Commonplace Podcast

By Rachel Zucker

Intimate and compelling interviews by Rachel Zucker with poets and other artists. Become a Patron & support our growing podcast! www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

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June 09, 2022 Episode 101: Prageeta Sharma
Rachel speaks with poet, scholar, and Thinking Its Presence conference founder Prageeta Sharma about her book Grief Sequence and creating a platform for BIPOC writers and scholars with the settlement from her discrimination lawsuit. The conversation touches on grief, racism and misogyny, attachment to problematic objects, second chances at love, the abject lyric, false friends, and how to support each other with vibrancy.
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1h 54min
May 19, 2022 Episode 100: Doreen Wang
ADDITIONAL INFO
Selected Work by Doreen Wang
with Rachel Zucker et al., “Commonplace goes to Taiwan,” Part 1 and Part 2.
with Mish Liang Hsu, 一年的告白/ Dos Salidas.
“The roadmap of regret, curiosity and sound: How I decided to make a podcast with my dying mother,” CommonWealth Magazine.
“The Kundiman 2018 Series, Pt. 1,” Racist Sandwich.
"The Analects," Angels Flight: Literary West.
Also Referenced
Ghost Island Media
V Conaty
Katie Fernelius
Arielle Greenberg
Natalie Diaz and Roger Reeves
Ginsbyrg
Torrey Peters
Douglas Kearney
David Naiman
Karen Brody
Brenda Lin (author of The Wealth Ribbon)
Dianne Wolkstein, Rachel’s mother
Oedipus
Jesus
Sigmund Freud
The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, ed. Brenda Hillman and Patricia Dienstfrey
Yanyi
Isaac Ginsberg-Miller
Heidi Broadhead
D. A. Powell
Laurel Snyder
Recommended by Chris
Sharon Olds
Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Commonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast
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1h 44min
May 18, 2022 Episode 100: Doreen Wang
In November 2021, former Commonplace Social Media Director Doreen Wang visited New York City, where she had lived for years, from her home in Taiwan. In Rachel’s home, the friends discussed Doreen’s time with Commonplace and her new podcast, 一年的告白/ Dos Salidas, created with her mother Mish Liang Hsu. Dos Salidas, produced and distributed by Ghost Island Media, is Taiwan’s first limited-series audio documentary and was nominated for Best New Show in the 2022 KKBOX Podcast Awards.
This conversation touches on creative friendships, how people’s lives intersect across time, the importance of editing lightly, the need to control our narratives, how to ask burning questions, intimacy, mothers and children, lingering traumas of COVID-19 in Taiwan and the United States, and the relationship between anxiety and confession.
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1h 44min
May 17, 2022 Episode 100: Doreen Wang
ADDITIONAL INFO
Selected Work by Doreen Wang
with Rachel Zucker et al., Commonplace goes to Taiwan, Part 1 and Part 2
with Mish Liang Hsu, 一年的告白/ Dos Salidas
“The roadmap of regret, curiosity and sound: How I decided to make a podcast with my dying mother,” CommonWealth Magazine
Also Referenced
V Conaty
Katie Fernelius
Arielle Greenberg
Natalie Diaz and Roger Reeves
Ginsbyrg
Torrey Peters
Douglas Kearney
David Naiman
Karen Brody
Brenda Lin (author of The Wealth Ribbon)
Dianne Wolkstein, Rachel’s mother
Oedipus
Jesus
Sigmund Freud
The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, ed. Brenda Hillman and Patricia Dienstfrey
Yanyi
Isaac Ginsberg-Miller
Heidi Broadhead
D. A. Powell
Laurel Snyder
Recommended by Chris
Sharon Olds
Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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1h 44min
April 07, 2022 Episode 99: Douglas Kearney
Books and Selected Other Work by Douglas Kearney
BOOKS / COMPOSITIONS
Sho (poetry, Wave Books, 2021)
Fodder, with Val Jeanty (poetry LP, Fonograf Editions, 2021)
Starts Spinning (poetry Chapbook, Rain Taxi, 2020)
Buck Studies (poetry, Fence Books, 2016)
Someone Took They Tongues. 3 Operas (libretti, Subito Press, 2016)
Mess and Mess and (poetry and essays, Noemi Press, 2015)
Patter (poetry, Red Hen Press, 2014)
The Black Automaton (poetry, Fence Books, 2009)
LECTURES
Douglas Kearney’s Bagley Wright Lectures
“I Killed, I Died: Banter, Self-Destruction, and the Poetry Reading” (The Yale Review, 2021)
OTHER
“Dear Editor——: An Open Letter from Douglas Kearney” (Cave Canem, 2020)
Also Referenced
Bagley Wright Lecture Series
Christopher Titus, Born With a Defect
Tarik Dobbs
Jennifer Holliday as Effie in Dream Girls
Ellen Welcker
Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Archaic Torso of Apollo”
James Wright, “A Blessing” and “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota”
lucille clifton
Val Jeanty
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2h 6min
April 06, 2022 Episode 99: Douglas Kearney
In this conversation Rachel welcomes poet, interdisciplinary artist, professor, and Bagley Wright Lecturer Douglas Kearney to Commonplace. They discuss their experiences writing and performing lectures for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, which supports contemporary poets. Kearney and Zucker speak about ideas of influences on poetry and poetics, Kearney's recent ADHD diagnosis, scales for writers, the failures of metaphor, insight porn, epiphanies, performance, and how the idea of an authentic self is rooted in white supremacy.
This episode also includes excerpts from the following lectures: “Red Read / Read Red: Putting Violence Down in Poetry,” performed live with musician Val Jeanty at the Ace Hotel Brooklyn, hosted by Bomb Magazine; “#WerewolfGoals,” performed via Zoom and hosted by Washington University in St. Louis; and “I Killed, I Died: Banter, Self-Destruction, and the Poetry Reading,” performed via Zoom and hosted by Cave Canem.
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2h 6min
March 12, 2022 Episode 98: Torrey Peters
Books by Torrey Peters
Detransition, Baby (One World, 2021)
Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones (self-published, 2016; revised edition forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2022)
The Masker (self-published, 2016; revised edition forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2022)
Also Referenced
Topside Press
The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, ed. Tom Leger and Riley MacLeod (Topside Press)
Imogen Binnie, Nevada (Topside Press)
Casey Plett
Iowa Writers Workshop
T. Fleishman, Time is a Thing The Body Moves Through (Coffee House Press) and Syzygy, Beauty (Sarabande Books)
Darcey Steinke
Darcey Steinke, Flash Count Diary: Menopause and Vindication of Natural Life (Macmillan)
Fleabag
The First Wives Club
Elena Ferrante, Neapolitan Novels (Europa Editions)
Rachel Cusk, Outline Trilogy (Macmillan) and Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (Picador)
Jenny Offill
Susan Sontag, Illness as a Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (Picador)
Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Atlantic)
Zoe Whittal
Alexander Chee
Kristen Roupenian, “Cat Person” (The New Yorker)
Sylvia Plath
Virginia Woolf
Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
Dave Chappelle
E. M. Forster, Maurice (written 1913-1914, published 1971)
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality (1897)
Jane the Virgin
Sex in the City
Friends
Seinfeld
The Simpsons
Cathy Park Hong
Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian-American Reckoning (One World)
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1h 29min
March 11, 2022 Episode 98: Torrey Peters
Rachel Zucker talks with novelist Torrey Peters about her novel, Detransition, Baby. They talk about the Iowa Writers Workshop, trans writers writing for a trans audience, how writing for others like yourself raises the bar, Peters’ experience self-publishing her first two novellas, the tools cis readers could gain from reading trans stories with empathy, and the new experience of adapting her novel for television.
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1h 29min
February 02, 2022 Episode 97: Camille Dungy
ADDITIONAL INFO
Books and Selected Other Work by Camille Dungy
POETRY
Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press, 2017)
Smith Blue (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011)
Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010)
What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006)
NON-FICTION
Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (W. W. Norton, 2017)
ANTHOLOGIES & EDITORIAL WORK
Ed., Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (University of Georgia Press, 2009)
Ed. with Matt O'Donnell & Jeffrey Thomson, From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea Books, 2009)

Also Referenced
Guggenheim Fellowship
Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year
Susan Sontag
Dorothea Lange
Toi Derricotte, Natural Birth
Matt O’Donnell
From the Fishhouse
Sharon Olds
Kimiko Hahn
Brenda Hillman
The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, ed. Brenda Hillman & Patricia Dienstfrey
Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, ed. Arielle Greenberg & Rachel Zucker
Poets House
Emory University Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, curated by Kevin Young
Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
Lucille Clifton
Yusef Komunyakaa, Magic City
Ed Roberson
Marilyn Nelson
Tiffany Han podcast
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1h 30min
February 01, 2022 Episode 97: Camille Dungy
Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, editor, professor Camille Dungy about birthday intentions, being “grounded” by Covid-19, and having to build new writing and sleeping practices. The two poet-mothers speak about uneasy blessings, family, childcare, resisting the inequality of access to beauty, leisure and art, saying no so you can say yes, working on a long prose project and many other things.
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1h 30min

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