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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. Schedule: Monthly

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Previously unpublished poems by Langston Hughes, a preview of Michael Hofmann's essay on Lowell and Bishop, and a phone call to readers in Texas who don't like the poems in this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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DATE   TITLE POET
02/01/2010 LISTEN Why Live Without Writing? Durs Grünbein
01/01/2010 LISTEN Are Poets Lazy Bastards? Carmine Starnino
12/01/2009 LISTEN Poems Can Stop Bulldozers Valzhyna Mort
11/01/2009 LISTEN Poetry Takes a Walk James Schuyler
10/01/2009 LISTEN We Live in a Time Full of Love A. V. Christie
09/01/2009 LISTEN We Don't Have Cold Feet Katia Kapovich
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
05/01/2009 LISTEN Rhapsodies and Rude Epics Inger Christensen
04/01/2009 LISTEN Bringing a Different Music Into English  
02/27/2009 LISTEN You're Always Moving Toward Silence John Ashbery
01/30/2009 LISTEN I Love Originality So Much I Keep Copying It  
12/30/2008 LISTEN Of All the Poems in the World, Why Would You . . . Allen Edwin Butt
12/01/2008 LISTEN Her Victorian Roots are Showing Joan Houlihan
10/31/2008 LISTEN The Savage Detective Turns to Poetry Mary Szybist
10/06/2008 LISTEN "Accident Plays a Part in Art" Laura Kasischke
09/08/2008 LISTEN Requiem, Vindication, and a Gas Station Restroom Clive James
08/13/2008 LISTEN Killing Him Yehuda Amichai
07/03/2008 LISTEN Feeling Like a Worm in Tequila? Wendy Videlock
06/03/2008 LISTEN Our Birds, Our Selves Marianne Boruch
05/01/2008 LISTEN Wild Bard—or Professional? Sandra M. Gilbert
04/03/2008 LISTEN Found in Translation Håkan Sandell
03/03/2008 LISTEN Something Has Come Between Us! Terrance Hayes
02/04/2008 LISTEN When Guns Talk the Muses Fall Silent George Szirtes
01/04/2008 LISTEN First. Time. Ever.