Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, professor Laynie Browne about schools of poetry, poetic influences, personal losses, feminism, contemplative poetics, devotional practices, spirituality, writing for a small audience, homage, writing for survival, poetry as a form of protection and as a coping mechanism, the many, many books and projects Laynie is currently working on, suffering, illness, and the importance of listening.
EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 32Books by Laynie BrowneYou Envelop Me (Omnidawn, 2017)
P R A C T I C E (SplitLevel Texts, 2015)
Scorpyn Odes (Kore Press, 2015)
Lost Parkour Ps(alms) (Presses Universitaires et ruen et de havre, 2014)
Psaumes De Parkour Perdus (Presses Universitaires et ruen et de havre, 2014)
The Ivory Hour (Spuyten Duyvil, 2013)
Roseate, Points of Gold (Dusie Press, 2011)
The Desires of Letters (Counterpath, 2010)
The Scented Fox (Wave Books, 2007)
Daily Sonnets (Counterpath, 2007)
Mermaid’s Purse (Spuyten Duyvil, 2006)
Drawing of a Swan Before Memory (University of Georgia Press, 2005)
Pollen Memory (Tender Buttons, 2003)
Acts of Levitation (Spuyten Duyvil, 2003)
The Agency of Wind (AVEC, 1999)
Rebecca Letters (Kelsey Street Press, 1997)
Collaborations:
The Complete Work of Apis Mellifera (with Bernadette Mayer, Further Other, 2017)
Nascent Toolbox (with Lee Ann Brown, The Owl Press, 2004)
Fiction:
Periodic Companions (with Noah Saterstrom forthcoming, Tinderbox, 2017)
The Book of Moments (forthcoming, Presses Universitaires et ruen et de havre, 2018)
The Ivory Hour (Spuyten Duyvil, 2013)
Acts of Levitation (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002)
Editor:
I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women (Les Figues, 2013, w/ Place, Bergvall & Carmody)
Other Books, Writers and Artists Mentioned in the EpisodeIshmael Reed
C.D. Wright
Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop
Michael Harper
Michael Ondaatje
Bernadette Mayer
Alice Notley
Lee Ann Brown
Lisa Jarnot
Arielle Greenberg
Forrest Gander
Lost Roads Press
Hannah Weiner
Jackson Mac Low
Tom Raworth
Lyn Hejinian
Leslie Scalapino
Karen Randall
Cole Swensen
Elizabeth Willis
Pattie McCarthy
CA Conrad
Robert Creeley
Frank O’Hara
Brenda Hillman
Sharon Olds
Cecilia Vicuña
Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (University of Iowa Press, 2008)
Nathaniel Dorsky’s Devotional Cinema (Tuumba Press, 2005)
Other Relevant LinksPropolis Press
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Tender Buttons Press
Norman Fischer (Jewish Mysticism)
Dave Wolfe-Blank
Rabbi Avram Davis (rabbi)
Rabbi Miles Krassen
Episode 101: Prageeta Sharma
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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