{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Interview with Yanyi","description":"Photo of Yanyi, taken by him In this episode I spoke with Yanyi about his new book, Dream of the Divided Field, and his newsletter, The Reading. Yanyi is the author of Dream of the Divided Field (One World Random House, 1 March 2022) and The Year of Blue Water (Yale University Press 2019), winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has been featured in or at NPR\u2019s All Things Considered, New York Public Library, Granta, and New England Review, and he is the recipient of fellowships from Asian American Writers\u2019 Workshop and Poets House. He holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University and was most recently poetry editor at Foundry. Currently, he teaches creative writing at large and gives writing advice at The Reading. Yanyi's website You can purchase Dream of the Divided Field here Yanyi's Twitter Yanyi's Instagram Various books, movies, podcasts, etc. mentioned in this episode:   Algorithm crowd sounds   Surviving R. Kelly docuseries   Shakespeare\u2019s The Taming of the Shrew   AI generated imagery   @images_ai   WOMBO Dream   DALL-E     Virgina Woolf\u2019s audio BBC interview   When We Were Young Festival and its much parodied poster   Black Mountain Poets   Olson\u2019s &quot;Projective Verse&quot; manifesto, some explicit field talk     Lydia Davis\u2019s &quot;Hand&quot; story (this is the whole story lol):   &quot;Beyond the hand holding this book that I\u2019m reading, I see another hand lying idle and slightly out of focus \u2014 my extra hand.&quot;   (more stories here)   &quot;The Cows&quot; chapbook     Yanyi's newsletter   Letter on why he left Substack     Yanyi at the Poetry Project discussing de las Rivas's &quot;Black Sun&quot; and fascist dogwhistling in contemporary poetry   Ghost, the platform Yanyi uses to now send his newsletters   bell hooks\u2019s Teaching to Transgress full PDF   Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak documentary   Laura Engels Wilder\u2019s Little House on the Prairie series   FEELING ASIAN podcast episodes:   An Evening With Two Asian Therapists (feat. Peter Adams, Ph.D and Melissa Yao, Ph.D)   Asian Seeking Asian (therapists)     &amp;nbsp; Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz Host and Producer: Avren Keating Sound of Waves Breaking: Sounds from this video of Merlin, my sweet 5-year-old Frenchie that died of a brain tumor in the time between recording and editing this episode. I love you, little bubs.&amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"Waves Breaking","author_url":"http:\/\/wavesbreaking.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/22904567\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/397ea9\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/22904567"}