All Episodes

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's "the failure of melting": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Jennifer K. Sweeney's "Slowing the River": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Basho: Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Ted Mathys's "Fluencies": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Kathleen Lynch's "Why I Love Oysters": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Another sneak peek into Always With the Questions!: One Poet's Writing Manual

Carol Graser's "In Congress Park on a Lunch Break from a Job in Retail": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Peter Gizzi's "Inness": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Barbara Tomash's "to begin and end in the garden, slapping mosquitos, reading her book": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Mark Doty's "Little George": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Brief excerpt from my new book Always With the Questions: One Poet's Writing Manual

Kathryn Petrucelli's "At the Grave": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Larry Levis's "Signs": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Elizabeth Zuba's "On Forces and Motion": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Elizabeth Hazen's "Approximations": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Bertha Rogers's "Turkey Vulture": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Gustaf Sobin's "According to Seneca": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Allison Zhang's "Porcelain Theory": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Migwi Mwangi's "Karatina Market": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Jay Wright's "Crispus Attucks": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Sally Van Doren's "1 Kings": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Oksana Maksymchuk's "The Stages of Ukrainian Futurism": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Antonio Machado's "Proverbios y cantares XXIX": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

William Stafford's "You Reading This, Be Ready": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Richard Siken's "Devonian Forest": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Jim Carns's "Tornado": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Pablo Neruda's "Keeping Quiet" (tr. A. Reid): Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Martha Silano's "Is This My Last Ferry Trip?": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Anna Akhmatova's "White House": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Emily Adams-Aucoin's "Delay": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Nickole Brown's "A Prayer to Talk to Animals": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Christopher Citro's "Water Falling Down": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

A Hass translation of a Sosecki poem: Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Masefield's "Sea Fever": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Jeff Friedman's "Covenant": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Adrienne Rich's "What Kind of Times Are These": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Keetje Kuipers's "Getting over the future": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Ada Limon's "Dead Stars": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Grace Q. Song's "Daylight Savings": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

David Graham's "This Is Called Grace": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Victoria Chang's "Provision": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Jeannine Hall Gailey's "Self-portrait as a Mythological Creature": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Tony Hoagland's "Field Guide": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Matthew Lippman's "Outside World of Beers": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Grant Clauser's "Drift Theory": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

James Crews's "No Mud No Lotus": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Marilyn McCabe's poem "Hanging Out": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Kerry Hardie's "We Change the Map": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Shara McCallum's "What the Oracle Said": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

William Stafford's "Spirit of Place: Great Blue Heron": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Catherine Barnett's "Thought Experiment": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Philip Metres's "The Beggars of Beirut": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Lindsay Stuart Hill's "The Baha'i School": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Diamont Popelka, selections from Flashlight: Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Muso Soseki"s "Toki-no-Ge" (trans. Merwin and Shigematsu): Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Gustaf Sobin"s "Psalmodic": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Natalli Amato's "Even pizza can open a heart": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Lucie Brock-Broido"s "Of the Finished World": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Jaswinder Bolina's "At War with the Cynics": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "The Leaving": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Kelli Russell Agodon"s "The Naming of Things": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Daniel Summerhill's "no one told me the world was on fire": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Eric Kocher's "Red Eye Home": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Betsy Sholl's "Poem in which Emily Dickinson Scolds Me": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Jordan Smith's "The Black Canvas Jacket": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Clare Goulet's "Normandina pulchella/ elf ear": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

"Dinner on the Patio, December" by Heather Sellers: Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Marilyn McCabe's "Pro Patria": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Lauren Camp's "Evidence of Tenderness": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

John Balaban's "The Guard at the Bin Thuy Bridge": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Christina Olivares's "Preserving an Ecosystem": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Jane Hirshfield's "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Li-Young Lee's "One Heart": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Thomas Bailey Aldrich's "Memory": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Wordsworth"s "To the Planet Venus": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

"Baptized" by Danielle Jones and "Mary Speaks" by Leila Chatti: Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Kweku Abimbola's "Burning Box Braid on East & 94th, Tulsa, Oklahoma": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Deborah Digges's Vesper Sparrows: Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Anne Carson's "Getaway": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

That Nature Is a Heracletean Fire and Of the Comfort of the Resurrection by Gerard Manley Hopkins: Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Jackie Craven's "Someone moved the bagel shop": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Transtromer's "Brief Pause in the Organ Recital": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Patrick Rosal's "Yes It Will Rain": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Anna de Noailles's "Imprint": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Audre Lorde's "Litany for Survival": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Saara Raappana's "Manifesto of What Breaks": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Yusef Kumunyakaa"s "Facing It": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Rita Dove's "Heart to Heart": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Bruce Weigl's "The Harp": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Christian Wiman's "All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Kay Ryan's "The Light of Interiors": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

William Snyder's "The Hush": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Linda Pastan's "Espaliered Pear Trees": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Stu Bartow, his life and work in haiku: Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Bob Hicok's "All life is life in art": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Gail DiMaggio's Metta for Judy: Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Gerald Stern's Day of Grief: Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Kathleen Graber's "Book Four": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Remembrance of Poet Naton Leslie