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Poetry Centered — 63 episodes
Prageeta Sharma: Clairvoyant Presence & Future
Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis: Refugee Poetics
Philip Metres: The Enduring Work of Poetry
July Westhale: The Truest Sense
Bonus: Radical Reversal in Birmingham II
Samyak Shertok: Conjure What Was Never There Before
Dawn Lundy Martin: Our Present, Long Moment
Leila Chatti: How Lucky to Have Lived
Samuel Ace: Rage, Complicity, and the True Nature of Amends
Harmony Holiday: Against Sentimentality
Nicole Sealey: Love’s Big Ideas
Kwame Dawes: Cleansing as Fire
Mackenzie Polonyi: Mycorrhizal Love
Abigail Chabitnoy: The Field
Diego Báez: Three Gabriels
Valerie Hsiung: Breath Mover
Geffrey Davis: The Drive to Connect
Vickie Vértiz: Path to a Future
Eugenia Leigh: Proclaim a Rising
Mary Jo Bang: Astonishment
Olatunde Osinaike: Nobody Gets to Question What I Feel
Sawako Nakayasu: Grief Textures
Jake Skeets: Saad, Where We All Started
Sally Wen Mao: Poetic Awakening
Lauren Camp: Our Little Perfections
Sophia Terazawa: Enemy, Beloved
Bonus: Radical Reversal in Birmingham
Manuel Paul López: Small and Immense Mysteries
Evie Shockley: Courage to Speak, Courage to Hear
JD Pluecker: Always Returning
Juan Felipe Herrera: Humanity, Compassion, Action, Protest
Matthew Zapruder: Poems for Passengers
Khadijah Queen: Keywords
Sara Borjas: A Particular 'Us'
Chet’la Sebree: Liminality
Anthony Cody: Necessary Discomfort
Wendy Xu: Why Write
Eduardo C. Corral: The Possibilities
Sumita Chakraborty: Odes to the Overlooked
Silvina López Medin: Writing about Writing
Adam O. Davis: Sonic Road Trip
Adrian Matejka: Cruelty
Joanna Klink: A Blazing Intensity
Rosa Alcalá: Bodies, Presence, Performance
Bojan Louis: The Poem, Listening
Peggy Robles-Alvarado: Whistle, Hum, and Heartbeat When Negotiating Identity
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke: Belonging and Being
Francisco Aragón: A Speaking Voice
Jane Hirshfield: The Hinge of Possibility
Douglas Kearney: Not a Melody, but a Thorn
Cynthia Cruz: Quotidian, Transcendent
Jack Jung: Echoes of Yi Sang
Michelle Whittaker: Sound and Story
Oliver Baez Bendorf: Showing Up in Our Own Lives
Randall Horton: Instruments for Change
Bonus: Inspiring K-12 Students with Voca
TC Tolbert: Deep Presence
Maggie Smith: A Conversation with Our Own Minds
Urayoán Noel: Radical Imagination
Hanif Abdurraqib: A Brilliant Unfurling
Ada Limón: A Way Forward
Alison Hawthorne Deming: The Big Story of Life on Earth
Introducing Poetry Centered