{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew-books-in-poetry.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Felizabeth-bradfield-in-dark-times-jp-nGJb666n","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Elizabeth Bradfield in Dark Times (JP)","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/c8d5e6c0-d9dd-47ac-add3-39d742354593/78c92950-1b91-44f8-8247-7610444e4c01/a8a78e9c05e2edfb9143a67972b61285.png","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"For the RtB Books in Dark Times series back in 2021, John spoke with Elizabeth Bradfied, editor of Broadsided Press, poet, professor of creative writing at Brandeis, naturalist, photographer.\nHer books include Interpretive Work, Approaching Ice, Once Removed, and Toward Antarctica. She lives on Cape Cod, travels north every summer to guide people into Arctic climes, birdwatches.\nLiz is in and of and for our whole natural world. Did poetry sustaining her through the darkest hours of the pandemic? What about other sources of inspiration?\nMentioned in the episode:\n\n\nEavand Boland, “Quarantine” (from Against Love Poetry; read her NY Times obituary here)\n\nMaeve Binchy, “Circle of Friends“\n\nSherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio\n\n\nEdgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology\n\n\nLouise Gluck Averno and Wild Iris\n\n\nBrian Teare, Doomstead Days\n\n\nDerek Walcott, “Omeros“\n\nW. S. Merwin, “The Folding Cliffs”\n\n\nNatasha Trethewey, “Belloqc’s Ophelia“\n\nYeats, “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”\n\n\nNest, Eggs and Nestlings of North American Birds (Princeton Field Guides)\n\nTrixie Belden\n\nShel Silverstein\n\nLois Lowry, “The Giver“\n\nLiz equates poetry and Tetris\n\n\nLeanne Simpson, “This Accident of Being Lost“\n\nElizabeth Bradfield, “We all want to see a mammal“\n\n\nListen and Read Here:\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry"}