VS
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The VS podcast is a bi-weekly series where poets confront the ideas that move them. Hosted by poets Ajanaé Dawkins and Brittany Rogers, produced by Cin Pim/Ombie Productions, and presented by the Poetry Foundation.
| Episode | Date |
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Brittany and Ajanaé vs. The Next Adventure
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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aja monet vs. Alignment
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Shaina Phenix vs. Firstborn Daughters
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Khadijah Queen vs. Intuition
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Rachel Eliza Griffiths vs. Privacy
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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VS Live! at Poetry Foundation: Cornelius Eady and Major Jackson vs. Legacy
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Jada Renée Allen vs. Drill
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Saúl Hernández vs. Monsters
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Barbara Fant vs. Joy
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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W.J. Lofton vs. Grief
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Hanif Abdurraqib vs. Obsession
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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m. mick powell vs. Celebrity Culture
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Tiana Clark vs. Burnout
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Deesha Philyaw and Kiese Laymon vs. Genre
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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VS Live! at AWP E. Hughes and Lue Hughes vs. Nostalgia
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May 27, 2025 |
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Nicole Sealey vs. Love
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May 13, 2025 |
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Omotara James vs. The Speaker
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Vanessa Angélica Villarreal vs. Magical Realism
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Amanda Johnston vs. The Present
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Chet’la Sebree vs. Etymology
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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VS Live at Furious Flower ft. Mahogany L. Browne and Yona Harvey vs. Sisterhood
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Alexa Patrick vs. Prom
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Ayokunle Falomo vs. Multiple Selves
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Sarah Ghazal Ali vs. Faith
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Tank and Jamila vs. Poetic Roots
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Daad Sharfi vs. The Law
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Farah Chamma vs. Language
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Bettina Judd vs. Theory
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Phillip B. Williams vs. Ours
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Jubi Arriola-Headley VS. Masculinity
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Sarah Lubala vs. Sentimentality
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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2023 Statement from the VS team
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Safiya Sinclair vs. The Sea
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Courtney Faye Taylor vs. Black Girlhood
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Willie Lee Kinard III vs. The Choir
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Samiya Bashir vs. Multiple Mediums
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Ariana Benson vs The Field
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Victoria Chang vs. Imagination
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Brittany and Ajanae vs. The Audience
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Ladan Osman vs. Changing Your Life
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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VS Live Aricka Foreman and Tommye Blount vs. Detroit Poetics
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May 23, 2023 |
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Jacqui Germain vs. Specificity
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May 09, 2023 |
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs vs. Chasing Awe
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Jos Charles Vs. Younger Jos
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Golden vs. The Self Portrait
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Toi Derricotte vs. Stillness
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Jericho Brown Vs. Process of Elimination
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Mia S. Willis vs. The Black Proverb
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Maya Marshall vs. Priorities
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Naomi Shihab Nye vs. Secret Lives
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Lupe Mendez vs. Reverence
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Joy Priest vs. Absurdity
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Joy Priest vs. Absurdity
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Wes Matthews vs. Wonder
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Kemi Alabi vs Divinity
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Remica L Bingham-Risher vs, Memory
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Danez & Franny VS Getting Grown
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Roll Call: Three Castles and the Music City
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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All The Apostles are Black, All the Saints Queer, and All of Them Are Brave (Pt.2)
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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All The Apostles are Black, All the Saints Queer, and All of Them Are Brave (Pt. 1)
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Roll Call: Gabrielle Civil vs. Black Time or the déjà vu
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Roll Call: Radical Literary Friendships
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Roll Call: Breaking the Line
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Roll Call: What the Water Carries?
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Us vs. The Finale
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Rachel McKibbens vs. Endings
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Sarah Kay vs. Sarah
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Douglas Kearney vs. Protection
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Cyrée Jarelle Johnson vs. Satisfaction
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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George Abraham vs. Returning
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Evie Shockley vs Gathering
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Aria Aber vs. Ruins
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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francine j. harris vs. Being a Hater
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Cynthia Dewi Oka vs. Spectacle
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Destiny O. Birdsong vs. Mess
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Shira Erlichman vs. The Unknown
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Carmen Giménez Smith vs. Amplification
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May 25, 2021 |
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Tommy Pico vs Instinct
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May 11, 2021 |
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Taylor Johnson vs. Listening
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Suzi F. Garcia vs. Oz
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Monica Sok vs. Survival
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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torrin a. greathouse vs. the Truth
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Eduardo C. Corral vs Closeness
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Ada Limón vs. Epiphany
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Naomi Shihab Nye vs. Hope
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Aracelis Girmay vs. Dirt
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Marilyn Chin vs. Fierceness
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Nandi Comer vs. La Lucha
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Randall Horton vs. the i
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Carl Phillips vs. the Erotic
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Ross Gay vs. Entanglement
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Airea D. Matthews vs. What Haunts
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Aurielle Marie vs. Audacity
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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John Murillo vs. The Business
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Michael Lee vs. Grief
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Cameron Awkward-Rich vs. Ambivalence
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Statement from the VS Team
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Paige Lewis vs. Tiny Things
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Chris Abani vs. Entanglement
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May 19, 2020 |
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You vs. the Prompts
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May 05, 2020 |
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Franny and Danez vs. the Mailbag
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May 05, 2020 |
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Tara Betts vs. the Mask
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Franny and Danez vs. the Couch
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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Aricka Foreman vs. the Depths
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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Toaster vs. Big Kid Energy
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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Parneshia Jones vs. 2020
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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VS Live with Patricia Smith at Chicago Humanities Festival
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Beyza Ozer vs. Taking Time
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Xandria Phillips vs. Digging vs. Running
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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VS Live at the Asian American Literature Festival with Cathy Linh Che, Joseph Legaspi, and Sarah Gambito
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Wo Chan vs. Drag
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Cathy Park Hong vs. Triumph
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Yanyi vs. the Personal
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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VS x Poetry Magazine Podcast Live in Portland with Eloisa Amezcua and Brenda Shaughnessy!
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Ilya Kaminsky vs. The Republic
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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Diana Khoi Nguyen vs. Silence
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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Morgan Parker vs. Now
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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VS Live in Mississippi w/ Helene Achanzar, Beth Ann Fennelly, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil vs. the Garden
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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Julian Randall vs. Forgiveness
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Derrick Harriell vs. the Clock
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May 28, 2019 |
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Joshua Nguyen vs. Hometown Heroism
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May 14, 2019 |
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Daniel Borzutzky vs. the Desert
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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Tasha vs. the Nest
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Camonghne Felix vs. Romance
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Pat Frazier vs. Solitude
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Don Share vs. 150,000 Poems
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Paul Tran vs. the Past
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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VS Live with Fatimah Asghar, José Olivarez, and Paul Tran
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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Jamila Woods vs. The Remedy
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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Kara Jackson vs. Titles
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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ReVS with Eve Ewing: Apocalypse Now
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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Jonathan Mendoza vs. The Movement
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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Kimiko Hahn vs. Portals
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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Jacob Saenz vs. The Block
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Oct 09, 2018 |
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H. Melt vs. Trans Liberation
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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Emily Jungmin Yoon vs. Femininity
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Sep 11, 2018 |
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Nate Marshall vs. Fear
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Angel Nafis vs. Observation
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May 29, 2018 |
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Safia Elhillo vs. Shame
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May 15, 2018 |
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Kaveh Akbar vs. Bewilderment
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May 01, 2018 |
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Britteney Black Rose Kapri vs. Black Queer Hoetics
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Jamaal May vs. The Multiverse
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Hanif Abdurraqib & Angel Nafis vs. AWP Live!
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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Tarfia Faizullah vs. Beauty
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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Knockouts
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Feb 27, 2018 |
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Franny and Danez's Season 1 Favorite Moments
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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VS Season 2: Coming March 6!
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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Krista Franklin vs. Time Travel
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Nov 14, 2017 |
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Kuumba Lynx vs. Transformation
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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avery r. young vs. the Page
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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Raych Jackson vs. the Good Books
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Erika L. Sánchez vs. High School
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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Natalie Diaz vs. the Lexicon
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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Casey Rocheteau vs. the Deck
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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Fatimah Asghar vs. the People
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Aug 01, 2017 |
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José Olivarez vs. Grownups
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Jul 18, 2017 |
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Eve Ewing Vs. the Apocalypse
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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Vs. Ep 0 - Preview
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Jun 14, 2017 |