The New York-based photographer Lois Conner has been traveling the world with a 7x17” banquet camera for nearly half a century. Through the elongated format of her work she has explored the landscape and the temper of our times; her art is both contemporary and, due to her vision, ‘a long view’ that captures the eternal in the moment, timeless. Con…

In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay are back... again! This time they discuss the pandemic-special Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine that follows the titular TikTok star/comedian/political lipsyncer as she tries to host an out-of-control news program (and meets Winona's character — very briefly — along the way). Your hosts recorded this one on 4-track…

Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including TIME, The Nation, Poetry, Ploughshares,Waxwing, and the Best of the Net anthology. Eugenia serves as a Poetry Editor at The Adroit Jour…

Mike Sakasegawa is a writer, photographer, book artist, and the host of the arts and literature podcast Keep the Channel Open, and the short fiction podcast LikeWise Fiction. His writing has appeared in Last Exit, Catapult, PetaPixel, and Don’t Take Pictures Magazine. His photographs have been featured on Lenscratch, A Photo Editor, and SD Voyager,…

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Hanif’s newest release, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball a…

D. A. Powell teaches at University of San Francisco. His books include Repast, Chronic and Useless Landscape or a Guide for Boys, all published by Graywolf Press. He is also the author of chapbooks Atlas T and Low Hanging Fruit. He lives in San Francisco.By Hosted by Rachel Zucker

Books by Rachel Zucker The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Poetry, 2023) SoundMachine (Wave Poetry, 2019) The Pedestrians (Wave Poetry, 2014) MOTHERs (2014) Museum of Accidents (Wave Poetry, 2009) The Bad Wife Handbook (Wesleyan University Press, 2007) The Last Clear Narrative (2004) Eating in the Underworld (2003) Books by Rachel Zucker and Arielle Gre…

Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, (Random House, 2022) is winner of the 2023 PEN Open Book Award, winner of a 2023 Lammy Award in LGBTQ+ Nonfiction from Lambd…

Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including The Book (Wave Books, 2023), Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, as well as a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. She is also the author of My Private Property (Wave Books, …

Nicole Sealey was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida. She received an MFA from New York University and an MLA in Africana studies from the University of South Florida. Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast (Ecco Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the PEN Open Book and Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards. Her chapbook, T…

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Books by Eugenia Leigh Eugenia Leigh Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023) Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014) Other Relevant Links Mike Sakasegawa LikeWise Fiction Keep the Channel Open on Twitter Keep the Channel Open on Insta Keep the Channel Open on YouTube Bio: Eugenia Leigh (she/her) is a Korean-American poet and the author of two col…

Extra Resources Books by Laurel Snyder The Witch of Woodland (Walden Pond Press, 2023) Endlessly Ever After (Chronicle Books, 2022) Charlie & Mouse: Book 1 (Chronicle Books, 2019) Hungry Jim (Chronicle Books, 2019) My Jasper June (Walden Pond Press, 2019) Orphan Island (Walden Pond Press, 2018) Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Chronicle Bo…

Extra Resources Books and Selected Other Work by Charif Shanahan POETRY Trace Evidence (Tin House, 2023) Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing (SIU Press, 2017) Books and Selected Other Work by Safia Elhillo POETRY Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House, 2022) The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017) “Indeterminacy” (Poets.…

Links, Bios, & Support Info Bryant Park Reading Series University of Maryland Library of Congress William Meredith Kim Novak BMCC KGB reading series David Lehman Star Black Paul Romero Sonia Sanchez Allen Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra” Phllyis Levin Matt Yeager David Lehman Will Harris’s Brother Poem José Oliverez’s Promises of Gold Martha Graham Cra…

Links, Bios & Support Info Books & Selected Projects by Moheb Soliman HOMES (Coffee House Press, 2021) We’re Back! Also Referenced Lorine Niedecker Gabrielle Octavia Rucker Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang David Byrne Walt Whitman Etheridge Knight Moheb Soliman is an interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest who's presented work at literary, …

In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay are back! They're joined by producer Chris to talk about The Plot Against America: a mini-series that was too heavy for most of them to watch during a pandemic and is maybe still too heavy, but they did their duty.By Lindsay Gibb and Rekha Tulsiram

Links, Bios & Support Info Hope Mohr Hope Mohr’s Horizon Stanzas Alyssa Harad Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bridge by Alyssa Harad The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer MOTHERs by Rachel Zucker Alice Notley reading books 1 and 2 of Descen…

Links and resources Episode 143 of Keep the Channel Open: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Mike Sakasegawa LikeWise Fiction Keep the Channel Open on Twitter Keep the Channel Open on Insta Keep the Channel Open on YouTube Information and sign u…

BOOKS & SELECTED WORK BY GABRIELLE OCTAVIA RUCKER Dereliction (The Song Cave, 2022) “Practice for My Birthday” in The Recluse (2021) ALSO REFERENCED Roosevelt University Auditorium Theater Joffrey Ballet Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Christkindlmarket, Chicago Paper Source National Book Foundation International Center of Photography The Poetry…

The second of five episodes featuring the lectures that became Rachel Zucker’s newest book, The Poetics of Wrongness. This episode contains audio of “What We Talk About When We Talk About the Confessional and What We Should Be Talking About,” presented at the University of Arizona Poetry Center (Tucson) on January 28, 2016. It also includes a new i…

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Books and Selected Other Work by Joy Harjo POETRY Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: 50 Poems for 50 Years (W.W. Norton, 2022) An American Sunrise (W. W. Norton, 2019) Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (W. W. Norton, 2015) How We Became Human New & Selected Poems: 1975-2001 (W. W. Norton, 2004) A Map to the Next World (W. W. Norton, 2000) The Wo…

Books and Selected Other Work by Saeed Jones Alive at the End of the World (Coffee House Press, 2022) How We Fight For Our Lives (Simon & Schuster, 2019) Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press, 2014) Also Referenced Open Books: A Poem Emporium V Conaty Christine Larusso Commonplace Goes to Taiwan, Episodes 1 and 2 Pema Chödrön Jorge Luis Borges Roge…

Books and Selected Other Work by Eileen Myles Pathetic Literature, ed. (Grove Press, 2022) For Now (Yale University Press, 2020) evolution (Grove Press, 2018) Afterglow: A Dog Memoir (Grove Press, 2017) I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, 1975-2014 (Ecco Press, 2015) Snowflake/Different Streets (Wave Books, 2012) Inferno: A Poet's Novel (…

Books and Selected Other Work by S. Yarberry A Boy in the City (Deep Vellum, 2021 Also Referenced Rachel Zucker Kathryn Davis Aphrodite Charon, boatkeeper of the underworld CAConrad William Blake The Odyssey Icarus John Keats Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches, “The Uses of the Erotic” Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and …

Books and Selected Other Work by Carl Phillips POETRY Then The War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022) Pale Colors in a Tall Field (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) Star Map With Action Figures (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019) Wild Is the Wind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018) Reconnaissance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 201…

Selected Work Critique Is Creative: The Critical Response Process in Theory & Practice (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), Liz Lerman and John Borstel Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer (Wesleyan University Press, 2011), Liz Lerman Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process (Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, 2003), Liz Lerman and John Bors…

Books Aux Arc / Trypt Ich: Poppycock & Assphodel; Winter; A Night of Dark Trees (Nightboat Books, 2021) Listen My Friend, This is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night (The Song Cave, 2021) FLUNG THRONE (Ahsata Press, 2018) BEAST FEAST (Ahsata Press, 2014) Selected chapbooks DEARTH & Gods Green Mirth (Fonograph, 2022) “BEHOLD A MAN!” (Auric Press, 2020) P…

Selected Work Payadora Tango Ensemble “Adios Muchachos/I Get Ideas,” (by Julio César Sanders) violinist and vocalist, with Payadora Tango Ensemble “La Perdida,” violinist and songwriter, with Payadora Tango Ensemble Tango in the Dark, with PointeTango Venuti String Quartet “Like My Sister,” violinist, vocalist, and songwriter, with family band “Yea…

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ADDITIONAL INFO Selected Work by Doreen Wang with Rachel Zucker et al., “Commonplace goes to Taiwan,” Part 1 and Part 2. with Mish Liang Hsu, 一年的告白/ Dos Salidas. “The roadmap of regret, curiosity and sound: How I decided to make a podcast with my dying mother,” CommonWealth Magazine. “The Kundiman 2018 Series, Pt. 1,” Racist Sandwich. "The Analects…

Books and Selected Other Work by Douglas Kearney BOOKS / COMPOSITIONS Sho (poetry, Wave Books, 2021) Fodder, with Val Jeanty (poetry LP, Fonograf Editions, 2021) Starts Spinning (poetry Chapbook, Rain Taxi, 2020) Buck Studies (poetry, Fence Books, 2016) Someone Took They Tongues. 3 Operas (libretti, Subito Press, 2016) Mess and Mess and (poetry and…

Books by Torrey Peters Detransition, Baby (One World, 2021) Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones (self-published, 2016; revised edition forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2022) The Masker (self-published, 2016; revised edition forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2022) Also Referenced Topside Press The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transge…

ADDITIONAL INFO Books and Selected Other Work by Camille Dungy POETRY Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press, 2017) Smith Blue (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011) Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010) What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006) NON-FICTION Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into R…

ADDITIONAL INFO Books and Selected Other Work by Judy Grahn POETRY Hanging on Our Own Bones (Red Hen Press, 2017) Love Belongs to Those Who Do the Feeling: New & Selected Poems (1966-2006) (Red Hen Press, 2008) The Queen of Swords (Beacon Press, 1987) The Queens of Wands (Crossing Press, 1982) The Work of a Common Woman: Collected Poetry (1964–1977…

Books and Selected Other Work by Jason Schneiderman Hold Me Tight (Red Hen Press, 2020) Primary Source (Red Hen Press, 2016) Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press, 2016) Striking Surface: Poems (Ashland Poetry Press, 2010) Sublimation Point (Four Way Books, 2004) “Nothingism: A Poetry Manifesto” in The American Poetry Review (April 2…

Books and Projects Everything Below the Waist: Why Healthcare Needs a Feminist Revolution (2019) Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care (2008) Our Bodies Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era (2005), Contributing Editor Ms. Magazine (founded 1972), former Editor Other Texts & People Mentioned in the Episode Heather Co…

Arielle Greenberg writes and teaches poetry, creative nonfiction and cultural studies. Her most recent books are I Live in the Country & Other Dirty Poems (Four Way, 2020) and the creative nonfiction book Locally Made Panties (Ricochet Editions, 2016); her fifth collection of poetry, Come Along with Me to the Pasture Now, is forthcoming. She is co-…

Books and Projects Rachel Zucker, SoundMachine Christine Larusso, There Will Be No More Daughters SoundMachine (audio project) Other Texts & People Mentioned in the Episode Emily Skillings Claudia Rankine, Just Us Poets House harassment and retaliatory firing Small Press Distribution harassment and wage theft Jay Hammond Katie Fernelius Doreen Wang…

Books and Projects by/with Nate Marshall Finna (One World, 2020) Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) Breakbeat Poets (Haymarket Books, 2015) Blood Percussion (Button Poetry, 2014) 1989, The Number (Haymarket Books, 2016) Free download! No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks Daily Lyrical Product Dark Noise Collective Bruh R…

Books by Makenna Goodman The Shame (Milkweed, 2020) Other Texts, Artists, and Authors Mentioned in This Episode Amelie Nothomb's Strike Your Heart (Europa Editions, 2018) Angela Davis' Women Race and Class (Vintage, 1983) Sheila Heti’s Motherhood (Picador, 2019) Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste (Random House, 2020) Angela Davis' Women Race and Class (Vinta…

Featured in Episode 89: David Naimon Between the Covers podcast Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing by Ursula K. Le Guin & David NaimonBy Hosted by Rachel Zucker

In this episode we explore the many names of Nanna God, the fact that She was busy loving you before you ever called Her name, and that when you call Her, She comes running with a smile on Her face.

Commonplace guests as they appear in this episode: Molly Peacock is a poet, biographer, essayist, and short fiction writer. Her most recent book is The Analyst: poems. Alicia Jo Rabins is a writer, musician, composer, performer and Torah teacher. She creates multi-genre works of experimental beauty which explore the intersection of ancient wisdom t…

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate and the author of the memoir Children of the Land. Jennifer Croft is an American author, critic and translator who works from Polish, Ukrainian and Argentine Spanish. She is also the author of Homesick. Nick Flynn is an American writer, playwright, and poet. He has…

David Trinidad is the author of numerous poetry collections, most recently Swinging on a Star. He teaches poetry and creative writing at Columbia College and lives in Chicago. Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry. She lives in Paris. Cathy Park Hong’s latest book is Minor Feelings. She is poetry editor of the New Republic and is a …

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