About Commonplace

Commonplace is a series of intimate and captivating interviews by Rachel Zucker with poets and artists about quotidian objects, experiences or obsessions, Commonplace conversations explore the recipes, advice, lists, anecdotes, quotes, politics, phobias, spiritual practices, and other non-Literary forms of knowledge that are vital to an artist’s life and work. One feels, when listening to Commonplace, the pleasure of eavesdropping on the kind of unexpected, intriguing connections that only happen when interesting people sit together in a small room and talk about their real concerns and ordinary lives.

After seven years of talking in depth with over a hundred artists, writers, activists and educators about how and why they make art,  and after twenty-five years of teaching writing to every age group, in and out of the academy, Rachel has created the Commonplace School of Embodied Poetics. The Commonplace School is a a non-degree granting, non-traditional, anti-capitalist community that is committed—above all else—to inclusive, accessible, and non-harming ways of learning, teaching, listening, and making art.