All Episodes

Episode 217 - Turn your life into a book

Episode 216 - The impalpable fog

Episode 215 - Knot know now

Episode 214 - The game is always on

Episode 213 - Momentary resting place

Episode 212 - Reflection affliction

Episode 211 - No snake no slick no stone

Episode 210 - Make touch poems

Episode 209 - F*** no to all that

Episode 208 - Vainglories of this Capitol

Episode 207 - Words were gods

Episode 206 - The sonnet is wrong

Episode 205 - Radioaction Riding Regal

Episode 204 - To empty rooms

Episode 203 - Raw from the bellicose tumble

Episode 202 - Every flower a reminder

Episode 201 - Your voice in my mouth

Episode 200 - Our language is loaded

Episode 199 - Not in the buy

Episode 198 - Beauty isn't enough

Episode 197 - Walking the walk

Episode 196 - A tide of voices

Episode 195 - Also I don't suffer

Episode 194 - Hack my name

Episode 193 - The colors of death

Episode 192 - Of shredded love

Episode 191 - Fracas in the hinterlands

Episode 190 - Watches don't shoot

Episode 189 - Humming in the vacancy

Episode 188 - To the goon ictus

Episode 187 - Bray brassily

Episode 186 - The dots move out

Episode 185 - Don't refuse to breathe

Episode 184 - The whole world smiles

Episode 183 - Present plans succeed

Episode 182 - Woot of the century

Episode 181 - Rhetorical happenings

Episode 180 - Nothing made of ink

Episode 179 - Untranslatable

Episode 178 - Downgraded to scribble

Episode 177 - Paw mouthings

Episode 176 - Touch, love, then explain

Episode 175 - Composition of life, as life

Episode 174 - Girls in the supply chain

Episode 173 - When a name falls from a face (Divya Victor, 'Curb')

Episode 172 - Trance of language (Harryette Mullen, 'Sleeping with the Dictionary' and 'Dim Lady')

Episode 171 - Teach us love (Eugene Ostashevsky, 'Language' and 'The Anatomy of Monotony')

Episode 170 - Better to lose and win (Diane di Prima's 'Revolutionary Letters')

Episode 169 - Far in toward the far end (Two poems from George Quasha's “preverbs”)

Episode 168 - Hot and cold (Jayne Cortez, 'She Got He Got')

Episode 167 - Must it ring true (Myung Mi Kim, 'And Sing We')

Episode 166 - Coup created by our thoughts

Episode 165 - Punch fascists

Episode 164 - As words label space

Episode 163 - Perilous bodies

Episode 162 - In my rotting place

Episode 161 - This unwitting monument

Episode 160 - Biologically speaking

Episode 110 - To rearrange the world

Episode 109 - I mean only means

Episode 108 - But too beautiful

Episode 107 - It is time

Episode 106 - Dear conflicted reader

Episode 105 - No truths self-evident

Episode 104 - Explode for small change

Episode 103 - Swear it closed

Episode 102 - Mind's not right

Episode 101 - With what geometry

Episode 100 - PoemTalk Retrospective

Episode 99 - The unabettable bleak

Episode 98 - Weakness stalks in pride

Episode 97 - Articulate beyond walls

Episode 96 - The laurel crown

Episode 95 - I too received identity

Episode 94 - No spell broken

Episode 93 - Dreams not spoiled by roaches

Episode 92 - An abductee, in theory

Episode 90 - The f***-you bow

Episode 89 - Requiem so sweet we forgot what it lamented

Episode 88 - Me no one will take

Episode 87 - Amplitude and awe

Episode 86 - The signature public

Episode 85 - A day like any other

Episode 84 - The I as hieroglyph

Episode 83 - There it was

Episode 82 - Remote yet present

Episode 81 - Deep descent

Episode 80 - Fail better and revolt

Episode 79 - Revolutionary vibe

Episode 78 - How can they write and believe?

Episode 77 - My other country

Episode 76 - I'm coming up

Episode 75 - Strange galvanics

Episode 74 - Word up

Episode 73 - Is it over already?

Episode 72 - Gone is the word as word

Episode 71 - Constrained to honor

Episode 70 - On the convergence of war and wedding

Episode 69 - Fierce storehouses of articulation: Rachel Blau DuPlessis, sections 16 and 29 of "Draft 85: Hard Copy"

Episode 67 - Girl head mostly eyes: Catherine Wagner, "This Is a Fucking Poem"

Episode 68 - Perhaps a new optimism: Ray DiPalma, "It makes of nonsense"

Episode 66 - Deep heart's core sound: W.B. Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

Episode 65 - The day pours out space: Lisa Robertson, 'The Weather'

Episode 64 - The straight path gone astray: Caroline Bergvall, "VIA"

Episode 63 - I am a liturgy worsted: Laynie Browne, "Daily Sonnets"

Episode 62 - A space only you can build: Charles Alexander, "Near or Random Acts"

Episode 61 - I can't get started: "Signature Song" by Bill Berkson

Episode 60 - Whelm lessons: "Blues for Alice" by Clark Coolidge

Episode 59 - Yankee go home: Paul Blackburn's "7th Game: 1960 Series"

Episode 58 - Tired, poor, huddled, gentrified: Bernadette Mayer, "The Tragic Condition of the Statue of Liberty"

Episode 57 - Cut from the same tongue: Gregory Djanikian, "Armenian Pastoral, 1915"

Episode 56 - Without house and ground: Charles Reznikoff

Episode 55 - Find the missing line - Jennifer Moxley's "The Atrophy of Private Life"

Episode 54 - The value of a pronoun - Ron Silliman, "You"

Episode 53 - Obscure things have already been said - Joan Retallack's "Not a Cage"

Episode 52 - Where the Real Exceeds the Ideal - Cole Swensen's "If a Garden of Numbers"

Episode 51 - Why Apples Can Cause Riots - Linh Dinh's "Eating Fried Chicken"

Episode 50 - State of Error: Tom Raworth, "Errory"

Episode 49 - Writing slow-down: Discussion of P. Inman's "at.least."

Episode 48 - Angelic Poems: Edgar Allen Poe, "Dream-Land"

Episode 47 - Inalienable writes: Rosmarie Waldrop, "Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence"

Episode 46 - Jackson Mac Low on Ezra Pound

Episode 45 - Poem Going Down the Drain

Episode 44 - Fred Wah on race in Canada

Episode 43 - John Wieners by night

Episode 42 - Nathaniel Tarn's Eco-poetics

Episode 41 - Canto III of Ezra Pound

Episode 40 - Dementia Blog

Episode 39 - After the Night Years

Episode 38 - Fischer's "I'd Like to See It"

Episode 37 - Osman's 9/11 poem

Episode 36 - Writing through Imagism

Episode 35 - Bruce Andrews is a trained listener

Episode 34 - Charles Olson's Maximus

Episode 33 - flarfist Sharon Mesmer

Episode 32 - on Howe's Dickinson

Episode 31 - Grenier's sentences

Episode 30 - favorite W.C. Williams

Episode 29 - Kit Robinson on mad men

Episode 28 - Spicer to shrink: drop dead

Episode 27 - Duncan opens the field

Episode 26 - wild Vachel Lindsay

Episode 25 - Alice Notley's America

Episode 24 - Barbara Guest's new rose

Episode 23 - Cid Corman pees in pants

Episode 22 - just begun to learn

Episode 21 - Bernstein's restlessness ("In a Restless World Like This Is")

Episode 20 - Amiri Baraka's "Kenyatta Listens to Mozart"

Episode 19 - Bob Perelman's "The Unruly Child"

Episode 18 - Lydia Davis has a position

Episode 17 - Rodrigo Toscano's poetics

Episode 16 - a discussion of Robert Creeley's "I Know a Man"

Episode 15 - a discussion of a poem from The Book of a Thousand Eyes by Lyn Hejinian

Episode 13 - a discussion of Kathleen Fraser's "The Cars"

Episode 14 - a discussion of Wallace Stevens' "Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself"

Episode 12 - a discussion of Ezra Pound's America

Episode 11 - a discussion of Erica Hunt's "The Voice of No"

Episode 10 - one of Stein's portraits

Episode 09 - Ashbery at a crossroads

Episode 08 - Armantrout's "The Way"

Episode 07 - Rothenberg's paradise

Episode 06 - A Jaap Blonk sound poem

Episode 05 - Ted Berrigan's "3 Pages"

Episode 04 - Ginsberg sings Blake

Episode 03 - To know what one means: George Oppen's "Ballad"

Episode 02 - No Place for Little Lyric: A Discussion of Adrienne Rich's "Wait"

Episode 01 - on William Carlos Williams' "Between Walls"