All Episodes

1515: True Story by Camille T. Dungy

1512: Terra Vita by Lisa Hiton

1509: Something there is that doesn’t love by Armen Davoudian

1508: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Wayne Miller

1507: How to Dress a Star by Nicholas Goodly

1506: You Reading This, Be Ready by William Stafford

1505: Queen of Collapse by Hadara Bar-Nadav

1500: You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious by Purvi Shah

1499: Spring in War-Time by Sara Teasdale

1498: Twenty Questions by Jayrold Trasporte

1497: Intaglio by Emma Aylor

1496: Love Song to the Alpacas of Solomon Lane by Kenzie Allen

1495: Pathway by Paula Bohince

1494: Graduation by Edgar Kunz

1493: Stadium by Heather Tone

1492: Community by Emily Bright

1491: The plum you're going to eat next summer by Gayle Brandeis

1490: Smalltown Lift by Brian Blanchfield

1489: Sonnet Overheard at Phone Booth by Elane Kim

1488: Anniversary by Edward Salem

1487: The Problem with Early Warnings by Charles Rafferty

1486: from Perihelion: A History of Touch by Franny Choi

1485: Scheduling the Bone Scan by Katie Farris

1484: Crossing by C. Rees

1483: How to Write by Anne Waldman

1482: XII. Southern Constellations by Brandon Kilbourne

[encore] 1381: What Is This Air Changing, This Warm Aura, These Threads of Air Vibrating Rows of People by Ariel Yelen

[encore] 1460: Poem to Remind Myself of the Natural Order of Things by Donika Kelly

[encore] 1429: Midlife Crisis by Jane Zwart

[encore] 1383: The Situation in Our City by Ciona Rouse

[encore] 1444: Congratulations! Your Grief Is About to Stop Being Relevant! by Bridget Bell

1481: from Mosaic by Supritha Rajan

1480: Reverse Requiem by Ina Cariño

1479: After Dinner by James Ciano

1478: If Night You Were a City by Adam Wiedewitsch

1477: Surety by Anna Zumbahlen

1476: The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel

1475: Out of These Wounds, the Moon Will Rise by Jay Hopler

1474: Epistemic Distance by Emma Bolden

1473: Solar Eclipse by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

1472: The Road to Baghdad by Seth Brady Tucker

1471: It Was Like This: You Were Happy by Jane Hirshfield

1470: Common Denominators by Cynthia Arrieu-King

1469: Pardon My Heart by Marcus Jackson

1468: Five Paragraph Essay on Time by Kathleen Flenniken

1467: Geranium by Karen Solie

1466: Poem about everything except— by Amy Lemmon

1465: Or am I a room with a roof taken off, still holding onto my idea of ceiling by Kelly Hoffer

1464: Somewhere Else by Adam J. Gellings

1463: Sleep by Matthew Dickman

1462: Perspective, Coyoacán by Corey Van Landingham

1461: Word for It by Kevin Craft

1460: Poem to Remind Myself of the Natural Order of Things by Donika Kelly

1459: February by Jim Moore

1458: on projection by Raena Shirali

1457: an excerpt from THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD by Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller

1456: Rubicon by Carl Phillips

1455: Historical Site by Tommye Blount

1453: Closing Time; Iskandariya by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

1452: A Backstory Beyond My Recounting by Paulann Petersen

1454: Katherine with the Lazy Eye. Short. And Not a Good Poet by francine j. harris

1451: Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich

1450: Home by Warsan Shire

1449: Nightline: September 20, 1982 by June Jordan

1448: Orchestra by Russell Brakefield

1447: Gratitude by Cornelius Eady

1446: Mistake by Heather Christle

1445: Hackberry by Cecily Parks

1444: Congratulations! Your Grief Is About to Stop Being Relevant! by Bridget Bell

1443: Come Back! by Camille Guthrie

1442: Apocatastasis by G.C. Waldrep

1441: Birthday Wish by David Groff

1440: New Year by Kate Baer

1439: I Have Lost It by Monica Ferrell

1438: The Long Now by Robin Beth Schaer

1437: Now that we’ve been married all these years, by Keetje Kuipers

1436: Vacation by Sara Moore Wagner

1435: ars poetica, 2019 by Airea D. Matthews

1434: Waiting for the Call I Am by Wyatt Townley

1433: Given to Rust by Vievee Francis

1432: The Good Guy by Blas Falconer

1431: Going Home by Joan Kwon Glass

1430: Earth Shovel by Dan Albergotti

1429: Midlife Crisis by Jane Zwart

1428: In Defense of “Candelabra with Heads” by Nicole Sealey

1427: A toast to something beautiful flapping in the wind by J. Hope Stein

1426: One-Way Gate by Jenny George

1425: The Ship by Bianca Stone

1424: White Hot Star by W. Todd Kaneko

1423: Puzzle by Randall Mann

1422: Dear Delinquent by Ann Townsend

1421: My 1994 by Stephanie Burt

1420: Losing the Band by Ashley D. Escobar

1419: Ladies' Arm Wrestling Match at the Blue Moon Diner by Jenny Johnson

1418: Whitetail in the Rain Moving About by Melissa Ginsburg

1417: My Mother's Love by James Allen Hall

Bonus Episode: Maggie Smith on This Old House Radio Hour

1416: Nursery by Kiki Petrosino

1415: Elephants Born Without Tusks by Alison C. Rollins

1414: This dark is the same dark as when you close by R.A. Villanueva

1413: On Proliferation by Cass Donish

1412: Ledge (ars poetica) (love poem) (true story) by Amorak Huey

[encore] 1343: /’mīgrent/ by Tiana Nobile

[encore] 1368: Do You Consider Writing to be Therapeutic? by Andrew Grace

[encore] 1332: Tea by Leila Chatti

[encore] 1376: Laura, I Want You Pulling Your Hair Back by Natalie Dunn

1411: Amalgam by Rebecca Foust

1410: Go by Kathleen Ossip

1409: Sal, 1950 by Paula Colangelo

1408: Noah's Nameless Wife Takes Inventory by C.T. Salazar

1407: At the Base of the Mountain by Amanda Hawkins

1406: Paperweight by Ryan Teitman

1405: Entry by Chet'la Sebree

1404: Before Lunar New Year, Our Mothers Go Missing by Uyen Phuong Dang

1403: Echo by Pura López-Colomé, translated by Forrest Gander

1402: Gloria Mundi by Michael Kleber-Diggs

1401: LeaveTaking by Rita Dove

1400: The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (I) by Bob Hicok

1399: Alarm Clock by Jennifer Maier

1398: A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem by Rachel Dillon

1397: Palinode by Lisa Low

1396: Panama by Sarah Green

1395: The Night Angler by Geffrey Davis

1394: Puerto Rico Goes Dark by Juan J. Morales

1393: The Night Where You No Longer Live by Meghan O’Rourke

1392: Local Mission by Kai Carlson-Wee

1391: Never-ending Birds by David Baker

1390: The Poem Climbs the Scaffold and Tells You What It Sees by Natasha Oladokun

1389: Sehnsucht by Michael Dumanis

1388: When I learn Catastrophically by Martha Silano

1387: Different Kinds of Sadness by Jenny Molberg

1386: Night of the Living, Night of the Dead by Kim Addonizio

1385: At Night by Stanley Plumly

1384: I do not mention the war in my birthplace to my six-year-old son but somehow his body knows by Julia Kolchinsky

1383: The Situation in Our City by Ciona Rouse

1382: Lamb by Richie Hofmann

1381: What Is This Air Changing, This Warm Aura, These Threads of Air Vibrating Rows of People by Ariel Yelen

1380: Like Apple from Seed by Molly Johnsen

1379: Arkansabop by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers

1378: poem where no one is deported by José Olivarez

1377: The Crux by Megan Peak

1376: Laura, I Want You Pulling Your Hair Back by Natalie Dunn

1375: Dear Absent, by Marcus Wicker

1374: The Terror of New Love! by Tiana Clark

1373: Protection Spell Jar by Cynthia Marie Hoffman

1372: My Body Knows Its Limits by Page Hill Starzinger

1371: At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

1370: Soot by Kaveh Akbar

1369: Six Hours Lost, Land Between the Lakes by Kathleen Driskell

1368: Do You Consider Writing to be Therapeutic? by Andrew Grace

1367: Abundance by Rick Barot

1366: Nostalgia by Matthew Minicucci

1365: Noise Cancelling by Devon Walker-Figueroa

1364: Hiking Moraine State Park by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza

1363: Notes on Beachgrass by Yong-Yu Huang

1362: For You Who Have Loved Old Dogs by Silas House

1361: Earth, Sometimes I Try to Play It Casual, by Catherine Pierce

1360: Wind, Blue Sky by Susan Aizenberg

1359: Lotioning My Mother’s Back by Ama Codjoe

1358: Parts of a Body House by Erika Meitner

1357: Country Night by Laura Newbern

1356: The Song of Songs of Songs of Songs by Jeremy Radin

1355: Rancho Bar by Margot Kahn

1354: Checkout by Caroline Bird

1353: Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones

1352: Blue by Jodie Hollander

1351: The Happy Middle by Hedgie Choi

1350: Real Estate by Richard Siken

1349: Sati by Vandana Khanna

1348: Valentine for Ernest Mann by Naomi Shihab Nye

1347: Animal Prudence by Kathy Fagan

1346: The Difficult Countryside by John Gallaher

1345: Arrangements by Adrienne Chung

1344: Cento Between the Ending and the End by Cameron Awkward-Rich

1343: /’mīgrent/ by Tiana Nobile

1342: And Then It Was Less Bleak Because We Said So by Wendy Xu

1341: Lake by Noah Falck

1340: From the Sky by Sara Abou Rashed

1339: Wind-Related Ripple in the Wheatfield by Mikko Harvey

1338: Are you bringing fruits, plants, seeds, by Karen Llagas

1337: New York Address by Linda Gregg

1336: I Find Myself Defending Pigeons by Keith S. Wilson

1335: Bonfire Opera by Danusha Laméris

1334: Étude by Amy Gerstler

1333: Crossing the Line by E. Ethelbert Miller

1332: Tea by Leila Chatti

[encore] 784: Sex Without Love by Sharon Olds

[encore] 768: Lately I Am Trying by Sanna Wani

[encore] 520: I Worry My Mother Will Die and I Will Know Nothing by Asa Drake

[encore] 792: Trash by Joshua Bennett

[encore] 688: [since feeling is first] by E.E. Cummings

[encore] 264: Sleeping with the Chihuahua by Tami Haaland

[encore] 351: Fish Heads by R.A. Villanueva

[encore] 278: Thanks by W.S. Merwin

Maggie Smith is the New Host of The Slowdown

[encore] 237: Workshop by Jacob Shores-Argüello

[encore] 961: Nocturne by Oliver Baez Bendorf

[encore] 1107: Accessory to War by Kim Stafford

[encore] 1156: In Love by Chloe Martinez

[encore] 1094: 00000000 by Erin Marie Lynch

[encore] 1005: eco-hood by Melania Luisa Marte

[encore] 624: Sunflowers in the Median

[encore] 526: Saudade

[encore] 645: It’s 9:30am, I’ve ran four miles, cried four times, & eaten two chicken sandwiches

[encore] 510: Let Me

[encore] 788: John Muir, A Dream, A Waterfall, A Mountain Ash

[encore] 382: Another Night at Sea Level by Meg Day

[encore] 442: Climbing China's Great Wall by Afaa M. Weaver

[encore] 454: On a Spaceship Somewhere, Long After Empire's Collapse by Jesús I. Valles

[encore] 470: Say Thank You Say I'm Sorry by Jericho Brown

[encore] 393: Song In Which We Yet Sidestep Disaster by Tess Taylor

[encore] 1175: Hunger by Kelli Russell Agodon

[encore] 1174: Separation Wall by Naomi Shihab Nye

[encore] 1173: Sono by Suji Kwock Kim

[encore] 1172: From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

[encore] 1171: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

[encore] 664: Prayer Beginning with a Line by Czaykowski by Pablo Piñero Stillmann

[encore] 677: Practicing by Ciona Rouse

[encore] 541: Little Grey Dreams by Angelina Weld Grimké

[encore] 617: Places With Terrible Wi-Fi by J. Estanislao Lopez

[encore] 710: Acknowledgments by Nkosi Nkululeko

[encore] 463: To be of use by Marge Piercy

[encore] 403: The Book of Genesis by Morgan Parker

[encore] 387: Stop Looking At My Last Name Like That by Michael Torres

[encore] 448: Telephone of the Wind by Eddie Kim

[encore] 377: Moon Pull by Carlina Duan

[encore] 871: Flesh (“You in your ecstasy of coffee”) by Deborah Landau

[encore] 1104: Black Book of Creation by Shanta Lee Gander

1332: Slow Take: An Evening of Poetry and Reflection with The Slowdown and The Porch

[encore] 969: Us by Zaffar Kunial

[encore] 1152: from "The Crystal Text" by Clark Coolidge

[encore] 684: I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won't by Traci Brimhall

[encore] 531: anti-immigration by Evie Shockley

[encore] 676: Last Sundays at Bootleggers by Carlos Andrés Gómez

[encore] 516: In Response to Feeling Alone by t. liem

[encore] 603: Sligo Abbey by Rebecca Lindenberg

[encore] 373: Tracing the Horse by Diana Marie Delgado

[encore] 459: The Feeling by Ari Banias

[encore] 303: Telling My Father by James Crews

[encore] 9: Portrait of the Alcoholic with Withdrawal by Kaveh Akbar

[encore] 311: Listen, by Barbara Crooker

[encore] 821: I Have No Idea What's Going to Happen by Justin Marks

[encore] 1113: Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi

[encore] 1168: Refusing Rilke's "You must change your life" by Remica Bingham-Risher

[encore] 1201: Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh

[encore] 1029: If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso by Gertrude Stein

[encore] 600: I Imagine the Butches' Stripper Bar by Jill McDonough

[encore] 760: Song by Charif Shanahan

[encore] 647: Walking Across Fire Island by Shelley Wong

[encore] 571: Golden Age by Chris Santiago

[encore] 708: Bruised Peaches by Bronwen Tate

[encore] 236: Polaroid Ode by Cori Winrock

[encore] 389: Kissing the Opelu by Donovan Kūhiō

[encore] 168: What Does It Say by Tess Gallagher

[encore] 386: Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong by Ocean Vuong

[encore] 496: a brief meditation on breath by Yesenia Montilla

[encore] 1025: I Am Trying to Love the Whole World by Jenny Browne

[encore] 995: Dear—, by DéLana R.A. Dameron

[encore] 1202: If only by Dawn Lundy Martin

[encore] 860: Learning Money in Reverse by Stephanie Niu

[encore] 1132: Felonious States of Adjectival Excess Featuring Comparative and Superlative Forms by A. H. Jerriod Avant

[encore] 789: hoop snake by Rebecca Wee

[encore] 547: Travel by Edna St. Vincent Millay

[encore] 661: The Field by Rick Barot

[encore] 765: a fishing story. by Mia S. Willis

[encore] 723: Divorce by José A. Alcantara

[encore] 476: Minneapolipstick by Rachel McKibbens

[encore] 499: Leaving Tulsa by Jennifer Elise Foerster

[encore] 143: Untitled by Sesshu Foster

[encore] 282: Waiting for Happiness by Nomi Stone

[encore] 305: Wake Up by Carl Phillips

[encore] 1045: Sonnet for Ochún by Leslie Sainz

[encore] 865: Worry (the Dybbuk) by Anthony Immergluck

[encore] 915: Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic? by Garrett Hongo

[encore] 848: Six for Gold by Kate Hanson Foster

[encore] 846: Some Madness There by Charlotte Pence

1331: The Party is Downstairs by Didi Jackson

1330: Playback by Lauren Camp

1329: Mantle by Kevin Young

1328: Forge by Ethel Rackin

1327: Gertrude: In the Rooms by Kate Daniels

1326: The Slowdown Live

1325: Flame by C.D. Wright

1324: Why I Write Poetry by Major Jackson

1323: The Ways of Remembering Women by Lynne Thompson

1322: [as freedom is a breakfastfood] by E.E. Cummings

1321: The Running of Several Simulations at Once May Lead to Murky Data by Heather Christle

1320: mulberry fields by Lucille Clifton

encore [902]: Morning in a City by J. Mae Barizo

1319: The Rain, Life, and Other Things by Leah Umansky

1318: Desert Sayings by Donovan McAbee

1317: Grinning in Sardinia by Tomás Q. Morín

1316: Portrait of My Mother Studying for Her Citizenship Exam by Eduardo Martínez-Leyva

encore [1224]: Here We Are by Lauren K. Watel

1315: Milestone 2 (We Laugh About the Weather, Its Impermanence) by Divya Victor

1314: If we had known, by Marissa Davis

1313: A Little Slice of Heaven by Jaswinder Bolina

1312: small comment by Sonia Sanchez

[encore] 1078: Ferment by Monica Rico

1311: Gratitude by Patrick Dundon

1310: Divinity School by Ariana Reines

1309: 5 A.M. by Michael Ondaatje

1308: Mother's Rules by Yalie Saweda Kamara

[encore] 1039: What Good Is Silence by Phuong T. Vuong

1307: Field Guide as Sonnet by A. D. Lauren-Abunassar

1306: Ode to the Pink Cowboy Hat by Quinn Carver Johnson

1305: An Apology for Trashing Magazines in Which You Appear by Nicole Sealey

1304: Cinema Paradiso by Claire Booker

1303: Chaplinesque by Hart Crane

1302: One Shies at the Prospect of Raising Yet Another Defense of Cannibalism by Josh Bell

1301: Jaws by Emma Hine

1300: Genesis by Megan Pinto

1299: Hello, the Roses by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

1298: Earth, Earth by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

1297: Jamboree, Evening, Midsummer by Austin Araujo

1296: In Which I Become (Skywoman) by Kenzie Allen

1295: Wind Ode by Sharon Olds

1294: White Peonies by Reginald Dwayne Betts

1293: Washing the Elephant by Barbara Ras

1292: Rabbitbrush by Molly McCully Brown

1291: Our Bodies by Michael Bazzett

1290: Statement of Teaching Philosophy by Keith Leonard

1289: Things I Want to Tell You About California by Barbara Costas-Biggs

1288: A Drink in the Night by Deborah Garrison

1287: Astronomers Locate a New Planet by Matthew Olzmann

1286: Reasons to Live by Ruth Awad

1285: It Too Remains by Glyn Maxwell

1284: When You Rise from the Dead I Drive You to the After Party by Melissa Studdard

1283: A Sword Shall Pierce Your Heart by Pádraig Ó Tuama

1282: Third Week of Ramadan by Sahar Romani

1281: I Want to Die by Tariq Luthun

1280: If by Imtiaz Dharker

1279: Ode to My Mama and “The Purple Dress,” circa 1992-1993 by Brittany Rogers

1278: things people like to share: by Nuar Alsadir

1277: Self-Portrait as Kendrick Lamar, Laughing to the Bank by Ashanti Anderson

1276: To Be Longing by Elizabeth Willis

1275: Love Language by Angela Narciso Torres

1274: Ennui by Luis G. Dato

1273: Sorrow Ghazal by Mary Elder Jacobsen

1272: The Paper Nautilus by Marianne Moore

1271: Refuge by Nehassaiu deGannes

1270: The Gift to Sing by James Weldon Johnson

1269: Grace by Orlando Ricardo Menes

1268: The Pacific by Jennifer Jean

1267: What the Body Gives Away by Saba Keramati

1266: Echo by Christina Rossetti

[encore] 1006: Something Sweet by Hannah Lowe

[encore] 964: abundance of light by erica lewis

[encore] 1032: Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me by Jane Hirshfield

[encore] 1184: End of December by Ashjan Hendi, translated by Moneera Al-Ghadeer

[encore] 845: Dear Future Me (#12) by Lena Moses-Schmitt

[encore] 1026: Ode to Bones by Lynne Thompson

[encore] 908: After the Farm was Sold to FedEx by Carlie Hoffman

[encore] 1122: Childhood by David Baker

[encore] 1022: Two Shadows by Maurice Manning

[encore] 1163: Voice Clear As by Kemi Alabi

1265: Gorgon Loves Googie's by Rebecca Morgan Frank

1264: The Room is a Rectangle by Marianne Chan

1263: Film Theory by Xan Forest Phillips

1262: The Future of Terror / 1 by Matthea Harvey

1261: Immersive by Joseph Millar

1260: Fade Away by Amorak Huey

1259: When you have to kill everybody in the room by Niki Herd

1258: The Trees by Jericho Brown

1257: Time || Immemorial by Daniel Simon

1256: A Dominican Poem by Danielle Legros Georges

1255: The Presence in Absence by Linda Gregg

1254: That's My Heart Right There by Willie Perdomo

1253: On the Death of a Young Lady Five Years of Age, a reinscription by Aracelis Girmay

1252: The Canonization by John Donne

1251: On Living by Nâzim Hikmet, translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

1250: 52 Blue by Sappho Stanley

1249: Farmers' Market by Molly Fisk

1248: Listening to Monk's Misterioso I Remember Braiding My Sisters' Hair by Christopher Gilbert

1247: A Garden and a Street by Teresa Cader

1246: Big Purple Peonies by Margaret Ross

1245: Telescope by Louise Glück

1244: Poem by Frank O'Hara

1243: Waiting for the Annular Eclipse by Rhoni Blankenhorn

1242: Aleppo by Hala Alyan

1241: Brooklyn is for Breakups by Chen Chen

1240: Mother of the English Language by Nicole Arocho Hernández

1239: My Father Flying by Jan Beatty

1238: Forgiveness Rock Record by Tawanda Mulalu

1237: Shadow Play by Jessica Fisher

1236: Letter to a Young Poet by Megan Fernandes

1235: On Being by Ruben Quesada

1234: Mami Told Me to Put Water under the Bed by Peggy Robles-Alvarado

1233: Trans Loneliness by Rickey Laurentiis

1232: A House Called Tomorrow by Alberto Ríos

1231: Gala Noise by Diane Mehta

1230: Second Paradise by Chard deNiord

1229: Refugia by Traci Brimhall

1228: Shelf Life by Nathan Xavier Osorio

1227: Genetics by Sinead Morrissey

1226: The Devouring Economy of Nature by Daniel Borzutzky

1225: After Vallejo by A.B. Spellman

1224: Here We Are by Lauren K. Watel

1223: Between You and You by Sham-e-Ali Nayeem

1222: Post- by Corey Van Landingham

1221: Home Movies: A Sort of Ode by Mary Jo Salter

1220: Taking Stock by Elaine Equi

1219: from "Elegy for the Times" by Adonis, translated by Robyn Creswell

1218: Vulture by Ted Kooser

1217: Abide by Jake Adam York

1216: oracle by Duriel E. Harris

1215: The Clearing by Jane Kenyon

1214: Grading Rubric by Antonio de Jesús López

1213: Pacific Power & Light by Michael Dickman

1212: Eureka! by Jessica Abughattas

1211: The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart by Jack Gilbert

1210: Negro Hero (to Suggest Dorie Miller) by Gwendolyn Brooks

1209: Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare

1208: Gravelly Run by A. R. Ammons

1207: from "Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams

1206: Birches by Robert Frost

1205: Leaving by Madeleine Cravens

1204: The Joseph Cornell App by David Roderick

1203: This Living by Amber Tamblyn

1202: If only by Dawn Lundy Martin

1201: Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh

1200: Lying My Head Off by Cate Marvin

1199: Homo naledi by Sara Borjas

1198: The Big People by César Vallejo, translated by James Wright

1197: March, the Garden by Chera Hammons

1196: A Conversation between Women by Jennifer Chang

[encore] 1165: Pando Aspen Clone by Jacqueline Balderrama

[encore] 1063: Love Poem by Sophie Cabot Black

[encore] 1138: Orientation by Cindy Juyoung Ok

[encore] 926: from "The Garden of Limbs" by Cristina Pérez Díaz

[encore] 1103: Chaos Theory by Clint Smith

[encore] 1125: English by Janel Pineda

[encore] 1097: Mercy, Mercy Me by Olatunde Osinaike

[encore] 932: Letter to my sister by Trapeta B. Mayson

[encore] 1093: When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon

[encore] 1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

1195: First Kiss by Rooja Mohassessy

1194: Theories of Influence by Anselm Berrigan

1193: Chanson d’automne by Paul Verlaine, with special guest Jacques Pépin

1192: Narcissus and the Namesake River by Reginald Shepherd

1191: For Mac Miller and 2009 by Kayleb Rae Candrilli

1190: At the Museum of Empress Livia’s Garden Room by Pimone Triplett

1189: Nature Poem About Flowers by Matthew Rohrer

1188: In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah, with special guest adrienne maree brown

1187: Picking Favorites by George Franklin

1186: Oh, y’know, just your standard Q&A by Alex Z. Salinas

1185: Fragment 31 by Sappho, translated by Christopher Childers

1184: End of December by Ashjan Hendi, translated by Moneera Al-Ghadeer

1183: maggie and milly and molly and may by E.E. Cummings, with special guest Eric Whitacre

1182: from “Take Me Back, Burden Hill” by L. Lamar Wilson

1181: Enlightenment by Vijay Seshadri

1180: The Gardener 85 by Rabindranath Tagore

1179: Nude by James Kelly Quigley

1178: America by Claude McKay, with special guest Tonya Mosley

1177: Machete: Look by Jasminne Mendez

1176: Fowl at Large by Sarah Giragosian

1175: Hunger by Kelli Russell Agodon

1174: Separation Wall by Naomi Shihab Nye

1173: Sono by Suji Kwock Kim

1172: From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

1171: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

1170: The Way by Cynthia Cruz

1169: from "American Analects" by Gary Young

1168: Refusing Rilke's “You must change your life” by Remica Bingham-Risher

1167: Transfusion by Shara Lessley

1166: Wind Poem by Song Yu, translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts

1165: Pando Aspen Clone by Jacqueline Balderrama

1164: Act of Gratitude by Cyrus Cassells

1163: Voice Clear As by Kemi Alabi

1162: But Beautiful by Rodney Terich Leonard

1161: Each Morning Again by Rose McLarney

1160: Naïve by Tim Seibles

1159: We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers by Diannely Antigua

1158: A Blessing by Samyak Shertok

1157: from “Requiem 1935-1940” by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward

1156: In Love by Chloe Martinez

Dosis de reflexión

1151: I Tune My Body and My Brain to the Music of the Land by Natalie Shapero

1150: Fuji, Ararat by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, translated by Eduardo Aparicio

1149: Agony's Rasp by Garous Abdolmalekian, translated by Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey

1148: Urine Season by Niina Pollari

1147: A Book of Music by Jack Spicer

1146: Lonely Women by Choi Seungja, translated by Won-Chung Kim and Cathy Park Hong

1145: Love Poem by the Light of the Refrigerator by Alisha Dietzman

1144: Horse by TR Brady

1143: Screenplay by Harryette Mullen

1142: Hyperacusis by Santee Frazier

1141: When I Was in My Early Thirties I Saw Elton John in a Nightclub in Atlanta Called Tongue and Groove by Khadijah Queen

1140: Fish, Serpent, Egg, Scorpion by Kwame Dawes

1139: Dolly Would by Julie E. Bloemeke

1138: Orientation by Cindy Juyoung Ok

1137: i have an irrational fear of spiders by Charlie Getter

1136: Visible Light by Heidi Seaborn

1135: At the Rainbow Cattle Company by Bruce Snider

1134: Americans by Katie Peterson

1133: The Alien by Greg Delanty

1132: Felonious States of Adjectival Excess Featuring Comparative and Superlative Forms by A. H. Jerriod Avant

1131: How It Will End by Denise Duhamel

1130: Cy Twombly's Untitled (Say Goodbye Catullus, to the shores of Asia Minor) by Javier O. Huerta

1129: Hagar in the Wilderness by Tyehimba Jess

1128: Post-Industrial Society Has Arrived by Vidhu Aggarwal

1127: Two Paintings Seen Again by Rachel Hadas

1126: Not So Much an End as an Entangling by Linda Gregerson

1125: English by Janel Pineda

1124: What Good Is A Castle by Linda Susan Jackson

1123: In the House With No Doors by Sarah Kay

1122: Childhood by David Baker

1121: The Empire of Light by Michael Dumanis

1120: Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller

1119: A Black Doe in the Anthropocene by Artress Bethany White

1118: At My Funeral by Hélène Cardona

1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

1116: Mercy by Dessa

1115: Frame Six by Cheswayo Mphanza

1114: The Mothers by Jill Bialosky

1113: Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi

1112: Sl(e)ight by Alice White

1111: The Nation by Roy Fisher

1110: Blue Hour by Chanda Feldman

1109: Never Did Say So by Caridad Moro-Gronlier

1108: Life on Earth by Dorianne Laux

1107: Accessory to War by Kim Stafford

1106: Life In The Gush Of Boasts by Elijah Burrell

1105: Self-Portrait with Tumbling and Lasso by Eduardo C. Corral

1104: Black Book of Creation by Shanta Lee Gander

1103: Chaos Theory by Clint Smith

1102: How to Be a Good Savage by Mikeas Sánchez, translated by Wendy Call and Shook

1101: 1971 Pontiac LeMans by Thomas Bolt

1100: Ode to The Lone Star State by Jubi Arriola-Headley

1099: Something by Andrea Cohen

1098: Rant by Nathalie Anderson

1097: Mercy, Mercy Me by Olatunde Osinaike

1096: Gacela of the Dark Death by Federico García Lorca, translated by Merryn Williams

1095: Nameless Places by Tony Petrosky

1094: 00000000 by Erin Marie Lynch

1093: When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon

1092: Eid Mubarak by Fady Joudah

1091: To Find Stars in Another Language by Elizabeth Bradfield

1090: My Life by Water by Lorine Niedecker

1089: The Loquat Trees & The Boy Next Door by Saúl Hernández

1088: Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo

1087: After She Died by Mary Szybist

1086: It's This Way by Nâzim Hikmet

1085: Spring View by Du Fu, translated by Arthur Sze

1084: Mahmoud by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Fady Joudah

1083: first person by Ed Roberson

1082: A Certain Light by Marie Howe

1081: The Leaving by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

1080: Dream Song 14 by John Berryman

1079: Cassandra by Sasha West

1078: Ferment by Monica Rico

1077: “Something About…” by Peter Kahn

1076: a story from the eighties by Debra Marquart

1075: Translation by Anne Spencer

1074: My Father and I Drive to St. Louis for His Mother's Funeral and the Wildflowers by Chaun Ballard

1073: Great Question by Lisa Olstein

1072: Under the Bed by Kirun Kapur

1071: Ode to the Idea of France by Dan Alter

1070: Thirteen by Anna V.Q. Ross

1069: An Exchange by Corey Marks

1068: Fish Pier, Santa Monica by Vernon Duke

1067: blues-elegy for cheryl by Evie Shockley

1066: Casual Labor by Sandy Solomon

1065: First of March by Stacie Cassarino

1064: Dry Spell by Lisa Sewell

1063: Love Poem by Sophie Cabot Black

1062: A Response to the Misguided Student by Wesley Rothman

1061: Mirror, Mirror by Tom Healy

[encore] 996: Portable Paradise

[encore] 1008: Kinds of Silence

[encore] 923: A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé

[encore] 990: Feeding the Koi

[encore] 966: Love Poem, with Birds

[encore] 955: Love Sits by My Father

[encore] 807: Short Essay on Love

[encore] 1003: Without Name

[encore] 917: Love and the Deli Counter

1060: Perhaps

1059: Love and the Moon

1058: The Dangers of Contemplation

1057: Facebook Status

1056: Ghazal for Mothers & Tongues

1055: Dancing at The Get Down by Cat Wei

1054: Hunger

1053: Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World

1052: Body's Ken

1051: Venus's Flytraps

1050: To The Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall

1049: [I wandered lonely as a Cloud] or Daffodils

1048: You & the Donkey Cart

1047: To The Stone-Cutters

1046: After, We Try to Switch Our Hearts Back On

1045: Sonnet for Ochún

1044: Mixed Marriage

1043: from “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return” by CAConrad

1042: Ode to Badminton

1041: By Then

1040: The Idea of Order at Key West

1039: What Good Is Silence

[encore] 877: The Lifeline

1038: The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

1037: An Open Call to Single Daughters of Single Mothers

1036: Pleasure

1035: The Darkling Thrush

1034: Cliché

1033: On Meeting My Biological Father

1032: Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me

1031: Objects in the Mirror are Closer Than They Appear

1030: Fourth Wall Arpeggio

1029: If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso

1028: Yet, the Loveliness

1027: The Memory of the Young

1026: Ode to Bones

1025: I Am Trying to Love the Whole World

1024: Ashes

1023: Hurrying Toward the Present

1022: Two Shadows

1021: Making Things

1020: Ithaka

1019: Ambition

1018: Cuffing Season

1017: Parallel Worlds

1016: In the Seam of Life

1015: Death Letter #2

1014: Date

1013: Reading Poetry in Illness

1012: Morning Glory

1011: Bloodroot

1010: Self-care Bucket List

1009: Teleology

1008: Kinds of Silence

1007: To Do: Write Cephalopod Poem

1006: Something Sweet

1005: eco-hood

1004: What to Do With the Hedges

1003: Without Name

1002: Secular and Inconsolable

1001: To the bartender who tends to more than just the bar

1000: I Hear America Singing

999: clap-on

998: A Computerized Jet Fountain in the Detroit Metro Airport

997: Letter to the Editor

996: A Portable Paradise

995: Dear—,

994: ACT! pose with fingers as though cigarette (puff puff)

993: Bundt Cake from Sam's Club

992: Imago

991: Googling Ourselves

990: Feeding the Koi

989: Signs, Music

988: Hillwood

987: Totalitarian

986: EGGSHELLS

985: Might Kindred

984: Poem at the Top of a Mountain

983: Things Haunt

982: Rain

981: Through a closed mouth the flies enter

980: Villanelle

979: The Listening World

978: And the Beautiful

977: sights and sounds on my way to you

976: Wonder Wheel

975: Love after Love

974: Did you want to come in?

973: Sword Swallowing Lessons

972: Light Upon The Body

[encore] 936: Voyeuristic Intentions

[encore] 929: this is a library

[encore] 909: My Dearest Black-Billed Streamertail

[encore] 935: Happy Campus

[encore] 904: The Statues and Us

971: On Mars

970: Ungendered 2

969: Us

968: The Long Goodbye

967: Ode to Purple Summer

[encore] 806: Polycardial

[encore] 822: Cricket Song

[encore] 804: Foxglove

[encore] 870: Hymn to Church Basements

[encore] 812: September

966: Love Poem, with Birds

965: from "Excess Sonnets"

964: abundance of light

963: Frederick Douglass

962: Afternoon in Andalusia

961: Nocturne

960: I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260)

959: On Earth

958: Alain Locke in Stoughton Hall

957: Rooms by the Sea

956: Hair

955: Love Sits by My Father

954: In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa

953: Two Photographs

952: Failed Essay on Privilege

951: I wanted music

950: from FIXER

949: Thirty-Fifth Year

948: Willing in the Orisha

947: Famous

946: Crackerbell

945: The Jungle

944: Sonnet written walking under the mess some magnolia made

943: The Dictator in Prison

942: Very Large Moth

941: After We Buried The Dog In The Dark

940: Survivor

939: A Guy in a Black SUV

938: Sorcery

937: While Shaving

936: Voyeuristic Intentions

935: Happy Campus

934: Labor Theory of Value

933: Penmanship

932: Letter to my sister

931: Epilogue

930: elegy for the moaner, 2016

929: this is a library

928: Prayer

927: Via Politica

926: from "The Garden of Limbs"

925: Country of Water

924: Theme for the nautical cowboy

923: A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé

922: Not It

921: Dear Red

920: Invented Landscape

919: Take This Poem

918: Vision from the Blue Plane-Window

917: Love and the Deli Counter

916: from "fabula: towards a black mirror”

915: Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic?

914: Voices of the Air

913: America, I Do Not Call Your Name without Hope

912: Poem

911: The Messenger

910: How Long Could I Have Been Weightless?

909: My Dearest Black-Billed Streamertail

908: After the Farm was Sold to FedEx

907: A State of Permanent Visibility

906: Self-Portrait as Derivatives Trader

905: Voyeur

904: The Statues and Us

903: Boy Shooting at a Statue

902: Morning in a City

901: The Poet

900: In An Elevator with Ashbery, Crossing Stanzas, Bashfully

899: Areyto for the Shipwrecked: The Case for Spanglish

898: from THIRSTY

897: Emptying

896: Portrait of My Father With the Letter V

895: Burnt Plastic

894: Part

893: To the Friend Who Is Crying on the Phone

892: in the dormitories after dark

891: Uh Huh: Hi, Hula Tooth

890: Simulation Theory by Leigh Stein

889: Short Talk on Waterproofing by Anne Carson

888: Sorrow Is Innate in the Human

887: Where are the girls who were so beautiful? from “33”

886: Stereo

885: Dear Past and Future Metastasis,

884: He Laughed With A Laugh

883: Extreme Close-up

882: The Pathology of Currency

881: She Loves Me, She Love Me Not

880: The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish

879: For the Poet Who Is Your High School English Teacher

878: This Is My Vow

877: The Lifeline

876: Nowhere Else to Go

875: Olympians vs. Modernity

874: Ozymandias

873: Occasional Poem

872: Jabberwocky

871: Flesh (“You in your ecstasy of coffee”)

870: Hymn to Church Basements

869: Ethnic Arithmetic

868: The Half-Finished Heaven

867: Four-in-Hand

866: Tea with Ann

865: Worry (the Dybbuk)

864: To the Buyer of Our Old Home

863: La Peste

862: Last Night I Had Such Good Dreams

861: Apologia

860: Learning Money in Reverse

859: Diving at Blue Hole

858: from BOOK OF THE OTHER

857: And Everywhere Offering Human Sound

856: The "I Want" Song

855: Placebo

854: To be brave, I look to the daffodil

853: from LET IT BE BROKE

852: Forestbathing (or Trees)

851: I Was Wrong About So Much

850: Split

849: If There Is Another World

848: Six for Gold

847: Liturgy for Family Circles

846: Some Madness There

845: Dear Future Me (#12)

844: A Ruin

843: Family Court

842: Zelda Fitzgerald

841: The Whole World is the Best Land I Ever Lived

840: Agoraphobia

839: Pietà by Michelangelo: Marble, 1499

838: The Truth

837: Fire Destroys Beloved Chicago Bakery

836: A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck

835: "anyone can be beautiful:

834: Two Boys Ago

833: The Railroad Worm

832: The Illiterate

831: Panama Hat

830: What's Been Caged

829: Don't Touch

828: Against Poetry

827: Naming the Waves

826: How

825: Hotter Than July

824: Head of Anahit / British Museum

823: Salmon

822: Cricket Song

821: I Have No Idea What's Going to Happen

820: Jesus Saves

819: Egrets (in memory of Barry Lopez)

818: Everything Lies in All Directions

817: Context is all

816: The Freeways Considered As Earth Gods

815: My Mother Talks to Her Son About Her Heart

814: on persona

813: Forgiveness, Perhaps

812: September

811: Possum

810: There Is No Touchdown Here, Belichick

809: A Statement from No One, Incorporated

808: Birds in Home Depot—December

807: Short Essay on Love

806: Polycardial

805: Discourse

804: Foxglove

803: In Light of Stars

802: Heirloom

801: Landscape with Things

800: We Wear the Mask

799: Fragment (Stone)

798: Improvement

797: Night Terrors in America

[encore] 740: Shucking Oysters

[encore] 552: Hammond B3 Organ Cistern

[encore] 630: Don't Think

[encore] 691: Final Poem for the "Field of Poetry"

[encore] 570: Asking About My Mother

[encore] 696: Reading Szymborska at Friday Harbor

Returning with new host Major Jackson

[encore] 581: Red-ish Brown-ish

[encore] 625: Not everything is a poem

796: It Must Be The Supermarket in Me

[encore] 643: Eventually / One Point Where We Arrive

[encore] 719: Museum of Sex

[encore] 555: Private Property

[encore] 772: On Friendship

[encore] 513: Romantics

[encore] 769: Meeting at an Airport

[encore] 739: Cherry Blossoms

[encore] 573: Bury Me in the Woods of My Childhood

[encore] 562: The Lonely Humans

[encore] 685: Trees at Night

[encore] 576: Taking Down the Tree

[encore] 627: Don't Say Love Just Signal

[encore] 584: Marte