Poem Talk
A podcast by Poetry Foundation
99 Episodes
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The Gaps I Mean: A discussion of “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
Published: 3/27/2020 -
Knots of a Woman: A discussion of A Swarm of Bees in High Court by Tonya Foster
Published: 2/20/2020 -
Mammal Patriot: A discussion of Ghost Tantras by Michael McClure
Published: 1/22/2020 -
Beside the Mind: A discussion of Clairvoyant Journal by Hannah Weiner
Published: 12/20/2019 -
These Squiggles: A discussion of “As if the Trees by Their Very Roots Had Hold of Us” by Charles Bernstein
Published: 11/22/2019 -
September 1941: A discussion of “Memory Tree” by Rosmarie Waldrop
Published: 10/28/2019 -
The Republic of Space: A discussion of “The Blue Stairs” by Barbara Guest
Published: 9/27/2019 -
Worker’s Tanka: A discussion of six tankas (2 each) by three worker poets, Christine Yvette Lewis, Lorraine Garnett and Davidson Garrett
Published: 8/27/2019 -
Written in Water: A discussion of Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Published: 7/19/2019 -
Laying Poems Away: A discussion of “The Ambition Bird” by Anne Sexton
Published: 6/21/2019 -
Saw the Lie: A discussion of three short poems in “SKY WRI TEI NGS” by Nasser Hussain
Published: 5/17/2019 -
Hadbeen Variety: A discussion of “Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake” by John Cage
Published: 4/24/2019 -
Slowing the Rate of Perception: A discussion of “Hello, the Roses” by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Published: 3/20/2019 -
Flesh Ekes Ink: A discussion of Divya Victor’s “W Is for Walt Whitman’s Soul” from her book Kith.
Published: 2/20/2019 -
Light filtering through: A discussion of G. Maria Hindmarch's “Kitsilano”.
Published: 1/16/2019 -
Filter, Impose, Trespass: A discussion of Rachel Zolf’s Human Resources.
Published: 12/19/2018 -
Not Detainable: A discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Riot”
Published: 11/16/2018 -
The After-Hell: A discussion of Sylvia Plath's poem “The Stones”
Published: 10/17/2018 -
Of Beautiful Tangents: A discussion of two poems from Perfect Villagers by Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Published: 9/20/2018 -
Boring in a Different Way: A discussion of John Ashbery's “The Short Answer”
Published: 8/21/2018
Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a lively roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests including Tracie Morris, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, erica kaufman, Charles Bernstein, Sawako Nakayasu, Simone White, and others.