Commonplace Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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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