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 and a new poem from an unpublished manuscript.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
Episode 41: Danez Smith
Episode 40: Kaveh Akbar
Episode 39: Erika L. Sánchez
Episode 38: Sharon Olds
Episode 37: Sheila Heti and Sarah Manguso
Episode 36: Dialogue Arts Project
Episode 35: Aracelis Girmay
Episode 34: Dr. Joshua Bennett
Episode 33: Sabrina Orah Mark
Episode 32: Laynie Browne
Episode 31: Carmen Giménez Smith
Episode 30: Sarah Vap
Episode 29: Molly Peacock
Episode 28: Poems for Mother's Day
Episode 27: Rita Dove
Episode 26: Alice Notley
Episode 25: Ross Gay
Episode 24: Julie Carr
Episode 23: Morgan Parker
Episode 22: Undocupoets 2 — Javier Zamora, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, and Janine Joseph
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