621. Matthew Zapruder

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Matthew Zapruder is the guest. His latest poetry collection, Father's Day, is available from Copper Canyon Press. This is his second time on the program. He first appeared in Episode 477 on August 9, 2017. He is a poet, translator, professor and editor. He earned a BA in Russian literature at Amherst College, an MA in Slavic languages and literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in poetry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he studied with Dara Wier, James Tate, and Agha Shahid Ali. He is the author most recently of Sun Bear, Copper Canyon, 2014, and Why Poetry, a book of prose about poetry, Ecco/Harper Collins, 2017. An Associate Professor in the MFA at Saint Mary’s College of California, he is also editor at large at Wave Books, and from 2016-7 held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Oakland, California. He also plays lead guitar in the rock band The Figments, a Western Massachusetts based band led by songwriter Thane Thomsen. Zapruder’s other collections of poetry include Come On All You Ghosts (2010), The Pajamaist (2006), and American Linden (2002). He collaborated with painter Chris Uphues on For You in Full Bloom (2009) and co-translated, with historian Radu Ioanid, Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu’s last collection, Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems (Coffee House, 2008). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:45.3	Matthew Zepruder is my guest today.
1:47.5	He is back on the program for a second time.
1:51.8	He talked to me over the transom, I think two or three years ago.
1:56.5	And this time around, he was in Los Angeles, and he came over and we sat down in person and had a terrific conversation that I'm excited to share with you.
2:05.3	It's going to come up here in just a moment, but I thought that before we got started, it might make sense because Matthew is an acclaimed poet if he were to read a poem for you, right?
2:19.5	Let's do that.
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