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Selected WorkPayadora 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 PointeTangoVenuti String Quartet “Like My Sister,” violinist, vocalist, and songwriter, with family band“Years from Today,” violinist, vocalist, and songwriter, with family bandWatch the full feature-length film Tango in the Dark here!Also ReferencedDrew JurekaDiane WolksteinSheila HetiJudah GorenCleveland Institute of MusicCleveland OrchestraItzhak Perlman, In the Fiddler's HouseMariah CareyWhitney HoustonTed GupThe Plain DealerConnie SchultzPaul HindemithJohannes BrahmsJeff Healey’s Jazz WizardsGlenn Gould School, The Royal Conservatory of MusicToronto Symphony OrchestraThe National Ballet of CanadaThe Canadian Opera CompanyJill BarberViva Mexico Toronto Mariachi BandAstor PiazzollaAlexander GlazunovJean SibeliusNathaniel WolksteinShirley TempleThe Legend of Carau (Argentina)PointeTango Dance CompanySoundMachineYiddish Glory

ADDITIONAL INFOSelected Work by Doreen Wangwith 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," Angels Flight: Literary West.Also ReferencedGhost Island MediaV ConatyKatie FerneliusArielle GreenbergNatalie Diaz and Roger ReevesGinsbyrgTorrey PetersDouglas KearneyDavid NaimanKaren BrodyBrenda Lin (author of The Wealth Ribbon)Dianne Wolkstein, Rachel’s motherOedipusJesusSigmund FreudThe Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, ed. Brenda Hillman and Patricia DienstfreyYanyiIsaac Ginsberg-MillerHeidi BroadheadD. A. PowellLaurel SnyderRecommended by ChrisSharon OldsCathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American ReckoningCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

Books and Selected Other Work by Douglas KearneyBOOKS / COMPOSITIONSSho (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 essays, Noemi Press, 2015)Patter (poetry, Red Hen Press, 2014)The Black Automaton (poetry, Fence Books, 2009)LECTURESDouglas Kearney’s Bagley Wright Lectures“I Killed, I Died: Banter, Self-Destruction, and the Poetry Reading” (The Yale Review, 2021)OTHER“Dear Editor——: An Open Letter from Douglas Kearney” (Cave Canem, 2020)Also ReferencedBagley Wright Lecture SeriesChristopher Titus, Born With a DefectTarik DobbsJennifer Holliday as Effie in Dream GirlsEllen WelckerRainer Maria Rilke, “The Archaic Torso of Apollo”James Wright, “A Blessing” and “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota”lucille cliftonVal Jeanty

Books by Torrey PetersDetransition, 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 ReferencedTopside PressThe Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, ed. Tom Leger and Riley MacLeod (Topside Press)Imogen Binnie, Nevada (Topside Press)Casey PlettIowa Writers WorkshopT. Fleishman, Time is a Thing The Body Moves Through (Coffee House Press) and Syzygy, Beauty (Sarabande Books)Darcey SteinkeDarcey Steinke, Flash Count Diary: Menopause and Vindication of Natural Life (Macmillan)FleabagThe First Wives ClubElena Ferrante, Neapolitan Novels (Europa Editions)Rachel Cusk, Outline Trilogy (Macmillan) and Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (Picador)Jenny OffillSusan Sontag, Illness as a Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (Picador)Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Atlantic)Zoe WhittalAlexander CheeKristen Roupenian, “Cat Person” (The New Yorker)Sylvia PlathVirginia WoolfKate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)Dave ChappelleE. M. Forster, Maurice (written 1913-1914, published 1971)Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality (1897)Jane the VirginSex in the CityFriendsSeinfeldThe SimpsonsCathy Park HongCathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian-American Reckoning (One World)

ADDITIONAL INFOBooks and Selected Other Work by Camille DungyPOETRYTrophic 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-FICTIONGuidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (W. W. Norton, 2017)ANTHOLOGIES & EDITORIAL WORKEd., Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (University of Georgia Press, 2009)Ed. with Matt O'Donnell & Jeffrey Thomson, From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea Books, 2009)Also ReferencedGuggenheim FellowshipAnne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First YearSusan SontagDorothea LangeToi Derricotte, Natural BirthMatt O’DonnellFrom the FishhouseSharon OldsKimiko HahnBrenda HillmanThe Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, ed. Brenda Hillman & Patricia DienstfreyWomen Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, ed. Arielle Greenberg & Rachel ZuckerPoets HouseEmory University Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, curated by Kevin YoungLangston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”Lucille CliftonYusef Komunyakaa, Magic CityEd RobersonMarilyn NelsonTiffany Han podcast

ADDITIONAL INFOBooks and Selected Other Work by Judy GrahnPOETRYHanging 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) (St. Martin's Press, 1982)She Who (Women's Press Collective/Diana Press, 1977)A Woman is Talking to Death (Women's Press Collective, 1974)Edward the Dyke and Other Poems (Women's Press Collective, 1971)The Common Woman Poems (Women's Press Collective, 1970)NONFICTIONEruptions of Inanna: Justice, Gender, and Erotic Power (Nightboat Books, 2021)Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit: Living in a Sentient World (Red Hen Press, 2021)A Simple Revolution: the Making of an Activist Poet (Aunt Lute Books, 2012)with Lisa Maria Hogeland, The Judy Grahn Reader (Aunt Lute Books, 2009)Descent to the Roses of a Family: A Poet's Journey into Anti-Racism and Personal Social Healing (Independently Published, 1986; reprinted 2021)Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds (Beacon Press, 1984)Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World (Beacon Press, 1993)FURTHER READINGMetaformia – A Journal of Menstruation and Culture“The Emergence of Metaformic Consiousness” (Metaformia - A Journal of Menstruation and Culture, 2005)“Are Wars Metaformic” (Metaformia - A Journal of Menstruation and Culture, 2005)Also ReferencedLisa Maria HoglandDiane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer, Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth (1983)Joy Katz Mattachine SocietyFrank KamenyHelen of Troy and MenelausThe Descent of InannaEcofeminismSecond-Wave FeminismTiktok activismACT UPStarhawkMetaformic theoryThe Politics of Women’s Spirituality, ed. Charlene SpretnakGeorge LakoffEnheduannaAdrienne RichScheherazadeVashtiEstherDivorce Support Group with Emma Cooper SeberCommonality InstituteGregory GajusAudre LordeTranspersonal psychologyDianne Jennett

Books and Selected Other Work by Jason SchneidermanHold 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 2019)“How the Sonnet Turns: From a Fold to a Helix” in The American Poetry Review (June 2020)Also ReferencedSarah PolleyD.A. PowellSylvia RiveraAndrew SullivanDavid BrooksSue Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love (2008)Tom SleighWalt WhitmanOscar Wilde, “The Portrait of W.H.” (1889)Anne Carson, Eros: The Bittersweet (1986)Jacques Lacan, mirror stageSigmund Freud, melancholyLeo Bersani, "Is the Rectum a Grave" (1987)Andrea Dworkin and Catherine McKinnenFrank O'HaraThe Hanky CodeEmily DickinsonErika MeitnerTilda SwintonDerek JarmanJorie GrahamJames GalvinAnn Pelligrini, ed. Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (2003)Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905)Rachel Zucker & Arielle Greenberg, Home/Birth: A Poemic (2011)Ellen BassDouglas ManuelJoni MitchellKiki PetrazinoJudith Liz HermanEllen Bryant VoightCarl PhillipsThe Little Red Riding HoodRussell EdsonWisława SzymborskaSylvia PlathFranz KafkaWayne KoestenbaumRachel Zucker, MOTHERs (2014)Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (1987)Gaeton DugasDouglas CrimpJames Frey, A Million Little Pieces (2003)David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (2010)Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face (1994)The New CriticismJacques DerridaHomer, The Illiad (c. 8th Century BC)Unknown Author, The Somonyng of Everyman (c. 1516)William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1603)Charles DarwinKarl MarxAlbert EinsteinSigmund FreudFerdinand de SaussureArthur DantoJ.K. Rowling, Harry Potter series (1997-2007)Daniel Radcliffe, acknowledged author of the Harry Potter seriesGremlins (1984)George Orwell, 1984 (1949) and edition edited by “Moira Propriety”William Carlos Williams, Spring & All (1923)Jennifer L. KnoxDavid TrinidadDennis CooperPaul AusterJane AustenMichel FoucaultUSC Shoah FoundationGeorge Eliot, Middlemarch (1871)Marie Kondo, the concept of "sparks joy"Music by Judah Goren 

Books and ProjectsEverything 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 EditorMs. Magazine (founded 1972), former EditorOther Texts & People Mentioned in the EpisodeHeather Corinna, What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You (2021)Susun S. Weed, New Menopausal Years, Volume 3: Alternative Approaches for Women 30-90 (2002)Our Bodies Ourselves (series, 1970-present)Federation of Feminist Women's Health Center, A New View of a Woman's Body: A Fully Illustrated Guide (1981)Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English, For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women (1978)Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English, Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A History of Women Healers (1973) Shulamith FirestoneAdrienne RichJerilynn PriorLaura Eldridge, In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices For Women (2010)*Holly Grigg-Spall, Sweetening the Pill: Or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control (2013)Cynthia GrahamPlanned ParenthoodAmerican College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)Lyn Paltrow, founder of National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW)Rinat Dray case and decisionFirst-Wave FeminismSecond-Wave Feminism*misnamed as Ashley Eldridge in the episode

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 & ProjectsBooksI 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 WorkStarting Today: Poems from Obama’s First 100 Days (Iowa, 2010) with Lara GlenumWomen Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (Iowa, 2008) with Rachel ZuckerGurlesque (Saturnalia, 2010) with Lara Glenum(K)ink: Writing while Deviant (The Rumpus)Column on Contemporary Poetry for American Poetry Review Other Texts & People Mentioned in the EpisodeAndrea DworkinCatherine MacKinnonRachel Zucker, MOTHERs (2013)Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965)Maggie NelsonRoss GayStar WarsKristin Wiig SNL skit "I got a robe!"The CrownFrank O’Hara, “My Heart”Vladimir NabokovJames Joyce, Ulysses and DublinersD.H. LawrenceJim HarrisonShampoo (1975)Californication (2007)Anne Waldman, OutriderThe Olsen TwinsRodarteJoan DidionSusan SontagAudre Lordebell hooksAnn Patchett, “These Precious Days”