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Back to SearchW.S. Merwin — For The Anniversary of My Death
Season 10 Episode 2
W.S. Merwin’s “For The Anniversary of My Death” is a slim, precise poem — just 13 lines made up of 84 words — about the very weightiest of subjects, …
22 hours ago
Kimblerly Blaeser - my journal records the vestiture of doppelgangers
Season 10 Episode 1
Words can’t quite fully capture the activity, oddity, and awe that is everywhere around us, but poet Kimberly Blaeser makes a gorgeous attempt in her…
4 days, 22 hours ago
Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Marie Howe
Season 10 Episode 1
Marie Howe’s poetry shimmers with the keen attention she pays to language: the language of the body (both the human body and “the beautiful body of t…
4 weeks ago
Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Lorna Goodison
Season 10
“Spending time in hell is not my idea of something that one should do,” says poet Lorna Goodison, yet she immersed herself there for years to create …
1 month ago
Denise Duhamel — How It Will End
Season 9 Episode 14
Have you ever gotten consumed by watching a couple argue in public and trying to decipher what’s really going on between them? Denise Duhamel’s delic…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Fady Joudah — [...]
Season 9 Episode 13
Even though Palestinian-American Fady Joudah’s poem is sparingly titled “[...],” an ellipsis surrounded by brackets, this work itself is psychologica…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Benjamin Zephaniah — To Michael Menson
Season 9 Episode 12
Benjamin Zephaniah’s urgent, imperative “To Michael Menson” was written when he was a poet in residence at a human rights barrister in England. His p…
11 months ago
Carmen Giménez — Ars Poetica
Season 9 Episode 11
Carmen Giménez’s poem “Ars Poetica” is a stunning waterfall of words, a torrent of dozens of short statements that begin with “I” or “I’m.” As you li…
11 months, 1 week ago
Rick Barot — The Singing
Season 9 Episode 10
Rick Barot’s poem “The Singing” takes place in the humdrum, relatable setting of the waiting room at a car dealership. But the unexpected occurs when…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Diannely Antigua — Another Poem about God, but Really It’s about Me
Season 9 Episode 9
“You would’ve made a lousy nun.” The narrator of Diannely Antigua’s “Another Poem about God, but Really It’s about Me” overhears these words, and the…
11 months, 3 weeks ago