99 Episodes

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

    Published: 23/09/2024

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

    Published: 28/06/2023

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

    Published: 22/05/2023

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

    Published: 17/04/2023

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

    Published: 17/03/2023

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

    Published: 24/02/2023

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

    Published: 11/01/2023

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

    Published: 22/12/2022

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

    Published: 25/11/2022

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

    Published: 31/10/2022

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

    Published: 28/09/2022

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

    Published: 26/08/2022

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

    Published: 25/07/2022

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

    Published: 15/06/2022

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

    Published: 23/05/2022

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

    Published: 22/04/2022

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

    Published: 14/03/2022

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

    Published: 11/02/2022

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

    Published: 14/01/2022

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

    Published: 22/12/2021

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Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a lively roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests including Tracie Morris, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, erica kaufman, Charles Bernstein, Sawako Nakayasu, Simone White, and others.

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