Show Notes
Commonplace guests as they appear in this episode:
Molly Peacock is a poet, biographer, essayist, and short fiction writer. Her most recent book is The Analyst: poems.
Alicia Jo Rabins is a writer, musician, composer, performer and Torah teacher. She creates multi-genre works of experimental beauty which explore the intersection of ancient wisdom texts with everyday life. Her most recent book is Fruit Geode.
D. A. Powell’s books include Cocktails and Chronic, as well as Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys. He recently published a chapbook with Rescue Press, called Atlas T; all proceeds from the sale of Atlas T will be donated to Youth Speaks in San Francisco.
Rosa Alcalá is the author of three books of poetry: Undocumentaries, The Lust of Unsentimental Waters, and MyOTHER TONGUE. She is a Professor in the Bilingual MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Bernadette Mayer is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including Midwinter Day and Poetry State Forest.
Laynie Browne is the author of numerous collections of poetry and one novel. Her publications include A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet’s Novel (editor) and The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters.
John Biewen directs the audio program at the Center for Documentary Studies, where he teaches and produces/hosts the podcast Scene on Radio.
Darcey Steinke has written five novels as well as a memoir, Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life.
Stephanie Burt is a poet, literary critic, and professor. Her most recent book is Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems.
Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995 and as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Her most recent book is The Darker Face of the Earth.
New Books Written by and/or authors/texts recommended/mentioned by
Molly Peacock: The Analyst (W.W. Norton, 2017) James Joyce scholar Michael Groden (Molly Peacock’s husband) Cartoon Fundamentals with New Yorker cartoonist Maggie Larsen online at the 92nd St. Y
Alicia Jo Rabins: Fruit Geode (Augury, 2018) Alicia Jo’s Instagram (where you can find her bathtub poems) Alicia Jo’s weekly Kabbalat Shabat (through Kveller)
D. A. Powell: Atlas T (Rescue Press, 2020) Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin, 2015) Hugh Martin’s In Country (BOA Editions, 2018) A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos By Tim Dlugos, David Trinidad (Editor) (Nightboat, 2011) Derrick Austin’s Trouble the Water (BOA Editions, 2016) Akira Kirosowa's Dreams TJ DiFrancesco (manuscript in progress) “Gratitude” by Cornelius Eady “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith “What the End is For” by Jorie Graham Emily Dickinson Judy Grahn Robert Duncan
Rosa Alcalá: Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann (Zephyr, 2006)
Bernadette Mayer: Works and Days (New Directions, 2016) Memory (Siglio, 2020) Sonnets (Tender Buttons Press) Lee Ann Brown
Laynie Browne: A Forest on Many Stems (Nightboat, 2020) Poetry and Art at the Rail Park Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (Penguin Modern Classics, 2020) Lisa Robertson’s The Baudelaire Fractal (Coach House Books, 2020) Collaborator Brent Wahl Prageeta Sharma CD Wright Harmony Holiday Divya Victor
John Biewen: The newest series of Scene on Radio is The Land that Never Has Been Yet
Darcey Steinke: Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life (Sarah Crichton Books, 2019) The Last Man by Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press) Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (Grand Central, 2019) Severance by Ling Ma (Picador, 2019) Cormack McCarthy’s The Road (Vintage, 2007) A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Samuel Pepys’ Diary of the Plague Alison Hagy’s Scribe (Graywolf, 2018) Rachel Carson Fredrick Law Olmstead William Miller (7th Day Adventist) “Understanding the Book of Revelation” by L. Michael White
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