Episode 108: Joanne Diaz, The Face
In a special episode, we celebrate the release of Joanne Diaz’s latest book, Electric Dress, by reading “The Face,” a poem of double ekphrasis that reflects on the hope of tomorrow in.
Episode 91: Joanne Diaz, Two Emergencies
In this episode, Katy Didden and Abram Van Engen discuss the extraordinary leaps, narrative disjunctions, and temporal frames that fill Diaz’s extraordinary ekphrastic poem, a reflection on Bruegel’s painting, “Landscape with the.
Episode 87: Monica Ong, Her Gaze
In this episode, Monica Ong joins us to discuss “Her Gaze,” a visual poem that celebrates the achievements of astronomer Caroline Herschel. “Her Gaze” appears in Planetaria, Ong’s new collection that merges.
Episode 85: Jacob Stratman, To Momento Mori
In this episode, we read and discuss a poem that takes its inspiration from a painting by Andrew Wyeth. The poem provides a meditation on what we perceive and interpret when we.
Episode 81: Niki Herd, The Stuff of Hollywood
In this episode, Niki Herd joins us to read and discuss an excerpt from The Stuff of Hollywood, a collection in which Herd experiments with a range of forms and procedures to.
Episode 79: W.H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts
In this episode, Shankar Vendantam joins us to read and discuss “Musee des Beaux Arts,” a poem that explores the ways in which humans become indifferent to the suffering of others. To.
Episode 77: Jennifer Grotz, The Conversion of Paul
Poetry engages in conversation. Today, we explore a long, beautiful, narrative poem weaving together the work of fellow poets while looking carefully at a Caravaggio painting, all reflecting on illness, death, and.
Episode 26: Brenda Cárdenas, "Our Lady of Sorrows"
In this episode, Brenda Cárdenas guides us through a reading of “Our Lady of Sorrows,” an ekphrastic poem that is inspired by the work of Ana Mendieta. To read more of Brenda.