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David Biespiel presents A Place of Exodus in conversation with David Naimon
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Powell's City of Books

Book launch for A Place of Exodus: David sits down with the host of "Between the Covers" David Naimon to talk about the publication of his twelfth book in 24 years.

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Elliott Bay Book Company

Emily Warn speaks with David about the themes of meaning, identity, and home in A Place of Exodus, and what it is about Texas that means so much to him.

Houston Book Fair

David returns home to the very place of a A Place of Exodus to discuss the writing of the book and the meaning of memory with Joshua Furman.

Addas Israel and Beth El Bethesda

Robin Jacobson and Marge London speak with David about the meaning of exile in A Place of Exodus, as well as the story of his Jewish boyhood in Texas, and the meaning of home, family, and identity.

Annie Bloom's Books

David reads from A Place of Exodus and Vanessa Veselka reads from The Great Offshore Grounds, and the two discuss metaphor, place, story-telling

AWP Writer's Chronicle 

Judith Pulman interviews David about poetic forms and the writer in the civic world.

Unorthodox | Tablet

Podcasters Mark Oppenheimer and Stephanie Butnick talk to David about A Place of Exodus about years of spiritual and physical wandering out of Texas.

Between the Covers

David Naimon invites David  back to the studio in 2017 to discuss his being an accidental memoirist and The Education of a Young Poet.

 

Poetry

Christian Wiman and Don Share talk with David about his controversial essay, "This Land Is Our Land," an early call for American poets to engage political subjects.

State of Wonder | National Public Radio 

April Baer, in 2015, invites David  in to talk about poetry and civic life. 

Houston Matters  | National Public Radio

Craig Cohen sits down with David to discus A Place of Exodus and what he learned by coming back to Texas after a 40 year exile.

Palo Alto Jewish Community Center 

Tova Birchbaum and Luba Palant speak with David about the meaning of exile in A Place of Exodus.

Community Synagogue of Rye

Jade Ross Sank and Brett Grossman talk with David about the meanings of Exodus in A Place of Exodus.

West Texas Talk | National Public Radio

Corey Lovell speaks with Lannan Fellow David about poetry in a difficult world.

Willamette Week

Scout Brobst interviews David on the writing of A Place of Exodus.

BODY Literature

Joshua Mensch interviews David about Republic Cafe, and what it means to inhabit the reality of the body politic within one's own skin.

Literary Hub

Jane Ciabattari interviews David about the meaning of Texas, and he lists five books, one Play, and one film that should be on everybody's list.

Chicago Review of Books

Ruben Quesada interviews David about curiosity, generosity, and vulnerability in poetry.

Kenyon Review

Fiona Sze-Lorain talks to David about memoir and poetry

Literary Hub 

Book Marks poses five questions to David about book reviewing. He speaks about Leaves of Grass, American mythology, and log-rolling in poetry reviews.

The Rumpus

David Biespiel discusses his new book, The Education of a Young Poet, with Justin Wymer, about being comfortable in uncertainty, and extending moments in writing.

Heidislowinski.com

Book critic Heidi Slowinski asks David twelve questions about the writing of A Place of Exodus.

State of Wonder | National Public Radio

David returns to talk to April Baer in 2017, with Wendy Willis, about their literary marriage, the writing life, and American myth.

Between the Covers

David Naimon chats with David in 2015 about A Long High Whistle on the podcast Gary Shteyngart calls "the most intense and awesome podcast I've ever been a part of."

Too Jewish Radio

David discusses the roots for writing A Place of Exodus with Rabbi Sam Cohon.

Terra

Oregon State University's alumni magazine interviews David about the words for the journey.

 

New Books in Poetry 

John Ebersole talks with David about the publication of Charming Gardeners.

Connotation

John Hoppenthaler talks to David about conceptual poetry, political poetry, and his new poems in Republic Cafe.

University of Washington Press Blog

An interview with David about the possibility and impossibility of writing poems.

Poetry Northwest

Kevin Craft introduces David's influence on the role of poets in contemporary American society and the presence of social/political issues in the content of poetry.

Joe Milford Poetry Show 

A conversation between Joe Milford and David about the revival of Poetry Northwest and the state of poetry.

 

The Oregonian

Kerry Buckley's Q and A with David about the publication of The Book of Men and Women.

 

Attic Institute of Arts and Letters

David takes questions about the direction of Portland's leading think tank for creativity and creative writing that he founded in 1999.

 

ABC News Radio Nation

Sarah Corbett interviews David Biespiel, Mary Szybist, and others.

 

Back Page with Jody Seay

Jody Page sits down with David to discuss the life of the writer.

 

Milwaukie Poetry Series

David talks about how poets traverse the thresholds of the imagination to bring the gifts of poems to the community.

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