Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMartín Espada — After the Goose that Rose Like the God of Geese
Season 3 Episode 13
Bereavement brings all kinds of pressures. This poem by Martín Espada starts off with a grief-to-do-list: a phone call, a flight, a blizzard, cremati…
5 years, 3 months ago
Roshni Goyate — Coconut Oil
Season 3 Episode 12
In many ways this poem can be analyzed by how it ends: by examining the contents of organic shops. Roshni Goyate looks at one such item — coconut oil…
5 years, 3 months ago
b: william bearhart — When I Was in Las Vegas and Saw a Warhol Painting of Geronimo
Season 3 Episode 11
When looking at Andy Warhol’s painting of Geronimo — a leader and medicine man of the Bedonkohe band of the Apache tribe — b: william bearheart won…
5 years, 3 months ago
Esteban Rodríguez — 22 La Bota
Season 3 Episode 10
A poet considers his father, and, particularly, his father’s boots. These boots could be a hammer, a prop, a weapon. But Esteban Rodríguez also remem…
5 years, 3 months ago
Reginald Dwayne Betts — Essay on Reentry
Season 3 Episode 9
This ‘Essay on Reentry’ charts life after prison: and the way that others keep your sentence alive even when you’re wishing to just get on with your …
5 years, 3 months ago
Li-Young Lee — From Blossoms
Season 3 Episode 8
A poem about blossoms that is not only about blossoms. Li-Young Lee remembers a glorious day when he and a companion bought peaches; peaches that had…
5 years, 3 months ago
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo — Battlegrounds
Season 3 Episode 7
This poem takes place on battlegrounds. The poet — Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo — is at Gettysburg National Military Park, where she wanders around the cem…
5 years, 4 months ago
Matthew Olzmann — Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem
Season 3 Episode 6
In this love poem, Matthew Olzmann writes about his wife — the poet Vievee Francis whose poem for Matthew was featured in the previous episode — and …
5 years, 4 months ago
Vievee Francis — How Delicious to Say It
Season 3 Episode 5
Building up in lists of delicious words — uvular, hibiscus, loquacious, shuttlecock, dollop, chipotles and chocolate — this poem uses sensual languag…
5 years, 4 months ago
Eavan Boland — Eviction
Season 3 Episode 4
This poem offers critique into a moment of Irish history when Ireland, through independence, was rising to the light. But Irish women were facing liv…
5 years, 4 months ago