Commonplace Podcast

Commonplace Podcast

Intimate and compelling interviews by Rachel Zucker with poets and other artists. Become a Patron & support our growing podcast! www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

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February 26, 2025 92 mins

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Raised in Brooklyn, NY, Sabrina Orah Mark earned a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University. She also earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in English from the University of Georgia. She is the author of the poetry collectionsTsim Tsum,and The Babies. Her collection of stories,Wild Milk,won the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Short Story and...

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October 18, 2024 121 mins

The New York-based photographer Lois Conner has been traveling the world with a 7x17” banquet camera for nearly half a century. Through the elongated format of her work she has explored the landscape and the temper of our times; her art is both contemporary and, due to her vision, ‘a long view’ that captures the eternal in the moment, timeless. Conner’s work is that of the artist-artisan: every aspect of her art involves the hand m...

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Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including TIME, The Nation, Poetry, Ploughshares,Waxwing, and the Best of the Net anthology. Eugenia serves as a Poetry Editor at The Adroit Journal and as Valentines Editor at Honey Literary.

Books by Eugenia Leigh:

Bianca (Four Wa...

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July 18, 2024 60 mins

Mike Sakasegawa is a writer, photographer, book artist, and the host of the arts and literature podcast Keep the Channel Open, and the short fiction podcast LikeWise Fiction.

His writing has appeared in Last Exit, Catapult, PetaPixel, and Don’t Take Pictures Magazine.

His photographs have been featured on Lenscratch, A Photo Editor, and SD Voyager, and included in several group exhibitions. Originally from California’s Central Coast,...

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Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Hanif’s newest release, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Random House, 2024) is a poignant, personal reflection on basketball, l...

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May 28, 2024 105 mins

D. A. Powell teaches at University of San Francisco. His books include Repast, Chronic and Useless Landscape or a Guide for Boys, all published by Graywolf Press. He is also the author of chapbooks Atlas T and Low Hanging Fruit. He lives in San Francisco.

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Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, (Random House, 2022) is winner of the 2023 PEN Open Book Award, winner of a  2023 Lam...

March 18, 2024 129 mins

Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including The Book (Wave Books, 2023), Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, as well as a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. She is also the author of My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016), Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 20...

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Nicole Sealey was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida. She received an MFA from New York University and an MLA in Africana studies from the University of South Florida. Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast (Ecco Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the PEN Open Book and Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards. Her chapbook, The Animal After Whom Other Animals are Name...

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Books by Eugenia Leigh

Eugenia Leigh

Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023)

Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014)

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Mike Sakasegawa

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November 20, 2023 90 mins

Extra Resources

Books by Laurel Snyder

The Witch of Woodland (Walden Pond Press, 2023)

Endlessly Ever After (Chronicle Books, 2022) 

Charlie & Mouse: Book 1 (Chronicle Books, 2019)

Extra Resources

Books and Selected Other Work by Charif Shanahan

POETRY

Trace Evidence (Tin House, 2023)

Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing (SIU Press, 2017)

Books and Selected Other ...

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September 8, 2023 72 mins

Links, Bios & Support Info

Books & Selected Projects by Moheb Soliman

HOMES (Coffee House Press, 2021)
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Lorine Niedecker
Gabrielle Octavia Rucker
Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang

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August 8, 2023 75 mins
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