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Sarah Ruhl

Ian McEwan

Nico Muhly

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Taylor Mac

Lawrence Brownlee

Martin Scorcese

Stewart Copeland

Noah Lethbridge

Jeanine Tesori

IAN GORDON

Andre Dubus

Mark Campbell

Sarah Fraser

Frank Miller

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Jennifer Zetlan

We sit down for an invigorating discussion with composer Ricky Ian Gordon &amp; soprano Jennifer Zetlan about the chamber opera Ellen West which is receiving it’s NYC premiere as part of Prototype Festival 2020. Jennifer talks about her solo debut album with Ricky, Your Clear Eye and Ricky about their upcoming production of his next opera premiere, Intimate Apparel with Lynn Nottage for a 10 week run at Lincoln Center Theater.

Podcast 069: Ricky Ian Gordon and Jennifer Zetlan in Ellen West

Jake and Phil discuss America's greatest poets named Frank, with Frank O’Hara’s "Personism Manifesto" and Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West” Frank O’Hara, “Personism” http://opencourses.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/ENL9/Instructional%20Package/Texts//Readings/Week%203%3A%20Pop%20art%3A%20breaking%20down%20the%20boundaries%20between%20high%20and%20low/Frank%20O%27Hara%20Personism-2.pdf Reuben Brower, The Fields of Light https://books.google.com/books/about/The_fields_of_light.html?id=AuhYAAAAMAAJ Kenneth Koch, “Fresh Air” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52929/fresh-air Daniel Clowes, Art School Confidential https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364955/ The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520201668/the-collected-poems-of-frank-ohara Steven Burt, “Okay I’ll Call You/Yes Call Me: Frank O’Hara’s Personism” https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/okay-ill-call-you-yes-call-me-frank-oharas-personism Frank O’Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/26538/meditations-in-an-emergency Frank O’Hara, “Having a Coke With You” https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/having-coke-you Sloterdijk, Rules for the Human Zoo https://rekveld.home.xs4all.nl/tech/Sloterdijk_RulesForTheHumanZoo.pdf Frank O’Hara, “My Heart” https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/poetry_in_motion/atlas/newyork/my_heart/ Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/115135/the-captive-mind-by-czeslaw-milosz/9780679728566/ Geoffrey Hill, “Language, Suffering, and Silence” https://academic.oup.com/litimag/article/1/2/240/958441 Frank O’Hara, “Ave Maria” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42670/ave-maria Frank Bidart, “Ellen West” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48284/ellen-west Tom Sleigh, Interview with a Ghost https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/interview-ghost Frank Bidart, “Writing Ellen West” https://frame-tales.tumblr.com/post/67714978473/frank-bidart-writing-ellen-west Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374125950 De Maistre, as quoted in Isaiah Berlin’s Two Enemies of Enlightenment http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/maistre.pdf David Jones, Epoch and Artist https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571339501-epoch-and-artist.html Audio Clips: The Stranglers, No More Heroes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gfIgA-PYyQ John Ashberry reading a letter from O’Hara https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oacw2wX5nac Frank O’Hara reading Having a Coke With You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLwivcpFe8 Style Wars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BdlXqBXm2o Pocahontas, Colors of the Wind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9MvdMqKvpU

Jake and Phil discuss America's greatest poets named Frank, with Frank O’Hara’s "Personism Manifesto" and Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West” Frank O’Hara, “Personism” <a href="http://opencourses.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/ENL9/Instructional%20Package/Texts//Readings/Week%203%3A%20Pop%20art%3A%20breaking%20down%20the%20boundaries%20between%20high%20and%20low/Frank%20O%27Hara%20Personism-2.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://opencourses.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/ENL9/Instructional%20Package/Texts//Readings/Week%203%3A%20Pop%20art%3A%20breaking%20down%20the%20boundaries%20between%20high%20and%20low/Frank%20O%27Hara%20Personism-2.pdf</a> Reuben Brower, The Fields of Light <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_fields_of_light.html?id=AuhYAAAAMAAJ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books/about/The_fields_of_light.html?id=AuhYAAAAMAAJ</a> Kenneth Koch, “Fresh Air” <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52929/fresh-air" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52929/fresh-air</a> Daniel Clowes, Art School Confidential <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364955/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364955/</a> The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520201668/the-collected-poems-of-frank-ohara" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520201668/the-collected-poems-of-frank-ohara</a> Steven Burt, “Okay I’ll Call You/Yes Call Me: Frank O’Hara’s Personism” <a href="https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/okay-ill-call-you-yes-call-me-frank-oharas-personism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/okay-ill-call-you-yes-call-me-frank-oharas-personism</a> Frank O’Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency” <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/26538/meditations-in-an-emergency" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/26538/meditations-in-an-emergency</a> Frank O’Hara, “Having a Coke With You” <a href="https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/having-coke-you" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/having-coke-you</a> Sloterdijk, Rules for the Human Zoo <a href="https://rekveld.home.xs4all.nl/tech/Sloterdijk_RulesForTheHumanZoo.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://rekveld.home.xs4all.nl/tech/Sloterdijk_RulesForTheHumanZoo.pdf</a> Frank O’Hara, “My Heart” <a href="https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/poetry_in_motion/atlas/newyork/my_heart/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/poetry_in_motion/atlas/newyork/my_heart/</a> Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/115135/the-captive-mind-by-czeslaw-milosz/9780679728566/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/115135/the-captive-mind-by-czeslaw-milosz/9780679728566/</a> Geoffrey Hill, “Language, Suffering, and Silence” <a href="https://academic.oup.com/litimag/article/1/2/240/958441" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://academic.oup.com/litimag/article/1/2/240/958441</a> Frank O’Hara, “Ave Maria” <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42670/ave-maria" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42670/ave-maria</a> Frank Bidart, “Ellen West” <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48284/ellen-west" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48284/ellen-west</a> Tom Sleigh, Interview with a Ghost <a href="https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/interview-ghost" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/interview-ghost</a> Frank Bidart, “Writing Ellen West” <a href="https://frame-tales.tumblr.com/post/67714978473/frank-bidart-writing-ellen-west" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://frame-tales.tumblr.com/post/67714978473/frank-bidart-writing-ellen-west</a> Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374125950" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374125950</a> De Maistre, as quoted in Isaiah Berlin’s Two Enemies of Enlightenment <a href="http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/maistre.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/maistre.pdf</a> David Jones, Epoch and Artist <a href="https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571339501-epoch-and-artist.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571339501-epoch-and-artist.html</a> Audio Clips: The Stranglers, No More Heroes <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gfIgA-PYyQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gfIgA-PYyQ</a> John Ashberry reading a letter from O’Hara <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oacw2wX5nac" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oacw2wX5nac</a> Frank O’Hara reading Having a Coke With You <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLwivcpFe8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLwivcpFe8</a> Style Wars <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BdlXqBXm2o" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BdlXqBXm2o</a> Pocahontas, Colors of the Wind <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9MvdMqKvpU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9MvdMqKvpU</a>

Episode 13: Personism and Ellen West