We Hold These Truths

July 1, 2026

America at 250.

Related Authors

Kenzie Allen
Drew Lopenzina

Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard conversations are welcomed—laughter is, too.

Subscribe

More Episodes from Poetry Off the Shelf

Showing 1-20 of 578 podcasts

Audio
An Act of Mercy
Audio
Don’t Make Any Noise
Audio
The Act of Touching
Audio
Hereafter Parties
Audio
A Handful of Dust
Audio
The Wrong Details
Audio
The Character in the Corner
Audio
Those Bodies We Borrowed
Audio
What It Takes to Be a Man
Audio
How to Survive on an Island
Audio
The Multiverse of Me
Audio
Poets We Lost in 2025
Audio
An Old Face
Audio
An Impossible Wish
Audio
Body of Water
Audio
What Heaven Looks Like
Audio
We Dream of Each Other
Audio
Glow in the Dark
Audio
Mentor for Life
Audio
Let the World Whisper

Jump to:

Poems & Poets
Topics & Themes
Features
Grants & Programs
About Us

Poetry Foundation

Facebook Instagram

Contact Us
Newsletters
Press
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Poetry Mobile App

61 West Superior Street,
Chicago, IL 60654

See a problem on this page?