The Poetry Magazine Podcast show

The Poetry Magazine Podcast

Summary: The editors go inside the pages of Poetry, talking to poets and critics, debating the issues, and sharing their poem selections with listeners.

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Podcasts:

 Of All the Poems in the World, Why Would You Pick This One? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Previously unpublished poems by Langston Hughes, a preview of Michael Hofmann's essay on Lowell and Bishop, and a phone call to readers in Texas who don't like the poems in this month's issue!

 Her Victorian Roots are Showing | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The editors pick highlights from an interview with Seamus Heaney and Fanny Howe's notebooks; and listen and comment on poems by Joan Houlihan, Roddy Lumsden, and Fred D'Aguiar.

 The Savage Detective Turns to Poetry | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Hear some of the first poetry by the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño to be translated into English, plus a discussion of Visual Poetry, left-leaning political poetry, and poems read by Mary Szybist and Jorge Sánchez.

 "Accident Plays a Part in Art" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The editors talk with Kasischke on Ken Burns, Lindsay on Krakatau, Sheffield on fishing, and Logan on Hart Crane (and David Foster Wallace).

 Requiem, Vindication, and a Gas Station Restroom | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Poems from the September issue and a phone call from Clive James.

 Killing Him | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

An excerpt from the satirical radio play by Yehuda Amichai.

 Feeling Like a Worm in Tequila? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Poets chasing poets, Dean Young vs. Tony Hoagland, a theory of hats, and more.

 Our Birds, Our Selves | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Donald Revell, Marianne Boruch—and your feisty letters.

 Wild Bard—or Professional? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

What kinds of skills are poets supposed to have? Plus Jane Hirshfield, Chris Dombrowski, and more.

 Found in Translation | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Poems from the Russian, Welsh, and other tongues.

 Something Has Come Between Us! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Is simile a species of metaphor? And other catchy concepts.

 When Guns Talk the Muses Fall Silent | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Dispatches from Alexei Tsvetkov and George Szirtes. Plus: Samuel Beckett, Lynn Emanuel, Jeffrey Schultz, and Jorie Graham.

 First. Time. Ever. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Prose fiction by Stuart Dybek in the pages of Poetry? Plus: new work by Kay Ryan and Wendy Videlock.

 When I Fell Out of Love with the Cantos | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Poetry magazine editors talk about Clive James’ brutal re-evaluation of the Cantos, and other work in the new issue.

 The Editors Speak | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Ladybugs, war, and the consolation of poetry: The debut of the Poetry Magazine Podcast.

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