The New York-based photographer Lois Conner has been traveling the world with a 7x17” banquet camera for nearly half a century. Through the elongated format of her work she has explored the landscape and the temper of our times; her art is both contemporary and, due to her vision, ‘a long view’ that captures the eternal in the moment, timeless. Conner’s work is that of the artist-artisan: every aspect of her art involves the hand made combined with demanding techniques of platinum printing. In recent years she has employed digital technologies to expand the format of her work, embracing landscapes from the natural to the man-made. Her annual trips to China since 1984 have allowed her to follow the transformation of the People’s Republic and to share her unique understanding of the country’s changing urban and rural mien, as well as the vistas that inspired the country’s unique culture.

Conner has been based in New York City since 1971, where she worked for the United Nations until 1984. During that time she was awarded a Bachelor in Fine Arts (photography) from the Pratt Institute and a Master’s degree from Yale University. Conner has also taught photography at many places, including over a decade as professor of photography at Yale University.

For a list of Lois Conner’s publications and exhibitions please visit her website. 

Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including TIME, The Nation, Poetry, Ploughshares,Waxwing, and the Best of the Net anthology. Eugenia serves as a Poetry Editor at The Adroit Journal and as Valentines Editor at Honey Literary.

Books by Eugenia Leigh:

Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023)

Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books 2014)

Also Mentioned:

Hey It’s Me podcast (with Mike Sakasagawa and Rachel Zucker)

Eugenia Leigh’s on the Zuihitsu

Black Lives Matter

Alan Shapiro

Hybrida by Tina Chang

The Undertaker’s Daughter by Toi Derricotte  

The Zuihitsu Form

Franny Choi 

Confessional Poetry 

Bri Gonzalez

Jessica Nirvana Ram

Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman

Lorca’s Duende 

2024 AWP Panel on Mental Illness: Danez Smith, Leila Chatti, Stevie Edwards, Marlin M. Jenkins 

John Murillo’s “Upon Reading That Eric Dolphy Transcribed Even the Calls of Certain Species of Birds,”

Carrie Fountain’s “The Jungle”

Rachel Zucker’s SoundMachine

Keith S Wilson

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

Eduardo Corral’s Slow Lightning

Mai Der Vang & her book, Yellow Rain

Visual Poem by Keith S. Wilson

Time Travel by James Gleick

Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of Time

Brian Greene

Hafizah Geter’s The Black Period

Nicole Sealey’s The Ferguson Report

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Books by Eugenia Leigh

Eugenia Leigh

Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023)

Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014)

Other Relevant Links

Mike Sakasegawa

LikeWise Fiction

Keep the Channel Open on Twitter

Keep the Channel Open on Insta 

Keep the Channel Open on YouTube

Bio:

Eugenia Leigh (she/her) is a Korean-American poet and the author of two collections of poetry, Bianca and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows.

Eugenia received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she was awarded the Thomas Lux Scholarship for her dedication to teaching, demonstrated through her writing workshops with incarcerated youths and with Brooklyn high school students.

The recipient of fellowships and awards from Poets & Writers Magazine, Kundiman, the Asian American Literary Review, and elsewhere, Eugenia currently serves as a Poetry Editor at The Adroit Journal.

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Books by Laurel Snyder

The Witch of Woodland (Walden Pond Press, 2023)

Endlessly Ever After (Chronicle Books, 2022) 

Charlie & Mouse: Book 1 (Chronicle Books, 2019)

Hungry Jim (Chronicle Books, 2019) 

My Jasper June (Walden Pond Press, 2019)

Orphan Island (Walden Pond Press, 2018) 

Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Chronicle Books, 2015)

Camp Wonderful Wild (Two Lions, 2013)

Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains (Yearling Books, 2010) 

Any Which Wall (Yearling Books, 2010) 

The Myth of the Simple Machines (No Tell Books, 2007)

Half/Life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes (Soft Skull Press, 2006)

Also Referenced

Marvin Bell

Gary Blankenburg (teacher at public high school in maryland)

W.D. Snodgrass

UTC University of Chattanooga

Catherine (Cathy) Wagner

Bradley Paul

Carl Sandburg

Theodore Roethke

Hamburg Inn No. 2

James (Jim) Galvin

Greg Brown’s Songs of Innocence and Experience

Tammy Wynette

Annals of Otorhinolaryngology

Jane Yolen

Edward Eager

Richard Nash, Softskull editor

Thisbe Nissen

Isaac Babel

Robert Creeley

SCBWI: The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

Vanderpump Rules

Emily Hughes (illustrator for Charlie and Mouse)

Jason Isbell

Bio:

Laurel Snyder is the author of eight novels for children, including, most recently The Witch of Woodland, My Jasper June, and Orphan Island as well as many picture books including the Charlie and Mouse books (with Emily Hughes), Endlessly Ever After (with Dan Santat), Bruce Springsteen: A Little Golden Biography (with Jeffrey Ebbeler) and Swan, the Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (with Julie Morstad).

Laurel has written two collections of poems, Daphne & Jim: a choose-your-own-adventure biography in verse and The Myth of the Simple Machines. She also edited an anthology of nonfiction, Half/Life: Jew-ish tales from Interfaith Homes. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a former Michener-Engle Fellow, Laurel has published work in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the Utne Reader, the Chicago Sun-Times, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFAC program at Hamline University. A Baltimore native, Laurel lives in Atlanta with her family.

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Books and Selected Other Work by Charif Shanahan

POETRY

Trace Evidence (Tin House, 2023)

Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing (SIU Press, 2017)

Books and Selected Other Work by Safia Elhillo

POETRY

Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House, 2022)

The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017)

“Indeterminacy” (Poets.org, 2023)

FICTION

Home Is Not a Country (Make Me A World/Random House, 2021)

EDITORIAL PROJECTS

ed. with Fatimah Asghar, The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books, 2019)

Also Referenced

Cave Canem

Mizna

The Ineffable Residence: Safia Elhillo Interviews Charif Shanahan

Moore Lecture Series at Northwestern University

Abdel Halim Hafez

Sudan Cipher 

Orpheus & Euridice

Tercet

Ghazal

Sonnet

“Indeterminacy” by Charif Shanahan (chosen by Patricia Smith)

Wallace Stegner Fellowship

Fulbright Fellowship

Eavan Boland

Michele Elam, The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium (Stanford University Press, 2011)

Omar ibn Said

Bios:

Charif Shanahan is the author of Trace Evidence: poems, which was Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry, and Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. He is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Northwestern University.

Safia Elhillo is Sudanese by way of Washington, DC. She is the author of The January Children, Girls That Never Die, and the novel in verse Home Is Not a Country. With Fatimah Asghar, she is co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me.

Isaac Ginsberg Miller is a PhD candidate in Black Studies at Northwestern University, where he is also a member of the Poetry and Poetics Graduate Cluster. His chapbook Stopgap, won The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Chapbook Contest and was published in 2019.

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Bryant Park Reading Series

University of Maryland

Library of Congress

William Meredith

Kim Novak

BMCC

KGB reading series

David Lehman

Star Black

Paul Romero

Sonia Sanchez

Allen Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra”

Phllyis Levin 

Matt Yeager

David Lehman

Will Harris’s Brother Poem

José Oliverez’s Promises of Gold

Martha Graham Cracker

Justin Vivian Bond

Patty LuPone

Bridget Everett

KGB Bar Reading

Richard McCann 

Kinokuniya Bookstore

Willam Blake’s “Ah! Sun-flower” 

June Jordan’s “Sunflower Sonnet Number 1"

June Jordan’s “Sunflower Sonnet Number 2"

Bios, in order of appearance:

Jason Schneiderman is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Hold Me Tight (Red Hen, 2020). He is Professor of English at CUNY’s BMCC and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. His next collection, Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire, will be published by Red Hen Press in 2024. 

Cate Marvin's latest book of poems is Event Horizon (Copper Canyon Press, 2022). She teaches at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York and resides in Southern Maine. Her poems have recently appeared in The Kenyon Review.

R. A. Villanueva is the author of Reliquaria, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. New work has been featured by the Academy of American Poets, Ploughshares, Poetry, and National Public Radio—and his writing appears widely in international publications such as Poetry London and The Poetry Review. His honors include commendations from the Forward Prizes and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and Kundiman. Born in New Jersey, he lives in Brooklyn.

Born in Shanghai, Lynn Xu is the author of And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight (Wave, 2022) and Debts & Lessons (Omnidawn, 2013) and the chapbooks: June (Corollary Press, 2006) and Tournesol (Compline, 2021). She has performed cross-disciplinary works at the MOCA Tucson, Guggenheim Museum, The Renaissance Society, Rising Tide Projects, and 300 S. Kelly Street. She teaches at Columbia University, coedits Canarium Books, and lives with her family in New York City and West Texas. 

Rachel Zucker is the author of a bunch of books, including, most recently, The Poetics of Wrongness. She is the founder and host of Commonplace and directrix of the Commonplace School of Embodied Poetics. She lives in Washington Heights, NY and Scarborough, ME and is mother to three sons.

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Books & Selected Projects by Moheb Soliman

HOMES (Coffee House Press, 2021)
We’re Back! 

Also Referenced

Lorine Niedecker
Gabrielle Octavia Rucker
Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang
David Byrne
Walt Whitman
Etheridge Knight

Moheb Soliman is an interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest who's presented work at literary, art, and public spaces in the US, Canada, and abroad with support from the Joyce Foundation, Banff Centre, Minnesota State Arts Board, and diverse other institutions. He has degrees from The New School for Social Research and University of Toronto and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was Program Director for the Arab American lit and film organization Mizna before receiving a multi-year Tulsa Artist Fellowship and this year a Milkweed Editions fellowship. His debut poetry collection HOMES (Coffee House Press, 2021), explores nature, modernity, identity, belonging, and sublimity through the site of the Great Lakes bioregion / borderland. Moheb has been a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards, Heartland Booksellers Award, and others, and was showcased in Ecotone's annual indie press shortlist and the Poets & Writers annual 10 debut poets feature. See more of his work at www.mohebsoliman.info.

In honor of this episode, Commonplace’s partner org will donate $250 to the Alliance for the Great Lakes, chosen by Moheb Soliman. The Alliance for the Great lakes is a nonpartisan nonprofit working across the region to protect our most precious resource: the fresh, clean, and natural waters of the Great Lakes.

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Hope Mohr

Hope Mohr’s Horizon Stanzas

Alyssa Harad

Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bridge by Alyssa Harad

The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley

Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer

MOTHERs by Rachel Zucker

Alice Notley reading books 1 and 2 of Descent of Alette

Alice Notley reads books 3 and 4 of Descent of Alette

Sharon Bridgforth 

Omi Osun Joni L. Jones 

Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner

Bridge Live Arts

Cherie Hill

Karla Quintero

Shifting Cultural Power by Hope Mohr

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Episode 143 of Keep the Channel Open: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Mike Sakasegawa

LikeWise Fiction

Keep the Channel Open on Twitter

Keep the Channel Open on Insta 

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BOOKS & SELECTED WORK BY GABRIELLE OCTAVIA RUCKER

Dereliction (The Song Cave, 2022)

“Practice for My Birthday” in The Recluse (2021)

ALSO REFERENCED

Roosevelt University

Auditorium Theater

Joffrey Ballet

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Christkindlmarket, Chicago

Paper Source

National Book Foundation

International Center of Photography

The Poetry Project

School for Poetic Computation

The Warman Project

L. A. Warman

Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics

Animal Planet

History Channel

Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Growth

Cody-Rose Clevidence

The Book of Genesis

The Book of Revelation

The Great Courses, Gnosticism

David Brakke

Yaldabaoth

Aimé Césaire

Walker Evans

Whitfield Lovell

Simon L. Lewis & Mark Maslin, The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene

Jeff Mills

Metropolis

Arthur Schopenhauer

Chanel Adams, "The Right to Rest in Peace"

Dorianne Laux, "Life is Beautiful"

Sims 4

Robin Coste Lewis

Amina Cain

Clarice Lispector

Claire Louise Bennett, Pond

Metta Sáma

Ed Roberson, "Q, or the night traffic symbols"

Edgar Garcia, Boundary Loot

Suzanne Césaire, The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent

Beverly Buchanon

Augusta Savage, "Satyr"

The Song Cave

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The second of five episodes featuring the lectures that became Rachel Zucker’s newest book, The Poetics of Wrongness. This episode contains audio of “What We Talk About When We Talk About the Confessional and What We Should Be Talking About,” presented at the University of Arizona Poetry Center (Tucson) on January 28, 2016. It also includes a new introduction by Rachel and a conversation recorded in April, 2023 with the founder and host of the Keep the Channel Open podcast, Mike Sakasegawa. 

In this lecture, Rachel Zucker discusses the origin of the term Confessional as it came to be used for a specific group of poets, the legacy of confessional poetry, risk, shame, and questions of gender and privilege in relationship to confessional poetry. 

Many thanks to The University of Arizona Poetry Center, The Bagley Wright Poetry Lecture Series and the BWLS Podcast, Ellen Welcker, Heidi Broadhead, Charlie Wright and everyone at Wave Books. Here is a longer list of acknowledgments and a partial list of referenced sources for Rachel’s lectures.

Mike Sakasegawa is a writer, photographer, book artist, and the host of the arts and literature podcast Keep the Channel Open, and the short fiction podcast LikeWise Fiction.

His writing has appeared in Last Exit, Catapult, PetaPixel, and Don’t Take Pictures Magazine.

His photographs have been featured on Lenscratch, A Photo Editor, and SD Voyager, and included in several group exhibitions. Originally from California’s Central Coast, he now lives in San Diego with his family.

Rachel Zucker is the author of The Poetics of Wrongness, SoundMachine, The Pedestrians, MOTHERs, Museum of Accidents, The Bad Wife Handbook, The Last Clear Narrative, Eating in the Underworld, and with Arielle Greenberg, Home/Birth: A Poemic, Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days and Women Poets on Mentorship.

She is mother to three sons, founder and host of the Commonplace podcast, directrix of The Commonplace School for Embodied Poetics, and teaches poetry at NYU and other places.

Books and Selected Other Work by Joy Harjo

POETRY

Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: 50 Poems for 50 Years (W.W. Norton, 2022)

An American Sunrise (W. W. Norton, 2019)

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (W. W. Norton, 2015)

How We Became Human New & Selected Poems: 1975-2001 (W. W. Norton, 2004)

A Map to the Next World (W. W. Norton, 2000)

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (W. W. Norton, 1994)

In Mad Love & War (Wesleyan University Press, 1990)

Secrets from the Center of the World, w. Stephen Strom (University of Arizona Press, 1989)

She Had Some Horses (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983)

NONFICTION

Catching the Light (Why I Write Series, Yale University Press, 2022)

Poet Warrior (W. W. Norton, 2021)

Crazy Brave (W. W. Norton, 2012)

Soul Talk, Song Language: Conversations with Joy Harjo, w. Tanaya Winder (Wesleyan University Press, 2011)

The Spiral of Memory: Interviews (Poets on Poetry, University of Michigan Press, 1995)

PLAYS

Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light: A Play by Joy Harjo and a Circle of Responses (Wesleyan University Press, 2019)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Remember, w. Michaela Goade (Penguin Random House, 2023)

For a Girl Becoming, w. Mercedes McDonald (University of Arizona Press, 2009)

The Good Luck Cat, w. Paul Lee (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000)

Remember (Strawberry Press, 1981)

EDITORIAL

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2021)

When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2020)

Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America, w. Gloria Bird (W.W. Norton, 1998)

ALBUMS

I Pray For My Enemies (2021)

This America (2011)

Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears (2010)

Winding Through the Milky Way (2008)

She Had Some Horses (2006)

Native Joy for Real (2004)

Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century (2003)

Also Referenced

Audre Lorde

Jill Bialosky

John Benedict

Sandra Cisneros

University of Iowa

Bob Dylan Center

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Denison University

University of New Mexico

Poets in Schools

Harvard University

University of California Los Angeles

Institute of American Indian Arts

Bureau of Indian Affairs

University of Arizona

University of New Mexico

University of Colorado, Boulder

University of Montana

Paula Vogul, Bard at the Gate

Paula Vogul, Indecent

Congo Square

Theater Squared

John Coltrane 

Alice Coltrane

Jim Pepper

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Books and Selected Other Work by Saeed Jones

Alive at the End of the World (Coffee House Press, 2022)

How We Fight For Our Lives (Simon & Schuster, 2019)

Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press, 2014)

Also Referenced

Open Books: A Poem Emporium

V Conaty

Christine Larusso

Commonplace Goes to Taiwan, Episodes 1 and 2

Pema Chödrön

Jorge Luis Borges

Roger Reeves

Roxane Gay

Claudia Rankine

Morgan Parker

Alexander Chee

Frank B. Wilderson III

Katelyn Hale Wood

Adrienne Rich

Prince, "I Wanna Be Your Lover"

Yanyi

Torrey Peters

Matthew Shepard

Kenneth Goldsmith

Saidiya Hartman

Rigoberto Gonzalez

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Books and Selected Other Work by Eileen Myles

Pathetic Literature, ed. (Grove Press, 2022)

For Now (Yale University Press, 2020)

evolution (Grove Press, 2018)

Afterglow: A Dog Memoir (Grove Press, 2017)

I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, 1975-2014 (Ecco Press, 2015)

Snowflake/Different Streets (Wave Books, 2012)

Inferno: A Poet's Novel (OR Books, 2010)

The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (Semiotexte, 2009)

Sorry, Tree (Wave Books, 2007)

Tow, with Artist Larry R. Collins (Lospecchio Press, 2005)

Skies (Black Sparrow Press, 2001)

On My Way (Faux Press, 2001)

Cool For You (Soft Skull Press, 2000)

School of Fish (Black Sparrow Press, 1997)

Maxfield Parrish: Early & New Poems (Black Sparrow Press, 1995)

The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotexte, 1995), ed. with Liz Kotz

Chelsea Girls (Black Sparrow Press, 1994)

Not Me (Semiotexte, 1991)

Also Referenced

Patchin Place

Villa Albertine

Constance Debré

Grove Press

Marfa, Texas

Henry Miller

Franz Kafka

Simone Weil

The New Yorker

Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman

Zinc Bar

CAConrad

Jack Halberstam

Karl Ove Knausgård

Bagley Wright Lectures

Wave Books

Graywolf Press

Julie Carr

Counterpath Press

Diane Wolkstein

Monkey King

Diane Wolkstein & Samual Noah Kramer, Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth

Anselm Berrigan

Alice Notley, The Descent of Alette

Jorie Graham

Bernadette Mayer

Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Moyra Davey

Peter Hujar

Rebecca Solnit

Patti Smith

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

David Antin

Tabboo!

Marley Freeman

Hannah Beerman

Djuna Barnes

Amber Hollibaugh

Bruce Springstein

Andy Warhol

Joseph Bueys

New Journalism

Tom Wolfe

Joan Didion

Gertrude Stein

Allen Ginsberg

Jack Pearson

Johnnie Rae

Alex Katz

Guggenheim Fellowship

William Carlos Williams

Robert Mapplethorpe

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

Lewis Warsh

James Schuyler

Wayne Koestenbaum

C. D. Wright

Poetry Project Newsletter

Segue Reading Series

New York University

Lisa Cholodenko

MacArthur Genius Grant

The (Paris) Thanksgiving Manifesto

Chantal Akerman

Gus Van Sant

Robert Frank

Tanya Wexler

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Books and Selected Other Work by S. Yarberry

A Boy in the City (Deep Vellum, 2021

Also Referenced

Rachel Zucker

Kathryn Davis

Aphrodite

Charon, boatkeeper of the underworld

CAConrad

William Blake

The Odyssey

Icarus

John Keats

Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches, “The Uses of the Erotic”

Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, "The Ballad of Sexual Optimism"

Jose Esteban Munoz

Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure

Samuel L. Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

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Books and Selected Other Work by Carl Phillips

POETRY

Then The War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022)

Pale Colors in a Tall Field (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020)

Star Map With Action Figures (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019)

Wild Is the Wind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018)

Reconnaissance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015)

The Art of Daring (Graywolf Press, 2014)

Silverchest (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)

Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)

Speak Low (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)

Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986–2006 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)

Riding Westward (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)

The Rest of Love (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)

Rock Harbor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)

The Tether (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)

Pastoral (Graywolf Press, 2000)

From the Devotions (Graywolf Press, 1998)

Cortège (Graywolf Press, 1995)

In the Blood (Northeastern University Press, 1992)

NONFICTION

My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022)

Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Art and Life of Poetry (Graywolf Press, 2004)

TRANSLATION

Sophocles’s Philoctetes (Oxford University Press, 2003)

SELECTED OTHER WORK

Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets, ed. Carl Phillips (Yale University Press, 2019)

“What I See Is the Light Falling All Around Us,” T Magazine (2015)

Cooking With Carl on Instagram

Also Referenced

Brooklyn Book Festival

Hafizah Jeter

R. Erika Doyle

Angelos Michalopoulos

Washington University at St. Louis

T Magazine

Omnidawn Publishing

Layli Longsoldier

Victoria Chang

Association of Writers and Writing Programs

Roe v. Wade

Julia Child

Whitney Houston

Breadloaf Writers Conference

The New York Times

Michael Palmer

Ernest Hemingway

Carcanet Books

Emergence Magazine

Robert Lowell, Life Studies

Ron Charles and Carl Phillips 

Firing Line with William F Buckley Allen Ginsberg 

Rachel Hadas

Prageeta Sharma, Grief Sequence

George Eliot, Middlemarch

John Updike

J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye and Nine Stories

Carly Simon

The Go-Gos

Hadrian

Emily Dickinson

Yale Younger Prize

Eduardo C. Corral

Muriel Rukeyser

Jorie Graham

Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Linda Gregg, Too Bright To See

Frank O’Hara

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Robert Hayden

David Wojahn

Thom Gunn

Poetry Magazine

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73

Many thanks to Rickey Laurentiis, Erin Belieu, Dawn Lundy Martin, Justin Phillip Reed and the Association of Writing Programs Conference for granting me permission to record and share “Radiance Versus Ordinary Light: A Tribute to Carl Phillips,” March 28, 2019.

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Selected Work

Critique Is Creative: The Critical Response Process in Theory & Practice (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), Liz Lerman and John Borstel

Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer (Wesleyan University Press, 2011), Liz Lerman

Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process (Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, 2003), Liz Lerman and John Borstel

Also Referenced

Erika Meitner

Jason Schneiderman

Washington Post

Cristóbal Martínez

Postcommodity

Colorado Dance Festival

Alternative Routes

New York Theater Workshop

Yale University

Iowa Writers Workshop

Doulas of North America

Erika R. Moore

Isaac Gomez

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