Podd: Poem Talk

Passion Shields Its Servants: A discussion of “Souvenir of the Manassah Ball” by Lorenzo Thomas

23 september 2024 | 47 min

Don’t Refuse to Breathe: A discussion of Frank O’Hara: “Song (Is it dirty)” & “Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)”

28 juni 2023 | 52 min

The Whole World Smiles: A discussion of John Giorno’s “Everyone Is a Complete Disappointment”

22 maj 2023 | 52 min

Present Plans Succeed: A discussion of Dodie Bellamy’s “Vomit Journal”

17 april 2023 | 55 min

Woot of the Century: A discussion of “Welter” and “Static” by Douglas Kearney

17 mars 2023 | 52 min

Rhetorical Happenings: A discussion of Hoa Nguyen, “Long Light.”

24 februari 2023 | 46 min

Nothing Made of Ink: A discussion of seven poems by Lisa Fishman

11 januari 2023 | 55 min

Untranslatable: A discussion of Armand Schwerner’s “Tablet 25” & “‘daddy, can you staple these two stars together to make an airplane?’”

22 december 2022 | 61 min

Downgraded to Scribble: A discussion of four poems from Dead Winter by Matvei Yankelevich

25 november 2022 | 54 min

Paw Mouthings: A discussion of Maggie O’Sullivan’s “Hill Figures” and “To Our Own Day”

31 oktober 2022 | 56 min

Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery

28 september 2022 | 58 min

Composition of Life, as Life: A discussion of Joan Retallack’s The Poethical Wager (a several-page excerpt)

26 augusti 2022 | 64 min

Girls in the Supply Chain: A discussion of Sawako Nakayasu’s book Some Girls Walk into the Country Where They Are From

25 juli 2022 | 62 min

When a Name Falls from a Face: A discussion of a selection from Divya Victor’s book Curb

15 juni 2022 | 63 min

Trance of Language: A discussion of “Sleeping with the Dictionary” & “Dim Lady” from Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen

23 maj 2022 | 52 min

Teach Us Love: A discussion of “Language” and “The Anatomy of Monotony” by Eugene Ostachevsky

22 april 2022 | 58 min

Better To Lose & Win: A discussion of Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters

14 mars 2022 | 56 min

Far in Toward the Far End: A discussion of George Quasha’s “preverbs.”

11 februari 2022 | 54 min

Hot and Cold: A discussion of Jayne Cortez’s “She Got He Got”

14 januari 2022 | 55 min

Must It Ring True: A discussion of Myung Mi Kim’s “And Sing We”

22 december 2021 | 55 min

Coup Created by Our Thoughts: A discussion of “Colliding and Not Colliding at the Same Time” by Cecilia Vicuña

24 november 2021 | 53 min

Punch Fascists: A discussion of “Yes I Do Want to Punch” by Stephen Collis

18 oktober 2021 | 42 min

As Words Label Space: A discussion of Leslie Scalapino’s “‘Can’t’ is ’Night’”

27 september 2021 | 48 min

Perilous Bodies: A discussion of “Steveston, B.C.” by Daphne Marlatt

27 augusti 2021 | 62 min

In My Rotting Place: A discussion of “Morning, Morning” & “No Deposit, No Return" by Tuli Kupferberg

26 juli 2021 | 58 min

This Unwitting Monument: A discussion of two poems from Sarah Dowling’s book Entering Sappho

17 juni 2021 | 54 min

Biologically Speaking: A discussion of “Love Is Not All” and “I Shall Forget You Presently” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

14 maj 2021 | 51 min

Adore Adore: A discussion of “Dada Lama” and “A Small Song That Is His” by bpNichol

22 april 2021 | 52 min

With a Little String & a Sharp Stone: A discussion of “Suicide” by Bob Kaufman

10 mars 2021 | 53 min

A Way to Haunt Me: A discussion of “It All over My Face?” by Kevin Killian

17 februari 2021 | 58 min

A Way to Haunt Me: A discussion of “It All over My Face?” by Kevin Killian

17 februari 2021 | 58 min

Damned Fruitflies: A discussion of “With Shelter Gone” by Steve Dalachinsky

25 januari 2021 | 56 min

Promise To Go On: A discussion of “The Similitude of This Great Flower” by Elizabeth Willis

25 november 2020 | 42 min

Rousing Earth to Excel: A discussion of “Arriving” by Daphne Marlatt

23 oktober 2020 | 56 min

Word for Word: A discussion of “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain” by Wallace Stevens.

25 september 2020 | 51 min

That’s Right: A discussion of Eileen Myles’s “Writing” and “Mount St. Helens”

26 augusti 2020 | 53 min

Ominous Pre-tingling: A discussion of “MJ Fan Letter” and “RSVP” by Terrance Hayes

24 juli 2020 | 53 min

Find Me the Rage: A discussion of “Negus” by Kamau Brathwaite

24 juni 2020 | 48 min

A Word For Me: A discussion of “Should You Find Me” by Erica Hunt

27 maj 2020 | 50 min

Begin to Awaken: A discussion of “By the road to the contagious hospital” by William Carlos Williams

24 april 2020 | 49 min

The Gaps I Mean: A discussion of “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost

27 mars 2020 | 55 min

Knots of a Woman: A discussion of A Swarm of Bees in High Court by Tonya Foster

20 februari 2020 | 57 min

Mammal Patriot: A discussion of Ghost Tantras by Michael McClure

22 januari 2020 | 49 min

Beside the Mind: A discussion of Clairvoyant Journal by Hannah Weiner

20 december 2019 | 49 min

These Squiggles: A discussion of “As if the Trees by Their Very Roots Had Hold of Us” by Charles Bernstein

22 november 2019 | 45 min

September 1941: A discussion of “Memory Tree” by Rosmarie Waldrop

28 oktober 2019 | 48 min

The Republic of Space: A discussion of “The Blue Stairs” by Barbara Guest

27 september 2019 | 47 min

Worker’s Tanka: A discussion of six tankas (2 each) by three worker poets, Christine Yvette Lewis, Lorraine Garnett and Davidson Garrett

27 augusti 2019 | 48 min

Written in Water: A discussion of Bluets by Maggie Nelson

19 juli 2019 | 48 min

Laying Poems Away: A discussion of “The Ambition Bird” by Anne Sexton

21 juni 2019 | 47 min

Saw the Lie: A discussion of three short poems in “SKY WRI TEI NGS” by Nasser Hussain

17 maj 2019 | 40 min

Hadbeen Variety: A discussion of “Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake” by John Cage

24 april 2019 | 57 min

Slowing the Rate of Perception: A discussion of “Hello, the Roses” by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

20 mars 2019 | 50 min

Flesh Ekes Ink: A discussion of Divya Victor’s “W Is for Walt Whitman’s Soul” from her book Kith.

20 februari 2019 | 47 min

Light filtering through: A discussion of G. Maria Hindmarch's “Kitsilano”.

16 januari 2019 | 50 min

Filter, Impose, Trespass: A discussion of Rachel Zolf’s Human Resources.

19 december 2018 | 48 min

Not Detainable: A discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Riot”

16 november 2018 | 44 min

The After-Hell: A discussion of Sylvia Plath's poem “The Stones”

17 oktober 2018 | 48 min

Of Beautiful Tangents: A discussion of two poems from Perfect Villagers by Sueyeun Juliette Lee

20 september 2018 | 52 min

Boring in a Different Way: A discussion of John Ashbery's “The Short Answer”

21 augusti 2018 | 47 min

Something in the Way: A discussion of Amiri Baraka’s “Something in the Way of Things (In Town)”

25 juli 2018 | 53 min

Fallout from Cooling: A discussion of three poems from Erica Baum

13 juni 2018 | 41 min

Our Endless Ear: A discussion of Jack Kerouac’s “Old Angel Midnight”

16 maj 2018 | 43 min

Bugging the Circles: A discussion of David Antin’s “War”

13 april 2018 | 57 min

Insurrection Is Value: A discussion of Sean Bonney’s “Happiness”

9 mars 2018 | 63 min

This Corner of the Diaspora: A discussion of Jerome Rothenberg’s “Galician Nights” (a section of Poland/1931)

16 februari 2018 | 61 min

World Without Sequence: A discussion of Ann Lauterbach's poem “Under the Sign”

18 januari 2018 | 40 min

Nothing To Say: A discussion of three poems by Fatemeh Shams

14 december 2017 | 45 min

Question Therefore the Age: A discussion of M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!

17 november 2017 | 49 min

The Dark Containers: A discussion of Larissa Lai’s “Nascent Fashion”

13 oktober 2017 | 46 min

Images, Mon Ami: A discussion of Anne Tardos’s “Uxudo”

13 september 2017 | 40 min

The Hand's Reach: A discussion of Lorenzo Thomas’s “An Arc Still Open”

16 augusti 2017 | 44 min

Dead To Me: A discussion of Claudia Rankine's “Don't Let Me Be Lonely”

12 juli 2017 | 45 min

Truth Flies: A discussion of Robin Blaser’s “A Bird in the House.”

6 juni 2017 | 40 min

Listen to Everything You Love Disappear: A discussion of Patrick Rosal’s “Instance of an Island."

16 maj 2017 | 38 min

Rise and Live: A discussion of Naomi Replansky's “In Syrup, in Syrup” and “Ring Song."

12 april 2017 | 47 min

To Rearrange the World: A discussion of Philip Whalen’s “Life at Bolinas. The Last of California.”

7 mars 2017 | 45 min

I Mean Only Means: A discussion of Kate Colby's I Mean.

9 februari 2017 | 37 min

But Too Beautiful: A discussion of Tracie Morris' “Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful”

11 januari 2017 | 41 min

It Is Time: A discussion of Paul Celan's "Corona"

6 december 2016 | 45 min

Dear Conflicted Reader: A discussion of C.D. Wright's One Big Self

15 november 2016 | 48 min

No Truths Self-Evident: A Discussion of Michael Magee’s “Morning Constitutional”

19 oktober 2016 | 50 min

Explode for Small Change: A Discussion of Akilah Oliver's “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t”

14 september 2016 | 37 min

Swear It Closed: A Discussion of Simone White’s book Of Being Dispersed

9 augusti 2016 | 38 min

Mind’s Not Right: A Discussion of Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour"

12 juli 2016 | 45 min

With What Geometry: A Discussion of Edward Dorn’s “The Sundering U.P. Tracks”

14 juni 2016 | 46 min

A Retrospective: A Discussion of Previous Episodes with Seven Poets

10 maj 2016 | 90 min

The Unabettable Bleak: A Discussion of Four Poems by William Bronk

12 april 2016 | 40 min

Weakness Stalks in Pride: A Discussion of James Weldon Johnson's “O Southland!”

15 mars 2016 | 46 min

Articulate beyond Walls: A Discussion of Three Poems by Larry Eigner

17 februari 2016 | 47 min

The Laurel Crown: A Discussion of Allen Grossman's "My Radiant Eye"

19 januari 2016 | 45 min

I too received identity: A Discussion of Rob Fitterman’s Sprawl

8 december 2015 | 35 min

No Spell Broken: A Discussion of CAConrad's (Soma)tic Midge

17 november 2015 | 45 min

Dreams Not Spoiled by Roaches: A Discussion of Helen Adam’s “Cheerless Junkie’s Song"

20 oktober 2015 | 47 min

An Abductee, in Theory: A discussion of Bob Perelman’s “Confession”

22 september 2015 | 46 min

The Body in Pain: A discussion of Gill Ott's "The Forgotten"

18 augusti 2015 | 30 min

The F*ck-You Bow: A discussion of Gertrude Stein's "How She Bowed to Her Brother"

14 juli 2015 | 37 min

Requiem So Sweet We Forgot What It Lamented: A Discussion of Nathaniel Mackey's "Day after Day of the Dead"

18 juni 2015 | 37 min

Me No One Will Take: A Discussion of Kathy Acker's "The Diseased" and "The Slave Trader"

19 maj 2015 | 41 min

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Passion Shields Its Servants: A discussion of “Souvenir of the Manassah Ball” by Lorenzo Thomas

Don’t Refuse to Breathe: A discussion of Frank O’Hara: “Song (Is it dirty)” & “Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)”

The Whole World Smiles: A discussion of John Giorno’s “Everyone Is a Complete Disappointment”

Present Plans Succeed: A discussion of Dodie Bellamy’s “Vomit Journal”

Woot of the Century: A discussion of “Welter” and “Static” by Douglas Kearney

Rhetorical Happenings: A discussion of Hoa Nguyen, “Long Light.”

Nothing Made of Ink: A discussion of seven poems by Lisa Fishman

Untranslatable: A discussion of Armand Schwerner’s “Tablet 25” & “‘daddy, can you staple these two stars together to make an airplane?’”

Downgraded to Scribble: A discussion of four poems from Dead Winter by Matvei Yankelevich

Paw Mouthings: A discussion of Maggie O’Sullivan’s “Hill Figures” and “To Our Own Day”

Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery

Composition of Life, as Life: A discussion of Joan Retallack’s The Poethical Wager (a several-page excerpt)

Girls in the Supply Chain: A discussion of Sawako Nakayasu’s book Some Girls Walk into the Country Where They Are From

When a Name Falls from a Face: A discussion of a selection from Divya Victor’s book Curb

Trance of Language: A discussion of “Sleeping with the Dictionary” & “Dim Lady” from Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen

Teach Us Love: A discussion of “Language” and “The Anatomy of Monotony” by Eugene Ostachevsky

Better To Lose & Win: A discussion of Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters

Far in Toward the Far End: A discussion of George Quasha’s “preverbs.”

Hot and Cold: A discussion of Jayne Cortez’s “She Got He Got”

Must It Ring True: A discussion of Myung Mi Kim’s “And Sing We”

Coup Created by Our Thoughts: A discussion of “Colliding and Not Colliding at the Same Time” by Cecilia Vicuña

Punch Fascists: A discussion of “Yes I Do Want to Punch” by Stephen Collis

As Words Label Space: A discussion of Leslie Scalapino’s “‘Can’t’ is ’Night’”

Perilous Bodies: A discussion of “Steveston, B.C.” by Daphne Marlatt

In My Rotting Place: A discussion of “Morning, Morning” & “No Deposit, No Return" by Tuli Kupferberg

This Unwitting Monument: A discussion of two poems from Sarah Dowling’s book Entering Sappho

Biologically Speaking: A discussion of “Love Is Not All” and “I Shall Forget You Presently” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Adore Adore: A discussion of “Dada Lama” and “A Small Song That Is His” by bpNichol

With a Little String & a Sharp Stone: A discussion of “Suicide” by Bob Kaufman

A Way to Haunt Me: A discussion of “It All over My Face?” by Kevin Killian

A Way to Haunt Me: A discussion of “It All over My Face?” by Kevin Killian

Damned Fruitflies: A discussion of “With Shelter Gone” by Steve Dalachinsky

Promise To Go On: A discussion of “The Similitude of This Great Flower” by Elizabeth Willis

Rousing Earth to Excel: A discussion of “Arriving” by Daphne Marlatt

Word for Word: A discussion of “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain” by Wallace Stevens.

That’s Right: A discussion of Eileen Myles’s “Writing” and “Mount St. Helens”

Ominous Pre-tingling: A discussion of “MJ Fan Letter” and “RSVP” by Terrance Hayes

Find Me the Rage: A discussion of “Negus” by Kamau Brathwaite

A Word For Me: A discussion of “Should You Find Me” by Erica Hunt

Begin to Awaken: A discussion of “By the road to the contagious hospital” by William Carlos Williams

The Gaps I Mean: A discussion of “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost

Knots of a Woman: A discussion of A Swarm of Bees in High Court by Tonya Foster

Mammal Patriot: A discussion of Ghost Tantras by Michael McClure

Beside the Mind: A discussion of Clairvoyant Journal by Hannah Weiner

These Squiggles: A discussion of “As if the Trees by Their Very Roots Had Hold of Us” by Charles Bernstein

September 1941: A discussion of “Memory Tree” by Rosmarie Waldrop

The Republic of Space: A discussion of “The Blue Stairs” by Barbara Guest

Worker’s Tanka: A discussion of six tankas (2 each) by three worker poets, Christine Yvette Lewis, Lorraine Garnett and Davidson Garrett

Written in Water: A discussion of Bluets by Maggie Nelson

Laying Poems Away: A discussion of “The Ambition Bird” by Anne Sexton

Saw the Lie: A discussion of three short poems in “SKY WRI TEI NGS” by Nasser Hussain

Hadbeen Variety: A discussion of “Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake” by John Cage

Slowing the Rate of Perception: A discussion of “Hello, the Roses” by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Flesh Ekes Ink: A discussion of Divya Victor’s “W Is for Walt Whitman’s Soul” from her book Kith.

Light filtering through: A discussion of G. Maria Hindmarch's “Kitsilano”.

Filter, Impose, Trespass: A discussion of Rachel Zolf’s Human Resources.

Not Detainable: A discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Riot”

The After-Hell: A discussion of Sylvia Plath's poem “The Stones”

Of Beautiful Tangents: A discussion of two poems from Perfect Villagers by Sueyeun Juliette Lee

Boring in a Different Way: A discussion of John Ashbery's “The Short Answer”

Something in the Way: A discussion of Amiri Baraka’s “Something in the Way of Things (In Town)”

Fallout from Cooling: A discussion of three poems from Erica Baum

Our Endless Ear: A discussion of Jack Kerouac’s “Old Angel Midnight”

Bugging the Circles: A discussion of David Antin’s “War”

Insurrection Is Value: A discussion of Sean Bonney’s “Happiness”

This Corner of the Diaspora: A discussion of Jerome Rothenberg’s “Galician Nights” (a section of Poland/1931)

World Without Sequence: A discussion of Ann Lauterbach's poem “Under the Sign”

Nothing To Say: A discussion of three poems by Fatemeh Shams

Question Therefore the Age: A discussion of M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!

The Dark Containers: A discussion of Larissa Lai’s “Nascent Fashion”

Images, Mon Ami: A discussion of Anne Tardos’s “Uxudo”

The Hand's Reach: A discussion of Lorenzo Thomas’s “An Arc Still Open”

Dead To Me: A discussion of Claudia Rankine's “Don't Let Me Be Lonely”

Truth Flies: A discussion of Robin Blaser’s “A Bird in the House.”

Listen to Everything You Love Disappear: A discussion of Patrick Rosal’s “Instance of an Island."

Rise and Live: A discussion of Naomi Replansky's “In Syrup, in Syrup” and “Ring Song."