John Keene on Ghost Books, Song Cave, Publishing, Reading Poetry, Delayed Gratification, Language, Meaning, Youth, Freedom, Identity, Memories, Stories, History, and Punks

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

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4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 762, my conversation with author John Keene about his poetry collection Punks, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2022. The episode first aired on March 9, 2022. 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. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram TikTok 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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0:32.2	All right everybody, welcome to the Other People's Show. I'm Brad Listy and I am in Los Angeles welcome
0:39.6	thank you for tuning in I hope you're all right wherever you happen to be it is
0:44.5	Friday so it is time for a flashback episode where I dig into the other people
0:51.0	archives and share an outtake from an episode out of the past.
0:54.9	Today, I'm going to be sharing an outtake from episode 762, my conversation with author and poet John
1:04.0	Keene. Episode 762 first aired on March 9th, 2022.
1:19.7	John Keane is a writer, translator, professor, and artist.
1:23.9	He was a MacArthur fellow in 2018.
1:32.8	And his books include annotations and counter narratives, both of which were published by New Directions, a poetry collection called Seismosis with artist Christopher Stackhouse.
1:40.6	He has also done a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilsst's novel entitled Letters from a Seducer.
1:49.5	John Keane has won many awards and fellowships, including the Wyndham Campbell Prize, the Whiting Foundation Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize.
2:00.0	Where is the Republic of Consciousness, incidentally?
2:03.6	And the American Book Award.
2:05.6	When we spoke back in 2022, John Keene was celebrating the publication of his poetry collection entitled
2:12.6	Punks.
2:13.6	Punks would go on to win the National Book Award for Poetry in 2022.
2:22.3	So a great conversation with John Keen.
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