For this installment of the KTCO Book Club, poet and podcaster Gabrielle Bates joins me for a conversation about Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s 1994 poetry collection Song. In our conversation, Gabrielle and I talked about how Kelly builds the worlds of her poems, how the poems layer metaphor, and how the poems manage to be simultaneously (and paradoxically) both surreal and grounded.

(Conversation recorded February 4, 2021.)

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Show Notes:

• Gabrielle Bates
• The Poet Salon
• Purchase Song: Open Books (Seattle, WA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
• Brigit Pegeen Kelly - “Song” (title poem)
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 49: Maggie Smith
• Maggie Smith - Good Bones
• Sally Mann - Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
• Muzzle - Jeanann Verlee on “Song” by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
• The Poet Salon - Ada Limón + January Gimlet
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 122: Kary Wayson
• Kenyon Review - “The Slip interview with Kary Wayson”
• Brigit Pegeen Kelly - “Dead Doe”
• The Sundress Blog - “Lyric Essentials: Emilia Phillips reads ‘Song’ by Brigit Pegeen Kelly”
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 120: Kazim Ali
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 121: KTCO Book Club - Tender (with Wm Henry Morris)

Transcript Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo