“The space I felt between me and the world I was always filling with journalism. Poetry utterly collapsed that space.”

Show notes

• Erik Jensen
• Acute Misfortune (Black Inc. 2014) and the film
• I said the sea was folded (Black Inc. 2021)
• On Kate Jennings: Writers on Writers by Erik Jensen (Black Inc. 2017)
• The Saturday Paper
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• The Balcony by David Brooks
• How to End a Story: Diaries: 1995-1998 by Helen Garner
• Come to me my melancholy baby by Kate Jennings
• Jane Hirshfield
• Sharon Olds
• Mary Oliver
• While Standing in Line For Death and The Book of Frank by CAConrad
• The Argonauts and Bluets by Maggie Nelson
• The Undying by Anne Boyer
• Byron Writer’s Festival
• Lunch Poems by Frank O’Hara
• John Nixon
• “It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.”— William Carlos Williams
• Al Filreis and PoemTalk
• Krissy Kneen

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