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Cross Cultural Poetics
hosted by Leonard Schwartz
Photo © Star Black
Cross-Cultural Poetics is produced in the studios of KAOS-FM at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
From the 2003-04 season
Promo
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
- Complete Program (33:18): MP3
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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
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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.
- 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.
- 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
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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.
- 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
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).
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.
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
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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.
- 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
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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.
- 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.
Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (28:22): MP3
Episode #28: EuroNorthAmerica
- 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 (1:00): MP3
Episode #29: The Levant
- 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 = 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.
- Complete Recording (1:00:55): MP3
Episode #31: Riot/And Then Something Happened
- 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
- 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.
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- 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
- 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
- Poet and translator Coleman Barks talks about his latest book - The Drowned
Book: Ecstatic and Earthly Reflections of Bahauddin, Father of Rumi.
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- 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
- 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
- Arthur Sze, based in New Mexico, reads from The Red Shifting Web as well
as his book of translations from Chinese, The Silk Dragon.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Fanny Howe, on the phone from Martha's Vineyard, returns to CCP to discuss her
new book The Vulnerability of Order (Copper Canyon). How can poetry open up what religion houses?
- Complete Recording (58:50): MP3
Episode #41: How We Move
- 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 Shiningand One
Big Self, and her visions on the road and writing about prisons.
- Complete Recording (1:00:23): MP3
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Episode #42: Radio Imagination
- 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
Episodes #45 to #62 are from the Fall 2004 seasonEpisode #45: Would Words What?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Linh Dinh - fiction writer, poet, and translator - reads and discusses his books
- Blood And Soap, Three Vietnamese Poets, and All Around
What Empties Out.
- Complete Recording (56:42): MP3
Episode #52: From The Sound of It
- 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.
- Complete Recording (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
- 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.
- Complete Recording (22:34): MP3
- Chinese poet Yu Jian reads from his own work, translated by Ron Padgett.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (11:05): MP3
(10MB)
Episode #54: Poem and Puzzle
- San Francisco based poet Maxine Chernoff reads from her books World: Poems
1991-2001 and Evolution of the Bridge: Selected Prose Poems.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (31:00): MP3
Episode #55: Monsters
- Edward Foster reads from All Acts Are Simply Acts and reflects on
the exchange between Russian and American poets over the last ten years.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (31:21): MP3
Episode #56: Poetry and Engagement
- Sholeh Wolpe reads from her new book of poems The Scar Saloon, and
discusses Iranian-American culture and issues.
- Complete Recording (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).
- Complete Recording (30:48): MP3
Episode #57: Mythscape
- 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.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (28:02): MP3
Episode #58: History/Language/Silence
- 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.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording(28:16): MP3
Episode #59: Palimpsest and Retrieval
- Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, poet and translator, discusses his new biography
of e.e. cummings.
- Complete Recording (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).
- Complete Recording (29:32): MP3
Episode #60: Doing Things With Words, Doing Words With Things
- Rodrigo Toscano returns to Cross-Cultural Poetics to read, in studio, from
his latest book, To Leveling Swerve (Krupskaya).
- Complete Recording (29:43): MP3
Irish poet John O'Leary reads from his latest books, Salt.
- Complete Recording (27:30): MP3
Episode #61: Echo and Alphabet
- 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
- Irish poet Trevor Joyce, on the phone from Cork, Ireland, reads from and discusses
his book Takeover And Undonesay.
- Complete Recording (44:40): MP3
- Leonard Schwartz reads selections from his book The Tower of Diverse Shores
(Talisman House).
- Complete Recording (12:33): MP3
Episodes #63 to #95 are from the 2005 season
Episode #63: In This Language
- 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.
- Complete Recording (13:40): MP3
- Albert Mobilio - poet, critic, and editor of Book Forum - reads from
his book The Geographics and discusses Book Forum.
- Complete Recording (16:06): MP3
(15MB)
Episode #64: Language Falls Apart
- Chinua Achebe, award-winning Nigerian novelist and poet, reads from his Collected
Poems (Anchor).
- Steve McCaffery, sound poet, Gray Chair of Poetics at SUNY Buffalo, and co-editor
of Imagining Language (MIT University Press), discusses his important anthology.
- Complete Recording (29:15): MP3
Episode #65: Richard the II
- Richard Sieburth, translator extraordinaire, discusses the Library of America
Ezra Pound, which he has edited.
- Complete Recording (29:10): MP3
- Richard Foreman discusses his latest and possibly last play, The Gods
Are Pounding My Head.
- Complete Recording (28:16): MP3
Episode #66: Europa
- Peter Wortsman discusses his translation of the Austrian writer Peter Altenberg's it - t = i.
- Complete Recording (28:02): MP3
Alexander Deriev, Russian icon painter and editor of Ars Interpres,
based in Stockholm, discusses his important journal.
- Complete Recording (30:50): MP3
Episode #67: Evolution & other Mines
- Nicole Walker, poet and poetry editor of Quarterly West, based in
Salt Lake City, Utah, reads her "The Unlikely Origin of the Species".
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (28:31): MP3
Episode #68: North American Transit
- Rodrigo Toscano, frequent CCP guest, reads from his latest work in a live format.
- Complete Recording (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).
- Complete Recording (29:19): MP3
Episode #69: Against Narrative
- Thalia Field discusses her latest book Incarnate: Story Material (New
Directions)
- Complete Recording (27:53): MP3
- Steven Hendricks, writer and Evergreen professor, reads from his work in
progress, Fin.
- Complete Recording (30:26): MP3
Episode #70: The Power of A Name
- Asra Nomani, journalist, discusses her book Standing Alone in Mecca : An
American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam (Harper's San Francisco).
- Complete Recording (43:37): MP3
- Lilah Hegnauer reads from her first book of poems Dark Under Kiganda Stars (Ausable
Press).
- Complete Recording (15:03): MP3
Episode #71: Speech Halo
- Gillian Conoley, poet, reads from and discusses her latest book, Profane
Halo (Verse Press).
- Complete Recording (27:29): MP3
- Laura Elrick, poet, reads from her new book, Skincerity, published by
Krupskaya.
Complete Recording (29:19): MP3
Episode #72: What Survives
- 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).
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (17:03): MP3 (16MB)
Episode #73: Siege
- 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).
- Complete Recording (29:20): MP3
- Israeli poet Aharon Shabtai, on the phone from Tel Aviv, reads his latest poems, poised on the edge of the occupation.
- Complete Recording (30:33): MP3
Episode #74: Face to Face
- 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).
- Complete Recording (29:54): MP3
- Michael Davidson, poet and literary scholar, reads from his collection of poems Arcades and discusses the cultural landscape of Southern California.
- Complete Recording (29:20): MP3
Episode #75: Out of Authorship
- Martine Bellen reads from her new book Malka's Secret Delivery (gong),
and talks about the poetics of the internet.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (3:02): MP3
Episode #76: Poetry and the Language of Religion
- Award-winning poet Elizabeth Robinson reads from her books Pure Descent (Apogee
Press) and Apprehend (Fence).
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (28:18): MP3
Episode #77: Four Across
- 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).
- Complete Recording (14:30): MP3
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- Genya Turovskaya, Russian-American poet and translator discusses her "Five Winters to Vladivostok".
- Complete Recording (13:56): MP3
- Andrew Zawacki, on the phone from Paris, discusses his latest collection of poetry, Anabranch.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording(13:40): MP3
Show #78: Translator
- 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
- 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.
- Complete Recording part one (28:40), part two (26:32)
Episode #80: Three Trapped Tigers/Red Gaze
- 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).
- Complete Recording part one
(27:03), part two (15:04)
- Leonard Schwartz reads from Barbara Guest's latest book, The Red Gaze.
- Complete Recording (12:41): MP3
Episode #81: A Matter Not Of Order
- Tibetan-American poet Tsering Dhompa reads from and discusses her book In the absent everyday (Apogee Press).
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (28:26): MP3
Show #82: Late Night Romp, Afternoon of a Faun
- Sudeep Sen, leading Indian poet, on the phone from New Dehli, stays up late: it is raining hard.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (30:53): MP3 (28MB)
Episode #83: Shadowtime
- 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.
- Complete Recordingpart one
(28:02), part two (30:07)
Episode #84: Translating The Unspeakable
- Kathleen Fraser, poet and thinker, reads from and discusses her book translating the
unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity (U of Alabama Press).
- Complete Reading part one
(26:48), part two (28:39)
Episode #85: Radio From The Mountain
- 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.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (28:26): MP3
Episode #86: The Middle World
- 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).
Complete Recording part
one (28:49), part two
(30:05)
Episode #87: Two From San Francisco
- Maxine Chernoff reads from and talks about Among The Names (Apogee Press).
- Complete Recording (26:39): MP3
Michael Palmer reads from and discusses his new book Company Of Moths (New
Directions).
- Complete Recording (31:05): MP3
Episode #88: The Takeover
- Leonard Schwartz, interviewed by guest host Maged Zaher, talks about and reads from
his new book, Ear And Ethos (Talisman House).
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- Complete Recording (44:48): MP3
From the 2006 season
Episode #89: Echoes
- Ray Gonzales reads from and discusses his book The Religion of Hands: Prose Poems and Flash Fictions.
- Complete Recording (29:04): MP3
- Yunte Huang reads from and discusses his new book, Cribs (Tinfish Press).
- Complete Recording (29:17): MP3
Episode #90: Ten To One
- Bob Perelman reads from and discusses his book, Ten To One: Selected
Poems (Wesleyan University Press)
- Complete Recording (59:04): MP3
Episode #91: Intersections
- Edwin Frank, editor of the New York Review of Books Classics Series, talks about his publishing vision.
- Complete Recording (15:12): MP3
- Margaret Obank, editor of Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature, published in London in English translation, discusses her latest issue.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (28:04): MP3
Episode #92: Sleeping With The Dictionary
- Harryette Mullen reads from and discusses her amazing book, Sleeping with The Dictionary (University of California Press)
- Complete Recording (59:23): MP3
Episode #93: Listening Hard
- 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).
- Complete Recording (29:29): MP3
Episode #94: Namsetoura
- 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
- Leslie Scalapino discusses her book New Time (Wesleyan University Press).
- Complete Recording (28:52): MP3
- Kate Fagan, on the phone from Sydney, Australia, discusses her book, The Long Moment (Salt).
- Complete Recording (30:58): MP3
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).
- Complete Recording (28:04): MP3
Charles Alexander, poet and publisher of Chax Press, reads from his latest book
MP3
Episode #98: Macular Hole and Other Oralities, January 22, 2006
- Cathy Wagner, author of Macular Hole (Fence Books), reads from this controversial work.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (29:15): MP3
Episode #99: Red Actions
- Robert Kelly, poet, reads from and discusses his Red Actions: Selected Poems (Black Sparrow).
- Complete Recording (58:30): MP3
Episode #100: How Remember
- Kristen Prevallet reads from her most recent poetry and discusses her ideas
concerning Investigative Poetics.
- Complete Recording(26:51): MP3
- Lydia Davis, author of numerous books of fiction and translator of Proust and
Blanchot
- Complete Recording (28:08): MP3
Episode #101: Mr. Holman tells all
- 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.
- 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).
- Complete Recording (29:09): MP3
- Edwin Torres, poet and performance artist, reads some of his recent sound
poetry.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (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).
- Complete Recording (36:00): MP3
- Leonard Schwartz reads Aygi's "Sleep-and-Poetry" from Child-And-Rose
(New Directions).
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (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 Dragomoschenko.
- 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.
- Complete Recording (24:39): MP3
Alan Halsey reads from his Selected Poems and discusses the modalities of British poetry.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (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).
- Complete Recording (29:45): MP3
- Mary Burger reads from and discusses her metafictional work Sonny.
- Complete Recording (33:44): MP3
Episode #115: Around the Country, October 22, 2006
- Eleni Sikelianos, in Boulder, Co, reads a new poem, still in manuscript.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (15:46): MP3
- Brian Henry, in Richmond, Virginia, reads from his book Quarantine (Ashanti Press).
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (23:18): MP3
- Giannini Braschi, Puerto Rican writer reading from her Empire Of Dreams.
- Complete Recording (5:26): MP3
- Augustus Young, Irish poet based in France, reading his translation of Mayakovsky’s Cloud in Pants.Forms of Violence
- Complete Recording (28:47): MP3
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- Regina Derieva, Russian poet based in Stockholm.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (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).
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Reading (31:30): MP3
- Burton Raffel, Professor Emeritus, discusses and reads from his new
translation of the German epic Das Nibelungenlied
(Yale
University Press).
- Complete Reading (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).
- Complete Recording (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).
- Complete Recording (31:19): MP3
Episode #122: Civilization, January 7, 2007
- Elizabeth Arnold reads from her new book, Civilization (Flood Editions).
- Complete Recording (44:20): MP3
- Leonard Schwartz reads from Armand Schwerner's Cantos from Dante's Inferno
(Talisman House).
- Complete Recording (15:55): MP3
From the 2007 season
Episode #123: Andre Breton and other Marvels, December 2, 2007
- 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 #124: Unnatural Wonders, January 21, 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 14, 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
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (29:42): MP3
Episode #126: Correspondences, December 10, 2006
- Karen Emmerich, translator from the Greek, reads from her new book of translations: Poems
of Miltos Sachtouris (Archipelago Books).
- Complete Recording (28:24): MP3
- Virginie Poitrasson, on the phone from Paris, reads from some of her latest projects in both French and English.
- Complete Recording (31:38): 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.
- Complete Recording (31:47): MP3
- Frank Bidart, Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets, discusses his latest book, Star
Dust (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux).
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (44:56):
MP3
- Declan Spring, senior editor at New Directions, talks about Can Xue and other authors he works with at ND.
- Complete Recording (15:43): MP3
Episode #133: The Holy Forest
- Robin Blaser reads from the new University of California Edition of The Holy
Forest, as well as some of his most recent poems.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (43:42):MP3
- Leonard Schwartz reads a recent poem of his own entitled "Early".
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (46:59): MP3
- Leonard Schwartz reads from Andrew Joron's The Emergency of Poetry.
- Complete Recording (16:47): MP3
Episode #137 Girly Man/Wake Up Mr. Sleepy!
- Charles Bernstein reads from and discusses his book, Girly Man (University of
Chicago Press).
- Complete Recording (32:20): MP3
- Richard Foreman discusses his most recent work for stage and film, "Wake Up Mr.
Sleepy! Your Unconscious Mind Is Dead!".
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (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).
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (19:13): MP3
- Arthur Sze reads from his book MP3
- Charles Alexander reads from his book Certain Slants, published by Junction Press.
- Complete Recording (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?
- Complete Recording (50:02): MP3
- Leonard Schwartz reads from the poetry of Gustaf Sobin.
- Complete Recording (8:01): MP3
Episode #141: Challenge, May 19, 2007
- Amiri Baraka reads from recent work and discusses the politics of language.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (28:41): MP3
- Caroline Bergvall reads from Cropper and Figs, and discusses the
relationships between performance, silent reading, and the multilingual.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Readings (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).
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- Complete Recording (29:34): MP3
Episode #145: The Long Poem, April 1, 2007
- Edwin Frank reads and discusses Stack,his chapbook from UDP.
- Complete Recording (27:10): MP3
- Andrew Zawacki reads Georgia, a poem for his new home.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (14:16): MP3
- Stacy Szymaszek reads from Emptied of all Ships (Litmus Press).
- Complete Recording (13:29): MP3
- Brenda Iijima reads from Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press).
- Complete Recording (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).
- Complete Recording (38:12): MP3
Episode #148: Outernationale, October 14, 2007
- Erica Wright, poetry editor for Guernica, discusses that online journal.
- Complete Recording (13:39): MP3
Peter Gizzi reads from and discusses his new book of poems The
Outernationale.
- Complete Recording (29:55): MP3
Episode #149: Compost and Silence, Octover 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).
- Complete Recording (27:56): MP3
- James Thomas Stevens reads from and discusses his new book of poems MP3
Episode #152: Iphigenia and Other Dramas, November 11, 2007
- CS Giscombe reads "Republican National Convention".
- Complete Recording (1:10): MP3
- Norman Finkelstein reads from and discusses his new book of poems Passing Over (Marsh Hawk Press).
- Complete Recording (19:02): MP3
- Speight Jenkins, general director of the Seattle Opera, discusses his recent production of Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris.
- Complete Recording (37:05): MP3
Episode #153: Three from NY, November 18, 2007
- Tracy Grinnell reads from her book Some Clear Souvenir (O Books).
- Complete Recording (15:19): MP3
- Steve Clay, publisher of Granary Books, discusses his latest creations.
- Complete Recording (13:05): MP3
- Rob Fitterman reads from latest Metropolis installment, "Sprawl".
- Complete Recording (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.
Complete Recording (41:41): MP3
- Dan Machlin reads from and discusses his new of poetry, Dear Body (Ugly Duckling Presse).
- Complete Recording (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).
- Complete Recording (41:30): MP3
- Michael Palmer, on the phone from San Francisco, reads a new sequence of poems.
- Complete Recording (14:51): MP3
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).
Complete Recording (28:13): MP3
- Performance poet Julie Patton, on the phone from Cleveland, performs and discusses some of her new work, emerging
from the
conversation.
- Complete Recording (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).
- Complete Recording (42:45): MP3
- Brian Clements talks about Sentence, the journal of prose poetry he publishes and edits.
- Complete Recording (14:39): MP3
Episode #159: Listening Through, November 16, 2008
- Robert Kelly reads from and discusses a new sequence of poems, "Listening Through"
- Complete Recording (59:18): MP3
Episode #160: A Semblance
- Laura Moriarty reads from and discusses her A Semblance: Selected and New Poems 1975-2007
(Omnidawn Press)
.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (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
- 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, 2004
- 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
- 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
- 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).
- Complete Recording (29:00): MP3
- Kelvin Christopher James, Trinidadian fiction writer based in NY, reads from his recent work.
- Complete Recording (29:49): MP3
Episode #168: Mystery and Unmap
- Robert Mittenthal, poet based in Seattle, reads from and discusses his recent book, Value Unmapped
(Nomados).
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (27:20): MP3
Episode #169: Forms of Address
- 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
- Comlete Recording (17:00): MP3
Episode #170: Sharma/Zolf/Rowan
- 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.
- Complete Recording (14:56): MP3
- Lou Rowan, fiction writer and poet, reads from Sweet Potatoes (AhaDada Books).
- Complete Recording (18:23):MP3
Episode #171: Forms of Address II
- Paul Hoover, poet and author, reads from and discusses his book of essays Fables of Responsibility (University of
Michigan Press).
- Complete Recording (31:00): MP3
Bill Berkson reads from his new book of poems Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently
(The Owl Press).
- Complete Recording (25:23): MP3
Episode #172 Tying/Untying
- Edwin Torres reads from and discusses The Popedology Of An Ambient Language (Atelos).
- Complete Recording (28:56): MP3
- Nuruddin Farrah, Somali novelist, reads from his new book, Knots (Penguin).
- Complete Recording (27:35): MP3
Episode #173: Wake UP! The Books Are On Fire!
- Richard Foreman discusses his new work Wake Up Mr. Sleepy! Your Unconscious Mind Is Dead!
- Complete Recording (29:25): MP3
- Violaine Huisman discusses Autodafe, the important literary journal famously published by a consortium of publishers earlier
in the decade.
- Complete Recording (29:57): MP3
Episode #174: Criseyde
- 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
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From the 2009 Season
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.
- Complete Recording (13:51): MP3
- Finally, Judith Roche reads from and discusses her award winning book of poetry The Wisdom Of The Body (Black Heron Press).
- Complete Recording (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
- 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 discusses her recently reissued Dura (Nightboat Books) (27:08): MP3
- Susan Schultz reads from discusses her Dementia Blog (Singing Horse Press) (29:20): MP3
- Complete Recording (56:28): MP3
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).
- Sarah Vap talks about the Olympia issue of locuspoint, and reads from her own work.
- 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.
- Complete Recording (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.
- Complete Recording (4:22): MP3
- Complete Program (58:22): MP3
Episode #185: Another Kind of Nation
- 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.
- Complete Recording (16:19): MP3
After that, Steve McCaffery reads from and discusses his new book
Slightly Left Of Thinking (Chax Press).
- Complete Recording (28:20): MP3
- Complete Program (44:39): MP3
Episode #186: I and You
- Charles Simic discusses subversion and Sappho in his book of essays The Renegade (George Braziller).
- Complete Recording (31:52): MP3
- Anne Tardos reads from and discusses her book of poems I Am You (Salt).
- Complete Recording (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).
- Complete Recording (28:55): MP3
- Joseph Donahue reads from and discusses his new book Terra Lucida (Talisman House).
- Complete Recording (29:46): MP3
- Complete Program (59:22): MP3
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).
- Complete Recording (34:64): MP3
- Craig Perez, poet with roots in Samoa, reads from and discusses From Unincorporated Territory
(Tinfish Editions), a poem of Samoa.
- Complete Recording (25:19): MP3
- Complete Program (1:00:50): MP3
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