Joan Retallack is an American poet, critic, biographer, and multi-disciplinary scholar. Retallack directed the Language & Thinking Program at Bard for ten years and has read and performed her poetry, lectured, and participated in conferences, festivals, and invited residencies in Canada, England, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Her work has been translated into six languages. Her interests in poetics include polylingualism, ecopoetics, and the poethics of alterity. Hosted by Chris Funkhouser.