ME READING STUFF
By Robyn O'Neil
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This is simply me reading stuff. Poems, essays, letters, recipes, and whatever else feels alive in the moment — mixed with my own rambling thoughts, laughter, and honest reflections on life, art, and everything in between.
Think of it as having lunch with a good friend: warm, unfiltered, and admittedly a little bit strange. A space where we can escape together with books, encourage each other, and feel a little less alone.
Sincerely,
Robyn O’Neil
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Episode 418: Summer Break, Continued Delusions, and a Poem by Joshua Garvelink
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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Episode 417: C.K. Williams & Definitions of "Quiet"
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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Episode 416: ❣️This Podcast's 20th Anne Carson Episode❣️
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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Episode 415: 🏀Celebrating the Poetry of Sportstalk with Fan Favorite: Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion!🎾
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Episode 414: 🎙️The 11th Anniversary Special: The Poem That Started It All – "The Man on the Dump"
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Episode 413: Dionne Brand – "Islands Vanish" from Nomenclature
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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Episode 412: 📚Wendell Berry, Building Altars & Exhaustion
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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Episode 411: Taschen's The Book of Symbols: The Color Gray
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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Episode 410: Charles Simic & Anne Carson – A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker (1925-2025)
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May 20, 2026 |
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Episode 409: Andy Warhol - "Atmosphere" from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
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May 08, 2026 |
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Episode 408: Mason Currey – Daily Rituals: Women at Work (Octavia Butler & Martha Graham)
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Episode 407: Laurie Anderson - O Superman
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Episode 406: Mystery Poem Found in a Library Book
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Episode 405: Fuyue Anzai, Walt Whitman & Allen Ginsberg
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Episode 404: A Michael Silverblatt Tribute & a David Markson Reading
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Episode 403: Anne Boyer & Floor Piles
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Episode 402: The Public Domain Review & The Bold and the Beautiful
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Episode 401: An After Dark Special! Vasko Popa for Valentine's Day
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Episode 400: Geri Jewell - I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Episode 399: The World Book Encyclopedia - The Letter "A"
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Episode 398: Agnes Martin - On Beauty
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Episode 397: Nabokov, Merriam-Webster & Bad Documentaries
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Episode 396: MY 10th ANNIVERSARY EPISODE❣️ / C.K. Williams - Writers Writing Dying
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Episode 395: Lydia Davis - Priority (Again) & Answer Corner
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Episode 394: The Life of Northern Calloway (David from Sesame Street)
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Episode 393: Joshua Rivkin - In the Black (on Cy Twombly)
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Episode 392: Steve Zirnkilton - In the Criminal Justice System
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Episode 391: Sick Day
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Episode 390: Leonard Cohen - Book of Mercy
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Episode 389: Copy & Paste: The Cold Episode
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Episode 388: Encyclopedia Corner - Lighting & Lightning
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Episode 387: Letters of Note / E.B. White / My Voiceover
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Episode 386: Anne Carson - Short Talks
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Episode 385: Mary Ruefle & John Clare
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Episode 384: John D'Agata & Studio Update
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Episode 383: Franz Kafka & Katt Williams
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Episode 382: Catullus 85
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Episode 381: Emily Dickinson, Petrichor & Me
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Episode 380: "Part 1: Party" featuring words by Charles Simic & Melody Beattie
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Episode 379: Mike White - Levi's Letter from Rehab on "Enlightened" + RIP Charles Simic
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Episode 378: Eliot Weinberger - An Elemental Thing (The Rhinoceros)
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Episode 377: I'll Be Back!
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Episode 376: Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Episode 375: Anne Carson - The Albertine Workout
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Episode 374: Daniil Kharms - The Things
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Episode 373: Patrizia Cavalli - My Poems Won't Change the World
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Episode 372: Mary Ruefle - On Beginnings
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Episode 371: Mark Strand - The Mailman
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Episode 370: C.K. Williams & Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Episode 369: The Workaholics Anonymous Book of Recovery
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Episode 368: Robinson Jeffers - The World's Wonders
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Episode 367: Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women (again)
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Episode 366: Elsa Gidlow - Of a Certain Friendship
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Episode 365: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - Rest
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Episode 364: Patricia Highsmith - Her Diaries and Notebooks (and a conversation with Damien Jurado!)
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May 27, 2022 |
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Episode 363: Chika Sagawa - Composition in Three Primary Colors
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May 20, 2022 |
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Episode 362: Kevin Prufer - Black Woods (and Bill Callahan lyrics)
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May 16, 2022 |
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Episode 361: Yosef Ibn Zabara - My Ex - Look at These People - The Physician
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May 06, 2022 |
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Episode 359: The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, Edited by Eliot Weinberger
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Episode 358: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "A Starling"
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Episode 357: Mark Strand & Vladimir Nabokov
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Episode 356: Choi Seungja - Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Episode 355: Robert Creeley - A Day Book
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Episode 354: Kassia St. Clair - Acid Yellow
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Episode 353: Jameson O'Hara Laurens - Spell for a Drowning Man
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Episode 352: Graham Burnam - The Thing That Got My Fun
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Episode 351: Marlene Dietrich - Daily Rituals
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Episode 350: David Markson - This is Not a Novel
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Episode 349: Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco - Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language (Selected & Translated by Janet Hendrickson)
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Episode 348: Wislawa Szymborska - Nonreading
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Episode 347: Charles Simic - Dime-Store Alchemy
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Episode 346: Anna Akhmatova - Seventh Book
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Episode 345: Melody Thomas Scott - Always Young and Restless
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Episode 344: A.L. Snijders - Night Train (translated by Lydia Davis)
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Episode 343: Werner Herzog - Conquest of the Useless
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Episode 342: Kool Keith & Fran Lebowitz
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Episode 341: Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women (Yes, again)
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Episode 340: The School of Life Dictionary - Ugliness
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Episode 339: Keaton Patti - I Forced a Bot to Write This Book
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Episode 338: Etel Adnan - The Arab Apocalypse
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Episode 337: Marie Howe - What the Living Do
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Episode 336: Songs from the Quechua - Translated by Mark Strand
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Episode 335: Reader's Digest & Spike Carlsen
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Episode 334: Tomas Tranströmer - Below Zero
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Episode 333: Claudia Rankine - Intermission in Four Acts
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Episode 332: Samantha Irby - Wow, No Thank You
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Episode 331: Anne Carson - Short Talk on My Task
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Episode 330: Lawrence Wright - Going Clear
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May 06, 2021 |
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Episode 329: Arnaldo Gomez & Mercedes Mesen
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Episode 328: Li Ch'ing-chao
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Episode 327: Lydia Davis - Priority
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Episode 326: Aleksandar Ristović - Gingerbread Heart
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Episode 325: Double Mommy/Seduced and Betrayed - Lifetime Movie Club
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Episode 324: Eudaimonia - The School of Life Dictionary
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Episode 323: Antonio Machado - Fourteen Poems Chosen From Moral Proverbs and Folk Songs
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Episode 322: Toni Morrison - The Paris Review Interview
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Episode 321: Kassia St. Clair - The Secret Lives of Color
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Episode 320: A Scene from "Maps to the Stars", read by Damien Jurado!
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Episode 319: Rebecca Solnit - A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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Episode 318: Pavel Šrut - Fog is Fog is Fog
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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Episode 317: Moshe Ibn Ezra - Ivory Palaces
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Episode 316: The Poetry of Wang An-shih
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Episode 315: Joy Harjo - Perhaps the World Ends Here
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Episode 314: Jane Hirshfield - The Lives of the Heart
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Episode 313: The School of Life Dictionary - Anxiety
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Mark Strand (Book Recommendation #3) & SHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Truman Capote - In Cold Blood (Book Recommendation #2)
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red (Book Recommendation #1)
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Florine Stettheimer - Crystal Flowers
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Pavel Šrut - Worm-Eaten Time
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Eliot Weinberger - Angels & Saints
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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The School of Life Dictionary Part 2
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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The School of Life Dictionary
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Mostafa Nissabouri - Approach to the Desert Space
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Juan Gregorio Regino - Cantares
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Dawn Lundy Martin - From "Perspective is Supposed to Yield Clarity"
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Aug 15, 2020 |
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Robby's Chicken & Dumplings
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Kenneth Koch - Wishes, Lies, & Dreams
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May 26, 2020 |
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Texas Part 2! Mary Karr - County Fair
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May 15, 2020 |
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A Texas Podcast! Featuring a poem by Anselm Berrigan!
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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A Conversation with Damien Jurado! Part 2
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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A Conversation with Damien Jurado! Pt. 1
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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Laura (Riding) Jackson - Earth, Great Eyeball
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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Stephanie Goehring - From The Water [Inaudible]
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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The Proust Questionnaire
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Emily Dickinson - Fascicle Thirty-Five
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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(Before a Hiatus) Raymond Carver - Some Prose on Poetry
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Laurie Anderson - NYTimes Book Review Interview
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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Mary Ruefle - Super Bowl
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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Blaga Dimitrova - Old Song in a New Voice
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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Yehuda Amichai - In the Middle of This Century
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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C.D. Wright - In a Word, a World
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Shirley Jackson - Got a Letter From Jimmy
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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W.S. Merwin - Houses and Travellers
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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Contemporary Kazakh Literature
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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Mary Ruefle - Provenance & W.S. Merwin - Thanks
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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Charles Ramsey - Dead Givaway
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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Rolf Jacobsen - The Silence Afterwards
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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An After Dark Special! Hazel Hall - Habit
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Mary Ruefle - Halloween & Igor Barreto The Blind Plain
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Pablo de Rokha - Architecture of Dispersed Life
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Oct 26, 2019 |
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Interview with my Dad and poems from Mike Tyson & Herschel Walker
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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Mary Ruefle - Dunce (Long White Cloud)
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Sep 29, 2019 |
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Briceida Cuevas Cob - Sun with Spines
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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Mark Strand - Dark Harbor
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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Aristophanes - The Clouds
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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Anne Waldman - Stereo
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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Lydia Davis - Varieties of Disturbance
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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The White Pony - An Anthology of Chinese Poetry
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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Wislawa Szymborska - Here
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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Philip Guston & The Poets
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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Cole Swensen - Noon
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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William Carlos Williams - Paterson
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Mar 09, 2019 |
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Anna Akhmatova & A. R. Ammons
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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Mary Ruefle, David Drury, Tomas Transtromer & Nell Carter
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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David Foster Wallace - INFINITE JEST
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Jan 18, 2019 |
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T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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Jan 11, 2019 |
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Daily Rituals from Ann Beattie & Flannery O'Connor (BONUS! A short Anne Carson piece!)
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Jan 04, 2019 |
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Special Edition!
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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Lydia Davis & Vasko Popa
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Dec 01, 2018 |
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Pablo Neruda - Melancholy Inside Families
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Nov 19, 2018 |
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Eileen Myles - Harmonica
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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Georgia O'Keeffe - A Letter to Alfred Stieglitz
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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Reading Collage Night! (Rankine, Ruefle, Carson, Beattie, Ristovic)
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Oct 12, 2018 |
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Christopher Knowles - "Man Calculating (Crazy Eddie)" from "Einstein on the Beach" by Philip Glass
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Oct 05, 2018 |
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Marosa di Giorgio - I Remember Nightfall
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Sep 28, 2018 |
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Juan Gregorio Regino - I Know the World's Tongue
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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Vaslav Nijinsky - The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
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Sep 09, 2018 |
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Nan Shepherd - The Living Mountain
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Aug 31, 2018 |
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Tom O'Bedlam - Anonymous Mad Song ≈1620 (from Harold Bloom's How To Read & Why)
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Aug 26, 2018 |
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Pablo Neruda - Reject the Lightning
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Aug 13, 2018 |
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Joanne Kyger - The Art of Living Slowly
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Jul 27, 2018 |
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Donald Hall & Charles Schulz
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Jul 13, 2018 |
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Anne Boyer - No
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Jul 06, 2018 |
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Koko the Gorilla - I am Flowers
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Jun 25, 2018 |
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Mark Strand - Hermetic Melancholy
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Jun 16, 2018 |
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Anne Carson - Each Day Unexpected Salvation (John Cage)
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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Dubravka Ugresic - Pavlik Morozov
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Jun 01, 2018 |
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Jamaica Kincaid - The Letter From Home
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May 25, 2018 |
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Dusty Rhodes - Hard Time Blues
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May 17, 2018 |
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A Diary Entry from when I was in 6th Grade.
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May 02, 2018 |
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Vasco Popa - Before Play (Unrest-Field)
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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Ted Kooser - Pearl
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Apr 06, 2018 |
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Dubravka Ugrešić - Unknown Title
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Mar 23, 2018 |
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Andrew Weatherhead - The Origin of the World
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Mar 09, 2018 |
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Clarice Lispector - Near to the Wild Heart
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Mar 02, 2018 |
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Kevin Corrigan - Robyn O'Neil - W.S. Merwin
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Feb 23, 2018 |
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Charles Baudelaire - Spleen
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Feb 16, 2018 |
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Eliot Weinberger - An Elemental Thing (An After Dark Podcast!)
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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Vera Sola - Instrument of War (Virago)
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Jan 26, 2018 |
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Mark Borchardt - American Movie
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Jan 19, 2018 |
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Mary Ruefle - On Imagination
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Jan 12, 2018 |
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Martha Ronk - Baked Potato
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Jan 05, 2018 |
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Claudia Rankine - Citizen: An American Lyric
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Dec 29, 2017 |
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After Dark Special! Gary Snyder & Anne Carson
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Dec 27, 2017 |
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Danica Vukićević (translated by Charles Simic) - Ave
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Dec 21, 2017 |
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Anonymous (Alsea Tribe) - Moon Eclipse Exorcism
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Dec 15, 2017 |
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W.H. Auden - Musee des Beaux Arts
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Dec 07, 2017 |
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Wim Wenders - Paris, Texas - Sam Shepard/Harry Dean Stanton "I Knew These People"
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Dec 01, 2017 |
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Benjamin Horne of Twin Peaks - "I Loved That Bike" (An After Dark! Podcast)
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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Tomas Tranströmer - Below Zero
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Nov 23, 2017 |
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AFTER DARK! Elena Passarello - Animals Strike Curious Poses
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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Kaveh Akbar - Some Boys Aren't Born They Bubble
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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Marina Tsvetaeva - Letter to the Amazon
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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Mark Strand - From a Litany
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Oct 20, 2017 |
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Etel Adnan - An Etel Adnan Reader
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Oct 12, 2017 |
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Dulce María Loynaz - Selected Poems
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Oct 05, 2017 |
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A Short Talk w/ My Dad & Anne Carson - Short Talks
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Sep 28, 2017 |
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Herschel Walker - Multiple Herschels from Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion by Pasha Malla & Jeff Parker
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Sep 15, 2017 |
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Jessie Redmon Fauset - Oblivion
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Sep 07, 2017 |
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John Ashbery - They Knew What They Wanted
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Sep 03, 2017 |
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Mary Ruefle - Middle School
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Jul 27, 2017 |
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Rainer Maria Rilke - The Poet Speaks of Praising
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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2nd Anniversary Special & Contest Announcement!
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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Blaga Dimitrova - Ars Poetica
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Jun 16, 2017 |
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Sam Shepard - Promising Two-Year Old & Mark Strand - Exhaustion at Sunset
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May 18, 2017 |
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I'm Back! May Sarton - The House by the Sea
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May 12, 2017 |
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Back Issue Exclusive! Catullus, Anna Akhmatova, Joe Brainard
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Apr 28, 2017 |
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Back Issue Exclusive! Mark Strand-Some Last Words
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Apr 20, 2017 |
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Back Issue Exclusive! Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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Back Issue Exclusive! Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion - The Poetry of Sportstalk by Pasha Malla & Jeff Parker
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Apr 06, 2017 |
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Jared Stanley - EARS
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Mar 30, 2017 |
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Cole Swensen - SHOULD SOMETHING HAPPEN TO THE HEART
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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Wallace Stevens - The Plot Against the Giant
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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Catullus - Odi et Amo & What For?
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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David Markson - This Is Not A Novel
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Mar 02, 2017 |
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Eileen Myles - San Diego Poem
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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Denise Levertov - Goodbye to Tolerance (An After Dark episode!)
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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Patricia Highsmith - The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder
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Feb 16, 2017 |
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Paavo Haavikko - Fifteen Epigrams in Praise of the Tyrant
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Feb 09, 2017 |
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John Wieners - Selected Journals
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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Kenneth Koch - To You
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Jan 26, 2017 |
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Mary Ruefle - The Woman Who Couldn't Describe a Thing If She Could
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Jan 19, 2017 |
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Werner Herzog - Of Walking in Ice
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Jan 12, 2017 |
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Mary Ruefle - My Private Property (Like a Scarf) (An After Dark Episode!)
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Jan 11, 2017 |
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Back Issue Exclusive! Anne Boyer
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Jan 05, 2017 |
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Back Issue Exclusive! Anna Kamieńska
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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Back Issue Exclusive! Uncle Bill Borchardt from American Movie
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Dec 22, 2016 |
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Robert Yarber's Artist Statement
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Dec 15, 2016 |
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Mirabai - His Hair & All I Was Doing Was Breathing
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Dec 08, 2016 |
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Donald Revell - Muse
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Dec 01, 2016 |
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W.S. Merwin - Thanks
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Nov 24, 2016 |
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C.K. Williams - Apes
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Nov 17, 2016 |
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Claudia Rankine - Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
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Nov 10, 2016 |
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Tao Lin - promise i'll vote for you
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Nov 03, 2016 |
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Jean Henri Fabre's BOOK OF INSECTS
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Oct 27, 2016 |
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Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red
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Oct 20, 2016 |
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Gabriela Mistral & Alfonsina Storni
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Oct 13, 2016 |
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Rolf Jacobsen - Some People
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Oct 06, 2016 |
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Daniil Kharms - A Sonnet
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Sep 29, 2016 |
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Ted Kooser - Praying Hands
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Sep 22, 2016 |
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An excerpt from Shijing & Gwendolyn Brooks - "We Real Cool" (An After Dark episode!)
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Sep 21, 2016 |
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Alida Young - Megan the Klutz
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Sep 15, 2016 |
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Mark Strand - Two Horses
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Sep 08, 2016 |
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Novica Tadić - NIGHT MAIL (An After Dark Podcast!)
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Sep 07, 2016 |
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Seamus Heaney - The Birthplace
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Sep 01, 2016 |
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César Vallejo - XXVIII (from Trilce)
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Aug 25, 2016 |
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Kanye West - The McDonald's Man, Calabasas, California (An After Dark Podcast!)
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Aug 21, 2016 |
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Virginia Woolf - The Waves
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Aug 18, 2016 |
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Joe Brainard - I Remember
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Aug 11, 2016 |
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Alejandra Pizarnik - PRIMITIVE EYES
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Aug 04, 2016 |
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After Dark! Oliverio Girondo - At the gravitating turning
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Aug 01, 2016 |
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Vasko Popa - Respect for the Axle
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Jul 28, 2016 |
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Rebecca Solnit - A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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Jul 21, 2016 |
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Steve Edwards - Fatherhood: Ruining the Writing Career, Saving the Writing
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Jul 14, 2016 |
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After Dark! John D'Agata - The Making of the American Essay
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Jul 11, 2016 |
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Kay Ryan - Things Shouldn't Be So Hard & Force
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Jul 07, 2016 |
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Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion - The Poetry of Sportstalk
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Jul 04, 2016 |
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Tomas Tranströmer - The Scattered Congregation & The Recent Tweets of Oprah Winfrey
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Jun 30, 2016 |
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Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
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Jun 27, 2016 |
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Heidi Montag - Superficial
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Jun 23, 2016 |
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The One Year Anniversary of ME READING STUFF!
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Jun 20, 2016 |
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Lucille Clifton - blessing the boats
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Jun 16, 2016 |
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Stephen Crane - God Lay Dead in Heaven
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Jun 13, 2016 |
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Emily Dickinson - To Recipient Unknown
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Jun 09, 2016 |
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William Carlos Williams - The crowd at the ball game
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Jun 06, 2016 |
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Oliver Sacks from Daily Rituals
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Jun 02, 2016 |
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Daphne Gottlieb - Why Things Burn
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May 30, 2016 |
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Juan Ramón Jiménez - Who Knows What Is Going On
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May 26, 2016 |
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Ghalib - My Head and My Knees
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May 23, 2016 |
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AFTER DARK! César Vallejo - The Anger That Breaks a Man Down into Boys
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May 22, 2016 |
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Mark Strand - From a Litany
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May 19, 2016 |
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Wisława Szymborska - Identification
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May 16, 2016 |
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Uncle Bill Borchardt - Be a Comedian
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May 12, 2016 |
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Rebecca Lindenberg - Letter to a Friend, Unsent
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May 09, 2016 |
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Marianne Moore - Observations
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May 05, 2016 |
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Popul Vuh - The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life
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May 02, 2016 |
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C.K. Williams - Writers Writing Dying
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Apr 29, 2016 |
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Andrew James Weatherhead - THINGS THE PHOTOSHOP INSTRUCTOR SAID AND DID
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Apr 25, 2016 |
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Emily Dickinson & Philip Larkin
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Apr 21, 2016 |
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons
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Apr 18, 2016 |
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AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) Juliana Spahr - Thrashing Seems Crazy
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Apr 17, 2016 |
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Theodor Storm & Heinrich Heine
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Apr 14, 2016 |
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Vasko Popa - The Wolf Bastard & Give Me Back My Rags
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Apr 11, 2016 |
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Pablo Neruda - Walking Around
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Apr 07, 2016 |
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Miroslav Holub - Dreams
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Apr 04, 2016 |
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Carl Sandburg - Wilderness
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Mar 31, 2016 |
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Charles Simic - The World Doesn't End
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Mar 28, 2016 |
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Ramblin' Robby on the Road Reading about Samuel Beckett & Richard Strauss from "Daily Rituals"
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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Kathryn Maris - The House with Only an Attic and a Basement
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Mar 21, 2016 |
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Gwendolyn Brooks - a song in the front yard
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Mar 17, 2016 |
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Anne Carson - The Life of Towns
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Mar 14, 2016 |
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Katherine Anne Porter, an interview from Writers at Work, The Paris Review 1963
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Mar 10, 2016 |
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Bonus Round! James Galvin - Blue or Green
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Mar 09, 2016 |
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Wislawa Szymborska - Here
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Mar 07, 2016 |
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Edna St. Vincent Millay - Dirge Without Music
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Mar 03, 2016 |
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AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) Yehuda Amichai - Poems for a Woman
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Mar 03, 2016 |
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Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) - Ted's Studio Burnt Down & How To Do It
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Feb 29, 2016 |
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Sohrab Sepehri - Friend
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Feb 25, 2016 |
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Theodore Roethke - The Surly One & The Swan
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Feb 22, 2016 |
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Allen Ginsberg - Wichita Vortex Sutra
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Feb 18, 2016 |
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Mark Halliday - Self-Importance
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Feb 15, 2016 |
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Derrick Austin - Taking My Father and Brother to The Frick
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Feb 11, 2016 |
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AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) Anonymous 12th century poetry & so much more.
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Feb 11, 2016 |
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Hadewijch - LOVE HAS SEVEN NAMES
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Feb 08, 2016 |
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Chögyam Trungpa - SHAMBHALA (sorry friends, this one went a little long)
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Feb 04, 2016 |
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Jack Spicer - Any fool can get into an ocean . . .
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Feb 01, 2016 |
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Catullus, Anna Akhmatova, Joe Brainard
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Jan 28, 2016 |
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Charles Simic - The Magic Study of Happiness
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Jan 25, 2016 |
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Mark Strand - The President's Resignation
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Jan 21, 2016 |
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Anna Kamieńska - Funny
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Jan 18, 2016 |
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Mary Karr - Suicide's Note: An Annual
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Jan 14, 2016 |
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Rainer Maria Rilke - You Who Never Arrived
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Jan 11, 2016 |
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Rafael Alberti - To Miss X, Buried in the West Wind
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Jan 07, 2016 |
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After Dark! (a bonus episode) Jorie Graham - Soul Says
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Jan 07, 2016 |
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Robert Hass - Our Lady of the Snows
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Jan 04, 2016 |
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Jean Valentine - The Knife
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Dec 31, 2015 |
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Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
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Dec 28, 2015 |
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Saturday Night Recorded! Czeslaw Milosz "Song On The End Of The World"
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Dec 27, 2015 |
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Albert Goldbarth - Human Beauty
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Dec 24, 2015 |
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Tomas Tranströmer - Answers to Letters
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Dec 21, 2015 |
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William Stafford - The Way It Is
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Dec 18, 2015 |
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Kobayashi Issa - Death Poem (haiku)
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Dec 15, 2015 |
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Paramahansa Yogananda - Scientific Healing Affirmations
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Dec 10, 2015 |
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Ted Kooser - They Had Torn Off My Face at the Office
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Dec 07, 2015 |
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Anne Boyer - AT LEAST TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE
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Dec 03, 2015 |
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Kenneth Fearing - Invitation
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Nov 30, 2015 |
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Dylan Thomas - Do not go gentle into that good night
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Nov 26, 2015 |
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Leonard Cohen - How To Speak Poetry
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Nov 23, 2015 |
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Mark Strand - Some Last Words
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Nov 19, 2015 |
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Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red
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Nov 16, 2015 |
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Kenneth Fearing - Andy and Jerry and Joe
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Nov 12, 2015 |
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Luke Davies - Interferon Psalms
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Nov 09, 2015 |
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Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women
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Nov 05, 2015 |
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H.D. - The Wind Sleepers
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Nov 02, 2015 |
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Halloween Bonus Round! Edgar Allan Poe - Annabel Lee
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Oct 31, 2015 |
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Sylvia Plath - Daddy
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Oct 29, 2015 |
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Russell Edson - Ape and Coffee & Antimatter
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Oct 26, 2015 |
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AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) William Stafford & William Meredith
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Oct 25, 2015 |
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Jorge Luis Borges - The Palace & Yehuda Amichai - A Man in His Life
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Oct 22, 2015 |
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Stephanie Goehring - Self-portrait as Craig's List Ad for a Fun Afternoon
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Oct 19, 2015 |
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Margaret Atwood - Mute
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Oct 15, 2015 |
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Patrizia Cavalli & Rafael Alberti
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Oct 12, 2015 |
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Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties & Valéry Larbaud "The Gift of Oneself"
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Oct 08, 2015 |
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Naomi Shihab Nye - One Boy Told Me
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Oct 05, 2015 |
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AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) William Gass - On Being Blue, A Philosophical Inquiry
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Oct 04, 2015 |
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C.K. Williams "Shame" & Vasko Popa "Before the Game"
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Oct 01, 2015 |
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Etheridge Knight - Feeling Fucked Up
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Sep 28, 2015 |
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Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion - The Poetry of Sportstalk by Pasha Malla & Jeff Parker
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Sep 24, 2015 |
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C.K. Williams - Wait
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Sep 21, 2015 |
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AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) Osip Mandelstam & Don Paterson
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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Evan Dalton Smith - Self-Portrait as My Name & Self-Portrait at Conception
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Sep 17, 2015 |
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Ingeborg Bachmann, poems.
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Sep 14, 2015 |
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Jessica Hagedorn - Sorcery
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Sep 10, 2015 |
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LIVE FROM VEGAS! Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
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Sep 07, 2015 |
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The Winners of the "Channing Tatum Attempts To Write Erotic Poetry" Contest Are Announced!
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Sep 03, 2015 |
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Walt Whitman - Song of Myself (1892)
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Aug 31, 2015 |
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Margaret Atwood-Variation On The Word Sleep & The Moment
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Aug 27, 2015 |
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CHANNING TATUM EROTIC POETRY CONTEST! A description of the contest & an entry.
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Aug 26, 2015 |
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Margaret Atwood - Happy Endings
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Aug 24, 2015 |
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Theodore Roethke - Elegy for Jane (My Student, Thrown by a Horse)
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Aug 20, 2015 |
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Gertrude Stein-Advertisements & Evian Water from "Geography and Plays", 1922
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Aug 17, 2015 |
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AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) Frank O'Hara - As Planned & a surprise entry to the erotic poetry contest!
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Aug 16, 2015 |
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Hafez - At This Party, An Astronomical Question, Find a Better Job, All the Hemispheres - Hafiz
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Aug 13, 2015 |
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Donald Hall - Affirmation
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Aug 10, 2015 |
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Sarah Manguso - Siste Viator - Ancient Gods Walk the Earth
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Aug 06, 2015 |
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Leonard Cohen-A Note To The Reader & Rainer Maria Rilke - Put Our My Eyes & The Poet Speaks of Praising
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Aug 03, 2015 |
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Emily Moore-Auld Lang Syne
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Jul 30, 2015 |
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e.e. cummings - my father moved through dooms of love
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Jul 27, 2015 |
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Heather Christle - I Can't Swim & Reading Is Basically Impossible
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Jul 23, 2015 |
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Tennessee Williams - Blue Song
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Jul 20, 2015 |
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Jason Preu - Billy Jean King
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Jul 19, 2015 |
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Heinrich Heine & Frank Stanford & Robinson Jeffers
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Jul 16, 2015 |
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Vasko Popa - Give Me Back My Rags IV & A Forgetful Number
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Jul 13, 2015 |
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Lydia Davis - I'm Pretty Comfortable But I Could Be a Little More Comfortable
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Jul 06, 2015 |
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John Berryman - Dream Song 22 - Of 1826
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Jul 02, 2015 |
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Charles Bukowski - The Genius of the Crowd
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Jun 29, 2015 |
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Anne Carson - Glass, Irony & God
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Jun 25, 2015 |
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Mark Strand - The Continuous Life & Rafael Alberti - Song
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Jun 22, 2015 |
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Yehuda Amichai - Try To Remember Some Details
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Jun 22, 2015 |
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Carson McCullers - Stone Is Not Stone
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Jun 22, 2015 |
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Vladimir Nabokov - Bend Sinister
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Jun 22, 2015 |
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Wallace Stevens - The Man On The Dump
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Jun 22, 2015 |