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Archive for March, 2023
An installation by Stephen Vitiello (B. 1964, New York City) Lighting Design: Jeremy Choate Text: Paul Park Sound Engineer: Bob Bielecki
Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, editor, teacher and former marketing consultant Victoria Chang about what writing in the third person makes possible, the liberation of formal constraints, mom-on-mom violence, how the literary community has changed over the years, how poetry finds us, shame, masks, l
Source: Episode 75: Victoria Chang — Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)
Rachel Zucker speaks to poet Anne Boyer about The Undying, her recently published non-fiction book about having had highly-aggressive triple negative breast cancer. Boyer talks about a recent dream she had, the motivating fires of vengeance and love, and how to keep the door to hell open long enou
Source: Episode 78: Anne Boyer — Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)
Award winning poet, playwright, professor, editor, essayist, and critic Claudia Rankine speaks with Rachel Zucker about collaboration, poetry’s role in social change, and the investigation of feeling. In this episode, Rankine discusses the importance of ideas put forward by writers such as James B
Source: Episode 4: Claudia Rankine — Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)
Rachel Zucker speaks with Cathy Park Hong, author of three books of poetry, professor at Sarah Lawrence, and recipient of the NEA, NYFA and Fulbright fellowships. They discuss how motherhood can change one’s poetic aesthetic, the limitations of poetry and prose, the intersections of poetry and polit
Source: Episode 7: Cathy Park Hong — Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)
Host Rachel Zucker talks with award-winning poet Terrance Hayes about Terrance’s new work, living in New York City, the election, teaching workshop, painting, sharing work with peers, not wanting help, provocation, offensive language, the role of audience, and staying true to oneself. Terrance reads
Source: Episode 18: Terrance Hayes — Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)
Rachel Zucker speaks with Kaveh Akbar about his first full-length poetry collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf. They talk about recovery, addiction, Ellen Bryant Voigt’s unpunctuated line, teaching, his writing process for poetry or prose, the hutzpah and/or cluelessness that enabled him to reach out to
Source: Episode 40: Kaveh Akbar — Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)