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Intimate and compelling interviews by Rachel Zucker with poets and other artists. Become a Patron & support our growing podcast! www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

  1. 26 FEB

    Episode 32:The Hiatus Explained

    Commonplace Podcast

    1h 33m

  2. 21 JAN

    Episode 131: Reading Sabrina Orah Mark's Happily

    Raised in Brooklyn, NY, Sabrina Orah Mark earned a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University. She also earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in English from the University of Georgia. She is the author of the poetry collectionsTsim Tsum,and The Babies. Her collection of stories,Wild Milk,won the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Short Story and was a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction. Mark’s accomplishments include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center, and a Creative Capital Award. In addition to teaching private workshops she currently teaches nonfiction, fiction, and poetry for the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband, Reginald McKnight, and their two sons. Books by Sabrina Orah Mark: Happily (Random House, 2023) Wild Milk (Dorothy, 2018) The Babies (Saturnalia, 2004) Tsim Tsum (Saturnalia, 2009) Also Mentioned: Episode 33: Sabrina Orah Mark  Nadja Speigleman Bruno Schultz’s fairytale murals “Borges and I” by Jorges Louis Borges Grimm’s fairytales Lidia Yuknavitch Bella Baxter The Golden Key Angela Carter “The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges Reading with Rachel (2024-2025 cycle)

    2h 9m

  3. 18/10/2024

    Episode 130: Lois Conner

    The New York-based photographer Lois Conner has been traveling the world with a 7x17” banquet camera for nearly half a century. Through the elongated format of her work she has explored the landscape and the temper of our times; her art is both contemporary and, due to her vision, ‘a long view’ that captures the eternal in the moment, timeless. Conner’s work is that of the artist-artisan: every aspect of her art involves the hand made combined with demanding techniques of platinum printing. In recent years she has employed digital technologies to expand the format of her work, embracing landscapes from the natural to the man-made. Her annual trips to China since 1984 have allowed her to follow the transformation of the People’s Republic and to share her unique understanding of the country’s changing urban and rural mien, as well as the vistas that inspired the country’s unique culture. Conner has been based in New York City since 1971, where she worked for the United Nations until 1984. During that time she was awarded a Bachelor in Fine Arts (photography) from the Pratt Institute and a Master’s degree from Yale University. Conner has also taught photography at many places, including over a decade as professor of photography at Yale University. For a list of Lois Conner’s publications and exhibitions please visit her website.

    2h 1m

  4. 11/10/2024

    Episode 129: Reading Eugenia Leigh's Bianca

    Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including TIME, The Nation, Poetry, Ploughshares,Waxwing, and the Best of the Net anthology. Eugenia serves as a Poetry Editor at The Adroit Journal and as Valentines Editor at Honey Literary. Books by Eugenia Leigh: Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023) Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books 2014) Also Mentioned: Hey It’s Me podcast (with Mike Sakasagawa and Rachel Zucker) Eugenia Leigh’s on the Zuihitsu Black Lives Matter Alan Shapiro Hybrida by Tina Chang The Undertaker’s Daughter by Toi Derricotte   The Zuihitsu Form Franny Choi  Confessional Poetry  Bri Gonzalez Jessica Nirvana Ram Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman Lorca’s Duende  2024 AWP Panel on Mental Illness: Danez Smith, Leila Chatti, Stevie Edwards, Marlin M. Jenkins  John Murillo’s “Upon Reading That Eric Dolphy Transcribed Even the Calls of Certain Species of Birds,” Carrie Fountain’s “The Jungle” Rachel Zucker’s SoundMachine Keith S Wilson Vanessa Angélica Villarreal Eduardo Corral’s Slow Lightning Mai Der Vang & her book, Yellow Rain Visual Poem by Keith S. Wilson Time Travel by James Gleick Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of Time Brian Greene Hafizah Geter’s The Black Period Nicole Sealey’s The Ferguson Report Donate to Brooklyn Poets

    1h 12m

  5. 18/07/2024

    Episode 128: KTCO Feed Drop: Hey, it's Me

    Mike Sakasegawa is a writer, photographer, book artist, and the host of the arts and literature podcast Keep the Channel Open, and the short fiction podcast LikeWise Fiction. His writing has appeared in Last Exit, Catapult, PetaPixel, and Don’t Take Pictures Magazine. His photographs have been featured on Lenscratch, A Photo Editor, and SD Voyager, and included in several group exhibitions. Originally from California’s Central Coast, he now lives in San Diego with his family. Rachel Zucker is the author of The Poetics of Wrongness, SoundMachine, The Pedestrians, MOTHERs, Museum of Accidents, The Bad Wife Handbook, The Last Clear Narrative, Eating in the Underworld, and with Arielle Greenberg, Home/Birth: A Poemic, Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days and Women Poets on Mentorship. She is mother to three sons, founder and host of the Commonplace podcast, directrix of The Commonplace School for Embodied Poetics, and teaches poetry at NYU and other places.

    1 hr

  6. 08/07/2024

    Episode 127: Hanif Abdurraqib with Stuti Sharma

    Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Hanif’s newest release, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Random House, 2024) is a poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home and a New York Times bestseller.

    1h 28m

  7. 28/05/2024

    Episode 126: D. A. Powell

    D. A. Powell teaches at University of San Francisco. His books include Repast, Chronic and Useless Landscape or a Guide for Boys, all published by Graywolf Press. He is also the author of chapbooks Atlas T and Low Hanging Fruit. He lives in San Francisco.

    1h 46m

  8. 11/05/2024

    Episode 125: The Poetics of Motherhood

    Books by Rachel Zucker The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Poetry, 2023)  SoundMachine (Wave Poetry, 2019)  The Pedestrians (Wave Poetry, 2014)  MOTHERs (2014)  Museum of Accidents (Wave Poetry, 2009)  The Bad Wife Handbook (Wesleyan University Press, 2007) The Last Clear Narrative (2004)  Eating in the Underworld (2003)  Books by Rachel Zucker and Arielle Greenberg Home/birth: A Poemic (2011)  Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days (University of Iowa Press, 2010) Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (University of Iowa Press, 2008)  Also Referenced Robert Hass Alice Notley Bernadette Mayer Toi Derricotte Alicia Ostriker Arielle Greenberg Marina Abramović Jorie Graham Ina May Gaskin Brenda Hillman Adrienne Rich Dorothea Lange Robert Frank Sally Mann Frank O’Hara Allen Ginsberg James Schuyler Tillie Olsen Many thanks to the English Department at UC Berkeley, The Bagley Wright Poetry Lecture Series and the BWLS Podcast, Ellen Welcker, Heidi Broadhead, Charlie Wright and everyone at Wave Books. Here is a longer list of acknowledgments and a partial list of referenced sources for Rachel’s lectures. Commonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

    1h 11m
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Intimate and compelling interviews by Rachel Zucker with poets and other artists. Become a Patron & support our growing podcast! www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

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  • Creator
    Rachel Zucker
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2025
  • Episodes
    132
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Rachel Zucker
  • Show Website
    Commonplace Podcast

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