Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, musician and Jewish educator Alicia Jo Rabins about her new book, Fruit Geode, and her lifelong passion for writing. In an episode rich with music, Alicia Jo describes falling in love with Jewish learning, being a classically-trained violinist, learning American fiddle music from a busker, playing in a klezmer punk band, recording three albums of Girls in Trouble songs (written in the voices of female biblical figures), her one-woman rock opera about Bernie Madoff and the collapse of the financial market, the inevitability of cycles, writing a spiritual memoir, the non-binary divine, the Jewish priestess movement, the importance of stopping writing, a hunger for integration, shame, performance, and so much more.
EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 70Books by Alicia Jo RabinsFruit Geode (Augury Books, 2018)
Divinity School (American Poetry Review, 2015)
Other Projects by Alicia Jo RabinsGirls in Trouble
A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff (the album)
A Kaddish for Bernie Maddoff (the film)
Chavurta: A Drummer’s Bat Mitzvah
Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the EpisodeRilke’s Letters to a Young Poet
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield (Orion, 2003)
Claudia Rankine
Kenneth Koch
Ron Padgett
David Lehman
John Ashbery
Norman Fischer
C.D. Wright
Enheduanna
Other Relevant LinksAnnette Ezekiel Kogan and the band Golem
Pardes
Jerry Raik
Bronfman Fellowship
Rabbi Jill Hammer
LMCC
Bernie Madoff
Zak Margolis
Emotive Fruition
Mother Foucault's Bookshop
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 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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