Poetry Off the Shelf
Books & Literature
Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard conversations are welcomed—laughter is, too.
Location:
United States
Description:
Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard conversations are welcomed—laughter is, too.
Twitter:
@poetryfound
Language:
English
Contact:
(312) 787-7070
Website:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Episodes
The Fire in Which We Burn
5/7/2024
Sara Henning on radical truth, obsessive forms, and letting go of grief.
Duration:00:53:27
My Heart and Its Borders
4/23/2024
Philip Metres on middle age, writer's block, and praying for the people of Palestine.
Duration:01:04:46
My Awesome Stoma
4/9/2024
April Gibson on chronic illness, religion, and being a teenage mother.
Duration:00:44:38
Working-Class Superheroes
3/26/2024
Declan Ryan on his father's construction job, tenderness between boxers, and the inevitable tragic end.
Duration:00:46:52
All the Shiny Knives
3/12/2024
Monica Rico on cooking, grunt work, and the heat at General Motors.
Duration:00:54:46
Let Light Form
2/27/2024
Nam Le on commerce, irony vs. sincerity, and being in the Arctic.
Duration:01:09:50
Stay in Character
2/13/2024
Gregory Pardlo on improv, therapy, and driving around with his father’s ashes.
Duration:00:45:53
Instructions for Divorce
1/30/2024
Caitlin Cowan on rejection, tradwives, and poems from our better self.
Duration:00:50:25
Make Art for Me
1/16/2024
Blake Butler on complex mourning, the suicide of his wife Molly Brodak, and finding his way back.
Duration:01:00:25
Poets We Lost in 2023
1/3/2024
Remembering the lesbian poet and activist Minnie Bruce Pratt, as well as the Palestinian poet and symbol of the resistance, Refaat Alareer.
Duration:00:44:54
The Utopian Business
12/12/2023
Steve Zeitlin and Bob Holman on the healing act of writing, small frogs, and politics at the fiddle festival.
Duration:00:36:44
Cease and Desist
11/30/2023
Laura Mullen on academia, death threats, and doing the next brave thing.
Duration:00:53:45
Falling Off the Stairs
11/14/2023
Daniel Brock Johnson on risk, a T-shirt mantra, and life after the death of his friend James Foley.
Duration:00:46:14
Ghost Sister
10/31/2023
Sebastian Merrill on the voice of his former self, the underworld, and laughing during yoga.
Duration:00:46:46
Living in And Times
10/17/2023
Sahar Muradi on cyclical time, leather butterflies, and saying goodbye to her father.
Duration:00:53:04
Pen Pals
10/3/2023
Sean Cole on loneliness, fear of aging, and what poems can do.
Duration:00:54:54
Notes From the Bathhouse
9/19/2023
Eric Sneathen on queer utopia, bad writing, and San Francisco in the ’70s.
Duration:00:58:19
The Magic Section
9/5/2023
Irène Mathieu on pediatrics, suburbs without a TV, and our body's unknown terrain.
Duration:01:02:20
My Totally Normal Crisis
8/22/2023
Natalie Shapero on Wheel of Fortune, babysitting for her landlord, and pretending not to grieve.
Duration:00:45:02
The Eldest Daughter
8/8/2023
Rosanna Young Oh on her parents’ grocery store, leaving poetry, and the duties of the firstborn.
Duration:00:31:47