Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDante Micheaux — Theologies for Korah
Season 10 Episode 7
Dante Micheaux’s rich and rollicking poem “Theologies for Korah” is written on the occasion of an infant’s baptism, but it’s anything but baby talk o…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Oksana Maksymchuk — Arguments for Peace
Season 10 Episode 6
“How could there be a war in this city?” is the plaintive question that starts Oksana Makysymchuk’s “Arguments for Peace”. Like ours, the world of he…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Armen Davoudian — Coming Out of the Shower
Season 10 Episode 5
In Armen Davoudian’s casually intimate poem “Coming Out of the Shower”, mother and son perform their morning routines in the small, shared space of …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Orlando Ricardo Menes — Grace
Season 10 Episode 4
Some religions and some people have very specific ideas about “grace”, and that includes poet Orlando Ricardo Menes. In the carefully constructed “Gr…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Cyrus Cassells — Jasmine
Season 10 Episode 3
In fewer than two dozen lines, Cyrus Cassells’s poem “Jasmine” offers readers a multisensory, cinematic immersion into late spring life in Rome. Not …
7 months, 4 weeks ago
W.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, …
8 months 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…
8 months 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…
8 months, 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 …
9 months 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…
1 year, 6 months ago