Last Saturday Samantha Giles--Oakland native and current director of Small Press Traffic--dropped by the studio for a visit. She shared some thoughts on “community building,” her background in social work, and her experience as program director at Central City Hospitality House, where she provided artistic access for homeless people.
Samantha also gave us a brief history of SPT and announced a few upcoming events, one of which is the much-anticipated Grand Piano reading--featuring Lyn Hejinian, Kit Robinson, Barrett Watten, Rae Armantrout, and more--on November 20!
We were also delighted to hear Samantha read poems from her recent book hurdis addo(Displaced Press) and from her unpublished deadfalls and snares. Busily navigating that “nebulous space” between work, volunteering/community service, parenthood, & writing, we were grateful that Samantha took time out to join us for a visit!
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
October Poets Etc!
In lieu of an interview this past Saturday, we tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to have a show exclusively of October poets. Well we got a few in there. We listened to a JohnTaggart reading, and read work by Eugenio Montale, Akilah Oliver and Jack Spicer. We also heard some work by Nicholas and Delia!
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
Carrie Hunter Interview Part 2
On Saturday, October 1st, we played the second half of our interview with poet Carrie Hunter. She read from her new book The Incompossible and her chapbook The Unicorns. She discussed more about her writing practice and how meditation informs her poetics. We read some of her work from a new chapbook called Angel Unincorporated, written entirely on the BART! Later, we got to hear an audio submission from Bruce McRae, who generously shared his poetry set to his original music.
We had some technical difficulties, but we like to think our flaws are what make us lovable.
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We had some technical difficulties, but we like to think our flaws are what make us lovable.
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
September 24, 2011 Carrie Hunter Part One
On Saturday, September 24th we played the first of a two-part interview with poet Carrie Hunter. She discusses her writing process, her poetry and her new book 'The 'Incompossible.' Next week we will play the second part of this inspiring interview which will include more of her poetry and info on Dusie Press! Click here to listen
Monday, September 19, 2011
Brian Teare Part 4!
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.
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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.
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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
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