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The POETICS Podcast is literary evangelism in action, extending Bainbridge Island Press's mission to connect great readers with great poetry through everything from intimate poem explorations to hour-long conversations with poets, tackling topics like gatekeeping and the Beat…
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POETICS Podcast: Episode 48 - The Art of the Book Industry (opens the original)
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Most writers learn the publishing industry through rumor: a bad experience relayed at a conference, a thread about an agent, a sense that the doors are locked and someone is holding the keys. This week Ben Rockwood makes a different case. Ben is COO of Bainbridge Island Press, which means he has spent years on the side of the table writers rarely see. His argument is that almost everyone in this business is acting in good faith, and that the small fraction who aren’t get far more attention than
POETICS Podcast: The Art of Book Composition, host Ben Rockwood (opens the original)
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This week I hand the microphone to Ben, who comes at poetry books from the vantage of a reader and a designer. His argument is that a collection is a mixtape. You choose your listener, you choose your emotion, you choose your songs, and then you spend hours on the sequencing, because sequence is where the affection lives. Along the way he offers the three S’s he uses to describe any book he loves (style, story, structure), a defense of Infinite Jest ‘s endnotes as a tennis match, and two poetry
POETICS Podcast: Poetry and Freedom of the Press (opens the original)
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Poetry is a solitary practice with a communal spine. The page is quiet. The community around the page does not have to be. This week, as the United States turns 250, we follow that idea across two thousand years. A famous sentence about free speech, written by a woman named Evelyn Beatrice Hall and handed by history to Voltaire. Ovid exiled to the edge of the world for a poem. Dante writing the Divine Comedy with a death sentence at his back. Nadezhda Mandelstam carrying her husband’s life work
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