New Books in Poetry
Episodes
Yanagawa Seigan, "The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran" (Columbia UP, 2024)
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yanagawa Seigan (1789–1858) and his wife Kōran (1804–79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They practiced the art of tradi...
Kendra Sullivan, "Reps" (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024)
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kendra Sullivan's latest book of poetry, Reps (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024), cycles through a series of operational exercises that gradually enable ...
Anusha Rao and Suhas Mahesh, "How to Love in Sanskrit" (HarperCollins, 2024)
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How to Love in Sanskrit (HarperCollins, 2024) is an invitation to Sanskrit love poetry, bringing together verses and short prose pieces by celebrate...
Hiromi Ito, "Tree Spirits Grass Spirits" (Nightboat Books, 2023)
28 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito--part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential ...
Steve Mentz, "Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels" (Fordham UP, 2024)
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When I decided to try my hand at interviewing authors for the New Books Network, one of my dream guests was Steve Mentz. Steve’s work in the environ...
David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Memoriam: David Ferry (1924-2023) In this Recall This Book conversation from 2021, poets David Ferry and Roger Reeves talk about lyric, epic, and...
Herbert Gold and Ari Gold, "Father Verses Sons: A Correspondence in Poems" (Rare Bird Books, 2024)
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Father Verses Sons: A Correspondence in Poems (Rare Bird, 2024). When the global pandemic forced his ninety-six-year-old father into isolation, fil...
Millicent Borges Accardi, "Quarantine Highway" (Flowersong Press, 2022)
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American writer, is the author of four poetry collections, including Only More So (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), a...
Karen Rigby, "Fabulosa" (JackLeg Press, 2024)
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After her prize-winning debut, Karen Rigby returns with a beguiling ars poetica and tribute to the dazzling. From Dior to Olympic figure skating, Br...
Cynthia Marie Hoffman, "Exploding Head" (Persea Books, 2024)
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Exploding Head (Persea Books, 2024) chronicles a woman’s childhood onset and adult journey through obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which manif...
Jessica Romney, "Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Romney's book Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece (U Michigan Press, 2020) examines how Greek men presented themselves and th...
Adi Wolfson, "I Am Your Father" (Pardes Press, 2019)
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The poems in the book I Am Your Father (Pardes Press, 2019) were written during a period of great confusion and pain, culminating in the moment wh...
Ran Oron, "He Could See a Bird Outside if He Looked Through His Window" (Persimmon Books, 2023)
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From his home in Connecticut, Ran Oron observed and drew a pair of ospreys, a couple of birds of prey that return each year to the same nest. With a d...
Elizabeth Hoover, "The Archive Is All in Present Tense" (Barrow Street Press, 2022)
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Archive Is All in Present Tense (Barrow Street Press, 2022) attempts to capture the feeling of archival research, which, despite being an attempt...
Ian Probstein, trans., "Centuries Encircle Me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets. This collection, compiled, translated, and ed...
Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 3
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Part 3 starts with a discussion of general reading strategies to help you discover the poetic techniques and insights of any individual sonnet. It con...
Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 2
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 focuses closely on the two major “characters” to whom the sonnets are addressed: a beautiful young man, and a woman described as black. You...
Seamus Heaney’s Afterlives
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1995, Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. During his speech, he explained that the adequacy of lyric poetry spoke to the “‘...
Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 1
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The sonnet — a 14-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme, conventionally associated with love — was one of the most popular poetic forms in late Eli...
Katherine Gaffney, "Fool in a Blue House" (U Tampa Press, 2023)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Gaffney completed her MFA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently working on her PhD at the University of Souther...
Ann C. Bracken, "Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery" (Charing Cross Press, 2022)
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Bracken has published three poetry collections, The Altar of Innocence, No Barking in the Hallways: Poems from the Classroom, Once You’re Ins...
Christopher Spaide, "Closure?" The Common Magazine (May 2023)
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Spaide speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his poem “Closure?,” which appears in The Common’s most recent issue. Chris t...
Caitlin Cowan, "Happy Everything" (Cornerstone Press, 2024)
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Caitlin Cowan is the author of Happy Everything, forthcoming in February 2024 from Cornerstone Press. Caitlin holds a PhD in English from the Univers...
Christopher Merrill, "On the Road to Lviv" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023)
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prismatic and polysemous, On the Road to Lviv (Arrowsmith Press, 2023) invites us on an odyssey across Ukraine in the hour of war. "This chronicle/...
Eileen Myles, "Pathetic Literature" (Grove Press, 2022)
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Literature is pathetic.” So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction to Pathetic Literature (Grove Press, 2022), a brea...
Jane Hirshfield, "The Asking: New and Selected Poems" (Knopf, 2023)
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When poet Jane Hirshfield first arrived at Tassajara Monastery nearly fifty years ago, a Zen teacher told her that it was a good idea to have a questi...
Alyssa Noelle Coelho, "The Alchemy of the Beast" (Saved by Story, 2023)
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"I wept as time stopped, and I wept as time refused to cease." Grieving her faith, her love, and her identity, twenty-one-year-old Scarlett V. Leone...
Amy Berkowitz, "Gravitas" (Éditions du Noroît/Total Joy, 2023)
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Frank, conversational, and darkly funny, Gravitas examines the tendency of MFA programs to teach women that their lives aren’t worth writing about...
A Better Way to Buy Books
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alre...
Dong Li, "The Orange Tree" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dong Li’s The Orange Tree (U Chicago Press, 2023) is a collection of narrative poems that braids forgotten legends, personal sorrows, and politic...
David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thy Power, O Liberty, make strong the weak, And (wond’rous instinct) Ethiopians speak. At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley published the first book i...
Hollis Robbins, "Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As I learned from Hollis Robbins’s monograph Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition (U Georgia Press, 2020), th...
Molly Peacock, "A Friend Sails in on a Poem: Essays on Friendship, Freedom and Poetic Form" (Palimpsest Press, 2022)
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For the last forty-five years, the distinguished poets Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin have read and discussed nearly every poem they’ve written...
Linda Nemec Foster, "Bone Country: Prose Poems" (Cornerstone Press, 2023)
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Linda Nemec Foster has published twelve collections of poetry including Amber Necklace from Gdansk (finalist for the Ohio Book Award in Poetry), Tal...
Matt Donovan, "Guy with a Gun" The Common Magazine (Fall, 2023)
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Donovan speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his prose poem “Guy with a Gun,” which appeared in The Common’s fall issue. Matt ta...
Rachel Mennies, "The Naomi Letters" (BOA Editions, 2021)
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Mennies embraces the public/private duality of writing letters in her latest collection of poems. Told through a time-honored epistolary narrat...
Jenifer Debellis, "New Wilderness" (Cornerstone Press, 2023)
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jenifer DeBellis, M.F.A., is author of New Wilderness (Cornerstone Press, 2023), Warrior Sister, Cut Yourself Free from Your Assault (Library Tale...
Proust Questionnaire 38: Ricardo Alberto Maldonado
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ricardo Alberto Maldonado is a poet residing in New York City who was born and raised in Puerto Rico. His first collection of poems, The Life Assignm...
Michele Herman, "Just Another Jack: The Private Lives of Nursery Rhymes" (Finishing Line Press, 2022)
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michele Herman is author of the novel Save The Village (Regal House Publishing, 2022) and the poetry chapbook Victory Boulevard (Finishing Line Pr...
Mag Gabbert, "Sex Depression Animals" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Sex Depression Animals (Ohio State UP, 2023), Mag Gabbert redefines the bestiary in fiery, insistent, and resistant terms. These poems recast the...
Rumi, "Gold" (New York Review of Books, 2022)
10 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, we discuss Haleh Liza Gafori's masterful new translations of poetry by Rumi, the 13th-century Persian mystic and poet. Rumi's wo...
Emily Hockaday, "Naming the Ghost" (Cornerstone Press, 2022)
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Hockaday is a poet from Queens who writes about ecology, astronomy, and the city landscape, alongside more personal subjects. Her first collecti...
Halyna Kruk, "A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023)
27 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"We act like children with our dead," Halyna Kruk writes as she struggles to come to terms with the horror unfolding around her: "confused, / as if no...
Rin Ishigaki, "This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems" (Isobar Press, 2022)
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Born in central Tokyo in 1920, Rin Ishigaki was one of the most daring and gifted poets of Japan’s postwar cultural renaissance. She knew Japan be...
Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky, "In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023)
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ukraine may be the only country on earth that owes its existence, at least in part, to a poet. Ever since the appearance of Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar...
Heather Bourbeau, "Monarch" (Cornerstone Press, 2023)
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Heather Bourbeau’s poetry and fiction appeared in 100 Word Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, The Stockholm Review of L...
Shanee Stepakoff, "Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone" (Bucknell UP, 2021)
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Content note: This episode contains discussions of violence, including rape and mutilation Derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes t...
Lavinia Singer, "Artifice" (Prototype, 2023)
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Artifice (Prototype, 2023), the debut collection by Lavinia Singer, is an exploration of the art of making. Its poems celebrate the artistry of craft...
Evie Shockley, "Suddenly We" (Wesleyan UP, 2023)
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In her new poetry collection Suddenly We (Wesleyan UP, 2023), Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered language to chart routes ...
Ostap Kin, "Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond" (HURI, 2022)
29 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of the massacres of Jews at Babyn Yar. The present collection brings together for the first time ...
Tawanda Mulalu, "Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die" (Princeton UP, 2022)
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die (Princeton UP, 2022) explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a...
Elizabeth Bradfield in Dark Times (JP)
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For the RtB Books in Dark Times series back in 2021, John spoke with Elizabeth Bradfied, editor of Broadsided Press, poet, professor of creative w...
Marianna Kiyanovska, "The Voices of Babyn Yar" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2022)
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to the translators of Marianna Kiyanovska's The Voices of Babyn Yar (HURI, 2022), Max Rosochinsky and Oksana Maksymchuk. With this...
Sassan Tabatabai: Poetry, Observation, and Form
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"For me, there is something so solid and comforting in stone" says Sassan Tabatabai in our conversation, and in his poem "Firestones" the words roll, ...
Jessica Rosenberg, "Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Jessica Rosenberg, who is the author of a new book titled Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print ...
Marilyn Migiel, "Veronica Franco in Dialogue" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since the late twentieth century, the Venetian courtesan Veronica Franco has been viewed as a triumphant proto-feminist icon: a woman who celebrated h...
Lyudmyla Khersonska, "Today is a Different War" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023)
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today is a Different War (Arrowsmith Press, 2023) is Lyudmyla Khersonska's striking portrayal of life from inside war-torn Ukraine. Masterfully tran...
Mark A. Schneegurt, "Anthology of Religious Poetry from the Mexican Inquisition Trials of 16th-Century CryptoJews" (2020)
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A century after being expelled from Portugal, cryptoJews in Mexico, false converts to Christianity, could not speak of their beliefs for fear of becom...
Vona Groarke, "Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara" (NYU Press, 2022)
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ellen O'Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself in New ...
Anthony Reed, "Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production" (Duke UP, 2020)
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and ...
Kobi Peled, "Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin" (Brill, 2022)
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For generations, the composition and recitation of poetry has been a key mode of expression among Bedouin populations in the Middle East, reflecting s...
Wout J. van Bekkum, "The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.)" (Brill, 2022)
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wout J. van Bekkum's The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.) (Brill, 2022) is a comprehensive edition of Hebrew hym...
Afsar Mohammad, "An Evening with a Sufi" (Red River, 2022)
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Afsar Mohammad's An Evening with a Sufi (Red River, 2022) is a collection of Afsar's Telugu poems translated into to English by Asfar and Shamala ...
On W. H. Auden
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1983, ten years after W. H. Auden’s death, the New York Institute for the Humanities organized a series of readings and discussions of his work....
Svetlana Lavochkina, "Carbon: Song of Crafts" (Lost Horse Press, 2020)
31 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Donetsk, the black gem of Ukraine―Eden and Sodom in one, a stew steaming with coal fever, Manifest Destiny of Europe's east: Svetlana Lavochkina sen...
Jed Rasula, "What the Thunder Said: How 'The Waste Land' Made Poetry Modern" (Princeton UP, 2022)
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. "But," as...
Tom McLeish, "The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art" (Oxford UP, 2021)
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in the...
Jemma Borg, "Wilder" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is still wild in us – and is it recoverable? The poems in Wilder (Liverpool UP, 2022), Jemma Borg’s second collection, are acts of excavat...
Brian Daldorph, "Words Is a Powerful Thing: Twenty Years of Teaching Creative Writing at Douglas County Jail" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
11 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001. His last class at ...
Maria Heim, "Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India" (Princeton UP, 2022)
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India (Princeton UP, 2022) is a captivating treasury of emotion terms drawn from some of I...
On John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a young student at Christ’s College Cambridge, John Milton announced to the world that he was going to write the greatest poem that the world has...
Maaz Bin Bilal, "Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan" (India Penguin Classics, 2022)
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Maaz Bin Bilal about Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (India Penguin Classics, 2022). The poem ‘Chirag...
Ellen Doré Watson, “In Which Raging Weather is a Gift," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ellen Doré Watson speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her poem “In Which Raging Weather is a Gift,” which appears in The Common’s s...
Kristina Marie Darling, "Daylight Has Already Come" (Black Lawrence Press, 2022)
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kristina Marie Darling’s Daylight Has Already Arrived (Black Lawrence Press, 2022) spans six years and countless styles. Motifs and images reappea...
Emily Jane O'Dell, "The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master" (St. Martin's Essentials, 2022)
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master (St. Martin’s Press, 2022), written by Dr. Emily Jane O’Dell was published by St. Ma...
Jane Satterfield, "Letter to Emily Brontë," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Satterfield speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her poem “Letter to Emily Brontë,” which appears in The Common’s spring issue....
Jason Bayani, "Locus" (Omnidawn Publishing, 2019)
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Poetry gave me back a way to find my culture, my history,” says Jason Bayani while discussion his new book Locus (Omnidawn Publishing 2019), which ...
Simone White, "Or, on Being the Other Woman" (Duke UP, 2022)
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In or, on being the other woman (Duke UP, 2022), Simone White considers the dynamics of contemporary black feminist life. Throughout this book-lengt...
Kathleen Rooney, "Where are the Snows: Poems" (Texas Review Press, 2022)
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on New Books in Literature, a channel on the New Books Network. Today I interview Kathleen Rooney about her new co...
Caryn Rose, "Why Patti Smith Matters" (U of Texas Press, 2022)
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found—what she fostered—was a cultu...
Spenser and Race: A Discussion with Dennis Austin Britton and Kimberly Anne Coles
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guests are Dennis Austin Britton and Kimberly Anne Coles who have co-edited a special issue of Spenser Studies in 2021, on “Spenser and ...
Mark Kyungsoo Bias, "Adoption Day," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Kyungsoo Bias speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his poem “Adoption Day,” which appears in The Common’s new spring issue. Mark...
Ghazal
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Manan Kapoor talks about the Ghazal, the medieval Arabic poetic form which travelled to the Indian subcontinent in the 12th century and flourished the...
On Koans
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Corey Ichigen Hess is an ordained Zen monk and body therapist. He lived a monastic life for many years at Sogenji Zen Monastery in Okayama, Japan. He ...
Mark Edmundson, "Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Walt Whitman knew a great deal about democracy that we don’t. Most of that knowledge is concentrated in one stunning poem, Song of Myself. In S...
81* David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since the original airing of this episode in June 2021, Roger Reeves' second book Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. was published by W.W. Norton,...
Alison Calder, "Synaptic" (U Regina Press, 2022)
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This intricate, yearning work from award-winning poet Alison Calder asks us to think about the way we perceive and the ways in which we seek to know o...
Cynthia Parker-Ohene, "Daughters of Harriet: Poems" (UP of Colorado, 2022)
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing inspiration from the life of Harriet Tubman, Cynthia Parker-Ohene's poetic narratives follow a historical arc of consciousness of Black folks:...
Katharine Hodgson and Alexandra Smith, "Canonicity, Twentieth-Century Poetry and Russian National Identity After 1991" (Peter Lang, 2020)
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The collapse of the Soviet Union forced Russia to engage in a process of nation building. This involved a reassessment of the past, both historical an...
Kim Hyun, "Glory Hole" (Seagull Books, 2022)
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, co-translators Suhyun J. Ahn and Archana Madhavan discuss their Korean-to-English translation of Glory Hole by Kim Hyun (Seagull Bo...
80 We are Not Digested: Rajiv Muhabir (Ulka Anjaria, JP)
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rajiv Mohabir is a dazzling poet of linguistics crossovers, who works in English, Bhojpuri, Hindi and more. He is as prolific as he is polyglot (thre...
Stanley Bill, "Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Czesław Miłosz’s Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity (Oxford University Press, 2021), Cambridge professor Stanley Bill offer...
Sean Singer, "Today in the Taxi" (Tupelo Press, 2022)
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The first poem in Sean Singers’ new collection of poetry, Today in the Taxi, published by Tupelo Press, begins with, “Today in the taxi, I brough...
Romeo Oriogun, "The Sea Dreams of Us," Common magazine (Fall, 2021)
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Romeo Oriogun speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his poem “The Sea Dreams of Us,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue. In this...
Farzana Doctor, "You Still Look the Same" (Freehand Books, 2022)
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Farzana Doctor is a Toronto-based author, activist and a psychotherapist. She has written four critically acclaimed novels. Her latest, Seven, which ...
Sigal Naor Perelman, "Machluta" (Pardes, 2020)
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is part of a series of recordings I do with artists and scholars from Israel and Palestine. To allow people from the conflict to make the...
Simon Armitage, "A Vertical Art: On Poetry" (Princeton UP, 2022)
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In A Vertical Art: On Poetry (Princeton UP, 2022), acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can ...
James C. Klagge, "Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry" (MIT Press, 2021)
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“One should really only do philosophy as poetry.” What could Ludwig Wittgenstein have meant by this? What was the context for this odd remark? In ...
Adam Wyeth, "about:blank" (Salmon Poetry, 2021)
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The city of Dublin, with its ancient cobblestones, historic pubs, and legendary river Liffey, has been a source of inspiration for writers and poets f...
Leslie T. Grover, "The Benefits of Eating White Folks" (Jaded Ibis Press, 2022)
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Leslie T. Grover about her book The Benefits of Eating White Folks (Jaded Ibis Press, 2022). The Sickness, a disease with unknown...