Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry
This episode we’re talking about the format of Lyric Poetry! We talk about reading poetry out loud, translation, French Canadian dialects, and more!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Things We Read (or tried to…)
Entre Rive and Shore by Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forugh Farrokhzad, translated by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr
Ledger: Poems by Jane Hirshfield
Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith
Good Bones: Poems by Maggie Smith
Alive At The End Of The World by Saeed Jones
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on by Franny Choi
No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay
White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire
Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales by Rachel McCrum
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
The Arkansas Testament by Derek Walcott
Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones
Other Media We Mentioned
The Bronze Horseman by Alexander Pushkin
19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: With More Ways by Eliot Weinberger
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop
When We Were Very Young by A. A Milne
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Dante Alighieri, translated by Robert Pinsky
All Def Poetry
milk and honey by rupi kaur
One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
Trailer for Netflix show
“Poetry Is Not a Luxury” by Audre Lorde (pdf)
Links, Articles, and Things
Lyric poetry (Wikipedia)
The Writer's Block
The Midnight Library: Episode 001 - Halloween Poetry
Chiac (Wikipedia)
Plasco Building (Wikipedia)
30 Recent Poetry Collections by BIPOC Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
This booklist features books from BIPOC poets published in the past three years.
Chrome Valley by Mahogany L. Browne
Feast by Ina Cariño
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen
Girls That Never Die: Poems by Safia Elhillo
Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi
I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry edited by Joy Harjo
Song of my Softening by Omotara James
Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead / Mamaht́wisiwin, Pakos̊yimow, Nikihci-́niskot́ṕn : Poems by Wanda John-Kehewin
Burning Like Her Own Planet by Vandana Khanna
Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi
Bianca by Eugenia Leigh
Finna by Nate Marshall
Slam Coalkan Performance Poetry: The Condor and the Eagle Meet edited by Jennifer Murrin
God Themselves by Jae Nichelle
You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead by Morgan Harper Nichols
I’m Always So Serious by Karisma Price
Homie by Danez Smith
Blood Snow by dg nanouk okpik
Promises of Gold/Promesas de Oro by José Olivarez with translation by David Ruano
That Was Now, This is Then by Vijay Seshadri
it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson
Dark Testament by Crystal Simone Smith
Unshuttered: Poems by Patricia Smith
Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom
Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon
Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
Find Her. Keep Her. by Renaada Williams
Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie
From From by Monica Youn
Give us feedback!
Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read!
Here’s Matthew’s limerick. Write your own!
There once was a book club for masochists
Whose members delighted in making lists
They all had a blast
Co-hosting a podcast
That their friendship will always persist
Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email!
Join us again on Tuesday, September 19th it’s time for our One Book One Podcast episode as we all discuss the book Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey!
Then on Tuesday, October 3rd get ready for Halloween because we’ll be talking about the genre of Horror!
4 notes
·
View notes
Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction
This episode we’re talking about Audiobook Fiction! We discuss narrators vs casts, sound effects, music, adaptations, footnotes, and more! Plus: How do you picture the hosts in your mind when you listen to us?
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Things We Read (or tried to…)
Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, narrated by a full cast
Coasting Trade by Robin McGrath, narrated by Robert Joy, Rick Boland, and Anita Best
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell, narrated by Tanya Eby
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, narrated by Nancy Wu
What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez, narrated by Hillary Huber
Other Media We Mentioned
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Hexagonal Phases (Wikipedia)
The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama) (Wikipedia)
What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
Welcome to Nightvale (podcast)
Mostly Void, Partially Stars: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes #1 by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
99% Invisible (podcast)
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt
The Anthropocene Reviewed (podcast)
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Control (video game)
Control || Talking Simulator
Nimona by N.D. Stevenson
Nimona by N.D. Stevenson, narrated by Rebecca Soler, Jonathan Davis, and Marc Thompson
The Stanley Parable (Wikipedia) (it’s not quite as narrated as Matthew and Jam implied)
Official website
Gadsby (novel) by Ernest Vincent Wright (Wikipedia)
“does not include any words that contain the letter E”
A Void by Georges Perec (Wikipedia)
“entirely without using the letter e”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
My Brain is Different: Histoires of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders by MONNZUSU
Project X: Challengers - Seven Eleven by Tadashi Ikuta and Namoi Kimura
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, narrated by Ray Porter
The Sandman (audiobook version)
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam, narrated by Marin Ireland
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Links, Articles, and Things
Episode 133 - Flash Fiction
Episode 108 - Visual Novels
Serre - Kinda bilingual anglos play French-language Visual Novel
Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks
Audie Awards
Turns Out Not Everyone Can Picture Things In Their Mind And Sorry, What?
Lowly Worm (Wikipedia)
Let's Play (Wikipedia)
Oulipo (Wikipedia)
24-hour comic
Episode 047b - Terrible Stories by Matthew (you have been warned)
Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two
ISO 8601 (Wikipedia) (date standard)
June Is #audiomonth: Narrator Trading Cards Giveaway
Two-Fisted Library Stories (Twitter bot)
Digital Accessible Information System (Wikipedia)
20 Fiction Audiobooks written & read by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors and Narrators
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen, narrated by Catherine Ho
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley, narrated by Isabella Star LaBlanc
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich, narrated by the author
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson, narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe, Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, Sheree Renée Thomas; narrated by Janelle Monae and Bahni Turpin
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley, narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, narrated by Nancy Wu
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor, narrated by Robin Miles
War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi, narrated by Adepero Oduye
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka, narrated by Traci Kato-Kiriyama
The Beadworkers by Beth Piatote narrated by the author, Christian Nagler, Fantasia Painter, Drew Woodson, Phillip Cash Cash and Keevin Hesuse
Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma, narrated by Soneela Nankani, Sunil Malhotra and Vikas Adam
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, narrated by Cherise Boothe
Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto, narrated by Risa Mei
The Strangers by Katherena Vermette, narrated by Michaela Washburn
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, narrated by the author
Zone One by Colson Whitehead, narrated by Beresford Bennett
The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson, narrated by Kyla Garcia
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu, narrated by Joel de la Fuente
Give us feedback!
Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read!
Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email!
Join us again on Tuesday, September 20th when we’ll be discussing the winner of our “we all read the same book” poll and discussing Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart!
Then on Tuesday, October 4th we’ll be talking about the genre of Fictional Biographies!
2 notes
·
View notes