Podcast Episodes

Paul Tran — The Cave

Season 2 Episode 13

What have you had to explore on your own? What, or who, helped? 

This poem explores the archetype of the cave — a cave that calls, a cave that contain…

5 years, 2 months ago

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Philip Metres — One Tree

Season 2 Episode 12

What do you notice about how you behave in times of conflict? Do you tend toward avoidance? Or compromise? Or collaboration? Or competition? Or accom…

5 years, 2 months ago

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Roger Robinson — A Portable Paradise

Season 2 Episode 11

How do you hold onto hope? And who helped you find it? 

This poem is about holding onto paradise in the midst of an environment that seeks to steal or…

5 years, 2 months ago

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Seán Hewitt — Suibhne is wounded, and confesses

Season 2 Episode 10

In times of isolation, what stories have you turned to for comfort?  

This poem is an exploration of isolation as seen through the mythical Irish char…

5 years, 2 months ago

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Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi — Say My Name

Season 2 Episode 9

What is the story of your name? 

In this poem, the poet calls on place, ancestors, and history to bear witness to the dignity of their name. They reca…

5 years, 2 months ago

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Lucille Clifton — song at midnight

Season 2 Episode 8

In strength and defiance, Lucille Clifton celebrates her Black body and her survival. When have you said or heard words like this? 

Calling herself “b…

5 years, 2 months ago

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Chris Abani — The New Religion

Season 2 Episode 7

How do you speak of — and to — your body? 

This is a poem dedicated to the body. “The body is a nation I have never known,” Chris Abani writes. Throug…

5 years, 2 months ago

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Molly McCully Brown — Transubstantiation

Season 2 Episode 6

Are there places you've lived or visited that others would disregard? What do you see in them that others might miss?" 

This poem takes place at night…

5 years, 3 months ago

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Natalie Diaz — Of Course She Looked Back

Season 2 Episode 5

Is there a character (from history, politics, or literature) whose story you want to tell from a new perspective? 

This poem is told from the point of…

5 years, 3 months ago

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Natasha Trethewey — Miscegenation

Season 2 Episode 4

Were you born during a time when laws were different? What impact did those laws have on you? 

In this poem, Natasha Trethewey recalls the story of ho…

5 years, 3 months ago

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