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Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a lively roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests including Tracie Morris, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, erica kaufman, Charles Bernstein, Sawako Nakayasu, Simone White, and others.

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Don’t Refuse to Breathe: A discussion of Frank O’Hara: “Song (Is it dirty)” & “Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)”

2023/06/28

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Robert von Hallberg, Charles Altieri, and Marjorie Perloff.

The Whole World Smiles: A discussion of John Giorno’s “Everyone Is a Complete Disappointment”

2023/05/22

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Brooke O’Harra, Michelle Taransky, and Chris Funkhouser.

Present Plans Succeed: A discussion of Dodie Bellamy’s “Vomit Journal”

2023/04/17

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Chantine Akiyama Poh, Henry Steinberg, and Murat Nemet-Nejat.

Woot of the Century: A discussion of “Welter” and “Static” by Douglas Kearney

2023/03/17

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Divya Victor, Whitney Trettien, and Dagmawi Woubshet.

Rhetorical Happenings: A discussion of Hoa Nguyen, “Long Light.”

2023/02/24

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Bethany Swann, Jonathan Dick, and Kate Colby.

Nothing Made of Ink: A discussion of seven poems by Lisa Fishman

2023/01/11

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Lisa Fishman, Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, and Laynie Browne.

Untranslatable: A discussion of Armand Schwerner’s “Tablet 25” & “‘daddy, can you staple these two stars together to make an airplane?’”

2022/12/22

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Jerome Rothenberg, Pierre Joris, and Charles Bernstein.

Downgraded to Scribble: A discussion of four poems from Dead Winter by Matvei Yankelevich

2022/11/25

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Ahmad Almallah, Huda Fakhreddine, and Kevin Platt.

Paw Mouthings: A discussion of Maggie O’Sullivan’s “Hill Figures” and “To Our Own Day”

2022/10/31

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Julia Bloch, Charles Bernstein, and Eric Falci. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery

2022/09/28

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Carlos Decena, Dagmawi Woubshet, and Abdulhamit Arvas.

Composition of Life, as Life: A discussion of Joan Retallack’s The Poethical Wager (a several-page excerpt)

2022/08/26

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Joan Retallack, erica kaufman, and Laynie Browne.

Girls in the Supply Chain: A discussion of Sawako Nakayasu’s book Some Girls Walk into the Country Where They Are From

2022/07/25

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Caroline Bergvall, Henry Steinberg, and Bethany Swann. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

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4.5 out of 5

100 reviews

Literally Upsidedown 2023/09/21

MFA via podcast

Feels like listening to an MFA seminar. Cool resource that’s taught me lots and opened my perspective on familiar and new poems.

Jeffreypoetbaltimore 2020/11/27

Something Imagined, not recalled.

Providing the original recordings of poets reading their work and the subsequent close readings provided by the podcast editors and guests gives me ho...

Daveiii 2019/09/18

Poem Talk? More Like Poem Rawk

Al Filreis has a gravely, made-for-radio voice in the tradition of Bobby Dylan and Tommy Waits. The conversations are insightful and inviting. The bre...

toshokes 2020/06/28

Men spoil things for me

What a shame it is to have a host for a poetry podcast - speak over guests - not taking standard cues of breaks and breaths - and curtailing and contr...

jahoolsbandana 2019/04/04

🐯

The best available poetry podcast.

ALham the fatAL 2019/04/10

Awful

I love poetry but the poems presented here are ‘meh’ at best, performed lazily, and the discussion that follows is nothing but effete say-nothingness ...

pb111 2010/12/01

entertaining and informative

The "close but not too close reading" descriptor that is used to open these podcasts is accurate. It is typically three folks chatting about what they...

atreble 2016/05/03

Keeps updating with 20 unplayed episodes

For some reason, over the past month or so, this podcast keeps updating with 20 unplayed episodes. The problem is, there are no new episodes...all 20 ...

petrarka 2009/03/10

An astonishing resource.

I recommend this podcast most highly to teachers, students, writers, & lovers of poetry. The conversation is spirited and unscripted; the choice of p...

Bob's yer uncle 2008/08/01

Good, but not too good

Nice podcast, but at times it sounds like exactly what it is: poets in a closed room talking about poetry. I have listened to the podcast for several...

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