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 61: Rosa Alcalá (Translation Series, Ep. 1)
Episode 60: Robin Coste Lewis
Episode 59: Alison S. M. Kobayashi
Episode 58: Cate Marvin
Episode 57: Dorothea Lasky
Episode 56: Jennifer Kronovet
Episode 55: Anne Waldman
Episode 54: Gerald Stern
Episode 53: Tommy Pico
Episode 52: Richard Siken
Episode 51: TC Tolbert
Episode 50: Inside Commonplace
Episode 49: CAConrad
Episode 48: Poets at MacDowell: Destiny Birdsong, Juleen Johnson, Jenny George, Eloisa Amezcua, & Amanda Galvan Huynh
Episode 47: Erin Riley
Episode 46: Allison Parrish
Episode 45: Tyehimba Jess
Episode 44: Matthew Zapruder
Episode 43: Airea D. Matthews
Episode 42: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
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