"A Dreadful Consolation," written by by Christos Ikonomou and translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich: https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/issue-5/a-terrible-consolation/
Apr 19, 2022•42 min•Ep. 14
Vickie Vértiz, "Little Earthquakes": https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/fall2020/little-earthquakes-on-fear-and-family-violence/ Alex Espinoza, "Lit": https://airlightmagazine.org/authors/alex-espinoza/
Dec 21, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 13
Lilliam Rivera, "The Undercurrent": https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/fall2020/the-undercurrent/ Mark Haber: "Tegucigalpa": https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/issue-3/tegucigalpa/
Nov 22, 2021•54 min•Ep. 12
Read and listen to "Reach" in Air/Light here: https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/winter-2021/reach/ Other music, essays, and performances mentioned by Michi and Jonathan include: The Tyshawn Sorey performance Michi mentioned will soon be archived and/or uploaded by Harvard’s New Music Ensemble. Jonathan's interview with Tyshawn Sorey can be found here: https://www.sfcv.org/articles/artist-spotlight/decorating-time-tyshawn-sorey ) Matana Roberts: https://matana-roberts.bandcamp.com/album/coin-...
Nov 04, 2021•52 min•Ep. 11
bridgette bianca: https://www.bridgettebianca.com/ MICHAEL CHANG: https://bateaupress.org/index.php/2021/02/27/drakkar-noir-by-michael-chang/
Oct 15, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 10
We host a conversation with two incredible poets: Diane Mehta and Jordan Smith, whose poems were published in Air/Light Issue 3. Diane was a student at Union College, where Jordan teaches, and even though they were never in the classroom together the resonance between their work is obvious. Both are poets of the particular, of the moment; the world around them provides entryways into deep memories both personal and historical. Diane and Jordan write poems that bend time and space and the ancient...
Oct 01, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 9
Music by Ina Cariño. Ina Cariño is a poet, musician, and artist with an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Waxwing, New England Review, Tupelo Quarterly , and elsewhere. Ina is a Kundiman fellow, a Best of the Net finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a recipient of a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. They are the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for their manuscript Feast , forthcoming from Alic...
Jul 05, 2021•4 min
A discussion of the life and career of poet Marvin Bell with Christopher Merril and David St. John.
Jun 14, 2021•47 min
Victoria Chang’s poems encapsulate something that makes poetry unique among literature: they capture a fleeting moment and render it into a form that’s frozen in time yet dynamic. Her work is precise, with an attention to detail at a granular level; at the same time, Chang’s poetry casts a view on the larger, more universal qualities of a subject. Chang’s lemons and peaches are both singular pieces of fruit while also pointing us toward greater symbolic resonances. Impermanence and the ephemeral...
Jan 13, 2021•40 min•Ep. 8
Pam Houston writes about nature and the environment the way that Dickens writes about London or Tolstoy writes military history–not as an object in and of itself but as a terrain for understanding the human condition. Houston is a pivotal figure in feminist and environmental writing, and a master of the short story, novel, and essay form. From her first, acclaimed book of short stories Cowboys are My Weakness, across novels such as Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, and up to the essays ...
Jan 06, 2021•42 min•Ep. 7
As the first installment of the Air/Light Podcast, we’re thrilled to present a conversation between choreographer Andre Tyson and Douglas Kearney about their performance, Code~dIsSoNaNcE~REVERIE. The conversation was hosted by Air/Light editor David L. Ulin. It was recorded on October 20, 2020.
Dec 14, 2020•34 min•Ep. 1
With the election coming up in a few days, we here at Air/Light wanted to help you not make a choice, but to make the right choice. We’re thrilled to present a conversation with Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, a writer, artist, and co-founder of the Los Angeles Tenants Union. Tracy’s Two Evils voting guide is informed, impeccably researched, opinionated, and unabashedly radical. And hilarious. You’ll LOL as you burn with righteous rage. Tracy’s guide, and our interview with her, will make you want to ge...
Dec 14, 2020•26 min•Ep. 2
In this episode of the Air/Light Podcast, we’re interviewing Mónica de la Torre and Alex Balgiu, the editors of the new anthology, Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979, out now from Primary Information press. Concrete poetry was one of the most important post-war avant-garde literary movements. It was truly international in scope, with major practitioners and groups located in Brazil, Argentina, Western Europe, the Soviet Bloc countries, and North America. Across the globe, concrete poets created...
Dec 14, 2020•27 min•Ep. 3
If literature is an ecosystem, then bookstores are its foundation. They’re where literature intersects with community. They introduce people to new and idiosyncratic books while hosting events to support authors. Through it all, they serve as neighborhood community centers for readers and book lovers. But the pandemic has been hard on independent bookstores. Many have had to make direct appeals to their customers through GoFundMe and other crowdsourced campaigns. Local bookstores are facing what...
Dec 14, 2020•15 min•Ep. 4
Since it opened in 1996, Skylight Books has become a fixture in the Los Feliz and a center of the neighborhood’s literary community by hosting readings, book clubs, and launch parties. In the second installment of our “Art of Bookselling” podcast series, Air/Light‘s Claire Robertson talks to Mary Williams, the general manager of Skylight. Mary tells us about her favorite book of the year, comfort book buying in the run-up to the first lockdown, and how their customers are helping support the sto...
Dec 14, 2020•10 min•Ep. 5
Vroman's in Pasadena and Book Soup in West Hollywood are two of Southern California's most iconic bookstores. Though they're in very different communities, each one plays a central role in the life of the city. Which is why, in late September, Vroman’s sent a shudder through the world of Southern California’s readers when the 126 year old bookstore announced it was at risk of closing due to the effects of the pandemic. In an extraordinary bit of outreach, Vroman’s asked its community to shop ear...
Dec 10, 2020•16 min•Ep. 6
