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By Ruben Quesada
young and Diggs both work with words, sound, image—and bodies—as Diggs’s puts it. On today’s show, they talk about funk, Dolly Parton, taking notes, polyglots, and how these different cadences resonate in young’s series peestain. In these collages and poems, featured in the November issue of Poetry, young weaves his own history with the lives of his students and characters like Willis Jackson from the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. The familiarity and openness of the references are as heartening as they are devastating. Nothing is neat. Nothing is predictable in young’s work—or Digg’s—as you’ll hear today. In the course of the conversation, Diggs reads one of her own poems and a poem by Carl Hancock Rux.
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AudioFrom 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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AudioFrom 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.
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AudioFrom The Poetry Magazine PodcastJuly 2020
Kit Fan talks with Alice Oswald about her latest book,?Nobody. Fan’s review of the book appears in the July/August 2020 issue of?Poetry.
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AudioFrom The Poetry Magazine PodcastJuly 2020
Justice Leah Wards Sears talks about how Margaret Walker’s poem “For My People” has been a resource for her throughout her life. Justice Sears’s essay, “Love for My People,” appears...
Alexandria Hall on farm sounds, solo time, and the way into a difficult poem.
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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 Poetry Off the ShelfOctober 2020
Will Harris on mixedness, intimacy, and the music of difficult poems.
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From Poetry Off the ShelfSeptember 2020
Camille Dungy on words, home, and motherhood in times of climate collapse.
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From Poetry Off the ShelfSeptember 2020
Joy Ladin on the failures of language, courage, and?the trans parable of Jonah and the Whale.
Nandi Comer climbs in the ring with Franny and Danez for this wonderful, warm episode of VS. The Detroiter, whose new book Tapping Out is available now from Northwestern University Press, talks about her love of lucha libre mexican wrestling, writing into a tradition that isn’t her own, the ways that academia can rob poets of their humanity, and DETROIT!
Pick up Nandi’s book Tapping Out here: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/tapping-out
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From VSOctober 2020
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...
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From 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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From VSSeptember 2020
Ross Gay joins VS with his boisterous laugh and brilliance on hand. The poet and professor breaks down the ways we’re all entangled, the elegant lessons mycelium can teach us...
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From VSSeptember 2020
Airea D. Matthews knows her ghosts. The poet and professor talks with Franny and Danez about the spectres and phantasms that live in her work, the ways she wants her...
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Fred Wah, Meredith Quartermain, and Daphne Marlatt.
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From Poem TalkSeptember 2020
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Tyrone Williams, Mónica de la Torre, Kate Colby, and Aldon Nielsen.
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From Poem TalkAugust 2020
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Stephen Metcalf, June Thomas, and Jess Shollenberger.
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From Poem TalkJuly 2020
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring?Simone White, Dixon Li, and Jo Park.
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From Poem TalkJune 2020
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring?Jacob Edmond, Amber Rose Johnson, and Huda Fakhreddine.
Sandra Doller meditates on aging and motherhood. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
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From PoetryNowDecember 2019
Stacy Szymaszek writes a poem in gratitude to her students. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
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From PoetryNowDecember 2019
Will Alexander finds ways of writing poems to revitalize language as a whole. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
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From PoetryNowDecember 2019
Christine Kanownik examines the place of religion and spirituality in secular life. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
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From PoetryNowDecember 2019
Evie Shockley expresses frustration over ongoing immigration policies and thinks about ways Americans might better live together. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Recordings of poet Lorine Niedecker with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded at home in 1970. Recording courtesy of PennSound.
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From Essential American PoetsMarch 2012
Recordings of poet Lorine Niedecker with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded at home in 1970. Recording courtesy of PennSound.
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From Essential American PoetsJanuary 2012
Recordings of poet Gertrude Stein, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded?in 1934. Recording courtesy of PennSound.
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From Essential American PoetsJanuary 2012
Recordings of former poet laureate Charles Simic, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 2003, Key West, FL.
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From Essential American PoetsDecember 2011
Recordings of poet Alan Dugan, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1962, New York City, New York.
Malena Mörling and Jonas Ellerström discuss Swedish poetry and the challenges of translation, and they read some poems in both Swedish and English from their anthology, The Star By My Head.
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From Poetry LecturesNovember 2015
Christopher Merrill speaks with Harris Khalique about?literary traditions in Pakistan, the cultural influences of different cities, and the important role of women in Pakistani literature.
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From Poetry LecturesFebruary 2014
Kwame Dawes speaks with Matthew Shenoda about Shenoda's poetry and identity as an Egyptian American, and the poetry of the African diaspora.
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From Poetry LecturesDecember 2013
South African poet Gabeba Baderoon speaks with Matthew Shenoda about poetry and apartheid in South Africa.
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From Poetry LecturesNovember 2013
American poet Kevin Young talks to Les Murray about Australian poetry and culture.
An audio tour of films featuring Vito Acconci, Erik Satie, Vicki Bennett, Karl Holmquist, and more from the UbuWeb archive.
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From Avant-Garde All the TimeSeptember 2010
Samples from from Craig Dworkin's UbuWeb paper “Unheard Music,” featuring John Cage, Steve Reich, Mieko Shiomi, Yves Klein, and more.
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From Avant-Garde All the TimeJuly 2010
Audio interpretations of Gertrude Stein from the UbuWeb archives.
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From Avant-Garde All the TimeJune 2010
Yoko Ono flushing toilets, La Monte Young’s “Theater of Eternal Music,” Larry Miller’s baby crying, Alison Knowles onion skin music and loads more.
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From Avant-Garde All the TimeMarch 2010
Gertrude Stein at the Algonquin, William Carlos Williams trying to remember “The Red Wheelbarrow,” Salvador Dali on his phallic moustache, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Derrida, and scads more from the archive.
Established in 1940 by the WPA's Federal Art Project, the South Side Community Art Center has provided a second home for the city's African-American artists. Haki Madhubuti, founding editor of Third World Press, reads.
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From Chicago Poetry Tour PodcastOctober 2010
One of the 20th century's most significant poets, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about race in America, often from the perspective of her Bronzeville neighborhood.
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From Chicago Poetry Tour PodcastSeptember 2010
Margaret Walker's signature poem "For My People" encompasses the strengths and struggles of blacks not only in Chicago but throughout America.
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From Chicago Poetry Tour PodcastSeptember 2010
The DuSable Museum is one of the nation's premier institutions dedicated to the history, art, and culture of the African diaspora. Quraysh Ali Lansana reads from his collection They Shall...
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From Chicago Poetry Tour PodcastAugust 2010
Pilsen was a diverse neighborhood in Chicago long before anybody used the word “diversity.” Stuart Dybek and Ana Castillo read poems inspired by their childhoods there.