Podcast Episodes

Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Amanda Quaid

Season 10 Episode 22

After actor, dialect coach, and teacher Amanda Quaid was diagnosed with a serious illness in 2021, she responded by trying something new — she wrote …

13 hours ago

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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Haleh Liza Gafori

Season 10 Episode 21

Poet, translator, and musician Haleh Liza Gafori describes the revered 13th-century Persian poet Rumi as “a good pal to humanity”. As she puts it, “H…

2 weeks ago

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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Adrian Matejka

Season 10 Episode 20

“For me, if a poem doesn't swing, it's really not much of a poem,” says Adrian Matejka, author of the collection Be Easy: New and Selected Poems. His…

4 weeks ago

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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Karen Leeder

Season 10 Episode 19

After listening to this exuberant interview, you’ll retire the phrase “lost in translation” from your vocabulary. Instead, writer and scholar Karen L…

1 month, 1 week ago

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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Richard Scott

Season 10 Episode 18

“Poetry means paying attention in a different way to the world and seeing what wisdom you're given back in return for that attention,” says Richard S…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Kimberly Campanello part 2 of 2

Season 10 Episode 17

“It had to involve more than just a slim volume of verse,” says Kimberly Campanello about MOTHERBABYHOME, her ongoing visual poetry project which cen…

2 months, 1 week ago

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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Kimberly Campanello part 1 of 2

Season 10 Episode 16

“It's about seeing, through reading, whether where you are going has been or is now or will be written, or not.” This deliciously twisty line is from…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Rachel Mann and Yomi Ṣode

Season 10 Episode 15

“Poetry should be horrifying,” says Rachel Mann. “It should be … on the edge of the edge of what could be said.” We are delighted to bring you this v…

3 months ago

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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Fady Joudah

Season 10 Episode 14

From a young age, says Palestinian American poet and physician Fady Joudah, “I had such a fascination with the way the alphabet makes music in the mi…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Don McKay

Season 10 Episode 13

“I still have the best three-point shot of any Canadian poet born before 1943” is one of the first things that acclaimed poet Don McKay says in this …

4 months ago

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