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Episode #179 [Hiatus!] Tune - Kay Ryan

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Episode #178 Remembering Charles Simic

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Episode #177 [Flicking off the light switch.] - Sherwin Bitsui

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Episode #176 Topsoil, In Repentance - Sherry Shenoda

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Episode #175 - Poetry Spoken Here Ep. 132: Black Lives Matter

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Episode #174 National Book Award Winner John Keene and Punks - SPECIAL EPISODE

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Episode #173 The Dancing - Gerald Stern

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Episode #172 A Time - Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

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Episode #171 Not Writing - Anne Boyer

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Episode #170 america, MINE - Sasha Banks

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Episode #169 I Hear A Dog Who Is Always in My Death - Samuel Ace

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Episode #168 First Snow - Arthur Sze

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Episode #167 REBROADCAST: The Lynching Postcard, Duluth, Minnesota - Ray Gonzalez

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Episode #166 Small Illuminations from REFUSE TO DISAPPEAR w/Special Guest Tara Betts

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Episode #165 Self-Interrogation from DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW. w/Special Guest Noor Hindi

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Episode #164 Elegy - Aracelis Girmay

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Episode #163 Revelations, Time Distortion, and Surprise - Line Break Week Ep. 7

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Episode #162 Ambiguity in Line Breaks - Line Break Week Ep. 6

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Episode #161 From Meters to Measures: Rhythm in Line Breaks - Line Break Week Ep. 5

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Episode #160 Using Poetic Line Breaks for EmPHAsis - Line Break Week Ep. 4

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Episode #159 Drama's Silent Cousin: Miming with Line Breaks - Line Break Week Ep. 3

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Episode #158 Who Will Bring the Drama? The Line Break! - Line Break Week Ep. 2

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Episode #157 Why Break a Line? - Line Break Week Ep. 1

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Episode #156 Beckoned - Forrest Gander

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Episode #155 Buttercream w/Special Guest Caitlin Scarano

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Episode #154 A Sunset of the City - Gwendolyn Brooks w/Special Guest Michael Kleber-Diggs

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Episode #153 The Snow Man - Wallace Stevens

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Episode #152 I.R.L. - Chris Tse

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Episode #151 Hear the Dogs Crying - Christy Passion

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Episode #150 Dreams - Nikki Giovanni

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Episode #149 Epistemology - Catherine Barnett

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Episode #148 If God Is A Virus - Seema Yasmin

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Episode #147 Remembering Kamilah Aisha Moon, Etel Adnan, and Robert Bly

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Episode #146 National Book Award Winner Martín Espada and Floaters - SPECIAL EPISODE

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Episode #145 Episode 3: Amanda Waller Has a Woman-to-Woman with Harley Quinn w/Dr. Len Lawson

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Episode #144 We Are Going - Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)

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Episode #143 REBROADCAST: Additional Notes On Tea - Fady Joudah

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Episode #142 The Nightmare Touched Its Forehead to My Lips - Andrés Cerpa

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EXTRA: Foreign Policy Follies and Congressional Subcommittees - More on Shitty Kitty by Don Mee Choi

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Episode #141 Shitty Kitty - Don Mee Choi

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Episode #140 First Snow - Aria Aber

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Episode #139 Excerpt from John Brown's Body - Stephen Vincent Benét

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Episode #138 Why I Am Silent About The Lament - Abdullah Al-Baradouni

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Episode #137 Time Traveler - Patrick Cotter

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Episode #136 Coping - Audre Lorde

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Episode #135 Pulitzer Prize Winner Natalie Diaz and Postcolonial Love Poem - SPECIAL EPISODE

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Episode #134 Into The Racism Workshop - Chrystos

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Episode #133 REBROADCAST: Say Grace - Emily Jungmin Yoon

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Episode #132 Poetry and Palestine

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Episode #131 Beyond the Sonnet - Sonnet Week Ep. 7

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Episode #130 Sonnets In The United States - Sonnet Week Ep. 6

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Episode #129 Beyond Love - Sonnet Week Ep. 5

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Episode #128 Shakespeare's Sonnet - Sonnet Week Ep. 4

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Episode #127 Raiders of the Lost Petrarch - Sonnet Week Ep. 3

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Episode #126 The Volta - Sonnet Week Ep. 2

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Episode #125 The Birth of an Enduring Form - Sonnet Week Ep. 1

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Episode #124 REPOST Could We Please Give the Police Departments to the Grandmothers - Junauda Petrus

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Episode #123 By the Road to the Contagious Hospital - William Carlos Williams

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Episode #122 Blues On Yellow - Marilyn Chin w/Corey China

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Episode #121 The Word - Zaffar Kunial

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Episode #120 In Youngsville - Tyree Daye

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Episode #119 Family Ties - Diana Khoi Nguyen

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Episode #118 The Altar - Humberto Ak'abal

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Episode #117 Fuck Your Lecture On Craft, My People Are Dying - Noor Hindi

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Episode #116 Those Winter Sundays - Robert Hayden

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Episode #115 The Problem Of Describing Trees - Robert Hass

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Episode #114 Landscape With a Blur of Conquerors - Richard Siken

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Episode #113 After The Election 2.0 - Close Talking Turns 4!

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Episode #112 October (section 2) - Louise Glück

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Episode #111 The Apparition - Herman Melville

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Episode #110 - Snake White, Owl White - Tacey Atsitty

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Episode #109 Poetry and 9/11 Part 3 - The Long Influence of 9/11

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Episode #108 Poetry and 9/11 Part 2 - International Perspectives and the Rush to War

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Episode #107 Poetry and 9/11 Part 1 - Responding to Trauma

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Episode #106 A Stranger - Saeed Jones

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Episode #105 Be Nobody's Darling - Alice Walker

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EXTRA: African American Sonnet Tradition and GPT-3 Poetry Discussion w/Dr. Hollis Robbins

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Episode #104 Freedom Rider: Washout - James Emanuel w/Dr. Hollis Robbins

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Episode #103 Don't Let Me Be Lonely - Claudia Rankine

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Episode #102 The Lynching - Claude McKay

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Episode #101 Could We Please Give the Police Departments to the Grandmothers? - Junauda Petrus

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Episode #100 The Man Moves Earth - Cathy Song

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Episode #099 Prayer (I) - George Herbert

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Episode #098 Vocabulary Of Dearness - Naomi Shihab Nye - Reflections Week Ep. 6

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Episode #097 Wild Nights - Wild Nights! - Emily Dickinson - Reflections Week Ep. 5

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Episode #096 The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water - W. B. Yeats - Reflections Week Ep. 4

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Episode #095 Invisible Fish - Joy Harjo - Reflections Week Ep. 3

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Episode #094 A Lovely Love - Gwendolyn Brooks - Reflections Week Ep. 2

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Episode #093 Ezra Pound's Black Cat Poem - Reflections Week Ep. 1

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Episode #092 - Announcing a Week of Reflection and Sharing Some Simic

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Episode #091 Excerpt from Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko

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Episode #090 Dedications - Adrienne Rich

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Episode #089 REBROADCAST: To Make a Prairie

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Episode #088 Additional Notes On Tea - Fady Joudah

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Episode #087 REBROADCAST: How To Keep It Down - Justin Phillip Reed

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Episode #086 Armor - Sharon Olds

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Episode #085 Romance #1 - Eunsong Kim

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Episode #084 Cinco De Mayo - Luis J. Rodríguez

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Episode #083 Warming - dg nanouk okpik

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Episode #082 Decoy Gang War Victim - Carmen Gimenez Smith

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