Cross Cultural Poetics

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.
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.


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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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

• 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 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). 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

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 season

Episode #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.

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

• 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).

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

• 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) (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.
  
• 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
• 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 Recording part 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).
• 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 Near or Random Acts (Singing Horse Press).
• Complete Recording (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.
• 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.
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).
• 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 (Ahsahta 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
• 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).
• 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, 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).
• Complete Recording (27:56): MP3
• James Thomas Stevens reads from and discusses his new book of poems Bridge Dead In The Water.
• Complete Recording (29:35): MP3

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

• C.S. 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)
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• 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

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 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

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).
• complete segment (46:38): MP3
• Sarah Vap talks about the Olympia issue of locuspoint, and reads from her own work.
• complete segment (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.
• 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 #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).
• 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

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.
• Complete Recording (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.
• Complete Recording (16:31): MP3
Episode #191: Quite A Lineup, April 26, 2009
• Charles North reads from and discusses his Complete Lineups (Hanging Loose Press).
• Complete Recording (19:25): MP3
Next, Jed Rasula reads from and discusses Hot Wax, or Psyche's Drip (Bookthug).
• Complete Recording (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.
• Complete Recording (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.
• Complete Recording (27:26): MP3
• Michael Palmer reads from and discusses his translations of the great Russian poet Alexei Parschikov.
• Complete Recording (30:16): MP3
• Complete Program (58:34): MP3

Episode #193: Disagreements

• Nathalie Stephens reads and discusses Notebook of Disagreements.
• Complete Recording (40:56): MP3
• Rob Spillman discusses the anthology he has edited Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing.
• Complete Recording (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.
• Complete Recording (27:17): MP3
• Next, Sophie Mayer, Managing Editor of English Pen World Atlas, a literary website, discusses her recent work with Palestinian writers.
• Complete Recording (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).
• complete Recording (34:58): MP3
• Next, Maged Zaher reads from and discusses farout_library_software, (Tinfish Press).
• Complete Recording (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.
• Complete Recording (18:01): MP3
• Vanessa Place reads from and discusses Dies: A Sentence, published by Les Figues.
• Complete Recording (17:08): MP3
• Amal Eqeiq, Palestinian Israeli, reads from and discusses her recent translations from the Arabic of Palestinian poets.
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (27:25): MP3
• Schwartz reads from Inger Christenson's It (New Directions).
• Complete Recording (11:40): MP3
• Rachel Levitsky reads from and discusses her new book, Neighbor (Ugly Duckling Presse).
• Complete Recording (15:37): MP3
• Complete Program (54:42): MP3

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).
• Complete Recording (9:49): MP3
• British poet Sophie Mayer reads from and discusses her new collection of poems Her Various Scalpels (Shearsmen Books).
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (28:12): MP3
• Donald Revell reads from and discusses his new translations of Rimbaud's A Season In Hell and Illuminations (Omnidawn).
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (29:08): MP3
• Bruce Benderson reads from and discusses his novel of the Pacific Northwest, Pacific Agony (Semiotexte).
• Complete Recording (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.
• Complete Recording (44:04): MP3
• Tim Roberts and Julie Carr, editors of Counterpath, discuss their publishing vision.
• Complete Recording (16:12): MP3
• Complete Program (1:00:16): MP3

Episode #203: Performance

• Richard Foreman discuss his new work Idiot Savant, at the Public Theater.
• Complete Recording (17:51): MP3
• Alenka Kraigher, Slovenian actress, discusses her role in Idiot Savant
• Complete Recording (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.
• Complete Recording (12:57): MP3
• Seneca Garber, associate education director at The Seattle Opera, discusses that company's commitment to Wagner and Verdi.
• Complete Recording (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
• Complete Recording (44:52): MP3
• Nathalie Stephens discusses her trip to Germany and her book The Sorrow and the Fast Of It (Nightboat Editions).
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (30:31): MP3
• John Felstiner discusses his new book of essays Can Poetry Save the Earth? (Yale University Press).
• Complete Recording (29:53): MP3
• Complete Program (1:00:56): MP3

Episode #206: Nightboat, January 7, 2010

• Stephen Motika discusses and reads from the book he has edited, Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman.
• Complete Recording (31:13): MP3
• Edwin Torres reads from and discusses his new book from Nightboat, In The Function of External Circumstances.
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (36:58): MP3
• Julie Carr reads from and discusses her new book 100 Notes on Violence (Ashata Press).
• Complete Recording (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.
• Complete Recording (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.
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (22:00): MP3
• Alicia Cohen reads from her new book of poetry Debts and Obligations (O Books).
• Complete Recording (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.
• Complete Recording (23:53): MP3
• Andrew Schelling, editor of Bombay Gin, discusses that Naropa based journal's recent issue, and reads from the Sanskrit.
• Complete Recording (12:25): MP3
• Martin Corless-Smith, British poet, reads from his forthcoming "Rome Poems."
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (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.
• Complete Recording (33:40): MP3
• Anne Waldman reads from and discusses her shamanic new book of poetry Manatee/Humanity (Penguin)
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Reading (35:55): MP3
• Leonard Schwartz reads from Mahmoud Darwish's A River Dies of Thirst (Archipelago Books).
• Complete Reading (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.)
• Complete Reading (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).
• Complete Reading (31:18): MP3
• Arthur Sze reads from and discusses his new anthology Chinese Writers on Writing (Trinity University Press)
• Complete Reading (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.
• Complete Reading (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).
• Complete Reading (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.
• Complete Reading (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.
• Complete Reading (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).
• Complete Reading (24:08): MP3
• Complete Program (1:00:07): MP3

Episode #219: Purgatory, June 6, 2010

• The great Chilean poet, Raul Zurita, reads from his two books Purgatory, translated by Anna Deeny, and Anteparadise, both from University of California Press.
• Complete Reading (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.
• Complete Reading (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).
• Complete Reading (14:05): MP3
• Edward Foster, poet and publisher of Talisman House, discusses the final print issue of the journal Talisman.
• Complete Reading (15:03): MP3
• Thalia Field reads from and discusses her new book and its mingling of forms, Bird Lovers, Backyard.
• Complete Reading (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).
• Complete Reading (28:20): MP3
• Jonathon Skinner discusses his essay on the Third Landscape in the Eco Language Reader (Yo-Yo Labs/Nightboat Books).
• Complete Reading (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).
• Complete Recording (29:46): MP3
• Jonathon Stalling discusses his book: Poetics Of Emptiness: Transformation of Asian Thought in American Poetry (Fordham University Press).
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (29:45): MP3
• Laura Moriarty reads from her new book A Tonalist (Nightboat Books).
• Complete Recording (29:40): MP3
• Complete Program (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.
• Complete Recording (21:32): MP3
• Susan Schultz discusses the latest issue of Tinfish, published in Hawaii.
• Complete Recording (17:31): MP3
• Leonard Schwartz reads his own “Welter” from Tinfish 20.
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (26:21): MP3
• John Taggart reads from and discusses his new and selected poems, Is Music (Copper Canyon Press).
• Complete Recording (33:41): MP3
• Complete Program (1:00:03): MP3

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).
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (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)
• Complete Recording (29:38): MP3
• Albert Mobilio reads from and talks about his new book of poems Touch Wood (Black Square Editions).
• Complete Recording (16:49): MP3
• Charles Alexander, publisher of Chax Press in Tucson, Arizona, talks about Chax’s latest titles.
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (30:06): MP3
• Edwin Torres reads from and discusses Yes Thing No Thing (Roof Books).
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (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.
• Complete Recording (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.
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Recording (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.
• Complete Recording (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).
• Complete Reading (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
• Raul Zurita, on the phone from Santiago, Chile, reads from Inre (Marick Press).
• Complete Reading (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).
• Complete Reading (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).
• Complete Reading (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.
• Complete Reading (35:05): MP3
• Martine Bellen reads from and discusses her new book of poetry, Ghosts! (Spuyten Duyvil Press).
• Complete Reading (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).
• Complete Reading (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).
• Complete Reading (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.
• Complete Reading (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.
• Complete Reading (17:43): MP3
• Anna Rabinowitz reads from and discusses her book of poetry Present Tense (Omnidawn Publishing).
• Complete Reading (14:22): MP3
• Schwartz reads from Gustaf Sobin’s Collected Poems (Talisman House).
• Complete Reading (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

• Andrew Schelling talks about and reads from his latest book of poems, 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

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
• Raul 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 Sylvan 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

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
• Raul 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 Raul Zurita into Basque. (34:06): MP3
• Edward Foster reads from his long poem in process and discusses international poetry in translation. (24:46): MP3

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



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).

Cross Cultural Poetics is produced at the stations of KAOS 89.3FM, Olympia, Washington

Executive Producers: Leonard Schwartz, John Ford
Producer: Craig Canario
Communications Coordinator: Samantha Siciliano
In Memoriam: Jacinta Mckoy, Ernestine Kimbro





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