EPISODE · May 9, 2026 · 41 MIN

08. Kindness

How do you manage your obligations to the people who appear in your poems? Show notes The Dolphin by Robert Lowell Alice’s poem Bad Boys for Life Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott The Hug by Thom Gunn Can Love Last? by Stephen A. Mitchell How to Be a Family by Dan Kois The Night of the Gun by David Carr Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz by Cynthia Carr Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love by Peta Leith Jonathan’s review of the Larkin biography Jonathan’s review of Patricia Lockwood

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