Poetry Off the Shelf
Summary: Producer Helena de Groot explores the diverse world of contemporary poetry with readings by poets, interviews with critics, and short poetry documentaries. Nothing is off limits, and nobody is taken too seriously.
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Podcasts:
Thomas Hardy refuses to see a ghost that's not there.
H.D., Jean Valentine, and Galway Kinnell on the queen of all poetic clichés.
Children’s lit scholar Sylvia Vardell discusses J. Patrick Lewis.
An introduction to 2011 Ruth Lilly Prize winner David Ferry.
Bernadette Mayer razes literary giants with love.
Detroit was burning and poetry was on fire.
Danish conceptualist poet Magnus Pavlovski has the last laugh.
Emily Gould takes a crash course.
Jennifer Michael Hecht explains the philosophy behind “The Idea of Order at Key West.”
Enough Valentine's Day mush—Carolyn Kizer hungers after sex.
Lisa Catherine Harper finds half a self in John Hennessy's poems.
Poet Norma Cole discusses her poem Sarabande about recovering from a stroke.
What do the Superbowl, pigs in a blanket, and Middle Earth have to do with Matthew Rohrer's poems?
Kathleen Rooney on the Poetry Brothel, where you can buy a private poetry reading for five bucks a pop.
Poems by Ed Skoog and Wyatt Prunty.
