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Begin in delight, end in wisdom.
By Chase Twichell
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From Audio Poem of the DayFebruary 2019
By Claudia Rankine
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From Audio Poem of the DayFebruary 2019
by Jeanne Murray Walker (read by Dana Ivey)
The editors discuss Traci Brimhall’s poem “Resistance” from the February 2019 issue of Poetry.
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AudioFrom The Poetry Magazine PodcastFebruary 2019
The editors discuss Bev Yockelson's poem "The Trans Haggadah Companion" from the February 2019 issue of Poetry.
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AudioFrom The Poetry Magazine PodcastFebruary 2019
The editors discuss Monica Youn’s poem “Study of Two Figures (Pasiphaë/Sado)” from the February 2019 issue of Poetry.
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AudioFrom The Poetry Magazine PodcastJanuary 2019
In this archival episode, the editors discuss Toi Derricotte's poem “Speculations about ‘I’” from the September 2016 issue of Poetry.
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AudioFrom The Poetry Magazine PodcastJanuary 2019
Stephen Duffy reads from "What the Fuck Was I Thinking," his essay in the January 2019 issue of Poetry, and shares some of his music.
Shortly after Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote a poem about the power of riots.
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From Poetry Off the ShelfFebruary 2019
Poems in time for Valentine's Day.
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From Poetry Off the ShelfJanuary 2019
A look into Duncan's poems on the centenary of his birth.
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From Poetry Off the ShelfJanuary 2019
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Prohibition in the U.S., we discuss drinking poems over a few cocktails.
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From Poetry Off the ShelfDecember 2018
Remembering and listening to those who died this year.
Julian Talamantez Brolaski considers the way we use pronouns to signal gender.
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From PoetryNowFebruary 2019
Richard Blanco remembers the 17 students killed in a mass-shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14th, 2018.
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From PoetryNowFebruary 2019
Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer imagines the prospect of a God who may have created humanity in order to battle evil.
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From PoetryNowJanuary 2019
Katy Lederer recalls her experience with in vitro fertilization and finds poetry in the language of science.
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From PoetryNowJanuary 2019
Donika Kelly recalls a class field trip to a sea lion sanctuary in the sixth grade and questions why certain lives are valued above others.
We back and we back and we back with Season 3! We start off a whole new season of the same ole shindig with the brilliant poet Paul Tran. They talk about learning history to ask the questions they had about their family, creating new a new poetic form, and the gawd Toni Morrison.
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From VSJanuary 2019
Happy new year y’all! VS returns with a special bonus episode to tide you over until Season 3 drops in February. In the meantime, savor and enjoy this live episode...
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From VSDecember 2018
Can we fanperson out for a goshdarn second? We have the one and only Jamila Woods in the building! She talks about her family’s penchant for healing, sampling loopholes, lactose...
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From VSDecember 2018
This episode’s guest Kara Jackson is a poet, and she’s got the honorary prefix to prove it. She talks with Danez and Franny about being Chicago’s third Youth Poet Laureate,...
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From VSNovember 2018
Hop in the wayback machine with us for our very first ReVS episode, in which we return to an already-released VS conversation and catch up with the ideas and themes...
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Mytili Jaganathan, Angela Carr, and Anna Strong Safford.
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From Poem TalkJanuary 2019
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Erín Moure, Karis Shearer, and Deanna Fong. This episode was filmed in Montreal, at the home of Erín Moure. Watch the video.
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From Poem TalkDecember 2018
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Jeff T. Johnson, Whitney Trettien, and Amy Paeth.
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From Poem TalkNovember 2018
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Amber Rose Johnson, Tonya Foster, and Davy Knittle.
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From Poem TalkOctober 2018
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Susan Schultz, Sally Van Doren, and Huda Fakhreddine.
Recordings of poet Lorine Niedecker with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded at home in 1970. Recording courtesy of PennSound.
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From Essential American PoetsMarch 2012
Recordings of poet Lorine Niedecker with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded at home in 1970. Recording courtesy of PennSound.
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From Essential American PoetsJanuary 2012
Recordings of poet Gertrude Stein, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in 1934. Recording courtesy of PennSound.
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From Essential American PoetsJanuary 2012
Recordings of former poet laureate Charles Simic, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 2003, Key West, FL.
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From Essential American PoetsDecember 2011
Recordings of poet Alan Dugan, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1962, New York City, New York.
Malena Mörling and Jonas Ellerström discuss Swedish poetry and the challenges of translation, and they read some poems in both Swedish and English from their anthology, The Star By My Head.
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From Poetry LecturesNovember 2015
Christopher Merrill speaks with Harris Khalique about literary traditions in Pakistan, the cultural influences of different cities, and the important role of women in Pakistani literature.
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From Poetry LecturesFebruary 2014
Kwame Dawes speaks with Matthew Shenoda about Shenoda's poetry and identity as an Egyptian American, and the poetry of the African diaspora.
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From Poetry LecturesDecember 2013
South African poet Gabeba Baderoon speaks with Matthew Shenoda about poetry and apartheid in South Africa.
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From Poetry LecturesNovember 2013
American poet Kevin Young talks to Les Murray about Australian poetry and culture.
An audio tour of films featuring Vito Acconci, Erik Satie, Vicki Bennett, Karl Holmquist, and more from the UbuWeb archive.
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From Avant-Garde All the TimeSeptember 2010
Samples from from Craig Dworkin's UbuWeb paper “Unheard Music,” featuring John Cage, Steve Reich, Mieko Shiomi, Yves Klein, and more.
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From Avant-Garde All the TimeJuly 2010
Audio interpretations of Gertrude Stein from the UbuWeb archives.
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From Avant-Garde All the TimeJune 2010
Yoko Ono flushing toilets, La Monte Young’s “Theater of Eternal Music,” Larry Miller’s baby crying, Alison Knowles onion skin music and loads more.
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From Avant-Garde All the TimeMarch 2010
Gertrude Stein at the Algonquin, William Carlos Williams trying to remember “The Red Wheelbarrow,” Salvador Dali on his phallic moustache, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Derrida, and scads more from the archive.
Established in 1940 by the WPA's Federal Art Project, the South Side Community Art Center has provided a second home for the city's African-American artists. Haki Madhubuti, founding editor of Third World Press, reads.
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From Chicago Poetry Tour PodcastOctober 2010
One of the 20th century's most significant poets, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about race in America, often from the perspective of her Bronzeville neighborhood.
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From Chicago Poetry Tour PodcastSeptember 2010
Margaret Walker's signature poem "For My People" encompasses the strengths and struggles of blacks not only in Chicago but throughout America.
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From Chicago Poetry Tour PodcastSeptember 2010
The DuSable Museum is one of the nation's premier institutions dedicated to the history, art, and culture of the African diaspora. Quraysh Ali Lansana reads from his collection They Shall...
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From Chicago Poetry Tour PodcastAugust 2010
Pilsen was a diverse neighborhood in Chicago long before anybody used the word “diversity.” Stuart Dybek and Ana Castillo read poems inspired by their childhoods there.