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Poetry January 21, 2022

The Sign of the Dragon

Mary Soon Lee

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
First place winner of the 2021 Elgin Award, The Sign of the Dragon by Mary Soon Lee (Jaberwocky, 2020) is an epic fantasy about a young king who must defend …

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Burned by Books December 20, 2021

Best Books of the Year 2021, Booksellers Edition

An discussion with Lisa Swayze, Michelle Malonzo, Alena Jones, and Kasia Bartoszynska

Hosted by Chris Holmes
A conversation with booksellers from three of the most dynamic, exciting, and community-oriented independent bookstores in the country. Lisa Swayze of Buffalo Street Books (Ithaca, NY), Michelle Malonzo of Changing …
Environmental Studies December 10, 2021

Reclaiming Romanticism

Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonisation

Kate Rigby

Hosted by Eyad Houssami
The earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world. Today the “romanticising” of nature has come to be viewed with suspicion …
Performing Arts December 10, 2021

The Girl Singer

Poems

Marianne Worthington

Hosted by Andy Boyd
In The Girl Singer (Fireside Industries, 2021), her latest collection of poems, Marianne Worthington weaves together nature writing, feminism, and country music to form a powerful strand of interlocking poems. In the …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast July 17, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 13

Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Poet

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a poet, writer and literary and art critic - and sports writer! - who was born and raised in New York City. He is the author …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast July 3, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 8

Pamela Sneed, Poet

Pamela Sneed

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Pamela Sneed is a poet, performance artist, and the author of several books: Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than of Slavery KONG And Other Works (Vintage Entity Press, 2009) …
Indian Religions December 23, 2021

The Cloud of Longing

A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa's Meghaduta

E. H. Rick Jarow

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
The Cloud of Longing: A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa's Meghaduta (Oxford UP, 2021) is a translation and full-length study of the great Sanskrit poet Kālidāsa's famed Meghadūta …
Indian Religions December 16, 2021

Savoring God

Comparative Theopoetics

Gloria Maité Hernández

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Gloria Maité Hernández's Savoring God: Comparative Theopoetics (Oxford UP, 2021) compares two mystical works central to the Christian Discalced Carmelite and the Hindu Bhakti traditions: the sixteenth-century Spanish Cántico espiritual …
Jewish Studies December 1, 2021

Abraham the Hebrew Believer

Secularism and Religion in the Work of Avraham Shlonsky

Rani Jaeger

Hosted by Yakir Englander
How can it be that deeply religious poetry is being written by a committed socialist, literary revolutionary and modernist? How sacredness appears in working in the field? How one can …
Think About It November 19, 2021

Charlie Louth on Rainer Maria Rilke

Charlie Louth

Hosted by Uli Baer
Charlie Louth’s illuminating recent book, Rilke: The Life of the Work (Oxford University Press, 2021) examines why Rilke’s poems have exercised such preternatural attraction for now several generations of readers …
Ancient History November 17, 2021

Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece

Jessica Romney

Hosted by Reyes Bertolin
Jessica Romney's book Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece (U Michigan Press, 2020) examines how Greek men presented themselves and their social groups to one another. The author examines …
Art November 12, 2021

Communions

Adam Lehrer

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
[This episode contains explicit content.] Artists from Kurt Cobain to Amy Winehouse command fascination not only for their work but also for their drug addictions and the manner of their death. Communions …
Israel Studies November 3, 2021

Mystical Vertigo

Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide

Aubrey L. Glazer

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Aubrey L. Glazer's Mystical Vertigo: Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide (Academic Studies Press, 2013) immerses readers in the experience of the contemporary kabbalistic Hebrew poet, serving as …
Latino Studies October 25, 2021

My Book of the Dead

New Poems

Ana Castillo

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
“My poetry captures a moment,” remarked Dr. Castillo when asked about the process of writing her most recent collection of poems My Book of the Dead: New Poems (University of …
The Common Magazine October 8, 2021

nigresence

Ricardo Wilson

Hosted by Emily Everett
Ricardo Wilson speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his poem, “nigrescence,” which appears in The Common’s spring issue. In this conversation, Ricardo talks about his new collection Apparent Horizon …
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 …
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 …