Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPoetry Unbound Bonus — Walter de la Mare
Season 5 Episode 17
Host Pádraig Ó Tuama shares “The Listeners” by Walter de la Mare, a favorite childhood poem of his, and offers an audio postscript to Season 10 of Po…
6 months, 1 week ago
Leonard Cohen — Book of Mercy “I,8”
Season 4 Episode 26
Have you ever watched, in awe, as a skilled gymnast or skater lifts off and completes a dizzying number of revolutions in less than a second before l…
6 months, 1 week ago
Billy-Ray Belcourt — Subarctica
Season 4 Episode 25
Will you leave this episode feeling uplifted, envious, curious, or something else entirely? Yes. Billy-Ray Belcourt’s poem “Subarctica” transports yo…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Ruth Irupé Sanabria — Carne
Season 6 Episode 26
Ruth Irupé Sanabria’s delicious and dexterous “Carne” begins with these lines: “I've eaten pork from / pernil to chuletas to chitterlings.” And just …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha — Dukka
Season 10 Episode 12
Loving in the face of violence, danger, and distress is an act of defiance, as demonstrated in Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s achingly beautiful poem “Dukka”.…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Rachel Mann — #TDOR
Season 7 Episode 25
Rachel Mann’s “#TDOR” manages to turn a depiction of one side of a conversation about marking Trans Day of Remembrance into a poem that is both empat…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Sanah Ahsan — Ramadan’s Greeting
Season 10 Episode 11
Sanah Ahsan’s evocative “Ramadan’s Greeting” brings us into the thoughts and experiences of a person observing the holiest month in Islam. In nine br…
7 months ago
Kevin Hart — Prayer
Season 10 Episode 10
“O come, in any way you want” is the first line in Kevin Hart’s marvelous, mystical “Prayer”. So come to this poem — whether for its deliciously sens…
7 months ago
Harryette Mullen — LUVTOFU
Season 10 Episode 9
Too many of us left high school thinking that a poem could be taken seriously only if it was difficult to understand, subdued in its use of rhyme and…
7 months, 1 week ago
Stewart Henderson — How To Speak Love In A Storm?
Season 10 Episode 8
What is there to say or do when the life of a loved one has been upended and devastated? Stewart Henderson’s poem “How To Speak Love In A Storm?” off…
7 months, 1 week ago