762. John Keene

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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John Keene is the author of Punks: New & Selected Poems, available from The Song Cave. Keene is a writer, translator, professor, and artist who was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018. In 1989, Keene joined the Dark Room Writers Collective, and is a Graduate Fellow of the Cave Canem Writers Workshops. He is the author of Annotations, and Counternarratives, both published by New Directions, as well as several other works, including the poetry collection Seismosis, with artist Christopher Stackhouse, and a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst's novel Letters from a Seducer. Keene is the recipient of many awards and fellowships--including the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Whiting Foundation Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and the American Book Award. He teaches at Rutgers University-Newark. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram YouTube Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.0	Hello. Hey, how are you? Welcome to The Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy, and I am talking to you from Los Angeles, California. It is good to be with you. I have a great episode for you today. My guest is John Keen. He is the author of a new poetry collection entitled Punks, new and selected poems that is available now from the Song Cave.
1:04.6	This is a remarkable collection from one of our finest poets.
1:10.4	John Keane is an acclaimed fiction writer, translator, poet, MacArthur Fellow, and I thought it would be a good
1:12.4	idea to start things off by hearing him read a poem from his new collection.
1:18.8	This is a poem called Serenade.
1:24.4	I love you, taxis honk and hum, stirring snow-drunk Manhattan from its January slumber.
1:32.5	Robbins weave in April Melody, I love you above the midday symphony of 18 million souls.
1:39.7	Evening, July and she whose body writes in the lyric of Tai Chi, I love you, upon the rain-glazed village playground.
1:48.1	Now night extends its raven hands to light the September moon's new lantern is sirens and cicadas, serenades.
1:56.5	I love you.
1:58.9	All right, that is John Keane reading Serenade, a poem from his new book entitled Punks.
2:06.0	Just a remarkable poetry collection drawn from the span of John Kean's life,
2:11.6	and it includes previously unpublished in brand new work.
2:17.3	This is a book that shows great range.
2:19.9	It is a musical book.
2:22.3	It is a book that feels very much like a complete statement.
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