Commonplace Podcast

Books by Maggie Nelson Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull, 2018) The Argonauts (Graywolf, 2015) The Latest Winter (Zed Books, 2018) Shiner (Zed Books, 2018) The Art of Cruelty (W.W. Norton, 2012) Women, The New York School and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2011) Bluets (Wave Books, 2009) The Red Parts (Graywolf, 2007) Jane (Soft Skull, 2005) Other Authors and Texts Menti...

People, Places, and Events Featured in this Episode: Brilliant Time Bookstore (Feature on Mr. CHANG Cheng and his partner, Ms. LIAO Yun-chan ) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own FemBooks est. 1994 Witch House (located in the same building as FemBooks) Peng Wan-Ru Foundation (located in the same building as FemBooks) KANG Min Jay National Taiwan University’s Graduate Institute of Building and Pla...

Relevant Links from Rachel’s Story “Diane Wolkstein, Children’s Author Who Spurred a Storytelling Revival, Dies at 70” via the New York Times Rachel on The Longest Shortest Time Audio of Diane Wolkstein performing “The Monkey King ” Relevant Links from Doreen’s Story Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender Haunani Kay Trask (University of Hawaii) Daniel Kim (professor at Brown) Lois Ann Yamanaka R...

Books by Christine Larusso There Will Be No More Daughters (&Now/Lake Forest College Press, 2019) Other Texts and Writers Mentioned in the Episode Morgan Parker Anne Boyer Rachel Zucker Home/Birth Kimiko Hahn Carmen Giménez Smith Ada Limón Victoria Chang’s twitter Tommy Pico Jakob Vala (designer) Shira Erlichman Sharon Olds Juliana Spahr Other Relevant Links Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writ...

Episode transcripts available here. Books by Anne Boyer The Undying (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019) A Handbook of Disappointed Fate (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) Garments Against Women (Ahsahta, 2015) The Romance of Happy Workers (Coffee House Press, 2008) Other Texts and Writers Mentioned in the Episode Cassandra Gillig Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies (Scribner, 2011) Bernadet...

Books by Tina Chang Hybrida (W.W. Norton, 2019) Of Gods & Strangers (Four Way, 2011) Language for a New Century [Editor, alongside Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar ] (W.W. Norton, 2008) Half-Lit Houses (Four Way, 2004) Other Texts and Writers Mentioned in this Episode Kimiko Hahn Aracelis Girmay sam sax Agha Shahid Ali Mira Jacob Toni Morrison l ucille clifton Brenda Shaughnessy Carolyn Forché...

Books by Ada Limón The Carrying (Milkweed, 2018) Bright Dead Things (Milkweed, 2015) Sharks in the Rivers (Milkweed, 2010) lucky wreck (Autumn House, 2006) This Big Fake World (Pearl Poetry Prize series, 2006) Other Relevant Links The theory and play of duende by Lorca Adrian Matejka’s One Big Smoke Nyorican Poetry Episode 16: Jericho Brown CD Wright Bernadette Mayer’s conversation with Charles Be...

Books by Victoria Chang Barbie Chang (Copper Canyon, 2017) Is Mommy? (With Marla Frazee) (Beach Lane, 2015) The Boss (McSweeney’s, 2013) Salvinia Molesta (University of Georgia Press, 2008) Circle (Crab Orchard/Southern Illinois University Press, 2005) Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (Editor) (University of Illinois Press, 2004) Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the Episode Chen Chen...

Books/Projects by Rachel Zucker SoundMachine (Wave, 2019) The Pedestrians (Wave, 2014) Mothers (Counterpoint, 2013) Museum of Accidents (Wave, 2009) The Bad Wife Handbook (Wesleyan University Press, 2008) The Last Clear Narrative (Wesleyan University Press, 2004) Eating in the Underworld (Wesleyan University Press, 2003) Home/birth: a poemic with Arielle Greenberg ( 2011) Women Poets on Mentorship...

Episode 3 of Commonplace’s special series on translation. Jennifer Croft is a writer, translator and critic. She was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2018 and a National Book Award Finalist for her translation from Polish of Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights . She is the recipient of Fulbright, PEN, MacDowell, and National Endowment for the Arts grants and fellowships, as well as the inaugural...

EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 72 Books by Ilya Kaminsky Poetry Collections: Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019) Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004) Anthologies: The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (co-editors Susan Harris, Ecco, 2010) In the Shape of a Human I Am Visiting the Earth: Poems from Far and Wide (co-editors Dominic Luxford and Jesse Nathan, McSweeney’s, 2017) Gossip and Metaphysics:...

Episode 2 of Commonplace’s special series on translation John R. Keene is the author of Annotations and Counternarratives , both published by New Directions, as well as several other works, including the poetry collection Seismosis , with artist Christopher Stackhouse, and a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer . Born in St. Louis, Keene is a graduate of Harva...

Episode 1 of Commonplace’s special series on translation. Rosa Alcalá is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, most recently, MyOTHER TONGUE (Futurepoem), and translator of several full-length translations including the recently released New and Selected Poems of Cecilia Vicuña (Kelsey Street Press) for which Alcalá received a translation fellowship from the National Endowment of...