Audio & Podcasts

Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a lively roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests including Linh Dinh, Randall Couch, Jessica Lowenthal, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, erica kaufman, and others.
Schedule: Monthly

Girl Head Mostly Eyes: A Discussion of Catherine Wagner's "This is a Fucking Poem"

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Laura Elrick, Rae Armantrout, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis.

Read the Poem

This Is a Fucking Poem

Related Poet

Catherine Wagner

MORE EPISODES FROM Poem Talk

All audio & podcasts
DATE TITLE POETS
05/14/2013  Listen  Deep Heart's Core Sound: A Discussion of William Butler Yeats's "Lake Isle of Innisfree."   William Butler Yeats
 
04/16/2013  Listen  The Day Pours out Space: A Discussion of Lisa Robertson's The Weather  Lisa Robertson
 
03/26/2013  Listen  The Straight Path Gone Astray: A Discussion of Caroline Bergvall's "Via"  Caroline Bergvall
 
03/05/2013  Listen  Daytime Never Ends: A Discussion of Laynie Browne's Daily Sonnets  Laynie Browne
 
01/29/2013  Listen  A Space Only You Can Build: A Discussion of Charles Alexander's Near or Random Acts   
01/08/2013  Listen  I Can't Get Started: A Discussion of Bill Berkson's "Signature Song"  Bill Berkson
 
12/18/2012  Listen  Whelm Lessons: A Discussion of Clark Coolidge's "Blues for Alice"  Clark Coolidge
 
11/27/2012  Listen  Yankee Go Home: A Discussion of Paul Blackburn's "7th Game : 1960 Series"  Paul Blackburn
 
10/16/2012  Listen  Tired, Poor, Huddled, Gentrified: A Discussion of Bernadette Mayer's "The Tragic Condition of the Statue of Liberty"  Bernadette Mayer
 
09/04/2012  Listen  Cut from the Same Tongue: A Discussion of Gregory Djanikian's "Armenian Pastoral, 1915"  Gregory Djanikian
 
07/26/2012  Listen  Without House and Ground: A Discussion of Two Poems by Charles Reznikoff  Charles Reznikoff
 
07/10/2012  Listen  Find the Missing Line: A Discussion of Jennifer Moxley's "The Atrophy of Private Life"  Jennifer Moxley
 
06/26/2012  Listen  The Value of a Pronoun: A Discussion of Ron Silliman's You  Ron Silliman
 
05/23/2012  Listen  Obscure Things Have Already Been Said: A Discussion of Joan Retallack's "Not a Cage"  Joan Retallack
 
05/03/2012  Listen  Where the Real Exceeds the Ideal: A Discussion of Cole Swensen's "If a Garden of Numbers"   Cole Swensen
 
03/26/2012  Listen  Why Apples Can Cause Riots: A Discussion of Linh Dinh's "Eating Fried Chicken"  Linh Dinh
 
02/27/2012  Listen  State of Error: A Discussion of Tom Raworth's "Errory"  Tom Raworth
 
02/07/2012  Listen  Slow-Down: A Discussion of P. Inman's "reception.theory." and "lac[e]y."  P. Inman
 
12/19/2011  Listen  Ill Angelic Poetics: A Discussion of Edgar Allan Poe's "Dream-Land"  Edgar Allan Poe
 
11/10/2011  Listen  Inalienable Writes: A Discussion of Rosmarie Waldrop's "Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence"  Rosmarie Waldrop
 
10/14/2011  Listen  Writing through Ezra: A Discussion of Jackson Mac Low's Words nd Ends from Ez  Jackson Mac Low
 
09/07/2011  Listen  Poem Going Down the Drain: A Discussion of Eileen Myles’s "Snakes"   Eileen Myles
 
08/12/2011  Listen  On the Other Side of the Tracks: A Discussion of Fred Wah's "Race, to go."  Fred Wah
 
06/13/2011  Listen  Wieners by Night: A Discussion of John Wieners’s "The Acts of Youth"  John Wieners
 
04/19/2011  Listen  A Hole Torn in the World: A Discussion of Nathaniel Tarn's "Unravelling / Shock"   Nathaniel Tarn
 
123

Originally appeared in Poetry magazine.

This poem has learning resources.

This poem is good for children.

This poem has related video.

This poem has related audio.