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The Poetry Magazine Podcast

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The Poetry Magazine Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by Poetry Foundation. It has 99 episodes, with the latest published July 2025.

The Poetry Magazine Podcast takes listeners on an audio journey into and beyond the pages of Poetry. Hear poets share the surprises, confusions, and desires that keep them writing. Produced by Rachel James.

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1

Wake, Butterfly: You Are Living in a Poem with Naomi Shihab Nye

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Wake, Butterfly: Meditation (Arrival) with Saretta Morgan & Bo Hwang

3

Wake, Butterfly: Game with Amelia Bande

4

Wake, Butterfly: Protest (& Antidote) with Pamela Sneed

5

Wake, Butterfly: Plant with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

6

Wake, Butterfly: Beyond (So What) with Edward Salem

7

Wake, Butterfly: Orb Weaver with Gabrielle Calvocoressi

8

Kiki Petrosino and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Crestfallenness, Cookbooks, and More

9

Kimiko Hahn and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Mentoring Your Younger Poet-Self and More

10

Cathy Park Hong and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Shit Moms and More

11

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and Cindy Juyoung Ok on the Renowned and Rebellious Palestinian Poet Zakaria Mohammed

12

Kevin Young and Cindy Juyoung Ok on All the Things Poetry Does

13

Richie Hofmann and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Erotic Turmoil and More

14

torrin a. greathouse and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Form as Open-Source Software and Being Loud on the Page

15

Douglas Kearney and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Scrabble, Spite, and “Dintelligibility”

16

Elisa Gabbert and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Self-Pity, Death, and the Internet

17

Omar Sakr and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Queer Use, Cynicism, and Falling in Love

18

Donika Kelly and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Desire Paths, Therapy, and Pleasure

19

Cynthia Cruz and Charif Shanahan on Protecting Your Feral-ness and More

20

Brian Tierney and Charif Shanahan on Poetry as a Verb, Truth vs Fact, and Love

21

Marie Howe and Charif Shanahan on Ecopoetics, Spirituality, and Losing Oneself

22

CAConrad and Hoa Nguyen on Crystals, Crows, and Cannibalizing Poems

23

Arthur Sze and Forrest Gander on Silence, the Importance of Blank Pages, and How Every Poem Written Shines a Light on Every Other Poem

24

Nam Le and Lindsay Garbutt on Language as an Ecology of Violence and Corruption, the Pain of Being a Writer, and the Value of Uncertainty

25

KB Brookins and Holly Amos on Systemic Freedom, the Power of Insistence, and What People Don’t Understand about Texas

26

Joanna Klink and Holly Amos on psychic longing, attention and attunement, and their differing childhood dinner tables

27

Charif Shanahan and Adrian Matejka on the shifting of identity, oneness, and centering love

28

Building a Sustainable Writing Practice with Stefania Gomez, Maggie Queeney, and Holly Amos, Plus More Writing Prompts

29

Tishani Doshi and Holly Amos on Shape Poetry and Loving the Process, PLUS a Writing Prompt

30

Esther Belin and Tacey M. Atsitty on Monsters

31

Esther Belin and Diamond Forde on poetry as self-definition, self-reclamation, and biomythography

32

Ashley M. Jones and Marcus Wicker on Afrofuturism, OutKast, and Living in the American South

33

Su Cho and Tariq Luthun on Joy, Apocalypse, Crying, and Pokémon

34

Taneum Bambrick and Su Cho on Intimacy and Poetry

35

Nikky Finney, Ross Gay, and Adrian Matejka on Cataloging Time with Artifacts and Heartbeats

36

The Life and Poetry of Carolyn Marie Rodgers, with Nina Rodgers Gordon, Andrew Peart, and Srikanth Reddy

37

Esther Belin in Conversation with Beth Piatote

38

Esther Belin in Conversation with A. Van Jordan

39

Esther Belin in Conversation with Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

40

Esther Berlin in Conversation with Toni Giselle Stuart

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Esther Belin in Conversation with Allison Akootchook Warden

42

Esther Belin in Conversation with Manny Loley

43

Esther Belin in Conversation with Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

44

Mini Episode: Esther Belin Shares Two Writing Prompts

45

Esther Belin in Conversation with Orlando White

46

Srikanth Reddy with Liesl Olson and Ed Roberson on Margaret Danner’s “The Elevator Man Adheres to Form”

47

Srikanth Reddy in Conversation with Josué Coy Dick, Juan Coy Tení, and Jesse Nathan

48

Srikanth Reddy in Conversation with James Shea

49

Srikanth Reddy in Conversation with Don Mee Choi

50

Srikanth Reddy in Conversation with Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis

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