Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People) Podcast
1) Episode 121: Fred Moten and Ronaldo Wilson - Part 2
In this two-part episode, Rachel Zucker speaks with Ronaldo V. Wilson and Fred Moten about poetry as performance, influences and teachers, open field poetics, finding space for listeners and audience ...Show More
2) Episode 120: Fred Moten and Ronaldo V. Wilson
In this two-part episode, Rachel Zucker speaks with Ronaldo V. Wilson and Fred Moten about poetry as performance, influences and teachers, open field poetics, finding space for listeners and audience ...Show More
3) Episode 119: Eugenia Leigh's Bianca (KTCO feed drop)
In this second Keep the Channel Open feed drop (check out our first, episode 113!), Rachel and Mike Sakasegawa discuss Bianca by Eugenia Leigh.
4) Episode 118: Laurel Snyder
Rachel talks with long time friend and writer for children, Laurel Snyder. They talk about the Iowa Writers Workshop, Laurel’s path from poet to children’s book author, money, the novice brain, labor...Show More
5) Episode 117: Charif Shanahan & Safia Elhillo with Isaac Ginsberg Miller
Poets Safia Elhillo and Charif Shanahan talk to Isaac Ginsberg Miller, a poet and PhD candidate in African American Studies at Northwestern, about their friendship, kinship, seeing and being seen by o...Show More
6) Episode 116: The Gathered Congregation
Poets Jason Schneiderman, Cate Marvin, R. A. Villanueva, Lynn Xu and Rachel Zucker consider the pleasures, challenges, eccentricities and value of live, in-person poetry readings. These musings are fo...Show More
7) Episode 115: Moheb Soliman
Poet and interdisciplinary artist Moheb Soliman sits down with V Conaty at AWP in Seattle to talk about his debut collection HOMES, regionalism as a creative and critical practice, the poetics of the ...Show More
8) Episode 114: Live & Embodied
Host Rachel Zucker talks with choreographer Hope Mohr about her dance Horizon Stanzas (inspired by Alice Notley's feminist epic The Descent of Alette), the live arts, performance and distributed leade...Show More
9) 113: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
After a brief Commonplace update, Rachel shares episode 143 of Keep the Channel Open with host Mike Sakasagawa and guest Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is a writer based in the B...Show More
10) Episode 112: Gabrielle Octavia Rucker with V Conaty
Poet and teaching artist Gabrielle Octavia Rucker sits down with Commonplace producer V Conaty in Rachel's home in Washington Heights. They discuss Gabrielle's debut collection Dereliction, published ...Show More