Episode 142: Rachel Zucker

Rachel Zucker is a writer, podcast, and teacher based in New York and Maine. Her latest book, The Poetics of Wrongness, is a collection of essays (originally written and performed for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series) delving into her own poetics, motherhood, the history of confessional poetry, and the ethics of “say everything” poetry. In our conversation, Rachel and I talked about wrongness as a stance against moral purity, about addiction to doubt, and about poetry as an opportunity to create outside of capitalism. Then in the second segment, we talked about her new project, the Commonplace School for Embodied Poetics.

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• Rachel Zucker
• Purchase The Poetics of Wrongness: Print (Portland, ME) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
• Commonplace
• Commonplace - Episode 110: The Poetics of Wrongness
• Adrienne Rich - Of Woman Born
• Joyelle McSweeney - “Wrong Poets Society”
• Alice Notley - Disobedience
• Alice Notley - “The Poetics of Disobedience”
• Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process
• Julia Cameron - The Artist’s Way
• Henrik Ibsen - A Doll’s House
• A Doll’s House (2023 Broadway production)

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo