Arthur Sze reads from Sight Lines, (Copper Canyon Press 2019) the 2019 National Book Award winner for poetry.
We talk about poems in a series, the natural world, and language systems.
Arthur Sze
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Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer talks about We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019).
We talk about climate change mattering in our daily lives, about the power of choices, and about burgers, and lions.
Safa Al Ahmad
Freelance journalist/filmmaker and 2019 Wallenberg Medalist Safa Al Ahmad talks about her documentaries, including Saudi’s Secret Uprising (2014) and Targeting Yemen (2019).
We talk about activism, the power of reporting, access, and editing.
We also talk about moral responsibility to the person and the story.
Joe Caslin
We talk about creating large scale public murals, activism, and community.
We also talk about metaphor and stories and empathy.
Jeannie Gaffigan
Jeannie Gaffigan reads from When Life Gives You Pears (Grand Central Publishing 2019).
We talk about memoir, comedy writing and The Imagine Society. We also talk about family, faith, and healing.
Ryan Walsh
Ryan Walsh reads from his book of poems Reckonings (Baobab 2019). We talk about a poem’s responsibility, connecting across time, and a spelter zinc plant.
Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak reads from Bridge of Clay (Knopf 2018). We talk about the lives of boys, long projects, structure and redemption.
CM Burroughs
CM Burroughs reads poems from The Vital System (Tupelo Press 2012). We talk about a sister, a red bird, experimental forms, and choosing art. We also get a preview of poems from Master Suffering out in 2020 with Tupelo Press.
Michigan Quarterly Review
Michigan Quarterly Review editor Khaled Mattawa, guest editor Benjamin Paloff and contributor Jeremiah Chamberlin talk about the Fall 2019 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review: What Does Europe Want Now? We talk about MQR’s mission, its history since 1962, and its future. We also talk about the issue’s central question, and the poetry, fiction, non-fiction, interviews and translations within MQR 58:4.
Yevgenia Albats
Yevgenia Albats talks about her work with The New Times, Absolute Albats and her book The State Within the State (FSG 1994).
We also talk about investigative journalism, radio, the KGB, and her role as the inaugural International Institute Distinguished Faculty Fellow for 2019-2020.
