The Air/Light Podcast

Air/Light Editors, David L. Ulin, Aaron Winslow
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Conversations and interviews with the best of contemporary literature. Produced in Los Angeles, The Air/Light Podcast brings you literature from a Southern California perspective. This is the official podcast of Air/Light, an online literary journal published by the English Department at the University of Southern California. We showcase both traditional and innovative works. We are firmly of the West Coast, but also national, international. We mean to look out expansively from this place rather than to gaze narrowly back at it, to express a West Coast aesthetic, a West Coast sensibility, and direct that lens onto the world. If you like what you hear, check out the magazine online at https://airlightmagazine.org/

  1. Christos Ikonomou and Karen Emmerich Interviewed by David L. Ulin

    04/19/2022

    Christos Ikonomou and Karen Emmerich Interviewed by David L. Ulin

    "A Dreadful Consolation," written by by Christos Ikonomou and translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich: https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/issue-5/a-terrible-consolation/

    42 min

  2. 12/21/2021

    Vickie Vértiz and Alex Espinoza

    Vickie Vértiz, "Little Earthquakes": https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/fall2020/little-earthquakes-on-fear-and-family-violence/ Alex Espinoza, "Lit": https://airlightmagazine.org/authors/alex-espinoza/

    1 hr
  3. Lilliam Rivera & Mark Haber

    11/22/2021

    Lilliam Rivera & Mark Haber

    Lilliam Rivera, "The Undercurrent": https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/fall2020/the-undercurrent/ Mark Haber: "Tegucigalpa": https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/issue-3/tegucigalpa/

    54 min
  4. A Sonic Offering: Michiko Theurer and Jonathan Leal

    11/04/2021

    A Sonic Offering: Michiko Theurer and Jonathan Leal

    Read and listen to "Reach" in Air/Light here: https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/winter-2021/reach/ Other music, essays, and performances mentioned by Michi and Jonathan include: The Tyshawn Sorey performance Michi mentioned will soon be archived and/or uploaded by Harvard’s New Music Ensemble.  Jonathan's interview with Tyshawn Sorey can be found here:  https://www.sfcv.org/articles/artist-spotlight/decorating-time-tyshawn-sorey)  Matana Roberts:  https://matana-roberts.bandcamp.com/album/coin-coin-chapter-four-memphis Freedom, by Yvette Jackson https://yvettejaninejackson.bandcamp.com/album/freedom Haruna Lee:  https://www.harunalee.com/haruna-lee Writing on Pauline Oliveros:  https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/listening-as-activism-the-sonic-meditations-of-pauline-oliveros

    52 min
  5. bridgette bianca and MICHAEL CHANG in Conversation

    10/15/2021

    bridgette bianca and MICHAEL CHANG in Conversation

    bridgette bianca: https://www.bridgettebianca.com/ MICHAEL CHANG: https://bateaupress.org/index.php/2021/02/27/drakkar-noir-by-michael-chang/

    1h 14m
  6. The Inevitable Word: Diane Mehta and Jordan Smith in Conversation

    10/01/2021

    The Inevitable Word: Diane Mehta and Jordan Smith in Conversation

    We host a conversation with two incredible poets: Diane Mehta and Jordan Smith, whose poems were published in Air/Light Issue 3. Diane was a student at Union College, where Jordan teaches, and even though they were never in the classroom together the resonance between their work is obvious. Both are poets of the particular, of the moment; the world around them provides entryways into deep memories both personal and historical. Diane and Jordan write poems that bend time and space and the ancient world is a constant presence in the now--in Jordan’s poem “Good Morning,” burnt coffee in Schenectady sits alongside the ferry to Piraeus in classical Athens. Tree trimming, in Diane’s “Rock Garden,” connects us to the Iliad and the blood sacrifices of early religion.   Jordan Smith is the author of eight full-length books of poems, most recently Little Black Train, winner of the Three Mile Harbor Press Prize, Clare’s Empire (The Hydroelectric Press), a fantasia on the life and work of John Clare, and The Light in the Film (University of Tampa Press). He has also worked on several collaborations with artist Walter Hatke including What Came Home and Hat & Key. The recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, he lives with his wife, Malie, in upstate New York, where he is the Edward Everett Hale Jr., Professor of English at Union College. Diane Mehta is the author of the poetry collection Forest with Castanets (Four Way Books). She received a 2020 Spring Literature Grant from the Café Royal Cultural Foundation for her nonfiction writing. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Agni, American Poetry Review, The Common, Harvard Review, and Southern Humanities Review. She’s completing an essay collection and a novel set in 1946 India.   Diane Mehta's poems in Air/Light: https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/issue-3/rock-garden-in-the-back-yard-with-a-ghost-tree-and-an-evergreen-stay-disappearing-act/ Jordan Smith's poems in Air/Light: https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/issue-3/good-morning-wrong-question/

    1h 20m
  7. Salidummay” by Ina Cariño

    07/05/2021 ·  Bonus

    Salidummay” by Ina Cariño

    Music by Ina Cariño.  Ina Cariño is a poet, musician, and artist with an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Waxwing, New England Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. Ina is a Kundiman fellow, a Best of the Net finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a recipient of a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. They are the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for their manuscript Feast, forthcoming from Alice James Books in March 2023. Most recently, Ina was selected as one of the four winners of the 2021 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize.

    4 min
  8. Marvin Bell: A Discussion of his Career with Christopher Merrill and David St. John

    06/14/2021 ·  Bonus

    Marvin Bell: A Discussion of his Career with Christopher Merrill and David St. John

    A discussion of the life and career of poet Marvin Bell with Christopher Merril and David St. John.

    47 min
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Conversations and interviews with the best of contemporary literature. Produced in Los Angeles, The Air/Light Podcast brings you literature from a Southern California perspective. This is the official podcast of Air/Light, an online literary journal published by the English Department at the University of Southern California. We showcase both traditional and innovative works. We are firmly of the West Coast, but also national, international. We mean to look out expansively from this place rather than to gaze narrowly back at it, to express a West Coast aesthetic, a West Coast sensibility, and direct that lens onto the world. If you like what you hear, check out the magazine online at https://airlightmagazine.org/

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  • Creator
    Air/Light Editors, David L. Ulin, Aaron Winslow
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2022
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2021 Air/Light
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