986. Donald Berger

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Donald Berger is the author of the poetry collection The Rose of Maine, available from SurVision Books. Winner of the 2024 James Tate International Poetry Prize. Berger's other books include Pizza Necklace, The Long Time—winner of the Poetry Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry—and Quality Hill (Lost Roads Publishers). His poems have appeared in journals in the U.S., Europe and Asia, and he currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University. *** ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, etc. Get ⁠⁠How to Write a Novel,⁠⁠ the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors. Subscribe to ⁠Brad's email newsletter⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support the show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 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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0:00.0	All right, everybody, welcome to the Other People's Show.
0:10.9	I'm Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles.
0:13.5	It's great to be with you.
0:14.9	Happy Sunday.
0:15.8	Hope everything's okay out there wherever you happen to be.
0:20.0	I have Donald Berger on the program today. He is a poet,
0:24.6	and his most recent collection is entitled The Rose of Maine. It is available from Sir Vision
0:30.6	Books. Donald Berger studied under James Tate at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst,
0:36.8	and he was a contemporary of John Ashberry.
0:41.0	They knew each other a bit, and we talk about that in the conversation ahead.
0:45.4	He's one of our finer poets working today, and we had an excellent conversation.
0:50.9	Very happy to have Donald Berger here on the program.
0:54.3	That dialogue is coming up in just a couple of minutes.
0:58.3	A quick reminder about my email newsletter.
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1:06.0	I will be in touch on a weekly basis to let you know about the latest episodes of this program.
1:11.1	I also share a list of links to things that I've been reading and finding interesting.
1:17.1	Also, I want to let you know about my new company.
1:21.1	It is now live.
1:22.6	It is called DeepDive and it specializes in the creation of educational audio. The debut course from Deep
1:31.0	dive is called How to Write a Novel. It features more than 50 hours of insight, inspiration,
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