What a delight this was, to talk to my friend Walt Hunter [https://walthunter.com/] about the marvelous Gwendolyn Brooks poem "kitchenette building [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43308/kitchenette-building]."  Walt is an associate professor and the Chair of the Department of English at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of two books of criticism: Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization [https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823282210/forms-of-a-world/](Fordham UP, 2019) and The American House Poem, 1945 - 2021 (Oxford UP, forthcoming in 2023). He is also the author of a book of poems, Some Flowers [https://madhat-press.com/products/some-flowers-by-walt-hunter] (Mad Hat Press, 2022), and the translator, with Lindsay Turner, of Frédéric Neyrat's Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism [https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823277568/atopias/](Fordham UP, 2017). He edits poetry for The Atlantic, where he is also a frequent contributor [https://www.theatlantic.com/author/walt-hunter/], and has published in such journals as New Literary History, American Literary History, Essays in Criticism, Modern Philology, and ASAP/Journal.  Please follow, rate, and review the podcast if you like what you hear—and share an episode with a friend! Follow my Substack [https://kamranjavadizadeh.substack.com/] to get news of the podcast.