Close Readings
By Kamran Javadizadeh
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Episodes: 55
Description
One poem. One guest. Each episode, Kamran Javadizadeh, a poetry critic and professor of English, talks to a different leading scholar of poetry about a single short poem that the guest has loved. You'll have a chance to see the poem from the expert's perspective—and also to think about some big questions: How do poems work? What can they make happen? How might they change our lives?
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Siobhan Phillips on Marianne Moore ("Armor's Undermining Modesty")
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Megan Quigley on T. S. Eliot ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock")
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Daniel Katz on Jack Spicer ("Psychoanalysis: An Elegy")
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Lindsay Turner on Alice Notley (Waltzing Matilda: "Dec. 12, 1980")
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Joyelle McSweeney on Alice Notley (The Descent of Alette)
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Nick Sturm on Alice Notley ("At Night the States")
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Huda Fakhreddine on Hiba Abu Nada ("Pull Yourself Together")
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May 13, 2024 |
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Emily Wilson on Sappho ("Ode to Aphrodite")
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Robert Volpicelli on W. H. Auden ("In Memory of W. B. Yeats")
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Margaret Ronda on Walt Whitman ("This Compost")
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Michelle A. Taylor on Patricia Lockwood ("The Ode on Grecian Urn")
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Sylvie Thode on Tim Dlugos ("The Far West")
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Marisa Galvez on William IX ("The Song of Nothing")
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Stephanie Burt on Allan Peterson ("I thought all life came from the alphabet")
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Paul Fry on William Wordsworth ("A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal")
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Keegan Cook Finberg on Harryette Mullen ("Dim Lady")
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Eric Lindstrom on James Schuyler ("Empathy and New Year")
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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David B. Hobbs on George Oppen ("Ballad")
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Jahan Ramazani on Derek Walcott ("A Far Cry from Africa")
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Elisa Gabbert on Sylvia Plath ("Lady Lazarus")
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Hanif Abdurraqib on Umang Kalra ("Job Security")
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Ellen Bryant Voigt on Louise Glück ("Brooding Likeness")
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Langdon Hammer on Louise Glück ("A Foreshortened Journey")
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Elisa Gonzalez on Louise Glück ("A Village Life")
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Jeff Dolven on Sir Thomas Wyatt ("They Flee from Me")
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Matthew Zapruder on James Tate ("Quabbin Reservoir")
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Priscilla Gilman on William Cowper ("The Castaway")
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Kristin Grogan on Lorine Niedecker ("Poet's Work")
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Gillian White on Elizabeth Bishop ("Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance")
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Walt Hunter on Gwendolyn Brooks ("kitchenette building")
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Evan Kindley on Kenneth Koch ("One Train May Hide Another")
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May 29, 2023 |
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Johanna Winant on Emily Dickinson ("My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun —")
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May 22, 2023 |
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Dan Chiasson on William Butler Yeats ("Among School Children")
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May 15, 2023 |
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Sarah Osment on David Berman ("Governors on Sominex")
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May 08, 2023 |
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Andrew Epstein on John Ashbery ("Street Musicians")
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May 01, 2023 |
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Harris Feinsod on William Carlos Williams ("To Elsie")
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Virginia Jackson on Phillis Wheatley ("To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth")
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Willard Spiegelman on Amy Clampitt ("Losing Track of Language")
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Oren Izenberg on Allen Grossman ("The Life and Death Kisses")
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Maya C. Popa on Gerard Manley Hopkins ("Spring and Fall")
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Evie Shockley on Ed Roberson ("Open / Back Up (breadth of field)")
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Kimberly Quiogue Andrews on Wallace Stevens ("Man Carrying Thing")
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Eric Lindstrom on James Schuyler ("February")
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Beci Carver on Thomas Hardy ("The Voice")
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Christopher Spaide on Terrance Hayes ("The Golden Shovel")
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Sarah Dowling on Liz Howard ("True Value")
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Stephanie Burt on Randall Jarrell ("The Player Piano")
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Katie Kadue on Andrew Marvell ("The Garden")
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Anthony Reed on June Jordan ("In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.")
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Lindsay Turner on Elizabeth Bishop ("The Shampoo")
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Stephen Guy-Bray on George Herbert ("Prayer [I]")
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Langdon Hammer on James Merrill ("Christmas Tree")
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Anahid Nersessian on John Keats ("Ode to Psyche")
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Brian Glavey on Frank O'Hara ("Having a Coke with You")
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Teaser
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Nov 29, 2022 |