Nerd tops, dom tops, soft tops: the queens go gaga over a discussion of their top poems by favorite poets. 

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Poems and poets discussed in this episode include:

Sharon Olds: "The Race"; "Topography"; "First" 

Louise Glück: "Widows"; "Celestial Music"; "The Mirror" (text); "The Mirror" (audio only); "Parable of the Dove"

Jorie Graham: "Masaccio's Expulsion"; "At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Dead"; "Salmon" 

Mark Doty: "Visitation"; "Lament-Heaven" 

Vijay Seshadri: "The Disappearances" & an essay about the poem here. 

Linda Gregg: "Summer in a Small Town"; "Sigismundo"; "Let Birds"; "We Manage Most When We Manage Small"

Etheridge Knight: "Feeling Fucked Up"

 C. Dale Young: "Torn"; check out this review of the book by Dilruba Ahmed in Kenyon Review here.