Commonplace Podcast

Episode 93: Arielle Greenberg

May 6, 2021

02:32:35

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-editor of three literary anthologies, including Gurlesque (Saturnalia Books), based on a theory of Third Wave feminist avant-garde poetics Arielle developed. Her work has been featured in many anthologies, including the Best American Poetry, and she wrote a column on contemporary poetics for the American Poetry Review and edited a nonfiction column for The Rumpus called (K)ink: Writing While Deviant. She holds an MFA from Syracuse University and is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship and a Saltonstall Individual Artist Grant. A former tenured professor in poetry at Columbia College Chicago, she teaches at Maine Media Workshop, the College of the Atlantic and elsewhere in the community and does other writing and editorial work. She lives in Belfast, Maine.

Arielle Greenberg’s Books & Projects

Books

I Live in the Country and Other Dirty Poems (Four Way Books, 2020)

Locally Made Panties (Ricochet Editions, 2016)

Slice (Coconut Books, 2015)

Shake Her (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012)

Home/Birth: A Poemic (with Rachel Zucker)

Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America (Longman, 2006)

My Kafka Century (Action Books, 2005)

Farther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials (New Michigan, 2003)

Given (Verse, 2002)

Anthologies & Editorial Work