Episode 111: Katie Ford, The Shroud of Turin
In this episode, Laura Evers (who has done so much work for this podcast), joins us to discuss the poem that drew her into poetry. We explore Katie Ford’s haunting poem of.
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.