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All Episodes

Poetry Centered — 63 episodes

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Prageeta Sharma: Clairvoyant Presence & Future

2

Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis: Refugee Poetics

3

Philip Metres: The Enduring Work of Poetry

4

July Westhale: The Truest Sense

5

Bonus: Radical Reversal in Birmingham II

6

Samyak Shertok: Conjure What Was Never There Before

7

Dawn Lundy Martin: Our Present, Long Moment

8

Leila Chatti: How Lucky to Have Lived

9

Samuel Ace: Rage, Complicity, and the True Nature of Amends

10

Harmony Holiday: Against Sentimentality

11

Nicole Sealey: Love’s Big Ideas

12

Kwame Dawes: Cleansing as Fire

13

Mackenzie Polonyi: Mycorrhizal Love

14

Abigail Chabitnoy: The Field

15

Diego Báez: Three Gabriels

16

Valerie Hsiung: Breath Mover

17

Geffrey Davis: The Drive to Connect

18

Vickie Vértiz: Path to a Future

19

Eugenia Leigh: Proclaim a Rising

20

Mary Jo Bang: Astonishment

21

Olatunde Osinaike: Nobody Gets to Question What I Feel

22

Sawako Nakayasu: Grief Textures

23

Jake Skeets: Saad, Where We All Started

24

Sally Wen Mao: Poetic Awakening

25

Lauren Camp: Our Little Perfections

26

Sophia Terazawa: Enemy, Beloved

27

Bonus: Radical Reversal in Birmingham

28

Manuel Paul López: Small and Immense Mysteries

29

Evie Shockley: Courage to Speak, Courage to Hear

30

JD Pluecker: Always Returning

31

Juan Felipe Herrera: Humanity, Compassion, Action, Protest

32

Matthew Zapruder: Poems for Passengers

33

Khadijah Queen: Keywords

34

Sara Borjas: A Particular 'Us'

35

Chet’la Sebree: Liminality

36

Anthony Cody: Necessary Discomfort

37

Wendy Xu: Why Write

38

Eduardo C. Corral: The Possibilities

39

Sumita Chakraborty: Odes to the Overlooked

40

Silvina López Medin: Writing about Writing

41

Adam O. Davis: Sonic Road Trip

42

Adrian Matejka: Cruelty

43

Joanna Klink: A Blazing Intensity

44

Rosa Alcalá: Bodies, Presence, Performance

45

Bojan Louis: The Poem, Listening

46

Peggy Robles-Alvarado: Whistle, Hum, and Heartbeat When Negotiating Identity

47

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke: Belonging and Being

48

Francisco Aragón: A Speaking Voice

49

Jane Hirshfield: The Hinge of Possibility

50

Douglas Kearney: Not a Melody, but a Thorn

51

Cynthia Cruz: Quotidian, Transcendent

52

Jack Jung: Echoes of Yi Sang

53

Michelle Whittaker: Sound and Story

54

Oliver Baez Bendorf: Showing Up in Our Own Lives

55

Randall Horton: Instruments for Change

56

Bonus: Inspiring K-12 Students with Voca

57

TC Tolbert: Deep Presence

58

Maggie Smith: A Conversation with Our Own Minds

59

Urayoán Noel: Radical Imagination

60

Hanif Abdurraqib: A Brilliant Unfurling

61

Ada Limón: A Way Forward

62

Alison Hawthorne Deming: The Big Story of Life on Earth

63

Introducing Poetry Centered