PoetryNow
Summary: PoetryNow is a weekly four-minute radio series featuring some of today’s most accomplished and innovative poets who offer an acoustically rich and reflective look into a single poem.
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Podcasts:
Cynthia Cruz draws on Biblical language to imagine a world both concrete and virtual. Produced by Sara Murphy.
Carmen Giménez Smith reads a poem in response to a photograph by the 1970s East Los Angeles art collective Asco. Produced by Colin McNulty.
Alice Notley wanders through a Paris cemetery and speaks to her dead father about her life in France, where she has lived since 1992. Produced by Curtis Fox.
David Tomas Martinez considers the way collective fear is constructed as well as the systems of security we create. Produced by David Schulman.
Deborah Landau plays with the tension between digital communication and the intimacy implicit in a lyric poem. Produced by Sara Murphy.
Thomas Sayers Ellis performs a new poem with the accompaniment of James Brandon Lewis on saxophone and Luke Stewart on bass. Produced by Sara Murphy.
Wendy Xu takes us through Brooklyn and behind its industrial space to meditate on labor both visible and hidden. Produced by Sara Murphy.
Anthony Madrid offers a new take on the ancient poetic form the ghazal, and a meditation on qualities beauty and language share. Produced by David Schulman.
Catherine Wagner dismantles common poetic tropes with a long and gendered history. Produced by David Schulman.
Mary Jo Bang discusses a photograph taken at the Bauhaus in 1920s Germany. Produced by Sara Murphy.
Danez Smith describes a night of celebration and the sanctuary two men find together, physically, and in the presence of God. Produced by David Schulman.
CAConrad reads and discusses his performance at the Museum of Modern Art that alarmed the museum’s security staff. Produced by Colin McNulty.
Solmaz Sharif takes a drive from Oakland to Palo Alto and interrogates the lonely spaces inhabited by wealth. Produced by David Schulman.
Jamaal May questions the value of work when working a job that returns little value. Produced by David Schulman.
Oli Hazzard connects chains of information pulled from the Internet, and creates music through a chorus of distraction. Produced by Colin McNulty.
