Episode 87: Global Roll Call, Part 2

Commonplace listeners and former Commonplace guests Nick Flynn, Erika Meitner, Sabrina Orah Mark, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, and Alicia Ostriker share personal updates on their experience with the COVID 19 outbreak with host Rachel Zucker. Topics include 12 step programs, homeschooling, looking for work, walking, the importance of taking care of yourself and others, and so much more. Original music by “Incidental Exercise” featuring Jay Hammond, Yair Rubinstein and Joe Westerlund. Former Commonplace guest Jenifer Croft closes the episode with a translation of a piece by Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk.

  • Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate and the author of the memoir Children of the Land.

  • Jennifer Croft is an American author, critic and translator who works from Polish, Ukrainian and Argentine Spanish. She is also the author of Homesick.

  • Nick Flynn is an American writer, playwright, and poet. He has two books out this year: This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire and Stay: Threads, Conversations, Collaborations.

  • Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of two books of poetry and one book of short stories. For The Paris Review she writes a monthly column on fairytales and motherhood entitled HAPPILY. 

  • Erika Meitner is the author of five books of poems, most recently Holy Moly Carry Me.

  • Alicia Ostriker, a poet and critic, has published sixteen volumes of poetry.

  • Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish Nobel laureate writer, activist, and public intellectual.

New Books Written by and Author/Texts Recommended by Nick Flynn 

New Books Written by and Author/Texts Recommended by Erika Meitner

New Books Written by and Recommended by Sabrina Orah Mark

New Books Written by and Recommended by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

New Books Written by and Recommended by Alicia Ostriker 

New Books Written by and Recommended by Jennifer Croft

New Books Written by and Recommended by Olga Tokarczuk

Commonplace’s compendium of COVID-19 resources

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