• Antioch LitCit #61 Morgan Jerkins
    2025/05/11

    On this episode of Antioch MFA's LitCit, host Bo Thomas Newman chats with author, screenwriter, editor, director, journalist, and professor, Morgan Jerkins. They discuss her multifaceted career as a professor, editor and journalist, the balance between fiction and nonfiction, her past works such as This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America and Caul Baby, her path to directing her first short film, Black Madonna, and how her new novel, Zeal, came to be, which is in stores now. This episode was produced by Mansi Aneja and mastered by Mitko Grigorov.

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    55 分
  • Antioch LitCit #60 Cathy Linh Che and Jonathan Chou
    2025/04/30

    On this episode of Antioch MFA program's LitCit, host Jonathan Chou chats with poet, children's book author, filmmaker, multidisciplinary artist, and the Antioch MFA program's new Core faculty head of Poetry, Cathy Linh Che. Together they go in-depth of Cathy Linh Che's previous poetry collection, Split, and her new collection, Becoming Ghost, in addition to discussing Jonathan Chou's collection, Resemblance. They discuss the role of memory in community building, activism, and poetry, false memories found in culture such as in the film, Apocalypse Now, and what it means to write poetry as an Asian-American.

    This episode was produced by Bo Thomas Newman and mastered by David Blixt.

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    1 時間 9 分
  • Antioch LitCit #59 Kai Adia
    2025/04/05

    On this episode of Antioch MFA's LitCit, host Jacqueline Rose chats with Los Angeles writer, artist, and publisher, Kai Adia. They discuss Kai's poetry collection, Depths of Anima, the Pushcart nominated Afrofuturist anthology she co-edited, Future Splendor: A Celebration of a New Renaissance, and the press she co-founded, Bee Infinite Publishing. Adia also discusses her overlapping responsibilities to the literary community, inspirations, and social activism among writers. This episode was produced by Ian Rodriguez and mastered by Bo Thomas Newman.

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    57 分
  • Antioch LitCit #58 Sorcha De Brún part 2
    2025/03/21

    On this second episode of a two-part episode of Antioch MFA Program's LitCit, host Caren McDonald chats with guest, Sorcha De Brún, a writer, lecturer, researcher, and Irish translator. They discuss the new wave of Irish language novelists as well as Sorcha De Brun's recent monograph about the intersection of masculinities and the Irish language, focusing on three contemporary writers: Mícheál Ó Conghaile, Pádraig Ó Cíobháin, Joe Steve Ó Neachtain. This episode was produced by Bo Thomas Newman, and mastered by David Ngyuen.

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    51 分
  • Antioch LitCit #57 Sorcha De Brún part 1
    2025/03/07

    On this first episode of a two-part episode of Antioch MFA's LitCit, host Caren McDonald chats with Sorcha De Brún, a writer, lecturerer, researcher, and Irish translator. They discuss how friendship can serve as an important tool for learning language, the need for imagination to keep the Irish language alive, and the different theories on translation pedagogy. Additionally, they critique Caren's attempt at translating one of Sorcha's poems, followed by a discussion of nuances of translation and the (un)reliability of online translation softwares. This episode was produced by Bo Thomas Newman and mastered by Mitko Grigorov.

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    1 時間 23 分
  • Antioch LitCit #56 Erin Aubry Kaplan
    2025/02/26

    On this episode of Antioch MFA's LitCit, host Jacqueline Rose chats with author, journalist, essayist, and esteemed Antioch faculty member, Erin Aubry Kaplan. They discuss a great deal of Kaplan's books: Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, And Walking The Color Line and I Heart Obama, the respect of social justice in writing and observing the world around us, and answering the question: What does it mean to the local and global community, and how does one write about it? This episode was produced by Ian Rodriguez and Mastered by Jacqueline Rose and Bo Thomas Newman.

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    1 時間 2 分
  • Antioch LitCit #55 Claire Dederer
    2025/02/25

    On this episode of Antioch MFA Program's Lit Cit, host Lisa Locascio Nighthawk chats with author, memoirist, and critic, Claire Dederer. They discuss her CNF novel, Monsters A Fan's Dillema, the importance of a literary community, separating the art from the artist, preserving your mental health in the current political landscape, and the value of structure vs. plot in storytelling. This episode was produced and mastered by Bo Thomas Newman.

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  • Antioch LitCit #54 Natashia Deón
    2024/12/05

    On this episode of Antioch MFA's LitCit, host Bo Thomas Newman engages in a thought-provoking conversation with author, attorney, and esteemed Antioch faculty member Natashia Deón. Delving into an exploration of Deon's acclaimed novels, Grace and The Perishing, Deon provides unique insights into her professional life as a writer, her activism, her adept juggling of diverse careers and even homeschooling. They also discuss the intricacies of historical fiction, contemplating the elusive nature of time itself. This episode was produced by Ian Rodriguez and mastered by Beth Dewey.

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    1 時間 6 分