99 Episodes

  1. The Gaps I Mean: A discussion of “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost

    Published: 3/27/2020
  2. Knots of a Woman: A discussion of A Swarm of Bees in High Court by Tonya Foster

    Published: 2/20/2020
  3. Mammal Patriot: A discussion of Ghost Tantras by Michael McClure

    Published: 1/22/2020
  4. Beside the Mind: A discussion of Clairvoyant Journal by Hannah Weiner

    Published: 12/20/2019
  5. These Squiggles: A discussion of “As if the Trees by Their Very Roots Had Hold of Us” by Charles Bernstein

    Published: 11/22/2019
  6. September 1941: A discussion of “Memory Tree” by Rosmarie Waldrop

    Published: 10/28/2019
  7. The Republic of Space: A discussion of “The Blue Stairs” by Barbara Guest

    Published: 9/27/2019
  8. 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
  9. Written in Water: A discussion of Bluets by Maggie Nelson

    Published: 7/19/2019
  10. Laying Poems Away: A discussion of “The Ambition Bird” by Anne Sexton

    Published: 6/21/2019
  11. Saw the Lie: A discussion of three short poems in “SKY WRI TEI NGS” by Nasser Hussain

    Published: 5/17/2019
  12. Hadbeen Variety: A discussion of “Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake” by John Cage

    Published: 4/24/2019
  13. Slowing the Rate of Perception: A discussion of “Hello, the Roses” by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

    Published: 3/20/2019
  14. Flesh Ekes Ink: A discussion of Divya Victor’s “W Is for Walt Whitman’s Soul” from her book Kith.

    Published: 2/20/2019
  15. Light filtering through: A discussion of G. Maria Hindmarch's “Kitsilano”.

    Published: 1/16/2019
  16. Filter, Impose, Trespass: A discussion of Rachel Zolf’s Human Resources.

    Published: 12/19/2018
  17. Not Detainable: A discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Riot”

    Published: 11/16/2018
  18. The After-Hell: A discussion of Sylvia Plath's poem “The Stones”

    Published: 10/17/2018
  19. Of Beautiful Tangents: A discussion of two poems from Perfect Villagers by Sueyeun Juliette Lee

    Published: 9/20/2018
  20. Boring in a Different Way: A discussion of John Ashbery's “The Short Answer”

    Published: 8/21/2018

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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.