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Commonplace Podcast
by Rachel Zucker
Intimate and compelling interviews by Rachel Zucker with poets and other artists. Become a Patron & support our growing podcast! www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast
Episodes
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Episode 131: Reading Sabrina Orah Mark’s Happily
Raised in Brooklyn, NY, Sabrina Orah Mark earned a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University. She also earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in English from the University of Georgia. She is the author of the poetry collectionsTsim Tsum,and The Babies. Her collection of...
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Episode 130: Lois Conner
The New York-based photographer Lois Conner has been traveling the world with a 7x17” banquet camera for nearly half a century. Through the elongated format of her work she has explored the landscape and the temper of our times; her art is both contemporary and, due to her vision, ‘a long view’...
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Episode 129: Reading Eugenia Leigh’s Bianca
Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including TIME, The Nation, Poetry, Ploughshares,Waxwing, and the Best of the Net anthology....
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KTCO Feed Drop: Hey, it’s Me
Mike Sakasegawa is a writer, photographer, book artist, and the host of the arts and literature podcast Keep the Channel Open, and the short fiction podcast LikeWise Fiction. His writing has appeared in Last Exit, Catapult, PetaPixel, and Don’t Take Pictures Magazine. His photographs have been...
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Episode 127: Hanif Abdurraqib with Stuti Sharma
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Hanif’s…
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Episode 126: D. A. Powell
D. A. Powell teaches at University of San Francisco. His books include Repast, Chronic and Useless Landscape or a Guide for Boys, all published by Graywolf Press. He is also the author of chapbooks Atlas T and Low Hanging Fruit. He lives in San Francisco.
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Episode 125: The Poetics of Motherhood
Books by Rachel Zucker The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Poetry, 2023) SoundMachine (Wave Poetry, 2019) The Pedestrians (Wave Poetry, 2014) MOTHERs (2014) Museum of Accidents (Wave Poetry, 2009) The Bad Wife Handbook (Wesleyan University Press, 2007) The Last Clear Narrative (2004) Eating in the...
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Episode 124: Reading Hafizah Augustus Geter’s The Black Period
Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, (Random House, 2022) is winner of the 2023 PEN Open Book Award, winner…
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Episode 123: Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including The Book (Wave Books, 2023), Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, as well as a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. She is...
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Episode 122: Reading Nicole Sealey’s The Ferguson Report: an erasure
Nicole Sealey was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida. She received an MFA from New York University and an MLA in Africana studies from the University of South Florida. Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast (Ecco Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the PEN Open...
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Episode 119: Eugenia Leigh's Bianca (KTCO feed drop)
Books by Eugenia Leigh Eugenia Leigh Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023) Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014) Other Relevant Links Mike Sakasegawa LikeWise Fiction Keep the Channel Open on Twitter Keep the Channel Open on Insta Keep the Channel Open on YouTube Bio: Eugenia Leigh…
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Episode 118: Laurel Snyder
Extra Resources Books by Laurel Snyder The Witch of Woodland (Walden Pond Press, 2023) Endlessly Ever After (Chronicle Books, 2022) Charlie & Mouse: Book 1 (Chronicle Books, 2019) Hungry Jim (Chronicle Books, 2019) My Jasper June (Walden Pond Press, 2019) Orphan Island (Walden Pond Press, 2018)...
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Episode 117: Charif Shanahan & Safia Elhillo with Isaac Ginsberg Miller
Extra Resources Books and Selected Other Work by Charif Shanahan POETRY Trace Evidence (Tin House, 2023) Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing (SIU Press, 2017) Books and Selected Other Work by Safia Elhillo POETRY Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House, 2022) The January Children...
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Episode 116: The Gathered Congregation
Links, Bios, & Support Info Bryant Park Reading Series University of Maryland Library of Congress William Meredith Kim Novak BMCC KGB reading series David Lehman Star Black Paul Romero Sonia Sanchez Allen Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra” Phllyis Levin Matt Yeager David Lehman Will Harris’s Brother…
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Episode 115: Moheb Soliman
Links, Bios & Support Info Books & Selected Projects by Moheb Soliman HOMES (Coffee House Press, 2021) We’re Back! Also Referenced Lorine Niedecker Gabrielle Octavia Rucker Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang David Byrne Walt Whitman Etheridge Knight Moheb Soliman is an interdisciplinary poet from…
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Episode 114: Live & Embodied
Links, Bios & Support Info Hope Mohr Hope Mohr’s Horizon Stanzas Alyssa Harad Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bridge by Alyssa Harad The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer MOTHERs by…
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Episode 113: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Links and resources Episode 143 of Keep the Channel Open: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Mike Sakasegawa LikeWise Fiction Keep the Channel Open on Twitter Keep the Channel Open on Insta…
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Episode 112: Gabrielle Octavia Rucker with V Conaty
BOOKS & SELECTED WORK BY GABRIELLE OCTAVIA RUCKER Dereliction (The Song Cave, 2022) “Practice for My Birthday” in The Recluse (2021) ALSO REFERENCED Roosevelt University Auditorium Theater Joffrey Ballet Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Christkindlmarket, Chicago Paper Source National Book...
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Episode 111: The Confessional Episode
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...
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Episode 109: Joy Harjo
Books and Selected Other Work by Joy Harjo POETRY Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: 50 Poems for 50 Years (W.W. Norton, 2022) An American Sunrise (W. W. Norton, 2019) Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (W. W. Norton, 2015) How We Became Human New & Selected Poems: 1975-2001 (W. W. Norton…
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Episode 108: Saeed Jones
Books and Selected Other Work by Saeed Jones Alive at the End of the World (Coffee House Press, 2022) How We Fight For Our Lives (Simon & Schuster, 2019) Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press, 2014) Also Referenced Open Books: A Poem Emporium V Conaty Christine Larusso Commonplace Goes to Taiwan,...
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Episode 107: Eileen Myles
Books and Selected Other Work by Eileen Myles Pathetic Literature, ed. (Grove Press, 2022) For Now (Yale University Press, 2020) evolution (Grove Press, 2018) Afterglow: A Dog Memoir (Grove Press, 2017) I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, 1975-2014 (Ecco Press, 2015) Snowflake/Different...
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Episode 106: S. Yarberry with V Conaty
Books and Selected Other Work by S. Yarberry A Boy in the City (Deep Vellum, 2021 Also Referenced Rachel Zucker Kathryn Davis Aphrodite Charon, boatkeeper of the underworld CAConrad William Blake The Odyssey Icarus John Keats Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches, “The Uses of the…
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Episode 105: Carl Phillips
Books and Selected Other Work by Carl Phillips POETRY Then 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,...
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Episode 104: The Critical Response Process with Liz Lerman & John Borstel
Selected Work Critique Is Creative: The Critical Response Process in Theory & Practice (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), Liz Lerman and John Borstel Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer (Wesleyan University Press, 2011), Liz Lerman Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process (Liz...
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Episode 103: Cody-Rose Clevidence with Valentine Conaty
Books Aux Arc / Trypt Ich: Poppycock & Assphodel; Winter; A Night of Dark Trees (Nightboat Books, 2021) Listen My Friend, This is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night (The Song Cave, 2021) FLUNG THRONE (Ahsata Press, 2018) BEAST FEAST (Ahsata Press, 2014) Selected chapbooks DEARTH & Gods Green Mirth...
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Episode 102: Rebekah Wolkstein
Selected Work Payadora Tango Ensemble “Adios Muchachos/I Get Ideas,” (by Julio César Sanders) violinist and vocalist, with Payadora Tango Ensemble “La Perdida,” violinist and songwriter, with Payadora Tango Ensemble Tango in the Dark, with PointeTango Venuti String Quartet “Like My Sister,”...
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Episode 100: Doreen Wang
ADDITIONAL INFO Selected Work by Doreen Wang with Rachel Zucker et al., “Commonplace goes to Taiwan,” Part 1 and Part 2. with Mish Liang Hsu, 一年的告白/ Dos Salidas. “The roadmap of regret, curiosity and sound: How I decided to make a podcast with my dying mother,” CommonWealth Magazine. “The…
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Episode 99: Douglas Kearney
Books and Selected Other Work by Douglas Kearney BOOKS / COMPOSITIONS Sho (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...
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Episode 98: Torrey Peters
Books by Torrey Peters Detransition, Baby (One World, 2021) Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones (self-published, 2016; revised edition forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2022) The Masker (self-published, 2016; revised edition forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2022) Also Referenced Topside...
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Episode 97: Camille Dungy
ADDITIONAL INFO Books and Selected Other Work by Camille Dungy POETRY Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press, 2017) Smith Blue (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011) Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010) What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006)...
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Episode 96: Judy Grahn
ADDITIONAL INFO Books and Selected Other Work by Judy Grahn POETRY Hanging on Our Own Bones (Red Hen Press, 2017) Love Belongs to Those Who Do the Feeling: New & Selected Poems (1966-2006) (Red Hen Press, 2008) The Queen of Swords (Beacon Press, 1987) The Queens of Wands (Crossing Press, 1982)…
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Episode 95: Jason Schneiderman
Books and Selected Other Work by Jason Schneiderman Hold Me Tight (Red Hen Press, 2020) Primary Source (Red Hen Press, 2016) Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press, 2016) Striking Surface: Poems (Ashland Poetry Press, 2010) Sublimation Point (Four Way Books, 2004) “Nothingism: A...
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Episode 94: Jennifer Block
Books and Projects Everything Below the Waist: Why Healthcare Needs a Feminist Revolution (2019) Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care (2008) Our Bodies Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era (2005), Contributing Editor Ms. Magazine (founded 1972), former Editor…
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Episode 93: Arielle Greenberg
Arielle Greenberg writes and teaches poetry, creative nonfiction and cultural studies. Her most recent books are I Live in the Country & Other Dirty Poems (Four Way, 2020) and the creative nonfiction book Locally Made Panties (Ricochet Editions, 2016); her fifth collection of poetry, Come Along...
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Episode 92: Behind the Scenes
Books and Projects Rachel Zucker, SoundMachine Christine Larusso, There Will Be No More Daughters SoundMachine (audio project) Other Texts & People Mentioned in the Episode Emily Skillings Claudia Rankine, Just Us Poets House harassment and retaliatory firing Small Press Distribution harassment…
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Episode 91: Nate Marshall
Books and Projects by/with Nate Marshall Finna (One World, 2020) Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) Breakbeat Poets (Haymarket Books, 2015) Blood Percussion (Button Poetry, 2014) 1989, The Number (Haymarket Books, 2016) Free download! No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn…
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Episode 90: Makenna Goodman
Books by Makenna Goodman The Shame (Milkweed, 2020) Other Texts, Artists, and Authors Mentioned in This Episode Amelie Nothomb's Strike Your Heart (Europa Editions, 2018) Angela Davis' Women Race and Class (Vintage, 1983) Sheila Heti’s Motherhood (Picador, 2019) Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste (Random...
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Episode 89: The Ladder Out of the Hole
Featured in Episode 89: David Naimon Between the Covers podcast Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing by Ursula K. Le Guin & David Naimon
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Episode 88: Global Roll Call, Part 3
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…
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Episode 86: Global Roll Call, Part 1
David Trinidad is the author of numerous poetry collections, most recently Swinging on a Star. He teaches poetry and creative writing at Columbia College and lives in Chicago. Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry. She lives in Paris. Cathy Park Hong’s latest book is Minor…
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Episode 84: M. NourbeSe Philip
Books by M. NourbeSe Philip Blank: Essays and Interviews (Book*hug, 2017) She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (Wesleyan University Press, 2015) Zong! (Wesleyan University Press, 2011) A Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays (Mercury Press, 1998) Frontiers: Selected Essays and...
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Episode 83: Darcey Steinke
Books by Darcey Steinke Flash Point Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life (Sarah Crichton Books, 2019) Jesus Saves (Grove Press, 2019) Easter Everywhere (Bloomsbury, 2007) Milk (Bloomsbury, 2005) Up Through the Water (Grove Press, 2000) Suicide Blond (Grove Press, 2000) John-KJV...
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Episode 82: Maggie Nelson
Books by Maggie Nelson Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull, 2018) The Argonauts (Graywolf, 2015) The Latest Winter (Zed Books, 2018) Shiner (Zed Books, 2018) The Art of Cruelty (W.W. Norton, 2012) Women, The New York School and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2011) Bluets...
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