PoemTalk at the Writers House
By Kelly Writers House
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PoemTalk at the Writers House, hosted by Al Filreis and based at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. PoemTalk is a collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing and Jacket2.org.
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Episode 219 - Be on good terms with your scars | Jake Marmer, Sophia DuRose, Michelle Taransky, and Ken Paul Rosenthal join Al Filreis in the Wexler Studio at Kelly Writers House to discuss two poems by Julia Vinograd, "Personal Poem" and "For Schindler's List and Other Things." | 6/29/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 218 - One song worth singing | George Fragopoulos, Chloe Tsolakoglou, and Christos Kalli join Al Filreis in the Wexler Studio at Kelly Writers House to discuss two sections from Book One and Two of George Economou's Ameriki. | 5/26/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 217 - Turn your life into a book | Pattie McCarthy, Sophia DuRose, and Elizabeth Willis join Al Filreis in the Wexler Studio at Kelly Writers House to discuss Willis's "To Be Longing" and "Motion Pictures" from Liontaming in America. | 5/6/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 216 - The impalpable fog | Claire Marie Stancek, Sarah Riggs, and Laynie Browne join Al Filreis in the Wexler Studio at Kelly Writers House to discuss Etel Adnan's "Return from London." | 3/23/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 215 - Knot know now | Sarah Riggs, Laynie Browne, and Lee Ann Brown join Al Filreis at the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation in New York City for a discussion of two poems by Stacy Doris: "Menage a trois" and "Month of Valentines." | 2/26/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 214 - The game is always on | Ernest Hilbet, Guy D'Annolfo, and Larry Robin join Al Filreis in the Writers House's Wexler Studio for a discussion of three poems by Thomas Devaney from Getting to Philadelphia (Hanging Loose Press, 2019): "The Blue Stoop," "Oregon Avenue," and "A Week | 1/17/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 213 - Momentary resting place | Charles Bernstein, Ariel Resnikoff, and Nicole Peyrafitte join Al Filreis for a special live taping in the Writers House's Arts Cafe to discuss two poems by recently departed poets Pierre Joris ("The word, the mawqif") and Jerome Rothenberg ("A letter t | 1/4/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 212 - Reflection affliction | The group gathers in the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss three poems from George Quasha's Hearing Other, the latest in his extensive Preverbs series: "Mind-degradable theory," "Verb at first sight," and "(Dis)play." | 11/3/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 211 - No snake no slick no stone | The group gathers in the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two poems by Ed Roberson: "The Motorcycle Crossing" and "To See the Earth Before the End of the World." | 9/22/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 210 - Make touch poems | The group convenes for a special live PoemTalk discussion of Muriel Rukeyser's "Waking This Morning." | 8/26/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 209 - F*** no to all that | The group gathers in the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss three poems from Sadie Dupuis's "Cry Perfume." | 6/27/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 208 - Vainglories of this Capitol | The group convenes for a special live session on the late Tyrone Williams's "Charon on the Potomac." | 5/6/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 207 - Words were gods | The group gathers in the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Rae Armantrout's "Further Thought" and "Here I Go." | 4/15/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 206 - The sonnet is wrong | The group gathers in the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Lewis Warsh's "Polar Night." | 3/28/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 205 - Radioaction Riding Regal | The group gathers in the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss June Jordan's "Financial Planning" and "Song of the Law Abiding Citizen." | 2/24/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 204 - To empty rooms | The group gathers in the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Horace Gregory's "Chorus for Survival" nos. 5 and 11. | 1/28/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 203 - Raw from the bellicose tumble | The group gathers in the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two versions of Callie Gardener's "Culture Warrior." | 12/24/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 202 - Every flower a reminder | The group gathers in the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss a six-page section from Harryette Mullen's Open Leaves, called "Chasing Dirt." | 11/21/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 201 - Your voice in my mouth | The group gathers in the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two poems from Trish Salah's Lyric Sexology Volume 1. | 10/23/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 200 - Our language is loaded | The group gathers in the Writers House's Arts Cafe for a special live taping to discuss two poems by Evie Shockley. | 10/7/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 199 - Not in the buy | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two poems by Edward Denby: "Subway" and "Ciampino envoi." | 8/26/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 198 - Beauty isn't enough | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss three poems from Larry Price's 1/0. | 8/5/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 197 - Walking the walk | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss four of Marjorie Welish's "Textiles." | 6/25/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 196 - A tide of voices | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Hart Crane's "The Harbor Dawn," as performed by Tennessee Williams. | 5/22/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 195 - Also I don't suffer | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss "The Austrian Maiden" and "Joe Brainard's Painting Bingo" by Richard Padgett. | 4/18/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 194 - Hack my name | The PoemTalk team travels to Scotland for a discussion at the Fruitmarket Arts Center in Edinburgh on two poems by Veronica Forrest-Thomson. | 3/21/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 193 - The colors of death | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Ariana Raines's "To the Reader," from A Sand Book (Tin House, 2019). | 2/16/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 192 - Of shredded love | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two poems by Owen Dodson: "For Billie Holiday" and "Sorrow Is The Only Faithful One." | 1/31/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 191 - Fracas in the hinterlands | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two Kenward Elmslie pieces, "Core Bonus" and "One Night Stand." | 12/21/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 190 - Watches don't shoot | The group gathers for a live session in the Kelly Writers House's Arts Cafe to discuss the eponymous piece from Aldon Nielson's book Tray (Make Now Press, 2017). | 11/20/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 189 - Humming in the vacancy | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Gregory Corso's 1969 performance of "Vision of Rotterdam." | 10/27/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 188 - To the goon ictus | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Ted Pearson's 1987 book-length poem, Catenary Odes. | 9/26/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 187 - Bray brassily | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two "Love Poems" by Mina Loy, from a recording and interview with Paul Blackburn and Robert Von Dias in 1965. | 8/28/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 186 - The dots move out | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss a version of Tina Darragh's "Wire Boxes" performed at the Line Reading Series in New York in February of 2001. | 7/28/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 185 - Don't refuse to breathe | The team hits the road and lands in Los Angeles at the home of Marjorie Perloff, where the group gathers to discuss two well-known poems by Frank O'Hara: "Poem" or "Lana Turner Has Collapsed!" and "Song (Is it Dirty)." | 6/28/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 184 - The whole world smiles | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss John Giorno's 1977 poem, "Everyone is a complete disappointment." | 5/22/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 183 - Present plans succeed | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss an excerpt from Dodie Bellamy's Vomit Journal. | 4/12/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 182 - Woot of the century | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two poems from Douglas Kearney's SHO (Wave Books, 2021): "Welter" and "Static." | 3/16/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 181 - Rhetorical happenings | The group gathers at the Writers House to discuss Hoa Nguyen's "Long Light," collected in Red Juice: Poems, 1998-2008 (Wave Books, 2014). | 2/23/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 180 - Nothing made of ink | The group travels to the Poetry Foundation in Chicago to discuss seven short poems from Lisa Fishman's Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition (Wave Books, 2020). | 1/11/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 179 - Untranslatable | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two poems by Armand Schwarner: "Tablet XXV" and "'daddy, can you staple these two stars together to make an airplane?'" | 12/20/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 178 - Downgraded to scribble | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Matvei Yankelevich's book of poems (or book-length poem), Dead Winter (Fonograph, 2022). | 11/24/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 177 - Paw mouthings | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two poems by Maggie O'Sullivan, "To our Own Day" and "Hill Figures," from In the House of the Shaman (Reality Street, 1993). | 10/30/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 176 - Touch, love, then explain | The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio for a fresh take on John Ashbery's iconic "Some Trees." | 9/27/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 175 - Composition of life, as life | The group travels to Bard College in the Hudson Valley to discuss the two opening paragraph's from Joan Retallack's essay "The Poethical Wager." | 8/26/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 174 - Girls in the supply chain | The group gathers at the Kelly Writers House to discuss four poems from Sawako Nakayasu's Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From (Wave Books, 2020). | 7/25/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 173 - When a name falls from a face (Divya Victor, 'Curb') | In this episode, the group gathers to discuss a selection of poems from Divya Victor's book Curb (Nightboat Books, 2021): three poems from the titular "Curb" series in the middle of the book ("Curb" 3, 4, and 5) and another poem, "Frequency (Alka’s Testimony)." | 6/15/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 172 - Trance of language (Harryette Mullen, 'Sleeping with the Dictionary' and 'Dim Lady') | In this episode, we talk about two prose poems in Harryette Mullen’s collection Sleeping with the Dictionary, published by California in 2002. The poems are “Dim Lady” and the title poem, “Sleeping with the Dictionary.” | 5/23/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 171 - Teach us love (Eugene Ostashevsky, 'Language' and 'The Anatomy of Monotony') | In this episode, our discussion takes us to the great Ostashevskyan topics — knowledge otherwise somehow alienated; language that embodies or transliterates a kind of violence; the (sound) differences between knowing and saying no (and similarities); his sincere (and doubtless Russian Absurdist-influenced) plea to “teach us love / teach us love / teach us love / teach us love” even though “We are wholly unfamiliar with it.” Because the episode was recorded before the February 24, 2022, Russian military invasion into Ukraine, listeners will have to reckon for themselves the many places in our conversation when we would no doubt have commented on the war (continuing at the time of the podcast’s release) and on the role of the avant-garde Russian American poet in relation to Russian cultures historical and contemporary. | 4/21/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 170 - Better to lose and win (Diane di Prima's 'Revolutionary Letters') | In this episode, the group discusses three poems from Diane di Prima's 'Revolutionary Letters' project: #16 (“We are eating up the planet”), #19 (“If what you want is jobs”), and #27 (“How much can we afford to lose before we win”). The project’s goals and modes of address shifted over time. Any single letter-poem, read separately from the others, might seem definitive — tonally evincing ideological as well as poetic choices having been made with apparent finality. Our decision to read and listen to three poems, forming a small sampler of the Letters, helped us understand and, through this hour-long chat, to convey the project’s quality as overall a series of variations; each thus is an instance of ways of thinking about poems’ social efficacy. | 3/14/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 169 - Far in toward the far end (Two poems from George Quasha's “preverbs”) | Al Filreis convenes Charles Bernstein, Anthony Elms, and Laynie Browne to talk about two poems by George Quasha. The book, published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2020, titled Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, consists of eight gatherings of preverbs; our two poems, coming from the final section — which bears the name of the book — are “self fast” (numbered 12) and “that music razors through” (numbered 13). The recordings we use in this episode can be found on PennSound’s extensive Quasha author page. These preverbs were recorded by Chris Funkhouser on December 27, 2017. | 2/11/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 168 - Hot and cold (Jayne Cortez, 'She Got He Got') | Today we are releasing episode #168 of PoemTalk, in which Amber Rose Johnson, Daniel Bergmann, and Yolanda Wisher meet up at the Kelly Writers House to talk with Al Filreis about Jayne Cortez's "She Got He Got". This poem/performance piece is comprised of a “She” half and an “He” half, she giving variations of hot, while he instantiates variations of cold. | 1/14/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 167 - Must it ring true (Myung Mi Kim, 'And Sing We') | Today we are releasing episode #167 of PoemTalk, in which Jack Giesking, Jonathan Dick, and erica kaufman meet up at the Kelly Writers House to talk with Al Filreis about Myung Mi Kim's "And Sing We" from Under Flag. | 12/22/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 166 - Coup created by our thoughts | Today's episode dives into Cecilia Vicuña's 'Colliding and not colliding at the same time'. The performance begins as the audience, having been encouraged to ask questions about an art video that had just been screened, went momentarily silent. No questions were being asked, so Vicuña began improvisationally to fill the room with words and sounds, exploring a convergence or collision of topics: the then-recent election of Donald Trump, the “millionaires’ coup” in Brazil, the “mystery of what is happening at this moment in the earth,” the collective thought of the people in the room, and the room itself. Edwin Torres, Huda Fakhreddine, and Jena Osman joined Al Filreis in the Arts Café at the Kelly Writers House to record this episode. | 11/24/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 165 - Punch fascists | Today, we talk about a poem by Stephen Collis that appeared in his book, A History of the Theories of Rain, published by Talonbooks in Vancouver in 2021. The poem is titled “Yes I Do Want to Punch” — and perhaps should be called “Yes I Do Want to Punch / fascists in the face,” proceeding to its key first line. The eco-poetic turn — an urgent one, although it can also be read as casual, even patient — from the power of a counter-violent radical reaction to a sweet comic catalogue of warblers occurs right at the beginning of the poem. One has no time to get one’s readerly bearings. | 10/18/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 164 - As words label space | This episode discusses a three-page section of Leslie Scalapino’s “‘Can’t’ is ‘Night’” — the passage having been chosen by the poet for It’s Go in Horizontal: Selected Poems, 1974-2006. Close listening and close reading: surely some manner of these, both, are required by every Leslie Scalapino work. The PoemTalk group sought to respect this in the very way in which they moved through the poem’s nonsequential parts and themes and offering of language problems. The poem is utterly political and supremely theoretical at once. No orderly proceeding through the poem beginning to end, nor any confident sense of the poem’s tone (about its borrowing of words and phrases), would disclose those remarkable qualiies. So, called upon by the poem’s “dis-placing” of its own parts, the group ventures toward its front lines, and then back again behind them. What “can’t” this poet do? | 9/27/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 163 - Perilous bodies | This episode features a poem by Daphne Marlatt called “Steveston, B.C.” We were joined by Davy Knittle, Jane Robbins Mize, and Karis Shearer. The poem is in a sense — although not quite exactly — the title poem in a much-admired book published in 1974. | 8/26/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 162 - In my rotting place | This episode presents a remarkable — freewheeling, energetic, yet comprehensive — discussion of a remarkable artist, Tuli Kupferberg. We considered two works by Tuli: “Morning, Morning,” among the most famous songs performed by The Fugs; and one of Tuli’s spoken-word pieces or “pop poems,” titled “No Deposit, No Return.” | 7/26/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 161 - This unwitting monument | The group convenes over Zoom to discuss Sarah Dowling's Entering Sappho (Coach House, 2020). | 6/14/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 160 - Biologically speaking | The group convenes over Zoom to discuss two well-known sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay, "I Shall Forget You Presently" and "Love Is Not All." (Coach House, 2020). | 5/14/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 110 - To rearrange the world | Stephen Ratcliffe, Joanne Kyger and Julia Bloch join Al Filreis in Bolinas, California to discuss Philip Whalen's "Life at Bolinas. The Last of California". | 2/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 109 - I mean only means | Siobhan Phillips, Emily Harnett, and Joseph Massey join Al Filreis to discuss Kate Colby's "I Mean" | 2/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 108 - But too beautiful | Camara Brown, Edwin Torres, and Brooke O’Harra join Al Filreis to discuss Tracie Morris's "Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful" | 1/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 107 - It is time | Pierre Joris, Anna Strong, and Ariel Resnikoff join Al Filreis to discuss Paul Celan's "Corona." | 12/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 106 - Dear conflicted reader | Mark McMorris, Mel Nichols, and Rob Casper join Al Filreis to discuss C.D. Wright's "One Big Self." | 11/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 105 - No truths self-evident | Kristen Gallagher, Kerry Sherin Wright, and Joshua Schuster join Al Filreis to discuss Michael Magee's "Morning Constitutional." | 10/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 104 - Explode for small change | Yolanda Wisher, Charles Bernstein, and Patricia Spears Jones join Al Filreis to discuss Akilah Oliver's "Is You Is or Is You Ain't." | 9/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 103 - Swear it closed | Rachel Zolf, erica kaufman, and Eileen Myles join Al Filreis to discuss four poems by Simone White from "Of Being Dispersed." | 8/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 102 - Mind's not right | Lisa New, Rafael Campo, and Christina Davis join Al Filreis for a special PoemTalk recorded at Harvard University to discuss Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour." | 7/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 101 - With what geometry | Simone White, Sophia Le Fraga, and Andrew Whiteman join Al Filreis to discuss Ed Dorn's "The Sundering U.P. Tracks." | 6/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 100 - PoemTalk Retrospective | Al Filreis and seven past PoemTalk guests convene for a special 90-minute celebration of PoemTalk's 100th episode: William Joe Harris, Tracie Morris, erica kaufman, Steve McLaughlin, Maria Damon, Charles Bernstein, and Herman Beavers. | 5/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 99 - The unabettable bleak | Julia Bloch, Joseph Massey, and Michelle Gil-Montero join Al Filreis to discuss four poems from William Bronk's book Finding Losses. | 4/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 98 - Weakness stalks in pride | Herman Beavers, Salamishah Tillet, and Chris Mustazza join Al Filreis to discuss James Weldon Johnson's "O Southland!" | 3/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 97 - Articulate beyond walls | Michael Kelleher, Daniel Bergmann, and Ron Silliman join Al Filreis for a discussion of three poems by Larry Eigner: "Again dawn," "A temporary language," and "Unyielding / rock." | 2/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 96 - The laurel crown | Peter Cole, Kathryn Hellerstein, and Ariel Resnikoff join Al Filreis to talk about Allen Grossman's "My Radiant Eye." | 1/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 95 - I too received identity | Michelle Taransky, Laynie Browne, and Rodrigo Toscano join Al Filreis to talk about Rob Fitterman's "Sprawl." | 12/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 94 - No spell broken | Trace Peterson, erica kaufman, and Gabriel Ojeda-Sague join Al Filreis to talk about CAConrad's "say it with grEEn paint for the comfort and healing of their wounds" and "from the womb not the anus WHITE asbestos snowfall on 911." | 11/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 93 - Dreams not spoiled by roaches | Corina Copp, Laura Sims, and Richard Deming join Al Filreis to talk about Helen Adam's "Cheerless Junkie's Song." | 10/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 92 - An abductee, in theory | Kristen Gallagher, Kathy Lou Schultz, and Bruce Andrews join Al Filreis to talk about Bob Perelman's "Confession." | 9/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 90 - The f***-you bow | Maxe Crandall, Julia Bloch, and Sarah Dowling join Al Filreis to talk about Gertrude Stein's "How She Bowed to Her Brother." | 7/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 89 - Requiem so sweet we forgot what it lamented | Tsitsi Jaji, Herman Beavers, and William J. Harris join Al Filreis to discuss Nathaniel Mackey's "Day after Day of the Dead." | 6/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 88 - Me no one will take | Maria Damon, Catherine Wagner, and Kaplan Harris join Al Filreis in New York City to discuss two poems Kathy Acker inserted into the middle of her novel "Blood and Guts in High School." | 5/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 87 - Amplitude and awe | Michelle Taransky, Cecilia Corrigan, and Lily Applebaum join Al Filreis to discuss two poems by Emily Dickinson, "She rose to His Requirement" and "Wild Nights - Wild Nights!" | 4/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 86 - The signature public | Alan Golding, Lily Applebaum, and Herman Beavers join Al Filreis to discuss two short poems by Tyrone Williams that appeared in his 2008 book, On Spec. | 3/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 85 - A day like any other | Bernadette Mayer, Julia Bloch, and Erica Kaufman join Al Filreis to discuss James Schuyler's "February." | 2/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 84 - The I as hieroglyph | Julia Bloch, Dee Morris, and Annette Debo join Al Filreis for an extended discussion on five selected small parts of H.D.'s lyrics epic, Helen in Egypt. | 1/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 83 - There it was | Susan Howe, Dee Morris, and Nancy Kuhl join Al Filreis to discuss William Carlos Williams's "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain." | 12/29/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 82 - Remote yet present | Anthony Madrid, Laura Goldstein, and Don Share join Al Filreis at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago for a special on-the-road discussion of Carl Rakosi's "In What Sense I Am I." | 10/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 81 - Deep descent | Laynie Browne, Rae Armantrout, and Kerry Sherin Wright join Al Filreis to discuss two short poems by Fanny Howe, "The Descent" and "The Source." | 10/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 80 - Fail better and revolt | Jenn McCreary, Joe Milutis, and Leonard Schwartz join Al Filreis to discuss a poem/audiotext from "Three Texts for Tape," by radical Scottish poet Tom Leonard. | 9/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 79 - Revolutionary vibe | Julia Bloch, Stephen Ratcliffe, and Pattie McCarthy join Al Filreis to discuss Joanne Kyger's "It's Been a Long Time: Notes from the Revolution." | 7/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 78 - How can they write and believe? | Amy King, David Abel, and Mytili Jagannathan join Al Filreis to discuss Muriel Rukeyser's "Ballad of Orange and Grape." | 6/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 77 - My other country | Jessica Lowenthal, Michelle Taransky, and Dee Morris join Al Filreis to talk about two short poems by Lorine Niedecker, "Foreclosure" and "Wilderness." | 5/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 76 - I'm coming up | Orchid Tierney, Stacy Szymaszek, and Pierre Joris join Al Filreis to discuss Anne Waldman's "To the Censorious Ones," or "Open Address to Senator Jesse Helms." | 5/1/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 75 - Strange galvanics | Tracie Morris, Kristen Gallagher, and Michael Magee join Al Filreis to discuss Will Alexander's "Compound Hibernation." | 3/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 74 - Word up | Amy King, Julia Bloch, and Tom Pickard join Al Filreis to discuss before a live audience Basil Bunting's 1977 performance of Walt Whitman's "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking." | 3/7/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 73 - Is it over already? | Patrick Durgin, Thom Donovan and Tyrone Williams talk with Al Filreis about Steve Benson's 2003 improvisation consisting only of questions | 1/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 72 - Gone is the word as word | Jaap Blonk, Danny Snelson and Steve McLaughlin joined PoemTalk producer and host Al Filreis to talk about Bob Cobbing's sound poem, "Portrait of Robin Crozier" | 11/20/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 71 - Constrained to honor | Herman Beavers, Salamishah Tillet, and Kathy Lou Schultz joined PoemTalk producer and host Al Filreis to talk about Claude McKay's widely anthologized sonnet, "If We Must Die" (1919) | 10/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 70 - On the convergence of war and wedding | Amy Paeth, Michelle Taransky, and Steve McLaughlin met up with PoemTalk's host Al Filreis to talk about one of the poems in Laura Mullen's book Enduring Freedom: A Little Book of Mechanical Brides (Otis Books, 2012). | 8/26/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 69 - Fierce storehouses of articulation: Rachel Blau DuPlessis, sections 16 and 29 of "Draft 85: Hard Copy" | In a special long episode of PoemTalk, Ron Silliman, Jessica Lowenthal, Randall Couch and PoemTalk's producer and host Al Filreis gathered to discuss two sections of "Draft 85: Hard Copy," which is the 85th "draft" or canto in Rachel Blau DuPlessis's ongoing long poem Drafts. | 5/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 67 - Girl head mostly eyes: Catherine Wagner, "This Is a F*****g Poem" | Rae Armantrout, Laura Elrick and Rachel Blau DuPlessis joined Al Filreis to talk about Catherine Wagner's "This Is a F*****g Poem." | 5/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 68 - Perhaps a new optimism: Ray DiPalma, "It makes of nonsense" | Aaron Shurin (then just in from the Bay Area), John Tranter (visiting from Australia), and Charles Bernstein (coming in from New York) joined Al Filreis for this episode of PoemTalk to discuss a poem by Ray DiPalma, "It makes of nonsense." | 5/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 66 - Deep heart's core sound: W.B. Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" | Taije Silverman, Max McKenna, and John Timpane joined Al Filreis to discuss William Butler Yeats's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" [text], surely his most famous early poem (written in 1888; published in 1890) and a staple of his poetry readings into the 1930s. | 5/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 65 - The day pours out space: Lisa Robertson, 'The Weather' | In October of 2000, Lisa Robertson presented along with Steve McCaffrey, reading from her then-new work,'The Weather'. | 4/23/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 64 - The straight path gone astray: Caroline Bergvall, "VIA" | Amaris Cuchanski, David Wallace, and Laynie Browne met at the Writers House to discuss Bergvall's remarkable performance piece and text "VIA". | 4/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 63 - I am a liturgy worsted: Laynie Browne, "Daily Sonnets" | PoemTalkers Jessica Lowenthal, Lee Ann Brown, and Sueyuen Juliette Lee gathered with Al Filreis to talk about five poems from Laynie Brown's "Daily Sonnets". | 3/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 62 - A space only you can build: Charles Alexander, "Near or Random Acts" | Al Filreis welcomes Mark Nowak, Ken Jacobs, and Ron Silliman to investigate Charles Alexanders "Near or Random Acts". | 1/29/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 61 - I can't get started: "Signature Song" by Bill Berkson | Marci Nelligan, David Kaufmann and Thomas Devaney dissect Bill Berkson's "Signature Song" with host, Al Filreis. | 1/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 60 - Whelm lessons: "Blues for Alice" by Clark Coolidge | Brian Reed, Maria Damon and Craig Dworkin break down "Blues for Alice" by Clark Coolidge with host, Al Filreis. | 12/17/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 59 - Yankee go home: Paul Blackburn's "7th Game: 1960 Series" | Ron Silliman, Daisy Fried and Joel Lewis delve into Paul Blackburn's "7th Game: 1960 Series" with host, Al Filreis. | 11/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 58 - Tired, poor, huddled, gentrified: Bernadette Mayer, "The Tragic Condition of the Statue of Liberty" | Anne Waldman, Julia Bloch and Katie Price come together at the Kelly Writers House to discuss Bernadette Mayer's "The Tragic Condition of the Statue of Liberty" with host, Al Filreis. | 10/16/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 57 - Cut from the same tongue: Gregory Djanikian, "Armenian Pastoral, 1915" | Peter Balakian, John Timpane and Jamie-Lee Josselyn gather to discuss Gregory Djanikian's "Armenian Pastoral, 1915" with host, Al Filreis. | 9/4/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 56 - Without house and ground: Charles Reznikoff | Peter Cole, Michelle Taransky and Harry Steinberg diagnose Charles Reznikoff's "Salmon and red wine" and "During the Second World War" with Al Filreis. | 7/31/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 55 - Find the missing line - Jennifer Moxley's "The Atrophy of Private Life" | Cathy Eisenhower, Christopher Schmidt, and Katie Price discuss Jennifer Moxley's "The Atrophy of Private Life" with Al Filreis. | 7/22/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 54 - The value of a pronoun - Ron Silliman, "You" | Bob Perelman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Frank Sherlock discuss Ron Silliman's "You" with guest host Michelle Taransky. | 6/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 53 - Obscure things have already been said - Joan Retallack's "Not a Cage" | Jena Osman, Jonathan Monroe, Danny Snelson discuss Joan Retallack's "Not a Cage" with host, Al Filreis. | 5/20/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 52 - Where the Real Exceeds the Ideal - Cole Swensen's "If a Garden of Numbers" | Ann Seaton, Michelle Taransky, Gregory Djanikian dissect Cole Swensen's "If a Garden of Numbers" with host, Al Filreis. | 5/4/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 51 - Why Apples Can Cause Riots - Linh Dinh's "Eating Fried Chicken" | Thomas Devaney, Susan Schultz, Leonard Schwartz talk about this work of apparently straightforward address yet tonal complexity with host, Al Filreis. | 3/31/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 50 - State of Error: Tom Raworth, "Errory" | Charles Bernstein, Michael Hennessey, and Marjorie Perloff gather at the Kelly Writers House to talk about Tom Raworth's poem, "Errory." | 2/28/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 49 - Writing slow-down: Discussion of P. Inman's "at.least." | Michael Golston, Danny Snelson, and Sarah Dowling join Al Filreis to talk about two short poems by P. Inman from his book "at.least." | 1/24/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 48 - Angelic Poems: Edgar Allen Poe, "Dream-Land" | A discussion of Poe's "Dream-Land" with Jerome McGann, John Timpane and Tom Devaney | 12/19/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 47 - Inalienable writes: Rosmarie Waldrop, "Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence" | Jessica Lowenthal, Julia Bloch, Johanna Drucker, and Al Filreis discuss Rosmarie Waldrop's "Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence" | 11/10/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 46 - Jackson Mac Low on Ezra Pound | Charles Bernstein, Pierre Joris, Joan Retallack, and Al Filreis discuss Jackson's Mac Low's Words nd Ends from Ez. | 10/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 45 - Poem Going Down the Drain | Charles Alexander, Sarah Dowling, and Michelle Taransky talk about "Snakes," a poem by Eileen Myles. | 9/27/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 44 - Fred Wah on race in Canada | Lisa Robertson, Jeff Derksen, Bob Perelman, Al Filreis, and Fred Wah himself, discuss Wah's poem "Race, to go" from the series "Discount Me In" which was published in the book "Is a Door." | 9/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 43 - John Wieners by night | Ammiel Alcalay, Gary Barwin, Danny Snelson, and Al Filreis discuss John Wieners's poem "The Acts of Youth" from his book "Ace of Pentacles" (1964). | 9/12/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 42 - Nathaniel Tarn's Eco-poetics | Marcella Durand, Burt Kimmelman, Erin Gautsche and Al Filreis discuss "Unravelling / Shock" from Nathaniel Tarn's book "Dying Trees." | 9/11/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 41 - Canto III of Ezra Pound | Richard Sieburth, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Kaplan Harris, and Al Filreis discuss Canto III of Ezra Pound | 3/1/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 40 - Dementia Blog | Leonard Schwartz, Michelle Taransky, Jamie-Lee Josselyn, and Al Filreis discuss Dementia Blog by Susan Schultz | 1/31/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 39 - After the Night Years | Herman Beavers, Tracie Morris, Jo Park, and Al Filreis discuss Etheridge Knight and Gwendolyn Brooks | 12/29/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 38 - Fischer's "I'd Like to See It" | Linh Dinh, Julia Bloch, Frank Sherlock, and Al Filreis discuss Norman Fischer's "I'd Like to See It" | 12/9/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 37 - Osman's 9/11 poem | Mark Nowak, Emily Abendroth, Jessica Lowenthal, and Al Filreis discuss Jena Osman's "Dropping Leaflets" | 11/2/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 36 - Writing through Imagism | Judith Goldman, David Pavelich, Don Share, and Al Filreis discuss H.D. "Sea Poppies," and Jennifer Scappettone "Vase Poppies" | 10/9/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 35 - Bruce Andrews is a trained listener | Tan Lin, Chris Funkhouser, Sarah Dowling, and Al Filreis discuss Bruce Andrews' "Center," from the book _Moebius_ | 8/24/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 34 - Charles Olson's Maximus | Bob Perelman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Charles Bernstein, and Al Filreis discuss Charles Olson's "Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 (withheld)." | 7/26/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 33 - flarfist Sharon Mesmer | Kenneth Goldsmith, Nada Gordon, Steve McLaughlin, and Al Filreis discuss Sharon Mesmer's "I Accidentally Ate Some Chicken and Now I'm in Love with Harry Whittington." | 6/22/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 32 - on Howe's Dickinson | Marcella Durand, Jennifer Scappettone, Jessica Lowenthal, and Al Filreis discuss Susan Howe's reading of Emily Dickinson's "My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun." | 5/24/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 31 - Grenier's sentences | Joseph Yearous-Algozin, Jena Osman, Bob Perelman, and Al Filreis discuss Robert Grenier's "Sentences" | 4/22/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 30 - favorite W.C. Williams | Robert Grenier, Charles Bernstein, Bob Perelman, and Al Filreis discuss two short poems from William Carlos Williams | 4/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 29 - Kit Robinson on mad men | Rae Armantrout, Linh Dinh, Tom Devaney, and Al Filreis discuss Kit Robinson's poem "Return on Word" | 3/3/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 28 - Spicer to shrink: drop dead | Julia Bloch, CA Conrad, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, and Al Filreis discuss Jack Spicer's "Psychoanalysis: An Elegy" | 2/3/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 27 - Duncan opens the field | Jeffrey Robinson, Charles Bernstein, Jerome Rothenberg, and Al Filreis discuss Robert Duncan's "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow" | 1/14/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 26 - wild Vachel Lindsay | Aldon Nielsen, Charles Bernstein, Michelle Taransky, and Al Filreis discuss Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo" | 11/30/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 25 - Alice Notley's America | Joe Milutis, Zack Pieper, Erica Kaufman, and Al Filreis discuss Alice Notley's "I the People" | 11/7/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 24 - Barbara Guest's new rose | Natalie Gerber, Randall Couch, Michelle Taransky, and Al Filreis discuss Barbara Guest's "Roses" | 10/19/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 23 - Cid Corman pees in pants | Frank Sherlock, Tom Devaney, Fran Ryan, and Al Filreis discuss Cid Corman's "Enuresis" | 10/7/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 22 - just begun to learn | Bob Perelman, Wystan Curnow, Charles Bernstein, and Al Filreis discuss Louis Zukofsky's Anew | 9/18/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 21 - Bernstein's restlessness ("In a Restless World Like This Is") | Marcella Durand, Hank Lazer, Eli Goldblatt, and Al Filreis discuss Charles Bernstein's "In a Restless World Like This Is" | 8/24/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 20 - Amiri Baraka's "Kenyatta Listens to Mozart" | Herman Beavers, Alan Loney, Mecca Sullivan, and Al Filreis discuss Amiri Baraka's "Kenyatta Listens to Mozart" | 7/27/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 19 - Bob Perelman's "The Unruly Child" | Tom Mandel, Sarah Dowling, Rodrigo Toscano, and Al Filreis discuss Bob Perelman's "The Unruly Child" | 7/7/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 18 - Lydia Davis has a position | David Grazian, Adrian Khactu, Jessica Lowenthal, and Al Filreis discuss Lydia Davis's "A Position at the University" | 6/9/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 17 - Rodrigo Toscano's poetics | Randall Couch, Linh Dinh, Emily Abendroth, and Al Filreis discuss Rodrigo Toscano's poetics | 5/12/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 16 - a discussion of Robert Creeley's "I Know a Man" | Randall Couch, Jessica Lowenthal, Bob Perelman, and Al Filreis discuss Robert Creeley's "I Know a Man" | 4/8/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 15 - a discussion of a poem from The Book of a Thousand Eyes by Lyn Hejinian | Tom Mandel, Bob Perelman, Tom Devaney, and Al Filreis discuss a poem from The Book of a Thousand Eyes by Lyn Hejinian | 3/9/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 13 - a discussion of Kathleen Fraser's "The Cars" | Al Filreis, C.A. Conrad, Kristen Gallagher, and Jessica Lowenthal discuss Kathleen Fraser's "The Cars" | 1/12/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 14 - a discussion of Wallace Stevens' "Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself" | Nada Gordon, Lawrence Joseph, and Charles Bernstein discuss Wallace Stevens' "Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself" | 1/3/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 12 - a discussion of Ezra Pound's America | Al Filreis, Charles Bernstein, Joshua Schuster, and Rachel Levitsky discuss Ezra Pound's America | 11/13/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 11 - a discussion of Erica Hunt's "The Voice of No" | Al Filreis, Elizabeth Willis, Julia Bloch, and Jessica Lowenthal discuss Erica Hunt's "The Voice of No" | 10/6/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 10 - one of Stein's portraits | Al Filreis, Jerome Rothenberg, Bob Perelman, and Lee Ann Brown discuss Stein's "Christian Berard." | 9/8/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 09 - Ashbery at a crossroads | Al Filreis, Gregory Djanikian, Tom Devaney and Jessica Lowenthal discuss Ashbery's "Crossroads in the Past" | 8/13/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 08 - Armantrout's "The Way" | Al Filreis, Ron Silliman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Charles Bernstein discuss Armantrout's "The Way" | 7/7/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 07 - Rothenberg's paradise | Al Filreis, Bob Holman, Jessica Lowenthal, and Randall Couch discuss Rothenberg's "A Paradise of Poets" | 5/28/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 06 - A Jaap Blonk sound poem | Al Filreis, Tracie Morris, Kenny Goldsmith, and Joshua Schuster discuss a Jaap Blonk sound poem | 5/4/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 05 - Ted Berrigan's "3 Pages" | Al Filreis, erica kaufman, Randall Couch, and Linh Dinh discuss Ted Berrigan's "3 Pages" | 4/3/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 04 - Ginsberg sings Blake | Al Filreis, Charles Bernstein, Jessica Lowenthal, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis discuss Ginsberg singing Blake | 3/3/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 03 - To know what one means: George Oppen's "Ballad" | Al Filreis, Linh Dinh, Jessica Lowenthal, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis discuss George Oppen's "Ballad" | 10/17/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 02 - No Place for Little Lyric: A Discussion of Adrienne Rich's "Wait" | Al Filreis, Linh Dinh, Jessica Lowenthal, and Randall Couch discuss Adrienne Rich's "Wait" | 9/21/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Episode 01 - on William Carlos Williams' "Between Walls" | Al Filreis, Linh Dinh, Jessica Lowenthal, and Randall Couch discuss William Carlos Williams' "Between Walls" | 8/2/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
For poets and the poetry curious
This is a wonderful podcast for those interested in learning an approach to contemporary poetry, often through “difficult“ poems, that encourages a variety of interpretations. The vibe is casual and congenial, while still maintaining an intellectual rigor. Archival recordings of the poets themselves are often included.
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