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Editors Christian Wiman and Don Share go inside the pages of Poetry, talking to poets and critics, debating the issues, and sharing their poem selections with listeners.
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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Previously unpublished poems by Langston Hughes, a preview of Michael Hofmann's essay on Lowell and Bishop, and a phone call to readers in Texas who don't like the poems in this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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07/01/2010 Listen Meat Wants Sweet Robert Pinsky
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06/01/2010 Listen Iamb What Iamb Ron Silliman
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12/01/2009 Listen Poems Can Stop Bulldozers Valzhyna Mort
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07/10/2009 Listen "There's No Creativity, There's Just Decisions" Kenneth Goldsmith
06/01/2009 Listen The Dark Has No Teeth Thom Gunn
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