Date: May 2, 2022
I met Kristen Millares Young at Fort Worden, an Indigenous gathering place taken by the federal government, which installed concrete bunkers in the cliffs overlooking Salish Sea. Decommissioned for military […]
Date: May 2, 2022
A campy dark comedy for the angry and the disenchanted.
Date: April 21, 2022
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Date: April 14, 2022
Shout out to all the book clubs: Don’t let this be the winter of your discontent! There are so many good books out there just waiting to be embraced this […]
Date: April 13, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS, Khalisa, on a well-deserved win! For the full list of winners, click below!
Date: April 12, 2022
Dear Listener, For this, our 99th episode, Rachel welcomes poet, interdisciplinary artist, and professor Douglas Kearney to Commonplace. This conversation, recorded in early November 2021, has been a long time […]
Date: April 12, 2022
Kathryn interviews Author Kim Dower. Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, Kim Dower’s poems about motherhood are some of her most moving and disarmingly candid. Culled from her four […]
Date: April 7, 2022
In 2003, I was a pre-med undergraduate at UC Berkeley majoring in philosophy and taking poetry classes on the side—totally scattered, that is to say: lost, alive, lonely, and away […]
Date: April 7, 2022
Bill welcomes poet Kim Dower to the show. Kim, the City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood (October 2016 – October 2018), has published four collections of poetry: Air Kissing on Mars, described by […]
Date: April 23, 2025
MBR Bookwatch features a review of Kim Dower’s latest poetry collection, What She Wants, written by Mary Cowper. “Her word smithing, poetry based storytelling skills are truly impressive.”
Date: April 22, 2025
Scott Simon joins Nancy Kricorian for a conversation about her novel The Burning Heart of the World. Simon praised the book as “a wonderful novel … tough and moving”.
Date: April 22, 2025
Nancy Kricorian’s latest novel, The Burning Heart of the World, is a powerfully spare, poetic evocation of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War (1975−1990) and its long-term impact on one Armenian family living in Beirut. It’s the […]
Date: April 22, 2025
“In this graceful, assured, and incandescent collection, Paschen explores her relationship with her mother, the trailblazing Osage prima ballerina Maria Tallchief, and her mother’s life and family, while also delving into Osage […]
Date: April 17, 2025
“Nancy Kricorian grew up in Watertown in a two-family house where her grandmother, a survivor of the Armenian genocide, lived in the apartment upstairs. The community was rich in Armenian […]
Date: April 15, 2025
Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author […]
Date: April 9, 2025
Cynthia Hogue’s poetry collection instead, it is dark is reviewed by Hugh Martin in War, Literature & the Arts Journal. Martin praises the book as one that “probes this darkness […]
Date: April 2, 2025
Angel Eye, the second book in Madeleine Nakamura’s series, has received a Kirkus Starred Review. “Nakamura has knocked it out of the park once again here… Readers will be thrilled […]
Date: April 1, 2025
Malia Márquez’s City of Smoke and Sea is highlighted in Cole Reviews. “City of Smoke and Sea is a quick yet immersive read, packed with strong character development and world-building. […]
Date: April 1, 2025
Nancy Kricorian’s The Burning Heart of the World is reviewed by Nanore Barsoumian in the Armenian Weekly. “We surrender to its fabled beauty, letting Kricorian’s storytelling dazzle while extracting meaning […]
