99 episodes
Poem Talk Poetry Foundation
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4.5 • 100 Ratings
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Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a lively roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests including Tracie Morris, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, erica kaufman, Charles Bernstein, Sawako Nakayasu, Simone White, and others.
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Don’t Refuse to Breathe: A discussion of Frank O’Hara: “Song (Is it dirty)” & “Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Robert von Hallberg, Charles Altieri, and Marjorie Perloff.
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The Whole World Smiles: A discussion of John Giorno’s “Everyone Is a Complete Disappointment”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Brooke O’Harra, Michelle Taransky, and Chris Funkhouser.
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Present Plans Succeed: A discussion of Dodie Bellamy’s “Vomit Journal”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Chantine Akiyama Poh, Henry Steinberg, and Murat Nemet-Nejat.
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Woot of the Century: A discussion of “Welter” and “Static” by Douglas Kearney
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Divya Victor, Whitney Trettien, and Dagmawi Woubshet.
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Rhetorical Happenings: A discussion of Hoa Nguyen, “Long Light.”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Bethany Swann, Jonathan Dick, and Kate Colby.
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Nothing Made of Ink: A discussion of seven poems by Lisa Fishman
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Lisa Fishman, Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, and Laynie Browne.
Customer Reviews
MFA via podcast
Feels like listening to an MFA seminar. Cool resource that’s taught me lots and opened my perspective on familiar and new poems.
Something Imagined, not recalled.
Providing the original recordings of poets reading their work and the subsequent close readings provided by the podcast editors and guests gives me hope that poetry is not dead. Please keep up the great work. Thank you.
Poem Talk? More Like Poem Rawk
Al Filreis has a gravely, made-for-radio voice in the tradition of Bobby Dylan and Tommy Waits. The conversations are insightful and inviting. The breadth of poets covered is wonderful. The back catalog is extensive. What’s not to love?