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| 2/26/25 | Episode 159: Abbie Kiefer | The poems in Abbie Kiefer's debut collection, Certain Shelter, are, in my reading, about aftermath. They are about grief and loss, whether that is the loss of the speaker's mother to cancer or her hometown's changing landscape. But they are also about change and rebirth, and both the anxiety and the possibility of an unknown future. In our conversation, Abbie and I talked about television as a touch point in her poems, how memory is layered, and how ephemerality is central to the human experience. Then for the second segment, we talked about doing things you're not good at. (Recorded February 7, 2025) Bonus Reading: Subscribers to the Likewise Media Patreon campaign can hear Abbie read her poem "I've Learned to Accept." Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Abbie Kiefer Purchase Certain Shelter: Print (Portland, ME) | June Road Press (publisher) Abbie Kiefer - Upcoming Events Gee's Bend Quiltmakers While I Yet Live Transcript Episode Credits: Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 1/29/25 | Episode 158: Marisa DeLuca | The paintings in Marisa DeLuca's series Spectre document the changing urban landscape of the city she lives in—Oceanside, California—mourning spaces made ephemeral by the forces of gentrification. In our conversation we talked about the difference between painting and photography, how process affects the ontology of an art object, how audiences make meaning, and the intersection of art and activism. Then for the second segment, Marisa and I talked about spirit of place and the importance of the commons in communities. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Marisa DeLuca HereIn - Marisa DeLuca with Herein San Diego Union-Tribune - Saving what was: Oceanside artist captures on canvas memories of her fast-changing city Marisa DeLuca - E. G. Dérive Marisa DeLuca - Beloved Marisa DeLuca - Or No Side Marisa DeLuca - Keeper Hauntology Grant Kester Artists in Solidarity Jeanette Winterson Save Our Heritage Organisation The Whaley House Museum Pollock-Krasner House Jacques-Louis David - Portrait of Cooper Penrose Marianela de la Hoz Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 12/25/24 | Episode 157: Checking In | In the wake of this year's election, I found myself feeling a lot of things, but most of all that what sustains us through difficult times is always relationships and community. So I reached out to some past guests of the show and invited them to share some updates about where they are, who they're connected to, and how they're thinking about their work right now. At the end of the episode, I close by sharing a clip from the latest episode of Hey, It's Me. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Email | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Commonplace - Episode 86: Global Roll Call, Part 1 José Pablo Iriarte Jennifer Baker Lisa M. Robinson Susan Rosenberg Jones Gabrielle Bates André Ramos-Woodard Maggie Tokuda-Hall Alanna Airitam Alyssa Harad David Naimon Becky Senf Amanda Marchand Matthew Salesses Rachel Zucker Hey, It's Me - Episode 13: Bring Your Whole Self, Including Your Hopelessness Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Mike Sakasegawa Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 11/27/24 | Episode 156: Perry Janes | Perry Janes's debut poetry collection, Find Me When You're Ready, follows its speaker from childhood in Detroit to young adulthood in Los Angeles, a coming-of-age story in five acts, told through a series of lyric moments. The poems in this collection confront childhood sexual abuse and the story of what it means to be a man, ultimately reaching toward healing and love. In our conversation we talked about what poetry and prose do differently, how masculinity is presented in these poems, and why it was important to both include trauma but not dwell in it. For the second segment, we talked about attention and how hard it can be to focus. (Recorded November 12, 2024) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Perry Janes Purchase Find Me When You're Ready: Book Soup (Los Angeles, CA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Natalie Eilbert - Indictus Alexander Chee - How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Peter Ho Davies Linda Gregg - "We Manage Most When We Manage Small" Monster (2023 film) Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 10/30/24 | Episode 155: Sarah Gailey | Writer Sarah Gailey returns to the show for a discussion about their new novella, Have You Eaten? This serialized story follows four young queer characters as they traverse an America in the process of collapse, taking care of each other along the way. In our conversation, Sarah and I talked about experimentation in fiction, vine-ripened tomatoes, cooking as an act of care, and what apocalypse means. Then for the second segment, we talked about why we re-recorded the second segment, sin-flattening and high-control groups, the necessity of interpersonal repair. (Episode recorded September 27, 2024 and September 30, 2024) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Sarah Gailey Purchase Have You Eaten? (e-book): Kobo | Apple Books | Amazon Sarah Gailey - "STET" Keep the Channel Open - Episode 109: Sarah Gailey (When We Were Magic) Sarah Gailey - "Stone Soup #24: Mending Sauce" Sarah Gailey - "Pantry Cookies" Sabrina Imbler - How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 9/25/24 | Episode 154: Rachel Edelman | In the opening poem of Rachel Edelman's debut collection, Dear Memphis, the speaker returns to their home city after a long time away, traversing a landscape that is both familiar and foreign, a place to which she belongs but also doesn't. Over the course of the collection, Edelman asks questions about heritage and inheritance; about exile, diaspora, and migration; about home; about marginalization and privilege, oppression and complicity. In our conversation, we talked about acts of care, the importance of self-criticality, what poems do, and the necessary and the possible. Then for the second segment, we talked about corresponding via hand-written letters. (Recorded June 28, 2024) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Rachel Edelman Purchase Dear Memphis: Open Books (Seattle, WA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Jacob Lawrence - The Migration Series Morgan Parker - Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night Alan Kurdi (The boy on the beach) emet ezell Rachel Edelman & emet ezell - "The Correspondent's Cheeks Are as a Bed of Spices" James Merrill - "Lost in Translation" AGNI 99 Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 8/28/24 | Episode 153: Jennifer Baker | Writer, editor, and podcaster Jennifer Baker's debut YA novel, Forgive Me Not, imagines a near-future America in which the juvenile criminal justice system has been "reformed" to allow young people to undergo grueling Trials instead of incarceration. It's an incisive and powerful story about carceral justice, as well as a moving coming-of-age and family story. In our conversation we talked about writing about serious topics for younger readers, how she approached writing her characters, and why it was important for her to focus on systems rather than individual innocence or guilt. Then for the second segment we talked about finding inspiration in other art forms. (Recorded April 3, 2024.) SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Jennifer Baker Purchase Forgive Me Not: Kew & Willow Books (Kew Gardens, NY) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Minorities in Publishing podcast Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Chain-Gang All-Stars Kalief Browder Lionel Tate Squid Game Annie Proulx - "Brokeback Mountain" (short story) Brokeback Mountain (film) Rachel Eliza Griffiths Nicholas Nichols Titus Kaphar Kelsey Norris - House Gone Quiet Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 7/24/24 | Episode 152: Rachel Lyon | Writer Rachel Lyon returns to the show to discuss her latest novel, Fruit of the Dead, a contemporary retelling of the Persephone myth in which a young woman is seduced by wealth and privilege in a story about addiction, class, sexual assault, and power. In our conversation, we talked about how malleable identity can be during adolescence and how that informed how she wrote the character of Cory, how family members do and don't see each other, and why it was important for the characters in this story to have agency. Then for the second segment we talked about stages of life. (Recorded June 28, 2024.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Rachel Lyon Purchase Fruit of the Dead: Broadside Bookshop (Northampton, MA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Rachel Lyon - Self-Portrait with Boy Keep the Channel Open - Episode 79: Rachel Lyon (January 2019) The Holdovers Charles Baxter - First Light Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Long View Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 7/10/24 | BONUS: Hey, It's Me — Episode 1: What Are We Doing? | Introducing Hey, It's Me! I'm happy to announce a new podcast from me and my friend Rachel Zucker, Hey, It's Me! Here's the first episode as a bonus for KTCO listeners. Enjoy! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Pocket Casts Overcast RSS Web | — | ||||||
| 6/26/24 | Episode 151: KTCO Book Club - Whereas (with Amorak Huey) | For this KTCO Book Club conversation, poet Amorak Huey joins me to discuss Layli Long Soldier's 2017 poetry collection, Whereas. In our conversation, we talked about the way the poems confront language, what language means in the context of forced assimilation, and how the poems engage with both history and contemporary reality. (Recorded March 26, 2024) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Amorak Huey Purchase Whereas: Gathering Volumes (Parisburg, OH) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Purchase Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy Congressional Resolution of Apology to Native Americans Between the Covers - Layli Long Soldier : Whereas R. F. Kuang - Babel Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
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| 5/29/24 | Episode 150: KTCO Book Club - The Man Who Could Move Clouds (with Martha Crawford) | For this KTCO Book Club conversation, I'm joined by writer and group facilitator Martha Crawford for a discussion about Ingrid Rojas Contreras's 2023 memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds. In our conversation, Martha and I talked about different ways of knowing, how to read across cultures without being extractive, storytelling as healing, and what identity means in the context of forgetting. (Recorded March 9, 2024) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Martha Crawford Purchase The Man Who Could Move Clouds, by Ingrid Rojas Contreras: The Collected Works Bookstore (Santa Fe, NM) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Vine Deloria, Jr. Hildegard of Bingen Thomas Merton - "The Door That Ends All Doors" Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 4/24/24 | Episode 149: José Pablo Iriarte | Writer and friend José Pablo Iriarte returns to the show to discuss their debut middle-grade novel, Benny Ramirez and the Nearly Departed. In our conversation, we talked about building stories without antagonists, writing for young readers, and what makes coming-of-age stories such an enduring phenomenon. Then for the second segment, we talked about the importance of storytelling in creating empathy and connection in our incredibly divided society. (Recorded April 6, 2024.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: José Pablo Iriarte Purchase Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed: White Rose Books (Kissimmee, FL) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Keep the Channel Open - Episode 23: José Iriarte José Pablo Iriarte - "Proof by Induction" José Pablo Iriarte - "The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births" José Pablo Iriarte - "Secrets and Things We Don't Say Out Loud" José Pablo Iriarte - "Life in Stone, Glass, and Plastic" José Pablo Iriarte - "Spirit of Home" Becky Chambers - A Psalm for the Wild-Built A. S. King's Instagram post Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You Ryka Aoki - Light From Uncommon Stars A. S. King - Attack of the Black Rectangles Transcript Episode credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 3/27/24 | Episode 148: Sarah Rose Etter | Sarah Rose Etter is a writer based in Los Angeles, CA. In Sarah's latest novel, Ripe, a young woman is trapped in a dream-job-turned-corporate-nightmare at a cutthroat Silicon Valley tech startup. Her bosses are capricious and cruel, the city she lives in is crumbling under late capitalism, and everywhere she goes she is followed by her own personal black hole. In our conversation, Sarah and I talked about the relationship between her surrealist fiction and poetry, why visual art is important to her, and what it means for a character to have agency. Then for the second segment we discussed dead authors, reading in translation, and creative insecurity. (Recorded March 2, 2024.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Sarah Rose Etter Purchase Ripe: Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Sarah Rose Etter - The Book of X Keep the Channel Open - Episode 89: Julia Dixon Evans Tommy Pico Lilliam Rivera Kristen Arnett Sarah Rose Etter - "Unpublishable: Censored Emails from Noam Chomsky" Alina Szapocznikow Vija Celmins Nylon - "Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe and the Rotted Underbelly of Capitalism" Sarah Rose Etter - "Inside the Cardboard Box of My Heart" Mark Rothko Louise Bourgeois Donald Judd Sarah Rose Etter - "Girl, What Is Wrong With You?" Parasite Uncut Gems Sarah Rose Etter - "Subglacial Rivers, A Love Poem, Because… & Either/Or" Crane Brinton - The Anatomy of Revolution Brandon Taylor - "living shadows: aesthetics of moral worldbuilding" Tove Ditlevsen - The Copenhagen Trilogy Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine Transcript Episode Credits: Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 2/28/24 | Episode 147: KTCO "Book" Club - Baldur's Gate 3 (with Maggie Tokuda-Hall) | For this KTCO "Book" Club conversation, writer Maggie Tokuda-Hall returns to the show to talk about the game Baldur's Gate 3. In our conversation, Maggie and I talked about what it's like to experience a story with so many branching paths, how player choices reflect the player's personality, as well as some standout storytelling moments from the game. (Recorded February 9, 2024.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Maggie Tokuda-Hall Purchase Baldur's Gate 3 Purchase The Siren, the Song, and the Spy Preorder The Worst Ronin Pools of Darkness Unlimited Adventures Icewind Dale Baldur's Gate 2 Octopath Traveler The Last of Us The Adventure Zone Dungeons & Daddies Neil Newbon Roger Ebert - "Video games can never be art" The Brothers Sun Sarah Lotz - The Impossible Us Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 1/31/24 | Episode 146: Olatunde Osinaike | Olatunde Osinaike is a poet based in Atlanta, GA. In his debut full-length poetry collection, Tender Headed, Olatunde explores Black masculinity, both celebrating and interrogating it in his sonically virtuosic poems. We talked about his approach to poetry, what poetic lineage means to him, and the silences inherent in patriarchy. Then for the second segment, we talked about departure albums and André 3000's New Blue Sun. (Recorded January 20, 2024.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Newsletter | Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Olatunde Osinaike Purchase Tender Headed: 44th and 3rd Booksellers (Atlanta, GA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Akashic Books (publisher) Olatunde Osinaike - Upcoming Events Bonus Reading for Patreon Subscribers: Olatunde Osinaike reads "Being Human Takes a Lot of Nerve" Etheridge Knight - "The Sun Came" Gwendolyn Brooks - "truth" Paul M. Angle - "We Asked Gwendolyn Brooks about the Creative Environment in Illinois" André 3000 - New Blue Sun American Fiction They Cloned Tyrone Tristan Harris Knives Out Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 11/29/23 | Episode 145: KTCO Book Club - Bianca (with Rachel Zucker) | For this KTCO Book Club conversation, poet and podcaster Rachel Zucker returns to the show to discuss Eugenia Leigh's poetry collection Bianca. In our conversation, we talked about our approaches to talking about books with their authors, how form shapes how we take in intense subject matter in a poem, and how a book can be a means of connection. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Newsletter | Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Rachel Zucker Purchase Bianca: Print (Portland, ME) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Eugenia Leigh James Schuyler - "This Dark Apartment" Jack Kornfield - "Transform Your Life Through Jack Kornfield's Most Powerful Stories: A 10 Hour Journey" Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 8/30/23 | Episode 144: Gerardo Sámano Córdova | Gerardo Sámano Córdova is a writer and artist from Mexico City. In his debut novel, Monstrilio, Gerardo draws from both horror and literary fiction traditions to tell a story about grief, family, and self-acceptance. In our conversation, Gerardo and I talked about genre expectations, genre fiction as a site of art, and what it means to be monstrous. For the second segment, we talked about the tension between fulfilling your own artistic vision and creating work that will sell. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode | Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter | Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Gerardo Sámano Córdova Purchase Monstrilio: Books Are Magic (Brooklyn, NY) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Paul Semel - "Exclusive Interview: 'Monstrilio' Author Gerardo Sámano Córdova" At Home with Literati: Gerardo Sámano Córdova & Kelly Link CrimeReads - "Horror Does a Body Good, or, the Story of My Teeth" Chuck Tingle Petite Maman Petite Maman - Official Trailer Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 8/2/23 | Episode 143: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is a writer based in the Bronx, NY. In his debut novel, Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana presents us with a dystopian future America where convicted prisoners fight each other to the death in a televised bloodsport. The book is both a blistering critique of the US carceral system and an insistence on the inalienable humanity of every person. In our conversation, Nana and I talked about what satire and dystopia open up for him as a writer, why it's important to him to implicate both the reader and himself in his work, and how he thinks about prison abolition. Then in the second segment, we talked about the seductive nature of success as an artist in a capitalist society. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Stitcher | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode | Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter | Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Purchase Chain-Gang All-Stars: The Lit Bar (Bronx, NY) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Kendrick Lamar - "The Art of Peer Pressure" Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Friday Black Metroidvania (game genre) @america_is_the_bad_place Keep the Channel Open - Episode 128: Anahid Nersessian John Keats - "To Autumn" Starship Troopers (1997 film) John Gardner - The Art of Fiction Ta-Nehisi Coates - "Killing Dylan Roof" Kadhja Bonet - The Visitor Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 6/28/23 | Episode 142: Rachel Zucker | Rachel Zucker is a writer, podcast, and teacher based in New York and Maine. Her latest book, The Poetics of Wrongness, is a collection of essays (originally written and performed for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series) delving into her own poetics, motherhood, the history of confessional poetry, and the ethics of "say everything" poetry. In our conversation, Rachel and I talked about wrongness as a stance against moral purity, about addiction to doubt, and about poetry as an opportunity to create outside of capitalism. Then in the second segment, we talked about her new project, the Commonplace School for Embodied Poetics. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Stitcher | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode | Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter | Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Rachel Zucker Purchase The Poetics of Wrongness: Print (Portland, ME) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Commonplace Commonplace - Episode 110: The Poetics of Wrongness Adrienne Rich - Of Woman Born Joyelle McSweeney - "Wrong Poets Society" Alice Notley - Disobedience Alice Notley - "The Poetics of Disobedience" Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process Julia Cameron - The Artist's Way Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House A Doll's House (2023 Broadway production) Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 5/24/23 | Episode 141: KTCO Book Club - The Scapegracers (with Sarah Gailey) | For our latest KTCO Book Club episode, writer Sarah Gailey joins us for a discussion of H. A. Clarke's YA novels The Scapegracers and The Scratch Daughters. In our conversation, Sarah and I talked about the ways Clarke's novels subvert genre expectations, about the quality of teen girls' rage, and about why these books are "capital-I Important." Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Stitcher | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode | Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter | Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Sarah Gailey Purchase The Scapegracers: Loyalty (Washington, DC) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Purchase The Scratch Daughters: Loyalty (Washington, DC) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Purchase Just Like Home: Loyalty (Washington, DC) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Subscribe to The Personal Canons Cookbook The Craft Sarah Gailey - When We Were Magic Maggie Tokuda-Hall - Squad Euphoria How different generations react to a gay character being introduced Holly Black - The Cruel Prince Mark Russel & Mike Feehan - Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 4/28/23 | Episode 140: Dayna Patterson | Dayna Patterson is a poet, photographer, and textile artist based in the Pacific Northwest. The poems in her latest collection, O Lady, Speak Again, use the voices of the women characters from Shakespeare's plays to talk about patriarchy, motherhood, sexuality, religion, heritage. In our conversation, Dayna and I discussed her creative process and how she finds her way into a poem, her use of persona in O Lady, Speak Again, and how and why she interrogates that same device within the collection. The in the second segment, we talked about play, and how it interacts with the creative process. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Stitcher | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode | Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter | Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Dayna Patterson Purchase O Lady, Speak Again: Village Books (Bellingham, WA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Keep the Channel Open - Episode 120: Kazim Ali Keep the Channel Open - Episode 137: Gabrielle Bates NaPoWriMo Othello, Act V, Scene ii Jorie Graham The Winter's Tale Emily Dickinson - "Tell all the truth but tell it slant" Rachel Zucker - The Poetics of Wrongness Kristiana Kahakauwila Jehanne Dubrow Mike Sakasegawa - Sheets: A Love Letter Bruce Beasley - Prayershreds Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 3/29/23 | Episode 139: Joshua Burton | Joshua Burton is a poet and educator based in Houston, TX. The poems in Joshua's debut collection, Grace Engine, ask what grace means in a hostile world of lynchings, mental illness, self-hate, and suicide. These poems offer no solace, yet nevertheless reach toward beauty and peace. In our conversation, Joshua and I talked about what a grace engine is, processing shame through poetry, and what can be unlocked by returning to the same subject in multiple poems. Then for the second segment, we talked about creating mythology as a way of honoring those whom history may have overlooked. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Stitcher | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode | Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter | Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Joshua Burton Purchase Grace Engine: Brazos Bookstore (Houston, TX) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Mike's video review of Grace Engine Jeff Buckley - Grace Mono no aware Lynching of Jim McIlherron Lynching of Mary Turner Lynching of Laura and L. D. Nelson (note: link contains graphic images) Royal Robertson William O'Neal Keep the Channel Open - Episode 108: The Craft of the Literary Podcast Interview Joshua Burton - Fracture Anthology Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS Wave Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 2/22/23 | Episode 138: KTCO Book Club - The Cruel Prince (with Mel Thomas) | For our latest KTCO Book Club episode, media critic Mel Thomas joins us for a conversation about Holly Black's YA fantasy novel The Cruel Prince. In our conversation, we discuss the ways that craft in YA fiction is often dismissed or overlooked by both critics and readers, the dynamics of abuse and trauma in the novel, and being able to enjoy art on multiple levels. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Stitcher | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode | Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter | Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Mel Thomas Purchase The Cruel Prince: Carmichael's Bookstore (Louisville, KY) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org David Eddings - The Belgariad Ursula K. Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea Nicole Kornher-Stace - Archivist Wasp Kameron Hurley Stephen R. Donaldson - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Sarah J. Maas - A Court of Thorns and Roses boygenius - the record Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 1/25/23 | Episode 137: Gabrielle Bates | Gabrielle Bates is a poet based in Seattle, WA. Throughout Gabrielle's debut collection, Judas Goat, there is a feeling of quiet, that the poems are almost being whispered to you. And yet it is not a soft or comforting quiet that these poems bring, but rather one that often contains a sense of menace. In our conversation, Gabrielle and I talked about that disquieting feeling, the slipperiness of memory, the poetics of attention, and how important narrative to her poetics. Then for the second segment, we discussed what literature and poetry can do. [Recorded Jan 2, 2023] Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Stitcher | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode | Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter | Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Gabrielle Bates Purchase Judas Goat: Open Books (Seattle, WA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Keep the Channel Open - Episode 123: KTCO Book Club - Song (with Gabrielle Bates) Between the Covers - Claire Schwartz : Civil Service Keep the Channel Open - Episode 134: Luther Hughes Keep the Channel Open - Episode 120: Kazim Ali Gabrielle Bates - Poetry Comics Kazim Ali - "Know No Name" Abi Pollokoff Erin L. McCoy Keep the Channel Open - Episode 112: Ross Sutherland Benjamin Labatut - When We Cease to Understand the World Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
| 12/14/22 | Episode 136: Abby Minor | Abby Minor is a writer based in central Pennsylvania. In her debut book of poems, As I Said: A Dissent, Abby combines the historical narrative of Ann Lohman—a 19th-century abortion provider in New York City—with personal and family history, creating a collection of poems that challenge the typical notion of an abortion story. In our conversation, Abby and I talked about her approach to documentary poetry, why it was important to her to push back against conventional abortion discourse, and how art and activism intersect. Then in the second segment, we talked about American work culture and the necessity of rest. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Stitcher | Goodpods | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode | Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter | Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Abby Minor Purchase As I Said: A Dissent: Webster's Bookstore (State College, PA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org NPR Arts & Letters - "The Wickedest Woman in New York" Erin Marie Lynch - "Using the Lens of Abortion to Look at Other Things" Abby Minor - "Out On This Red Edge" Abby Minor - "Rooms" Contrary Magazine - Interview with Best of the Net 2018 Winner Abby Minor Abby Minor - "Beyond Choice" Abby Minor - Reframing Abortion to Breathe Life into a "Culture of Death" Steven Stoll - Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass Vaughn Stills - Places for the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo | — | ||||||
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