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Poetry September 22, 2021

Make Room for the Rain

Shahar-Mario Mordechai

Hosted by Yakir Englander
The poet Shachar-Mario Mordechai was born 1975 in Haifa and he currently lives in Tel Aviv. He has published four volumes of poetry, all of which attracted critical attention. Mordechai is …

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Poetry September 13, 2021

The Things We Are Not Talking About

Shlomit Naim Naor

Hosted by Yakir Englander
Shlomit Naim Naor’s poetry is a unique voice in Israel. She is inviting the readers to delve deeper and engage in a dialogue with the Jewish religion and texts …
Literary Studies September 7, 2021

No One's Witness

A Monstrous Poetics

Rachel Zolf

Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview Rachel Zolf—a poet whose “interdisciplinary practice explores questions about history, knowledge, subjectivity, responsibility, and the limits of language, meaning, and the human”—about their new book …
Literature August 27, 2021

The Voice Over

Poems and Essays

Maria Stepanova

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
Is it just a coincidence that three books by the major Russian writer Maria Stepanova have appeared in English in 2021? Why does Maria Stepanova deploy such a rich variety of voices …
Performing Arts August 20, 2021

Green River Valley

Robert Lashley

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Green River Valley, Robert Lashley's third book of poetry, is a moving and complex tribute to the Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma, Washington. Whether writing about finding love in the aisles of …
Latino Studies July 16, 2021

We Are Owed.

Ariana Brown

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Poet Ariana Brown searches for new origins in her debut book We Are Owed. (Grieveland Press, 2021). Brown has had over ten years of experience writing, performing, and teaching poetry that struggles …
Poetry July 7, 2021

A Camera Obscura

Carl Marcum

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
A Camera Obscura (Red Hen Press, 2021) by Carl Marcum is a lyrical exploration of external and internal worlds. The heavens described in these poems could be the stars glittering above …
The Common Magazine July 2, 2021

Instructions for the Endgame

A Discussion with Wyatt Townley

Wyatt Townley

Hosted by Emily Everett
Wyatt Townley speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her poem “Instructions for the Endgame,” which appears in The Common’s spring issue. In this conversation, Townley talks about experiencing poetry …
African American Studies June 30, 2021

Black Aliveness, Or a Poetics of Being

Kevin Quashie

Hosted by Lee Pierce
In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Duke University Press, 2012), Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as …
Literary Studies June 11, 2021

Keats's Odes

A Lover's Discourse

Anahid Nersessian

Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview Anahid Nersessian, professor of English at UCLA, about her book, Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse (University of Chicago Press, 2021). In 1819, the poet John Keats …
Literary Studies June 8, 2021

Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive

Bethany Hicok

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
What more can we learn about legendary American writer Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79), dubbed by Bethany Hicok “the most stunning poet of the twentieth century”, by exploring the wonderful archives of her …
Poetry June 8, 2021

Broken Ballads

A Poetry Collection

Nicole Danielle

Hosted by Athena Dixon
For as often as it may seem to be the case, life doesn’t exist in extremes. Whatever pain, love, desire, or hurt, moving through life is a balancing act. We …
The Common Magazine June 4, 2021

The Couple

The Common magazine (Fall, 2020)

KC Trommer

Hosted by Emily Everett
KC Trommer speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her poem “The Couple,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue. In this conversation, Trommer discusses writing about artwork she finds …
Middle Eastern Studies June 2, 2021

The Dangers of Poetry

Culture, Politics, and Revolution in Iraq

Kevin M. Jones

Hosted by Reuben Silverman
Poetry has long dominated the cultural landscape of modern Iraq, simultaneously representing the literary pinnacle of high culture and giving voice to the popular discourses of mass culture. As the …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast June 1, 2021

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 2)

Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley and Jan-Henry Gray

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
This is the second episode of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian American Studies. This episode features …
Islamic Studies May 21, 2021

The Translator of Desires

Poems

Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi

Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
In this ground-breaking work, Michael Sells (the Barrows Professor Emeritus of the History and Literature of Islam and Professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of Chicago) translates sixty-one …
The Common Magazine May 21, 2021

California

The Common magazine

Jennifer Jean

Hosted by Emily Everett
Jennifer Jean speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her poem “California,” which appears on The Common online, in a special portfolio of writing from the Lusosphere (Portugal and its …
Asian Review of Books May 20, 2021

Ghalib: a Wilderness at My Doorstep

A Critical Biography

Mehr Afshan Farooqi

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Mirza Ghalib is one of the most celebrated poets in the Urdu literary canon. Yet, at the time, Ghalib was prolific in both Urdu and Persian. His output in Persian …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast May 17, 2021

After Callimachus

Poems

Stephanie Burt

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Callimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Romans and Greeks, his funny, sexy, generous, thoughtful, learned, sometimes elaborate, and always articulate …
Latin American Studies May 10, 2021

The Conquered

Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity

Eleni Kefala

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Eleni Kefala's book The Conquered: Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021) probes issues of collective memory and cultural trauma in three sorrowful poems composed soon after the conquest of …