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The Common Magazine June 24, 2022

Adoption Day

The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)

Mark Kyungsoo Bias

Hosted by Emily Everett
Mark Kyungsoo Bias speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his poem “Adoption Day,” which appears in The Common’s new spring issue. Mark talks about the inspiration and process behind …

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High Theory June 14, 2022

Ghazal

A Discussion with Manan Kapoor

Manan Kapoor

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Manan Kapoor talks about the Ghazal, the medieval Arabic poetic form which travelled to the Indian subcontinent in the 12th century and flourished there ever since. He focuses on the …
On Religion June 10, 2022

On Koans

A Discussion with Corey Ichigen Hess

Corey Ichigen Hess

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Corey Ichigen Hess is an ordained Zen monk and body therapist. He lived a monastic life for many years at Sogenji Zen Monastery in Okayama, Japan. He teaches meditation classes …
Poetry June 6, 2022

Glory Hole

Kim Hyun

Hosted by Jennifer Lee
In this episode, co-translators Suhyun J. Ahn and Archana Madhavan discuss their Korean-to-English translation of Glory Hole by Kim Hyun (Seagull Books, 2022). Released as part of The Pride List …
Literary Studies May 26, 2022

Song of Ourselves

Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy

Mark Edmundson

Hosted by Jon Najarian
Walt Whitman knew a great deal about democracy that we don’t. Most of that knowledge is concentrated in one stunning poem, Song of Myself. In Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and …
Recall This Book May 19, 2022

The Underworld

A Conversation with David Ferry and Roger Reeves

David Ferry and Roger Reeves

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
Since the original airing of this episode in June 2021, Roger Reeves' second book Best Barbarian was published by W. W. Norton, and the paperback edition of David Ferry's translation …
Poetry May 17, 2022

Synaptic

Alison Calder

Hosted by Sine Yaganoglu
This intricate, yearning work from award-winning poet Alison Calder asks us to think about the way we perceive and the ways in which we seek to know ourselves and others …
Poetry May 13, 2022

Daughters of Harriet

Poems

Cynthia Parker-Ohene

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Drawing inspiration from the life of Harriet Tubman, Cynthia Parker-Ohene's poetic narratives follow a historical arc of consciousness of Black folks: mislaid in potters' fields and catalogued with other misbegotten …
Recall This Book May 5, 2022

We are Not Digested

A Conversation with Rajiv Mohabir (Ulka Anjaria, JP)

Rajiv Mohabir

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
Rajiv Mohabir is a dazzling poet of linguistics crossovers, who works in English, Bhojpuri, Hindi and more. He is as prolific as he is polyglot (three books in 2021!) and …
Eastern European Studies May 4, 2022

Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh

Body, Belief, and Human Identity

Stanley Bill

Hosted by Piotr Kosicki
In Czesław Miłosz’s Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity (Oxford University Press, 2021), Cambridge professor Stanley Bill offers a profoundly original, fine-grained, and rich interpretation of the …
Poetry April 29, 2022

Today in the Taxi

Poems

Sean Singer

Hosted by Robert Snyder
The first poem in Sean Singers’ new collection of poetry, Today in the Taxi, published by Tupelo Press, begins with, “Today in the taxi, I brought a man from midtown …
The Common Magazine April 22, 2022

The Sea Dreams of Us

The Common magazine (Fall, 2021)

Romeo Oriogun

Hosted by Emily Everett
Romeo Oriogun speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his poem “The Sea Dreams of Us,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue. In this conversation, Romeo talks about his …
Poetry April 20, 2022

You Still Look the Same

Farzana Doctor

Hosted by Jori Krulder
Farzana Doctor is a Toronto-based author, activist and a psychotherapist. She has written four critically acclaimed novels. Her latest, Seven, which Ms. Magazine described as “fully feminist and ambitiously bold” …
Poetry April 19, 2022

Machluta

Sigal Naor Perelman

Hosted by Yakir Englander
This episode is part of a series of recordings I do with artists and scholars from Israel and Palestine. To allow people from the conflict to make their voices heard …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast April 15, 2022

A Vertical Art

On Poetry

Simon Armitage

Hosted by Mark Klobas
In A Vertical Art: On Poetry (Princeton UP, 2022), acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend itself to grand statements …
Philosophy April 12, 2022

Wittgenstein's Artillery

Philosophy as Poetry

James C. Klagge

Hosted by Carrie Figdor
“One should really only do philosophy as poetry.” What could Ludwig Wittgenstein have meant by this? What was the context for this odd remark? In Wittgenstein’s Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry …
Irish Studies March 25, 2022

About: Blank

Adam Wyeth

Hosted by Bridget English
The city of Dublin, with its ancient cobblestones, historic pubs, and legendary river Liffey, has been a source of inspiration for writers and poets for centuries. Though it might provide …
Literature March 22, 2022

The Benefits of Eating White Folks

Leslie T. Grover

Hosted by Yakir Englander
Today I talked to Leslie T. Grover about her book The Benefits of Eating White Folks (Jaded Ibis Press, 2022). The Sickness, a disease with unknown origins, is killing white children in …
Popular Culture March 16, 2022

Speaking Truths

Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism

Valerie Chepp

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In Speaking Truths: Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism (Rutgers UP, 2022), sociologist Valerie Chepp goes behind-the-scenes to uncover how spoken word poetry--and young people's participation in it--contributes to …
The Common Magazine March 11, 2022

“Last Cigarette” and “Apology to My Daughter"

The Common magazine (Fall 2021)

Tom Sleigh

Hosted by Emily Everett
Tom Sleigh speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his poems “Last Cigarette” and “Apology to My Daughter,” which appear in The Common’s fall issue. In this conversation, Tom talks …