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Riantly - Poetry Readings

These are readings of poems with a brief note attached to them. Some of the poems are longer form, some are shorter. Sometimes the note is a personal note and others it is a scholarly or craft discussion. In this way I hope to make all poetry more accessible in what language is capable of even within this world, our world. riantly.substack.com

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7:30

Poetry as a Form of Resistance: Xi Chuan's Don't...

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2025/06/19

You can purchase "Bloom," by Xi Chuan tr. by Lucas Klein here.Chuan is a pivotal figure in Chinese poetic and literary community. Outspoken regarding political needs and with both a reverence and disgust for literature, “Bloom” is full with poems that seem to simultaneously mock high-brow efforts of pseudo-reality in language, as well as contend with the need to address that a writer necessitates complicated inner mechanisms. “Bloom,” has a wide range of poetry both tender and declarative, at times

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7:15

Ecopoetics in Action: Ariana Benson's Love Poem in a...

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2025/06/12

You can purchase "Black Pastoral," by Ariana Benson here. One of those older contemporary books at this point. In that odd three years old period where some will have forgotten about it in the quieting of its hype, and others eagerly await the next from Benson. Having only recently read through it, time passing from its popularity, I have to insist: it is not a mistake to read this work, to sit deeply and longingly with the poems. They are visceral and evocative, full with the weight of a downpour

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6:47

Forms and Features of Poetry: Jess Yuan's Craft Talk...

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2025/06/05

You may purchase "Slow Render," by Jess Yuan here. A book that I think gladly speaks in conversation with other works operating around the metaphysical concept of the photograph like Barthes, Sontag; Yuan’s “Slow Render,” operates on both a scale of the poem as a capture, as well as the capture as a form that can be manipulated or whose boundaries can be flexibly defined. Riantly, or with Laughter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free

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8:07

Greek and Bulgarian Poetry: Iana Boukova's Unwelt

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2025/05/29

You can purchase Notes of the Phantom Woman by Iana Boukova tr. by John O'Kane & Ekaterina Petrova here.This work was full and rampant with surprising and innovative poetry. I was interrupted in this reading by my cat, Hazelnut, and lost my focus on reading the poem which is why I ended it halfway through the long poem. That said, I think this is precisely something Boukova would appreciate - to be able to pick-up and return to the poem; and the desire simultaneously to take seriously the work of

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4:06

Poetry Read Aloud: Gwen Nell Westerman's Billboard...

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2025/05/22

You can purchase "Songs Blood Deep," by Gwen Nell Westerman here. I loved Gwen Nell Westerman’s work, and thought the steadfast observational powers on display were the work of a poet truly interested in engaging with what is in front of her. Riantly, or with Laughter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.I appreciate her Q+A here as well: On the importance of writing in both the English and Dakota languages:“Dakota

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7:38

A Poetry of Everyday Life: Rick Barot's Moving the Bones

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2025/05/15

You can purchase Rick Barot's book "Moving the Bones," here.I love this line from Mikal Wix on Barot’s work: “But Barot’s candid poems from Moving the Bones create an intangible space where words can exalt feelings of longing or loss without losing their power to stabilize us in the understatement of rational, epiphanic thought.”Riantly, or with Laughter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Barot has always had this

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10:25

The Elements of Poetry: A Lyric Essay-Poem

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2025/05/08

You can find a copy of Commons by Myung Mi Kim here.Part of the necessity of translated literature, translated poetry, is the decentralization of “English,” as an omnipresence and easily-definable language. “English,” is, for lack of a better term, limp and fungible - defined through its constant re-interpretation by those who come to the language secondarily. This poem or this essay comes on the back of Trump administration cutting National Endowment for the Arts funding for all presses and

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9:25

Poetry Reading: "Brute?" and "Strike [air]" by Hala...

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2025/04/24

You can purchase The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan from Ecco Books here. Alyan’s work is a foray of contemporariness and of navigating. Many of the poems offer more formal explorations of what needs be conveyed — with a series of poems in the form of six columns responding to lines adjusted by a unique subject, or more traditional formal modes like the repetition explored in “Strike [Air].” But what’s at stake here is the truth of the matter: that this world we suffer in is ridiculous and

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7:36

Poem Reading: "the meaning of winter changes" by...

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2025/04/17

You can purchase How Fire Descends by Serhiy Zhadan tr. by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps here.These poems within How Fire Descends are at once spiritual, pleading, stark, and hopeful. They speak of literature and the state and purpose of poems alongside family alongside survival. Zhadan is a tremendous poet, and I believe the reality he manages to versify is both vitally necessary and one full with the signs and images of suffering that Ukraine has endured for so many years. I offer this additional

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7:57

Poem Reading: "11.6.12" by Friederike Mayröcker

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2025/04/10

You can purchase études by Friederike Mayröcker tr. by Donna Stonecipher here.I love an author who doesn’t care much for genre definitions. Everything I’ve read from Friederike Mayröcker seems to exude exactly this coolness - it doesn’t much matter if it’s a poem, a diary, prosody, or anything. Here, I offer a reading of this piece that seems to do it all — diary, poem, prose, what have you. I loved reading through this work. It took me ages. Like trying to eat gelato on a frosty winter morning

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5:30

Poem Reading: "Escapade (33)" by Marie-Noëlle Agniau...

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2025/04/03

If you wish to purchase The Escapades you may find it here. Agniau’s work here is such a treasure of connectivity. The pages tell something of a story together, and yet poem-by-poem I feel something more like the shifting of seasons — the hints toward a change, and then all at once a difference. An immense strength is her commitment to writing toward, speaking toward, this ‘you.’ I find it incredibly hard to write a convincing poem to a second-person without alienating the reader in some way, and

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8:24

Poem Reading: "On the Margin" by Mostafa Nissabouri

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2025/03/28

You may purchase For an Ineffable Metrics of the Desert here. Translated by Guy Bennett, Pierre Joris, Addie Leak, and Teresa Villa-Ignacio and published by Otis Books - Seismicity Editions.Mostafa Nissabouri seems to be a mountain of literary culture, uplifting and providing support for his fellow writers through journal creation and the establishment of a home for superb writing. This collection, For an Ineffable Metrics of the Desert, is a profound experience. Hundreds of pages of poems that

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5:41

Poem Reading: "2:1" by Asiya Wadud

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2025/03/21

From the work Crosslight for Youngbird from Nightboat BooksAsiya Wadud’s work is at once mystifying and thrilling. I could very well believe performative recitations of her lyric in the forms of borderline surreal mutterings, to the proud proclamatory verse with bravado. Here, I read just one of the many poems of hers I love and try to explain a bit as to why I love this poem, why I find it works. Within each work of Wadud’s that I’ve read, I have found collections of reference and incantation,

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6:12

Poem Reading: "The Capacity for Happiness Despite...

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2025/03/13

An in accompaniment, here is Hilary Plum’s review in the Cleveland Review of Books (I admit, a favorite of mine): Seeking fertility treatment, the self is in a state of profound need and transformative possibility, of desperation and choice, privileged to be subjected to medical regimes, precarious and generative. In this state, the poet attends to and appreciates “little justices” and forms of “tiny goodness”: the goodness and justice of her child’s birth, of poetry as testament to everyday life,

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5:10

Poem Reading: "Autobiography Via Revision" by...

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2025/03/09

And as an accompaniment, this interview from Barely South Review between Jerome Newsome and the author Marianne Chan: Poetry has a lot of forms. Sonnets. Haikus. Odes. How do you incorporate or use form in your poems?Yeah. So, form for me, is extremely generative. I often begin with form as a way to enter a poem. And sometimes I have an idea in mind. For example, in my second collection, Leaving Biddle City, I have several, prose pantoums. So, the collection is made up of those prose poems, these

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4:36

Poem Reading: "The Words I Return To" by Magda Isanos

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2025/03/07

And I loved this accompaniment by critic Leo Zausen on Magda Isanos’ Homecoming: Life for Isanos is less a vessel but a burden, a preordained fallout at the incursion of the species. Isanos’ romanticism sediments a dwindling of the human side of any encounter by foregrounding the negative manifestation of something subliminal, abyssal, and subterranean in its wake. Not unlike phosphorus—or the cousin of sulfur who is all too at home in hell—an overexposed and exhausted essence streams through these

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5:13

Poem Reading: "Cryptic News from Darmogandul" by...

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2025/03/04

And alongside this wonderful book and poem are these lines from a 2024 interview with author Afrizal Malna from Asymptote Journal: These events gave rise to an obsession, or an agitation: “Can language shake? Can meaning convulse?” It was a new challenge for the practice of writing poetry. …… For me, the structure of the poem and the way the words are placed resemble an earthquake with its propensity to convulse, which perhaps can shake up the balance in reading. Jakarta is positioned as a city of

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12:38

Poem Reading: "Dithyrams" by Elsa Cross

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2025/02/27

I think of this interview by translator, Anamaría Crowe Serrano, in Numero Cinco, speaking on Cross’s poetics: What struck me about Elsa during our conversation in London was that her poetry reflected her personality: gentle, contemplative, self-assured. It seemed that the mysteries and uncertainties inherent in the world around us, which philosophy constantly probes, rather than cause angst, in some paradoxical way provide a source of strength for this poet. I got a sense that she accepts that not

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7:56

Poem Reading: "Red Rose and a Beggar" by H.D.

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2024/12/06

In my experience and relation with H.D. - one either encounters her work in an academic setting, or rarely at all. What a shame! Perhaps in another time, one that I was less coherent for, H.D. was subject of more public and social discussion, attention. But as it stands, I do wish for you to enjoy some of her work. Here, you may find my recitation of a portion of one of her poems from the collection Hermetic Definition. As always, if you have any interest, questions, or comments, please leave a note

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5:26

Poem Reading: "Late Gathering" by Chika Sagawa

Riantly - Poetry Readings ·

2024/10/27

I remember the experience of reading this book. It was Springtime in Seattle, maybe three years ago. I would read it exclusively on walks outside, roaming around the residential streets and lavishing in the late afternoon sunlight. I think it added to the experience of poems like what I’ve read here, “Late Gathering,” which are such social documentations at their core and yet reach for that flicker of spirit that unites us all through our desire for connection. Sagawa and Nakayasu do such an

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