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Books and ProjectsRachel Zucker, SoundMachineChristine Larusso, There Will Be No More DaughtersSoundMachine (audio project)Other Texts & People Mentioned in the EpisodeEmily SkillingsClaudia Rankine, Just UsPoets House harassment and retaliatory firingSmall Press Distribution harassment and wage theftJay HammondKatie FerneliusDoreen WangNYU Creative Writing ProgramAntioch Low-Residency MFA ProgramJennifer Block, Everything Below the Waist: Why Healthcare Needs a Feminist RevolutionArielle GreenbergMarriage Story (2019)Daring to RestKaren BrodyTwyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life (2006)Amang’s newest collection, Raised By Wolves 

Books and Projects by/with Nate MarshallFinna (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 BrooksDaily Lyrical ProductDark Noise CollectiveBruh RabbitCrescendo LiteraryOther Texts & People Mentioned in the EpisodeZora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men (Harper Perennial)Gwendolyn BrooksChance the RapperRichard WrightMargaret WalkerLangston HughesBoondocks (animated series)“Mrs Officer” by Lil WayneScandalDark Noise Collective: Aaron SamuelsFatimah Ashgar Danez SmithJamila WoodsFranny ChoiFollow Nate Marshall on Twitter and Instagram or sign up for his Substack to know more about his books, readings and events.

Books by Makenna GoodmanThe Shame (Milkweed, 2020)Other Texts, Artists, and Authors Mentioned in This EpisodeAmelie 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 (Vintage, 1983)Toni Morrison’s Beloved (Vintage, 2004)Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)Robert A. Johnson’s Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche (HarperOne, 2009)Virginia WoolfAgnès VardaChantal AckermanPedro AlmodóvarD'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths (Delacorte, 1992)Julie BuntinPhilip RothKarl Ove Knausgaard Ben LernerOther Relevant LinksThe Mountain SchoolCommonplace 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

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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 texts with everyday life. Her most recent book is Fruit Geode.D. A. Powell’s books include Cocktails and Chronic, as well as Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys. He recently published a chapbook with Rescue Press, called Atlas T; all proceeds from the sale of Atlas T will be donated to Youth Speaks in San Francisco.Rosa Alcalá is the author of three books of poetry: Undocumentaries, The Lust of Unsentimental Waters, and MyOTHER TONGUE. She is a Professor in the Bilingual MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.Bernadette Mayer is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including Midwinter Day and Poetry State Forest.Laynie Browne is the author of numerous collections of poetry and one novel. Her publications include A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet’s Novel (editor) and The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters.John Biewen directs the audio program at the Center for Documentary Studies, where he teaches and produces/hosts the podcast Scene on Radio.Darcey Steinke has written five novels as well as a memoir, Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life.Stephanie Burt is a poet, literary critic, and professor. Her most recent book is Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems.Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995 and as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Her most recent book is The Darker Face of the Earth.New Books Written by and/or authors/texts recommended/mentioned byMolly Peacock:The Analyst (W.W. Norton, 2017)James Joyce scholar Michael Groden (Molly Peacock’s husband)Cartoon Fundamentals with New Yorker cartoonist Maggie Larsen online at the 92nd St. YAlicia Jo Rabins:Fruit Geode (Augury, 2018)Alicia Jo’s Instagram (where you can find her bathtub poems)Alicia Jo’s weekly Kabbalat Shabat (through Kveller)D. A. Powell:Atlas T (Rescue Press, 2020)Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin, 2015)Hugh Martin’s In Country (BOA Editions, 2018)A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos By Tim Dlugos, David Trinidad (Editor) (Nightboat, 2011)Derrick Austin’s Trouble the Water (BOA Editions, 2016)Akira Kirosowa's DreamsTJ DiFrancesco (manuscript in progress)“Gratitude” by Cornelius Eady“Good Bones” by Maggie Smith“What the End is For” by Jorie GrahamEmily DickinsonJudy GrahnRobert DuncanRosa Alcalá:Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann (Zephyr, 2006)Bernadette Mayer:Works and Days (New Directions, 2016)Memory (Siglio, 2020)Sonnets (Tender Buttons Press)Lee Ann BrownLaynie Browne:A Forest on Many Stems (Nightboat, 2020)Poetry and Art at the Rail ParkSylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (Penguin Modern Classics, 2020)Lisa Robertson’s The Baudelaire Fractal (Coach House Books, 2020)Collaborator Brent WahlPrageeta SharmaCD WrightHarmony HolidayDivya VictorJohn Biewen:The newest series of Scene on Radio is The Land that Never Has Been YetDarcey Steinke:Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life (Sarah Crichton Books, 2019)The Last Man by Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press)Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (Grand Central, 2019)Severance by Ling Ma (Picador, 2019)Cormack McCarthy’s The Road (Vintage, 2007)A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel DefoeSamuel Pepys’ Diary of the PlagueAlison Hagy’s Scribe (Graywolf, 2018)Rachel CarsonFredrick Law OlmsteadWilliam Miller (7th Day Adventist)“Understanding the Book of Revelation” by L. Michael WhiteKristin Prevallet:Flying Rolls of the Golden DawnStephanie Burt:After Callimachus: Poems (Princeton University Press, 2020)Don’t Read Poetry (Basic Books, 2019)Andy Slavitt (Twitter)Jeremy Konyndyk (Twitter)Juliette Kayyem (Twitter)Commonplace Videos are HEREPlease support Commonplace & BECOME A PATRON!A list of bail funds, sorted by city, can be found here.

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 two books out this year: This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire and Stay: Threads, Conversations, Collaborations.Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of two books of poetry and one book of short stories. For The Paris Review she writes a monthly column on fairytales and motherhood entitled HAPPILY.Erika Meitner is the author of five books of poems, most recently Holy Moly Carry Me.Alicia Ostriker, a poet and critic, has published sixteen volumes of poetry.Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish Nobel laureate writer, activist, and public intellectual.New Books Written by and Author/Texts Recommended by Nick FlynnNick Flynn's This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire (W.W. Norton, 2020)Nick Flynn’s Stay: Threads, Conversations, Collaborations (ZE Books, 2020)New Books Written by and Author/Texts Recommended by Erika MeitnerHoly Moly Carry Me by Erika MeitnerBallerz 2K20, An Anthology (O, Miami, 2020)Poet Rebecca Gayle HowellNew Books Written by and Recommended by Sabrina Orah MarkWild Milk by Sabrina Orah MarkSound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey (Algonquin, 2016)New Books Written by and Recommended by Marcelo Hernandez CastilloChildren of the Land (Harper Collins, 2020)New Books Written by and Recommended by Alicia OstrikerThe Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019 (Pitt Poetry Series)Ideas of Order and Disorder (Ghostbird Press, 2020)New Books Written by and Recommended by Jennifer CroftHomesick (Unnamed Press, 2019)New Books Written by and Recommended by Olga TokarczukFlights (Riverhead, 2019)Commonplace’s compendium of COVID-19 resourcesPlease support Commonplace & BECOME A PATRON!

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 professor at Rutgers-Newark University.John Murillo is the author of Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. He is an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University and also teaches in the low residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.Tina Chang is a poet, teacher, and editor. In 2010, she was named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn (the first woman to hold this title).Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program, and the online and summer programs for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet and writer and lawyer who lives in the City of Toronto. She was born in Tobago and now lives in Canada.New Books Written by and Author/Texts Recommended by David TrinidadPunk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems of Ed Smith [Editor] (Turtle Point Press, 2019)Eula BissRobyn SchiffEmily DickinsonAlice NotleyWilliam Carlos WilliamsWalt WhitmanSylvia PlathNew Books Written by and Recommended by Tina ChangCathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings (One World, 2020)Monica Sok's A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon, 2020)Kimiko Hahn’s Foreign Bodies (W.W. Norton, 2020)“The Slur I Never Expected to Hear in 2020,” by Cathy Park Hong for the New York TimesNew Books Written by and Recommended by John MurilloKontemporary Amerikan Poetry (Four Way Books, 2020)New Books Written by and Recommended by Alice NotleyFor the Ride (Penguin, 2020)The New York Times review of For the RideThe New Yorker review of For the RideNew Books Written by and Recommended by Ada LimónThe Carrying (Milkweed, 2018)Loving Kindness by Sharon Salzberg (Shambhala, 2002)Sharon SalzbergNew Books Written by and Recommended by M. NourbeSe PhilipZong! (Wesleyan 2011)New Books Written by and Author/Texts Recommended by Cathy Park HongMinor Feelings (One World, 2020)https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

Books by M. NourbeSe PhilipBlank: Essays and Interviews (Book*hug, 2017)She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (Wesleyan University Press, 2015)Zong! (Wesleyan University Press, 2011)A Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays (Mercury Press, 1998)Frontiers: Selected Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture 1984-1992 (Mercury Press, 1992)Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (Mercury Press, 1991)Other Texts and Writers Featured in the EpisodeKamau BrathwaiteNathaniel (Nate) Mackey and his lecture, “Breath and Precarity”Phillis WheatleyGeorge Lamming’s In The Castle of My Skin (University of Michigan Press, 1992)George Lamming’s The Pleasures of Exile (University of Michigan Press, 1991)Claire HarrisDionne BrandHarold Sonny Ladoo’s No Pain Like this Body (House of Anansi, 2013)Austin Clarke (fiction writer)George Elliot Clarke’s argument about Nova Scotia preachers’ sermonsNgũgĩ wa Thiong'oAdrienne Rich’s Of Woman BornDerek Walcott’s Ti-Jean and His BrothersOther Relevant LinksSawubonaShonaHeinemann African SeriesTabebuia or Poui Trees of Trinidad and TobagoLionheart (movie)Kikuyu people of KenyaMalinke people (colonized by the French)Afro-futurism

Books by Darcey SteinkeFlash Point Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life (Sarah Crichton Books, 2019)Jesus Saves (Grove Press, 2019)Easter Everywhere (Bloomsbury, 2007)Milk (Bloomsbury, 2005)Up Through the Water (Grove Press, 2000)Suicide Blond (Grove Press, 2000)John-KJV (Grove Press, 1999)Other Writers and Texts Mentioned in the EpisodeMaud CaseyThe Testosterone Files by Max Wolf Valerio (Seal Press, 2006)Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques (Verso, 2016)Speedboat by Renata Adler (NYRB Books, 2013)Branwell by Douglas A. MartinSarah Manguso (ep. 37)Maggie Nelson (ep. 82)Fanny HoweNick CaveWomen’s Writing Festival in Sydney, AustraliaOther Relevant LinksMike W. Hudsonhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/opinion/reading-writing-stuttering.html