Rachel Zucker speaks to poet, prose writer professor, editor, publisher, Matthew Zapruder, an hour after his interview on Leonard Lopate Show, about Ai Weiwei, Tracey Ullman, and being a Commonplace listener. Zucker and Zapruder discuss their relationship as writer-editor, how Matthew appears in Rachel’s poems, power, sharing work with friends and trusted readers, the history of Wave Books, the Poetry Bus, why Matthew wrote Why Poetry?, Matthew’s relationship with his father and his father’s death, how to include not-knowingness, the kind of thinking you can only do in poems, having to say no to things, trying to do less and becoming less of a public person. Matthew reads from Why Poetry? and a new poem from an unpublished manuscript.
EXTRA MATERIALS FOR EPISODE 44Books by Matthew ZapruderWhy Poetry? (Ecco, 2017)
Sun Bear (Copper Canyon, 2014)
Come On All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon, 2010)
Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu (translations by Matthew Zapruder) (Coffee House Press, 2008)
The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon, 2006)
American Linden (Tupelo, 2002)
Other Writers and Books Mentioned in the EpisodeMatthew Rohrer
Joshua Beckman
Brian Henry
Travis Nichols
Frank O’Hara’s Personism
Marina Tsvetaeva
Other Relevant LinksPosman Books
Ai Weiwei
Tracey Ullman
Jeff Shotts
Michael Wiegers
Charlie Wright
Heidi Broadhead
KGB Bar Poetry Series
Verse Press / Wave Books
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Episode 100: Doreen Wang
Episode 99: Douglas Kearney
Episode 98: Torrey Peters
Episode 97: Camille Dungy
Episode 96: Judy Grahn
Episode 95: Jason Schneiderman
Episode 94: Jennifer Block
Episode 93: Arielle Greenberg
Episode 92: Behind the Scenes
Episode 91: Nate Marshall
Episode 90: Makenna Goodman
Episode 89: The Ladder Out of the Hole
Episode 88: Global Roll Call, Part 3
Episode 87: Global Roll Call, Part 2
Episode 86: Global Roll Call, Part 1
Episode 85: The Craft of the Literary Interview
Episode 84: M. NourbeSe Philip
Episode 83: Darcey Steinke
Episode 82: Maggie Nelson
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