Cross Cultural Poetics

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Cross Cultural Poetics is produced in the studios of KAOS-FM at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

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2003

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  Promos

  Cross Cultural Poetics promo (0:59): MP3

  Episode #1: Poetry and Dissent, October 21, 2003

  • Egyptian poets Mohamed Metwalli and Maged Zaher and Chinese poet Zhang Er discuss their work, as well as the problems of censorship in their respective countries
  • Complete Program (29:16): MP3

  Episode #2: Cosmopolitan, November 3, 2003

  • Argentine poet Mercedes Roffe, at home in both Buenos Aires and New York, discusses her writing.
  • Complete Program (27:57): MP3

  Episode #3: Language Under Fire, November 3, 2003

  Leading American poet Michael Palmer, based in San Francisco, reads from his work and discusses the dilemma of poetry in the Age of Bush

  1. Introduction (0:45): MP3
  2. Words and production of meaning (2:21): MP3
  3. Palmer reading from "Autobiography" (3:25): MP3
  4. Russian influence on "Autobiography" (3:45): MP3
  5. Schwartz reading a passage from a Palmer essay (1:43): MP3
  6. Discourse of power and meaning in language (3:54): MP3
  7. Poets' role in war (6:31): MP3
  8. Palmer's view of Poets Against War (4:01): MP3
  9. Palmer reading "Este Mundo" (2:14): MP3
  10. Palmer reading "Untitled, February 2003" (1:10): MP3
  11. Discussing "Untitled" (2:25): MP3
  12. Conclusion (0:59): MP3

  Complete Program (33:18): MP3

  Episode #4: How Arab Is It, November 3, 2003

  • Victor Reinking, translator of Abellatif Laabi, a leading Moroccan poet, reads from Laabi's book The World's Embrace as well as Laabi's prison notebooks, and discusses the relationship between French and Arabic in Laabi's writing.
  • Complete Program (33:19): MP3

  Episode #5: Doubt, November 3, 2003

  • Leading American poet, fiction writer and essayist Fanny Howe discusses Irish culture, her new books Selected Poems and Gone (both from The University of California Press), and reads her major prose poem "Doubt."
  • Complete Program MP3 (27:56)

  Episode #6: Fighting Back, November 17, 2003

  • Poet, novelist, and Evergreen faculty member Bill Ransom reads from his new manuscript War Baby, and discusses his experiences in Central America during the 1980's.
  • Complete Program (28:01): MP3

  Show #7: If I Were Writing This, November 24, 2003

  Elder of the Tribe of Poetry and Black Mountain great Robert Creeley discusses his new book If I Were Writing This.

  1. Introduction (0:56): MP3
  2. Form as extension of content (1:34): MP3
  3. Poem in memory of Allen Ginsberg (3:09): MP3
  4. Discussing Allen Ginsberg (2:07): MP3
  5. Influence of Robert Graves; matriarchy in poetry (4:38): MP3
  6. "Conversion to Her" (2:49): MP3
  7. Presence of rhyme (1:32): MP3
  8. "John's Song" (1:55): MP3
  9. Poetry and language during the Bush administration (2:52): MP3
  10. On repetition (1:35): MP3
  11. "If I Were Writing This" (3:13): MP3
  12. Discussing "If I Were Writing This" (1:50): MP3

  Complete Recording (28:12): MP3

  Episode #8: The Inferno, November 24, 2003

  The great Canadian poet Robin Blaser discusses Dante's Inferno and the American-made Inferno in Iraq.

  1. Introduction by Leonard Schwartz (1:07): MP3
  2. Image Nation 13: Telephone (2:47): MP3
  3. Discussing Image Nation (2:33): MP3
  4. Discussing The Irreparable (4:42): MP3
  5. Blaser discussing his new poetry (2:25): MP3
  6. Blaser discussing his dual citizenship (1:49): MP3
  7. Responsibility in language (1:15): MP3
  8. As If By Chance (4:58): MP3
  9. Discussing As If By Chance (4:20): MP3
  10. Language as a source of poetry (2:41): MP3

  Complete Recording (28:38): MP3

  Episode #9: Vancouver Writing, December 1, 2003

  • Vancouver British Columbia poet Meredith Quartermain discusses the experimental poetry scene in Vancouver as well as her new book One Thousand Mornings.
  • Complete Recording (27:52) MP3

  Episode #10: American In Paris, January 7, 2004

  • Leading American poet Alice Notley, based in Paris, discusses her masterwork The Descent of Alette.
  • Complete Recording (54:42): MP3

  Episode #11: Refusing The Wall, January 7, 2004

  • Peter Cole, from Jerusalem, discusses his own writing and his Ibis Press, publishing literary work in translation from both Arabic and Hebrew into English.
  1. introduction (0:43): MP3
  2. on moving to Jerusalem and starting Ibis Press (3:44): MP3
  3. bringing together distant and different literary works (4:09): MP3
  4. translating into English and the tradition of translation (6:53): MP3
  5. Peter Cole on his book Hymns & Qualms, linkage, and nourishment (2:41): MP3
  6. discussing the section "I Sing A Doubled Song," from Hymns & Qualms (4:38): MP3
  7. reading "I Sing A Doubled Song" (3:33): MP3
  8. on "Speech's Hedge" and using the whole range of speech's possibility (1:08): MP3
  • Complete Recording (28:49): MP3

  Episode #12: Carved Water, December 8, 2003

  Zhang Er and Bob Holman talk about their translation collaboration on Zhang Er's book of poems Carved Water. Zhang Er & Bob Holman (22:04): MP3

  Episode #13: Before Spanish, December 8, 2003

  • Poet Jerome Rothenberg reads from his new collection A Book of Witness, and discusses his work on the Mazatac shaman Maria Sabina.
  • Complete Recording (27:45): MP3

  2004

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    Episode #14: Another Language, January 26, 2004

    Rosmarie Waldrop discusses her translations of the Egyptian-Jewish poet Edmond Jabes as well as her own poetry in Another Language (Talisman House).

    1. Introduction by Leonard Schwartz (1:05): MP3
    2. Discussing Edmond Jabès and Judaism (5:00): MP3
    3. Jabès and experience with persecution (1:49): MP3
    4. "At the Threshold of the Book," from The Book of Questions (3:59): MP3
    5. Schwartz reading from Section 5 of The Book of Questions, and Jabès' idea of the "book" (2:53): MP3
    6. Derrida's view of Jabès (1:14): MP3
    7. Waldrop's relationship with Jabès (2:34): MP3
    8. Discussing A Key Into the Language of America (3:38): MP3
    9. Chapter 23: On Marriage (1:54): MP3
    10. Final Chapter: On Death and Burial (2:51): MP3
    11. Waldrop discussing her current work (2:17): MP3
    
    Complete Recording (29:15): MP3

  Episode #15: In the Room of Never Grieve, January 26, 2004:

  • Anne Waldman discusses her latest book, a new and selected from Coffee House Press.
  
  
  1. Introduction (1:02): MP3
  2. Discussing In the Room of Never Grieve: New and Selected Poems (2:37): MP3
  3. Global Positioning (3:30): MP3
  4. Government, politics, and language (3:31): MP3
  5. In Memory of His Muse, dedicated to Matthew Shepard (3:45): MP3
  6. Buddhist influence of Waldman's writing (4:56): MP3
  7. I Remember Being Arrested (4:22): MP3
  8. Discussing Allen Ginsberg (2:17): MP3
  9. "In the Room of Never Grieve" (2:12): MP3
  10. Discussing "In the Room of Never "Grieve" (3:50): MP3
  
  Complete Recording (32:04): MP3

  Episode #16: Nation Language and other Revolutions, February 2, 2004

  • Kamau Brathwaite talks about his new work, Caribbean poetry, and the ancient art of making it new.
  • Complete Recording (59:58) (55MB): MP3

  Episode #17: Ochre Tones, November 17, 2004

  • Filipino poet Marjorie Evasco discusses the relationships between English and Cebuano in her book Ochre Tones.
  • Complete Recording (25:08): MP3

  Episode #18: Filipino Poetics, January 18, 2004

  • Ramil Gullia and Dina Roma discuss their poetry in the general context of contemporary Filipino writing.
  • Complete Recording (31:39): MP3

  Episode #19: Complexity of Words, January 18 2004

  • Malaysian poet Eddin Khoo meditates on poetry, puppetry, English, and minority Hinduism in Muslim Malaysia.
  • Complete Recording (27:12): MP3

  Episode #20: My Mojave, February 16, 2004

  • Donald Revell talks about poetry, the paradise of being awake, and life in the desert.
  • Complete Recording (29:09): MP3

  Episode #21: The Poetry of Arab Women, February 23, 2004

  • Nathalie Handal, Palestinian-American poet and editor of the award-winning anthology The Poetry Of Arab Women, discusses this important book.
  • Complete Recording (28:33): MP3

  Episode #22: Seattle and Other Worlds, Feburary 23, 2004

  Some time Seattle poet Joseph Donahue, whom John Ashbery has called "one of the major American poets of this time," discusses his latest book, Incidental Eclipse.

  1. Introduction (0:57): MP3
  2. Discussing Incidental Eclipse (1:46): MP3
  3. Reading "Here/Beyond" (4:30): MP3
  4. Landscape of Pacific Northwest in "Here/Beyond" (3:09): MP3
  5. Reading "Aria Nowhere" (5:56): MP3
  6. Sense of color in "Aria Nowhere" (4:15): MP3
  7. Discussing and reading "Targets Mongolia," after a painting by Randy Hayes (5:48): MP3
  8. Images in "Targets Mongolia;" discussing current work (2:22): MP3

  Complete Recording (28:43) MP3

  Show #23: Forum Singapore, January 19, 2004

  • Singaporean poets Alvin Pang, Toh Hsien Min, and Yong Shu Hoong discuss the complexities of their poetry and their city. (Taped at the Word Feast Poetry Festival, Singapore)
  • The Bears: Moscow Poet Alexei Parschikov, on the phone from Germany, speaks about his new poems.
  • Complete Recording (56:23) (53MB): MP3

  Episode #24/25: The Forest of Symbols, March 8, 2004

  • Leading avant-garde playwright Richard Foreman talks about anti-theater, language, and surprise.
  • Complete Recording (31:02): MP3
  • Paris/Morocco/LA: poet, translator, and publisher Guy Bennett talks about his poetry, his publishing venture Seeing Eye Books, and his translations of Valerie Novarina and Mostafa Nissabouri.
  • Complete Recording MP3

  Episode #26: Word in Words, March 8, 2004

  • Chilean poet Cecilia Vicuna reads from her poems and discusses the intermingling of Spanish, English, Mapuche, and Quechua in her poems.
  1. Introduction (0:46): MP3
  2. Reading from "Water Poems" (4:20): MP3
  3. Water and fluidity of language and culture in poetry (2:37): MP3
  4. Influence of Quechua language (2:31): MP3
  5. José María Arguedas' influence on Vicuna's work (1:49): MP3
  6. Performance of poetry (1:12): MP3
  7. Reading a poem performed for St. Mark's Poetry Project in 2002 (5:56): MP3
  8. Form and content of performance poetry (1:25): MP3
  9. Discussing current work (0:52): MP3
  10. Overlaps of Quechua and Chinese artistic production (5:07): MP3
  11. Comments on upcoming work; conclusion of first half (2:52): MP3

  Complete Recording (29:28): MP3

  • Susan Parenti - playwright, composer, poet - discusses her book The Politics of the Adjective Political.

  Complete Recording (29:51): MP3

  Episode #27: History/Lyric/Speech, March 15, 2004

  • Charles Bernstein discusses the play of the signifier across these dimensions of language, and reads from World on Fire and The Sophist. (31:53): MP3
  • Belgian poet Michel Delville reads from his work as well as from translations of other contemporary Belgian poets, discussing both Belgian surrealism and the poetics of the prose poem. (28:22): MP3

  Episode #28: EuroNorthAmerica, 2004

  • Alice Notley, from Paris, returns to read from Mysteries of Small Houses.
    
  • Jim Kates, poet, translator, and publisher of Zephyr Press, reads his translations of the Russian poet Tatiana Scherbina.
    
  • Leading Romanian poet Carmen Firan reads from her work and discusses her love affair with New York City.
  Complete Recording (60:00): MP3

  Episode #29: The Levant, 2004

  • Scholar of classical Arabic Michael Sells discusses his new book Stations Of Desire: Love Elegies From Ibn 'Arabi and New Poems.
  Aharon Shabtai, one of Israel's major poets, on the phone from Tel Aviv, discusses
  • J'Accuse, his book of poems recently published in English translation by New Directions.
  Complete Recording (59:55): MP3

  Episode #30: Sydney/New York, 2004 = Cairo/Seattle

  • Australian poet John Tranter discusses his new book Studio Moon and the influence of the New York School on his writing.
  • Egyptian poets Mohammed Metwalli and Maged Zaher return to talk about the interactions between their own poems, classical Arabic, and the American cultural landscape.
  
  
  1. Introduction (1:58): MP3
  2. Reading Five Modern Myths (1:32): MP3
  3. Comments on Five Modern Myths (2:05): MP3
  4. Tranter Discusses Australian Poetry (5:06): MP3
  5. Tranter Discusses Influence and Process (2:40): MP3
  6. Reading Radium (2:43): MP3
  7. Comments on Radium (1:07): MP3
  8. Tranter Discusses Australian Poetry Distinctions (4:42): MP3
  9. Tranter Discusses Jacket Magazine (2:06): MP3
  10. Comments on Three Poems About Kenneth Koch (1:09): MP3
  11. Reading Three Poems About Kenneth Koch (4:09): MP3
  
  
  • Complete Recording (1:00:55): MP3

  Episode #31: Riot/And Then Something Happened, 2004

  • Indian novelist, poet, and Under Secretary General of the United Nations Sashi Tharoor talks about his most recent work of fiction, Riot.
  • Poet and publisher of Tinfish Editions, out of Hawaii, Susan Schultz talks about Pacific Basin writing and her own new book of poetry, And Then Something Happened.
  • Complete Recording (1:00:27): MP3

  Episode #32: The Real Image, 2004

  • Poet and Talisman House publisher Edward Foster discusses Turkish culture and his new book of poems Mahrem: Things Men Should Do For Men, as well as some recent and planned Talisman House anthologies.
  • Afghan-American filmmaker and writer Lida Abdullah reads from her work and discusses her forthcoming trip to Kabul to make a film that is not documentary.
  • Complete Recording (1:00:10): MP3

  Episode #33: Addressing These Wars, 2004

  • Rick Simonson - Evergreen graduate, Copper Canyon Press Board Member, and the man who makes the Elliot Bay Book Company run - talks about the work of making literature possible in and around Seattle.
  • Novelist Micheline Marcom reads from her new novel The Day Dreaming Boy - and discusses the Armenian genocide.
  • Novelist Russell Banks reads his essay "Letter to My Granddaughter On The Eve Of Another War" - and discusses the embedded writers of Operation Homecoming.
  • Complete Recording (1:00:28): MP3

  Episode #34: Ecstacy, Dissonance, and The City of Dreams, 2004

  • Poet and translator Coleman Barks talks about his latest book - The Drowned Book: Ecstatic and Earthly Reflections of Bahauddin, Father of Rumi.
  • San Francisco State Poetry Director Steven Dickison talks about his work at that central place in American letters, as well as his publishing work, most recently of Benjamin Hollander's Rituals of Truce and the Other Israeli.
  • The incomparable Barbara Guest reads her "Dissonance Royal Traveler" and talks about her book of essays, Forces Of Imagination.
  • Complete Recording (1:02:12): MP3

  Episode #35: Making It Happen, 2004

  • San Francisco poet Leslie Scalapino reads from It's go in/quiet illuminedgrass/land, from Post-Apollo Press.
  • Mary Margaret Sloan, editor of Moving Borders: Three Generations of Innovative Writing By Women, discusses that monumental book, and reads from her new sequence of poems "On Method".
  • Judith Roche, poet and literary director of Bumbershoot Arts Festival, reads a poem deeply grounded in her experience of the New College in San Francisco during one of American poetry's richest moments.
  • Complete Recording (59:53): MP3

  Episode #36: Time Juxtaposition,2004

  Arthur Sze, based in New Mexico, reads from The Red Shifting Web as well as his book of translations from Chinese, The Silk Dragon.

  1. Introduction (1:01): MP3
  2. On teaching at the Institute of American Indian Arts (0:53): MP3
  3. On "khipu" as a principle of composition (3:36): MP3
  4. Reading from "The Red Shifting Web" (3:09): MP3
  5. Discussing the structure of "The Red Shifting Web" (3:33): MP3
  6. Sense of time in Chinese Linguistics (2:07): MP3
  7. Using juxtaposition to create richness (1:20): MP3
  8. Translation process in The Silk Dragon (1:56): MP3
  9. Reading "Flying Light" by Li Ho (3:32): MP3
  10. More poetry by Li Ho (1:15): MP3
  11. Discussing previous translators of Chinese poetry (3:06): MP3
  12. Sze's current work (1:52): MP3
  13. Reading the first section of "Before Completion" (2:23): MP3

  Leung Ping-Kwan discusses the situation of poetry in Hong Kong, and reads from his book Travelling With A Bitter Melon.

  Complete Recording (58:57): MP3

  Episode #37: The Other Tradition, 2004

  • British poet Martin Corless-Smith discusses and reads from his latest book Nota, as well as Rick Caddell's last book Writing In The Dark and the new edition of the Collected Poems of Basil Bunting.
  Complete Recording (53:25): MP3

  Episode #38: Permutations, 2004

  • Rodrigo Toscano, poet and labor activist, on the phone from New York, winds and unwinds his poems from The Disparities and Platform.
  • Ariel Goldberger - Argentine-born theater director, Evergreen Professor, and puppeteer - discusses his ideas concerning the theatrical image, the poetics of space and Artaud's Theater of Cruelty.
  • Complete Reading (1:00:06): MP3

  Episode #39: Only The Nails Remain/Crash, 2004

  • Christopher Merrill - poet, journalist, and director of the International Writing Center at The University of Iowa - discusses his crucial book Only The Nails Remain: Scenes From The Balkan War.
  • Katrine Marie Guldager, on the phone from Copenhagen, reads from her book of prose poems Crash,and speaks about writing in Denmark.
  • Complete Recording (59:54): MP3

  Episode #40: The Contemporary Logos, 2004

  Fanny Howe, on the phone from Martha's Vineyard, returns to CCP to discuss her new book The Wedding Dress: Meditations On Word and Life (University of California Press) and the theology of language therein explored.

  1. Introduction (0:59): MP3
  2. How motherhood informs writing (3:16): MP3
  3. Commenting on selected passages from “Fairies” (1:56): MP3
  4. Commenting on “Bewilderment” (1:43): MP3
  5. Payer, meditation, and conversation in The Wedding Dress (2:17): MP3
  6. Discussing essay “White Lines” (3:52): MP3
  7. Reading excerpt from “White Lines” (4:09): MP3
  8. Listening as dimension of writing (1:05): MP3
  9. Howe's view of gnostic perspective (3:07): MP3
  10. Discussing Samuel Beckett's theology (2:47): MP3
  11. Perspective of women as mothers and authors (1:11): MP3
  12. Current work (1:28): MP3

  Martine Bellen reads from her new book of poems The Vulnerability of Order (Copper Canyon). She discusses questions of how poetry can open up what religion houses.

  Complete Recording (58:50): MP3

  Episode #41: How We Move, 2004

  • Poet C.S. Giscombe reads his book-length poem Inland(Leroy Books), and discusses the prairie, the train, the fox, and African-American resonances.
  • C.D. Wright discusses her two most recent books, Deep Step Shining and One Big Self, and her visions on the road and writing about prisons.
  • Complete Recording (1:00:23): MP3

  Episode #42: Radio Imagination, 2004

  • Paul Vangelisti, from L.A., reads from his book: The Embarrassment of Survival, and discusses both translation from Italian and his distinguished work in the medium of radio.
  • Complete Recording (59:33): MP3

  Episode #43: Sounding The Poem, Softwaring The Poem, September 1, 2004

  • John Taggart reads from his remarkable book: When The Saints, and discusses the relationships between music and language in his writing.
  • Andrew Klobucar, from Vancouver, discusses his research on The Language Tool Box for the computer, and reads compositions coming out of this procedure.
  • Complete Recording (1:00:06): MP3

  Episode #44: Capacity/Incapacity/Opacity, September 1, 2004

  • A.L. Nielsen reads from Vext and discusses American poetry and its sometime complicity in the destructive logic of race.
  • Jeanne Heuving - poet and professor at The University of Washington - reads from her latest book of poems, Incapacity.
  • Complete Recording (59:27): MP3

  Episode #45: Would Words What? 2004

  • The Australian poet and performance artist Chris Mann makes words form and unform, interrupt and volcano.
  • Leonard Schwartz reads several sections from his The New Babel.
  • Judith Roche, poet and literary director of Bumbershoot Arts Festival, reads a poem deeply grounded in her experience of the New College in San Francisco during one of American poetry's richest moments.
  • Complete Recording (1:00:18): MP3

  Episode #46: Arts and Letters, 2004

  • Edmund White, distinguished novelist, discusses his book of essays from Cleis Press Arts and Letters.
  • Poem Collage, by Balan Villeneuva.
  • Complete Recording (1:00:24): MP3

  Episode #47: The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, 2004

  • Albert Gelpi, Stanford Professor Emeritus and co-editor of The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, discusses this important book.
  • Complete Recording (59:12): MP3

  Episode #48: Some Angels, 2004

  • Nigerian poet Chris Abani, now based in L.A., reads from his most recent work, Dog Woman (Red Hen Press).
  • Dennis Phillips, L.A. poet, reads from his key work Sand, published by Sun and Moon/Green Integer.
    
  • Complete Reading (1:00:40): MP3

  Episode #49: Presence, 2004

  • Matthew Stadler, novelist, critic, and editor of Clear Cut Press, discusses the near-at-hand in the pacific Northwest, and reads from his new work, "The City of Wool," a part of the Amsterdam 2.0 project.
  • Complete Recording (48:52): MP3

  Episode #50: What Dialogue Does, 2004

  • Margaret O'Bank, editor of Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature, on the phone from London, talks about her unique magazine.
  • Paul Hoover reads from Rehearsal in Black, the latest book by this important poet, in its conversation with Wallace Stevens, Language Poetry, and more.
  • Complete Recording (56:22): MP3

  Episode #51: With Vietnam, 2004

  Linh Dinh - fiction writer, poet, and translator - reads and discusses his books Blood And Soap, Three Vietnamese Poets, and All Around What Empties Out.

  1. Introduction (0:43): MP3
  2. On nature of language; comments on “Prisoner with a Dictionary,” from Blood and Soap (1:40): MP3
  3. “Prisoner with a Dictionary” (7:39): MP3
  4. Associations with the word “dictionary” and learning English (4:02): MP3
  5. “Key Words” from Blood and Soap (2:23): MP3
  6. On culture of ‘vigilant neighbors' (1:05): MP3
  7. Discussing Three Vietnamese Poets (2:02): MP3
  8. “Seven Untitled Poems,” and context (4:04): MP3
  9. Discussing second poet from Three Vietnamese Poets (0:58): MP3
  10. “Night's Dawn” (1:27): MP3
  11. Discussing third poet (1:49): MP3
  12. “The Rivers Have Not Only Me” (1:00): MP3
  13. Translation of poetry in America (1:39): MP3
  14. “Letter to my Dad,” from All Around What Empties Out (1:11): MP3
  15. Juxtaposition of masochistic humor and tragic sensibility (2:54): MP3
  16. “Traditional Vietnamese Architecture” (1:54): MP3
  17. "Old Hanoi” (0:58): MP3
  18. Political atmosphere in Saigon (2:50): MP3
  19. “Stewart Crenshaw” (13:46): MP3
  20. Conclusion (1:21): MP3

  Complete Recording (56:42): MP3

  Episode #52: From The Sound of It, 2004

  • Peter Quartermain - professor, critic, and author of Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe - discusses his important book over the phone from Vancouver, British Columbia. (29:47): MP3
  • Poet Nada Gordon, on the phone from New York, reads from Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker Than Night-Swollen Mushrooms? (Spuyten Duyvil)
  • Complete Recording (29:54): MP3

  Episode #53: Simmons College Chinese Poetry Conference, 2004

  • Taped at Simmons College
  • Afaa Weaver, director of the conference and Professor of English at Simmons College, introduces the conference, discusses his relationship to poetry in China, reads from his book Multitudes, and analyzes the nexus between African-American, working-class American, and Chinese poetics.(22:34): MP3
  • Chinese poet Yu Jian reads from his own work, translated by Ron Padgett. (3:05): MP3
  • Wang Ping - author of numerous books, including The Magic Whip (Coffee House Press), and Zhang Er, author most recently of Verses on Bird (Zephyr Press), discuss their recent work. (20:52): MP3
  • Frank Stewart, editor of Manoa, based at The University of Hawaii in Oahu, discusses the most recent issue of his journal - devoted to new writing from Cambodia.(11:05): MP3 (10MB)

  Episode #54: Poem and Puzzle, 2004

  • San Francisco based poet Maxine Chernoff reads from her books World: Poems 1991-2001 and Evolution of the Bridge: Selected Prose Poems. (26:45): MP3
  • Vancouver, Canada poet Rita Wong reads from Monkey Puzzle and muses on the role of the poet in the face of Bush's reelection. (31:00): MP3

  Episode #55: Monsters, 2004

  • Edward Foster reads from All Acts Are Simply Acts and reflects on the exchange between Russian and American poets over the last ten years. (28:48): MP3
  • Washington D.C.-based poet Mark Wallace reads from his book The Haze, and discusses the rhetoric of fear emanating from the nation's capitol. (31:21): MP3

  Episode #56: Poetry and Engagement, 2004

  • Sholeh Wolpe reads from her new book of poems The Scar Saloon, and discusses Iranian-American culture and issues. (28:15): MP3
  • Stacy Doris reads from her book of poems Conference (Potes and Poets Press), as well as her translation work on the French poet Christophe Tarkos (1964-2004). (30:48): MP3

  Episode #57: Mythscape, 2004

  • Robin Blaser, from Vancouver, returns to Cross Cultural Poetics to read from his great The Holy Forest, and explore the mythopoetic imagination of the West Coast. (29:59): MP3
  • Joseph Donahue returns to Cross Cultural Poetics to read from his ongoing series Terra Lucida, which explores the landscape in search of spiritual bodies. (28:02): MP3

  Episode #58: History/Language/Silence, 2004

  • Leading novelist Russell Banks discusses his latest novel, The Darling, set in Liberia, and discusses Liberia as a searing chapter in American history — that piece of Africa in effect being our colony. (30:48): MP3
  • Charles Borkhuis reads from his latest book of poems, Savoir-Fear (Spuyten Duyvil), and demonstrates how film noir and German philosophy tango. (28:16): MP3

  Episode #59: Palimpsest and Retrieval, 2004

  • Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, poet and translator, discusses his new biography of e.e. cummings. (28:31): MP3
  • Richard Sieburth, leading translator from both German and French, discusses and reads from his new translation of Georg Buchner's Lenz (Archipelago Books). (29:32): MP3

  Episode #60: Doing Things With Words, Doing Words With Things, 2004

  Rodrigo Toscano returns to Cross Cultural Poetics to read, in studio, from his latest book, To Leveling Swerve (Krupskaya).

  1. Introduction (1:00): MP3
  2. "Twelve Riddles in Spirit, Crook in Hand" (6:44): MP3
  3. Types of vocabulary in "Twelve Riddles" (2:58): MP3
  4. "Memories of Somewhere to Somewhere Else" (8:56): MP3
  5. Relationship between Spanish and English in Toscano's work (4:01): MP3
  6. Poetry as liberation from control (0:57): MP3
  7. "Subject Line, Subscribe, Society," from To Leveling Swerve (5:07): MP3

  Complete Recording (29:43): MP3

  Irish poet John O'Leary reads from his latest book, Salt.

  Complete Recording (27:30): MP3

  Episode #61: Echo and Alphabet, 2004

  • Libyan-American poet Khaled Mattawa, reads from his latest book Zodiac of Echoes (Ausable Press), as well as his two new books of translation from Arabic: Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef's Without An Alphabet, Without A Face (Graywolf Press), and Iraqi poet Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Miracle Maker (Boa Editions).
  • Complete Recording (57:22): MP3

  Episode #62: Takeover, 2004

  • Irish poet Trevor Joyce, on the phone from Cork, Ireland, reads from and discusses his book Takeover And Undonesay. (44:40): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads selections from his book The Tower of Diverse Shores (Talisman House). (12:33): MP3

  2005

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  Episode #63: In This Language, 2005

  • Russian-language Uzbek poet Sabit Madaliev discusses Sufi poetics.
  • Complete Recording (30:21): MP3
  • Marta Lopez-Luaces, Spanish poet and editor of Galerna, a Spanish language literary journal publishing work from all over the Spanish-speaking world, discusses her recent work. (13:40): MP3
  • Albert Mobilio - poet, critic, and editor of Book Forum - reads from his book The Geographics and discusses Book Forum. (16:06): MP3 (15MB)

  Episode #64: Language Falls Apart, 2005

  • Chinua Achebe, award-winning Nigerian novelist and poet, reads from his Collected Poems (Anchor) (29:42): MP3
  • Steve McCaffery, sound poet, Gray Chair of Poetics at SUNY Buffalo, and co-editor of Imagining Language (MIT University Press), discusses his important anthology. (29:15): MP3

  Episode #65: Richard the II, 2005

  • Richard Sieburth, translator extraordinaire, discusses the Library of America Ezra Pound, which he has edited. (29:10): MP3
  • Richard Foreman discusses his latest and possibly last play, The Gods Are Pounding My Head. (28:16): MP3

  Episode #66: Europa, 2005

  • Peter Wortsman discusses his translation of the Austrian writer Peter Altenberg's it - t = i. (28:02): MP3
  Alexander Deriev, Russian icon painter and editor of Ars Interpres, based in Stockholm, discusses his important journal. (30:50): MP3

  Episode #67: Evolution & Other Mines, 2005

  • Nicole Walker, poet and poetry editor of Quarterly West, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, reads her "The Unlikely Origin of the Species". (30:52): MP3
  • Stephen Collis, Vancouver poet, reads from and discusses his book Mine (New Star), which explores the vocabulary of geology and industry associated with the coal mines of Vancouver Island, BC. (28:31): MP3

  Episode #68: North American Transit, 2005

  • Rodrigo Toscano, frequent CCP guest, reads from his latest work in a live format. (29:09): MP3
  Joshua Beckman, poet and translator, reads from his book of poems Your Time Has Come (Verse Press) and his translations of Tomaz Salamun in Poker (Ugly Duckling Presse). (29:19): MP3

  Episode #69: Against Narrative, 2005

  • Thalia Field discusses her latest book Incarnate: Story Material (New Directions)(27:53): MP3
  • Steven Hendricks, writer and Evergreen professor, reads from his work in progress, Fin. (30:26): MP3

  Episode #70: The Power of A Name, 2005

  • Asra Nomani, journalist, discusses her book Standing Alone in Mecca : An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam (Harper's San Francisco). (43:37): MP3
  • Lilah Hegnauer reads from her first book of poems Dark Under Kiganda Stars (Ausable Press). (15:03): MP3

  Episode #71: Speech Halo, 2005

  • Gillian Conoley, poet, reads from and discusses her latest book, Profane Halo (Verse Press). (27:29): MP3
  • Laura Elrick, poet, reads from her new book, Skincerity, published by Krupskaya. (29:19): MP3

  Episode #72: What Survives, 2005

  • W.S. Merwin reads from and discusses his translations of the French poet Jean Follain, as gathered in Transparence of the World: Selected Poems of Jean Follain (Copper Canyon Press). (42:01): MP3
  Zhang Er reads her poems from Verses on Bird (Zephyr Press), and reflects on all that disappeared when the Yangtze was flooded. (17:03): MP3 (16MB)

  Episode #73: Siege, 2005

  • Stela Tomasevic, translator and interpreter at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Former  Yugoslavia, discusses and reads from her translation of the Bosnian writer Miljenko Jergovic's Sarajevo Marlboro, a collection of stories that emerged from the crucible of Sarajevo's siege (Archipelago Books).(29:20): MP3
  • Israeli poet Aharon Shabtai, on the phone from Tel Aviv, reads his latest poems, poised on the edge of the occupation. (30:33): MP3

  Episode #74: Face to Face, 2005

  • Monica de la Torre, poet, and translator, discusses the anthology of Mexican poetry she has co-edited, Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon Press). (29:54): MP3
  • Michael Davidson, poet and literary scholar, reads from his collection of poems Arcades and discusses the cultural landscape of Southern California. (29:20): MP3

  Episode #75: Out of Authorship, 2005

  • Martine Bellen reads from her new book Malka's Secret Delivery (gong), and talks about the poetics of the internet. (29:00): MP3
  • British poet Martin Corless-Smith reads from his latest work, Swallows, and talks about the Pre-Socratics, Thomas Swann, and the primacy of feeling.(3:02): MP3

  Episode #76: Poetry and the Language of Religion, 2005

  • Award-winning poet Elizabeth Robinson reads from her books Pure Descent (Apogee Press) and Apprehend (Fence). (29:04): MP3
  • Peter O'Leary, on the phone from Chicago, reads from his book Watchfulness (Spuyten Dutyvil), and discusses the double legacy of religious language. (28:18): MP3

  Episode #77: Four Across, 2005

  • Translator Richard Zenith reads and discusses his translations of the poetry of the Brazilian writer Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, as gathered in Education by Stone (Archipelago Books). (14:30): MP3
  • Genya Turovskaya, Russian-American poet and translator discusses her "Five Winters to Vladivostok". (13:56): MP3
  • Andrew Zawacki, on the phone from Paris, discusses his latest collection of poetry, Anabranch. (17:27): MP3 (17MB)
  • Evie Shockley reads her poem "Waiting on the Mayflower" and discusses the relationship between poetry and history in her thought and the African-American tradition.(13:40): MP3

  Show #78: Translator, 2005

  • Paul Vangelisti, from L.A,  reads from and discusses his translations of two writers: the Italian poet Amelia Rosselli in War Variations (Green Integer Press) and the Algerian writer Mohammed Dib in L.A. Trip: A Novel in Verse (Green Integer).
  • Complete Recording (51:19): MP3

  Episode #79: Publisher, 2005

  • Dan Simon, publisher of Seven Stories Press, discusses the thinking that goes into his important books by authors ranging from Noam Chomsky to Linh Dinh.
  • (28:40)Part One, (26:32)Part Two

  Episode #80: Three Trapped Tigers/Red Gaze, 2005

  • Suzanne Jill Levine, leading translator from the Spanish, reads from and discusses her translation of the Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante's classic Three Trapped Tigers (Dalkey Archive Press). part one (27:03), part two (15:04)
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from Barbara Guest's latest book, The Red Gaze. (12:41): MP3

  Episode #81: A Matter Not Of Order, 2005

  • Tibetan-American poet Tsering Dhompa reads from and discusses her book In the absent everyday (Apogee Press). (29:16): MP3
  • Bruce Benderson, fiction writer, memoirist, and translator, author of Towards The New Degeneracy and User, reads from and discusses his latest book, the nonfiction The Romanian. (28:26): MP3

  Show #82: Late Night Romp, Afternoon of a Faun, 2005

  • Sudeep Sen, leading Indian poet, on the phone from New Dehli, stays up late: it is raining hard. (30:05): MP3
  • Henry Weinfeld reads from his translations of Mallarmé in Collected Poems of Stefan Mallarmé (U of California Press), as well as from his own The Tears Of The Muses. (30:53): MP3 (28MB)

  Episode #83: Shadowtime, 2005

  • Charles Bernstein reads from his book Shadowtime (Green Integer), which is also the libretto for an opera CB has collaborated on with the composer Brian Ferneyhough. gpart one (28:02), part two (30:07)

  Episode #84: Translating The Unspeakable, 2005

  • Kathleen Fraser, poet and thinker, reads from and discusses her book translating the unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity (U of Alabama Press). part one (26:48), part two (28:39)

  Episode #85: Radio From The Mountain, 2005

  • Christopher Merrill, poet and writer, reads from his latest book Things of The Hidden God  (Random House) - the record of a pilgrimage to Mount Athos. (27:45): MP3
  • Forrest Gander, poet, reads from his co-translations of the great Bolivian poet Jaime Saenz, as collected in Immanent Visitor  (U of California Press) and discusses his experiences high up in Saenz's native La Paz. (28:26): MP3

  Episode #86: The Middle World, 2005

  • Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer and seeker of "The Middle World", discusses his essay of that name, and his latest book of poems Lady One: Of Love And Other Poems (Harcourt). part one (28:49), part two (30:05)

  Episode #87: Two From San Francisco, 2005

  • Maxine Chernoff  reads from and talks about Among The Names (Apogee Press). (26:39): MP3
  Michael Palmer reads from and discusses his new book Company Of Moths (New Directions). (31:05): MP3

  Episode #88: The Takeover, 2005

  • Leonard Schwartz, interviewed by guest host Maged Zaher, talks about and reads from his new book, Ear And Ethos (Talisman House). (44:48): MP3

  Episode #89: Echoes, 2005

  • Ray Gonzales reads from and discusses his book The Religion of Hands: Prose Poems and Flash Fictions. (29:04): MP3
  • Yunte Huang reads from and discusses his new book, Cribs (Tinfish Press). (29:17): MP3

  Episode #90: Ten To One, 2005

  • Bob Perelman reads from and discusses his book, Ten To One: Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press). (59:04): MP3

  Episode #91: Intersections, 2005

  • Edwin Frank, editor of the New York Review of Books Classics Series, talks about his publishing vision. (15:12): MP3
  • Margaret Obank, editor of Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature, published in London in English translation, discusses her latest issue. (15:44): MP3
  • Maged Zaher, Egyptian poet, in studio, reads from his latest work, as well as his translation of fellow Egyptian poet Ahmed Taha. (28:04): MP3

  Episode #92: Sleeping With The Dictionary, 2005

  • Harryette Mullen reads from and discusses her amazing book, Sleeping with The Dictionary (University of California Press)
  1. On "Sleeping with the Dictionary" (4:32): MP3
  2. On language and power (2:40): MP3
  3. All She Wrote (2:11): MP3
  4. On prose poems (2:09): MP3
  5. European Folktale Variant (2:46): MP3
  6. On Tone Cade Bambara (2:17): MP3
  7. Sleeping with the Dictionary (poem) (2:05): MP3
  8. On dictionaries (2:58): MP3
  9. On Oulipo (2:19): MP3
  10. On Newlipo conference (3:25): MP3
  11. On "Jingle Jangle" (3:27): MP3
  12. Jingle Jangle (11:33): MP3
  13. On lists (3:49): MP3
  14. On normative English (2:20): MP3
  15. Dim Lady (1:17): MP3
  16. On detritus (5:02): MP3
  17. On new work (4:32): MP3
  • Complete Recording (59:23): MP3

  Episode #93: Listening Hard, 2005

  • Robert Kelly reads from and discusses his latest book, Lapis:Poems (Black Sparrow/David Godine).
  • Complete Recording (30:08): MP3
  • Norman Weinstein reads from and discusses his new book of prose poems, No Wrong Notes (Meeting Bindery Press/Spuyten Duyvil). (29:29): MP3

  Episode #94: Namsetoura, 2005

  • Kamau Brathwaite, on the phone from Kingston, Jamaica, returns to CCP to read from his new book Born To Slow Horses and to discuss the situation of Cowpastor, a piece of land in Barbados on which a slave burial ground is in danger of being desecrated.
  • Complete Recording (59:43): MP3 (55MB)

  Episode #95: New Time/The Long Moment, 2005

  • Leslie Scalapino discusses her book New Time (Wesleyan University Press). (28:52): MP3
  • Kate Fagan, on the phone from Sydney, Australia, discusses her book, The Long Moment (Salt). (30:58): MP3

  2006

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  Episode #96: Shock Worker, January 8, 2006

  • Edwin Torres, poet and performance artist, reads from his The All Union Day Of The Shock Worker.
  • Complete Reading (54:51): MP3 (50MB)

  Episode #97: From Arizona, January 15, 2006

  • Sheila Murphy reads from her latest book, Incessant Seeds (Pavement Saw Press). (28:04): MP3
  Charles Alexander, poet and publisher of Chax Press, reads from his latest book Near or Random Acts (Singing Horse Press). (28:46): MP3

  Episode #98: Macular Hole and Other Oralities, January 22, 2006

  • Cathy Wagner, author of Macular Hole (Fence Books), reads from this controversial work. (29:13): MP3
  • Bob Holman, on the phone from The Bowery Poetry Club, reads from his poems inspired by the West African griot Papa Susso, and discusses an oral poetics. (29:15): MP3

  Episode #99:  Red Actions, 2006

  • Robert Kelly, poet, reads from and discusses his Red Actions: Selected Poems (Black Sparrow).
  • Complete Recording (58:30): MP3

  Episode #100: How Remember, 2006

  • Kristen Prevallet reads from her most recent poetry and discusses her ideas concerning Investigative Poetics. (26:51): MP3
  • Lydia Davis, author of numerous books of fiction and translator of Proust and Blanchot. (28:08): MP3

  Episode #101: Mr. Holman tells all, 2006

  • Bob Holman does just that, in these poems and this conversation.
  • Complete Recording (54:48): MP3

  Episode #102: These Archipelagos, February 26, 2006

  • Jill Schoolman, publisher of Archipelago Books, discusses her vision of publishing.
  • Jill Schoolman (14:32): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from Rene Crevel's My Body and I (Archipelago Books).
  • Complete Recording (17:59): MP3
  • Cathy Wagner reads from her latest manuscript.
  1. introduction (0:23): MP3
  2. about the title and procedures behind "Everyone in the Room is a Representative of the World at Large" (2:33): MP3
  3. reading "Everyone in the Room is a Representative of the World at Large: The Siamese Sextuplets" (1:06): MP3
  4. the figure of the Siamese sextuplet and having a child (2:51): MP3
  5. reading "Everyone in the Room is a Representative of the World at Large: I was flying a mountain into a sunny path" (0:51): MP3
  6. the many-worded title as a prompt (0:51): MP3
  7. the way in which language moves in these poems and the interaction between outside and inside (1:51): MP3
  8. reading "Everyone in the Room is a Representative of the World at Large: There is a formula for success and interaction" (2:48): MP3
  9. what happens when you write in a crowd and how people interact (2:13): MP3
  10. reading "Everyone in the Room is a Representative of the World at large: Your servant and oppressor, son" (1:46): MP3
  11. playing with the readers' expectations and reconfirming analogies that cut against the grain (3:48): MP3
  12. reading "Everyone in the Room is a Representative of the World at Large: Will you trust me with the child" (1:04): MP3
  13. the anger becoming a mother invokes in one's own body (1:58): MP3
  • Complete Recording (24:17): MP3

  Episode #103: Theories of Sound, March 5, 2006

  • Peter Green, translator, reads from his new book The Poems Of Catallus: A Bilingual Translation (U of California). (29:09): MP3
  • Edwin Torres, poet and performance artist, reads some of his recent sound poetry. (29:10): MP3

  Episode #104: Zomboid and Monk, March 12, 2006

  • Richard Foreman discusses his latest performance piece, Zomboid (Performance Piece #1).
  • MP3
  • Geraldine Monk, British poet, reads from her most recent work. (24:40): MP3

  Episode #105: Aygi, April 16, 2006

  • Peter France reads his translations of the late, great Chuvash/Russian Poet Gennady Aygi, and discusses the work in both Child-and-Rose (New Directions) and Salute to Singing (Zephyr Press). (36:00): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads Aygi's "Sleep-and-Poetry" from Child-And-Rose (New Directions). (23:10): MP3

  Episode #106: Acts of Moral Memory, April 30, 2006

  • Elias Khoury, Lebanese novelist and essayist, reads from and discusses his novel Gate Of The Sun (Archipelago Books), the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. (30:57): MP3
  • Cynthia Hogue, poet, reads from and discusses her new book >The Incognito Body (Red Hen Press), a reflection on the body in pain. (26:11): MP3

  Episode #107 Russian/American Poetics, May 7, 2006

  • Genya Turovskaya reads from her own work as well as her translations of the Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko.
  • Complete Recording (51:03): MP3

  Episode #108: Two European Poets, June 4, 2006

  Aleksandr Skidan, on the phone from St. Petersburg, reads his latest poems and discusses the situation of poetry in Russia. (24:39): MP3
  • Alan Halsey reads from his Selected Poems and discusses the modalities of British poetry. (28:41): MP3

  Episode #109: I Love Artists, July 11, 2006

  • Mei-mei Berssenbrugge reads from and discusses her latest book, I Love Artists (University of California Press).
  • Complete Recording (39:36): MP3 (36MB)
  • Nina Shorina, Russian filmmaker and animator, discusses her aesthetic. (19:17): MP3

  Episode #110: Keys to the City, July 9, 2006

  • Steven Clay, publisher of Granary Books, talks about the way he goes about making his extraordinary books. (26:41): MP3 (24MB)
  • Anselm Berrigan, poet, discusses his new book Notes On My Programming (Edge Books), as well as his work as the Director of the St. Marks Poetry Project in NYC. (30:24): MP3

  Episode #111: The Age Of Wire And String, August 13, 2006

  • Ben Marcus, prose master, discusses his book The Age Of Wire And String (Dalkey Archive Press).
    
  • Complete Recording (55:46): MP3

  Episode #112: Empire, September 21, 2006

  • Philosopher Michael Hardt, on the phone from Venice, Italy, discusses the collaborative nature of his philosophical and political writing with Antonio Negri in their two books together, Empire (Harvard University Press) and Multitude (Penguin).
  • Complete Recording (53:58): MP3

  Episode #113: Splay Anthem, October 1, 2006

  • Nathaniel Mackey reads from and discusses his new book of poems, Splay Anthem (New Directions).
  • Complete Recording (56:03): MP3

  Episode #114: After Narrative, October 8, 2006

  • Alice Nelson, Evergreen faculty member and literary theorist, discusses her recent book, Political Bodies: Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power in Recent Chilean Literature (Bucknell University Press). (29:45): MP3
  • Mary Burger reads from and discusses her metafictional work Sonny. (33:44): MP3

  Episode #115: Around the Country, October 22, 2006

  • Eleni Sikelianos, in Boulder, Co, reads a new poem, still in manuscript. (16:05): MP3
  • Richard Wiley discusses the City of Asylum program, as well as the other activities of the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV, in Las Vegas. (15:46): MP3
  • Brian Henry, in Richmond, Virginia, reads from his book Quarantine (Ahsahta Press). (13:20): MP3

  Episode #116: Ars Interpres, October 29, 2006

  • Ars Interpres is a literary journal published in English in Stockholm and edited by the Russian artist Alexander Deriev; it is a meeting ground for Eastern European, Scandinavian, and English language poetry. Voices from the recent Ars Interpres Festival in Stockholm:
  • Hakkan Sandell, Swedish poet based in Oslo, Norway. (23:18): MP3
  • Giannini Braschi, Puerto Rican writer reading from her Empire Of Dreams. (5:26): MP3
  • Augustus Young, Irish poet based in France, reading his translation of Mayakovsky’s Cloud in Pants.Forms of Violence (28:47): MP3
  • Regina Derieva, Russian poet based in Stockholm. (3:49): MP3

  Episode #117: Alma, The Dead Woman, and The Flowers of Evil, September 24, 2006

  • Alice Notley reads from her new book Alma, Or The Dead Woman (Granary Books)
  • Audio: program not available
  • Keith Waldrop’s new translation of Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers Of Evil (Wesleyan University Press), read by Leonard Schwartz.
  • Audio: program not available

  Episode #118: Forms of Violence, November 9, 2006

  • Etel Adnan, on the phone from Paris, France, reads from her book In the Heart of A Heart Of Another Country (City Lights), and meditates on her mother city of Beirut and American violence, inner and outer.      (19:25): MP3
  • Brian Evenson reads from his translation of Claro’s novel Electric Flesh (Soft Skull Press)  as well as from his new novel, The Open Curtain. (40:34): MP3

  Episode #119: New York, New Zealand, Japan, O'Hara, November 11, 2006

  • Lytle Shaw discusses his new critical book Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie (Iowa University Press).
  • Lytle Shaw (29:37): MP3 (27MB)
  • Murray Edmond, on the phone from Auckland, New Zealand, reads from and discusses his new book on Noh Theater, Noh Business (Atelos Books). (29:58): MP3

  Episode #120: Poetry, November 26, 2006

  • Elizabeth Robinson reads from and discusses her latest two books, Apostrophe and Under That Silky Roof. (31:30): MP3
  • Burton Raffel, Professor Emeritus, discusses and reads from his new translation of the German epic Das Nibelungenlied (Yale University Press). (31:01): MP3

  Episode #121: Integral Music, November 19, 2006

  • James Thomas Stevens reads in Mohawk as well as in English and discusses his books Bulle/Chimere, Tokenish (First Intensity Press) and Mohawk/Samoa Transmigrations (SubPress). (30:27): MP3
  • A.L. Nielsen discusses his anthology Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans, co-edited with Lauri Ramey (The University of Alabama). (31:19): MP3

  Episode #122: Andre Breton and other Marvels, December 2, 2006

  • Mark Polizotti, translator and editor of Andre Breton: Selected Poems (University of California Press) discusses Breton's poetry and translation history, as well as his own work at The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
    
  • Complete Recording (61:34): MP3 (56MB)
    
    

  Episode #123: Correspondences, December 10, 2006

  • Karen Emmerich, translator from the Greek, reads from her new book of translations: Poems of Miltos Sachtouris (Archipelago Books). (28:24): MP3
  • Virginie Poitrasson, on the phone from Paris, reads from some of her latest projects in both French and English. (31:38): MP3

  2007

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  Episode #124: Civilization, January 7, 2007

  • Elizabeth Arnold reads from her new book, Civilization (Flood Editions). (44:20): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from Armand Schwerner's Cantos from Dante's Inferno (Talisman House). (15:55): MP3

  Episode #125: Unnatural Wonders, January 14, 2007

  • Philosopher and art critic Arthur Danto discusses his latest collection of essays on art, Unnatural Wonders (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
  • Complete Recording (60:27): MP3

  Episode #125: Stray Dog Cabaret, January 21, 2007

  • Edwin Frank, poet and editor of The New York Review of Books Classics Series, discusses his poetry/photography collaboration in The Further Adventures of Pinocchio, as well as NYRB's new title, The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems (26:01): MP3
  • Honor Moore discusses Paul Schmidt, translator extraordinaire of The Stray Dog Cabaret, reads from Schmidt's translation of Marina Tsvetaeva's "Poem of The End", in The Stray Dog Cabaret...as well as her own poem, "Darling", dedicated to Schmidt. (29:42): MP3

  Episode #127: Academy of American Poets / Star Dust, January 28, 2007

  • Tree Swenson, Director of The Academy of American Poets, discusses the work of that insitution. (31:47): MP3
  • Frank Bidart, Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets, discusses his latest book, Star Dust (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux). (31:50): MP3

  #128: Pennyweight Window, February 4, 2007

  • Donald Revell reads from and discusses his Pennyweight Window: New and Selected Poems (Alice James Books).
  • Complete Recording (1:00:00): MP3

  Episode #129: Fantasies in Permeable Structure, February 11, 1007

  • Laura Elrick reads from and discusses her most recent book, Fantasies in Permeable Structure.
  • Complete Recording (60:45): MP3

  Episode #130 Workable Marvels, February 18, 2007

  • Thomas Meyer, on the phone from North Carolina, reads from his translation of the daode jing (flood editions) and his own book of poetry Coromandel (Skanky Possum Press).
  • Complete Recording (58:19): MP3

  Episode #131: Jubilant Thicket, February 25, 2007

  • Jonathan Williams reads from his Jubilant Thicket: Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press), and discusses Guy Davenport, Basil Bunting, and Robert Duncan, among others. (53:21): MP3
  Leonard Schwartz reads from Stephen Jonas' Selected Poems (Talisman House).
  • Schwartz reads Jonas (6:40): MP3

  #132 New Directions, March 4, 2007

  • Portland-based poet Kaia Sand reads from her most recent work. (44:56): MP3
  • Declan Spring, senior editor at New Directions, talks about Can Xue and other authors he works with at ND. (15:43): MP3

  Episode #133: The Holy Forest, 2007

  • Robin Blaser reads from the new University of California Edition of The Holy Forest, as well as some of his most recent poems. (45:03): MP3

  Episode #134: Love As Such, March 18, 2007

  • Philosopher Michael Hardt, with Antonio Negri the author of Multitude, discusses love as a political concept in that book and in his more recent thinking. (43:42):MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads a recent poem of his own entitled "Early". (3:19): MP3
  • Tunisian poet Lamia Makaddam, on the phone from The Hague, reads her poems in the original Arabic, with the English translations, as published in Banipal, directly following. (10:24): MP3

  Episode #135: Essential Work, March 25, 2007

  • Leading Martin Buber scholar Paul Mendes-Flohr discusses Buber's A Land Of Two Peoples (University Of Chicago Press), a collection of Buber's political writings he has introduced and edited.
  • Paul Mendes-Flohr (28:12): MP3
  • Leading Romanian poet Carmen Firan reads from her own poems, as well as from the anthology of Romanian poetry in translation she has co-edited, Born In Utopia: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Romanian Poetry in translation.(Talisman House).
  • Carmen Firan (27:12): MP3

  Episode #136 Poetry of Emergency, April, 8, 2007

  • Mark Wallace, poet, reads from recent work, including Notes from the Center of Public Policy. (46:59): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from Andrew Joron's The Emergency of Poetry. (16:47): MP3

  Episode #137 Girly Man/Wake Up Mr. Sleepy! 2007

  • Charles Bernstein reads from and discusses his book, Girly Man (University of Chicago Press). (32:20): MP3
  • Richard Foreman discusses his most recent work for stage and film, "Wake Up Mr. Sleepy! Your Unconscious Mind Is Dead!". (29:03): MP3

  Episode #138 In Translation: Japan/Turkey, April 22, 2007

  • Sawako Nakayasu reads from her own poetry as well as translations from Four From Japan: Contemporary Poetry and Essays by Women (Belladonna* Books/Litmus Books), which she also edited. (29:04): MP3
  • Murat Nemet-Nejat reads from and discusses his anthology of contemporary Turkish poetry Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry (Talisman House). (31:39): MP3

  Episode #139: Three Poets, May 13, 2007

  • Glenn Mott reads from his book Analects On A Chinese Screen, published by Chax Press. (19:13): MP3
  • Arthur Sze reads from his book MP3
  • Charles Alexander reads from his book Certain Slants, published by Junction Press. (18:55): MP3

  Episode #140: The Wind And The Source, May 6, 2007

  • Allen Weiss discusses his book The Wind and the Source: In The Shadow of Mont Ventoux (State University of NY Press). Why does the mountain disappear in the poetry of Petrarch, Mistral, Char and Sobin? (50:02): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from the poetry of Gustaf Sobin. (8:01): MP3

  Episode #141: Challenge, May 19, 2007

  • Amiri Baraka reads from recent work and discusses the politics of language. (34:41): MP3
  • Rachel Zolf reads from Human Resources, published by Coach House Press, and discusses what happens to language when words are wasted, as in the commodity culture that encircles us. (30:12): MP3

  Episode #142: Involutia, June 3, 2007

  • Deborah Meadows reads from her books Involutia (Shearsmen Books) and The Draped Universe (Belladonna* Books).
  • Complete Recording (41:25): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from his Apple Anyone Sonnets. (16:26): MP3

  Episode #143: Sound, System, Performance, June 10, 2007

  • Susanne Neid reads from and discusses her translation of the great Danish poet Inger Christenson's poem It, published by New Directions. (28:41): MP3
  • Caroline Bergvall reads from Cropper and Figs, and discusses the relationships between performance, silent reading, and the multilingual. (29:18): MP3

  Episode #144: Readings and Nasrin, June 17, 2007

  • Leonard Schwartz reads from Words Before the Articulate (Talisman House).
  • Mary Manning (the poet Fanny Howe's mother) reads from The Wake.
  • Charles Alexander reads from Certain Slants. (20:43): MP3
  • Carolyne L. Wright discusses the Bangladeshi poet Taslima Nasrin, and reads from her translations of Nasrin's poems in The Game In Reverse(George Braziller). (29:34): MP3

  Episode #145: The Long Poem, April 1, 2007

  • Edwin Frank reads and discusses Stack,his chapbook from UDP. (27:10): MP3
  • Andrew Zawacki reads Georgia, a poem for his new home. (30:15): MP3

  Episode #146: Litmus Press, September 30, 2007

  • Publisher/editor Tracy Grinnell talks about her Litmus Press, both its books and its journal, Aufgabe. (14:16): MP3
  • Stacy Szymaszek reads from Emptied of all Ships (Litmus Press). (13:29): MP3
  • Brenda Iijima reads from Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press). (27:18): MP3

  Episode #147: The Night, October 7, 2007

  • Forrest Gander reads and discusses his new translation of Bolivian poet Jaime Saenz's book The Night (Princeton University Press). (38:12): MP3

  Episode #148: Outernationale, October 14, 2007

  • Erica Wright, poetry editor for Guernica, discusses that online journal. (13:39): MP3
  Peter Gizzi reads from and discusses his new book of poems The Outernationale. (29:55): MP3

  Episode #149: Compost and Silence, October 21, 2007

  • Literary theorist Jed Rasula discusses his book T his Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry(University of Georgia Press).
  • Jed Rasula (28:14): MP3
  • Susan Schultz, poet and critic, discusses her book The Poetics of Impasse (University of Alabama Press).
  • Susan Schultz (29:12): MP3

  Episode #150: The Wild Child and Other Wild Children, October 28, 2007

  • Rikki Ducornet, author most recently of the novel Gazelle reads from and discusses her recent short fiction.
  • Complete Recording (57:57): MP3

  Episode #151: Oberiu/Bridge, November 4, 2007

  • Eugene Oshtashevsky reads from and discusses the poetry in the anthology he has co-edited, Oberiu: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern University Press). (27:56): MP3
  • James Thomas Stevens reads from and discusses his new book of poems Bridge Dead In The Water. (29:35): MP3

  Episode #152: Iphigenia and Other Dramas, November 11, 2007

  • C.S. Giscombe reads "Republican National Convention". (1:10): MP3
  • Norman Finkelstein reads from and discusses his new book of poems Passing Over (Marsh Hawk Press). (19:02): MP3
  • Speight Jenkins, general director of the Seattle Opera, discusses his recent production of Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris. (37:05): MP3

  Episode #153: Three from NY, November 18, 2007

  • Tracy Grinnell reads from her book Some Clear Souvenir (O Books). (15:19): MP3
  • Steve Clay, publisher of Granary Books, discusses his latest creations. (13:05): MP3
  • Rob Fitterman reads from latest Metropolis installment, "Sprawl". (27:41): MP3

  Episode #154: Dearest George and Dan, December 2, 2007

  • George Szirtes reads from and discusses the anthology of Hungarian Poetry he has edited and co-translated The Colonnade of Teeth (Blood Axe Books), as well as his own poems from Reel, also published by Bloodaxe. (41:41): MP3
  • Dan Machlin reads from and discusses his new of poetry, Dear Body (Ugly Duckling Presse). (14:59): MP3

  Episode #155: Caws/Palmer, December 16 2007

  • Translator extraordinaire Mary Ann Caws reads and discusses her new books in translation Approximate Man & Other Writings by Tristan Tzara and The Capital of Pain by Paul Eluard (Black Widow Press). (41:30): MP3
  • Michael Palmer, on the phone from San Francisco, reads a new sequence of poems. (14:51): MP3

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  Episode #156: Sex and Isolation, January 20, 2008

  • Bruce Benderson reads from and discusses his new book of essays, Sex and Isolation (University of Wisconsin Books), as well as his translation of Tony Duvert's infamous Good Sex (Illustrated) (Semiotexte).
  • Complete Recording (58:37): MP3

  Episode #157: Varieties Of January 27, 2008

  • Lydia Davis reads from and discusses her new book of fictions Varieties of Disturbance (FSG). (28:13): MP3
  • Performance poet Julie Patton, on the phone from Cleveland, performs and discusses some of her new work, emerging from the conversation. (29:37): MP3

  Episode #158: The Present Work, February 10, 2008

  • Matvei Yankelevich reads from and discusses Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook Press), which he has translated and edited from the Russian. In addition he reads his own poem in The Present Work (Palm Press). (42:45): MP3
  • Brian Clements talks about Sentence, the journal of prose poetry he publishes and edits. (14:39): MP3

  Episode #159: Listening Through, November 16, 2008

  • Robert Kelly reads from and discusses a new sequence of poems, "Listening Through." (59:18): MP3

  Episode #160: A Semblance, 2008

  • Laura Moriarty reads from and discusses her A Semblance: Selected and New Poems 1975-2007 (Omnidawn Press) (59:02): MP3 (67.5MB)

  Episode #161: So Translating, February 17, 2008

  • Natasha Wimmer, translator of the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives (FSG), reads from and discusses this surprising book. (26:03): MP3
  • Zhang Er, joined by translator Bill Ransom, reads from her new book So Translating Rivers and Cities (Zephyr Press), in Chinese and English. (31:03): MP3
  
  

  Episode #162: Spirit, March 2, 2008

  • Hank Lazer reads from The New Spirit and Lyric and Spirit, his new books of poetry and criticism, respectively.
  • Hank Lazer (45:50): MP3

  Episode #163: Hegemonia, 2008

  • Canadian poet Roger Farr reads from and discusses his new book Surplus (Line Books).
  • Roger Farr (44:48): MP3

  Episode #164: Theory of Eros, March 30, 2008

  • Jeanne Heuving reads from and discusses her new book of poetry, Transducer (Chax Press).
  • Lila Zemborain, Argentine poet based in NYC, reads from her latest work in translation, Mauve Sea-Orchids (Belladonna* Books).
  • Jeanne Heuving (59:18): MP3 (67.8MB)
    
  • Lila Zemborain (23:49): MP3 (21.8MB)
    
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  Episode #165: Nomadics, 2008

  • Pierre Joris, poet and translator, reads from his Paul Celan: Selections (U of California Press) and Meditations on the Stations of Mansour El-Halaj (Anchorite Press).
  • Complete Recording (1:05:00): MP3

  Episode #166: Opera and Poem, 2008

  • Speight Jenkins, general director of the Seattle Opera, discusses his recent production of Tosca.
  • Speight Jenkins (32:48): MP3
  • Lissa Wolsak, poet based in Vancouver, reads from her recent book Defence Of Being.
  • Lissa Wolsak (26:31): MP3
  
  

  Episode #167: Alert?

  • Linh Dinh reads from his recent book of poems, Jam Alerts (Chax Press). (29:00): MP3
  • Kelvin Christopher James, Trinidadian fiction writer based in NY, reads from his recent work. g (29:49): MP3

  Episode #168: Mystery and Unmap

  • Robert Mittenthal, poet based in Seattle, reads from and discusses his recent book, Value Unmapped (Nomados). (29:46): MP3
  • Loren Stein reads from and discusses his translation of Gregoire Bouiller's The Mystery Guest: An Account, as well as discussing his work as an editor at Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. (27:20): MP3

  Episode #169: Forms of Address, 2008

  • Bill Berkson, poet and art critic, reads from his new book of essays Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006 (Cuneiform Books).
  • Steve McCaffery reads two new sound poems for Marjorie Perloff.
  • Bill Berkson (43:00): MP3
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  Episode #170: Sharma/Zolf/Rowan, 2008

  • Prageeta Sharma reads from and discusses her new book, Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books).
  Prageeta Sharma (26:03): MP3
  • Rachel Zolf reads from and discusses her new chapbook Shoot and Weep. (14:56): MP3
  • Lou Rowan, fiction writer and poet, reads from Sweet Potatoes (AhaDada Books). (18:23):MP3

  Episode #171: Forms of Address II, 2008

  • Paul Hoover, poet and author, reads from and discusses his book of essays Fables of Responsibility (University of Michigan Press). (31:00): MP3
  Bill Berkson reads from his new book of poems Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently (The Owl Press). (25:23): MP3

  Episode #172 Tying/Untying, 2008

  • Edwin Torres reads from and discusses The Popedology Of An Ambient Language (Atelos). (28:56): MP3
  • Nuruddin Farrah, Somali novelist, reads from his new book, Knots (Penguin). (27:35): MP3

  Episode #173: Wake UP! The Books Are On Fire! 2008

  • Richard Foreman discusses his new work Wake Up Mr. Sleepy! Your Unconscious Mind Is Dead! (29:25): MP3
  • Violaine Huisman discusses Autodafe, the important literary journal famously published by a consortium of publishers earlier in the decade. (29:57): MP3

  Episode #174: Criseyde, 2008

  • Composer Alice Shields discusses and plays part of her new opera, Criseyde, as recently performed at the Vox festival in NY.
  • Complete Recording (54:44): MP3

  Episode #175: Unboundaries, November 2, 2008

  • Michael Palmer discusses his new book of essays: Active Boundaries: Selected Essays And Talks (New Directions)
    
  • Nathalie Stephens reads from and discusses her new book The Sorrow And The Fast Of It (Nightboat Books)
  • Complete Reading (59:40): MP3

  Episode #176: Wisdom Of, November 16, 2008

  • Anne Moschovakis, poet and translator, reads from and discusses her translation from the French of Annie Ernaux's The Possession (Seven Stories Press).
  • Complete Recording (28:48): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from Francis Ponge's Mute Objects Of Expression, translated by Lee Fahenstock and recently published by Archipelago Books. (13:51): MP3
  • Finally, Judith Roche reads from and discusses her award winning book of poetry The Wisdom Of The Body (Black Heron Press). (16:37): MP3
  • Complete Program (59:16): MP3

  Episod #177: What Narrative, November 23, 2008

  • Maxine Chernoff reads from and discusses her new book of poems, The Turning (Apogee Books)
  Bill Ransom reads from and discusses his New and Selected Poems, The Woman and The War Baby (Blue Begonia Press)
  • Complete Recording (55:50): MP3

  Episode #178: Four Editors, December 7, 2008

  • Stephen Motika, publisher and editor of Nightboat Books, talks about his publishing vision and most recent books.
  • Edwin Frank, editor of New York Review Of Books Classics Series, talks about his most recent discoveries and passions.
  • Susan Schultz, publisher and editor of Tinfish Editions, tells all about Tinfish's newest work.
  • Edward Foster, publisher and editor of Talisman House, talks about what is new at Talisman Books.
  • Complete Recording (1:02:28): MP3

  Episode #179: To Listen, December 15, 2008

  • Alice Shields, composer, returns to CCP to talk about her piece Kyrielle
  • Edward Foster talks about and reads from his new book, History Of The Common Scale (Texture Press)
  • Complete Recording (1:00:44): MP3
  Episode #180: Dura/Dementia, December 22, 2008
  • Myung Mi Kim reads from and discusses her recently reissued Dura (Nightboat Books) (27:08): MP3
  • Susan Schultz reads from and discusses her Dementia Blog (Singing Horse Press) (29:20): MP3
  • Complete Recording (56:28): MP3

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  Episode #181: Hearth and Threshhold, February 1, 2009

  • Simon Pettet reads from and discusses his collected poems Hearth (Talisman House)
    
  • Nathalie Stephens reads from and discusses her essays in At Alberta (Book Thug)
  • Complete Recording (1:02:48): MP3
    
    

  Episode #182: In French, February 1, 2009

  • Isabelle Howald, in Strasbourg, reads from and discusses her The Secret of Breath (Burning Deck)
  • Franck Andre Jamme reads from and discusses his New Exercises (Wave Books); his translator Charles Borkhuis also comes to the phone.
  • Michelle Delville, from Liege, Belgium, reads some of his latest prose poems
  • Complete Recording (57:37): MP3

  Episode #183: Petals/locuspoint, Feburary 8, 2009

  • Andrew Zawacki reads from and talks about his new book Petals of Zero Petals Of One (Talisman House). (46:38): MP3
  • Sarah Vap talks about the Olympia issue of locuspoint, and reads from her own work. (14:30): MP3
  
  
  • Complete Recording (1:01:16): MP3

  Episode #184: Pearl Diving, February 22, 2009

  • Jonathon Dean, Seattle Opera's Education Artistic Administrator, talks about the fine art of captioning for opera, which he has done for Seattle Opera productions since 1997, from Wagner's Ring Cycle to Bizet's The Pearl Fishers. (20:48): MP3
  • Sina Najafi, editor-in-chief of Cabinet: A Quarterly Of Art and Culture, based in Brooklyn, NY, talks about his journal.
  • Complete Recording (31:13): MP3
  • Steve McCaffery reads Cappuccino. (4:22): MP3
  • Complete Program (58:22): MP3

  Episode #185: Another Kind of Nation, February 28, 2009

  • Zhang Er reads from and discusses the anthology of Chinese poetry she has co-edited, Another Kind Of Nation: An Anthology Of Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Talisman House), accompanied by translator Bill Ransom. (16:19): MP3
  After that, Steve McCaffery reads from and discusses his new book Slightly Left Of Thinking (Chax Press). (28:20): MP3
  • Complete Program (44:39): MP3

  Episode #186: I and You, March 7, 2009

  • Charles Simic discusses subversion and Sappho in his book of essays The Renegade (George Braziller). (31:52): MP3
  • Anne Tardos reads from and discusses her book of poems I Am You (Salt). (29:35): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:01:42): MP3

  Episode #187: Uncanny, March 15, 2009

  • Elizabeth Robinson reads from and discusses her new book, The Orphan And Its Relations (Fence Books). (28:55): MP3
  • Joseph Donahue reads from and discusses his new book Terra Lucida (Talisman House). (29:46): MP3
  • Complete Program (59:22): MP3

  Episode #188: Absence

  • Nathalie Stephens reads from and discusses her new book Absence Where As: Claude Cahun and The Unopened Book (Nightboat Books).
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from Jacqueline Risset's Sleep's Powers (Ugly Duckling Press), translated from the French by Jennifer Moxley.

  Episode #189: Poem as Map, April 12, 2009

  • Sinan Antoon, Iraqi poet and NYU professor, reads and discusses his translation of Mahmoud Darwish's At The Station of a Train Which Fell off the Map as found in Banipal.(#33). (34:64): MP3
  • Craig Perez, poet with roots in Samoa, reads from and discusses From Unincorporated Territory
  (Tinfish Editions), a poem of Samoa. (25:19): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:00:50): MP3

  Episode #190: Pushing Water/Minus Ship, April 19, 2009

  • Charles Alexander reads and discusses Pushing Water 50, as well as his recent essay Between Poetics. (39:20): MP3
  • Eugene Oshteshevsky discusses the late, great Russian poet Alexei Parschikov, as well as reads Parshchikov's Minus Ship in both Russian and he and Michael Palmer's translation. (16:31): MP3
  Episode #191: Quite A Lineup, April 26, 2009
  • Charles North reads from and discusses his Complete Lineups (Hanging Loose Press). (19:25): MP3
  Next, Jed Rasula reads from and discusses Hot Wax, or Psyche's Drip (Bookthug). (20:43): MP3
  • Finally, Michael S. Hennessey reads from Last Days in the Bomb Shelter (17 Narrower Poems), (Satellite 7 Press) and discusses his work as Managing Editor of Pennsound. (18:54): MP3
  • Complete Program (59:02): MP3

  Episode #192: Greats, May 3, 2009

  • Susanna Tamminen, editor-in-chief at Wesleyan University Press, discusses two major books she has recently brought out: Barbara Guest's Complete Poems and Jack Spicer's My Vocabulary Did This To Me: Collected Poems of Jack Spicer. (27:26): MP3
  • Michael Palmer reads from and discusses his translations of the great Russian poet Alexei Parschikov. (30:16): MP3
  • Complete Program (58:34): MP3

  Episode #193: Disagreements, May 24, 2009

  • Nathalie Stephens reads and discusses Notebook of Disagreements. (40:56): MP3
  • Rob Spillman discusses the anthology he has edited Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing. (15:27): MP3
  • Complete Program (59:36): MP3

  Episode #194: The City, May 31, 2009

  • Poet Sumaiya el-Sousy, on the phone from Gaza City, reads her poem "The City" and discusses writing in Gaza. (27:17): MP3
  • Next, Sophie Mayer, Managing Editor of English Pen World Atlas, a literary website, discusses her recent work with Palestinian writers. (30:33): MP3
  • Complete Program (57:50): MP3

  Episode #195: The Alphabet/Farout, June 7, 2009

  • Ron Silliman reads from and discusses The Alphabet, (University of Alabama Press). (34:58): MP3
  • Next, Maged Zaher reads from and discusses farout_library_software, (Tinfish Press). (27:28): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:02:26): MP3

  Episode #196: Place, June 14, 2009

  • Teresa Carmody discusses her project as the publisher and editor of Les Figues Press. (18:01): MP3
  • Vanessa Place reads from and discusses Dies: A Sentence, published by Les Figues. (17:08): MP3
  • Amal Eqeiq, Palestinian Israeli, reads from and discusses her recent translations from the Arabic of Palestinian poets. (24:33): MP3
  • Complete Program (59:42): MP3

  Episode #197: Some Prisms, October 15, 2009

  • Kate Eichhorn discusses her new anthology Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry and Poetics (Coach House Books). (27:25): MP3
  • Schwartz reads from Inger Christenson's It (New Directions). (11:40): MP3
  • Rachel Levitsky reads from and discusses her new book, Neighbor (Ugly Duckling Presse). (15:37): MP3
  • Complete Program (54:42): MP3

  Matvei Yankelevich, October 19, 2009

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  Episode #198: Paris/London, October 29, 2009

  • French poet Jean Daive reads from Under The Dome: Walks With Paul Celan, translated from the French by Rosmarie Waldrop (Burning Deck). (9:49): MP3
  • British poet Sophie Mayer reads from and discusses her new collection of poems Her Various Scalpels (Shearsmen Books). (46:13): MP3
  • Complete Program (56:02): MP3

  Episode #199: Translation, November 12, 2009

  • Natasha Wimmer reads from and discusses her translation of the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolano's last work 2666 (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux). (28:12): MP3
  • Donald Revell reads from and discusses his new translations of Rimbaud's A Season In Hell and Illuminations (Omnidawn). (31:03): MP3
  • Complete Program (59:33): MP3

  Episode #200: Conflict after Conflict, November 12, 2009

  • Ammiel Alcalay reflects on the personal background to his classic After Jews and Arabs: Remapping Levantine Culture (University of Minnesota Press). (28:15): MP3
  • Bill Ransom discusses the violence war brings to civilians in its aftermath, and reads from his book The Woman And The War Baby (Blue Begonia Press). (30:11): MP3
  • Complete Program (58:26): MP3

  Episode #201: By The Sea, November 9, 2009

  • Matvei Yankelevich reads from and discusses his new collection of poetry Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books). (29:08): MP3
  • Bruce Benderson reads from and discusses his novel of the Pacific Northwest, Pacific Agony (Semiotexte). (31:11): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:00:19): MP3

  Episode #202: Path and Counterpath, December 3, 2009

  • Robert Kelly reads from his new long poem "The Will of Achilles", available on Web Conjunctions. (44:04): MP3
  • Tim Roberts and Julie Carr, editors of Counterpath, discuss their publishing vision. (16:12): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:00:16): MP3

  Episode #203: Performance

  • Richard Foreman discuss his new work Idiot Savant, at the Public Theater. (17:51): MP3
  • Alenka Kraigher, Slovenian actress, discusses her role in Idiot Savant (10:58): MP3
  • Vit Horejs, puppeteer and director of the Czechoslovak-American Theater, discusses his recent production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at La Mama. (12:57): MP3
  • Seneca Garber, associate education director at The Seattle Opera, discusses that company's commitment to Wagner and Verdi. (17:44): MP3
  • Complete Program (55:00): MP3

  Episode #204: Soft Architecture and Other Cities

  • Lisa Robertson reads from and discusses her book Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (44:52): MP3
  • Nathalie Stephens discusses her trip to Germany and her book The Sorrow and the Fast Of It (Nightboat Editions). (15:17): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:00:29): MP3

  Episode #205: Fire Exit / Can Poetry?, December 17, 2009

  • Robert Kelly returns to read from and discuss his new book Fire Exit (Black Widow Press). (30:31): MP3
  • John Felstiner discusses his new book of essays Can Poetry Save the Earth? (Yale University Press). (29:53): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:00:56): MP3

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  Charles Bernstein, January 5, 2010

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  Episode #206: Nightboat, January 7, 2010

  • Stephen Motika discusses and reads from the book he has edited, Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman. (31:13): MP3
  • Edwin Torres reads from and discusses his new book from Nightboat, In The Function of External Circumstances. (28:45): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:00:09): MP3

  Episode #207: Some Gardens, January 14, 2010

  • Cole Swensen, poet and translator, reads from and discusses her new book, Ours (University of California Press). (43:03): MP3
  • The segmented reading can be found at her author page: here
  • Tony Trigilio, poet and musician, reads from and discusses his book The Lama's English Lessons (Three Candles Press). (16:04): MP3
  • Complete Program (59:08): MP3

  Episode #208: Bernstein and Carr, February 4, 2010

  • Charles Bernstein reads from and discusses his new book All The Whiskey In Heaven (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux). (36:58): MP3
  • Julie Carr reads from and discusses her new book 100 Notes on Violence (Ashata Press). (20:46): MP3
  • Complete Program (57:59): MP3

  Episode #209: Swenson and Baca, February 11, 2010

  • Cole Swenson reads from her chapbook Ghosts Are Hope (Observable Books) and discusses the history of ghosts in the West. (25:11): MP3
  • Jimmy Santiago Baca, on the phone from Albuquerque, reads from and discusses his Selected Poems (New Directions) as well as his advocacy work for prisoners in our infernal system. (30:34): MP3
  • Complete Recording (55:45): MP3

  Episode #210: If You Listen, February 25, 2010

  • Luljeta Lleshanaku, Albanian poet on the phone from Tirana, reads from and discusses her new book Child of Nature (New Directions). (28:01): MP3
  • Daniel Bell, Canadian philosopher based in Beijing, discusses his book on contemporary Chinese politics and culture The New Confucianism (Princeton University Press). (22:00): MP3
  • Alicia Cohen reads from her new book of poetry Debts and Obligations (O Books). (10:52): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:00:53): MP3

  Episode #211: Emblems of Desire, February 18, 2010

  • Richard Sieburth reads from and discusses his translatoons of the 16th century Lyon poet Maurice Sceve, as published in Emblems of Desire, published by Archipelago Books. (23:53): MP3
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  • Martin Corless-Smith, British poet, reads from his forthcoming "Rome Poems." (24:08): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:00:58): MP3

  Episode #212: Of Muscles and Moss, February 18, 2010

  • Michel Delville, Belgian writer, poet and musician, discusses the idea of gastropoetics - the poetics of cuisine - in his book Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption: Eating The Avant-Garde (Routledge). (31:21): MP3
  • Nalini Nadkarni, rain forest biologist, discusses the role of poetry in her Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connection to Trees (University of California Press). (27:10): MP3
  • Complete Program (58:31): MP3

  Episode #213: Beneath the Surface, March 4, 2010

  • Jaccqueline Risset, French poet and translator of Dante, reads from her prose gem, Sleep's Powers (Ugly Duckling Presse), translated by Jennifer Moxley. (33:40): MP3
  • Anne Waldman reads from and discusses her shamanic new book of poetry Manatee/Humanity (Penguin) (28:34): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:02:14): MP3

  Episode #214: London to Shanghai, March 11, 2010

  • Tariq Ali, London-based writer and editor of The New Left Review, discusses his controversial book of essays Protocols of the Elders of Sodom (Verso). (35:55): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from Mahmoud Darwish's A River Dies of Thirst (Archipelago Books). (2:39): MP3
  • Yan Li, poet, on the phone from Shanghai reads the Chinese, Schwartz the English, from his Possibility of Constructing Sentence (Walt Whitman Press.) (27:41): MP3
  • Complete Program (58:35): MP3

  Episode #215: Sze/Moxley, April 4, 2010

  • Jennifer Moxley reads from and discusses her latest collection of poetry, Clampdown (Flood Editions). (31:18): MP3
  • Arthur Sze reads from and discusses his new anthology Chinese Writers on Writing (Trinity University Press) (31:31): MP3
  • Complete Program (57:43): MP3

  Episode #216: Paris/Rome/L.A./Mexico City, April 11, 2010

  • Jacqueline Rissett, French poet on the phone from Rome, reads some of her poems, translated by Serge Gavronsky. (32:53): MP3
  • Gabriela Jauregui, poet from Mexico City based in L.A., reads from and discusses her first book Controlled Decay (Black Goat Press). (31:59): MP3
  • Complete Program (59:36): MP3

  Episode #217: Epitaph, April 18, 2010

  • Deborah Woodard, translator, reads from and discusses her translations of the great Italian poet Amelia Rosseli in The Dragonfly: A Selection of Poems 1953-1981 (Chelsea Editions).
  • Complete Reading (29:39): MP3
  • Mark McMorris reads from and discusses his new book Entrepôt (Coffee House Press).
  1. introduction (0:36): MP3
  2. a way of thinking about language suggested by the epigraph at the beginning of Entrepôt (2:10): MP3
  3. reading "Letters for K and Poems for Someone Else" (1:58): MP3
  4. the form of the letter that runs through Entrepôt (1:31): MP3
  5. reading "Letters to Michael: Dear Michael (2)" (2:32): MP3
  6. the political dimension of the writing and the idea of entrepot as a point of transition (3:42): MP3
  7. reading "Three Aspects of the Name" (5:24): MP3
  8. "the voice of tradition" in the context of "Three Aspects of the Name" (4:55): MP3
  9. reading "Epitaphs" (4:38): MP3
  10. upcoming projects and closing comments (1:16): MP3
  • Complete Reading (32:48): MP3
  • Complete Program (57:22): MP3

  Episode #218: Word and Music, May 30, 2010

  • Beth Morrison, opera producer, talks about her recent work at VOX and elsewhere. (18:20): MP3
  • Hai-Ting Chinn, opera singer, talks about her performances in The Wooster Group's La Didone and City Opera's VOX opera lab. (22:58): MP3
  • Jonathan Stalling, poet, reads from and talks about the intertwining of English and Chinese in his new book of poems, Grotto Heaven (Chax). (24:08): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:00:07): MP3

  Episode #219: Purgatory, June 6, 2010

  • The great Chilean poet, Raúl Zurita, reads from his two books Purgatory, translated by Anna Deeny, and Anteparadise, both from University of California Press. (41:12): MP3
  • Jonathon Dean, Education Director at the Seattle Opera, discusses Seattle Opera's recent world premiere, Amelia, as well as the upcoming season. (18:30): MP3
  • Complete Program (59:42): MP3

  Episode #220: Shape and Time, October 12th, 2010

  • Doris Kareva, Estonian poet on the phone from Tallin, reads from her book Shape of Time (Arc Publications). (14:05): MP3
  • Edward Foster, poet and publisher of Talisman House, discusses the final print issue of the journal Talisman. (15:03): MP3
  • Thalia Field reads from and discusses her new book and its mingling of forms, Bird Lovers, Backyard. (30:55): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:00:03): MP3

  Episode #221: Ecopoetics, October 19, 2010

  • Camille Dungy, poet, discusses her anthology Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (University of Georgia Press). (28:20): MP3
  • Jonathon Skinner discusses his essay on the Third Landscape in the Eco Language Reader (Yo-Yo Labs/Nightboat Books). (31:04): MP3
  • Complete Program (59:24): MP3

  Episode #222: Pacing The Void, October 26, 2010

  • Lissa Wolsak reads from her big collection of poems Squeezed Light (Station Hill Press). (29:46): MP3
  • Jonathon Stalling discusses his book: Poetics Of Emptiness: Transformation of Asian Thought in American Poetry (Fordham University Press). (28:59): MP3
  • Complete Program (58:45): MP3

  Episode #223: Two from San Francisco, November 17, 2010

  • Paul Hoover reads from and discusses his co-translation from the Vietnamese Beyond The Court Gate: Selected Poems of Nguyen Trei (Counterpath Press). (29:45): MP3
  • Laura Moriarty reads from her new book A Tonalist (Nightboat Books).
  • Complete Recording (29:40): MP3 (59:25): MP3

  Episode #224: Island Culture, December 1, 2010

  • Loco7 artists Federico Restrepo and Denise Greber discuss their most recent performance at La Mama in Manhattan. (21:32): MP3
  • Susan Schultz discusses the latest issue of Tinfish, published in Hawaii. (17:31): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads his own “Welter” from Tinfish 20. (21:08): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:00:10): MP3

  Episode #225: Two Poets, December 8, 2010

  • Ed Roberson reads from and discusses his latest book, To See The Earth Before The End of The World (Wesleyan). (26:21): MP3
  • John Taggart reads from and discusses his new and selected poems, Is Music (Copper Canyon Press). (33:41): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:00:03): MP3

  2011

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  Episode #226: Of The Body, January 6, 2011

  • Ibrahim Muhawi discusses and reads from two translations of prose works he has done of the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish: Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut 1982 (University of California Press) and Journal of an Ordinary Grief (Archipelago Books). (39:24): MP3
  • Kiki Smith, artist, discusses her book collaboration with poet Leslie Scalapino in the ultra-suede covered The Animal is in the World Like Water in Water (Granary Books). (22:56): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:02:20): MP3

  Episode #227: Once Upon A Time, February 13, 2011

  • Zohra Saed and Sedika Mojadidi read from and discuss the former's new anthology, co-edited with Sahar Muadi, One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Afghan-American American Literature (University of Arkansas Press). (29:38): MP3
  • Albert Mobilio reads from and talks about his new book of poems Touch Wood (Black Square Editions). (16:49): MP3
  • Charles Alexander, publisher of Chax Press in Tucson, Arizona, talks about Chax's latest titles. (13:29): MP3
  • Complete Program (59:56): MP3

  Episode #228: Two Poets, February 20, 2011

  • Roberto Tejada reads from and discusses Exposition Park (Wesleyan University Press). (30:06): MP3
  • Edwin Torres reads from and discusses Yes Thing No Thing (Roof Books). (28:56): MP3
  • Complete Program (59:02): MP3

  Episode #229: McElroy's Trail, February 3, 2011

  • Joseph McElroy, fiction writer, reads from his new work as found in the latest issue of The Golden Handcuffs Review and in his latest book Nine Souls and Other Stories (Dalkey Archive Press). (41:41): MP3
  • Lou Rowan and Joseph McElroy discuss the latest issue of Golden Handcuffs Review, most especially its section devoted to McElroy's writing.(16:03): MP3
  • Complete Program (57:44): MP3

  Episode #230: Damascus/Athens, February 3, 2011

  • Halla Mohammed, Syrian poet on the phone from Damascus, reads from her poems in As if I'm knocking on my Door, published in English translation in Banipal, issue #31. (20:46): MP3
  • Demosthenes Agrafiotis reads from and discusses his two new books in English translation, Maribor (Post-Apollo Press) and Chinese Notebooks (Ugly Duckling Presse). (35:22): MP3
  • Complete Program (56:19): MP3

  Episode #231: Abolitionist, February 10, 2011

  • Russell Banks, novelist, discusses and reads from Cloudsplitter (Harper Perennial), a novel based on the life of John Brown.
  • Complete Program (59:22): MP3

  Episode #232: Starting with Experience, February 17, 2011

  • Anna Moschovakis reads from and discusses her new book You And Three Others Are Approaching A Lake (Coffee House Press). (29:15): MP3
  • Soumaya el-Susi, poet, on the phone from Gaza City, reads three of her poems and reports on the lived situation of that city. (29:49): MP3
  • Complete Program (59:04): MP3

  Episode #233: The New Black, April 7, 2011

  • Evie Shockley reads from and talks about her new book, The New Black (Wesleyan).
  • Complete Program (48:04): MP3

  Episode #234: Redemptive Forms, April 14, 2011

  • Michael Boughn discusses Robert Duncan's newly published The H.D. Book, which he co-edited (University of California Press). (29:03): MP3
  • Schwartz reads Akilah Oliver's “laughter from the altar” from Oliver's book A Toast in the House of Friends (Coffee House Press).
  • Complete Reading (5:11): MP3
  • Raúl Zurita, on the phone from Santiago, Chile, reads from Inre (Marick Press). (26:45): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:00:59): MP3

  Episode #235: Kaan/Caws, April 21, 2011

  • Cihan Kaan reads from and discusses his collection of short stories, Halal Pork (Upset Press). (31:29): MP3
  • Mary Ann Caws reads from and discusses her Furor and Mystery and other Poems, a new book of translations of the great French poet Rene Char, co-edited and translated with Nancy Kline (Black Widow Press). (28:00): MP3
  • Complete Program (59:28): MP3

  Episode #236: Barry/Bellen, April 28, 2011

  • Raymond Barry, playwright and actor, talks about his new work Awake in a World That Encourages Sleep at the Theater for The New City. (35:05): MP3
  • Martine Bellen reads from and discusses her new book of poetry, Ghosts! (Spuyten Duyvil Press). (25:13): MP3
  • Complete Program (1:00:17): MP3

  Episode #237: Northwest, May 12th, 2011

  • Susan Gevirtz, from SF, reads from and discusses her book of poetry Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger (Kelsey Street Press) (26:30): MP3
  • Janet Holmes, on the phone from Boise, Idaho, reads from and discusses her book of poetry The Ms of M Y Kin (Shearsman Books). (17:45): MP3
  • John Marshall, with Christine Deavel the proprietor of Open Books, a book store in Seattle entirely devoted to poetry, discusses his work. (14:35): MP3
  • Complete Program (58:50): MP3

  Episode #238: The space/Space left out, May 19, 2011

  • Samuel Shimon, editor of Banipal, a British based journal of Arabic writing in English translation, discusses his work. (17:43): MP3
  • Anna Rabinowitz reads from and discusses her book of poetry Present Tense (Omnidawn Publishing). (14:22): MP3
  • Schwartz reads from Gustaf Sobin's Collected Poems (Talisman House). (12:24): MP3
  • Complete Program (44:28): MP3

  Episode #239: Two Masters, November 3, 2011

  • Cecilia Vicuña reads from and discusses her new/classic work Saborami (Chain Link) (31:45): MP3
  • Rikki Ducornet reads from and discusses her novel Netsuke (Coffee House Press) (27:53): MP3
  • Complete Program (59:38): MP3

  Episode #240: Around Town, November 10, 2011

  • Ammiel Alcalay and Ana Bozičević talk about Diane Di Prima, H.D., Jack Spicer, and their Lost and Found Series of chapbooks on The New American Poetry, based at CUNY (28:54): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from his latest book, At Element (Talisman House) (7:21): MP3
  • Hai-Ting Chinn, opera singer and performer, talks about her latest work pertaining to opera and the language of science (20:51): MP3

  Episode #241: Cross Country, November 17, 2011

  • From The Arapaho Song Book (La Alemada Press) (35:41): MP3
  • Beth Morrison, opera producer, discusses her views on opera (19:40): MP3

  Episode #242: Illuminating the Breakage, December 1, 2011

  • Tim Roberts reads from Drizzle Pocket (Blazevox) (18:50): MP3
  • Thomas Meyer talks about the passing of Jonathan Williams, and reads from his book Kintsugi (Flood Editions) (36:08): MP3

  2012

  Episode #243: Zaher/Foster, January 5, 2012

  • Maged Zaher talks about and reads from his book of poems Portrait of the Poet As an Engineer (28:52): MP3
  • Ed Foster talks about the latest books published by his Talisman House, Publishers (29:55): MP3

  Episode #244: Dhompa/Schultz, January 12, 2012

  • Tsering Wangmo Dhompa reads from and discusses her new book my rice tastes like the lake (Apogee Press) (30:34): MP3
  • Susan Schultz reads from and discusses Memory Cards 2010-2011 (Singing Horse Press) (28:26): MP3

  Episode #245: In Translation, January 19, 2012

  • Andrea Lingenfelter reads from her translations of the great poetess of Chengdu, Zhai Yongming, and talks about the book they appear in, The Changing Room (Zephyr Press) (33:51): MP3
  • Raúl Zurita, on the phone from Santiago, Chile, returns to read from his poem Song For His Disappeared Love (Action Books), translated by Daniel Borzutsky (27:52): MP3

  Episode #246: Locomotrix, January 26, 2012

  • Vit Horejs, director of the Czek Marionette Theater, discusses his production of The Golem (17:08): MP3
  • Jennifer Scappetone discusses and reads from her translations of the great Italian poet Amelia Rosselli in Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli (University of Chicago Press) (42:03): MP3

  Episode #247: Burning City, February 9, 2012

  • Jed Rasula discusses the big new anthology he has co-edited with Tim Conley, Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity (Action Books) — part one (27:56): MP3 / part two (30:52): MP3

  Episode #248: Of Voice, March 1, 2012

  • Joseph Donahue reads from and discusses his new book of poems, Dissolves (Talisman House) (24:54): MP3
  • Gary Thor Wedow, conductor of Seattle Opera Orchestra, discusses his recent performance of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice (34:43): MP3

  Episode #249: What the Plants Said/Trailers, March 8, 2012

  • Jim Findley, joined by performer Liz Sargent, discusses the play he recently co-authored and directed, Botanica (32:37): MP3
  • Mike Basinski discusses and reads from his latest book of poetry, Trailers (Blazevox) (58:02): MP3

  Episode #250: Water and Tree, March 15, 2012

  • Charles Alexander reads from and discusses his latest book of poetry, Pushing Water (Cuneiform Books) (29:42): MP3
  • Christopher Merrill discusses his latest book of essays The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War (Milkweed Editions) (34:48): MP3

  Episode #251: Paris Views, March 22, 2012

  • Michael Joyce discusses and reads from his latest book, Paris Views (Blazevox) — part one (29:53): MP3 / part two (14:21): MP3

  Episode #252: Autoimmunity, 2012

  • Rodrigo Toscano reads from and discusses his new book, Deck of Deeds (Counterpath Press) (32:19): MP3
  • Eleni Stecopoulos reads from and discusses her book Armies of Compassion (Palm Press) (27:27): MP3

  Episode #253: Celan/Bronk, 2012

  Pierre Joris, poet, discusses his translation strategy in Paul Celan's The Meridian: Final Version — Drafts — Materials (Stanford University Press) (30:09): MP3
  1. introduction (0:52): MP3
  2. on Paul Celan's "Meridian" speech and the difficulty of translating Celan's text (10:26): MP3
  3. scholarship, discovery and encounter in Celan's work, and the enlightening experience of translating The Meridian: Final Version-Drafts-Materials (5:49): MP3
  4. tremors and hints within the compositional process, transparency in Celan's writing practice, and Celan as an aphoristic writer (4:53): MP3
  5. Celan as a concentration camp survivor, his difficult relationship to the German language, and how careful Celan was with what he wrote when receiving the Buchner prize (5:05): MP3
  6. Pierre Joris reading new translations of aphorisms by Paul Celan (0:46): MP3
  7. the richness of phrases in The Meridian and the daily work of poetry (2:14): MP3

  Schwartz reads from the new edition of William Bronk's Bursts of Light: the collected later poems (Talisman House); then Jonathon Newell, composer, discusses his new string quartet in honor of Bronk — "String Quartet for Ballet Inspired by Poems by William Bronk" — opening to Bronk's voice and an excerpt from the music. (25:25): MP3

  Episode #254: Commonwealth, 2012

  • Michael Hardt, political philosopher, returns to CCP to discuss the third book in his trilogy, entitled Commonwealth (following on Empire and Multitude) — part one (27:56): MP3   /   part 2 (30:54): MP3

  Episode #255: Butterfly/Borges, 2012

  • Peter Kazaras, opera director and tenor, discusses his recent production of Madama Butterfly at Seattle Opera (34:55): MP3
  • Suzanne Jill Levine, translator, discusses her translation and editing work on the recent Poems of The Night, by Jorge Luis Borges (Penguin) (21:44): MP3

  Episode #256: California, 2012

  • Stephen Motika discusses and reads from his debut book of poetry, Western Practice (Alice James Books), focusing on the iconoclastic composer Harry Partch (37:16): MP3
  • Gillian Conoley reads from her chapbook, An Oh A Sky A Fabric An Undertow (Albion Books) (17:11): MP3

  Episode #257: The Page, 2012

  • Paul Vangelisti discusses his translation, editing, and publishing work on Piercing The Page: Selected Poems of Antonio Porta (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions) — part one (28:04): MP3   /   part 2 (11:43): MP3
  • Murat Nemet-Nejat reads from his new book of poetry The Spiritual Life of Replicants (Talisman House) (19:22): MP3

  Episode #258: Come and See, October 25, 2012

  • Marta Lopez-Luaces discusses her new anthology New Poetry From Spain (Talisman House). (26:36): MP3
  • Fanny Howe reads from and discusses her new book of poems Come And See (Graywolf). (31:23): MP3

  Episode #259: Fidelio/In Translation, November 1, 2012

  • Pierre Joris discusses his translations of the Algerian poet Habib Tengour in Exile is My Trade (Black Widow Press). (29:13): MP3
  • Arthur Woodley, bass, discusses his roles in Beethoven's Fidelio and as boxer Emile Griffith in a forthcoming new opera. (24:33): MP3
  • Schwartz reads from Jacqueline Risset's Sleep's Powers (Ugly Duckling Presse). (4:13): MP3

  Episode #260: The Overflowing, November 1, 2012

  • Moroccan poet Abdelattif Laabi reads from his new book in translation, The Rule of Barbarism (Island Position). (12:32): MP3
  • Egyptian-American poet Maged Zaher reads from and discusses his new book The Revolution Happened and You Didn't Call Me (Tinfish Editions). (17:31): MP3
  • Cynthia Hogue discusses her translation of Fortino Samano (The Overflowing of the Poem), poems by Virginie Lalucq, with commentaries by Jean-Luc Nancy, and along with her co-translator Sylvain Gallais, reads from the work (Omnidawn). (24:02): MP3

  Episode #261: Predictionary/Ascension, November 8, 2012

  • Theoretician and writer Mikhail Epstein reads from and discusses his Predictionary (Atelos), demonstrating some of the new words and punctuation therein. (30:37): MP3
  • Poet Giovanni Singleton reads from and discusses her new book of poetry Ascension (Counterpath).(26:57): MP3

  Episode #262: Three Poems, November 15, 2012

  • Tyrone Williams reads from and discusses his book-length poem Howell (Atelos). (15:49): MP3
  • Ed Foster reads from and discusses his new book of poetry Dire Straights (Marshhawk Press). (27:16): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from his new book of poetry entitled IF (Talisman House). (15:09): MP3

  Episode #263: In Translation, November 29, 2012

  • Algerian poet Amin Khan, on the phone from Paris, reads from and discusses his new book of poetry in translation, Vision of the Return (The Post-Apollo Press). (29:59): MP3
  • Jen Hofer, poet and translator, reads from and discusses her translations of Mexican poet Myriam Mioscano in Ivory Black (Les Figues Press). (28:01): MP3

  Episode #264: Tripoli / New York November 11, 2012

  • Libyan poet Ashur Etwabi, on the phone from Tripoli, reads from his own work and discusses the new literary life in Libya. (26:34): MP3
  • Laura Elrick reads from and discusses her new book of poetry Propagation (Kenning Editions). (29:38): MP3

  2013

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  Episode #265: Baudelaire, Helen, and The Fugitive Gods, January 17, 2013

  • Roberto Calasso, Italian essayist and mythographer, discusses his new book La Folie Baudelaire (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) (27:50): MP3
  • and reads from and discusses his The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Knopf). (31:09): MP3

  Episode #266: Borsuk/Mellis, January 10, 2013

  • Amaranth Borsuk reads and discusses her book of poetry, Handiwork (Slope Editions). (28:27): MP3
  • Miranda Mellis reads from and discusses her novel, The Spokes (Solid Objects). (27:03): MP3

  Episode #267: Mellis/Taylor, January 24, 2013

  • Miranda Mellis reads from and discusses her collection of short stories None of This Is Real (Sidebrow Books). (27:27): MP3
  • Catherine Taylor, poet and documentarist, reads from and discusses her book in meditation on South Africa, Apart (Ugly Duckling Presse). (30:00): MP3

  Episode #268: Bunting/Duncan, January 17, 2013

  • Don Share, poet, reads from his newly edited book, Bunting's Persia: Translations by Basil Bunting (Flood Editions). (28:41): MP3
  • Lisa Jarnot discusses her biography of Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus (University of California Press). (29:05): MP3

  Episode #269: Speechsong, January 31, 2013

  • Cyndia Sieden: on her work as an opera singer (28:39) MP3, discussing Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Queen of the Night (28:38): MP3

  Episode #270: Wagner/Epstein, February 21, 2013

  • Catherine Wagner reads from and discusses her new book of poetry Nervous Device (City Lights Books). (29:11): MP3
  • Mikhail Epstein discusses his work of theory and pedagogy The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto (Bloomsbury). (28:41): MP3

  Episode #271: Kelly/Zurita, March 14, 2013

  • Robert Kelly discusses his big new/old poem 'The Loom'. (42:26): MP3
  • Raúl Zurita reads from Dreams for Kurosawa, translated by Anna Deeny (Arrow as Aarow). (15:13): MP3

  Episode #272: The North African Anthology, February 28, 2013

  • Pierre Joris discusses his big new anthology, The University of California Book of North African Literature. (58:10): MP3

  Episode #273: Canon/Foster (recorded at KWH), April 9, 2013

  • Isabel Cadenas Canon, Spanish poet, reads from her own poems in To Leave, and her translations of Raúl Zurita into Basque. (34:06): MP3
  • Edward Foster reads from his long poem in process and discusses international poetry in translation. (24:46): MP3
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  Episode #274: Zemborain/Moschovakis (recorded at KWH), April 16, 2013

  • Argentine poet Lila Zemborain reads in Spanish, with English translations, from her new book The Murmur of Borders, and discusses the idea of the bio-poem. Part 1 (27:57): MP3 Part 2 (8:50): MP3
  • Anna Moschovakis, poet, reads a new text, “Film 2”, and muses on the relationship between philosophy and poetry. (20:34): MP3
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  Episode #275: Direct Address, June, 2013

  • Maged Zaher, Egyptian-American poet and frequent CCP guest, reads some new poems and talks about the situation in Egypt. (21:14): MP3
  • Angela Veronica Wong reads from and discusses her chapbook, Dear Johnny, In Your Last Letter (Poetry Society of America). (22:33): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from Gustaf Sobin's Collected Poems (Talisman House). (08:43): MP3

  Episode #276: Lopate/Uzon, June, 2013

  • Phillip Lopate reads from and discusses his new collection of essays, Portrait Inside My Head (Free Press). (30:46): MP3
  • Bernard Uzon, director, discusses his recent productions of Poulenc's La Voix Humaine and Puccini's Suor Angelica at Seattle Opera. (27:34): MP3

  Episode #277: Peyrafitte, October 24, 2013

  • Nicole Peyrafitte talks about Occitan language and culture, and reads from and discusses her book Bivalve: Vulvic Space, Vulvic Knowledge (Stockport Flats). (27:56): MP3

  Episode #278: Journey to the Sun, October 24, 2013

  • Brent Cunningham talks about and reads from his epic poem Journey to The Sun (Atelos). (29:50): MP3

  Episode #279: Reverdy, October 31, 2013

  • Mary Ann Caws, translator, discusses and reads from Pierre Reverdy: Selected Poems (NYRB/Poets). (27:56): MP3

  Episode #280: Joyce Castle, October 31, 2013

  • Joyce Castle, Mezzo-Soprano, talks about her recent appearance at Seattle opera in Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment. (27:32): MP3

  Episode #281: Schultz/Fathi, November 7, 2013

  • Susan Schultz discusses Steve Shrader's The Arc of the Day/The Imperfectionist, published by her Tinfish Press. (14:56): MP3
  • Farnoosh Fathi reads from and discusses her book of poems Great Guns (Canarium). (14:50): MP3

  Episode #282: Sakra Boccata, November 7, 2013

  • Jose Antonio Mazzotti, Peruvian poet, discusses and reads from his new book of poems, Sakra Boccata (Ugly Duckling Presse). (28:58): MP3

  Episode #283: From the Italian, November 14, 2013

  • Tim Parks, translator from Italian, discusses Alberto Moravia's Contempt (NYRB Classics Series) and reads from his translation of Roberto Calasso's The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Vintage). (28:32): MP3

  Episode #284: Berrigan, November 14, 2013

  • Anselm Berrigan reads from and discusses his collaboration with painter Jonathan Allen in Loading (Brooklyn Arts Press). (28:10): MP3

  Episode #285: Risset, November 21, 2013

  • Jacqueline Risset, French poet extraordinaire, on the phone from Rome, reads “Instants I” and “Instants II." (28:24): MP3

  Episode #286: Flowers of Offal, November 21, 2013

  • Heide Hatry, artist, discusses her book of images and curated texts, Not A Rose (Charta). (29:06): MP3

  Episode #287: On Raúl Zurita, December 12, 2013

  • Poet Forrest Gander and journalist Magdelena Edwards discuss the great Chilean poet's work. (27:38): MP3

  2014

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  Episode #288: Drones, January 9, 2014

  • Composer Nico Muhly discusses his composition “Drones”, his opera at the Met Two Boys, and a concert at (Le) Poisson Rouge. (29:22): MP3

  Episode #289: Druckwork, January 16, 2014

  • Poet and book artist Johanna Drucker talks about Druckworks 1972-2012: 40 Years of Books and Projects (Epicenter). (28:38): MP3

  Episode #290: Twerk, January 16, 2014

  • Poet LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs discusses and reads from her collection of poetry TwERK (Belladonna* Books). (29:24): MP3

  Episode #291: A Permanent Member of the Family, January 23, 2014

  • Novelist Russell Banks reads from and discusses his short story collection A Permanent Member of the Family (HarperCollins). (28:24): MP3

  Episode #292: Lost Memory of Skin, January 23, 2014

  • Russell Banks returns to read from and discuss his latest novel Lost Memory of Skin (HarperCollins). (29:30): MP3

  Episode #293: Peace, January 30, 2014

  • Gillian Conoley reads from and discusses her latest collection of poetry Peace (Omnidawn Books). (29:14): MP3

  Episode #294: Alexander Vvedensky, January 30, 2014

  • Eugene Ostashevsky, translator and editor of Russian Oberiu poet Alexander Vvedensky, discusses his recent An Invitation for Me to Think (NYRB/Poets). (29:42): MP3

  Episode #295: Sotto Voce, February 20, 2014

  • Actress and singer Arielle Jacobs discusses her role in Nilo Cruz's play Sotto Voce at the Theater for the New City. (29:08): MP3

  Episode #296: Paper Camera, February 20, 2014

  • Brooklyn poet Youmna Chlala reads from her manuscript “The Paper Camera.” (19:20): MP3
  • Daniel Borzutzky reads “Bedtime Stories for the End of the World." (8:10): MP3
  • Complete Segment (27:30): MP3

  Episode #297: Videotape, March 13, 2014

  • Andrew Zawacki reads from and discusses his latest book, Videotape (Counterpath Press). (28:22): MP3

  Episode #298: The Book of Interfering Bodies, March 6, 2014

  • Daniel Borzutzky reads from and discusses his book of prose poems The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat Editions). (30:04): MP3

  Episode #299: Mansoori and It, March 6, 2014

  • Alex Mansoori, tenor, discusses his role as the magician in Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Consul. (24:20): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from Inger Christensen's It (New Directions). (5:44) MP3
  • Complete Segment (30:04): MP3

  Episode #300: Sixty Morning Talks, March 13, 2014

  • Andy Fitch discusses his Sixty Morning Talks (Ugly Duckling Presse), a book of interviews with sixty poets, and a book devoted to the art of conversation. (28:46): MP3

  Episode #301: Schelling on Love, April 3, 2014

  • Andrew Schelling talks about Love And The Turning Seasons: India's Poetry Of Spiritual and Erotic Longing, a book he edited and translated for Counterpoint Press. (29:18): MP3

  Episode #302 Seattle Opera/Apples from Tolstoy's Garden, October 28, 2014

  • Jonathan Dean, Seattle Opera's Director of Public programs and Media, talks about Seattle Opera's production of Mozart's Don Giovanni (19:38): MP3
  • Yolanda Castano, Galician poet on the phone from Spain, reads her poem "Apples From Tolstoy's Garden" (9:08): MP3

  Episode #303 Yolanda Castano, October 28, 2014

  • Yolanda Castano returns to read and discuss her own poetry, in Galician, as well as to talk about the history, properties and circumstances of the Galician language and to read from the medieval Galician troubadour Mendhino (31:49): MP3

  Episode #304 Nimrod/el-Sousi, November 4, 2014

  • Nimrod, Chadian poet, novelist, and essayist extraordinaire, on the phone from Paris, reads from his own poetry (15:27): MP3
  • Somayo el-Sousi, Palestinian poet, on the phone from Gaza City, reads two new poem-essays written while under Israeli bombardment in the summer of 2014 (16:29): MP3

  Episode #305 Red Flash on a Black Field, October 21, 2014

  • Joseph Donahue, poet, reads from and discusses his latest book, Red Flash on a Black Field (Black Square Editions) (29:05): MP3

  Episode #306 From Zagreb, November 4, 2014

  • Marko Pogacar, Croatian poet on the phone from Zagreb, reads from and discusses his own poetry, as well as Croatian language (31:36): MP3

  Episode #307 From Shanghai, November 4, 2014

  • Yan Li, Chinese poet and painter, reads from his new book Talent Possibility, translated by Denis Mair (29:59): MP3

  Episode #308 Alejandra Pizarnik, November 11, 2014

  • Yvette Siegert, translator of Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik, reads from and discusses Pizarnik's Diana's Tree (Ugly Duckling Presse) (28:44): MP3

  Episode #309 Essay Stanzas, November 18, 2014

  • Thomas Meyer, poet, returns to read from his latest book of poetry, Essay Stanzas, published by The Song Cave (30:52): MP3

  Episode #310 Pier Paolo Pasolini, November 18, 2014

  • Poet and translator Stephen Sartarelli reads from and discusses his The Poems of Pier Paolo Pasolini (University of Chicago Press) (31:21): MP3

  Episode #311 Book of Travels, December 2, 2014

  • Puerto Rican poet Lourdes Vazquez reads from her book Samandar: Book of Travels (Editions TSE=TSE) (27:50): MP3

  2015

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  Episode #312 New York School Painters and Poets: Neon in Daylight, January 6, 2015

  • Allison Powers, editor at Rizzoli, discusses the book she has edited, as titled above (15:10): MP3
  • Jenni Quilter, writer, on the phone from New Zealand, discusses the text she has authored for Neon in Daylight (Rizzoli) (15:43): MP3

  Episode #313 Killing The Moonlight Part 1, January 6, 2015

  • Jennifer Scappettone discusses her book Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, taking us right up to Marinetti, from whom she draws her title (31:49): MP3

  Episode #314 Killing The Moonlight Part 2, January 6, 2015

  • Jennifer Scappettone returns to discuss her book Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, picking up with Pound and taking us right up to Venice as contemporary ecological imperative (30:23): MP3

  Episode #315 Tosca, January 13, 2015

  • Stage Director Jose Maria Condemi talks about his work at Seattle Opera on Puccini's Tosca. (28:45): MP3

  Episode #316 Special Characters, January 13, 2015

  • Larissa Shmailo, poet, reads from and discusses her book #special characters (Unlikely Books). (12:55): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from The Poems of Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot Weinberger (New Directions). (13:49): MP3

  Episode #317 Ardor, January 20, 2015

  • Roberto Calasso talks about his latest book, on Vedic myth, ritual, and text, entitled Ardor (FSG), and discusses the idea of sacrifice. (31:06): MP3

  Episode #318 The Italian Friend, January 20, 2015

  • Amaranth Borsuk and Andy Fitch read from and discuss their collaborative book As We Know (Subito). (20:19): MP3
  • Roberto Calasso reads from Ardor (FSG). (9:23): MP3

  Episode #319 Bees, January 27, 2015

  • Scottish poet Alec Finley reads from and discusses his book Global Oracle, as well as his Beeble Project. (29:17): MP3

  Episode #320 Talisman 43, January 27, 2015

  • Yolanda Castano, Galician poet on the phone from Spain, reads from her work in the current online edition of Talisman #43. (12:39): MP3
  • Alexander Ulanov, Russian poet on the phone from Samara, reads from his work in Talisman #43. (20:06): MP3

  Episode #321 Argentine Poetics, February 3, 2015

  • Jason Weiss discusses and reads from his translations of Silvina Ocampo, in her Selected Poems, published by NYRB Poets. (12:06): MP3
  • Yvette Siegert discusses and reads from her translations of Alejandra Pizarnik, in A Musical Hell (New Directions). (18:51): MP3

  Episode #322 Poetry in Motion, February 17, 2015

  • Alice Quinn, Executive Director of The Poetry Society of America, discusses her “Poetry in Motion” collaboration with the MTA and the NYC subway system. (25:38): MP3
  • Edwin Frank reads his poem "In The Dark". (4:29): MP3

  Episode #323 Semele, February 17, 2015

  • Tomer Zvulun, director of Seattle Opera's new production of Handel's Semele, and General and Artistic Director of Atlanta Opera, talks about his work. (23:24): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from Roberto Bolano's collection of poems The Unknown University (New Directions). (3:58): MP3

  Episode #324 Modiano's Suspended Sentences, February 24, 2015

  • Translator Mark Polizzotti talks about and reads from his work on Nobel Prize winning fiction writer Patrick Modiano's Suspended Sentences (Yale University Press). (31:27): MP3

  Episode #325 Beethoven & Cubism, February 24, 2015

  • Publisher of NYRB Classics Series Edwin Frank talks about Sanford Friedman's posthumously published novel Conversations with Beethoven (NYRB Classics Series). (8:28): MP3
  • Publisher and Editor in Chief of The Metropolitan Museum of Arts publishing wing Mark Polizzotti talks about his ideas on the making of art books, with a focus on the recent Cubism: the Leonard Lauder Collection, co-edited by Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow, (Metropolitan Museum of Art). (20:33): MP3

  Episode #326 Angels of The Americlypse, March 3, 2015

  • Co-editor Carmen Gimenez-Smith discusses her new anthology Angels of The Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing, published by Counterpath Press. (28:51): MP3

  Episode #327 Climate Justice and the Framing of Nature, March 5, 2015

  • Political ecologist and TESC faculty member Shangrila Joshi talks about her former work as environmental reporter for The Himalyan Times in her native country, Nepal, as well as her current scholarship on the political ecology of the Atmospheric Commons. (29:37): MP3

  Episode #328 Berlin, March 10, 2015

  • Writer Peter Wortsman talks about and reads from his memoir of Berlin Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray (Traveler's Tales). (29:58): MP3

  Episode #329 Khirbet Khizeh, April 2, 2015

  • Co-translator Nicholas de Lange talks about and reads from Israeli novelist S. Yizhar's jewel Khirbet Khizeh, written in 1949. (29:28): MP3

  Episode #330 Address, April 2, 2015

  • Poet Elizabeth Willis talks about and reads from her book of poems Address (Weslyan University Press) (17:45): MP3
  • Poet and performance artist Caroline Bergvall reads from Drift (Nightboat Books) (10:37): MP3

  Episode #331 Drift, April 2, 2015

  • Poet and performance artist Caroline Bergvall, on the phone from London, takes us deep into Drift. (28:56): MP3

  Episode #332 Dark Church, October 20, 2015

  • Poet Joseph Donahue returns to CCP to read from and discuss his new book, Dark Church. (24:14): MP3

  Episode #333 The Tone Poem, October 27, 2015

  • Seattle Symphony Chief Conductor and Music Director Ludovic Morlot discusses Strauss's idea of The Tone Poem and Seattle Symphony's performances of Strauss's works in this modality this year. (27:28): MP3

  Episode #334 Bee/Miller, November 10, 2015

  • Artist Susan Bee talks about her new book Fabulas Feminae (Litmus Press) a collaboration with writer Johanna Drucker. (13:51): MP3
  • Director of the Vespertine Opera Company Dan Miller talks about his company's recent production of Faure's opera Penelope. (15:57): MP3
  • Complete Segment (29:43): MP3

  Episode #335 The Swing, December 9, 2015

  • Greek poet Siarita Kouka, on the phone from Athens, reads from her book The Swing. (16:25): MP3
  • Julia Benzinger, mezzo-soprano, discusses her recent performance as Penelope in Faure's opera of the same name. (10:13): MP3
  • Complete Segment (26:33): MP3

  Episode #336 Lighting the Shadow, December 2, 2015

  • Poet and photographer Rachel Eliza Griffiths reads from and discusses her latest book Lighting The Shadow (Four Way Books). (23:27): MP3
  • Siarita Kouka returns to CCP to finish her reading of The Swing. (6:03): MP3
  • Complete Segment (29:24): MP3

  Episode #337 Give Me Everything You Have, December 2, 2015

  • British writer James Lasdun's discusses his memoir Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked (FSG). (23:27): MP3

  Episode #338 Vallejo, December 9, 2015

  • Joseph Mulligan, editor of Selected Writings of Cesar Vallejo (Wesleyan University Press) discusses his approach in this book to the towering Peruvian poet. (29:29): MP3

  2016

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  Episode #339 Margo Jefferson, January 6, 2016

  Margo Jefferson, writer, talks about her most recent book Negroland: A Memoir (Pantheon). (28:26): MP3

  Episode #340 Uyghurland, January 13, 2016

  Uyghur poet Ahmatjan Osman reads from his book Uyghurland, the Farthest Exile, translated by Jeffrey Yang with the author (Phoneme Media), in the first full collection of poetry to be translated from that language into English. (28:56): MP3

  Episode #341 Zong!, January 20, 2016

  NourbeSe Philip reads from and discusses the literary and legal epistemology of her long poem Zong! (Wesleyan University Press). (30:00): MP3

  Episode #342 Philip, January 20, 2016

  NourbeSe Philip returns to read and discuss a second of her books, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (Wesleyan University Press). (28:25): MP3

  Episode #343 From the Sanskrit, January 27, 2016

  Andrew Schelling returns to CCP to read and discuss his Bright As The Autumn Moon: 50 Poems from the Sanskrit (University of Hawaii Press). (29:26): MP3

  Episode #344 The Gardener, February 17, 2016

  • Aidan Lang, General Director of Seattle Opera and stage director of Seattle opera's recent production of The Marriage of Figaro, talks about his vision of that opera and Seattle Opera's future. (16:26): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads part of "Say It with Flowers" from Michael Gizzi's posthumous book Collected Poems (The Figures). (16:17): MP3(32:50): MP3

  Episode #345 Spivak Part I, February 10, 2016

  Leonard Schwartz reads from Benjamin Fondane's Cinepoems and Others (NYRB Poets); Philosopher Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak talks about her book Death of a Discipline (Columbia University Press) and discusses the Cross Cultural and its discontents. (29:34): MP3

  Episode #346 Spivak Part II, February 10, 2016

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak discusses the Zeitgeist of Manhattan, West Bengal, and many particularities in between; Leonard Schwartz reads from Benjamin Fondane's Cinepoems and Others (NYRB Poets). (29:06): MP3

  Episode #347 Siglio Press, February 24, 2016

  Lisa Pearson, publisher of Siglio Press, discusses the relationship between word and art in the book she publishes, in particular as pertains to titles by John Cage and Nancy Spero. (27:14): MP3

  Episode #348 The Takeover II, March 2, 2016

  Political ecologist Shangrila Joshi Wynn takes over the show to interview Leonard Schwartz on the eco-poetical elements of his two books If and At Element (Talisman House) (28:10): MP3

  Episode #349 The Takeover continues, March 2, 2016

  • Political ecologist Shangrila Joshi Wynn completes her interrogation of the eco-poetical in Schwartz's two books. (17:44): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from Gustaf Sobin's in Sobin's Collected Poems (Talisman House). (12:47): MP3
  • Complete Segment (30:36): MP3

  Episode #350 Kevin Newbury, March 9, 2016

  Stage and opera director Kevin Newbury talks about his recent production of Donizetti's Mary Stuart at Seattle Opera, as well as some of the new opera he has directed, including Oscar, concerning the trial of Oscar Wilde. (30:36): MP3

  Episode #351 This Place, April 13, 2016

  Renowned photographer Frederic Brenner talks about the show he has curated, now up at the Brooklyn Museum: This Place, which explores the complexities of Israel and the West Bank, as place and metaphor, through the eyes of twelve internationally acclaimed photographers. (29:28): MP3

  Episode #352 Explosion Rocks Springfield, May 25, 2016

  Rodrigo Toscano returns to CCP to read from and discuss his latest book, Explosion Rocks Springfield (Fence Books). (26:22): MP3

  Episode #353 Konundrum, October 18, 2016

  Peter Wortsman talks about and reads from his new translations of Franz Kafka in Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka from Archipelago Books. (31:00): MP3

  Episode #354 Sowing the Wind, October 18, 2016

  Edward Foster, in Northfield, Mass reads from and discusses Sowing the Wind, his new book of poems from Marsh Hawk Press. (28:41): MP3

  Episode #355 Gretel, October 18, 2016

  Anya Matonovic, soprano, discusses singing the part of Gretel in Engelbert Humperdink’s opera Hansel and Gretel as performed at Seattle Opera. (26:26): MP3

  Episode #356 Thomas Traherne Series, October 25, 2016

  Susan Schultz reads from and discusses her newest book of poetry Memory Cards: Thomas Traherne Series, from Talisman House. (27:00): MP3

  Episode #357 Amelia Rosselli’s War Variations part one, October 25, 2016

  Paul Vangelisti discusses his co-translation with Lucia Re of the great Italian poet Amelia Rosseli’s War Variations, from Otis Books/Seismicity Editions. (27:13): MP3

  Episode #358 Amelia Rosselli’s War Variations part two, October 25, 2016

  Paul Vangelisti discusses his co-translation with Lucia Re of the great Italian poet Amelia Rosseli’s War Variations, from Otis Books/Seismicity Editions. (31:44): MP3

  Episode #359 The Poet Ida Perkins, November 1, 2016

  Jonathan Galassi, writer, translator and FSG publisher, reads from and discusses his debut novel Muse, from Knopf. (28:13): MP3

  Episode #360 Opera, November 8, 2016

  • Dean Williamson, conductor, talks about his work as music director of Nashville Opera, with NYC’s City Opera, and in his native Washington State. (19:01): MP3
  • Edwin Frank, poet, reads from and discusses his poem “Opera: Die Meistersinger misremembered in two broken parts”, in his book Snake Train: Poems 1984-2013, from Shearsman Books. (11:41): MP3, (30:38): MP3

  Episode #361 Writing During War, November 15, 2016

  Palestinian poet Somayo el-Sousi, on the phone from Gaza City, reads from and discusses her 2014 text (authored with two Swedish writers and another Palestinian writer ) Writing During War. (27:59): MP3

  Episode #362 Fiery Jade, November 29, 2016

  • Composer Greg Youtz talks about composing the music for the new opera Fiery Jade (Cai Yan), based on the life of the great classical female Chinese poet, and offers a recoding from the opera, recently premiered at Pacific Lutheran University. (22:52): MP3
  • Poet and librettist Zhang Er talks about the libretto she wrote for Cai Yan, and how it inspired and adapted to the music for the opera. (08:35): MP3
  • Complete Segment (36:26): MP3

  Episode #363 Of Sudan, December 6, 2016

  Najlaa Osman, Sudanese poet currently based in Sweden, reads from her recent poems in the journal Banipal, and discusses specificities of the Arabic language in Sudan. (29:01): MP3

  Episode #364 Langston Hughes in Central Asia, December 6, 2016

  Afghan-American poet Zohra Saed discusses her recent work Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos, and Notebooks from Turkestan (CUNY/Lost & Found) as well as forms of Uzbek language. (29:48): MP3

  2017

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  Episode #365 The Trump Era, January 7, 2017

  Political philosopher Michael Hardt talks about forms of resistance in the era of Trump, as well as his forthcoming book, with Antonio Negri, Assemblage. (29:48): MP3

  Episode #366: Transmutations, January 17, 2017

  • Jeanne Heuving discusses her new book The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics (University of Alabama Press) (16:51): MP3
  • Antonella Anedda, Italian poet on the phone from Rome, reads from her book Archipelago (Blood Axe Books) and discusses the language of Sardinia and La Maddelene, as well as of Rome. (12:39): MP3

  Episode #367: Aspects of Strangers, January 24, 2017

  • Piotr Gwiazda reads from and discusses his collection of poetry Aspects of Strangers (Moria Books) (18:46): MP3
  • Leonard Schwartz reads from and discusses his own book The New Babel: Towards a Poetics of the Mid-East Crises (University of Arkansas Press) (8:03): MP3

  Episode #368: Blue Fasa, January 31, 2017

  • Nathaniel Mackey reads from and discusses his book Blue Fasa (New Directions).(27:18): MP3

  Episode #369: After Duncan, February 7, 2017

  • Nathaniel Mackey reads from “Mu” in his book Blue Fasa (New Directions).(13:00): MP3
  • Skip Fox reads from his book Sheer Indefinite: Selected Poems (University of New Orleans Press).(8:03): MP3

  Episode #370: Vicuña, February 14, 2017

  • Cecilia Vicuña, Chilean poet and artist, discusses and reads from two of her books, Spit Temple (Ugly Duckling Presse) and Saborami (Chainlinks). (29:20): MP3

  Episode #371: Hirato Renkichi, February 21, 2017

  • Sho Sugita discusses his translations of the Japanese Futurist poet Hirato Renkichi in the recently published Spiral Staircase (Ugly Duckling Presse). (23:24): MP3
  • Skip Fox reads "The Riddle of the Abyss. (2:14) MP3

  Episode #372: Dark Ecology, February 28, 2017

  • Philosopher Timothy Morton discusses his book Dark Ecology (Columbia University Press), which examines contradictions and ecstasies within ecological thinking and imperatives. (29:33): MP3

  Episode #373: Song X, February 21, 2017

  • Patrick Pritchett reads from and discusses his Song X: New and Selected Poems (Talisman House). (26:02): MP3

  Episode #374: Fondane's Existential Monday, March 14, 2017

  • Professor Bruce Baugh talks about the book of Benjamin Fondane's essays he has translated and edited Existential Monday: Philosophical Essays (NYRB Poets Series).(26:49): MP3

  Episode #375: The Goddesses of Kathmandu Valley, March 14, 2017

  • Professor Arun Gupto, on the phone from Nepal, discusses his book Goddesses of the Kathmandu Valley: Grace, Rage, Knowledge (Routledge).(26:16): MP3

  Episode #376: The Student From Algiers, March 21, 2017

  • Fiction writer extraordinaire Rikki Ducornet reads her short story "The Student from Algiers".(31:29): MP3

  Episode #377: Performance, March 2017

  • Andrew Schelling reads his new translations of Bhartrhari. (8:49): MP3
  • Cecilia Vicuna performs an additional poem. (8:37): MP3
  • Antonella Anedda reads from Archipelago. (12:04): MP3

  2018

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  Episode #378: Icons In Ash, February 2, 2018

  • Heide Hatry, German artist in NYC, discusses her latest project and attendant book, Icons In Ash (Station Hill Press) and the portraits she is making of the deceased… from their own ashes. (28:30) :MP3

  Episode #379: Games & Stunts, February 6, 2018

  • Unclassifiable writer Albert Mobilio returns to CCP to discuss his latest book, Games & Stunts (Black Square Editions) and Leonard Schwartz reads from Alexander Vvedensky’s An Invitation for Me to Think (NYRB Classics Series). (18:55): MP3

  Episode #380: The Republic of Exit 43, February 6, 2018

  • Poet Jennifer Scappettone returns to CCP to discuss her new work of environmental intervention, The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump (Atelos). (28:40): MP3

  Episode #381: When They Broke Down the Door, February 6, 2018

  • Iranian poet Fatemeh Shams reads from and discusses her book of poems, When They Broke Downt++he Door (Mage Publishers), translated by Dick Davis. (26:56): MP3

  Episode #382: Tunisia/Holland, February 20, 2018

  • Lamia Makaddam, Tunisian poet based in The Hague, reads from her most recent poetry as published in translation in Banipal, and discusses Dutch/Arabic literary exchange and Leonard Schwartz reads from his own “Capitol Forest”. (24:45): MP3

  Episode #383: Harriet's Return, February 20, 2018

  • Karen Jones Meadows, writer and actress, discusses her recent one woman show, Harriet's Return: Based Upon the Legendary Life of Harriet Tubman, performed at the Castillo Theater in NYC. (33:20): MP3

  Episode #384: Beethoven and Words, February 27, 2018

  • Geoffrey Block, professor of musicology, discusses his new book Experiencing Beethoven: A Listener’s Companion (Rowman & Little Field), focusing here on Beethoven’s songs and single opera, Fidelio. (29:28): MP3

  Episode #385: Joan Murray, February 27, 2018

  • Poet Farnoosh Fathi talks about her editorial and investigative work bringing the poetry of Joan Murray back into print ( Drafts, Fragments and Poems of Joan Murray, NYRB Poets Series). (29:11): MP3

  Episode #386: History Is our Mother, February 27, 2018

  • Famed librettist Alice Goodman talks about her Nixon in China, as well as Chairman Mao, Pat Nixon, Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, all as pertains to the recent publication of her libretti in History Is Our Mother (NYRB Classics Series). (33:48): MP3
  
  

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  About the host: Leonard Schwartz is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including A Message Back And Other Furors (Chax), The Library Of Seven Readings (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Tower Of Diverse Shores (Talisman House), Words Before The Articulate (Talisman House), Language As Responsibility (Tinfish Editions), At Element(Talisman House) and IF.(Talisman House). His book The New Babel: Towards a Poetics of the Mid-East Crises (University of Arkansas Press) is inclusive of poetry, essay and transcribed interviews from this program.

  Cross Cultural Poetics is produced at the stations of KAOS 89.3FM, Olympia, Washington
  
  Executive Producers: Leonard Schwartz, John Ford
  Producer: Kai Harvey
  Communications Coordinators: Arden Gonta
  In Memoriam: Jacinta Mckoy, Ernestine Kimbro
  

  
  

  Cross Cultural Poetics on PennSound Daily

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  • July 19, 2010: "Cross Cultural Poetics"
  • January 28, 2010: "Four New Cross Cultural Poetics Programs"
  • December 24, 2009: "Cross Cultural Poetics: Four New Programs, Including a Milestone 200th"
  • August 12, 2009: "New Episodes of Cross Cultural Poetics"
  • February 13, 2009: "Cross Cultural Poetics: Four New Episodes"
  • September 24, 2008: "Cross Cultural Poetics: 5 New Episodes"
  • June 18, 2008: "Cross Cultural Poetics: Numerous New Episodes Posted"
  • July 2, 2010: Hear New U.S. Poet Laureate, W.S. Merwin, on PennSound"
  
  

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