Episode 86: Global Roll Call, Part 1

May 13

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Commonplace listener Hannah and former Commonplace guests David Trinidad, Alice Notley, John Murillo, Tina Chang, Ada Limón, Cathy Park Hong and M. NourbeSe Philip share personal updates on their experience with the COVID 19 outbreak with host Rachel Zucker. They discuss where they are, who they’re with, and how they’re doing. Topics include; caring for children, worrying about fascism, living alone, 9/11, AIDS, anti-Asian/Asian-American racism, and finding the indigenous language of the cosmos. Music by Jay Hammond and the band Trippers & Askers. M.NourbeSe Philip concludes the episode with a reading of a new piece “Covidian Catastrophes.”

David Trinidad is the author of numerous poetry collections, most recently Swinging on a Star. He teaches poetry and creative writing at Columbia College and lives in Chicago.
Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry. She lives in Paris.
Cathy Park Hong’s latest book is Minor Feelings. She is poetry editor of the New Republic and is a professor at Rutgers-Newark University.
John Murillo is the author of Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. He is an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University and also teaches in the low residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.
Tina Chang is a poet, teacher, and editor. In 2010, she was named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn (the first woman to hold this title).
Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program, and the online and summer programs for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.
M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet and writer and lawyer who lives in the City of Toronto. She was born in Tobago and now lives in Canada.