Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCarmen Maria Machado : Her Body and Other Parties
“Cross-pollinating fairy tales, horror movies, TV shows, & a terrific sense of humor, Machado’s work reminds me at different times of such wildly div…
8 years, 3 months ago
Eunsong Kim : Gospel of Regicide
“In Gospel of Regicide, Eunsong Kim develops a thrilling method for unwriting lyric even as she reimagines it, creating a socially engaged poetry of …
8 years, 3 months ago
Leni Zumas : Red Clocks
“Leni Zumas here proves she can do almost anything. Her tale feels part Melvillian, part Lydia Davis, part Octavia Butler—but really Zumas’s vision i…
8 years, 3 months ago
David Biespiel : The Education of a Young Poet
“Biespiel’s supple memoir of becoming a poet will surely inspire other writers to embrace the bodily character of writing & feel the power &, sometim…
8 years, 5 months ago
Rae Armantrout : Partly – New & Selected Poems
“For nearly 40 years Armantrout has made a poetics of not finding the right words–of finding, in fact, the ‘wrong’ ones . . . Armantrout restores the…
8 years, 6 months ago
Eileen Myles : Afterglow
“What is a dog if not god? In Afterglow, Eileen Myles steps up to the challenge for writers to function as prophets. Ghostwritten in part by deceased…
8 years, 6 months ago
Celeste Ng : Little Fires Everywhere
“I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting. With brilliance and beauty, Celeste Ng dissects a microcosm of American society just…
8 years, 6 months ago
Peter Rock : Spells
“Spells is a fascinating hybrid text, not simply illustrated by a collection of photographs but created in response to them, a collaboration between …
8 years, 7 months ago
Safiya Sinclair : Cannibal
“Sinclair crafts her stunning debut collection around the beauty & brutality of the word cannibal, whose origins derive from Columbus’s belief that t…
8 years, 7 months ago
Matthew Zapruder : Why Poetry
In Why Poetry, award-winning poet, translator, and editor, Matthew Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing…
8 years, 8 months ago