This past Saturday we listened to Brian Teare talk about teaching and his press Albion Books.
He also discussed Robert Duncan. In keeping on topic, we listened to a lecture by Duncan found at Penn Sounds: http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Duncan/Duncan-Robert_Opening-of-the-Field_part1.mp3. You can find more of Duncan's readings at http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Duncan.php.
Next week we play our first installment of our three part interview with Carrie Hunter.
Click here to listen
Monday, September 19, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
9/10/11: Brian Teare Part 3
Last Saturday we aired Part 3 of our interview with Brian Teare.
This time we discuss the pastoral, the “natural world and the poet’s interior,” Emerson and Transcendentalism’s complicity with environmental destruction, Religion and the queer psyche, coming out, birch trees, Gerard Manley Hopkins, craft, and writing from a subjective position that’s “stained” with Theology.
(In the background we are graced with Albion St. traffic and one very loud cherry bomb!)
In the second half of the interview, Brian reads “Long After Hopkins” from Sight Map (UC Press) and talks about how Hopkins was his “gateway drug” into poetry. Jay also reads Hopkins’ Terrible Sonnet #41 live in the studio!
One thing we didn’t know but weren’t too surprised to learn: Brian was originally trained as a musician and composer!
Click here to listen Part 4 will conclude our interview with Brian Teare and airs this weekend!
This time we discuss the pastoral, the “natural world and the poet’s interior,” Emerson and Transcendentalism’s complicity with environmental destruction, Religion and the queer psyche, coming out, birch trees, Gerard Manley Hopkins, craft, and writing from a subjective position that’s “stained” with Theology.
(In the background we are graced with Albion St. traffic and one very loud cherry bomb!)
In the second half of the interview, Brian reads “Long After Hopkins” from Sight Map (UC Press) and talks about how Hopkins was his “gateway drug” into poetry. Jay also reads Hopkins’ Terrible Sonnet #41 live in the studio!
One thing we didn’t know but weren’t too surprised to learn: Brian was originally trained as a musician and composer!
Click here to listen Part 4 will conclude our interview with Brian Teare and airs this weekend!
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
8/27/11: Brian Teare Part 2
In Part 2 of our interview with Brian Teare, we discuss his poem “Of Paradise and the Structure of Gardens” from Pleasure (Ahsahta), the “queer body politic,” creating “mythic spaces,” snake cults, the difference between sin and heresy, cartography, and Jean Delumeau!
Brian also reads “Eden Tiresias” and shares how Gnosticism (especially via the snake-loving Ophites!) has given him permission to recall and reengage Eden—where “it came alive outside the mind, intellect/ its own elegy, and Adam did not/ love it.”
In the second half, Brian reads “As If from Letters of Surveyor Samuel Maclay” from his previous collection Sight Map (UC Press) and talks about how many of the poems in the collection were written while he was “walking the Susquehanna.”
Candy Shue joins us live in the studio, and we conclude with her review of Brenda Hillman’s Practical Water (Wesleyan). Click here to listen
Brian also reads “Eden Tiresias” and shares how Gnosticism (especially via the snake-loving Ophites!) has given him permission to recall and reengage Eden—where “it came alive outside the mind, intellect/ its own elegy, and Adam did not/ love it.”
In the second half, Brian reads “As If from Letters of Surveyor Samuel Maclay” from his previous collection Sight Map (UC Press) and talks about how many of the poems in the collection were written while he was “walking the Susquehanna.”
Candy Shue joins us live in the studio, and we conclude with her review of Brenda Hillman’s Practical Water (Wesleyan). Click here to listen
Monday, August 22, 2011
8/20/11 Interview with Brian Teare part 1
This past Saturday, it was our great pleassure to air the first part of our interview with the beautiful poet Brian Teare. In early July, we had the opportunity to sit down with Brian before he left for his new teaching gig in Philly. He read his work, and answered our endless questions about his process as well as how the lyric, homoeroticism and religion inform his work. He even educated us on nasturtiums! Please give a listen to this inspiring interview. Part 2 of his interview will be airing August 27th. Click here to listen
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
August 13, 2011: Interview with Erin Morrill
On August 13th we sat down with Erin Morrill, poet and editor of Trafficker Press. She talked about how she uses music in performance, the creation of her poetry and Alphonso Lingis. We got to hear how she came to run a chapbook press. She also blessed us with oodles of her wonderful poetry! Click here to listen
8/6/11 Laura Goode Interview
Without further delay.....
On August 6th we interviewed poet and novelist Laura Goode, whose novel Sister Mischief, has just been published by Candlewick Press. Goode described her book as "an interracial gay hip-hop love story for teens" and it is just that! Listen in as she talks about hip-hop, publishing, poetry and the evolution of this great work of fiction. Click here to listen
On August 6th we interviewed poet and novelist Laura Goode, whose novel Sister Mischief, has just been published by Candlewick Press. Goode described her book as "an interracial gay hip-hop love story for teens" and it is just that! Listen in as she talks about hip-hop, publishing, poetry and the evolution of this great work of fiction. Click here to listen
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
July 9th and 30th: Chris Stroffolino discusses the KUSF Sale - part 3 and 4
On 7/30/11 we aired the final part of Chris Stroffolino's interview. Here, he discusses the sale of KUSF and his open letter to the University of San Francisco president, Father Stephen A. Privett.
Chris Stroffolino is an American poet, musician, critic, performer, and author of 12 books of poetry and prose. His first solo album, Single-Sided Doubles, was released in December 2010 on Popsnob Records.
Speaking of Chris's album, you'll also get to hear a piece from Single-Sided Doubles.
And we played our very first audio poetry submission by poet (and awesome book reviewer) Candy Shue.
We want to play your words too so keep those submissions coming! Contact us at poetasradio@gmail.com
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