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Salvation
By Stephen Dunn
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Poetry Lectures
Helen Vendler
Helen Vendler discusses the poet Robert Lowell.
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Conversations with America: Treasure Williams
Treasure Williams is a poet and performer based in Memphis. She also teaches at Rust College, an historically black liberal arts college in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
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Poetry Off the Shelf
The Nature of Political Power
Robert Lowell's "July in Washington" puts America in a vegetable context.
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Then too there is this
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Weighing Light
By Geoffrey Brock
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Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen made history during World War II as the country's first black military pilots. Their performance paved the way for the end of racial segregation in the military forces. Poet Marilyn Nelson talks about the struggles and the legacy of these legendary pilots.
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If For Each of Us
By James Ragan
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Poem Talk
Democracy at 10th & A: A Discussion of Alice Notley’s poem "I the People"
Alice Notley, Al Filreis, Erica Kaufman, Joe Milutis, Zack Pieper.
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Hour
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Disown
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Horseflies
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Chain of Women
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Final Autumn
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A Flute Overheard
By Marianne Burke
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The Hypnotist's Daughter
By Lisa Olstein
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Walking on Tiptoe
By Ted Kooser
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Change of Seasons: Poetry and Curling
Although Poet Linda Gregg has lived through cool, snowy days in Massachusetts, winter reminds her of her growing up on the west coast.
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Poetry Lectures
Futurism and the New Manifesto: Part II
Joshua Mehigan, and Thomas Sayers Ellis read at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Provinces
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
Poetry Takes a Walk
New poems from James Schuyler, new translations of Gottfried Benn, plus Peter Cole on walking in Jerusalem.
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The Undeniable Pressure of Existence
By Patricia Fargnoli
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No River Road
By Ralph Sneeden
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Reunion
By Charles Wright
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Poetry Off the Shelf
The Tomb of Love
Philip Larkin's poem “An Arundel Tomb” shows us what sentimentality looks like the morning after.
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Time Done Is Dark
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Essential American Poets
James Tate: Essential American Poets
Archival recordings of poet James Tate, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded at the Library of Congress in 1976.
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On the Subject of Doctors
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The Lost Pilot
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The Blue Booby
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The Tree Frogs
By William Logan
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Conversations with America: Brian Turner
An essay from Iraq war veteran and poet Brian Turner.
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A Hundred Bolts of Satin
By Kay Ryan
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Half Circle
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An Arundel Tomb
By Philip Larkin
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Air for Roses: A Discussion on Barbara Guest's poem “Roses”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Randall Couch, Natalie Gerber, and Michelle Taransky.
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The Kreutzer Sonata
“But for an off-hand remark, it would have been called the "‘Bridgetower Sonata.’” Rita Dove shares the story of Beethoven's friendship with violinist George Bridgetower, and how it went awry.
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The Women of the Avant-Garde
Sound clips from Kathy Acker, Laurie Anderson, Caroline Bergvall, Denise Levertov, Lydia Lunch, Patti Smith, Eileen Myles, and many more.
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Essential American Poets
Gerald Stern: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet Gerald Stern, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in New York, NY and Austin, TX.
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Poetry Off the Shelf
The Happiness of Monogamy
Teaching John Donne’s poem “The Sun Rising.”
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Repossessing Virtue: Living Differently, Beyond Economic Crisis
For many Americans, economic instability is not new. Speaking of Faith listeners talk about cultivating virtues of patience, self-examination, service, and good humor that might help us all. The program features Wendell Berry's poem “The Peace of Wild Things.”
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Second Witness
By Pattiann Rogers
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Another Story with a Burning Barn in It
By Lisa Olstein
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Essential American Poets
Louise Bogan: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet Louise Bogan, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded at the Library of Congress in 1944 and 1968.
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Song for the Last Act
By Louise Bogan
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Statue and Birds
By Louise Bogan
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Women
By Louise Bogan
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Zone
By Louise Bogan
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Poem Talk
Living with Terror: A Discussion of Cid Corman’s “enuresis"
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Tom Devaney, Fran Ryan, and Frank Sherlock.
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Privacy
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Langston Hughes Poems Discovered
Poetry magazine recetly published three previously unpublished Langston Hughes poems, written in 1930. Langston Hughes's biographer Arnold Rampersad, says he was elated to find out about these newly discovered poems.
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If We Were Honest
By Albert Goldbarth
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Reconcilable Differences
Eleannor Wilner on Whitman; David St. John on Larry Levis.
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Lines Written in the Fannie Farmer Cookbook
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
We Live in a Time Full of Love
Poems from A.V. Christie, Kevin Young, W.S. di Piero, plus Richard Zenith on the notebooks of Fernando Pessoa.
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Coda
By Fred Muratori
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Sidewalk Poetry
A street party is underway in St. Paul, MN, to celebrate a collection of poems by local residents that's been published on paper—and in cement. The city has been implanting poems penned by St. Paulites in freshly poured sidewalks all over town. The public art project is designed to engage residents' artistic impulses and bring more poetry into everyday life.
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The Lovers of the Poor
By Gwendolyn Brooks
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What Is Life
By Gregory Orr
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Dyslexic
By Winifred Hughes
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A Computerized Jet Fountain in the Detroit Metro Airport
By Sidney Wade
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fire
By Nick Flynn
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Poetry Noir
Robert Polito on the intersection of Hollywood and God.
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The Teacher
By Billy Collins
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Notes to Verse: II
C.K. Williams reads his poem inspired by Beethoven's Symphony No. 7.
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Io
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Poetry Lectures
Futurism and the New Manifesto: Part I
Charles Bernstein and A.E. Stallings read at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Matisse, Too
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Some Words Inside of Words
By Richard Wilbur
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Apollo
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Poem Talk
Just Begun to Learn: A Discussion of Section 12 of Louis Zukofsky’s “Anew”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Charles Bernstein, Wystan Curnow, and Bob Perelman.
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Congratulating Wedge
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Essential American Poets
Yvor Winters: Essential American Poets
Archival recordings of poet Yvor Winters, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded July 2, 1945, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
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John Sutter
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The Journey
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Much in Little
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Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight
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Time and the Garden
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Letter of Recommendation
By Yehuda Amichai
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Notes to Verse: I
The history of composers setting poetry to music runs deep, stretching from Palestrina to Prokofiev. Just as composers draw on poetry for inspiration, music has inspired many poets as well. Fred Child talks with C.K. Williams about the two passions in William' life: music and poetry. They also discuss the extent to which music and poetry collide in Williams' work and how Williams finds music in a poem.
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I started Early – Took my Dog – (656)
By Emily Dickinson
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A Passage to India
By Walt Whitman
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won't you celebrate with me
By Lucille Clifton
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Dan Beachy-Quick and the Poetics of Mass Murder
How can poetry take on tragedy?
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To a Poor Old Woman
By William Carlos Williams
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The Avenues
By David St. John
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Cinderblock
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Making Sense of Mumbai
When terrorists attacked Mumbai last year, Indian American Poet Vijay Seshadri couldn’t pull his eyes off the media coverage. He says when he thinks about the violence in his native country, when he thinks about any terrorist attack or bombing, there's a poem that helps him get as close as he can to understanding it all.
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Fever 103°
By Sylvia Plath
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The Passing
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Do Words Outlast
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Cusp
By Larry Bradley
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Chant
By Tom Sleigh
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Midwestern Blues
Kevin Young on fried cheese, barber shops, and the hip hop aesthetic of a new generation of African-American poets.
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Understanding the Past, Present, and Future
By Cole Swensen
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Essential American Poets
Li-Young Lee: Essential American Poets
Recordings of Li-Young Lee, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded March 3, 2008, New York, NY.
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Have You Prayed
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A Hymn to Childhood
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Immigrant Blues
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Transit
By Maura Dooley
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Poetry in Work
There's a lot of poetry in work—people who do it, under do it, and can't afford not to do it. David Tucker reads his poem "Downsizing," Pedro Pietri reads his poem "Telephone Booth Number 905/2," and Katha Pollitt reads Sarah Cleghorn's "The Golf Links."
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
We Don't Have Cold Feet
The editors discuss poems from Katia Kapovich, Lucia Perillo, Don Paterson and more. Plus, Ange Mlinko on poetry and motherhood.
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The Plain Sense of Things
By Wallace Stevens
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Hand-Embroidered Mourning Piece for Clara Elisabeth Kriebel, 1779
By Nance Van Winckel
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Fact-Checking John Keats
Did the young poetic genius know his history? Who cares if he didn't?
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Minor Miracle
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Poetry Radio Project
Lost for words? Try a web poet
After people kept asking Danielle McDonald to pen personalized poems, she thought she could make a little cash doing it. Spend a few bucks at Secretwriter.org and she'll craft a sonnet in your name. Sean Cole reports for Marketplace.
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On the Screened Porch
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
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Palms
By Gustaf Sobin
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Dead
By Sarah C. Harwell
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Poem Talk
Totally Indivisible: A Discussion of Charles Bernstein's "In a Restless World Like This Is"
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Marcella Durand, Eli Goldblatt, and Hank Lazer.
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Permanent Press
By Alice Friman
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Essential American Poets
Amy Clampitt: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet Amy Clampitt, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded 1988, at the Library of Congress.
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Westward
By Amy Clampitt
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Athena
By Amy Clampitt
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A Hermit Thrush
By Amy Clampitt
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Poet's Choice: Of Love and War
D.A. Powell reads poems from Rupert Brooke and Gwendolyn Brooks.
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Avant-Garde All the Time
Continental Drift
How the French avante-garde twisted up and bent language, featuring Rimbaud, Apollinaire, the space age poetry of Ilse Garnier, and more.
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Parts of a Story
By Mary Walker Graham
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Mr. Tambourine Man
When composer John Corigliano was looking for words to his new song cycle instead of turning to a familiar poet like Dylan Thomas, he turned to a familiar songwriter: Bob Dylan. Listen to Corigliano and soprano Hila Plitman describe how he fit Dylan's famous words to Corigliano's music.
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Misgivings
By William Matthews
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The house was just twinkling in the moon light
Gertrude Stein (read by Barbara Rosenblatt)
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Fra Lippo Lippi
by Robert Browning (read by Paul Giamatti)
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A Tale
By Louise Bogan (read by Barbara Rosenblatt)
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The Sun Rising
John Donne (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)
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The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)
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To Autumn
John Keats (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)
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Tonight
Agha Shahid Ali (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)
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Tracking
By Eleanor Wilner
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Pentecost
By David Wojahn
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Old Toys Come Back
By Alan Williamson
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The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats
By John Surowiecki
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The Comb-Bearers
By Daniel Mark Epstein
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Our First Inaugural Poet
Poet Linda Pastan recounts watching Robert Frost deliver a poem for John F. Kennedy's Inauguration.
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Prelude
By A.E. Stallings
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Advice to a Prophet
By Richard Wilbur
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Animal Caution
By Chase Twichell
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Smackdown
By Ronald Wallace
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Reverie in Open Air
By Rita Dove
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Essential American Poets
Philip Levine: Essential American Poets
Recordings of Philip Levine, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded September 13, 2007, New York, NY.
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Staying Power
By Jeanne Murray Walker
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Rabbit Remembered
American writer and man of letters John Updike died erlier this year. This program features a tribute to the great writer—a collection of six songs by Brian Holmes, based on clever and goofy poems by Updike. / Brian Holmes "Biology," from "Updike's Science," with Soprano Cheryl Keller and pianist Miles Graber at Holy Names University, Oakland, California.
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Dismantling the House
By Stephen Dunn
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The Fall
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Fever
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Remembering Craig Arnold
Christian Wiman discusses the work of the poet whose recent disappearance shocked the poetry world.
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April 5th, 1968
By Alan Williamson
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Poem Talk
Choice and Style: A Discussion of Amiri Baraka's "Kenyatta Listening to Mozart"
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Herman Beavers, Alan Loney, and Mecca Sullivan.
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Canada Anemone
By Fleda Brown
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Jane Shore on Bishop's "One Art"
Poet Jane Shore discusses the great poem of loss by her former colleague, Elizabeth Bishop.
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Lissadell
By Wendy Cope
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Meditation on Statistical Method
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Montana Pastoral
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The Metaphysical Amorist
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Unromantic Love
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from Doctor Drink, #1
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Children in a Field
By Angela Shaw
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Avant-Garde All the Time
The Sounds of the UK
A wide-ranging survey of British sound poets and artists from the 1960s to the present, featuring Bob Cobbing, Neil Mills, Liliy Greenham, Chirstopher Logue, Ann Laplantine, and more.
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Essential American Poets
J. V. Cunningham: Essential American Poets
Archival recordings of J. V. Cunningham, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1958, Cambridge Massachusetts, and 1968, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The Egyptians Had It All Wrong
By Anne Coray
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"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
A Marketplace listener talks about how the famous Bishop poem has helped her put the economic collapse in context. 
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Learning the Bicycle
By Wyatt Prunty
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Revelations in the Key of K
By Mary Karr
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Rhapsody
By David St. John
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Tree
By Jane Hirshfield
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Ararat
By Mark Doty
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A Cave of Angelfish Huddle Against the Moon
By Ron de Maris
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Pumpernickel
By Philip Schultz
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Poetry Radio Project
An interview with poet Paul Guest
After finishing 6th grade, Paul Guest got into a bicycle accident that broke his neck and left him paralyzed. In his latest book, Guest writes about his disability for the first time. Guest shares the story of his accident with Dick Gordon, and talks about how he began infusing the details of his disability into his poems.
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Courtship
By Talvikki Ansel
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
"There's No Creativity, There's Just Decisions"
Kenneth Goldsmith talks flarf, conceptual writing, and poetry in the age of the internet. Plus, poems by Hailey Leithauser, Sandra Beasley, Tim Dlugos, and Amy Beeder.
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Essential American Poets
Linda Gregg: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet Linda Gregg, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded 2008, New York, NY.
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Homeland Security
By Geoffrey Brock
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Poetry Off the Shelf
“Cover the Lettuce”
A very close reading of one sexy CD Wright poem.
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A Rainy Country
By Linda Pastan
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Hold That Thought
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Poem Talk
Learn the Language: A Discussion of Bob Perelman’s “The Unruly Child”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Tom Mandel, Rodrigo Toscano, and Sarah Dowling.
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Summer Cottages
The poet Cornelius Eady and his wife live in Manhattan and their second home is in the mountains of upstate New York. Eady discusses that summer place and the way in which it figures into his latest book of poetry, “Hardheaded Weather."
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Slow Dreams
By Robert Wrigley
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The Lake
By Sophie Cabot Black
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Arion
By David Wojahn
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Buying the King-Sized Bed
By Fleda Brown
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Felix Crow
By Kay Ryan
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The Miró Quartet & Matthea Harvey
The critically acclaimed Miró Quartet performs Philip Glass's "String Quartet No. 5” in concert with 2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award-winner Matthea Harvey reading a new, 5-part poem inspired by and set to the Glass composition. This debut broadcast of a recent live performance at the White Pine Festival includes a series of 5 original photographs, also by Harvey, that serve as titles to the movements of the collaboration.
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Trip to Delphi
By Alice Friman
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Yellow Dress
By Amy Beeder
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Depression Glass
By Ted Kooser
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Subway Seethe
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Poetry Off the Shelf
The Power of Barbie
How David Trinidad's collection of vintage dolls plays into his poetry.
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The Woodpecker Keeps Returning
By Jane Hirshfield
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Space Station
By Tom Sleigh
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Essential American Poets
William Carlos Williams: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet William Carlos Williams, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1942, New York, NY, and May 5, 1945, Recording Laboratory, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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Sotto Voce
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Poetry Radio Project
Poems for Obama
The day before President Obama's inauguration, poets Rachel Zucker and Arielle Greenberg decided to find 100 poets who would write a poem for each of Obama's first 100 days in office. Zucker discusses the project with Dick Gordon on The Story.
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Splits
By Connie Wanek
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On Pickiness
by Rodney Jones
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Shell
By Harriet Brown
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An Instrument Also
by Donald Revell
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Honor Thy Father's Day
Robert Hayden and Terrance Hayes take the Hallmark out of the holiday.
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Self Portrait
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Poetry Radio Project
Critical Thinking with Andrew Patner: Ange Mlinko
Patner talks with poet and critic Ange Mlinko who last month was named winner of the third Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism. A production of WFMT Radio Chicago and wfmt.com.
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Poetry Lectures
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon reads and discusses his own work.
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A Pedestrian
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Poem of the Day
Mouth
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Essential American Poets
David Wagoner: Essential American Poets
Recordings of David Wagoner, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 2008, in Seattle.
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From a Daybook
By David St. John
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Out of the Poetic Bubble
How Mark Nowak's documentary poetics re-humanizes the Sago Mine Disaster.
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Memory of Summer
By Bruce Murphy
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The River at Wolf
By Jean Valentine
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Poetry Radio Project
Critical Thinking with Andrew Patner: Fanny Howe
Patner talks with poet and essayist Fanny Howe, recipient of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation. A production of WFMT Radio Chicago and wfmt.com.
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Poem Talk
The Sort of Person You Imagine: A Discussion of Lydia Davis’s “A Position at the University”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets David Grazian, Adrian Khactu, and Jessica Lowenthal.
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Poem of the Day
Handle
By J. Allyn Rosser
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Time's Train
By Wyatt Prunty
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Parchment
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The China Painters
By Ted Kooser
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At Pegasus
By Terrance Hayes
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Facing It
By Yusef Komounyakaa
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Poetry Radio Project
A Working Man's Poet
Philip Levine grew up in industrial Detroit and worked on the assembly lines at GM as a young man. Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal speaks with the Pulitzer Prize-winner about how those early experiences shaped his poetry.
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Everything Plus the Kitchen Sink
Robert Polito on Kenneth Fearing's media-saturated poetry as vernacular collage.
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This
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I'm a Fool to Love You
By Cornelius Eady
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
The Dark Has No Teeth
Poems by D. Nurkse, Rae Armantrout, Averill Curdy, and Michael Hofmann, plus Tom Sleigh's take on Thom Gunn.
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Drift-Raft
By Atsuro Riley
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Heat
By Jane Hirshfield
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To Be Alive
By Gregory Orr
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Manufacturing
By Rae Armantrout
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Essential American Poets
Elizabeth Bishop: Essential American Poets
Archival recordings of former poet laureate Elizabeth Bishop, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in New York City in 1947 and at the Library of Congress in 1974.
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Poem of the Day
The One Remaining Star
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Light in the Service of Loneliness
Fanny Howe, winner of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, reads from her work.
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Poem of the Day
Calm Down
By Gregory Orr
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Poetry Radio Project
“We are the ones we've been waiting for.”
President Obama had poet at his inauguration and said he's going to have poetry readings at the White House. He even quoted poet June Jordan on the campaign trail. Nobel laureate Derek Walcott talks to Weekend America about what it means to have a president who reads poetry.
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So This Is Nebraska
By Ted Kooser
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Poem of the Day
Sleep
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Lullaby
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Worth
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To Bessie Drennan
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Falling From Us, Vanishings
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Poetry Lectures
Peter Sacks: American Perspectives
Peter Sacks finds common themes between the paintings of Edward Hopper and the works of poets such as Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and TS Eliot.
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Poem of the Day
Family
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Bees and Monstrous Babies
Eleanor Wilner on species pity and political power run amok.
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Poem of the Day
Little Exercise
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Lyre
by Donald Revell
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Amorous Friendship
By Belle Randall
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Customs of the Barbarians
By Alan Williamson
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praise song
By Lucille Clifton
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Essential American Poets
Charles Wright: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet Charles Wright, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 2008, in studio, Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Head Wrapped in Flowers
by Thylias Moss
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Poem Talk
Psycho-Acoustics: A Discussion of Rodrigo Toscano’s “Poetics”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Emily Abendroth, Randall Couch, and Linh Dinh
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The Seekonk Woods
By Galway Kinnell
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Nothing
By Connie Wanek
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A Regret
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Sea Urchin
By J. Allyn Rosser
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Poetry Radio Project
Finding the Poetry in Finance
Marketplace looks at business and the economy from the perspective of poet Katy Lederer, whose latest book derived inspiration from an unusual source—finance. Tess Vigeland speaks with the former hedge fund recruiter about her work.
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Poem of the Day
The Paris Mouse
by Sandra Gilbert
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Poem of the Day
The Room
By Elliot Figman
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Poem of the Day
Xylem
By Talvikki Ansel
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Poem of the Day
Sparrow Trapped in the Airport
By Averil Curdy
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Stop Making Sense
Christian Bök performs the Dada sound-poetry behind the Talking Heads.
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Poem of the Day
Psalm (3)
By Mark Jarman
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Poem of the Day
To My Legs
By W. S. Merwin
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Poem of the Day
That Too
By Lawrence Joseph
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
Rhapsodies and Rude Epics
The editors of the magazine discuss Ilya Kaminsky's “Deaf Republic”, Inger Christensen's musical poetry, and Hanoch Levin's “Lives of the Dead.”
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Essential American Poets
August Kleinzahler: Essential American Poets
Recordings of August Kleinzahler with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded October 2, 2007, in studio, New York, NY.
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Poem of the Day
At Night the States
By Alice Notely
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Avant-Garde All the Time
Resident Voices
Listening to the far out sounds of 1970's LA, featuring Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, and the Kipper Kids, among others.
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Poem of the Day
Before the Wind
By Kathleen Jamie
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Poetry Off the Shelf
An Essential American Poet
Fanny Howe talks to us about the range of Jean Valentine’s poems.
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Poem of the Day
The Mosquito
By Rodney Jones
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Poem of the Day
Door in the Mountain
By Jean Valentine
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Poem of the Day
Fog Horns
By David Mason
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Poem of the Day
Bird Brain
By Ronald Wallace
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Poem of the Day
My Shoes
By Charles Simic
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Poetry Lectures
Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland speaking at the 53rd Annual Poetry Day.
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Poem of the Day
Benzene
By Donald Revell
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Poem of the Day
Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room
By Thomas Lux
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Poem of the Day
Crush
By Conor O'Callaghan
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Poem of the Day
Bolero
By Gerald Stern
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Poem of the Day
Hard Rain
By Tony Hoagland
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Essential American Poets
Yusef Komunyakaa: Essential American Poets
Recordings of Yusef Komunyakaa, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded April 5, 2007, in studio, New York, NY.
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Facing It
By Yusef Komunyakaa
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Poem of the Day
Guess
By Rae Armantrout
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Poetry Off the Shelf
What If It Doesn't Make Sense?
Matthew Zapruder parses a John Ashbery poem.
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Poem of the Day
Provinces
By C.D. Wright
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Poem of the Day
What's Written on the Body
By Peter Pereira
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Poem of the Day
Daffodils
By Alicia Ostriker
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Poem of the Day
Fork
By Charles Simic
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Poem of the Day
The Nights
By Geoffrey Brock
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Poem of the Day
Anagrammer
By Peter Pereira
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Poem of the Day
Flame
By C.D. Wright
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Poem of the Day
Thai Silk
By Alexander Theroux
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Poem Talk
because I am always talking: A Discussion of Robert Creeley's "I Know a Man"
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Randall Couch, Jessica Lowenthal, and Bob Perelman.
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Poem of the Day
Nude Descending
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Poem of the Day
The Man in the Dead Machine
By Donald Hall
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Telephony Is So Retro It's Cool
Al Filreis brings Dial-a-Poem back to life at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia.
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Poem of the Day
An Epiphany
By Ted Kooser
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Essential American Poets
Marilyn Hacker: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet Marilyn Hacker, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded February 28, 2007, in studio, Atlanta, GA.
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Poem of the Day
corydon & alexis, redux
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
Bringing a Different Music Into English
Poetry magazine goes meta with a translation of a fictitious translation, the Greek version of a poetry slam, and more from the April issue.
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Poem of the Day
A Sunset of the City
By Gwendolyn Brooks
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Poem of the Day
Radio Crackling, Radio Gone
By Lisa Olstein
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Poem of the Day
The Window, at the Moment of Flame
By Alicia Ostriker
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Poem of the Day
continental divide
By D.A. Powell
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Poem of the Day
Correspondance
By Jacques Réda
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Poem of the Day
Crown
By Kay Ryan
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Poem of the Day
More Blues and the Abstract Truth
By C. D. Wright
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Poem of the Day
A Negative of Snow
By Chase Twichell
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Poem of the Day
Emergency Haying
By Hayden Carruth
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Essential American Poets
Maxine Kumin: Essential American Poets
Recordings of former poet laureate Maxine Kumin, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded September 27, 2007, in studio, New York, NY.
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Poem of the Day
Child on top of a Greenhouse
By Theodore Roethke
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Poem of the Day
To Have a Friend
By Tomaz Salamun
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Poetry Lectures
Ed Roberson
Ed Roberson reads and discusses his own work.
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Hatless in Heavy Economic Weather
John Surowiecki talks about why his 2004 poem "The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats" sounds like it was written yesterday.
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Poem of the Day
Elegy a Little
By Donald Revell
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Poem of the Day
Clear Night
By Charles Wright
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Poem of the Day
Another Insane Devotion
By Gerald Stern
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Poem of the Day
Human Beauty
By Albert Goldbarth
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Poem of the Day
Generation
By Rae Armantrout
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Poem of the Day
Animal Caution
By Chase Twichell
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Poetry Off the Shelf
The Hebrew Bible Has No Soul
Robert Alter on his radical reworking of the book of Psalms
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Poem Talk
Surpassing Things We've Known Before: A Discussion of Lyn Hejinian's “constant change figures”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Tom Devaney, Tom Mandel, and Bob Perelman.
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Poem of the Day
And Day Brought Back My Night
By Geoffrey Brock
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Poem of the Day
Life on Sundays
By Rodney Jones
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Poem of the Day
Big Wind
By Theodore Roethke
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Poem of the Day
Inkwell daybreak
By Jean Valentine
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Poem of the Day
Paired Things
By Kay Ryan
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Essential American Poets
C.K. Williams: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet C.K. Williams, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded May 16, 2007, in studio, New York, NY.
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Poem of the Day
What He Thought
By Heather McHugh
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Manifesto You
Mary Anne Caws talks the whys and wherefores of manifestos by Charles Bernstein, A.E. Stallings, and Thomas Sayers Ellis that first appeared in Poetry magazine.
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Poem of the Day
During the War
By Philip Levine
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Poem of the Day
Rain on Tin
By Rodney Jones
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Poem of the Day
Heart's Needle (pt 5)
by W.D. Snodgrass
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
You're Always Moving Toward Silence
The editors discuss a new John Ashbery poem from the March issue. Plus, Seth Abramson, Katy Didden, and Fanny Howe on her memoir The Winter Sun.
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Poem of the Day
Light
by C.K. Williams
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Poem of the Day
Vestibule
By Chase Twichell
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Poem of the Day
Flamingo Watching
By Kay Ryan
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Poem of the Day
Boil
By Alicia Ostriker
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Essential American Poets
Ted Kooser: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet Ted Kooser, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded July 10, 2007, Lincoln, NE.
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Poetry Off the Shelf
More Than Meets the I
Rae Armantrout gets personal without the pronoun.
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Poetry Lectures
Willard Spiegelman
Willard Spiegelman discusses poet Amy Clampitt.
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Poem of the Day
Her Name is Rose
By Peter Pereira
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Poem of the Day
Dear One Absent This Long While
By Lisa Olstein
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Poetry Off the Shelf
When the Weary Blues Met Jazz
Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather.
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Poem of the Day
jesus knew
By Nick Flynn
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Poem of the Day
Written with a Pencil Found in Lorine Niedecker's Front Yard
By David Trinidad
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Poem of the Day
Dog Biscuits
By Chase Twichell
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Poem of the Day
Blandeur
By Kay Ryan
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Essential American Poets
Heather McHugh: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet Heather McHugh, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded September 21, 2007, New York, NY.
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Poem of the Day
Human Beauty
By Albert Goldbarth
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Poem Talk
It’s Like a New Reality, Man: A Discussion of Wallace Stevens’s “Not Ideas about the Thing, But the Thing Itself”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Charles Bernstein, Nada Gordon, and Lawrence Joseph.
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Poem of the Day
Scumble
By Rae Armantrout
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Poem of the Day
The Sloth
By Theodore Roethke
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
I Love Originality So Much I Keep Copying It
The editors talk about another manifesto moment, love poems and war poems, and new translations from the Aeneid.
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Poetry Off the Shelf
The Poet and the Saint
The untold story of Czeslaw Milosz's rancor toward a Holocaust hero.
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Poem of the Day
A Room in the Past
By Ted Kooser
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Essential American Poets
Galway Kinnell: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet Galway Kinnell, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded September 19, 2007, New York, NY.
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Poem of the Day
Of DeWitt Williams on his way to the Lincoln Cemetery
By Gwendolyn Brooks
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Poem of the Day
Elegy for Jane
By Theodore Roethke
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Poem of the Day
Regarding Chainsaws
By Hayden Carruth
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Poem of the Day
After the Pillow Book
By Peter Pereira
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Poetry Lectures
Marjorie Perloff: American Perspectives
Marjorie Perloff discusses the poetry of Frank O'Hara.
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Poetry Off the Shelf
People Don't Read This Way Anymore
Ernest Hilbert and Curtis Fox discuss the late, great W.D. Snodgrass's formalism, dark humor, and passionate reading style.
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Poem of the Day
Birth Order
By Rae Armantrout
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Poem of the Day
Mother/Child: Coda
By Alicia Ostriker
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Poem Talk
Can't Stop the Cars: A Discussion of Kathleen Fraser's ‘The Cars’
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets CA Conrad, Kristen Gallagher, and Jessica Lowenthal
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Remembering Denmark's Greatest Poet
On the occasion of Inger Christensen's death, Naja Marie Aidt and Pejk Malinovski read and discuss her work.
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Poem of the Day
Happiness
By Jane Kenyon
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Poem of the Day
A Poet's Death
by David Trinidad
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Essential American Poets
Theodore Roethke: Essential American Poets
Archival recordings of Theodore Roethke, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1950s, YMHA Poetry Center, New York, NY. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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Avant-Garde All the Time
Punk Versions of Monkey Chants
And other ethnopoetic marvels, including speaking in tongues, throat singers, and sound poetry.
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Poem of the Day
That Magnificent Part the Chorus Does About Tragedy
By Lisa Olstein
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Poem of the Day
Seeing It Through
By Alice Friman
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Poem of the Day
My Papa's Waltz
by Theodore Roethke
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Poem of the Day
A Short History of the Shadow
by Charles Wright
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
Of All the Poems in the World, Why Would You Pick This One?
Previously unpublished poems by Langston Hughes, a preview of Michael Hofmann's essay on Lowell and Bishop, and a phone call to readers in Texas who don't like the poems in this month's issue!
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Poem of the Day
Snow flakes. (45)
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Poem of the Day
The Jew and the Rooster Are One
by Gerald Stern
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Poem of the Day
Wanting Sumptuous Heavens
by Robert Bly
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Poem of the Day
the mother
by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Poem of the Day
Poem About People
by Robert Pinsky
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Poem of the Day
Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey
by Hayden Carruth
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Poem of the Day
Letter
by Jean Valentine
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Essential American Poets
Jean Valentine: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet Jean Valentine, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded July 10, 2007, in studio, New York, NY.
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Inaugural Poetics
Hear who Elizabeth Alexander would have picked and her thoughts on Frost and other past inaugural poets.
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Obamapoetics
Elizabeth Alexander on how the Derek Walcott-toting, June Jordan-quoting president will affect poets and poetry.
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Poetry Lectures
Langdon Hammer: American Perspectives
Langdon Hammer discusses how the life and poetry of Hart Crane served as inspiration for artist Jasper Johns.
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Poem of the Day
He Lit a Fire with Icicles
by Kay Ryan
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Poem of the Day
I Know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You
by Hayden Carruth
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Poem of the Day
Nights of 1964-1966: The Old Reliable
by Marilyn Hacker
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Poem of the Day
Sitting with Others
by Rodney Jones
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Poem of the Day
The Pieces That Fall to Earth
by Kay Ryan
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Poem of the Day
Notes on Poverty
by Carruth Hayden
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Poem of the Day
Flesh of John Brown’s Flesh: 2 December 1859
by Geoffrey Brock
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Poetry Books for the Holidays
The editors of Poetry magazine recommend their favorite books from this year.
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Essential American Poets
Rodney Jones: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet Rodney Jones, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded March 1, 2008, in studio, New York, NY.
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
Her Victorian Roots are Showing
The editors pick highlights from an interview with Seamus Heaney and Fanny Howe's notebooks; and listen and comment on poems by Joan Houlihan, Roddy Lumsden, and Fred D'Aguiar.
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Poetry Off the Shelf
DIY Poetry Movements
How Zukofsky and the language poets got started, and the rules for starting a movement of your own.
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Poetry Lectures
Mark Scroggins
Mark Scroggins discusses Louis Zukofsky's development as a poet.
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Essential American Poets
Hayden Carruth: Essential American Poets
Archival recordings of Hayden Carruth, with an introduction to his life and work. All recordings are from Hayden Carruth: A Listener’s Guide. Copper Canyon Press, 1999.
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Poem Talk
Troubled Sleep: A Discussion of Ezra Pound's "Cantico del Sole"
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Charles Bernstein, Rachel Levitsky, & Joshua Schuster
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Poems for President Obama
Charles Bernstein, Patricia Smith and Forrest Gander offer presidential advice.
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Poem of the Day
A Blind Woman
By Ted Kooser
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
The Savage Detective Turns to Poetry
Hear some of the first poetry by the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño to be translated into English, plus a discussion of Visual Poetry, left-leaning political poetry, and poems read by Mary Szybist and Jorge Sánchez.
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Poetry Off the Shelf
What's So Funny About Sex and Death?
Albert Goldbarth shows why he won the Mark Twain Award for Humor in Poetry.
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Poem of the Day
My Last Duchess
By Robert Browning
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Poem of the Day
Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy
By Thomas Lux
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Lines for Hard Times
Philip Levine reads his defiantly hopeful "They Feed They Lion" and "What Work Is" with commentary by Edward Hirsch.
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Avant-Garde All the Time
Protest Poetry With a Beat
Hear Allen Ginsberg's hilarious "CIA Dope Calypso" and peak performances by Ezra Pound, Amiri Baraka and Abbie Hoffman.
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Essential American Poets
Kay Ryan: Essential American Poets
Recordings of current poet laureate Kay Ryan, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded September 11, 2007, in studio, San Francisco, CA.
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Poem of the Day
You Know It As Spring
By Jill Osier
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Poetry Lectures
Helen Vendler: American Perspectives
Helen Vendler examines the relationship between the the poetry of Wallace Stevens and the paintings of Jasper Johns.
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Poem of the Day
The Third Hour of the Night
By Frank Bidart
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Poem of the Day
Imagined Room
By Barbara Guest
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Poetry Off the Shelf
The Child is Mother to the Poet
Hear Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman on her trade secret: total recall of childhood.
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Poem of the Day
Photograph from September 11
By Wislawa Szymborska
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Poem Talk
Paddling Ladders: A Discussion of Erica Hunt's "The Voice of No"
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Julia Bloch, Jessica Lowenthal, and Elizabeth Willis.
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Poem of the Day
Nina's Blues
By Cornelius Eady
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
"Accident Plays a Part in Art"
The editors talk with Kasischke on Ken Burns, Lindsay on Krakatau, Sheffield on fishing, and Logan on Hart Crane (and David Foster Wallace).
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Poem of the Day
The Rain
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Poem of the Day
In Kona, Thinking of the Elements
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
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Poem of the Day
Instructions for Building Straw Huts
By Yusef Komunyakaa
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Poem of the Day
Self-Portrait at 38
By Jennifer Tonge
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Poem of the Day
The Little Flowers
By W. S. Di Piero
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Poem of the Day
To Judgment: An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield
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Poem of the Day
Elegy for the Parents
By Lynne Knight
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Poem of the Day
Woman Reading
By Kathleen Flenniken
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Poetry Lectures
Edward Hirsch: American Perspectives
Edward Hirsch examines the complex relationships between American poets and painters.
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Essential American Poets
Gwendolyn Brooks: Essential American Poets
Archival recordings of former poet laureate Brooks, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded January 19, 1961, Recording Laboratory, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Poetry Off the Shelf
The Mama and the Papa
Hear Gwendolyn Brooks read "the mother" and Theodore Roethke read "My Papa's Waltz," with insights by ex-US Poet Laureate Donald Hall.
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Poem Before the Event
A pair of poems about September 11th, written before the planes were even in the air.
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Poem of the Day
Easy Sermon
By Mark Jarman
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Poem Talk
Portrait, But of Whom?: A Discussion of Gertrude Stein's "Christian Bérard"
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Lee Ann Brown, Bob Perelman, and Jerome Rothenberg.
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Poem of the Day
Shopping for One
By Neal Bowers
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
Requiem, Vindication, and a Gas Station Restroom
Poems from the September issue and a phone call from Clive James.
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Poem of the Day
Big Snow
By Philip Gross
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Poem of the Day
Valentine's
By Talvikki Ansel
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Battle of the Bards
Hear Denise Levertov's scathing Vietnam poem "Life at War," and find out why it made her friend Robert Duncan declare war on her.
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Poem of the Day
Sparrow Trapped in the Airport
By Averill Curdy
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Poem of the Day
The Piercing
By Christine Garren
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Poem of the Day
Aperture
By Jennifer Tonge
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Poem of the Day
You Can't Buy Shoes in a Painting
By Jill Osier
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Bloody Sunday & the Fisherman's Ghost
How Seamus Heaney defines Ireland's 1972 troubles with a portrait of a drunken seaman blown up in a pub.
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Poem of the Day
Branch Library
By Edward Hirsch
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Poem of the Day
Euthanasia: A Geography
By Mary Makofske
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Poem Talk
The Beginnings Concept: A Discussion of John Ashbery's "Crossroads in the Past"
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Thomas Devaney, Gregory Djanikian & Jessica Lowenthal.
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
Killing Him
An excerpt from the satirical radio play by Yehuda Amichai.
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Poem of the Day
When I Am With You
By Robert Bly
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Poem of the Day
On Leaving the Bachelorette Brunch
By Rachel Wetzsteon
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Mao the Magnificent?
Was he really the best Chinese poet of his time?
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Poem of the Day
Perseid
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
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Poem of the Day
The Real Prayers Are Not the Words, But the Attention that Comes First
By Mary Oliver
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Avant-Garde All the Time
Schwitters Happens
You really should listen to the numbers 1 through 100 . . . especially 79.
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Poem of the Day
Silence
By Billy Collins
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Poem of the Day
For the Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton, 1997
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Poem of the Day
Fugue
By Peter Pereira
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Poem of the Day
The Wasp Nest
By Christine Garren
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Poem of the Day
For the Taking
By Sophie Cabot Black
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Seven Essential Dreams Revisited
Steve Almond recalls his beret-wearing days as a poet, and why it's a good thing he turned to prose.
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Poem of the Day
The Dipper
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Poem of the Day
meditating upon the meaning of the line "clams on the halfshell and rollerskates" in the song "good times" by chic
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Was Whitman Really Gay?
A bar fight in the East Village settles it.
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Poem of the Day
Mediterranean
By Rosanna Warren
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Poem Talk
Grease is the Word: A Discussion of Rae Armantrout's "The Way"
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, and Ron Silliman.
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Poem of the Day
In the Meantime
By Lisa Olstein
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Poem of the Day
Daytime
By David Mason
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Poem of the Day
Line
By Matt Donovan
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Poem of the Day
A Cedary Fragrance
By Jane Hirshfield
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
Feeling Like a Worm in Tequila?
Poets chasing poets, Dean Young vs. Tony Hoagland, a theory of hats, and more.
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Poem of the Day
Tritina for Susannah
By David Yezzi
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Just a Bunch of Consciousnesses, and a Bunch of Stuff
The late A.R. Ammons and the immutable laws of nature, featuring a recording from the 92nd St. Y.
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Poem of the Day
Verities
By Kim Addonizio
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Poem of the Day
Hostess
By Tony Hoagland
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Poem of the Day
Busman's Honeymoon
By A. F. Moritz
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Poem of the Day
Holy Shit
By Peter Pereira
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Poem of the Day
Evidence
By Averill Curdy
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Poem of the Day
Oratoria for the Unbecoming
By Mary Karr
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Poem of the Day
Late March
By Edward Hirsch
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Poetry Is Too Literary
Listening to Grace Paley read her poems.
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Poem of the Day
For the Taking
By Sophie Cabot Black
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Laugh In
Linh Dinh catalogues the myriad grades of Vietnamese chuckles.
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Poem of the Day
When Sappho Wrote
By Gregory Orr
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Poem of the Day
The Good
By Michelle Boisseau
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Poem of the Day
Another Insane Devotion
by Gerald Stern
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Poetry Off the Shelf
After Nature
Lilly Prize winner Gary Snyder reads; Christian Wiman and Eavan Boland rave.
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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
Our Birds, Our Selves
Donald Revell, Marianne Boruch—and your feisty letters.
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Poem of the Day
History Lessons
By Sidney Wade
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Poem Talk
Now Is the Time: A Discussion of Jerome Rothenberg's ‘A Paradise of Poets’
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Randall Couch, Bob Holman and Jessica Lowenthal.
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Poem of the Day
Of: An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield
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Avant-Garde All the Time
Best Decade Ever?
Tellus's trove of '80s recordings, from ethnopoetics to Paul Bowles.
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Poem of the Day
Homecoming
By A.E. Stallings
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Poem of the Day
The Burial of the Dead
By Sidney Wade
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Poem of the Day
The Horses Run Back to Their Stalls
By Linda Gregerson
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Poetry Off the Shelf
The Thought of No One Listening Anymore
Talking to Philip Schultz, the other Pulitzer winner.
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Poem of the Day
Light Thickens
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
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Poem of the Day
Gospel
By Fleda Brown
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Poem of the Day
Letter to a Young Poet
By Robert Wrigley
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Poem of the Day
The Envoy
By Jane Hirshfield
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Poem of the Day
[listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying]
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Poetry Off the Shelf
Who's Gonna Read This Stuff?
Chase Twichell on why poetry has to evolve.
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Poem of the Day
Blues for Dante Alighieri
By Kim Addonizio
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Poem Talk
Hold Your Breath and Gag: A Discussion of Jaap Blonk's "What the President Will Say and Do"
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Kenneth Goldsmith, Tracie Morris, and Joshua Schuster
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Poem of the Day
Outcome
By Anne Rouse
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Poem of the Day
self-exam (my body is a cage)
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Poem of the Day
Mosquito Music
By Philip Gross
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Abusing Animals in the Name of Poetry
Kay Ryan asks, "Who would be a turtle?"
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Listening to the work of Alicia Ostriker.
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Concrete Poetry
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Found in Translation
Poems from the Russian, Welsh, and other tongues.
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Philip Whalen, Totally
Listening to the Zen poetry of an American master.
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Corpus Medicum
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This Cold Day
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Activist Poetry That Won't Make You Run the Other Way
Rigoberto González on Juan Felipe Herrera.
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Is simile a species of metaphor? And other catchy concepts.
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From Charles Reznikoff to Chuck D
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When Guns Talk the Muses Fall Silent
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Hand Defined
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Burning at a hundred and three with Sylvia Plath.
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History vs. the Past
Eavan Boland on Poetry Day.
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Cathy Park Hong samples from her new book.
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Broken Pieces: A Discussion of William Carlos William’s “Between Walls”
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When I Fell Out of Love with the Cantos
Poetry magazine editors talk about Clive James’ brutal re-evaluation of the Cantos, and other work in the new issue.
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What did Patti Smith, Frank O'Hara, and Meredith Monk Have in Common?
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The Snow Man
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Excuse Me While I Offend You
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Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face
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Elegy
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Robert Hass
The 2007 National Book Award winner reads three poems.
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Ange Mlinko on Rae Armantrout for The Poetry Reader
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The Tomb of Edgar Poe
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Thinking and Feeling
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Love in the Age of Global Warming
Two poems by D.A. Powell.
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Private and Profane
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To the Ancient Order of Legs
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The Poetry Reader
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“To Wear Words in the Plainest Light”
Anne Stevenson on Welsh prosody, Elizabeth Bishop, and winning the Neglected Masters Award.
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A Straight Man's Epiphany in a Gay Bar
Terrance Hayes explores relationships between men.
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He Wasn't Always Such a Confessional Guy
Troy Jollimore talks about Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour."
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Fable
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A Rainy Country
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Kay Ryan on Robert Frost
Our greatest American poet collected the wisdom of chicken farmers.
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Interesting Times
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Romantic Moment
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The Poetry Assassination of Kenneth Koch
Ron Padgett and Andrei Codrescu recount a faked assassination attempt on Kenneth Koch at St. Mark's Church.
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Dean Young talks about writing toward the invisible reader.
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A Partial History of Our Stupidity
Two poems (and some commentary) by Edward Hirsch.
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Breaking Down the Fourth Wall
Nick Flynn gets confrontational.
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Charles Simic
Talking with the new poet laureate.
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Just Beyond the Fare Boxes
What New Yorkers really think about poems on the subway.
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Enough with the Poetry Already!
A reading by Naeem Murr from his essay "My Poet." From the July / August issue of Poetry.
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The New Latino Poetry
A conversation with Francisco Aragón, editor of the anthology The Wind Shifts. Audio for this podcast courtesy of e-poets.
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Alexander Pope as Home Boy
Stephen Burt on the qualities shared by hip-hop and 18th century verse.
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Poems from Guantanamo
Secret terrorist communications or just plain poetry?
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10,000 Brutal Years
Two satirical poems by Thomas Lux.
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Read These on Your Death Bed
Helen Vendler on last poems by Stevens and Merrill.
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When the Heckling and Finger-Snapping Stop
Jeremy Richards samples slam poets whose poems work in silence or aloud.
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Hello Darkness, My Old Friend
Author David Browne looks at "poetic" popular music from the '70s to the present.
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Build Your Poetry Career Online!
A conversation with blogger and poet Shanna Compton.
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"hope bleeds slowly from my mouth"
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God Is Annoyed
Charles Simic reads and discusses Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert.
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History's Lost and Found
Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey reads from and discusses her work.
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She's Awake!?!
Poems about parenthood and sleep deprivation.
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The Joy of Sax
Jazzing up Billy Collins.
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Listening in to a phone call between poets Tony Hoagland and Dean Young.
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Don't Let It Snow
Hear poems by Marie Ponsot and Hayden Carruth about the dark side of the white stuff.
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Everything's an Elegy
Poetry about getting sick, getting better, or not getting better at all.
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Get Me Out of Here
Readings from poets who are tired of the city.
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Make a Shield for My Son
J.D. McClatchy on Auden during wartime, and a reading by Auden of "The Shield of Achilles."
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I've Known Rivers
The poetry of Langston Hughes.
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What Valentine's Day Means to Me
Joel Brouwer picks poems to woo your sweetie—including Tony Hoagland's "Windchime."
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Romantic or Plain Erotic
Talking Valentine's Day poems with Ange Mlinko.
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So Much Depends On
Richard Swigg samples from the recordings of Williams, recently added to PennSound’s audio library.
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When You Are Old and Gray
Poet laureate Donald Hall reflects on the discontents of old age.
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Gods and Monsters
Jazz singer and composer Patricia Barber writes lyrics on Morpheus, Narcissus, and the rest of Ovid's crew.
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Avant-Garde All the Time
UbuWeb editor Kenneth Goldsmith takes us on a tour.
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The Issue at Hand
Talking with Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine.
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Inside the Box
Listening to Poets on Record.
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Call the Poet
Charlie Smith helps us understand a poem he wrote.
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Replacement Podcast: Pass the Mashed Potatoes
W.S. Merwin and Dara Wier on gratitude and food.
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Eve's Revenge on God.
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Surf and Turf Special
Poems by Mark Doty and Richard Hugo, both about fish.
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Two 9/11 Poems
Something terrible happens, and people want a poem to speak to them about it.
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Democracy in America
Walt Whitman and the politics of the Civil War.
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Robert Browning
W.S. Di Piero discusses Browning's "Fra Lippo Lippi," with a reading of the poem by Paul Giamatti.
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Recasting Gwendolyn
Poetry magazine's Danielle Chapman wants Gwendolyn Brooks to get her due.
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Garrison Keillor, Billy Collins, and Kay Ryan
Excerpts from an evening of conversation and poetry.
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Unforgettable Sex
Kim Addonizio on desire, music, and that one time in the kitchen.
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Kids Eat It Up
Reading Jack Prelutsky.
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Trouble Sleeping?
Three poems about the difficulties of sleep.
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Talking Out of School
Schooltime poems by Gerald Stern and Mary Karr.
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Poetry on the Couch
Taking Stevens and Pastan into therapy.
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Strange Fruit
Poems about jazz by Yusef Komunyakaa and W.S. Di Piero from Poetry magazine.
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Two Poems and Some Talking Heads
Chatting about Dada with Robert Polito.
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Tough Poem? Call the Poet
Dean Young talks about writing toward the invisible reader.
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"What I Wanted Was Your Love, Not Pity"
A documentary on the life and work of June Jordan.
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Linda Gregerson and C. Dale Young
If a poem is about something that never happened, does that mean it isn't true?
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A trip to the mall with Tony Hoagland
The American way of life makes for an unpromising ecosystem for the poet. Or does it?
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All Too Human
Jane Hirshfield reads two short poems: "Of: An Assay" and "The Envoy."
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Looking for God with A.R. Ammons
Paul Giamatti reads "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman and Charlotte Maier reads "Hymn" by A.R. Ammons.
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Silent Fathers, Noisy Sons: Poems for Father's Day
Donald Hall reads his poem "Christmas Eve in Whitneyville," and Alfred Molina reads David Ignatow's "For My Daughter in Reply to a Question."
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Lost but Unforgotten
Gerald Stern and Alice Friman Remember Old Loves.
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The Cold War to Global Warming
What Richard Wilbur saw when he saw it coming
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Ronald Wallace and Dan Howell
What do sex, weddings, and professional wrestling have in common?
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Remembering Stanley Kunitz
Readings of two poems in memory of Stanley Kunitz; one written by his friend Mark Doty, the other written by Kunitz himself.
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The Problem with Mothers
Poems about mothers by Sharon Olds and Cornelius Eady.
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The Poetry Assassination of Kenneth Koch
Ron Padgett and Andrei Codrescu recount a faked assassination attempt on Kenneth Koch at St. Mark's Church.
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A Tribute to Czelaw Milosz
Journalist Mark Danner and poet Jane Hirshfield talk about Nobel Prize winner Czelaw Milosz.
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Gabriel Preil
A reading of "The Power of a Question," by Gabriel Preil, and an interview with the translator, Leon Wesieltier.
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Tom Sleigh
Tom Sleigh reads his poems "Fable" and "Space Station."
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C.K. Williams
A reading of C.K. Williams's poem "On the Metro."
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Robert Browning
W.S. Di Piero discusses Browning's "Fra Lippo Lippi," with a reading of the poem by Paul Giamatti.
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Linda Bierds
Producer Marcie Sillman profiles poet Linda Bierds.
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Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur talks about his translation of Mallarme's "The Tomb of Edgar Poe."
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Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson reads two of her poems.
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Geoffrey Brock and Tony Hoagland
Readings of "And Day Brought Back My Night," by Geoffrey Brock, and "Hostess," by Tony Hoagland.
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John Ashbery
Live readings of two John Ashbery poems by Billy Collins and David Shapiro, from a celebration of Ashbery's poetry put on by The New School in New York City.
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June Jordan
Producer Wesley Weissberg interviews poets and critics about June Jordan's legacy and rap's place in poetry.
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Bertolt Brecht
Translator Michael Hofmann in conversation about Bertolt Brecht's poem, "Of Poor B.B.," read here by Tony Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg.
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Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield reads her poems "Heat" and "Autumn Heat."
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Three Short Poems
Three very short poems, by John Updike, Emperor Hadrian and an anonymous erotic Sanskrit poem.
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Samuel Menashe
A portrait of poet Samuel Menashe, produced by Emily Botein.
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Wislawa Szymborska
Charlotte Maier reads "Consolation," by Wislawa Szymborska, and a conversation with her translator Clare Cavanagh.
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Donald Hall
Acclaimed poet Donald Hall reads and talks about two of his poems, "White Apples," and "The Man in the Dead Machine."
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Poetry Goes Hollywood
Two readings by Tony-nominated actor Alfred Molina: a reading of Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" and "A Pedestrian" by Amit Majmudar.
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