Episode 93: Arielle Greenberg

Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)

Arielle Greenberg writes and teaches poetry, creative nonfiction and cultural studies. Her most recent books are I Live in the Country & Other Dirty Poems (Four Way, 2020) and the creative nonfiction book Locally Made Panties (Ricochet Editions, 2016); her fifth collection of poetry, Come Along with Me to the Pasture Now, is forthcoming. She is co-editor of three literary anthologies, including Gurlesque (Saturnalia Books), based on a theory of Third Wave feminist avant-garde poetics Arielle developed. Her work has been featured in many anthologies, including the Best American Poetry, and she wrote a column on contemporary poetics for the American Poetry Review and edited a nonfiction column for The Rumpus called (K)ink: Writing While Deviant. She holds an MFA from Syracuse University and is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship and a Saltonstall Individual Artist Grant. A former tenured professor in poetry at Columbia College Chicago, she teaches at Maine Media Workshop, the College of the Atlantic and elsewhere in the community and does other writing and editorial work. She lives in Belfast, Maine.

Arielle Greenberg’s Books & Projects

Books

I Live in the Country and Other Dirty Poems (Four Way Books, 2020)

Locally Made Panties (Ricochet Editions, 2016)

Slice (Coconut Books, 2015)

Shake Her (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012)

Home/Birth: A Poemic (with Rachel Zucker)

Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America (Longman, 2006)

My Kafka Century (Action Books, 2005)

Farther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials (New Michigan, 2003)

Given (Verse, 2002)

Anthologies & Editorial Work

Starting Today: Poems from Obama’s First 100 Days (Iowa, 2010) with Lara Glenum

Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (Iowa, 2008) with Rachel Zucker

Gurlesque (Saturnalia, 2010) with Lara Glenum

(K)ink: Writing while Deviant (The Rumpus)

Column on Contemporary Poetry for American Poetry Review

Other Texts & People Mentioned in the Episode

Andrea Dworkin

Catherine MacKinnon

Rachel Zucker, MOTHERs (2013)

Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965)

Maggie Nelson

Ross Gay

Star Wars

Kristin Wiig SNL skit "I got a robe!"

The Crown

Frank O’Hara, “My Heart”

Vladimir Nabokov

James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

D.H. Lawrence

Jim Harrison

Shampoo (1975)

Californication (2007)

Anne Waldman, Outrider

The Olsen Twins

Rodarte

Joan Didion

Susan Sontag

Audre Lorde

bell hooks

Ann Patchett, “These Precious Days”

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