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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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Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Mike Sakasegawa

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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.

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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