PoemTalk at the Writers House
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PoemTalk at the Writers House, hosted by Al Filreis and based at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. PoemTalk is a collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing and Jacket2.org.
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Episode 218 - One song worth singing
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May 26, 2026 |
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Episode 217 - Turn your life into a book
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May 06, 2026 |
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Episode 216 - The impalpable fog
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Episode 215 - Knot know now
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Episode 214 - The game is always on
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Episode 213 - Momentary resting place
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Episode 212 - Reflection affliction
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Episode 211 - No snake no slick no stone
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Episode 210 - Make touch poems
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Episode 209 - F*** no to all that
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Episode 208 - Vainglories of this Capitol
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May 06, 2025 |
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Episode 207 - Words were gods
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Episode 206 - The sonnet is wrong
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Episode 205 - Radioaction Riding Regal
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Episode 204 - To empty rooms
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Episode 203 - Raw from the bellicose tumble
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Episode 202 - Every flower a reminder
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Episode 201 - Your voice in my mouth
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Episode 200 - Our language is loaded
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Episode 199 - Not in the buy
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Episode 198 - Beauty isn't enough
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Episode 197 - Walking the walk
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Episode 196 - A tide of voices
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May 22, 2024 |
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Episode 195 - Also I don't suffer
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Episode 194 - Hack my name
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Episode 193 - The colors of death
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Episode 192 - Of shredded love
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Episode 191 - Fracas in the hinterlands
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Episode 190 - Watches don't shoot
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Episode 189 - Humming in the vacancy
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Episode 188 - To the goon ictus
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Episode 187 - Bray brassily
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Episode 186 - The dots move out
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Episode 185 - Don't refuse to breathe
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Episode 184 - The whole world smiles
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May 22, 2023 |
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Episode 183 - Present plans succeed
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Episode 182 - Woot of the century
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Episode 181 - Rhetorical happenings
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Episode 180 - Nothing made of ink
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Episode 179 - Untranslatable
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Episode 178 - Downgraded to scribble
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Episode 177 - Paw mouthings
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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Episode 176 - Touch, love, then explain
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Episode 175 - Composition of life, as life
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Episode 174 - Girls in the supply chain
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Episode 173 - When a name falls from a face (Divya Victor, 'Curb')
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Episode 172 - Trance of language (Harryette Mullen, 'Sleeping with the Dictionary' and 'Dim Lady')
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May 23, 2022 |
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Episode 171 - Teach us love (Eugene Ostashevsky, 'Language' and 'The Anatomy of Monotony')
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Episode 170 - Better to lose and win (Diane di Prima's 'Revolutionary Letters')
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Episode 169 - Far in toward the far end (Two poems from George Quasha's “preverbs”)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Episode 168 - Hot and cold (Jayne Cortez, 'She Got He Got')
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Episode 167 - Must it ring true (Myung Mi Kim, 'And Sing We')
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Episode 166 - Coup created by our thoughts
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Episode 165 - Punch fascists
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Episode 164 - As words label space
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Episode 163 - Perilous bodies
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Episode 162 - In my rotting place
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Episode 161 - This unwitting monument
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Episode 160 - Biologically speaking
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May 14, 2021 |
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Episode 110 - To rearrange the world
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Feb 24, 2017 |
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Episode 109 - I mean only means
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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Episode 108 - But too beautiful
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Jan 03, 2017 |
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Episode 107 - It is time
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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Episode 106 - Dear conflicted reader
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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Episode 105 - No truths self-evident
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Oct 17, 2016 |
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Episode 104 - Explode for small change
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Sep 13, 2016 |
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Episode 103 - Swear it closed
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Aug 09, 2016 |
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Episode 102 - Mind's not right
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Jul 12, 2016 |
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Episode 101 - With what geometry
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Jun 14, 2016 |
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Episode 100 - PoemTalk Retrospective
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May 17, 2016 |
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Episode 99 - The unabettable bleak
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Apr 12, 2016 |
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Episode 98 - Weakness stalks in pride
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Mar 15, 2016 |
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Episode 97 - Articulate beyond walls
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Feb 17, 2016 |
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Episode 96 - The laurel crown
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Jan 19, 2016 |
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Episode 95 - I too received identity
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Dec 08, 2015 |
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Episode 94 - No spell broken
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Nov 17, 2015 |
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Episode 93 - Dreams not spoiled by roaches
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Oct 20, 2015 |
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Episode 92 - An abductee, in theory
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Sep 22, 2015 |
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Episode 90 - The f***-you bow
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Jul 14, 2015 |
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Episode 89 - Requiem so sweet we forgot what it lamented
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Jun 22, 2015 |
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Episode 88 - Me no one will take
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May 19, 2015 |
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Episode 87 - Amplitude and awe
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Apr 20, 2015 |
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Episode 86 - The signature public
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Mar 24, 2015 |
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Episode 85 - A day like any other
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Feb 20, 2015 |
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Episode 84 - The I as hieroglyph
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Jan 27, 2015 |
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Episode 83 - There it was
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Dec 29, 2014 |
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Episode 82 - Remote yet present
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Oct 27, 2014 |
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Episode 81 - Deep descent
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Oct 02, 2014 |
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Episode 80 - Fail better and revolt
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Sep 03, 2014 |
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Episode 79 - Revolutionary vibe
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Jul 18, 2014 |
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Episode 78 - How can they write and believe?
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Jun 17, 2014 |
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Episode 77 - My other country
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May 28, 2014 |
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Episode 76 - I'm coming up
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May 01, 2014 |
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Episode 75 - Strange galvanics
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Mar 30, 2014 |
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Episode 74 - Word up
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Mar 07, 2014 |
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Episode 73 - Is it over already?
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Jan 08, 2014 |
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Episode 72 - Gone is the word as word
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Nov 20, 2013 |
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Episode 71 - Constrained to honor
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Oct 08, 2013 |
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Episode 70 - On the convergence of war and wedding
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Aug 26, 2013 |
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Episode 69 - Fierce storehouses of articulation: Rachel Blau DuPlessis, sections 16 and 29 of "Draft 85: Hard Copy"
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May 30, 2013 |
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Episode 68 - Perhaps a new optimism: Ray DiPalma, "It makes of nonsense"
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May 30, 2013 |
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Episode 67 - Girl head mostly eyes: Catherine Wagner, "This Is a Fucking Poem"
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May 30, 2013 |
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Episode 66 - Deep heart's core sound: W.B. Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
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May 15, 2013 |
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Episode 65 - The day pours out space: Lisa Robertson, 'The Weather'
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Apr 23, 2013 |
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Episode 64 - The straight path gone astray: Caroline Bergvall, "VIA"
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Apr 22, 2013 |
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Episode 63 - I am a liturgy worsted: Laynie Browne, "Daily Sonnets"
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Mar 11, 2013 |
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Episode 62 - A space only you can build: Charles Alexander, "Near or Random Acts"
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Jan 29, 2013 |
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Episode 61 - I can't get started: "Signature Song" by Bill Berkson
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Jan 08, 2013 |
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Episode 60 - Whelm lessons: "Blues for Alice" by Clark Coolidge
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Dec 17, 2012 |
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Episode 59 - Yankee go home: Paul Blackburn's "7th Game: 1960 Series"
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Nov 21, 2012 |
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Episode 58 - Tired, poor, huddled, gentrified: Bernadette Mayer, "The Tragic Condition of the Statue of Liberty"
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Oct 16, 2012 |
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Episode 57 - Cut from the same tongue: Gregory Djanikian, "Armenian Pastoral, 1915"
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Sep 04, 2012 |
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Episode 56 - Without house and ground: Charles Reznikoff
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Jul 31, 2012 |
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Episode 55 - Find the missing line - Jennifer Moxley's "The Atrophy of Private Life"
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Jul 22, 2012 |
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Episode 54 - The value of a pronoun - Ron Silliman, "You"
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Jun 27, 2012 |
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Episode 53 - Obscure things have already been said - Joan Retallack's "Not a Cage"
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May 20, 2012 |
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Episode 52 - Where the Real Exceeds the Ideal - Cole Swensen's "If a Garden of Numbers"
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May 04, 2012 |
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Episode 51 - Why Apples Can Cause Riots - Linh Dinh's "Eating Fried Chicken"
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Mar 31, 2012 |
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Episode 50 - State of Error: Tom Raworth, "Errory"
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Feb 28, 2012 |
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Episode 49 - Writing slow-down: Discussion of P. Inman's "at.least."
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Jan 24, 2012 |
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Episode 48 - Angelic Poems: Edgar Allen Poe, "Dream-Land"
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Dec 19, 2011 |
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Episode 47 - Inalienable writes: Rosmarie Waldrop, "Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence"
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Nov 10, 2011 |
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Episode 46 - Jackson Mac Low on Ezra Pound
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Oct 14, 2011 |
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Episode 45 - Poem Going Down the Drain
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Sep 27, 2011 |
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Episode 44 - Fred Wah on race in Canada
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Sep 13, 2011 |
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Episode 43 - John Wieners by night
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Sep 12, 2011 |
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Episode 42 - Nathaniel Tarn's Eco-poetics
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Sep 11, 2011 |
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Episode 41 - Canto III of Ezra Pound
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Mar 01, 2011 |
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Episode 40 - Dementia Blog
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Jan 31, 2011 |
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Episode 39 - After the Night Years
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Dec 29, 2010 |
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Episode 38 - Fischer's "I'd Like to See It"
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Dec 09, 2010 |
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Episode 37 - Osman's 9/11 poem
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Nov 02, 2010 |
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Episode 36 - Writing through Imagism
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Oct 09, 2010 |
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Episode 35 - Bruce Andrews is a trained listener
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Aug 24, 2010 |
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Episode 34 - Charles Olson's Maximus
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Jul 26, 2010 |
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Episode 33 - flarfist Sharon Mesmer
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Jun 22, 2010 |
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Episode 32 - on Howe's Dickinson
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May 24, 2010 |
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Episode 31 - Grenier's sentences
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Apr 22, 2010 |
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Episode 30 - favorite W.C. Williams
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Apr 06, 2010 |
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Episode 29 - Kit Robinson on mad men
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Mar 03, 2010 |
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Episode 28 - Spicer to shrink: drop dead
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Feb 03, 2010 |
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Episode 27 - Duncan opens the field
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Jan 14, 2010 |
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Episode 26 - wild Vachel Lindsay
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Nov 30, 2009 |
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Episode 25 - Alice Notley's America
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Nov 07, 2009 |
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Episode 24 - Barbara Guest's new rose
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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Episode 23 - Cid Corman pees in pants
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Oct 07, 2009 |
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Episode 22 - just begun to learn
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Sep 18, 2009 |
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Episode 21 - Bernstein's restlessness ("In a Restless World Like This Is")
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Aug 24, 2009 |
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Episode 20 - Amiri Baraka's "Kenyatta Listens to Mozart"
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Jul 27, 2009 |
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Episode 19 - Bob Perelman's "The Unruly Child"
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Jul 07, 2009 |
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Episode 18 - Lydia Davis has a position
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Jun 09, 2009 |
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Episode 17 - Rodrigo Toscano's poetics
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May 12, 2009 |
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Episode 16 - a discussion of Robert Creeley's "I Know a Man"
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Apr 08, 2009 |
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Episode 15 - a discussion of a poem from The Book of a Thousand Eyes by Lyn Hejinian
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Mar 09, 2009 |
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Episode 13 - a discussion of Kathleen Fraser's "The Cars"
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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Episode 14 - a discussion of Wallace Stevens' "Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself"
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Jan 03, 2009 |
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Episode 12 - a discussion of Ezra Pound's America
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Nov 13, 2008 |
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Episode 11 - a discussion of Erica Hunt's "The Voice of No"
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Oct 06, 2008 |
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Episode 10 - one of Stein's portraits
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Sep 08, 2008 |
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Episode 09 - Ashbery at a crossroads
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Aug 13, 2008 |
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Episode 08 - Armantrout's "The Way"
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Jul 07, 2008 |
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Episode 07 - Rothenberg's paradise
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May 28, 2008 |
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Episode 06 - A Jaap Blonk sound poem
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May 04, 2008 |
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Episode 05 - Ted Berrigan's "3 Pages"
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Apr 03, 2008 |
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Episode 04 - Ginsberg sings Blake
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Mar 03, 2008 |
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Episode 03 - To know what one means: George Oppen's "Ballad"
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Oct 17, 2007 |
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Episode 02 - No Place for Little Lyric: A Discussion of Adrienne Rich's "Wait"
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Sep 21, 2007 |
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Episode 01 - on William Carlos Williams' "Between Walls"
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Aug 02, 2007 |