In this two-part episode, Rachel Zucker speaks with Ronaldo V. Wilson and Fred Moten about poetry as performance, influences and teachers, open field poetics, finding space for listeners and audience to feel welcome, how to define the limits—or lack thereof— of a book and, specifically, the performance they gave the night before at the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church on May 24, 2023. Part one (ep 120) is a conversation about the performance. Part two (ep 121) is a recording of that performance. This reading took place at the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church in New York City on May 24, 202 ..read more

In this two-part episode, Rachel Zucker speaks with Ronaldo V. Wilson and Fred Moten about poetry as performance, influences and teachers, open field poetics, finding space for listeners and audience to feel welcome, how to define the limits—or lack thereof— of a book and, specifically, the performance they gave the night before at the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church on May 24, 2023. Part one (ep 120) is a conversation about the performance. Part two (ep 121) is a recording of that performance. PODCAST: PLAY IN NEW WINDOW | TRANSCRIPT TO COME SUBSCRIBE TO COMMONPLACE: APPLE PODCASTS | GOOGL ..read more

In this second Keep the Channel Open feed drop, Rachel and Mike Sakasegawa discuss Bianca by Eugenia Leigh. PODCAST: PLAY IN NEW WINDOW | TRANSCRIPT SUBSCRIBE: APPLE PODCASTS | GOOGLE PODCASTS | AMAZON PODCASTS SUPPORT: PATREON | VENMO: @Rachel_Zucker Extra Resources Books by Eugenia Leigh Eugenia Leigh Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023) Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014) Other Relevant Links Mike Sakasegawa LikeWise Fiction Keep the Channel Open on Twitter Keep the Channel Open on Insta  Keep the Channel Open on YouTube Bio: Eugenia Leigh (she/her) is a Korean-American poet a ..read more

pc: Webb Roberts Rachel talks with long time friend and writer for children, Laurel Snyder. They talk about the Iowa Writers  Workshop, Laurel’s path from poet to children’s book author, money, the novice brain, labor, being “messy and extra but not totally batshit,” the relationship between poetry and picture books, the experimental nature of picture books, world building, getting things out rather than getting things down.  PODCAST: PLAY IN NEW WINDOW | TRANSCRIPT to come SUBSCRIBE: APPLE PODCASTS | GOOGLE PODCASTS | AMAZON PODCASTS SUPPORT: PATREON | VENMO: @Rachel_Zucker Extra Re ..read more

Poets Safia Elhillo and Charif Shanahan talk to Isaac Ginsberg Miller, a poet and PhD candidate in African American Studies at Northwestern, about their friendship, kinship, seeing and being seen by others, their intended audiences and ideal readers, inherited/received forms, experimentalism, the instability of racialized experience for many Black Southwest Asians and North Africans. PODCAST: PLAY IN NEW WINDOW | TRANSCRIPT SUBSCRIBE: APPLE PODCASTS | GOOGLE PODCASTS | AMAZON PODCASTS SUPPORT: PATREON | VENMO: @Rachel_Zucker Extra Resources Books and Selected Other Work by Charif Shanahan POET ..read more

Poets Jason Schneiderman, Cate Marvin, R. A. Villanueva, Lynn Xu and Rachel Zucker consider the pleasures, challenges, eccentricities and value of live, in-person poetry readings. These musings are followed by excerpts of the June 6, 2023 reading in Bryant Park (hosted by Jason and featuring Cate, Ron, Lynn and Rachel) and comments from the audience.   PODCAST: PLAY IN NEW WINDOW | TRANSCRIPT to come SUBSCRIBE: APPLE PODCASTS | GOOGLE PODCASTS | AMAZON PODCASTS SUPPORT: PATREON | VENMO: @Rachel_Zucker Links, Bios, & Support Info Bryant Park Reading Series University of Maryland ..read more

Links, Bios & Support Info Books & Selected Projects by Moheb Soliman HOMES (Coffee House Press, 2021) We’re Back!  Also Referenced Lorine Niedecker Gabrielle Octavia Rucker Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang David Byrne Walt Whitman Etheridge Knight Moheb Soliman is an interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest who's presented work at literary, art, and public spaces in the US, Canada, and abroad with support from the Joyce Foundation, Banff Centre, Minnesota State Arts Board, and diverse other institutions. He has degrees from The New School for Social Research and University ..read more

Links, Bios & Support Info Hope Mohr Hope Mohr’s Horizon Stanzas Alyssa Harad Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bridge by Alyssa Harad The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer MOTHERs by Rachel Zucker Alice Notley reading books 1 and 2 of Descent of Alette Alice Notley reads books 3 and 4 of Descent of Alette Sharon Bridgforth  Omi Osun Joni L. Jones  Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner Bridge Live Arts Cherie Hill Karla Quintero Shifting Cultural Power by Hope Mohr New ..read more

Links and resources Episode 143 of Keep the Channel Open: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Mike Sakasegawa LikeWise Fiction Keep the Channel Open on Twitter Keep the Channel Open on Insta  Keep the Channel Open on YouTube Information and sign up for new class “Reading with Rachel ..read more

BOOKS & SELECTED WORK BY GABRIELLE OCTAVIA RUCKER Dereliction (The Song Cave, 2022) “Practice for My Birthday” in The Recluse (2021) ALSO REFERENCED Roosevelt University Auditorium Theater Joffrey Ballet Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Christkindlmarket, Chicago Paper Source National Book Foundation International Center of Photography The Poetry Project School for Poetic Computation The Warman Project L. A. Warman Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics Animal Planet History Channel Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Growth Cody-Rose Clevidence The Book of Genesis The Book ..read more