Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)

In this two-part episode, Rachel Zucker speaks with Ronaldo V. Wilson and Fred Moten about poetry as performance, influences and teachers, open field poetics, finding space for listeners and audience to feel welcome, how to define the limits—or lack thereof— of a book and, specifically, the performance they gave the night before at the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church on May 24, 2023. Part one (ep 120) is a conversation about the performance. Part two (ep 121) is a recording of that performance. This reading took place at the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church in New York City on May 24, 2023 and was recorded by the Poetry Project. (Audience audio was recorded on the same night and in the same location by Rachel Zucker.) Mixing and Mastering by Stephen Becker

In this two-part episode, Rachel Zucker speaks with Ronaldo V. Wilson and Fred Moten about poetry as performance, influences and teachers, open field poetics, finding space for listeners and audience to feel welcome, how to define the limits—or lack thereof— of a book and, specifically, the performance they gave the night before at the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church on May 24, 2023. Part one (ep 120) is a conversation about the performance. Part two (ep 121) is a recording of that performance.

In this second Keep the Channel Open feed drop (check out our first, episode 113!), Rachel and Mike Sakasegawa discuss Bianca by Eugenia Leigh.

Rachel talks with long time friend and writer for children, Laurel Snyder. They talk about the Iowa Writers  Workshop, Laurel’s path from poet to children’s book author, money, the novice brain, labor, being “messy and extra but not totally batshit,” the relationship between poetry and picture books, the experimental nature of picture books, world building, getting things out rather than getting things down.

Poets Safia Elhillo and Charif Shanahan talk to Isaac Ginsberg Miller, a poet and PhD candidate in African American Studies at Northwestern, about their friendship, kinship, seeing and being seen by others, their intended audiences and ideal readers, inherited/received forms, experimentalism, the instability of racialized experience for many Black Southwest Asians and North Africans.

Poets Jason Schneiderman, Cate Marvin, R. A. Villanueva, Lynn Xu and Rachel Zucker consider the pleasures, challenges, eccentricities and value of live, in-person poetry readings. These musings are followed by excerpts of the June 6, 2023 reading in Bryant Park (hosted by Jason and featuring Cate, Ron, Lynn and Rachel) and comments from the audience.   PODCAST: PLAY IN NEW WINDOW | TRANSCRIPT SUBSCRIBE:APPLE PODCASTS | GOOGLE PODCASTS | AMAZON PODCASTSSUPPORT: PATREON | VENMO: @Rachel_ZuckerLinks, Bios, & Support InfoBryant Park Reading SeriesUniversity of MarylandLibrary of CongressWilliam MeredithKim NovakBMCCKGB reading seriesDavid LehmanStar BlackPaul RomeroSonia SanchezAllen Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra”Phllyis Levin Matt YeagerDavid LehmanWill Harris’s Brother PoemJosé Oliverez’s Promises of GoldMartha Graham CrackerJustin Vivian BondPatty LuPoneBridget EverettKGB Bar ReadingRichard McCann Kinokuniya BookstoreWillam Blake’s “Ah! Sun-flower” June Jordan’s “Sunflower Sonnet Number 1"June Jordan’s “Sunflower Sonnet Number 2"Bios, in order of appearance:Jason Schneiderman is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Hold Me Tight (Red Hen, 2020). He is Professor of English at CUNY’s BMCC and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. His next collection, Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire, will be published by Red Hen Press in 2024. Cate Marvin's latest book of poems is Event Horizon (Copper Canyon Press, 2022). She teaches at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York and resides in Southern Maine. Her poems have recently appeared in The Kenyon Review.R. A. Villanueva is the author of Reliquaria, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. New work has been featured by the Academy of American Poets, Ploughshares, Poetry, and National Public Radio—and his writing appears widely in international publications such as Poetry London and The Poetry Review. His honors include commendations from the Forward Prizes and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and Kundiman. Born in New Jersey, he lives in Brooklyn.Born in Shanghai, Lynn Xu is the author of And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight (Wave, 2022) and Debts & Lessons (Omnidawn, 2013) and the chapbooks: June (Corollary Press, 2006) and Tournesol (Compline, 2021). She has performed cross-disciplinary works at the MOCA Tucson, Guggenheim Museum, The Renaissance Society, Rising Tide Projects, and 300 S. Kelly Street. She teaches at Columbia University, coedits Canarium Books, and lives with her family in New York City and West Texas. Rachel Zucker is the author of a bunch of books, including, most recently, The Poetics of Wrongness. She is the founder and host of Commonplace and directrix of the Commonplace School of Embodied Poetics. She lives in Washington Heights, NY and Scarborough, ME and is mother to three sons.Please support Commonplace by becoming a patron here!Sign up for “Reading with Rachel,” the newest course in The Commonplace School for Embodied Poetics.

Links, Bios & Support InfoBooks & Selected Projects by Moheb SolimanHOMES (Coffee House Press, 2021)We’re Back! Also ReferencedLorine NiedeckerGabrielle Octavia RuckerCecily Nicholson, Wayside SangDavid ByrneWalt WhitmanEtheridge KnightMoheb Soliman is an interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest who's presented work at literary, art, and public spaces in the US, Canada, and abroad with support from the Joyce Foundation, Banff Centre, Minnesota State Arts Board, and diverse other institutions. He has degrees from The New School for Social Research and University of Toronto and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was Program Director for the Arab American lit and film organization Mizna before receiving a multi-year Tulsa Artist Fellowship and this year a Milkweed Editions fellowship. His debut poetry collection HOMES (Coffee House Press, 2021), explores nature, modernity, identity, belonging, and sublimity through the site of the Great Lakes bioregion / borderland. Moheb has been a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards, Heartland Booksellers Award, and others, and was showcased in Ecotone's annual indie press shortlist and the Poets & Writers annual 10 debut poets feature. See more of his work at www.mohebsoliman.info.In honor of this episode, Commonplace’s partner org will donate $250 to the Alliance for the Great Lakes, chosen by Moheb Soliman. The Alliance for the Great lakes is a nonpartisan nonprofit working across the region to protect our most precious resource: the fresh, clean, and natural waters of the Great Lakes.Please support Commonplace by becoming a patron here!Sign up for “Reading with Rachel” the newest course in The Commonplace School for Embodied Poetics.

Links, Bios & Support InfoHope MohrHope Mohr’s Horizon StanzasAlyssa HaradComing to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bridge by Alyssa HaradThe Descent of Alette by Alice NotleyInanna Queen of Heaven and Earth by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah KramerMOTHERs by Rachel ZuckerAlice Notley reading books 1 and 2 of Descent of AletteAlice Notley reads books 3 and 4 of Descent of AletteSharon Bridgforth Omi Osun Joni L. Jones Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben LernerBridge Live ArtsCherie HillKarla QuinteroShifting Cultural Power by Hope MohrNew Commonplace School Course: “Reading with Rachel”Support Commonplace!Transcript (to come)

Links and resourcesEpisode 143 of Keep the Channel Open: Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahNana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahChain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahFriday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahMike SakasegawaLikeWise FictionKeep the Channel Open on TwitterKeep the Channel Open on Insta Keep the Channel Open on YouTubeInformation and sign up for new class “Reading with Rachel”

BOOKS & SELECTED WORK BY GABRIELLE OCTAVIA RUCKERDereliction (The Song Cave, 2022)“Practice for My Birthday” in The Recluse (2021)ALSO REFERENCEDRoosevelt UniversityAuditorium TheaterJoffrey BalletAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterChristkindlmarket, ChicagoPaper SourceNational Book FoundationInternational Center of PhotographyThe Poetry ProjectSchool for Poetic ComputationThe Warman ProjectL. A. WarmanSeminary of Ecstatic PoeticsAnimal PlanetHistory ChannelJoseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal GrowthCody-Rose ClevidenceThe Book of GenesisThe Book of RevelationThe Great Courses, GnosticismDavid BrakkeYaldabaothAimé CésaireWalker EvansWhitfield LovellSimon L. Lewis & Mark Maslin, The Human Planet: How We Created the AnthropoceneJeff MillsMetropolisArthur SchopenhauerChanel Adams, "The Right to Rest in Peace"Dorianne Laux, "Life is Beautiful"Sims 4Robin Coste LewisAmina CainClarice LispectorClaire Louise Bennett, PondMetta SámaEd Roberson, "Q, or the night traffic symbols"Edgar Garcia, Boundary LootSuzanne Césaire, The Great Camouflage: Writings of DissentBeverly BuchanonAugusta Savage, "Satyr"The Song CaveCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

The second of five episodes featuring the lectures that became Rachel Zucker’s newest book, The Poetics of Wrongness. This episode contains audio of “What We Talk About When We Talk About the Confessional and What We Should Be Talking About,” presented at the University of Arizona Poetry Center (Tucson) on January 28, 2016. It also includes a new introduction by Rachel and a conversation recorded in April, 2023 with the founder and host of the Keep the Channel Open podcast, Mike Sakasegawa. In this lecture, Rachel Zucker discusses the origin of the term Confessional as it came to be used for a specific group of poets, the legacy of confessional poetry, risk, shame, and questions of gender and privilege in relationship to confessional poetry. Many thanks to The University of Arizona Poetry Center, The Bagley Wright Poetry Lecture Series and the BWLS Podcast, Ellen Welcker, Heidi Broadhead, Charlie Wright and everyone at Wave Books. Here is a longer list of acknowledgments and a partial list of referenced sources for Rachel’s lectures.

Rachel Zucker releases the first of her five lectures written for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series. This episode “The Poetics of Wrongness,” is the title lecture of her new book, now out from Wave. Within the framework of feminism, motherhood, and politics, the lecture challenges long-held rules and perceptions of what poetry and art can be or should be, offering up new modes of generating a personal aesthetic, poetry, and discourse. This episode includes audio of the lecture given at Seattle Arts and Lectures on November 29, 2016 as well as a conversation recorded in April, 2023 with her son Moses Goren about the lecture. Many thanks to Seattle Arts and Lectures, The Bagley Wright Poetry Lecture Series and the BWLS Podcast, Ellen Welcker, Heidi Broadhead, Charlie Wright and everyone at Wave Books. Commonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

Books and Selected Other Work by Joy HarjoPOETRYWeaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: 50 Poems for 50 Years (W.W. Norton, 2022)An American Sunrise (W. W. Norton, 2019)Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (W. W. Norton, 2015)How We Became Human New & Selected Poems: 1975-2001 (W. W. Norton, 2004)A Map to the Next World (W. W. Norton, 2000)The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (W. W. Norton, 1994)In Mad Love & War (Wesleyan University Press, 1990)Secrets from the Center of the World, w. Stephen Strom (University of Arizona Press, 1989)She Had Some Horses (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983)NONFICTIONCatching the Light (Why I Write Series, Yale University Press, 2022)Poet Warrior (W. W. Norton, 2021)Crazy Brave (W. W. Norton, 2012)Soul Talk, Song Language: Conversations with Joy Harjo, w. Tanaya Winder (Wesleyan University Press, 2011)The Spiral of Memory: Interviews (Poets on Poetry, University of Michigan Press, 1995)PLAYSWings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light: A Play by Joy Harjo and a Circle of Responses (Wesleyan University Press, 2019)CHILDREN'S BOOKSRemember, w. Michaela Goade (Penguin Random House, 2023)For a Girl Becoming, w. Mercedes McDonald (University of Arizona Press, 2009)The Good Luck Cat, w. Paul Lee (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000)Remember (Strawberry Press, 1981)EDITORIALLiving Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2021)When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2020)Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America, w. Gloria Bird (W.W. Norton, 1998)ALBUMSI Pray For My Enemies (2021)This America (2011)Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears (2010)Winding Through the Milky Way (2008)She Had Some Horses (2006)Native Joy for Real (2004)Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century (2003)Also ReferencedAudre LordeJill BialoskyJohn BenedictSandra CisnerosUniversity of IowaBob Dylan CenterUniversity of Tennessee, KnoxvilleDenison UniversityUniversity of New MexicoPoets in SchoolsHarvard UniversityUniversity of California Los AngelesInstitute of American Indian ArtsBureau of Indian AffairsUniversity of ArizonaUniversity of New MexicoUniversity of Colorado, BoulderUniversity of MontanaPaula Vogul, Bard at the GatePaula Vogul, IndecentCongo SquareTheater SquaredJohn Coltrane Alice ColtraneJim PepperCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

Books and Selected Other Work by Saeed JonesAlive at the End of the World (Coffee House Press, 2022)How We Fight For Our Lives (Simon & Schuster, 2019)Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press, 2014)Also ReferencedOpen Books: A Poem EmporiumV ConatyChristine LarussoCommonplace Goes to Taiwan, Episodes 1 and 2Pema ChödrönJorge Luis BorgesRoger ReevesRoxane GayClaudia RankineMorgan ParkerAlexander CheeFrank B. Wilderson IIIKatelyn Hale WoodAdrienne RichPrince, "I Wanna Be Your Lover"YanyiTorrey PetersMatthew ShepardKenneth GoldsmithSaidiya HartmanRigoberto GonzalezCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

Books and Selected Other Work by Eileen MylesPathetic Literature, ed. (Grove Press, 2022)For Now (Yale University Press, 2020)evolution (Grove Press, 2018)Afterglow: A Dog Memoir (Grove Press, 2017)I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, 1975-2014 (Ecco Press, 2015)Snowflake/Different Streets (Wave Books, 2012)Inferno: A Poet's Novel (OR Books, 2010)The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (Semiotexte, 2009)Sorry, Tree (Wave Books, 2007)Tow, with Artist Larry R. Collins (Lospecchio Press, 2005)Skies (Black Sparrow Press, 2001)On My Way (Faux Press, 2001)Cool For You (Soft Skull Press, 2000)School of Fish (Black Sparrow Press, 1997)Maxfield Parrish: Early & New Poems (Black Sparrow Press, 1995)The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotexte, 1995), ed. with Liz KotzChelsea Girls (Black Sparrow Press, 1994)Not Me (Semiotexte, 1991)Also ReferencedPatchin PlaceVilla AlbertineConstance DebréGrove PressMarfa, TexasHenry MillerFranz KafkaSimone WeilThe New YorkerLaurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, GentlemanZinc BarCAConradJack HalberstamKarl Ove KnausgårdBagley Wright LecturesWave BooksGraywolf PressJulie CarrCounterpath PressDiane WolksteinMonkey KingDiane Wolkstein & Samual Noah Kramer, Inanna, Queen of Heaven and EarthAnselm BerriganAlice Notley, The Descent of AletteJorie GrahamBernadette MayerSei Shōnagon, The Pillow BookThomas Pynchon, Gravity's RainbowDavid Foster Wallace, Infinite JestMoyra DaveyPeter HujarRebecca SolnitPatti SmithMaxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among GhostsDavid AntinTabboo!Marley FreemanHannah BeermanDjuna BarnesAmber HollibaughBruce SpringsteinAndy WarholJoseph BueysNew JournalismTom WolfeJoan DidionGertrude SteinAllen GinsbergJack PearsonJohnnie RaeAlex KatzGuggenheim FellowshipWilliam Carlos WilliamsRobert MapplethorpeThe Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale UniversityLewis WarshJames SchuylerWayne KoestenbaumC. D. WrightPoetry Project NewsletterSegue Reading SeriesNew York UniversityLisa CholodenkoMacArthur Genius GrantThe (Paris) Thanksgiving ManifestoChantal AkermanGus Van SantRobert FrankTanya WexlerCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

Books and Selected Other Work by S. YarberryA Boy in the City (Deep Vellum, 2021Also ReferencedRachel ZuckerKathryn DavisAphroditeCharon, boatkeeper of the underworldCAConradWilliam BlakeThe OdysseyIcarusJohn KeatsAudre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches, “The Uses of the Erotic”Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, "The Ballad of Sexual Optimism"Jose Esteban MunozJack Halberstam, The Queer Art of FailureSamuel L. Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square BlueCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

Books and Selected Other Work by Carl PhillipsPOETRYThen The War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022)Pale Colors in a Tall Field (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020)Star Map With Action Figures (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019)Wild Is the Wind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018)Reconnaissance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015)The Art of Daring (Graywolf Press, 2014)Silverchest (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)Speak Low (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986–2006 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)Riding Westward (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)The Rest of Love (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)Rock Harbor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)The Tether (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)Pastoral (Graywolf Press, 2000)From the Devotions (Graywolf Press, 1998)Cortège (Graywolf Press, 1995)In the Blood (Northeastern University Press, 1992)NONFICTIONMy Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022)Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Art and Life of Poetry (Graywolf Press, 2004)TRANSLATIONSophocles’s Philoctetes (Oxford University Press, 2003)SELECTED OTHER WORKFirsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets, ed. Carl Phillips (Yale University Press, 2019)“What I See Is the Light Falling All Around Us,” T Magazine (2015)Cooking With Carl on InstagramAlso ReferencedBrooklyn Book FestivalHafizah JeterR. Erika DoyleAngelos MichalopoulosWashington University at St. LouisT MagazineOmnidawn PublishingLayli LongsoldierVictoria ChangAssociation of Writers and Writing ProgramsRoe v. WadeJulia ChildWhitney HoustonBreadloaf Writers ConferenceThe New York TimesMichael PalmerErnest HemingwayCarcanet BooksEmergence MagazineRobert Lowell, Life StudiesRon Charles and Carl Phillips Firing Line with William F Buckley Allen Ginsberg Rachel HadasPrageeta Sharma, Grief SequenceGeorge Eliot, MiddlemarchJohn UpdikeJ.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye and Nine StoriesCarly SimonThe Go-GosHadrianEmily DickinsonYale Younger PrizeEduardo C. CorralMuriel RukeyserJorie GrahamBrigit Pegeen KellyLinda Gregg, Too Bright To SeeFrank O’HaraGerard Manley HopkinsRobert HaydenDavid WojahnThom GunnPoetry MagazineWilliam Shakespeare, Sonnet 73Many thanks to Rickey Laurentiis, Erin Belieu, Dawn Lundy Martin, Justin Phillip Reed and the Association of Writing Programs Conference for granting me permission to record and share “Radiance Versus Ordinary Light: A Tribute to Carl Phillips,” March 28, 2019.Commonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

Selected WorkCritique Is Creative: The Critical Response Process in Theory & Practice (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), Liz Lerman and John BorstelHiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer (Wesleyan University Press, 2011), Liz LermanLiz Lerman's Critical Response Process (Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, 2003), Liz Lerman and John BorstelAlso ReferencedErika MeitnerJason SchneidermanWashington PostCristóbal MartínezPostcommodityColorado Dance FestivalAlternative RoutesNew York Theater WorkshopYale UniversityIowa Writers WorkshopDoulas of North AmericaErika R. MooreIsaac GomezCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

BooksAux Arc / Trypt Ich: Poppycock & Assphodel; Winter; A Night of Dark Trees (Nightboat Books, 2021)Listen My Friend, This is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night (The Song Cave, 2021)FLUNG THRONE (Ahsata Press, 2018)BEAST FEAST (Ahsata Press, 2014)Selected chapbooksDEARTH & Gods Green Mirth (Fonograph, 2022)“BEHOLD A MAN!” (Auric Press, 2020)Perverse, All Monstrous (Nion Editions, 2017)Also ReferencedGolden spikeMichel de MontaigneRalph Waldo Emerson, NatureCaspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of FogWaves Breaking with Avren KeatingSei Shōnagon, The Pillow BookFall of CivilizationsContrapoints, “Envy”Sylvia PlathRobert Sapolsky, Stanford LecturesJaak Panksepp, The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human EmotionsJohann Sebastian BachAlan FelsenthalDouglas KearneyBagley Wright Lecture SeriesCarl SaganEmile Durkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious LifeBook of RevelationNeopaganism Quaker meetingToni MorrisonLinda Stone, Kinship & Gender: An IntroductionBruce Bagemihl, Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality & Natural DiversityAdam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (An Inquiry Into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations)Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad RūmīJean Giorno, Joy of Man’s DesiringH.D. (Hilda Doolittle)Robin BlaserDerek WalcottWallace StevensKamau BrathwaiteCommonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

Selected WorkPayadora Tango Ensemble“Adios Muchachos/I Get Ideas,” (by Julio César Sanders) violinist and vocalist, with Payadora Tango Ensemble“La Perdida,” violinist and songwriter, with Payadora Tango Ensemble Tango in the Dark, with PointeTangoVenuti String Quartet “Like My Sister,” violinist, vocalist, and songwriter, with family band“Years from Today,” violinist, vocalist, and songwriter, with family bandWatch the full feature-length film Tango in the Dark here!Also ReferencedDrew JurekaDiane WolksteinSheila HetiJudah GorenCleveland Institute of MusicCleveland OrchestraItzhak Perlman, In the Fiddler's HouseMariah CareyWhitney HoustonTed GupThe Plain DealerConnie SchultzPaul HindemithJohannes BrahmsJeff Healey’s Jazz WizardsGlenn Gould School, The Royal Conservatory of MusicToronto Symphony OrchestraThe National Ballet of CanadaThe Canadian Opera CompanyJill BarberViva Mexico Toronto Mariachi BandAstor PiazzollaAlexander GlazunovJean SibeliusNathaniel WolksteinShirley TempleThe Legend of Carau (Argentina)PointeTango Dance CompanySoundMachineYiddish Glory