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The Common Magazine
Poetry
Poetry
January 12, 2021
Descent
Lauren Russell
Hosted by Philip Lance
In 2013, poet Lauren Russell acquired a copy of the diary of her great-great-grandfather, Robert Wallace Hubert, a Captain in the Confederate Army. After his return from the Civil War …
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The Common Magazine
December 18, 2020
Offering
Tara Skurtu
Hosted by Emily Everett
Tara Skurtu is an American poet and writer, writing coach, and public speaker. She speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about “Offering,” her poem from Issue 19 of The Common …
Poetry
December 2, 2020
Catrachos
Poems
Roy G. Guzmán
Hosted by Andrea Blythe
Roy G. Guzmán’s Catrachos (Graywolf Press, 2020) is a stunning debut collection of poetry that immerses the reader in rich, vibrant language. Described as being “part immigration narrative, part elegy …
Literature
October 20, 2020
Leave It Raw
Shakira Croce
Hosted by Athena Dixon
Like a storm waiting to break over a plain, Shakira Croce pulls at tensions and heartstrings in a debut collection filled with longing, wit, and intelligence. Through masterful imagery, Croce …
Literature
October 5, 2020
Freedom Knows My Name
Kelly Harris-DeBerry
Hosted by Athena Dixon
In Freedom Knows My Name (Xavier Review Press, 2020), Kelly Harris-DeBerry creates the world anew from scraps of memories and rhythm. She bounces between the pages, as well as the …
Poetry
September 14, 2020
The First Free Women
Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns
Matty Weingast
Hosted by Yakir Englander
A radical and vivid rendering of poetry from the first Buddhist nuns that brings a new immediacy to their voices. The Therigatha ("Verses of the Elder Nuns") is the oldest …
Literature
September 4, 2020
Two Worlds Exist
Yehoshua November
Hosted by Yakir Englander
Yehoshua November's second poetry collection, Two Worlds Exist (Orison Books), movingly examines the harmonies and dissonances involved in practicing an ancient religious tradition in contemporary America. November's beautiful and profound …
Literature
August 11, 2020
Finna
Poems
Nate Marshall
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In Finna: Poems (One World), his new collection of poetry, Nate Marshall examines the way that pop culture influences Black vernacular, the role of storytelling, family, and place. Marshall defines …
Poetry
August 5, 2020
Bomb Children
Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos
Leah Zani
Hosted by Lachlan Summers
In this episode, I talk with Dr. Leah Zani, a public anthropologist and poet based in California, about her truly wonderful book Bomb Children: Life in the Former Battlefields of …
Literature
July 24, 2020
The Spinning Place
Chelsea Wagenaar
Hosted by Andrea Blythe
In The Spinning Place (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2019), Chelsea Wagenaar explores the power of language—in terms of its possibilities and what it fails to express. As a being with …
Literary Studies
July 2, 2020
The Age of Phillis
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Hosted by Jennifer J. Davis
Jennifer J. Davis speaks with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, about The Age of Phillis (Wesleyan UP, 2020), Jeffers’s latest collection of poems centered …
Literature
June 29, 2020
Devil's Lake
Sarah M. Sala
Hosted by Athena Dixon
Devil's Lake (Tolsun Books, 2020), the debut collection by Sarah Sala, is an amalgam of American life. The poems move deftly within a world that is equal parts dangerous, celebratory …
Literature
May 28, 2020
Black Was Not a Label
Kathryn H. Ross
Hosted by Athena Dixon
Kathryn H. Ross has found a balance. Between past and present. Between self and ancestors. Between self-discovery and continuous growth. In her hybrid collection, Black Was Not a Label, Ross …
Folklore
May 25, 2020
The Poetry of Everyday Life
Storytelling and the Art of Awareness
Steve Zeitlin
Hosted by Rachel Hopkin
This is a book of encounters. Part memoir, part essay, and partly a guide to maximizing your capacity for fulfillment and expression, The Poetry of Everyday Life: Storytelling and the …
Literary Studies
April 27, 2020
Endless Song
Tiruvaymoli
Archana Venkatesan
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Endless Song (Oxford University Press, 2019) is Dr. Archana Venkatesan’s exquisite translation of the Tiruvaymoli (sacred utterance), a brilliant 1102-verse ninth century tamil poem celebrating the poet Nammalvar’s mystical quest …
Literature
April 23, 2020
The Lampblack Blue of Memory
My Mother Echoes
Sarah Adleman
Hosted by Athena Dixon
The Houston Chronicle’s review of Sarah Adleman’s The Lampblack Blue of Memory: My Mother Echoes (Tolsun 2019) praises that the book “dissects the feelings that have been a part of …
Literary Studies
April 21, 2020
Maureen McLane on Wordsworth's Poetry
Maureen McLane
Hosted by Uli Baer
The British romantic poet William Wordsworth is best known for his moving evocations of nature, his celebration of childhood, and his quest to find a shared humanity in his poetry …
Literature
April 14, 2020
Mary Shelley Makes a Monster
Octavia Cade
Hosted by Andrea Blythe
In Octavia Cade's brilliant collection of poetry Mary Shelley Makes a Monster (Aqueduct Press, 2019), the famous author of Frankenstein crafts a creature out of ink, mirrors, and the remnants …
Literary Studies
March 31, 2020
Amir Eshel on Paul Celan's Poetry
Amir Eshel
Hosted by Uli Baer
Paul Celan's poetry marks the end of European modernism: he is the last poet of the era where the poetic "I" could center a subjective vision of the world through …
Literary Studies
March 13, 2020
Hallaj
Poems of a Sufi Martyr
Carl W. Ernst
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
“I am the Real,” is the ecstatic statement often associated with the early Sufi poet Mansur al-Hallaj. In popular narratives about Hallaj this declaration of absolute unity with God is …
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