evelina Galang talks about "Her Wild American Self, and Patrick Rosal talks about an ongoing project using excerpts from interviews to create poetry; Jose Skinner, author of "Flight and Other Stories," talks about his latest project; Xanath Caraza de Holland reads an excerpt from a poem from her collection "Conjuro," and Denise Low, former Kansas Poet Laureate stops in for a brief moment; Juan Luis Guzman and Liz Scheid talk about how to get into AWP on a budget; Mark Brunetti talks about his underground literary magazine, The Idiom Mag; Juan Ochoa talks about his book "Marijuano," Joe Haske talks about his latest book on the working class, and poet Rodney Gomez talks about a manuscript he is shopping around; Dan Vera, author of "Speaking Wiri Wiri" talks about winning the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize and his upbringing in South Texas; Fresno poet Andre Yang talks about being a founding member of the Hmong American Writers Circle; and Antonio Farias, an army veteran, talks about a program which introduces poetry to cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard.
Frank Bidart, Wellesley CollegeVijay Seshadri, Sarah Lawrence CollegeKevin Young, Emory UniversitySally Dawidoff (moderator), American Social History ProjectThe Association of Writers and Writing Programs ConferenceWashington, DC, February 5, 2011In the first part of this two-part panel discussion, held at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, distinguished contemporary American writers Frank Bidart, Vijay Seshadri, and Kevin Young talk about writing about the Civil War 150 years after it began. Seshadri grew up an immigrant child of an immigrant father obsessed with the war; Young comes to the subject as a twenty-first-century African-American poet living in the South; and Bidart was spurred to write about Gettysburg by “the world created by the Bush administration.” Allen Tate and Robert Lowell’s seminal odes are also read and discussed. For all these writers, the war has become part of their Americanness.Part 1: Introduction by Sally DawidoffReadings:Ode to the Confederate Dead by Allen Tate (recording), read by the authorFor the Union Dead by Robert Lowell, read by Frank BidartThe Nature of the Chemical Bond (excerpt) by Vijay Seshadri, read by the authorFor the Confederate Dead by Kevin Young, read by the authorFor the Republic by Frank Bidart, read by the authorPart 2: DiscussionCreditsPermission to broadcast Frank Bidart’s reading of Robert Lowell’s poem “The Union Dead” granted by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.Permission to broadcast the recording of Allen Tate reading his poem “Ode to the Confederate Dead” granted by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC and by Universal Music Enterprises, a division of Universal Music Group Recordings, Inc.Permission to post Vijay Seshadri’s “The Nature of the Chemical Bond” granted by Graywolf Press.
In this episode we interview Tasha Haas and learn about her recent trip to the Association of Writing Programs Conference in NY, where networked with professionals in creative writing. We discuss applications for the composition classroom and what she learned.