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AudioFrom VSOctober 2020
Carl Phillips swings by the zoodio (zoom studio) for a ticklish and insightful convo on this episode. The poet and professor talks about the power of interiority, how his relationship...
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Featured BloggerBy Tyree DayeI didn’t open the pages of?Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry?(edited by Charles Henry Rowell) until I was pursuing my MFA at North Carolina State...
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poemBy Dorothy Chan
Chinese superstition tells me it’s bad luck
Podcasts
Danez and Franny have the honor and pleasure of chopping it up with the brilliant Randall Horton on this episode of the show. Randall, whose newest collection {#289-128}: Poems just dropped this month, talks about coming to know his story so that he could eventually write about it, resisting being boxed in as a poet who was incarcerated, and what he’s learned from his collaborations with jazz musicians. Get into it!
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From The Poetry Magazine PodcastOctober 2020
When we asked Ed Roberson who he’d like to speak with on the show he said: Lyn Hejinian. Longtime friends despite living vastly far apart –?Lyn in Berkeley and Ed...
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From Poem TalkOctober 2020
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Fred Wah, Meredith Quartermain, and Daphne Marlatt.
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From Poetry Off the ShelfOctober 2020
EJ Koh on distance, broken English, and writing poems that forgive.
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From The Poetry Magazine PodcastOctober 2020
Oli Rodriguez and Xandria Phillips on queer familia, ephemeral cruising spots, McDonald’s polaroid film, and much more. Rodriguez’s “Papi, Papi, Papi” appears in the October 2020 issue of?Poetry.
Featured
Poets lend voices to current events and elections as they critique and defend the social and political issues of their day.
Featured Biographies
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Elizabeth Alexander was born in Harlem, New York, but grew up in Washington, DC, the daughter of former United States Secretary of...
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Prize-winning author Kenneth Koch published numerous collections of poetry, avant-garde plays, and short fiction while also serving as one of the nation’s...
Poem Guides
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Poem GuideBy Don Bogen
An overlooked masterpiece depicts a feuding couple and the dreamy freedom just outside their door.
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Poem GuideBy Austin Allen
When polite prejudice makes for scathing satire.
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Poem GuideBy Jeremy Axelrod
Does a notoriously grumpy poet believe in everlasting love?
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Featured Poems
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By Kenn Nesbitt
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By William Shakespeare
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By Edgar Allan Poe
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By Louise Erdrich
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By Carl Sandburg
