Marina Shifrin, writer of Pickled Herring, and Bryan Simpson and Taylor Simpson, creators of Creating Things. This conversation was recorded as part of a special live podcast and film screening event we held last month at the Library. The filmm

62: Amina Gautier, author of The Best That You Can Do: Stories

Feb 15th, 2024 48m 39s

The Best That You Can Do (Soft Skull Press, 2024) by our guest Amina Gautier, one of the most prolific and acclaimed short story writers working today. She lives in Chicago. The Best That You Can Do is a beautiful and wide-ranging collection, m

61: Dr. Jennifer MacLure on The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction

Nov 9th, 2023 1h 14m

A conversation with Dr. Jennifer MacLure, Assistant Professor of English at Kent State University, on the occasion of the publication of her book, The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction (Ohio State University Press, 20

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Composer Robert Savage & John Ashbery

Jun 30th, 2023 27m 26s

For our final day of Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition, we reveal the unknown lineage story of the composer Robert Savage (whose "AIDS Ward Scherzo" is our excerpted music this year) and and his connection to poet John Ashbery. While preparing t

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Amanda Gunn

Jun 28th, 2023 37m 22s

Amanda Gunn reads a poem by Judy Grahn and the poem "Like This" from Amanda's new book Things I Didn't Do With This Body (Copper Canyon Press, 2023). Quick Note: for today’s episode, Amanda Gunn chose a long poem by the living poet Judy Grahn

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Megan Fernandes

Jun 26th, 2023 8m 29s

Megan Fernandes reads a poem by Federico García Lorca and "Paris Poem Without Clichés" from Megan's just-released book, I Do Everything I'm Told (Tin House, 2023) Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition is our new format for year three! Featuring con

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Randall Mann

Jun 23rd, 2023 7m 25s

Randall Mann reads a poem by Karl Tierney and ""Wi-Fi" from Randall Mann's new book Deal: New and Selected Poems (2023, Copper Canyon Press). Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition is our new format for year three! Featuring contemporary LGBTQIA+ po

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Jameson Fitzpatrick

Jun 22nd, 2023 6m 49s

Jameson Fitzpatrick reads a text by Gertrude Stein and a poem "The Genius of Wives I Have Sat With" from Jameson's chapbook Mr. & (Indolent Books, 2018). Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition is our new format for year three! Featuring contemporary

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Alicia Mountain

Jun 21st, 2023 12m 1s

Alicia Mountain reads a poem by Pat Parker and "Rewinding the Lesbian Sex Scene on a Flight to Denver" originally published in American Poetry Review. Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition is our new format for year three! Featuring contemporary LGB

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Chen Chen

Jun 19th, 2023 42m 10s

Chen Chen reads a poem by Justin Chin and "The World's Italianest Resturant" from Chen's new book, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions, 2022); the poem first appeared in bath magg (bathmagg.com/chenchen2/). In th

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: K. Iver

Jun 16th, 2023 6m 30s

K. Iver reads a peice by David Wojnarowicz and their poem "Central Park" originally published in Bat City Review, Spring 2023. Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language. Que

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Tara Skurtu

Jun 14th, 2023 7m

Tara Skurtu reads a poem by Elizabeth Bishop and "Morning Love Poem" from from her debut collection The Amoeba Game (Eyewhere Publishing, 2017), and first published in the Minnesota Review. Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition is our new format for

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Armen Davoudian

Jun 12th, 2023 10m 34s

Armen Davoudian reads a poem by James Merrill and "The Yellow Swan" from Armen's chapbook Swan Song (Bull City Press, 2020), originally published in Literary Matters, 11.3. Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition is our new format for year three! Fe

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Rachel Mennies

Jun 9th, 2023 9m 57s

Rachel Mennies reads a poem by Muriel Rukeyser and "Feburary 26, 2017" from Rachel's book The Naomi Letters. Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition is our new format for year three! Featuring contemporary LGBTQIA+ poets reading a poem by an LGBTQIA+

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Maggie Millner

Jun 7th, 2023 5m 36s

Maggie Millner reads a poem by Adrienne Rich and Section 2.9 from Millner's new book Couplets. Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition is our new format for year three! Featuring contemporary LGBTQIA+ poets reading a poem by an LGBTQIA+ writer of the

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Derrick Austin

Jun 5th, 2023 7m 59s

Derrick Austin reads a poem by Robert Hayden and "Black Docent." Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition is our new format for year three! Featuring contemporary LGBTQIA+ poets reading a poem by an LGBTQIA+ writer of the past, followed by an origin

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Richie Hofmann

Jun 2nd, 2023 6m 58s

Richie Hofmann reads a poem by Walt Whitman and “Reconciliation.” Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition is our new format for year three! Featuring contemporary LGBTQIA+ poets reading a poem by an LGBTQIA+ writer of the past, followed by an origina

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: An Introduction

Jun 1st, 2023 17m 45s

For this third season of the program, we are shaking things up with a new format: Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition. In each podcast episode, we asked a contemporary queer poet to read a work of influence by an LGBTQIA+ writer of the past follow

60: Robert Pinsky, author of Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet

May 10th, 2023 1h 1m

Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022) is the new memoir by former U.S. Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky. Robert is the author of numerous poetry collections. Robert Pinsky is a celebrated poet, essayist, translator

59: Lisa Barr, author of Woman on Fire

Apr 25th, 2023 48m 30s

We're sharing the recording of the special in-person interview we held earlier this month with New York Times bestselling author—and Deerfield resident—Lisa Barr. Our conversation was recorded live in front of an enthusiastic audience of fans,

58: Merve Emre on Italo Calvino

Mar 22nd, 2023 50m 50s

This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, I am very pleased to share a conversation with acclaimed critic Merve Emre on the beloved Italian writer Italo Calvino, known for his genre-defying stories and novels like Invisible Cities and

57: Pianist Seymour Bernstein

Feb 28th, 2023 1h 1m

We have the honor of presenting a fascinating conversation with world-famous pianist Seymour Bernstein. You may know Seymour as the subject of the widely acclaimed 2015 documentary Seymour, an Introduction, directed by Ethan Hawke. The film tel

56: Deborah Nelson, author of Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil

Nov 17th, 2022 57m 44s

Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil (University of Chicago Press, 2017) by Deborah Nelson, the Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor of English and chair of the Department of English at the University of Chicago. De

55: Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, author of Madness

Aug 18th, 2022 1h 5m

Chicago-based poet and writer Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué is the author most recently of the poetry collection Madness (Nightboat Books, 2022). Gabriel was one of our Queer Poem-a-Day poets earlier this year. Madness takes the form of a book of selecte

Queer Poem-a-Day: Gay Epithalamium by Benjamin Garcia

Jun 30th, 2022 5m 13s

Benjamin Garcia’s first collection, THROWN IN THE THROAT, won the National Poetry Series and the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize, in addition to being a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He works as a sexual health and harm reduction