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Poem Talk — 99 episodes
Passion Shields Its Servants: A discussion of “Souvenir of the Manassah Ball” by Lorenzo Thomas
Don’t Refuse to Breathe: A discussion of Frank O’Hara: “Song (Is it dirty)” & “Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)”
The Whole World Smiles: A discussion of John Giorno’s “Everyone Is a Complete Disappointment”
Present Plans Succeed: A discussion of Dodie Bellamy’s “Vomit Journal”
Woot of the Century: A discussion of “Welter” and “Static” by Douglas Kearney
Rhetorical Happenings: A discussion of Hoa Nguyen, “Long Light.”
Nothing Made of Ink: A discussion of seven poems by Lisa Fishman
Untranslatable: A discussion of Armand Schwerner’s “Tablet 25” & “‘daddy, can you staple these two stars together to make an airplane?’”
Downgraded to Scribble: A discussion of four poems from Dead Winter by Matvei Yankelevich
Paw Mouthings: A discussion of Maggie O’Sullivan’s “Hill Figures” and “To Our Own Day”
Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery
Composition of Life, as Life: A discussion of Joan Retallack’s The Poethical Wager (a several-page excerpt)
Girls in the Supply Chain: A discussion of Sawako Nakayasu’s book Some Girls Walk into the Country Where They Are From
When a Name Falls from a Face: A discussion of a selection from Divya Victor’s book Curb
Trance of Language: A discussion of “Sleeping with the Dictionary” & “Dim Lady” from Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen
Teach Us Love: A discussion of “Language” and “The Anatomy of Monotony” by Eugene Ostachevsky
Better To Lose & Win: A discussion of Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters
Far in Toward the Far End: A discussion of George Quasha’s “preverbs.”
Hot and Cold: A discussion of Jayne Cortez’s “She Got He Got”
Must It Ring True: A discussion of Myung Mi Kim’s “And Sing We”
Coup Created by Our Thoughts: A discussion of “Colliding and Not Colliding at the Same Time” by Cecilia Vicuña
Punch Fascists: A discussion of “Yes I Do Want to Punch” by Stephen Collis
As Words Label Space: A discussion of Leslie Scalapino’s “‘Can’t’ is ’Night’”
Perilous Bodies: A discussion of “Steveston, B.C.” by Daphne Marlatt
In My Rotting Place: A discussion of “Morning, Morning” & “No Deposit, No Return" by Tuli Kupferberg
This Unwitting Monument: A discussion of two poems from Sarah Dowling’s book Entering Sappho
Biologically Speaking: A discussion of “Love Is Not All” and “I Shall Forget You Presently” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Adore Adore: A discussion of “Dada Lama” and “A Small Song That Is His” by bpNichol
With a Little String & a Sharp Stone: A discussion of “Suicide” by Bob Kaufman
A Way to Haunt Me: A discussion of “It All over My Face?” by Kevin Killian
EA Way to Haunt Me: A discussion of “It All over My Face?” by Kevin Killian
EDamned Fruitflies: A discussion of “With Shelter Gone” by Steve Dalachinsky
EPromise To Go On: A discussion of “The Similitude of This Great Flower” by Elizabeth Willis
Rousing Earth to Excel: A discussion of “Arriving” by Daphne Marlatt
Word for Word: A discussion of “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain” by Wallace Stevens.
That’s Right: A discussion of Eileen Myles’s “Writing” and “Mount St. Helens”
EOminous Pre-tingling: A discussion of “MJ Fan Letter” and “RSVP” by Terrance Hayes
Find Me the Rage: A discussion of “Negus” by Kamau Brathwaite
A Word For Me: A discussion of “Should You Find Me” by Erica Hunt
Begin to Awaken: A discussion of “By the road to the contagious hospital” by William Carlos Williams
The Gaps I Mean: A discussion of “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
Knots of a Woman: A discussion of A Swarm of Bees in High Court by Tonya Foster
Mammal Patriot: A discussion of Ghost Tantras by Michael McClure
Beside the Mind: A discussion of Clairvoyant Journal by Hannah Weiner
These Squiggles: A discussion of “As if the Trees by Their Very Roots Had Hold of Us” by Charles Bernstein
September 1941: A discussion of “Memory Tree” by Rosmarie Waldrop
The Republic of Space: A discussion of “The Blue Stairs” by Barbara Guest
Worker’s Tanka: A discussion of six tankas (2 each) by three worker poets, Christine Yvette Lewis, Lorraine Garnett and Davidson Garrett
Written in Water: A discussion of Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Laying Poems Away: A discussion of “The Ambition Bird” by Anne Sexton
Saw the Lie: A discussion of three short poems in “SKY WRI TEI NGS” by Nasser Hussain
Hadbeen Variety: A discussion of “Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake” by John Cage
Slowing the Rate of Perception: A discussion of “Hello, the Roses” by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Flesh Ekes Ink: A discussion of Divya Victor’s “W Is for Walt Whitman’s Soul” from her book Kith.
Light filtering through: A discussion of G. Maria Hindmarch's “Kitsilano”.
Filter, Impose, Trespass: A discussion of Rachel Zolf’s Human Resources.
Not Detainable: A discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Riot”
The After-Hell: A discussion of Sylvia Plath's poem “The Stones”
Of Beautiful Tangents: A discussion of two poems from Perfect Villagers by Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Boring in a Different Way: A discussion of John Ashbery's “The Short Answer”
Something in the Way: A discussion of Amiri Baraka’s “Something in the Way of Things (In Town)”
Fallout from Cooling: A discussion of three poems from Erica Baum
Our Endless Ear: A discussion of Jack Kerouac’s “Old Angel Midnight”
Bugging the Circles: A discussion of David Antin’s “War”
Insurrection Is Value: A discussion of Sean Bonney’s “Happiness”
This Corner of the Diaspora: A discussion of Jerome Rothenberg’s “Galician Nights” (a section of Poland/1931)
World Without Sequence: A discussion of Ann Lauterbach's poem “Under the Sign”
Nothing To Say: A discussion of three poems by Fatemeh Shams
Question Therefore the Age: A discussion of M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!
The Dark Containers: A discussion of Larissa Lai’s “Nascent Fashion”
Images, Mon Ami: A discussion of Anne Tardos’s “Uxudo”
The Hand's Reach: A discussion of Lorenzo Thomas’s “An Arc Still Open”
Dead To Me: A discussion of Claudia Rankine's “Don't Let Me Be Lonely”
Truth Flies: A discussion of Robin Blaser’s “A Bird in the House.”
Listen to Everything You Love Disappear: A discussion of Patrick Rosal’s “Instance of an Island."
Rise and Live: A discussion of Naomi Replansky's “In Syrup, in Syrup” and “Ring Song."
To Rearrange the World: A discussion of Philip Whalen’s “Life at Bolinas. The Last of California.”
I Mean Only Means: A discussion of Kate Colby's I Mean.
But Too Beautiful: A discussion of Tracie Morris' “Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful”
It Is Time: A discussion of Paul Celan's "Corona"
Dear Conflicted Reader: A discussion of C.D. Wright's One Big Self
No Truths Self-Evident: A Discussion of Michael Magee’s “Morning Constitutional”
Explode for Small Change: A Discussion of Akilah Oliver's “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t”
ESwear It Closed: A Discussion of Simone White’s book Of Being Dispersed
Mind’s Not Right: A Discussion of Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour"
With What Geometry: A Discussion of Edward Dorn’s “The Sundering U.P. Tracks”
A Retrospective: A Discussion of Previous Episodes with Seven Poets
The Unabettable Bleak: A Discussion of Four Poems by William Bronk
Weakness Stalks in Pride: A Discussion of James Weldon Johnson's “O Southland!”
Articulate beyond Walls: A Discussion of Three Poems by Larry Eigner
The Laurel Crown: A Discussion of Allen Grossman's "My Radiant Eye"
I too received identity: A Discussion of Rob Fitterman’s Sprawl
No Spell Broken: A Discussion of CAConrad's (Soma)tic Midge
Dreams Not Spoiled by Roaches: A Discussion of Helen Adam’s “Cheerless Junkie’s Song"
An Abductee, in Theory: A discussion of Bob Perelman’s “Confession”
The Body in Pain: A discussion of Gill Ott's "The Forgotten"
The F*ck-You Bow: A discussion of Gertrude Stein's "How She Bowed to Her Brother"
ERequiem So Sweet We Forgot What It Lamented: A Discussion of Nathaniel Mackey's "Day after Day of the Dead"
Me No One Will Take: A Discussion of Kathy Acker's "The Diseased" and "The Slave Trader"