Commonplace Podcast

Don’t know how I got here but was refreshing to hear poems.

Unsubscribing after that. What a shallow and pompous person; I understand that she is a poet but to pretend at telling history, indigenous or otherwise, with such tenuous and self-regarding grasp is gross and weird.

Just listened to ep 76 and it was so lovely and much needed!

at one point in episode 89 (with david naimon), you asked about whether you were allowed to talk about tinder on commonplace, and what david said not only answers your question but basically sums up what i feel in general when listening to commonplace: "you've established a mode of being in your show that is a similar mode of being in your poetry and your prose, where life is moving between those sectors... people are drawn to your show because of this; you already have an audience with a built-in expectation for this, both your readers and your listeners." All this to say that: just as in a poet's life one's living is one's work, so too does this listener come to your show as a space of vulnerability and sincerity and healing. I love it. Never shy away from going to the places you think no one is interested in. Because those are the very places poetry, and your podcast, is for. (as a side note, i've just recently finished museum of accidents and am nearly done with the pedestrians, and i love your work. (the latter felt like a novel thru poems). can't wait to read the bad wife handbook next :) ) Thank you thank you thank you and keep up the great work!!!!!