reading list & Topics
What is a residency without a reading list? We constantly share ideas, fleeting thoughts, poems, books to read, contests to enter, movies we’ve seen, and other artists that provoke debate or conversation. Here is just a sample of our shared reading list, presented with very little to no order and topics we touch often:
reading list
Sound Machine - Rachel Zucker
The Poetics of Wrongness – Rachel Zucker
Ariel - Sylvia Plath (restored edition)
Films by Miranda July
Diannely Antigua
Visual poems by Joanne Dougan
Poetry by Shane McCrae
Classes by Emmalea Russo
Song – Bridget Pigeen Kelly
An interview with Gabrielle Octavia Rucker - On the Power of Decentering Human Experience in Poetry /
Dereliction – Gabrielle Octavia Rucker
”Kevin’s surrealist book”
e.e cummings
Scattered All Over the Earth – Yoko Tamada
”Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying” – Noor Hindi
Alfred Star Hamilton
Assotto Saint
Alice Notley - On Writing from Dreams
The Book – Mary Ruefle
Eating in the Underworld - Rachel Zucker
A Sand Book – Ariana Reines
The Cow – Ariana Reines
Winter Recipes from the Collective – Louise Glück
Pieces of Air in the Epic – Brenda Hillman
Frank – Diane Seuss
”Cowpunk” - Diane Seuss
Commonplace podcast
”What is home?” – Mosab Abu Toha
”In the Woods of Language, She Collects Beautiful Sticks” – Valzhyna Mort
CA Conrad
”Some Kinds of Forever Visit You” – Brenda Hillman
Bagley Wright Lecture Series
How to Summon Spirits – JSTOR Daily
All This Time – Cedar Sigo
Motherworld: A Devotional for the Alterlife – Destiny Hemphill
Projective Verse – Charles Olson
”Song” – Brigit Pegeen Kelly
The Story of a Poem – Matthew Zapruder
“Mystic” – Syliva Plath
Trances of the Blast – Mary Ruefle
”Argot” - Mary Ruefle
“Persephone the Wanderer” – Louise Glück
Hoa Nguyen
Fred Moten
The Adirondack Review - Interview with Diane Seuss
“December Moon” – Brenda Hillman
Chad Morgan & Other Poems – Chad Morgan
“Are we alone? Is it safe to speak?” – Mary Ruefle
The Last Samurai – Helen DeWitt
The Witches of Eastwick
Anne Carson
Ursula LeGuin
”Sunflower Sonnet Number Two” – June Jordan
topics
dust, confessional poetry, dreams, surrealism, time theft, publishing, social media, performance, fashion choices for readings, ekphrasis, “popular poetry,” “mass produced poetry/poets”, astrology, Iceland, residencies, somatic exercises, being wrong, contemporary masculinity, the inherent inhibition toward seeking unpaid manuscript consultations from your writing peers who are busy surviving, pithiness in poetry, alternate forms of publicity and self promotion, MFA programs, “revising toward strangeness,” office poetry, poets with day jobs, Waffle House, poets in hiding behind office jobs, what does it mean to publish, finding an audience, seances and channeling, oracle cards, the witching hour, “just talking” in poems, Jung, particles, clouds, how we fell in love with poetry, meaning making, aliens and ghosts, what poets do