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Beyond the 50-Year RuleUtah Buffalo Soldier Heritage Trail; The story behind it and where it is goingJoin the Utah Cultural Site Stewardship Program as we discuss the Buffalo Soldier Heritage Trail and Project with two of it's vital stakeholders; Robert Burch, Director of Sema Hadithi and Paisley Rekdal, Director University of Utah American West Center. Learn about the beginnings, development and ongoing efforts for the project and just how impactful the Buffalo Soldiers were during their time in Utah. More episodes on this topic will are on the way so you won't want to miss this!
2025-04-2455 min
Live Wire with Luke Burbank"Poetry Month Special" with Paisley Rekdal, Hanif Abdurraqib, Anis Mojgani, Kaveh Akbar, and Kasey AndersonThis special edition of Live Wire celebrates National Poetry Month, with performances by renowned poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Anis Mojgani, and Kaveh Akbar. Plus, former Poet Laureate of Utah Paisley Rekdal chats about demystifying poetry; singer-songwriter Kasey Anderson performs a tune inspired by a poem from his friend Hanif; and host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello share some original haikus penned by our listeners.2025-04-1152 min
Work Like A LakerAn Author’s Advice: Careers in the Publishing IndustryJoin co-hosts Megan Riksen and Grace Joaquin as they sit down with Caitlin Horrocks, author of one of Wall Street Journal’s Top Ten Books of 2019 and member of the GVSU Writing Department, to talk about all things books! From discussing her writing process to giving listeners advice on breaking into the publishing industry, Caitlin unshelves all the secrets to a successful writing career. This book-ish edition of the Work Like a Laker podcast is impossible to put down once you start listening, so get cozy and hit play!
To find all of Caitlin Horrocks' books, visit her we...2025-01-0722 min
Poem-a-DayPaisley Rekdal: "Joan of England in Bordeaux, 1348"Recorded by Paisley Rekdal for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on November 15, 2024. www.poets.org2024-11-1504 min
Southword Poetry PodcastPaisley Rekdal: West A Translation(00:00) - Paisley Rekdal interview(53:00) - Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Patrick Cotter Discussion(01:03:15) - Southword poem, Waiting for the baby by Afric McGlincheyRekdal grew up in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of a Chinese American mother and a Norwegian father. She earned a BA from the University of Washington, an MA from the University of Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies, and an MFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of the poetry collections West: A Translation (2023), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; A Crash of Rhinos (2000); Six Girl...2024-11-051h 04
APEX Hour at SUU10/17/2024: Paisley Rekdalhttps://events.suu.edu/event/apex-paisley-rekdal
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Bay Area Book Festival PodcastPoetry and the Archives of HistoryAnthony Cody and Paisley Rekdal, moderated by Tess Taylor Many of us, when faced by stacks of dusty old documents, might leave the work to the archivists—or consign the mess to the recycling bin of history. In this session, we'll hear from those who instead look at archives and envision poetry. Poet Paisley Rekdal vividly documents how the heroic narrative of the transcontinental railroad is intertwined with the history of Chinese exclusion. Anthony Cody centers on the ongoing legacy of trauma along the US–Mexico border after the end of the Mexican–American War. Buy th...2024-05-2358 minBay Area Book Festival PodcastEchoes of ExclusionAva Chin, Fae Myenne Ng, and Paisley Rekdal, moderated by Kathryn Ma The Chinese exclusion era started in 1882 and ended (at least on paper) some sixty years later, but, as the authors in this session profoundly reveal, its echoes still reverberate from coast to coast. Buy the books here 2024-03-2858 min
Painted Bride Quarterly’s Slush PileEpisode 121: The Tie Breakers EpisodeIn this episode we discussed three very different poems by Oregon poet Lorna Rose, all three resulting in juicy conversation and resulting in three tie-breakers (none of them involving the same voting configurations amongst our team!). This was a big first for us. The episode was kicked off by a larger discussion (prompted by the first poem) around aspects of cultural appropriation and touched on facets of trauma and language. This wide-ranging discussion and the split in our voting pointed to the power and ambiguity of various elements in these poems. In the end, a tie-breaking editor helped deliver t...2023-10-2455 min
Check Your ShelvesPaisley Rekdal: Check Your Shelves Ep. 6Paisley Rekdal joined us in studio to talk about her newest book, West: A Translation. West: A Translation was Utah and Utah Humanities’ Adult selection for the 2023 Library of Congress, long listed for the National Book Award in Poetry, and so much more.
You can find the full text of the book and videos that accompany each poem and translation at westtrain.org. We encourage you to buy the book and experience the multi-media art on your own.
As always, an enlightening podcast with Rekdal.
2023-10-1143 min
U RisingVerse meets vision: A poet takes charge at the University of Utah’s American West CenterPaisley Rekdal is an acclaimed poet with a new—and she admits—surprising title: Director of the American West Center at the University of Utah. In this episode, Rekdal shares with Chris Nelson why she was attracted to the role and how she hopes to use the sensitivities of a poet to expand its community engagement and take the center in new directions. Subscribe to the U Rising podcast on your favorite streaming platform, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts. You can also access episodes of U Rising on our news website, linked here. 2023-09-0521 min
Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastNational Book Award PredictionsThe gays gaze into their crystal balls and predict the National Book Awards.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit Hub, Rebecca Morgan Frank says the poems have "a gift for telling stories . . . in acts of queer survival." Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie bo...2023-08-1427 min
THE POETRY QUESTION: TPQ20S6EP19: PAISLEY REKDALJoin Chris in conversation with Paisley Rekdal, author of WEST: A TRANSLATION (Copper Canyon Press), about passions, process, pitfalls, & Poetry!
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Troubadours and Raconteurs with E.W. Conundrum Demure - Conversation, Essays, Poetry & Music.Episode 527 Featuring Almighty Todd - Homesteader, Sensei, Winemaker and Our Reluctant Resident PhilosopherEpisode 527 also includes an E.W. Essay titled "Hail & Hay." We share a piece titled "What Is the Smell of a Circle" by Paisley Rekdal as published in the June 5th, 2023 issue of the New Yorker Magazine. We have an E.W. Poem called "Blossoms."Our music this go round is provided by these wonderful artists: Thelonious Monk, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Josh Ritter, The National, Lucinda Williams, Pavement, Branford Marsalis and Terence Blanchard. Commercial Free, Small Batch Radio Crafted in the West Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania... Heard All Over The World.Tel...2023-06-2158 min
Poetry Off the ShelfLet the Record HidePaisley Rekdal on maps, Sisyphus, and the dangers of beauty.
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Ampersand: The Poets & Writers PodcastWest: A Translation by Paisley RekdalWest: A Translation by Paisley Rekdal by Poets & Writers2023-04-1201 minBreaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastPet ProjectHot goss about Victorian poet(s) Michael Field precedes a conversation about the deep loss of animals, and the intimacy, friendship, and love we share with them.Please consider supporting the poets we mention in today's show! If you need a good indie bookstore, we recommend Loyalty Bookstores, a DC-area Black-owned bookshop.We reference a scene from the show Yellowstone where Beth tells her son Carter the universal truths of getting money. You can watch that clip here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=118&v=a68StSECIGI&feature=emb_logoRead...2022-11-1427 min
City Cast Salt LakeMapping Salt Lake’s Many StoriesUtah writer Paisley Rekdal joins the program, after recently wrapping a long stint as Utah Poet Laureate, to talk about her Mapping Salt Lake project, a true community effort that relies on youSubscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-07-2018 min
Roots, Race & CultureCultural AppropriationIs there a “right” or “wrong” way to borrow from other cultures? What does cultural appropriation mean, anyway? We break down the terminology — and the differences between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation — with guests Paisley Rekdal, Utah Poet Laureate and author of the book “Appropriation,” and Erika George, the first African American law professor at the University of Utah.2022-05-2046 minRoots, Race & CultureCultural AppropriationIs there a “right” or “wrong” way to borrow from other cultures? What does cultural appropriation mean, anyway? We break down the terminology — and the differences between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation — with guests Paisley Rekdal, Utah Poet Laureate and author of the book “Appropriation,” and Erika George, the first African American law professor at the University of Utah.2022-05-2046 min
UO TodayUO Today interview: Paisley Rekdal, Professor of English at the University of UtahWriter Paisley Rekdal is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah, and Utah's Poet Laureate. She discusses and reads from her latest collection of poetry "Nightingale" and talks about her nonfiction book "Appropriate: A Provocation." Rekdal also describes her multimedia project "West: A Translation."
On April 7, 2022, Rekdal will give a reading as a guest of the University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program.2022-03-1231 min
The Poetry Magazine PodcastSrikanth Reddy in Conversation with Jay Hopler and Kimberly JohnsonWhen Jay Hopler received a terminal cancer diagnosis in 2017, he was told he had two years to live. He thought, “I have to write a book in twenty-four months.” We’ll hear two poems from that book today. Still Life, out in June from McSweeney’s, is a “violently funny but playfully serious fulfillment of what Arseny Tarkovsky called the fundamental purpose of art: a way to prepare for death, be it far in the future or very near at hand.” Poetry guest editor Srikanth Reddy takes over the helm of the podcast this week, and interviews both Hopler and renaissa...2022-03-0835 min
Access UtahPoets in the new year: Wednesday's Access UtahPoets get to the heart of what we’re thinking and feeling. As we open the new year, we’ll hear from Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal; Logan Poet Laureate Shanan Ballam; and poet and Sonosopher Alex Caldiero.2022-01-1149 minAccess UtahRevisiting 'West: A Translation' With Paisley Rekdal On Wednesday's Access UtahIn 2019, Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal was commissioned to write a poem commemorating the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad’s completion. The result is “West: A Translation:” a linked collection of poems that responds to a Chinese elegy carved into the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station where Chinese migrants to the United States were detained. “West” translates this elegy character by character through the lens of Chinese and other transcontinental railroad workers’ histories, and through the railroad’s cultural impact on America.2021-08-0454 min
MOSTLY ESSAYSEpisode 24 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee'- Paisley RekdalEver wondered what Bruce Lee was like in person? Here writer and poet Paisley Rekdal paints us a lightly humored and poignant picture of her mothers' experience. Don't know who Bruce Lee is, add Enter the Dragon to your movie playlist.
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Arts & IdeasNew Thinking:The Innovative Shape of PoemsHIV's origins and colonial history have inspired the collection of poems by Kayo Chingonyi, which has been nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021. Paisley Rekdal is currently the Poet Laureate of Utah. Her latest collection of poems was inspired by Ovid. She's been thinking about where stories come from and what we mean by appropriation. Dr Nasser Hussain is interested in ‘lost’ fragments of language and in what we notice and what we ignore. New Generation Thinker Florence Hazrat studies punctuation. They join host Sandeep Parmar for a conversation about experimentation ahead of the Ledbury Poetry Festival.2021-06-3044 min
The Banyan CollectiveLITerally Ep. 51 - Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal, APPROPRIATESometimes, it's just best to sit back, listen, and learn. Going into my interview with Paisley Rekdal, that was my plan, and I'm happy I stuck (mostly) to it because there's no reason to mess up a good hour of great, researched insight with my fumbling. So fortunate to have Utah's Poet Laureate and author of APPROPRIATE (and many, many other books of poetry and nonfiction) on LITerally. - Kase
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LITerally PodcastUtah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal, APPROPRIATESometimes, it's just best to sit back, listen, and learn. Going into my interview with Paisley Rekdal, that was my plan, and I'm happy I stuck (mostly) to it because there's no reason to mess up a good hour of great, researched insight with my fumbling. So fortunate to have Utah's Poet Laureate and author of APPROPRIATE (and many, many other books of poetry and nonfiction) on LITerally. - Kase2021-06-2453 min
Charla Cultural007 – Chatting with Paisley RekdalWe’re chatting with Paisley Rekdal!! We’re featuring Rekdal's performance of West: A Translation at City of Asylum back in September 2019, as well as a recent interview with Rekdal in support of her newest book Appropriate: A Provocation. We're also talking The Ferrante Project, when it's okay to wear a sombrero, and how not to be a jerk about appropriation.
Paisley Rekdal is an American poet who is currently serving as Poet Laureate of Utah. She is the author of a book of essays entitled The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee...2021-06-241h 16Access Utah'West: A Translation' With Paisley Rekdal On Monday's Access UtahIn 2019, Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal was commissioned to write a poem commemorating the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad’s completion. The result is “West: A Translation:” a linked collection of poems that responds to a Chinese elegy carved into the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station where Chinese migrants to the United States were detained. “West” translates this elegy character by character through the lens of Chinese and other transcontinental railroad workers’ histories, and through the railroad’s cultural impact on America.2021-05-1054 minAccess UtahRevisiting 'Appropriate: A Provocation' With Paisley Rekdal On Monday's Access UtahHow do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first?2021-05-0354 min
Close Talking: A Poetry PodcastEpisode #131 Beyond the Sonnet - Sonnet Week Ep. 7Connor and Jack close out National Poetry Month 2021 with a series of episodes exploring the history and enduring popularity of one of poetry's iconic forms: the sonnet. To finish off a full week of episodes, a look at some contemporary sonnets and ways that poets have added to (and moved beyond)the basic fourteen line form. Nicole Sealey's 29 line "candelabra with heads" Paisley Rekdal's anagrammatical sonnets, Jericho Brown's creation of The Duplex and more are discussed.
candelabra with heads
by Nicole Sealey
Had I not brought with me my mind
as it has been made, this thing,
this brood of...2021-04-3037 min
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkRead By Paisley RekdalPaisley Rekdal on her selection:
Charming may not be a word commonly associated with Alexander Pope, but for me, “Epistle to Miss Blount, On Her Leaving the Town, After the Coronation” may be one of the most charming poems I know. Pope, famous for “The Rape of the Lock,” and his exhaustingly didactic essay “A Man,” delights with this epistolary poem—brief, by Popian standards—full of wit and life. Like all his poems, it displays a beautiful facility with rhyme and meter, (Pope was a master of the heroic couplet), and a beautiful sense of compassion to the young woman to whom it...2021-04-1810 min
Poetry Spoken HereEpisode #160 Paisley Rekdal Reading at the Unamuno Author FestivalPaisley Rekdal reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in May of 2019 in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at Desperate Literature an independent bookstore in Madrid.
Though this reading is short it includes everything from Greek myths to Mae West impressions. Rekdal is the current poet laureate of Utah, a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, and the recipient of many honors for her poetry. She is also an essayist and memoirist. Her latest book, "Appropriate: A Provocation" examines cultural appropriation.
Learn more about Paisley Rekdal, here: https://www.paisleyrekdal.com/
Get a copy of...2021-04-1013 min
Fully Booked by Kirkus ReviewsPaisley RekdalPaisley Rekdal discusses ‘Appropriate: A Provocation’ (Norton, Feb. 16), “An astute, lucid examination of an incendiary issue” (starred review). And in a sponsored interview, Megan talks with debut author Kate Albus about A Place to Hang the Moon (Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House, Feb. 2). Then our editors offer reading recommendations for the week, with books by Phùng Nguyên Quang and Huynh Kim Liên, Nicole Lesperance, James Nestor, and Lauren Fox.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.2021-02-161h 00Access Utah'Addressing Appropriation' With Paisley Rekdal On Monday's Access UtahHow do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In her new book, “Appropriate: A Provocation,” creative writing professor and Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the idea of cultural appropriation has evolved—and perhaps calcified—in our political climate. What follows is an exploration of fluctuating literary power and authorial privilege, about whiteness and what we really mean by the term empathy, that examines writers from William Styron to Peter...2021-02-1550 min
Charlotte Readers PodcastPoets Christopher Davis And Allison Hutchcraft Bring Lives and Nature to the Page in “Oath” and “Swale”In this episode 162, we visit with award-winning Charlotte poets Christopher Davis and Allison Hutchcraft, authors of the poetry books, “Oath,” published by Main Street Rag and “Swale,” published by New Issues Press with Western Michigan University. Chris and Allison both teach at University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
David Trinidad says “there is a sharp, steel-like edge to the lines in Christopher Davis’s poems-so finely wrought are they, and attuned to ‘the brutality of fact,’ the limits of human interaction.”
Paisley Rekdal says “Hutchcraft examines the delicate balance between rapture and ravishment, in poems as ambitious as they are beautifu...2020-12-011h 14
The Coronavirus LecturesPodcast Ten: Interview with Hanif AbdurraqibA discussion about music criticism, nonfiction, and structuring They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us with Hanif Abdurraqib.2020-11-1540 minThe Coronavirus LecturesEpisode Nine: Using PhotographyExamining the use of photographs in W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee.2020-11-0221 min
The Archive ProjectLook Closer: Poetry & Myth Remaking
In this episode of The Archive Project we revisit an event that took place at the 2019 Portland Book Festival. The panel, titled Look Closer: Poetry & Myth Remaking, features poets Sally Wen Mao, Paisley Rekdal, and Jake Skeets, with moderator Dao Strom.
Myths come in many forms. There are the formal myths of different cultures such as gods and heroes, the creation of the world; there are national myths that define countries; and also childhood myths, family myths and personal myths. All are stories that attempt to explain some aspect of the world, and can come...2020-10-1854 minThe Coronavirus LecturesPodcast Eight: Interview with John D'AgataA discussion of truth, accuracy, persona, and defining literary nonfiction with John D'Agata. 2020-10-1141 minThe Coronavirus LecturesPodcast Seven: On Lyric BraidingPodcast lecture on Scott McCloud's "Blood in the Gutter," Eula Biss' "No Man's Land," and the braided essay.2020-10-1113 minThe Coronavirus LecturesPodcast Two: On MetaphorOn metaphor, and what a story needs to become more than a situation.2020-08-2518 minThe Coronavirus LecturesPodcast Six: On Syntax, Character, Dialect, and AccuracyThis episode examines syntax, and how syntax affects how we judge character. The episode also looks at dialect, accuracy, and problems of appropriation.2020-08-2420 minThe Coronavirus LecturesPodcast Four: On Scenes, Juxtaposition, Parallelism, and Point of ViewAn episode that considers what we can learn about scenes, juxtaposition and POV from sports essays.2020-08-2319 minThe Coronavirus LecturesPodcast Three: On BeginningsOn the importance of beginnings, and just when we know what we know in the essay.2020-08-2212 minThe Coronavirus LecturesPodcast One: What Is NonfictionA brief history of nonfiction, and the essayistic mode.2020-08-2216 minThe Coronavirus LecturesPodcast Five: Interview with Alex Marzano-LesnevichAlex Marzano-Lesnevich discusses the research, writing, and craft that went into writing The Fact of a Body.2020-08-2147 minAccess UtahRevisiting Mapping Literary Utah With Paisley Rekdal On Wednesday's Access UtahSeveral years ago, writer Paisley Rekdal created a digital community project that mapped the people, places, buildings and events that defined Salt Lake City. When she became Utah’s poet laureate, she decided to build on this idea and create a literary map for the entire state.2020-07-0854 min
Jordan SupercastEpisode 33: Poetry in Motion: Utah’s Poet Laureate Shares Her PassionOn this special edition of the Supercast in honor of National Poetry Month, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey talks with Utah’s Poet Laureate, Paisley Rekdal. This U of U professor, writer and poet shares her thoughts on how parents can support a child’s budding passion for poetry and how that passion can grow and change lives.
Ms. Rekdal invites everyone to explore Utah authors and their creative work by visiting the Mapping Literary Utah website.
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Welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. Throughout the month of April, people acro...2020-05-0136 minAccess UtahMapping Literary Utah With Paisley Rekdal On Thursday's Access UtahSeveral years ago, writer Paisley Rekdal created a digital community project that mapped the people, places, buildings and events that defined Salt Lake City. When she became Utah’s poet laureate, she decided to build on this idea and create a literary map for the entire state.2020-04-3054 min
The Poet SalonPaisley Rekdal reads Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "Black Swan"O dear ones—hope you're staying safe and well! We're coming to you from our respective apartments for our second conversation with Paisley Rekdal, who was kind enough to bring in Brigit Pegeen Kelley's "Black Swan". We geeked. If you haven't yet, be sure to check out last week's episode and leave us a sweet review!
PAISLEY REKDAL is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a fina...2020-04-0825 minThe Poet SalonPaisley Rekdal + The Dark SisterHave you washed your hands yet? Please take care of your selves and each other.
This week, we recorded remotely for the first time. After chopping it up about how COVID-19 has affected our relationships to poetry, we dive into a conversation with Paisley Rekdal from a few months ago about mythology, movement, and making difficult editorial choices.
PAISLEY REKDAL is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Ka...2020-04-031h 00Access Utah'Indelible In The Hippocampus' With Paisley Rekdal On Thursday's Access Utah“Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement” is a collection of essays, fiction, and poetry. Whether reflecting on their teenage selves or their modern-day workplaces, each writer approaches the subject with authenticity and strength. Together the pieces create a portrait of a cultural sea-change.2020-01-0953 min
PW RadioPW Insider 28: When Verse Goes ViralPW’s new poetry editor Maya Popa recently spoke with several poets about the impact of social media on their work, audience, and sense of community. Here, she shares insights from Eduardo C. Corral, Rupi Kaur, Rachel McKibbens, Paisley Rekdal, and Danez Smith about the opportunities and challenges that poets face online.2019-04-1118 min
PW InsiderPW Insider 28: When Verse Goes ViralPW’s new poetry editor Maya Popa recently spoke with several poets about the impact of social media on their work, audience, and sense of community. Here, she shares insights from Eduardo C. Corral, Rupi Kaur, Rachel McKibbens, Paisley Rekdal, and Danez Smith about the opportunities and challenges that poets face online.2019-04-0500 min
Humanities RadioPaisley Rekdal, Utah's Poet LaureateAs Utah’s Poet Laureate, Paisley Rekdal, professor of English, travels around the state to visit schools and libraries to advocate for literature and the arts. She is also creating a website that maps all of the poets and writers who live and have lived in Utah. In this podcast, Rekdal, an award-winning writer, talks about her role as Utah’s Poet Laureate, her work and her current projects.2019-03-2009 min
Lit from the Basement020 "Nightingale" by Paisley RekdalDanielle and Max celebrate the 2018 winter solstice by reading Paisley Rekdal's “Nightingale." Talking points include handling a rude guest lecturer, John Keats, Odysseus/Ulysses, dwelling in doubt, and autolysis.2018-12-1759 minAccess UtahRevisiting 'The Broken Country' And The Impact Of The Vietnam War With Paisley Rekdal On Access UtahThe Broken Country uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam War. To make sense of the shocking and baffling incident―in which a young homeless man born in Vietnam stabbed a number of white men purportedly in retribution for the war―Paisley Rekdal draws on a remarkable range of material and fashions it into a compelling account of the dislocations suffered by the Vietnamese and also by American-born veterans over the past decades. She interweaves a narrative about the crime with...2018-08-2253 min
Freedom Loves CompanyThe Broken CountryThe Broken Country is a book-length essay on cultural trauma and the inter-generational legacies of war. In 2012, a young Vietnamese man named Kiet Thanh Ly walked into a downtown Salt Lake City megastore, purchased a knife, and began stabbing white male passersby in the parking lot, purportedly in revenge for the war in Vietnam: a war that, due to Ly's age, he never immediately experienced.The Broken Country explores how Ly's case, and the case of other recent immigrant and refugee perpetrators of violent crimes, may be at the heart of a larger discussion of war's trauma, hi...2017-11-1752 min
That Got Me ThinkingCan We Prevent Mass Violence by Understanding Motive?Utah Poet Laureate, Paisley Rekdal’s most recent work, The Broken Country: On Trauma, Crime and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam, is an ethical remembering in the sense of French Philosopher, Paul Ricouer. Rekdal explores the limits of the written word and story, and its power to create and affect the future.
In 2012 a violent incident took place in the Smith’s parking lot in Salt Lake City, just blocks from Rekdal’s home. And she was motivated to explore the longterm cultural and generational effects of the Vietnam War and similar incidences of trauma.
The Las V...2017-10-1953 min
What Are You Reading?Chapter 13: "It's That Human Connection" - Bee Nguyen
GA State House candidate Bee Nguyen is a lifetime reader. She talks with us about immigrant fiction, riding the train, how her refugee parents perceive her activism, and empathy in politics.SUBSCRIBEApple Podcasts | Google Play | Soundcloud | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | BOOKS DISCUSSED:The Best We Could Do by Thi BuiThe Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam by Paisley RekdalThe Firm by John GrishamThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniFree Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Le...2017-10-1039 min
What Are You Reading?Chapter 13: "It's That Human Connection" - Bee Nguyen
GA State House candidate Bee Nguyen is a lifetime reader. She talks with us about immigrant fiction, riding the train, how her refugee parents perceive her activism, and empathy in politics.SUBSCRIBEApple Podcasts | Google Play | Soundcloud | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | BOOKS DISCUSSED:The Best We Could Do by Thi BuiThe Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam by Paisley RekdalThe Firm by John GrishamThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniFree...2017-10-1039 min
Fogged Clarity PodcastPaisley RekdalAn interview with poet and author Paisley Rekdal appearing in the Spring 2016 issue of Fogged Clarity. More
The post Paisley Rekdal first appeared on Fogged Clarity.2016-04-1637 min
Tales to TerrifyTales to Terrify No 43 Paul Jessup and Paisley RekdalComing up:Good evening 0:00:43Telling Tales 0:02:00Poetry: Bats by Paisley Rekdal 0:13:49Read by Tycelia SantoroFiction: The Secret in the House of Smiles by Paul Jessop 0:17:26Read by Jacob BorisPleasant dreams 0:46:18Tales To Terrify Volume 1 OUT NOW! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/talestoterrify. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/talestoterrify. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2012-11-0248 min