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 81: Commonplace goes to Taiwan, Part 2
Episode 80: Commonplace goes to Taiwan, Part 1
Episode 79: Christine Larusso
Episode 78: Anne Boyer
Episode 77: Tina Chang
Episode 76: Ada Limón
Episode 75: Victoria Chang
Episode 74: Rachel Zucker's SoundMachine
Episode 73: Jennifer Croft (Translation Series Ep. 3)
Episode 72: Ilya Kaminsky
Episode 71: Mira Jacob
Episode 70: Alicia Jo Rabins
Episode 69: Live Reading with Brown, Joseph, Meitner Parker, Pico, Tolbert, and Yanyi
Episode 68: Live Reading w/ Calvocoressi, Falkner, Gay and Mark
Episode 67: John Biewen
Episode 66: Sarah Gambito
Episode 65: Hillary Frank
Episode 64: John Keene (Translation Series, Ep. 2)
Episode 63: Juliana Spahr
Episode 62: Khadijah Queen
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