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Cross-Cultural
Poetics
Hosted by Leonard Schwartz
photograph © Star Black
| Cross-Cultural Poetics is produced in the studios of KAOS-FM at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. |
From the 2003-2004 season (Audio is in .mp3 format, mono, 128 kbps.)
Promo
Cross-Cultural
Poetics promo (0:59) (1MB)
Show #1: Poetry and Dissent
10-21-03
Egyptian poets Mohamed Metwalli and Maged Zaher and Chinese poet Zhang Er discuss
their work, as well as the problems of censorship in their respective countries.
Mohamed Metwalli,
Maged Zaher, Zhang Er (29:16) (27MB)
Show #2: Cosmopolitan
11-03-03
Argentine poet Mercedes Roffe, at home in both Buenos Aires and New York, discusses
her writing.
Mercedes Roffe
(27:57) (26MB)
Show #3: Language Under Fire
11-03-03
Leading American poet Michael Palmer, based in San Francisco, reads from his
work and discusses the dilemma of poetry in the Age of Bush.
Michael Palmer (33:18) (30MB): MP3
, RealAudio
Show #4: How Arab Is It
11-10-03
Victor Reinking, translator of Abellatif Laabi, a leading Moroccan poet, reads
from Laabi's book The World's Embrace as well as Laabi's prison notebooks,
and discusses the relationship between French and Arabic in Laabi's writing.
Victor Reinking (33:19) (31MB): MP3
, RealAudio
Show #5: Doubt
11-10-03
Leading American poet, fiction writer and essayist Fanny Howe discusses Irish
culture, her new books Selected Poems and Gone (both from The University of
California Press), and reads her major prose poem "Doubt."
Fanny Howe
(27:56) (26MB)
Show #6: Fighting Back
11-17-03
Poet, novelist, and Evergreen faculty member Bill Ransom reads from his new
manuscript War Baby, and discusses his experiences in Central America during
the 1980's.
Bill Ransom
(28:01) (26MB)
Show #7: If I Were Writing This
11-24-03
Elder of the Tribe of Poetry and Black Mountain great Robert Creeley discusses
his new book If I Were Writing This.
Robert Creeley
(28:12) (26MB)
Show #8: The Inferno
11-24-03
The great Canadian poet Robin Blaser discusses Dante's Inferno and the
American-made
Inferno in Iraq.
Robin Blaser
(28:38) (26MB)
Show #9: Vancouver Writing
12-01-03
Vancouver British Columbia poet Meredith Quartermain discusses the experimental
poetry scene in Vancouver as well as her new book One Thousand Mornings.
Meredith Quartermain
(27:52) (26MB)
Show #10: American In Paris
01-07-04
Leading American poet Alice Notley, based in Paris, discusses her masterwork
The Descent of Alette.
Alice Notley (54:42) (50MB): MP3
, RealAudio
Show #11: Refusing The Wall
01-07-04
Peter Cole, from Jerusalem, discusses his own writing and his Ibis Press, publishing
literary work in translation from both Arabic and Hebrew into English.
Peter Cole (28:49) (26MB)
Show #12: Carved Water
12-08-03
Zhang Er and Bob Holman talk about their translation collaboration
on
Zhang
Er's book of poems Carved Water.
Zhang Er &
Bob Holman (22:04) (20MB)
Show #13: Before Spanish
12-08-03
Poet Jerome Rothenberg reads from his new collection A Book of Witness, and
discusses his work on the Mazatac shaman Maria Sabina.
Jerome Rothenberg
(27:45) (25MB)
Show #14: Another Language
01-26-04
Rosmarie Waldrop discusses her translations of the Egyptian-Jewish poet Edmond
Jabes as well as her own poetry in Another Language (Talisman House).
Rosmarie Waldrop
(29:15) (27MB)
Show #15: In the Room of Never Grieve:
01-26-04
Anne Waldman discusses her latest book, a new and selected from Coffee House
Press.
Anne Waldman (32:04) (29MB): MP3
, RealAudio
Show #16: Nation Language and other Revolutions
02-02-04
Kamau Brathwaite talks about his new work, Caribbean poetry, and the ancient
art of making it new.
Kamau Brathwaite (59:58) (55MB): MP3
, RealAudio
Show #17: Ochre Tones
01-17-04
Filipino poet Marjorie Evasco discusses the relationships between English and
Cebuano in her book Ochre Tones.
Marjorie Evasco
(25:08) (23MB)
Show #18: Filipino Poetics
01-18-04
Ramil Gullia and Dina Roma discuss their poetry in the general context of contemporary
Filipino writing.
Ramil Gullia and Dina Roma (31:39) (29MB): MP3
, RealAudio
Show #19: Complexity of Words
01-18-04
Malaysian poet Eddin Khoo meditates on poetry, puppetry, English, and minority
Hinduism in Muslim Malaysia.
Eddin Khoo
(27:12) (25MB)
Show #20: My Mojave
02-16-04
Donald Revell talks about poetry, the paradise of being awake, and life in the
desert.
Donald Revell
(29:09) (27MB)
Show #21: The Poetry of Arab Women
02-23-04
Nathalie Handal, Palestinian-American poet and editor of the award-winning
anthology
The Poetry Of Arab Women, discusses this important book.
Nathalie Handal
(28:33) (27MB)
Show #22: Seattle and Other Worlds
02-23-04
Some time Seattle poet Joseph Donahue, whom John Ashbery has called "one
of the major American poets of this time," discusses his latest book, Incidental
Eclipse.
Joseph Donahue
(28:43) (27MB)
Show #23: Forum Singapore
01-19-04
Singaporean poets Alvin Pang, Toh Hsien Min, and Yong Shu Hoong discuss the
complexities of their poetry and their city. (Taped at the Word Feast Poetry
Festival, Singapore, 1/19/04)
The Bears
Moscow Poet Alexei Parschikov, on the phone from Germany, speaks
about his new poems.
Alvin Pang, Toh Hsien Min, Yong Shu Hoong (56:23) (53MB):
MP3
, RealAudio
Show #24/25: The Forest of Symbols
03-08-04
Leading avant-garde playwright Richard Foreman talks about anti-theater, language,
and surprise.
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.
Richard Foreman (31:02): MP3
(30MB), RealAudio
(16MB)
Guy
Bennett (29:30) (29MB)
Show #26: Word in Words
Chilean poet Cecilia Vicuna reads from her poems and discusses the intermingling
of Spanish, English, Mapuche, and Quechua in her poems.
Cecilia
Vicuna (29:28) (29MB)
The Politics of the Adjective Political
02/03-08-04
Susan Parenti - playwright, composer, poet - discusses her book by that title.
Susan
Parenti (29:51) (30MB)
Show #27: History/Lyric/Speech
03-15-04
Charles Bernstein discusses the play of the signifier across these dimensions
of language, and reads from World on Fire and The Sophist.
Charles Bernstein (31:53): MP3
(31MB), RealAudio
(17MB)
From Belgium
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.
Michel
Delville (28:22) (28MB)
Show #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.
Alice Notley, Jim Kates, Carmen Firan (1:00): MP3
(58MB), RealAudio
(32MB)
Show #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.
Michael Sells and Aharon Shabtai (59:55): MP3
(58MB), RealAudio
(32MB)
Show #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.
John Tranter, Mohammed Metwalli and Maged Zaher (1:00:55): MP3
(58MB), RealAudio
(32MB)
Show #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.
Sashi Tharoor and Susan Schultz (1:00:27): MP3
(58MB), RealAudio
(32MB)
Show #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.
Edward Foster and Lida Abdullah (1:00:10): MP3
(58MB), RealAudio
(32MB)
Show #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.
Rick Simonson, Micheline Marcom, Russell Banks (1:00:28): MP3
(58MB), RealAudio
(32MB)
Show #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.
Coleman Barks, Steven Dickison, Barbara Guest (1:02:12): MP3
(60MB), RealAudio
(33MB)
Show #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.
Leslie Scalapino, Mary Margaret Sloan, Judith Roche (59:53): MP3
(58MB), RealAudio
(32MB)
Show #36: Time Juxtaposition
Arthur Sze, based in New Mexico, reads from The Red Shifting Web as well
as his book of translations from Chinese, The Silk Dragon.
Leung Ping-Kwan discusses the situation of poetry in Hong Kong, and reads from
his book Travelling With A Bitter Melon.
Arthur Sze and Leung Ping-Kwan (58:57): MP3
(57MB), RealAudio
(31MB)
Show #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.
Martin Corless-Smith (53:25): MP3
(51MB), RealAudio
(28MB)
Show #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.
Rodrigo Toscano and Ariel Goldberger (1:00:06): MP3
(58MB), RealAudio
(32MB)
Show #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.
Christopher Merrill and Katrine Marie Guldager (59:54): MP3
(58MB), RealAudio
(32MB)
Show #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.
Martine Bellen reads from her new book of poems The Vulnerability of Order (Copper Canyon). How can poetry open up what religion houses?
Fanny Howe and Martine Bellen (58:50): MP3
(56MB), RealAudio
(31MB)
Show #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 Shining and One
Big Self, and her visions on the road and writing about prisons.
C.S. Giscombe and C.D. Wright (1:00:23): MP3
(58MB), RealAudio
(32MB)
Show #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.
Paul Vangelisti (59:33): MP3
(71MB), RealAudio
(32MB)
Show #43: Sounding The Poem, Softwaring The Poem
09-01-04
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.
John Taggart and Andrew Klobucar (1:00:06): MP3
(58MB), RealAudio
(32MB)
Show #44: Capacity/Incapacity/Opacity
09-01-04
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.
A.L. Nielsen and Jeanne Heuving (59:27): MP3
(57MB), RealAudio
(32MB)
Shows #45 to #62 are from the Fall 2004 season
Show #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.
Chris Mann, Leonard Schwartz, Judith Roche (1:00:18): MP3
(58MB), RealAudio
(32MB)
Show #46: Arts and Letters
Edmund White, distinguished novelist, discusses his book of essays
from Cleis Press Arts and Letters.
Poem Collage, by Balan Villeneuva.
Edmund White and Balan Villeneuva (1:00:24): MP3
(58MB), RealAudio
(32MB)
Show #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.
Albert Gelpi (59:12): MP3
(57MB), RealAudio
(31MB)
Show #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.
Chris Abani and Dennis Phillips (1:00:40): MP3
(58MB), RealAudio
(32MB)
Show #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.
Matthew Stadler (48:52): MP3
(47MB), RealAudio
(26MB)
Show #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.
Margaret O'Bank and Paul Hoover (56:22): MP3
(54 MB), RealAudio
(30MB)
Show #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.
Linh Dinh (56:42): MP3
(54MB), RealAudio
(30MB)
Show #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.
Peter Quartermain (29:47): MP3
(27MB)
Poet Nada Gordon, on the phone from New York, reads from Are Not Our Lowing
Heifers Sleeker Than Night-Swollen Mushrooms? (Spuyten Duyvil)
Nada Gordon (29:54): MP3
(27MB)
Show #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.
Afaa Weaver (22:34): MP3
(21MB)
Chinese poet Yu Jian reads from his own work, translated by Ron Padgett.
Yu Jian (3:05): MP3
(3MB)
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.
Wang Ping and Zhang Er (20:52): MP3
(19MB)
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.
Frank Stewart (11:05): MP3
(10MB)
Show #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.
Vancouver, Canada poet Rita Wong reads from Monkey Puzzle and muses
on the role of the poet in the face of Bush's reelection.
Maxine Chernoff (26:45): MP3
(25MB)
Rita Wong (31:00): MP3
(28MB), RealAudio
(16MB)
Show #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.
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.
Edward Foster (28:48): MP3
(26MB)
Mark Wallace (31:21): MP3
(29MB), RealAudio
(16MB)
Show #56: Poetry and Engagement
Sholeh Wolpe reads from her new book of poems The Scar Saloon, and
discusses Iranian-American culture and issues.
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).
Sholeh Wolpe (28:15): MP3
(26MB)
Stacy Doris (30:48): MP3
(28MB), RealAudio
(16MB)
Show #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.
Joseph Donahue returns to Cross-Cultural Poetics to read from his ongoing series
Terra Lucida, which explores the landscape in search of spiritual bodies.
Robin Blaser (29:59): MP3
(27MB)
Joseph Donahue (28:02): MP3
(26MB)
Show #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.
Charles Borkhuis reads from his latest book of poems, Savoir-Fear
(Spuyten Duyvil), and demonstrates how film noir and German philosophy tango.
Russell Banks (30:48): MP3
(28MB), RealAudio
(16MB)
Charles Borkhuis (28:16): MP3
(26MB)
Show #59: Palimpsest and Retrieval
Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, poet and translator, discusses his new biography
of e.e. cummings.
Richard Sieburth, leading translator from both German and French, discusses
and reads from his new translation of Georg Buchner's Lenz (Archipelago
Books).
Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno (28:31): MP3
(26MB)
Richard Sieburth (29:32): MP3
(27MB)
Show #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).
Irish poet John O'Leary reads from his latest books, Salt.
Rodrigo Toscano (29:43): MP3
(27MB)
John O'Leary (27:30): MP3
(25MB)
Show #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).
Khaled Mattawa (57:22): MP3
(53MB), RealAudio
(29MB)
Show #62: Takeover
Irish poet Trevor Joyce, on the phone from Cork, Ireland, reads from and discusses
his book Takeover And Undonesay.
Leonard Schwartz reads selections from his book The Tower of Diverse Shores
(Talisman House).
Trevor Joyce (44:40): MP3
(41MB), RealAudio
(23MB)
Leonard Schwartz (12:33): MP3
(12MB)
#63 to #95 are from the 2005 season
Show #63: In This Language
Russian-language Uzbek poet Sabit Madaliev discusses Sufi poetics.
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.
Albert Mobilio - poet, critic, and editor of Book Forum - reads from his book The Geographics and discusses Book Forum.
Sabit Madaliev (30:21): MP3 (28MB), RealAudio (15MB)
Marta Lopez-Luaces (13:40): MP3 (13MB)
Albert Mobilio (16:06): MP3 (15MB)
Show #64: Language Falls Apart
Chinua Achebe, award-winning Nigerian novelist and poet, reads from his Collected
Poems (Anchor).
Steve McCaffery, sound poet, Gray Chair of Poetics at SUNY Buffalo, and co-editor
of Imagining Language (MIT University Press), discusses his important anthology.
Chinua Achebe (29:13): MP3
(28MB)
Steve McCaffery (29:15): MP3
(28MB)
Show #65: Richard the II
Richard Sieburth, translator extraordinaire, discusses the Library of America
Ezra Pound, which he has edited.
Richard Foreman discusses his latest and possibly last play, The Gods
Are Pounding My Head.
Richard Sieburth (29:10): MP3
(28MB)
Richard Foreman (28:16): MP3
(27MB)
Show #66: Europa
Peter Wortsman discusses his translation of the Austrian writer Peter Altenberg's Telegrams of the Soul (Archipelago
Books), and reads from his own collection of prose poems, it - t = i.
Alexander Deriev, Russian icon painter and editor of Ars Interpres,
based in Stockholm, discusses his important journal.
Peter Wortsman (28:02): MP3
(27MB)
Alexander Deriev (30:50): MP3
(30MB)
Show #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".
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.
Nicole Walker (30:52): MP3
(30MB)
Stephen Collis (28:31): MP3
(27MB)
Show #68: North American Transit
Rodrigo Toscano, frequent CCP guest, reads from his latest work in a live format.
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).
Rodrigo Toscano (29:09): MP3
(28MB)
Joshua Beckman (29:19): MP3
(28MB)
Show #69: Against Narrative
Thalia Field discusses her latest book Incarnate: Story Material (New Directions)
Steven Hendricks, writer and Evergreen professor, reads from his work in progress, Fin.
Thalia Field (27:53): MP3 (25MB)
Steven Hendricks (30:26): MP3 (27MB)
Show #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).
Lilah Hegnauer reads from her first book of poems Dark Under Kiganda Stars (Ausable
Press).
Asra Nomani (43:37): MP3
(42MB)
Lilah Hegnauer (15:03): MP3
(14MB)
Show #71: Speech Halo
Gillian Conoley, poet, reads from and discusses her latest book, Profane
Halo (Verse Press).
Laura Elrick, poet, reads from her new book, Skincerity, published by
Krupskaya.
Gillian Conoley (27:29): MP3
(26MB)
Laura Elrick (29:19): MP3 (28MB)
Show #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).
Zhang Er reads her poems from Verses on Bird (Zephyr Press), and reflects
on all that disappeared when the Yangtze was flooded.
W.S. Merwin (42:01): MP3 (40MB)
Zhang Er (17:03): MP3 (16MB)
Show #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).
Israeli poet Aharon Shabtai, on the phone from Tel Aviv, reads his latest poems, poised on the edge of the occupation.
Stela Tomasevic (30:33): MP3
(29MB)
Aharon Shabtai (29:20): MP3 (28MB)
Show #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).
Michael Davidson, poet and literary scholar, reads from his collection of poems Arcades and discusses the cultural landscape of Southern California.
Monica de la Torre (29:54): MP3
(29MB)
Michael Davidson (29:20): MP3 (28MB)
Show #75: Out of Authorship
Martine Bellen reads from her new book Malka's Secret Delivery (gong),
and talks about the poetics of the internet.
British poet Martin Corless-Smith reads from his latest work, Swallows, and talks about the Pre-Socratics, Thomas Swann, and the primacy of feeling.
Martine Bellen (29:00): MP3 (28MB)
Martin Corless-Smith (3:02): MP3
(30MB)
Show #76: Poetry and the Language of Religion
Award-winning poet Elizabeth Robinson reads from her books Pure Descent (Apogee
Press) and Apprehend (Fence).
Peter O'Leary, on the phone from Chicago, reads from his book Watchfulness (Spuyten Dutyvil), and discusses the double legacy of religious language.
Elizabeth Robinson (29:04): MP3
(28MB)
Peter O'Leary (28:18): MP3 (27MB)
Show #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).
Genya Turovskaya, Russian-American poet and translator discusses her "Five Winters to Vladivostok".
Andrew Zawacki, on the phone from Paris, discusses his latest collection of poetry, Anabranch.
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.
Richard Zenith (14:30): MP3 (14MB)
Genya Turovskaya (13:56): MP3
(13MB)
Andrew Zawacki (17:27): MP3 (17MB)
Evie Shockley (13:40): MP3 (13MB)
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).
Paul Vangelisti (51:19): MP3
(47MB)
Show #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.
Dan Simon: part one (28:40), part two (26:32)
Show #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).
Leonard Schwartz reads from Barbara Guest's latest book, The Red Gaze.
Suzanne Jill Levine: part one
(27:03), part two (15:04)
Leonard Schwartz (12:41): MP3 (12MB)
Show #81: A Matter Not Of Order
Tibetan-American poet Tsering Dhompa reads from and discusses her book In the absent everyday (Apogee Press).
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.
Tsering Dhompa (29:16): MP3
(27MB)
Bruce Benderson (28:26): MP3 (26MB)
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.
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.
Sudeep Sen (30:05): MP3 (28MB)
Henry Weinfeld (30:53): MP3 (28MB)
Show #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.
Charles Bernstein: part one
(28:02), part two (30:07)
Show #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).
Kathleen Fraser: part one
(26:48), part two (28:39)
Show #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.
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.
Christopher Merrill (27:45): MP3
(25MB)
Forrest Gander (28:26): MP3 (26MB)
Show #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).
Breyten Breytenbach: part
one (28:49), part two
(30:05)
Show #87: Two From San Francisco
Maxine Chernoff reads from and talks about Among The Names (Apogee Press).
Michael Palmer reads from and discusses his new book Company Of Moths (New
Directions).
Maxine Chernoff (26:39): MP3
(24MB)
Michael Palmer (31:05): MP3 (28MB)
Show #88: The Takeover
Leonard Schwartz, interviewed by guest host Maged Zaher, talks about and reads from
his
new book, Ear And Ethos (Talisman House).
Leonard Schwartz (44:48): MP3
(41MB)
From the 2006 season
Show #89: Echoes
Ray Gonzales reads from and discusses his book The Religion of Hands: Prose Poems and Flash Fictions.
Yunte Huang reads from and discusses his new book, Cribs (Tinfish Press).
Ray Gonzales (29:04): MP3 (27MB)
Yunte Huang (29:17): MP3 (27MB)
Show #90: Ten To One
Bob Perelman reads from and discusses his book, Ten To One: Selected
Poems
(Wesleyan University Press)
Bob Perelman (59:04): MP3 (54MB)
Show #91: Intersections
Edwin Frank, editor of the New York Review of Books Classics Series,
talks about his publishing vision.
Margaret Obank, editor of Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature, published in London in English translation, discusses her latest issue.
Maged Zaher, Egyptian poet, in studio, reads from his latest work, as well as his translation of fellow Egyptian poet Ahmed Taha.
Edwin Frank (15:12): MP3 (14MB)
Margaret Obank (15:44): MP3 (14MB)
Maged Zaher (28:04): MP3
(26MB)
Show #92: Sleeping With The Dictionary
Harryette Mullen reads from and discusses her amazing book, Sleeping with The Dictionary (University of California Press)
Harryette Mullen (59:23): MP3 (54MB)
Show #93: Listening Hard
Robert Kelly reads from and discusses his latest book, Lapis:Poems (Black
Sparrow/David Godine).
Norman Weinstein reads from and discusses his new book of prose poems, No Wrong Notes (Meeting Bindery Press/Spuyten Duyvil).
Robert Kelly (30:08): MP3 (28MB)
Norman Weinstein (29:29): MP3 (27MB)
Show #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.
Kamau Brathwaite (59:43): MP3 (55MB)
Show #95: New Time/The Long Moment
Leslie Scalapino discusses her book New Time (Wesleyan University Press).
Kate Fagan, on the phone from Sydney, Australia, discusses her book, The Long Moment (Salt).
Leslie Scalapino (28:52): MP3
(26MB)
Kate Fagan (30:58): MP3 (28MB)
Show #96: Shock Worker
01-08-06
Edwin Torres, poet and performance artist, reads from his The All Union Day Of The
Shock
Worker.
Edwin Torres (54:51): MP3 (50MB)
Show #97: From Arizona
01-15-06
Sheila Murphy reads from her latest book, Incessant Seeds (Pavement Saw Press).
Charles Alexander, poet and publisher of Chax Press, reads from his latest book Near or Random Acts (Singing Horse Press).
Sheila Murphy (28:04): MP3 (26MB)
Charles Alexander (28:46): MP3 (26MB)
Show #98: Macular Hole and Other Oralities
01-22-06
Cathy Wagner, author of Macular Hole (Fence Books), reads from this controversial work.
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.
Cathy Wagner (29:13): MP3 (27MB)
Bob Holman (29:15): MP3 (27MB)
Show #99: Red Actions
Robert Kelly, poet, reads from and discusses his Red Actions: Selected Poems (Black Sparrow).
Robert Kelly (58:30): MP3 (54MB)
Show #100: How Remember
Kristen Prevallet reads from her most recent poetry and discusses her ideas
concerning
Investigative Poetics.
Lydia Davis, author of numerous books of fiction and translator of Proust and
Blanchot,
discusses her collection of sudden fiction Almost No Memory (Picador).
Kristen Prevallet (26:51): MP3 (25MB)
Lydia Davis (28:08): MP3 (26MB)
Show #101: Mr. Holman tells all
Bob Holman does just that, in these poems and this conversation.
Bob Holman (54:48): MP3 (50MB)
Show #102: These Archipelagos
02-26-06
Jill Schoolman, publisher of Archipelago Books, discusses her vision of publishing.
Leonard Schwartz reads from Rene Crevel's My Body and I (Archipelago
Books).
Cathy Wagner reads from her latest manuscript.
Jill Schoolman (14:32): MP3 (13MB)
Leonard Schwartz (17:59): MP3 (16MB)
Cathy Wagner (24:17): MP3 (22MB)
Show #103: Theories of Sound
03-05-06
Peter Green, translator, reads from his new book The Poems Of Catallus: A Bilingual Translation (U of California).
Edwin Torres, poet and performance artist, reads some of his recent sound
poetry.
Peter Green (29:09): MP3 (27MB)
Edwin Torres (29:10): MP3 (27MB)
Show #104: Zomboid and Monk
03-12-06
Richard Foreman discusses his latest performance piece, Zomboid
(Performance
Piece #1).
Geraldine Monk, British poet, reads from her most recent work.
Richard Foreman (29:06): MP3 (27MB)
Geraldine Monk (24:40): MP3 (23MB)
Show #105: Aygi
04-16-06
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).
Leonard Schwartz reads Aygi's "Sleep-and-Poetry" from Child-And-Rose
(New Directions).
Peter France (36:00): MP3 (33MB)
Leonard Schwartz (23:10): MP3 (21MB)
Show #106: Acts of Moral Memory
04-30-06
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.
Cynthia Hogue, poet , reads from and discusses her new book The Incognito Body (Red Hen Press), a reflection on the body in pain.
Elias Khoury (30:57): MP3 (28MB)
Cynthia Hogue (26:11): MP3 (24MB)
#107 Russian/American Poetics
05-07-06
Genya Turovskaya reads from her own work as well as her translations of the Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoschenko.
Genya Turovskaya (51:03): MP3 (47MB)
Show #108: Two European Poets
06-04-06
Aleksandr Skidan, on the phone from St. Petersburg, reads his latest poems and
discusses
the
situation of
poetry in Russia.
Alan Halsey reads from his Selected Poems and discusses the modalities of British poetry.
Alan Halsey (28:41): MP3 (26MB)
Show #109: I Love Artists
06-11-06
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge reads from and discusses her latest book, I
Love Artists (University of California Press).
Nina Shorina, Russian filmmaker and animator, discusses her aesthetic.
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (39:36): MP3 (36MB)
Nina Shorina (19:17): MP3 (18MB)
Show #110: Keys to the City
07-09-06
Steven Clay, publisher of Granary Books, talks about the way he goes about making his extraordinary books.
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.
Steven Clay (26:41): MP3 (24MB)
Anselm Berrigan (30:24): MP3 (28MB)
Show #111: The Age Of Wire And String
8-13-06
Ben Marcus, prose master, discusses his book The Age Of Wire And String (Dalkey Archive Press).
Ben Marcus (55:46): MP3 (51MB)
Show #112: Empire
9-21-06
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).
Michael Hardt (53:58): MP3 (49MB)
Show #113: Splay Anthem
10-01-06
Nathaniel Mackey reads from and discusses his new book of poems, Splay Anthem
(New
Directions).
Nathaniel Mackey (56:03): MP3 (51MB)
Show #114: After Narrative
10-8-06
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).
Mary Burger reads from and discusses her metafictional work Sonny.
Alice Nelson (29:45): MP3 (27MB)
Mary Burger (33:44): MP3 (31MB)
Show #115: Around the Country
10-22-06
Eleni Sikelianos, in Boulder, Co, reads a new poem, still in manuscript.
Richard Wiley discusses the City of Asylum program, as well as the other activities of the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV, in Las Vegas.
Brian Henry, in Richmond, Virginia, reads from his book Quarantine (Ashanti Press).
Eleni Sikelianos (16:05): MP3 (15MB)
Richard Wiley (15:46): MP3 (14MB)
Brian Henry
(13:20): MP3 (12MB)
Show #116: Ars Interpres
10-29-06
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.
Giannini Braschi, Puerto Rican writer reading from her Empire Of Dreams.
Regina Derieva, Russian poet based in Stockholm.
Augustus Young, Irish poet based in France, reading his translation of Mayakovsky’s Cloud
in Pants.
Hakkan Sandell (23:18): MP3 (21MB)
Giannini Braschi (5:26): MP3 (5MB)
Regina Derieva (3:49): MP3 (3.5MB)
Augustus Young (28:47): MP3 (26MB)
Show #117: Alma, The Dead Woman, and The Flowers of Evil
9-24-06
Alice Notley reads from her new book Alma, Or The Dead Woman (Granary
Books)
Keith Waldrop’s new translation of Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers
Of
Evil
(Wesleyan University Press), read by Leonard Schwartz.
Alice Notley: program not available
Waldrop's Baudelaire by Schwartz: program not available
Show #118: Forms of Violence
11-09-06
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.
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.
Etel Adnan (19:25): MP3 (18MB)
Brian Evenson (40:34): MP3 (37MB)
#119 New York, New Zealand, Japan, O'Hara
11-11-06
Lytle Shaw discusses his new critical book Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of
Coterie (Iowa
University Press).
Murray Edmond, on the phone from Auckland, New Zealand, reads from and discusses his new book on Noh Theater, Noh Business (Atelos Books).
Lytle Shaw (29:37): MP3 (27MB)
Murray Edmond (29:58): MP3 (27MB)
#120 Poetry
11-26-06
Elizabeth Robinson reads from and discusses her latest two books, Apostrophe and Under That Silky Roof.
Burton
Raffel, Professor Emeritus, discusses and reads from his new
translation of the German epic Das Nibelungenlied
(Yale
University Press).
Elizabeth Robinson (31:30): MP3 (29MB)
Burton Raffel (31:01): MP3 (28MB)
#121 Integral Music
11-19-06
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).
A.L. Nielson 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).
James Thomas Stevens (30:27): MP3 (28MB)
A.L. Nielson (31:19): MP3 (29MB)
#122 Civilization
Elizabeth Arnold reads from her new book, Civilization (Flood Editions).
Leonard Schwartz reads from Armand Schwerner's Cantos from Dante's Inferno
(Talisman House).
Elizabeth Arnold (44:20): MP3 (41MB)
Schwerner's
Dante (15:55): MP3 (15MB)
From the 2007 season
#123 Andre Breton and other Marvels
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.
Mark Polizotti (61:34): MP3 (56MB)
#124 Unnatural Wonders
Philosopher and art critic Arthur Danto discusses his latest collection of essays on art, Unnatural Wonders (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
Arthur Danto (60:27): MP3 (55MB)
#125 Stray Dog Cabaret
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
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.
Edwin Frank (26:01): MP3 (23MB)
Honor Moore (29:42): MP3 (27MB)
#126 Correspondences
Karen Emmerich, translator from the Greek, reads from her new book of translations: Poems
of Miltos Sachtouris (Archipelago Books).
Virginie Poitrasson, on the phone from Paris, reads from some of her latest projects in both French and English.
Karen Emmerich (28:24): MP3 (26MB)
Virginie Poitrasson
(31:38): MP3 (28MB)
#127 Academy of American Poets / Star Dust
Tree Swenson, Director of The Academy of American Poets, discusses the work of that insitution.
Frank Bidart, Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets, discusses his latest book, Star
Dust (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux).
Tree Swenson (31:47): MP3 (29MB)
Frank Bidart (31:50): MP3 (29MB)
#128 Pennyweight Window
Donald Revell reads from and discusses his Pennyweight Window: New and Selected Poems (Alice James Books).
Donald Revell: MP3 (58MB)
#129 Fantasies in Permeable Structure
Laura Elrick reads from and discusses her most recent book, Fantasies in Permeable Structure.
Laura Elrick (60:45): MP3 (56MB)
#130 Workable Marvels
2-18-07
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).
Thomas Meyer (58:19):
MP3
(53MB)
#131 Jubilant Thicket
2-25-07
Jonathan Williams reads from his Jubilant Thicket: Selected Poems (Copper
Canyon Press), and discusses Guy
Davenport, Basil Bunting, and Robert Duncan, among others.
Leonard Schwartz reads from Stephen Jonas' Selected Poems (Talisman House).
Jonathan Williams (53:21):
MP3 (24MB)
Schwartz reads Jonas (6:40):
MP3 (3.1MB)
#132 New Directions
3-4-07
Portland-based poet Kaia Sand reads from her most recent work.
Declan Spring, senior editor at New Directions, talks about Can Xue and other authors he works with at ND.
Kaia Sand (44:56):
MP3 (21MB)
Declan Spring (15:43):
MP3 (7.2MB)
#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.
Robin Blaser (45:03): MP3 (21MB)
#134 Love As Such
3-18-07
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.
Leonard Schwartz reads a recent poem of his own entitled "Early".
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.
Michael Hardt (43:42): MP3 (20MB)
Leonard Schwartz (3:19): MP3 (1.5MB)
Lamia Makaddam (10:24): MP3 (4.8MB)
#135 Essential Work
3-25-07
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.
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).
Paul Mendes-Flohr (28:12): MP3 (13MB)
Carmen Firan (27:12): MP3 (12MB)
#136 Poetry of Emergency
Mark Wallace, poet, reads from recent work, including Notes from the Center of Public Policy.
Leonard Schwartz reads from Andrew Joron's The Emergency of Poetry.
Mark Wallace (46:59): MP3 (43MB)
Leonard Schwartz (16:47): MP3 (15MB)
#137 Girly Man/Wake Up Mr. Sleepy!
Charles Bernstein reads from and discusses his book, Girly Man (University of
Chicago
Press).
Richard Foreman discusses his most recent work for stage and film, "Wake Up Mr.
Sleepy!
Your Unconscious Mind Is Dead!".
Charles Bernstein (32:20): MP3 (30MB)
Richard Foreman (29:03): MP3 (27MB)
#138 In Translation: Japan/Turkey
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.
Murat Nemet-Nejat reads from and discusses his anthology of contemporary Turkish poetry Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry (Talisman House).
Sawako Nakayasu (29:04): MP3 (27MB)
Murat Nemet-Nejat (31:39): MP3 (29MB)
#139 Three Poets
Glenn Mott reads from his book Analects On A Chinese Screen, published by Chax Press.
Arthur Sze
reads from his book Quipu, published by Copper Canyon Press.
Charles Alexander reads from his book Certain Slants, published by Junction
Press.
Glenn Mott (19:13): MP3 (18MB)
Arthur Sze (22:46): MP3 (21MB)
Charles Alexander
(18:55): MP3 (18MB)
#140 The Wind And The Source
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?
Leonard Schwartz reads from the poetry of Gustaf Sobin.
Allen Weiss (50:02): MP3 (46MB)
Leonard Schwartz
(8:01): MP3 (8MB)
#141 Challenge
Amiri Baraka reads from recent work and discusses the politics of language.
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.
Amiri Baraka (34:41): MP3 (32MB)
Rachel Zolf (30:12): MP3 (28MB)
#142 Involutia
Deborah Meadows reads from her books Involutia (Shearsmen Books) and The Draped Universe (Belladonna Books).
Leonard Schwartz reads from his Apple Anyone Sonnets.
Deborah Meadows (41:25): MP3 (38MB)
Leonard Schwartz (16:26): MP3 (16MB)
#143 Sound, System, Performance
Susanne Neid reads from and discusses her translation of the great Danish poet Inger Christenson's poem It, published by New Directions.
Caroline Bergvall reads from Cropper and Figs, and discusses the
relationships between performance, silent reading, and the multilingual.
Susanne Neid (28:41): MP3 (27MB)
Caroline Bergvall
(29:18): MP3 (27MB)
#144 Readings and Nasrin
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.
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).
Readings (20:43): MP3 (19MB)
Carolyne L. Wright
(29:34): MP3 (28MB)
#145 The Long Poem
April 1, 2007
Edwin Frank reads and discusses Stack, his chapbook from UDP.
Andrew Zawacki reads Georgia, a poem for his new home.
Edwin Frank (27:10): MP3 (25MB)
Andrew Zawacki (30:15): MP3 (28MB)
#146 Litmus Press
September 30, 2007
Publisher/editor Tracy Grinnell talks about her Litmus Press, both its books and its journal, Aufgabe.
Stacy Szymaszek reads from Emptied of all Ships (Litmus Press).
Brenda Iijima reads from
Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press).
Tracy Grinnell (14:16): MP3 (13MB)
Stacy Szymaszek (13:29): MP3 (12MB)
Brenda Iijima (27:18): MP3 (25MB)
#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).
Forrest Gander (38:12): MP3 (35MB)
#148 Outernationale
October 14, 2007
Erica Wright, poetry editor for Guernica, discusses that online journal.
Peter Gizzi reads from and discusses his new book of poems The
Outernationale.
Erica Wright (13:39): MP3 (12MB)
Peter Gizzi (29:55): MP3 (27MB)
#149 Compost and Silence
October 21, 2007
Literary theorist Jed Rasula discusses his book This Compost: Ecological
Imperatives in
American Poetry (University of Georgia Press).
Susan Schultz, poet and critic, discusses her book The Poetics of Impasse (University of Alabama Press).
Jed Rasula (28:14): MP3 (26MB)
Susan Schultz (29:12): MP3 (27MB)
#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.
Rikki Ducornet (57:57): MP3 (66.3MB)
#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).
James Thomas Stevens reads from and discusses his new book of poems Bridge Dead In The Water.
Eugene Oshtashevsky (27:56): MP3 (26MB)
James Thomas Stevens (29:35): MP3 (27MB)
#152 Iphigenia and Other Dramas
November 11, 2007
Speight Jenkins, general director of the Seattle Opera, discusses his recent production of Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris.
CS Giscombe reads "Republican National Convention".
Norman Finkelstein reads from and discusses his new book of poems Passing Over (Marsh Hawk Press).
Speight Jenkins (37:05): MP3 (34MB)
CS Giscombe (1:10): MP3 (2MB)
Norman Finkelstein (19:02): MP3 (17MB)
#153 Three from NY
November 18, 2007
Tracy Grinnell reads from her book Some Clear Souvenir (O Books).
Steve Clay, publisher of Granary Books, discusses his latest creations.
Rob Fitterman reads from latest Metropolis installment, "Sprawl".
Tracy Grinnell (15:19): MP3 (14MB)
Steve Clay (13:05): MP3 (12MB)
Rob Fitterman (27:41): MP3 (25MB)
#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.
Dan Machlin reads from and discusses his new of poetry, Dear Body (Ugly Duckling Presse).
George Szirtes (41:41): MP3
(38.1MB)
Dan Machlin (14:59): MP3
(13.7MB)
#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).
Michael Palmer, on the phone from San Francisco, reads a new sequence of poems.
Mary Ann Caws (41:30): MP3
(37.9MB)
Michael Palmer (14:51): MP3
(13.6MB)
#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).
Bruce Benderson (58:37): MP3 (67MB)
#157 Varieties Of
January 27, 2008
Lydia Davis reads from and discusses her new book of fictions Varieties of
Disturbance
(FSG).
Performance poet Julie Patton, on the phone from Cleveland, performs and discusses some of her new work, emerging
from the
conversation.
Lydia Davis (28:13): MP3
(25.8MB)
Julie Patton (29:37): MP3
(27.1MB)
#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).
Brian Clements talks about Sentence, the journal of prose poetry he publishes and edits.
Matvei Yankelevich (42:45): MP3 (39.1MB)
Brian Clements (14:39): MP3 (13.4MB)
#159 Listening Through
November 16, 2007
Robert Kelly reads from and discusses a new sequence of poems, "Listening Through"
Robert Kelly (59:18): MP3
(67.8MB)
#160 A Semblance
Laura Moriarty reads from and discusses her A Semblance: Selected and New Poems 1975-2007
(Omnidawn Press).
Laura Moriarty (59:02): MP3
(67.5MB)
#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.
Zhang Er, joined by translator Bill Ransom, reads from her new book So Translating Rivers and Cities (Zephyr Press), in Chinese and English.
Natasha Wimmer (26:03): MP3 (23.8MB)
Zhang Er (31:03): MP3 (28.4MB)
#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
(52.4MB)
#163 Hegemonia
Canadian poet Roger Farr reads from and discusses his new book Surplus (Line Books).
Roger Farr (44:48): MP3 (51.2MB)
#164 Theory of Eros
March 30, 2008
Jeanne Heuving reads from and discusses her new book of poetry, Transducer (Chax Press).
Lila Zemborain, Argentine poet based in NYC, reads from her latest work in translation, Mauve Sea-Orchids
(Belladonna Books).
Jeanne Heuving (59:18): MP3
(67.8MB)
Lila Zemborain (23:49): MP3 (21.8MB)
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#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).
Pierre Joris (1:05:00): MP3
(74.3MB)
#166 Opera and Poem
Speight Jenkins, general director of the Seattle Opera, discusses his recent production of Tosca.
Lissa Wolsak, poet based in Vancouver, reads from her recent book Defence Of Being.
Speight Jenkins (32:48): MP3
(30.0MB)
Lissa Wolsak (26:31): MP3
(24.2MB)
#167 Alert?
Linh Dinh reads from his recent book of poems, Jam Alerts (Chax Press).
Kelvin Christopher James, Trinidadian fiction writer based in NY, reads from his recent work.
Linh Dinh (29:00): MP3 (26.5MB)
Kelvin Christopher James (29:49): MP3
(27.3MB)
#168 Mystery and Unmap
Robert Mittenthal, poet based in Seattle, reads from and discusses his recent book, Value Unmapped
(Nomados).
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.
Robert Mittenthal (29:46): MP3
(27.2MB)
Loren Stein (27:20): MP3
(25.0MB)
#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 (39.3MB)
Steve McCaffery (17:00): MP3 (15.5MB)
#170 Sharma/Zolf/Rowan
Prageeta Sharma reads from and discusses her new book, Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books).
Rachel Zolf reads from and discusses her new chapbook Shoot and Weep.
Lou Rowan, fiction writer and poet, reads from Sweet Potatoes (AhaDada Books).
Prageeta Sharma (26:03): MP3 (23.2MB)
Rachel Zolf (14:56): MP3
(13.6MB)
Lou Rowan (18:23):MP3 (16.8MB)
#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).
Bill Berkson reads from his new book of poems Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently
(The
Owl Press).
Paul Hoover (31:00): MP3 (28.3MB)
Bill Berkson (25:23): MP3 (23.2MB)
#172 Tying/Untying
Edwin Torres reads from and discusses The Popedology Of An Ambient Language (Atelos).
Nuruddin Farrah, Somali novelist, reads from his new book, Knots (Penguin).
Edwin Torres (28:56): MP3
(26.4MB)
Nuruddin Farrah (27:35): MP3 (25.2MB)
#173 Wake UP! The Books Are On Fire!
Richard Foreman discusses his new work Wake Up Mr. Sleepy! Your Unconscious Mind Is Dead!
Violaine Huisman discusses Autodafe, the important literary journal famously published by a consortium of publishers earlier
in the decade.
Richard Foreman (29:25): MP3 (26.9MB)
Violaine Huisman (29:57): MP3 (27.4MB)
#174 Criseyde
Composer Alice Shields discusses and plays part of her new opera, Criseyde, as recently performed at the Vox festival in
NY.
Alice Shields (54:44): MP3 (50.1MB)
From the 2009 Season
#175 Unboundaries
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)
Episode #175 (59:40):
MP3
#176 Wisdom Of
Anne Moschovakis, poet and translator, reads from and discusses her translation from the French of Annie Ernaux’s The Possession (Seven Stories Press).
Leonard Schwartz reads from Francis Ponge’s Mute Objects Of Expression, translated by Lee Fahenstock and recently published by Archipelago Books.
Finally, Judith Roche reads from and discusses her award winning book of poetry The Wisdom Of The Body (Black Heron Press).
Anne Moschovakis (28:48): MP3
Leonard Schwartz (13:51): MP3
Judith Roche (16:37): MP3
#177 What Narrative
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)
Episode #177 (55:50):
MP3
#178 Four Editors
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
Episode #178 (1:02:28):
MP3
#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)
Episode #179 (1:00:44):
MP3
#180 Dura/Dementia
Myung Mi Kim reads from discusses her recently reissued Dura (Nightboat Books)
Susan Schultz reads from discusses her Dementia Blog (Singing Horse Press)
Episode #180 (56:28): MP3
#181 Hearth and Threshhold
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)
Episode #181 (1:02:48):
MP3
#182 In French
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
Episode #182 (57:37):
MP3
#183 Petals/locuspoint
Andrew Zawacki reads from and talks about his new book Petals of Zero Petals Of One (Talisman House)
Sarah Vap talks about the Olympia issue of locuspoint, and reads from her own work
Episode #183 (1:01:16):
MP3
#184 Pearl Diving
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.
Sina Najafi, editor-in-chief of Cabinet: A Quarterly Of Art and Culture, based in Brooklyn, NY, talks about his journal.
Steve McCaffery reads Cappuccino.
Jonathon Dean (20:48): MP3
Sina Najafi (31:13): MP3
Steve McCaffery (4:22): MP3
#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. After that, Steve McCaffery reads from and discusses his new book
Slightly Left Of Thinking (Chax Press).
Zhang Er (16:19): MP3
Steve McCaffery (28:20): MP3
#186 I and You
#187 Uncanny #189 Poem as Map #190 Pushing Water/Minus Ship #192 Greats #193 Disagreements #194 The City #195 The Alphabet/Farout #196 Place © 2004-2009. These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial
and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong
to the authors. Used with permission of the authors and Leonard Schwartz. Distributed
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Charles Simic discusses subversion and Sappho in his book of essays The Renegade (George Braziller).
Anne Tardos reads from and discusses her book of poems I Am You (Salt).
Charles Simic (31:52): MP3
Anne Tardos (29:35): MP3
Elizabeth Robinson reads from and discusses her new book, The Orphan And Its Relations (Fence Books).
Joseph Donahue reads from and discusses his new book Terra Lucida (Talisman House).
Elizabeth Robinson (28:55): MP3
Joseph Donahue (29:46): MP3
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).
Craig Perez, poet with roots in Samoa, reads from and discusses From Unincorporated Territory
(Tinfish Editions), a poem of Samoa.
Sinan Antoon (34:64): MP3
Craig Perez (25:19): MP3
Charles Alexander reads and discusses Pushing Water 50, as well as his recent essay Between Poetics.
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.
Charles Alexander (39:20): MP3
Eugene Oshteshevsky (16:31): MP3
#191 Quite A Lineup
Charles North reads from and discusses his Complete Lineups (Hanging Loose Press).
Next, Jed Rasula reads from and discusses Hot Wax, or Psyche’s Drip (Bookthug).
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.
Charles North (19:25): MP3
Jed Rasula (20:43): MP3
Michael S. Hennessey (18:54): MP3
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.
Michael Palmer reads from and discusses his translations of the great Russian poet Alexei Parschikov.
Susanna Tamminen (27:26): MP3
Michael Palmer (30:16): MP3
Nathalie Stephens reads and discusses Notebook of Disagreements.
Rob Spillman discusses the anthology he has edited Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing.
Nathalie Stephens (40:56): MP3
Rob Spillman (15:27): MP3
Poet Sumaiya el-Sousy, on the phone from Gaza City, reads her poem “The City” and discusses writing in Gaza. Next, Sophie Mayer,
Managing Editor of English Pen World Atlas, a literary website, discusses her recent work with Palestinian writers.
Sumaiya el-Sousy (27:17): MP3
Sophie Mayer (30:33): MP3
Ron Silliman reads from and discusses The Alphabet, (University of Alabama Press).
Next, Maged Zaher reads from and discusses farout_library_software, (Tinfish Press).
Ron Silliman (34:58): MP3
Maged Zaher (27:28): MP3
Teresa Carmody discusses her project as the publisher and editor of Les Figues Press, and then Vanessa Place reads from and discusses
Dies: A Sentence, published by Les Figues. Finally, Amal Eqeiq, Palestinian Israeli, reads from and discusses her recent translations from
the Arabic of Palestinian poets.
Teresa Carmody (18:01): MP3
Vanessa Place (17:08): MP3
Amal Eqeiq (24:33): MP3
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Schwartz's Bio
Leonard Schwartz is the author of
numerous books of poetry, including A Message Back and Other Furors (Chax Press), The Library of Seven Readings (Ugly Duckling Press), The
Tower Of Diverse Shores and Ear and Ethos (2005), both
from Talisman House.
please contact Jerry Drummond at (360) 867-6897.
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